Authors guidelines

Authors guidelines

Would you like to make a submission to the journal?

We recommend that you review the specific policies for each section of the journal in About the journal, as well as in the guidelines below. Authors should register with the journal before submitting a manuscript or, if they are already registered, they can simply login and start the five-step submission process.

Submission preparation checklist

Authors are required, as part of the submission process, to check that their submission complies with all of the elements shown below. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to authors.

  • The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
  • DOIs and/or URLs for references are provided wherever possible.
  • The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic conditions included in Guidelines for authors, in About the journal.
  • In case of acceptance, I authorise Comunicación. Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales to include my name and surname, ORCID, as well as my institutional affiliation and, if applicable, my e-mail address, in all documents related to the publication of the article submitted for review. I also guarantee the authorship and originality of the article, and I assume full and exclusive responsibility for any damages that may arise as a result of claims by third parties regarding the content, authorship or ownership of the content of the article.

Authors guidelines

Papers submitted to Comunicación (Communication) must meet the following guidelines:

1. Papers submitted for publication must be original, and not in the process of evaluation by another journal.

2. All page margins should be set at 2.54 cm.

3. The maximum length for articles will be 8000 words (including notes, tables and bibliographical references). Papers should be submitted in Word format (.doc or .docx), with justified margins on both sides and 1.5 line spacing. The main text should be written in Georgia, body size 10.

4. The title of the article should be in Georgia 14, without bold or italics.

5. Quotations of more than five lines will be placed in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, in Georgia 9 and an additional margin of 1 cm. to the left. Quotations in the body of the text will be enclosed in double inverted commas (" ").

6. Articles will have abstracts in English and Spanish as well as a maximum of five keywords accompanying both abstracts, which will be written in lower case and separated by a comma and a space. Each abstract will be between 150 and 250 words, written in Georgia 10 and italics. The English abstract will be entitled "Abstract", and the English keywords will be preceded by the term "Keywords".

7. The following system of headings should be adopted (in no case in bold type):

1. First level (Georgia 14).

  • 1.1. Second level (Georgia 12).
    • 1.1.1. Third level (Georgia 12, cursiva).

8. Images and tables shall be explanatory and indispensable for the understanding of the text. Reproduction rights must be licensed to the authors. They will be numbered consecutively at the foot of the image or table, in Georgia 9, indicating the title according to the following structure: Image 1 (or Table 1). Evolution of television series consumption.

9. The APA citation system will be followed, both within the text and for references, indicating the author's surname, year and page in brackets according to the following structure: (Semprini, 1995, p. 107). When the same author and work are cited consecutively, it is sufficient to indicate the page number in brackets (p. 107). If the author has been mentioned in the text, his or her name will not appear in the citation reference in brackets.

10. Notes should be placed as footnotes, not as endnotes, and should not be used to cite bibliographical references but for clarifications and relevant comments. Their format is Georgia 9, without spacing both between paragraphs and between footnotes. Authors should try not to exceed five lines in footnotes as a general rule.

11. At the end of the paper, bibliographical references should be listed in alphabetical order, following the model proposed below (the bibliographical references section should be unnumbered and laid out according to the template, and the references should be indented 0.95 cm). In this respect, the DOI of the work cited should be indicated whenever available.

a) Libros:

  • Semprini, Andrea (1995). El marketing de la marca. Traducción de Teresa Goñi. Barcelona: Paidós.
  • Sánchez Trigueros, Antonio, y Vázquez Medel, Manuel Ángel (eds.) (2001). Francisco Ayala. Escritor universal. Sevilla: Ediciones Alfar.

b) Capítulos en libros y volúmenes colectivos:

  • Murdock, Graham, y Golding, Peter (1981). Capitalismo, comunicaciones y relaciones de clase, en James Curran, Michael Gurevitch y Janet Woollacot (eds.). Sociedad y comunicación de masas (pp. 22-57). México D.F.: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

c) Artículos de revistas académicas:

  • Pizarroso Quintero, Alejandro (1998). Guerra, cine e historia. La guerra de 1898 en el cine. Historia y comunicación social, 3, 143-162.
  • Luhmann, Niklas (1992). What is communication? Communication Theory, 2(3), 251-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00042.x

f) Documentos de publicaciones periódicas no académicas (periódicos, suplementos, revistas de información general, etc.):

  • Armada, Alfonso (2003). Nuevo ultimátum de Bush a Sadam para que se desarme o afronte las consecuencias. ABC, 4 de enero, 25.

12. Book reviews shall provide the following information: title of the book reviewed, name of the author(s) of the book, place of publication, publisher, year of publication and number of pages of the book reviewed. The maximum length for reviews is 2000 words.

13. If the book being reviewed is cited in the review, only the number(s) of the page(s) cited should be noted, specifying after the citation (p./pp.). If the review refers to texts other than the book being reviewed, these texts will appear at the end of the review as REFERENCES, and the same rules for publication as in point 11 will apply to them.

14. The titles of works (books, films...) mentioned and/or quoted in the work must be in italics. Titles of articles, book chapters or episodes of series that are mentioned and/or quoted in the body text of papers should be in quotation marks (and not in italics).

15. To ensure the blind peer review, the texts submitted to the journal must not be signed, also eliminating any trace of authorship that remains in the properties of the document.

16. Comunicación. Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales (Communication. International Journal of Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Cultural Studies) does not charge any fee for the processing and management of submissions or for publishing papers in open access.

17. Authors are kindly requested to provide specific information about the criteria used to decide the order of signature, as well as the contributions to the manuscript of each of the signatories.

18. Comunicación. Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales (Communication. International Journal of Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Cultural Studies) advocates inclusive language. Therefore, articles that wish to be included in this journal must avoid the use of sexist language. Therefore, authors are provided with the following website where the Unit for Equality of the University of Seville provides both a guide for the implementation of such language and online parsers: https://igualdad.us.es/?page_id=1683. Similarly, if the text submitted for review includes research data that includes the sex variable, it is recommended to report whether differences between sexes have been taken into account in the conclusions.

Supplementary material

Authors are encouraged to deposit the research data of their publications in institutional or thematic open access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Funding

All authors must inform the journal of the existence of financial relationships, both with individuals and organisations, which may influence the work.

Copyright notice

Authors who publish in Comunicación. Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales (Communication. International Journal of Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Cultural Studies) retain the copyright. However, they cede to the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Commons attribution licence, allowing third parties to use what is published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal.

Journals hosted on the Open Journal Systems platform of the University of Seville have a secure and permanent storage for these journals. This allows all electronic journals of the University of Seville to archive and preserve their contents. If the content of any journal is lost or corrupted, the University of Seville can always retrieve it thanks to this storage procedure.

Unless otherwise indicated, all contents of the electronic edition are distributed under a "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International" licence. You can consult the informative version and the legal text of the licence here. This must be expressly stated in this way when necessary.

This copyright licence is effective from issue 17 of Communication, coinciding with the change of period of the journal.