Submissions

Author Guidelines

From April 2014, every scholar interested in publishing in Estudios Humanísticos: Filología should use the this digital platform after registering as an author to submit their contributions. 

Charts, graphs and/or tables, they should be submitted in a different file. Authors must include their postal and email address. 

Books, journals, conference proceedings, etc, should be submitted following the same procedure.

Acceptance of submissions depends on the previous examination of the Editorial Board and its maximum length should be 30 pages for articles, 15 for "notes" and 5 for book reviews.

The article should begin with an abstract in Spanish and another one in English of a maximum extension of 5 lines. As to the format, it must be the following: 

Title in capital bold letters (Book Antiqua, 12), aligned to the right side. 

The information regarding the author and its affiliation must be ELIMINATED from the document and it will only be visible to the editorial board through the authors profile and registration in the platform. 

Data associated to sponsorship will also be excluded until the lay-out process. 

Once the submission has been accepted for publication, the author will be asked to introduce his/her name. Then, it will be placed under the title, separated by two line spacing, versal letters (Book Antiqua, 10) and like the title aligned to the right side. Below the name, in the following line, after just one line space, the affiliation should be included (round hand, 10).

Next, the abstract in Spanish, two line spaces after the affiliation. The word Resumen in bold, 10 aligned to the left side. Below, Palabras clave also in bold followed by the keywords in Spanish. 

The Abstract will come after another line spacing and, then, the Key words, following the same format as the Resumen and Palabras clave. After three line spaces, the article starts. 

Information referred to sponsorship received to undertake the research should be introduced next. 

General formatting:

Book Antiqua 12 for the text with tabs (0,5), Book Antiqua 10 for in line citations and footnotes. Line spacing 1,5 for the text and single spacing for in line citations and footnotes. Small citations (one or two lines) should be included within the text under quotes. Longer quotes should go in a separate paragraph, without quotes in Book Antiqua 10, with an indentation of 2 cm in the left margin.

Different sections will be numbered. The title of each section should be in bold, aligned to the left side. The titles of the subsections should be in italics instead. 

The separation between sections and subsections should be two line spacing.  If a heading is followed by a subheading, the separation should be one line spacing. 

Notes will be signaled in superscript numbers, after the word. If there is a punctuation sign after the word, they will go before this punctuation sign and after the quote:...door¹. Simple quotes will be used to underline a word and to differenciate words or short sentences written in a language different from the one of the submission.

A dash will be used when necessary and an emdash instead of brackets within a sentence. In this case, if there is a period after the brackets, the last dash will be omitted. Double quotes will be used. Between simple and double quotes, a space should be left. 

Bibliographical references within the text (inline citing) will follow this instructions: brackets, author's last name, comma, year of publication, colon, one space, page number where the quote is located and closing bracket. If the reference deals with an entire work, the year of publication will be enough. At the end of the article, under References ( bold and aligned to the right) the complete bibliographical references of the works cited will be listed in alphabetical order. When two or more titles from the same author are listed, the complete reference will be repeated. 

Book example: Spang, K. (1993): Géneros literarios, Madrid, Síntesis. Nebrija, A. ([1492] 1992): Gramática castellana, Madrid, Espasa Calpe.

Article example: López Santos, M. (2008): “Teoría de la novela gótica”, Estudios Humanísticos.Filología, 30, 187-210.

Book chapter or parts of a volume example:  García Montero, L. (2005): “Luis Cernuda y Andalucía”, en J. Matas et alii (eds.) (2005) Nostalgia de una patria imposible, Madrid, Akal: 47-61. 

If the volume is a collective compilation without an editor or coordinator, it will be listed as AA.DD. 

Publicación on-line example: Leong, P.A.: “Delimiting the Theme of the English Clause” http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/SKY2004/LeongPing.pdf (Last accessed November 30th, 2006).

Book reviews will start with the bibliographical reference of the publication to be reviewed as follows: M. Fernández Álvarez, La sociedad española del Renacimiento, Madrid, Cátedra, 1974, 270 pp. Such reference will be formatted in Book Antiqua 12 after a line spacing. The text of the book review in Book Antiqua 10. At the end of the book review, the author's name will be introduced aligned to the right in versal letters 10. 

METADATA

Information regarding the abstract and keywods should be included with the article at the time of submitting it. The identity, affiliation and author's ORCID will also be included at the moment of submission, otherwise, the article will be returned to the author until the registration is complete. 

It is compulsory to include the sponsorship, in case, there are any, received for the research undertaken in the submission. The complete reference is necessary (Title of the project, Financing entities, program, reference).