Editorial practices on gender equality

Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación is involved in gender policies and works to ensure that equality between women and men is present in all its actions. Both in the writing of its articles and in the management and participation in it.

1. EDITORIAL COMPOSITION AND REVIEW

The journal will ensure a balanced editorial composition of women and men, which will be reflected both in the different bodies of the journal and in the people in charge of the evaluation of the articles.

2. USE OF INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE

Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación recommends the use of inclusive language in scientific articles. As far as possible, in order to avoid the use of the generic masculine, without affecting the correct wording of the text, the following strategies are recommended:

- Use collective nouns that include both genders: student body (instead of students), teachers (instead of professors), adolescence (instead of adolescents), head of management (instead of editor).
- Interspersing generic nouns instead of generic masculine nouns: the persons summoned (instead of those called up).
- Substitute neutral formulas for adjectives: have a lot of preparation (instead of saying are very well prepared).
- Use periphrasis, use an explanatory phrase instead of a generic masculine: foreign-born persons (instead of foreigners).
- Use relative pronouns who or whom instead of the. For example: who have done the work (instead of those who have done the work).
- Omitting direct references to the subject: a study must be done (instead of the researchers must do a study).
- Use explanatory appositions that make both sexes explicit: a study of adolescents of both sexes (instead of a study of adolescents).

Only the masculine should be kept as generic when it comes to:

- Verbatim quotations (i.e. quotations of less than 40 words that are incorporated within the text in quotation marks or those of more than 40 words in italics, without inverted commas and in a structure other than one centimetre from the left margin and one centimetre from the right margin).
- Transcripts of interviews and focus groups, respecting the voice of the author.

Assumptions derived from gender stereotypes about people, their skills, attitudes and relationships should be avoided.