Submissions

Author Guidelines

Constelaciones. Revista de Teoría Crítica accepts contributions for publication in the field defined in the subject and scope section of the editorial policy. They must be original works, which may be written in Spanish, English, Catalan or Galician-Portuguese-Brazilian. The journal does not charge any fee for the publication of manuscripts. Authors must accept the conditions described in the license referenced in the corresponding section, which implies acceptance of the COPYRIGHT NOTE set out therein. The originals will necessarily conform to the following

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES:

The text must include:

- Title in Spanish and English

- Abstract and keywords in Spanish and English

- Bibliography cited at the end following the indications specified in point 3

- The text must be presented in such a way as to guarantee anonymous peer review (do not include the author's name in the document or any references to the author).

1. Format and length

1.1. A 12pt font will be used in the text.

1.2. The length should not exceed 20 A4 pages for articles or interventions, while reviews should not exceed 5 pages.

1.3. Long quotations of more than four lines should be indented from the left margin; the text should not be put in quotation marks and should be reduced to 11pt.

1.4. Quotations of less than four lines should be enclosed in double quotation marks and in roman type, forming part of the body of the text. If it is necessary to re-quote any words from the quotation, single quotation marks should be used.

1.5. Internal titles should be formatted according to the following scheme: CAPITAL LETTERS, Italics, Roman type.

1.6. Do not use tabs or blank spaces at the beginning of paragraphs.

1.7. Avoid, if not strictly necessary for the work, the use of graphic elements in text files. If they are necessary, follow the instructions in point 4.

2. Citation system

The American system (also known as APA or Harvard) will be used.

2.1 If in the text, before or after the quote or mention, the name of the author we have quoted or mentioned is made explicit, the year of publication of the work to which we are referring is put in brackets and, after a colon, the page or pages where the original text can be found:

[…] by Adorno (2004: 88-110), who […]

2.2 If there is no explicit mention of the author, the surname(s) of the author (without the first name), the year of publication and the pages are put in brackets:

[…] in reflections on the social character of art (Adorno, 2004: 297-300), which […]

2.3. The reference should be placed before the punctuation mark. If a sentence ends with quotation marks and is followed by any other punctuation mark, the reference should be placed between the quotation marks and the punctuation mark:

“... the work of Marcuse” (1987:58).

2.4. Notes in the American System: If the work also has notes, these can be placed at the bottom of the page without the quotes and the notes interfering with each other. The use of bibliographic Latinisms is eliminated: ibidem, idem, op. cit., apud, videm, etcetera.

3. Bibliographic references

The American system (also known as APA or Harvard) will be followed.

3.1. Bibliography at the end, putting the year of publication first and after the name:

CLAUSSEN, Detlev (2007): Th. W. Adorno. Uno de los últimos genios, trans. Vicente Gómez, Valencia, Ediciones Universitat de Valencia.

3.2. If more than one work by an author is mentioned, in this system they are distinguished by lowercase letters written after the date:

ADORNO, Theodor W. (2004a): Teoría estética. Obra completa 7, trans. J. Navarro Pérez, Madrid, Akal.

4. Illustrations and other non-textual elements

4.1. Figures or graphics should be submitted as separate TIFF or JPEG files (one per file), clearly indicating their numbering in the file name. They should be numbered consecutively in the same order as they appear in the text using Arabic numerals (Figure 1).

4.2. The quality of the illustrations should be no less than 600 dpi for reproductions in black and white; in color, 2,400 dpi.

4.3. The illustrations should be accompanied by an explanatory caption or legend. The author should indicate in the text where the illustration should be inserted or if its placement is indifferent.

4.4. If the author proposes a figure obtained from another publication, he/she must have the corresponding permission and include it.

4.5. The use of bold or underlined text in the text should be avoided.

4.6. Italics should be used for Latin and foreign words.

4.7. The following abbreviations should be used: chapter/s (cap./caps.), column/s (col./cols.), cf. (cfr.), ibidem, idem, edition/editor/s (ed./eds.), manuscript/s (ms./mss), number/s (no.), following (ss.), translation/translator (trad.), tome (t.), volume (vol.).

4.8. The page number should be indicated either with the abbreviation p./pp. or with the abbreviation p./p.

4.9. Centuries written in Roman numerals should always be in small caps. Other references in Roman numerals should be capitalized.

5. Proofreading

5.1. Texts that do not conform to the journal's norms will be returned to the authors so that they can make the necessary formal adjustments.

5.2. The editorial team and the reviewers may introduce or suggest formal or stylistic modifications during the review process.

5.3. Only one round of proofreading will be carried out. During the proofreading process, only those modifications necessary to eliminate any misprints will be allowed.