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PUBLICATION GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

How to contribute

Contributions, in English or Spanish, should neither be published nor being considered for publication elsewhere.

The recommended length for articles is 6,000 to 8,000 words.

Authors are expected to upload their anonymous manuscript on the journal webpage.

An abstract of no more than 200 words should also be provided, together with five key words and a translation into Spanish when possible.

Non-discriminatory language should be endorsed throughout manuscripts, making use of inclusive expressions and avoiding gender and racist-biased references.

Authors are encouraged to indicate whether the research data used in their studies take sex and/or gender into account in order to identify possible differences that may result from it.

Authors should consult and follow our journal’s Code of Ethics before submitting their manuscript.

Reviews are also accepted of books that are of general interest in the field of English studies and that have been published within the last four years (recommended length: 1,500 words). They should not only be a mere description of the contents of the book, but should also provide an explanation of its contribution to the field within which it belongs. Reviews will also be refereed.

There will be no restrictions placed on authors’ use of their material for reprints or other publications as long as their first publication is acknowledged. Articles and reviews will  be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) 

General format and style guide

All manuscripts should follow the style guidelines of the 18th edition of the Chicago Style (author-date system).

The following norms should be taken into account:

• Keywords should be written in lower case, unless they are proper nouns and they need to be separated by a comma (not a semicolon). A full stop needs to be included at the end.
• Endnotes, which should appear before the Works Cited list, should be as few and short as possible, and their corresponding numbers in the main text should be typed as superscripts.
• Additional comments should appear in between long dashes: (—) rather than (-); —this is an example—, leaving no spaces in between the dashes and the text within them, but leaving a space before the opening dash and another one after the closing dash. En-dashes should be avoided with the exception of page ranges in in-text citations and list of works cited.
• There should be no full stops after interrogation and exclamation marks.
• Inverted commas should never appear after punctuation marks (e.g. “this is correct”, but “this isn’t.”).
• Use single quotation marks or italics to express emphasis or for metalinguistic citations and to introduce critical concepts (first time they are mentioned).
• For indirect citations, use "quoted in". Example: (Felman 1982, 3, quoted in Caruth 1996, 12).
• If a citation contains words in italics, add “emphasis added” or “emphasis in original” after the page number, separated by a comma: “(Smith 2014, 53, emphasis added)”.
• When two or more parenthetical references are introduced in the text, present them in chronological order and separate them with semicolons: “(Spolsky 2009; Ferguson 2012; Jenkins and Mauranen 2019)”.
• When citing audiovisual material, indicate the relevant timestamp or time range when necessary. Examples: TV series (“Taboo” 2017, episode 3, at 6:00); films (Howard 2005, at 7:00–9:00); online videos (Cowan 2022, at 6:09).
• When including a translation made by the author of the manuscript, write the translated text in quotation marks, followed by “my translation”: “Dorothea Von Mücke, reflecting on this duality, has asserted that ‘many of Poe’s texts […] are characterised by a strange hybrid component’ (2009, 19, my translation).1” Then include the original text in an endnote, in quotation marks and italics, without the parenthetical reference: “1. ‘Muchos de los textos de Poe […] se caracterizan por un extraño componente híbrido’”.
• When translating individual words or short fragments, write the original text in quotation marks and the translation in italics within brackets: “‘Pero ese/esa, ¿qué es, llanito/llanita, o no?’ [That man/woman, is he/she ‘Llanito’ or not?]”.
• Current (CG Times or Times New Roman) typefaces should be used, and special symbols should be avoided as much as possible.
• “&” should be avoided whenever possible.
• British spelling must be used throughout the article or review. For example: “emphasise/recognise” rather than “emphasize/recognize”; “colour/behaviour” rather than “color/behavior”.
• In the case of co-authored articles, the specific contribution of each author will be indicated in the manuscript. This section will be added before the Works Cited list.
• Funding agency/agencies and project code(s) should be indicated in the Acknowledgements section (not as an endnote) and should be placed before Endnotes.

