Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. All articles must be original works and must not be already published or submitted for publication in other journals or publications.


2. All articles must be written in one of the official languages of the journal: Spanish, English, Catalan, Portuguese or Serbian* (Latin Script).

*Submissions in Serbian are accepted only if required by the topic of submission.

3. The length of the article should be between 15,000 and 40,000 characters (including spaces).


4. Contributions should be formatted in 12-point Times New Roman font, single-spaced, and submitted electronically as a Word document (.doc).

5. Consecutively numbered footnotes (in 10-point Times New Roman font and single line spacing) are intended to clarify specific information, provide additional explanations or quote translations, rather than to present bibliographic details.

6. Short quotations (up to four lines) should be integrated into the body of the text and enclosed in quotation marks (“ ”). Quotations that exceed four lines should be formatted as a separate, indented paragraph, using 11-point Times New Roman font and single line spacing.

7. Document pages need not be numbered.


8. Citing sources in the article should be consistent and should conform to the following examples:
... (Pérez 2001: 56–63)..., / (see Pérez 2001: 56–63)..., / J. Pérez (2001: 56–63) argues that...


9. In the BIBLIOGRAPHY section at the end of the article, all cited or paraphrased sources in the paper must be given in alphabetical order of author surname.

10. All articles must have a title, summary and keywords, written two languages: Spanish (Catalan, Portuguese or Serbian) and English. If the submission is written in Serbian, it must include a title, summary and keywords both in English and in Spanish. Each summary (Times New Roman, font size 11, and single line spacing) should not exceed 300 words.

11. If necessary, the article can include images, illustrations or photographs provided the author specifies the appropriate information and submits the cited author’s written permission that the picture, illustration or photograph may be published in the journal.


12. At the end of the article (after the second abstract and keywords in a language different from the language of the article) the author(s) should provide the basic biographical information (between 200 and 250 words) in the language of the article, as well as the email address(es) and ORCID iD number.

The Article Structure

Information about the author: name and surname.


Institution (affiliation): name of the institution the author is affiliated with and its originating country.

Article title: centred (NOT to be capitalised).


A brief abstract in the language of the article: should contain the subject of research, aims, methodology, expected results and conclusions.


Keywords written in the language of the article: up to five words or phrases, in Spanish (English, Catalan, Portuguese or Serbian).


Body text: divided into chapters or sections (subtitles should NOT be capitalised).


Bibliography: Should be cited consistently in alphabetical order of authors’ surnames, as follows:

[Citing books]


Rama, Ángel. Transculturación narrativa en América Latina. 1982. Buenos Aires: Ediciones El Andariego, 2008.

[Citing e-books]


McGuirk, Bernard. Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism. E-book. London: Routledge, 2013.

[Citing print books available online]


Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. Edición del Instituto Cervantes, dirigida por Francisco Rico. Barcelona: Instituto Cervantes: Crítica, 1998. Centro Virtual Cervantes. https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/clasicos/quijote/

[Citing several publications by the same author]


Sotelo Vázquez, Adolfo.  El naturalismo en España: crítica y novela. Salamanca: Almar, 2002.

―. Camilo José Cela: perfiles de un escritor. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2008.

Several bibliographic references by the same author should be listed in chronological order, ranging from the oldest to the latest published works.

When citing different works by the same author published in the same year, lower-case letters (a, b, c) must be put immediately after the year of publication without a space. For example: 2008a, 2008b.

[Citing a publication by two or more authors]

Alvar, Manuel, y Bernard Pottier. Morfología histórica del español. Madrid: Gredos, 1983.

Catalán, Diego, et al. Teoría general y metodología del romancero pan-hispánico. Catálogo descriptivo. Madrid: Seminario Menéndez Pidal, 1984.

If a reference has two authors, both surnames should be indicated in the in-text citation. If there are more than two authors, the Latin abbreviation et al. should be specified after the first author¢s surname.

[Citing print journal articles]

Knab, Tim. “Vida y muerte del náhuatl.” Anales de Antropología, vol. 16 (1979): pp. 345‒370.

[Citing online journal articles]

Soldatić, Dalibor. “Las literaturas hispánicas en Serbia.” Colindancias, núm. 1 (2010): pp. 21–28. https://colindancias.uvt.ro/index.php/dj/article/view/81

Stojanović, Jasna. “Del monje ávido de lectura al apuntador idealista: los Quijotes serbios a través de los siglos.” Verba Hispanica, vol. 20, núm. 2 (2012): pp. 325–335. https://doi.org/10.4312/vh.20.2.337-353

[Citing journal articles available in digital libraries] 


Filipović, Jelena, y Ivana Vučina Simović. “El judeoespañol de Belgrado (Serbia): Un caso paradigmático de desplazamiento lingüístico en los Balcanes.” Hispania, vol. 95, no. 3 (2012): pp. 495-508. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23266151

[Citing chapters from volumes of proceedings or edited volumes]


Rodríguez, Leandro. “La función del monarca en Lope de Vega.” Lope de Vega y los orígenes del teatro español. Actas del I Congreso Internacional sobre Lope de Vega. Manuel Criado de Val (ed.). Madrid: Edi-6, 1981. pp. 799– 803.

[Referring to videos posted online]

Buckley, William F, Jr. “Borges: South America’s Titan.” Firing Line, 1977. YouTube, uploaded by Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Jan. 31, 2017. https://youtu.be/bNxzQSheCkc?si=nIuB6Sk-7wIcrVq6

Article title: in Spanish (English, Catalan, Portuguese or Serbian), or, that is, in one of languages ​​the article was not written in.

Abstract in a language different from the language of the article: in Spanish (English, Catalan, Portuguese and Serbian). It should contain the subject of the research, methodology, expected results and conclusions.

Keywords in a language different from the language of the article: up to five keywords or phrases, in Spanish (English, Catalan, Portuguese or Serbian).

Author’s biography with their ORCID iD number.

BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES

Submitted reviews should be written 12-point Times New Roman font, single-spaced, and submitted electronically as a Word document (.doc). They should not exceed 2,000 words. At the beginning of the text, the author(s) should include a full bibliographic information of the reviewed publication, in the following order:

Name and Surname. Title. Name and Surname of the editor, translator or compiler. Place of publication: Publisher, year. The total number of pages.

At the end of review, the author(s) should indicate their full name, title, and affiliation, as well as their email address.