Citations (18th edition of the Chicago Style, author-date system)

References in the text to publications must include the author’s surname, the year of publication, and, where considered necessary, the page number(s), as in the following examples:

While past memories are important, “all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home” (Bachelard 2004, 5), which raises a question about the quality of living.

…language always fulfils three communicative functions (Jewitt et al. 2016).

Should part of the original text be omitted, this will be made clear by inserting […], NOT (…).

Should the emphasis be in the original text, this will be explicitly indicated as “emphasis in original”. Should the emphasis be added by the author, “my emphasis” should be added: (Bordwell 2006: 73, emphasis in original).

Bibliographical references (18th edition of the Chicago Style, author-date system)

Bibliographical references should be included in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript and under the heading Works Cited. All references used should be included and not more.

Authors’ full first names should be used unless the authors themselves customarily use only initials.

Set the author’s surname(s) in small caps.

References to two or more works by the same author in a single year should be accompanied by a lower-case a, b, etc. after the year of publication, both in the reference list and in citations in the text.

If two works by the same author are cited, but in one of them there is a second author, the latter will go after.

Examples:

Hyland, Ken. 2017a. “Metadiscourse: What is it and Where is it Going?” Journal of Pragmatics 113: 16-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.03.007.

Hyland, Ken. 2017b. “English in the Discipline: Arguments for Specificity”. ESP Today 5 (1): 5-23.

Hyland, Ken and Feng Kevin Jiang. 2021. “‘Our Striking Results Demonstrate…’: Persuasion and the Growth of Academic Hype”. Journal of Pragmatics 182: 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.06.018.

References to books should include the publisher’s name, and references to articles in journals should include volume, issue number (if necessary) and page numbers.

Titles of books and journals will be written in italics. Titles of articles and of book chapters will be placed in double inverted commas. Content words of English titles should be capitalised. 

The DOI should be included for all references that have it (see https://doi.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery). 

Examples (18th edition of the Chicago Style, author-date system):

Book:

Nagel, James. 2015. The American Short Story Handbook. Wiley-Blackwell.

Chapter within an edited book:

Leonard, Suzanne. 2014. “Escaping the Recession? The New Vitality of the Woman Worker”. In Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity, edited by Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker. Duke University Press: 31–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1131fr9.5.

Translated book:

Liu, Xinwu. 2021. The Wedding Party. Translated by Jeremy Tiang. Amazon Crossing.

Journal article:

Hartal, Gilly. 2017. “Fragile Subjectivities: Constructing Queer Safe Spaces”. Social & Cultural Geography 19 (8): 1053–72.

News or magazine articles:

Blum, Dani. 2023. “Are Flax Seeds All That?” New York Times, December 13. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/well/eat/flax-seeds-benefits.html.

Entrevista:

Buolamwini, Joy. 2023. “ ‘If You Have a Face, You Have a Place in the Conversation About AI,’ Expert Says.” Interview by Tonya Mosley. Fresh Air, NPR, November 28. Audio, 37:58. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1215529902/unmasking-ai-facial-recognition-technology-joy-buolamwini.

Thesis or dissertation:

Blajer de la Garza, Yuna. 2019. “A House Is Not a Home: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Democracies.” PhD diss., University of Chicago. ProQuest (13865986).

Webpage:

Wikimedia Foundation. 2023. “Wikipedia: Manual of Style.” Last modified December 19, at 21:54 (UTC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style.

Social media content:

NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb). 2022. “Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken—all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!).” Twitter (now X), July 11. https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970.

Video or podcast:

Cowan, Vaitea. 2022. “How Green Hydrogen Could End the Fossil Fuel Era.” TED Talk, Vancouver, BC, April. Video, 9 min., 15 sec. https://www.ted.com/talks/vaitea_cowan_how_green_hydrogen_could_end_the_fossil_fuel_era.

Film:

Ross, Matt. 2016. Captain Fantastic. Electric City Entertainment.

For further details on how to cite bibliographical references click here.