1. Authors should submit their articles to the journal via the OJS platform (https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ Differenz/index). The first page should be separate from the rest of the text (separated by a page break) and should include the title of the paper, the author's full name and academic affiliation, as well as a brief CV and contact details (the latter two cannot be published). The second page should contain the following information in its original language and in English about the articles: title, abstract of about 100 words and about 5 keywords separated by a semicolon.
2. Papers submitted for the first time will be anonymous. Except on the first page, they will not include the author's details; once accepted and reviewed, the relevant details will be added.
To facilitate anonymous review, the author should also remove all references in the article to other works and articles written by him or her - both in the body of the article and in the notes - or do so in a way that does not reveal his or her own authorship. Mention of acknowledgements of their participation in funded projects and other acknowledgements should also be omitted.
3. All submissions for publication in Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas, whether articles, notes, reviews, translations, etc., must be completely unpublished. While they are in the process of evaluation or editing, they should not be submitted to any other publication. Once they have been published, authors may use their texts freely, always citing their original publication in Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas. Very exceptionally, and if the reviewers consider it appropriate, articles already published in other journals of limited circulation may be published, specifying this in each case.
4. Articles and Studies will have a maximum length of between 6,000 and 8,000 words (between 15 and 20 pages). Debates and Notes will have a maximum length of 4,000 words (between 5 and 10 pages). Critical translations or research materials and bibliographical studies up to 8,000 words (between 10 and 20 pages). Bibliographical reviews should be a maximum of 1,800 words. Except in exceptional cases, reviews of books more than five years old will not be accepted. The works reviewed must be first editions, or reprints with substantial modifications. To avoid conflicts of interest, it is preferable that they are not written by people close to the author of the reviewed book or who have collaborated in its edition or design. The author of a reviewed book should not have any professional affiliation with the author of the review, such as a thesis supervisor. The word count should be indicated at the end of the text.
5. The format in which the work is submitted to the journal must be .doc, .docx, .odt or .rtf. The font of the body of the text (including titles, headings and bibliographical references) should be Times, Times New Roman or Arial, 12 point, 1.5 line spacing. Footnotes, always at the bottom of the page, should be 10 point, 1.5 line spacing. The text must be presented without any indentation.
Bold and underlined text is not allowed; only italics and inverted commas ('...') and single inverted commas ('...'), as appropriate. Angular inverted commas ('...') will be allowed only in exceptional cases.
We cannot guarantee that there will be no problems with special signs (Greek, Hebrew, logical, mathematical). We recommend restricting them as much as possible and, in any case, sending the originals together with their transliteration into the Latin alphabet.
6. The structure of the articles will be: Title, title in English, author's name, institution, summary, keywords, abstract, keywords. If the manuscript has been prepared thanks to a grant from a research project, scholarship or similar, this should be indicated as footnote 1 at the end of the title of the first heading of the text.
After the headings, the article should be arranged in sequentially numbered headings, as follows: 1. 2. 3. etc. The headings of further subdivisions should follow a numerical order, as follows: 1.1; 1.2; 1.3. It is recommended that articles have an introduction as the first heading and conclusions as the last.
Acknowledgements and bibliographical references should be included at the end of the text.
Figures and tables should be included in the text, numbered and indicating their respective legends, in 10-point italics.
7. Footnotes should be concise. Quotations in the body of the text should also be brief, and should be enclosed in quotation marks: "thus". If they are longer than two lines, they must be in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks and must not be indented (which will be applied when typographically composed).
To introduce an explanatory term within a quotation, square brackets should be used, as in the following example: "The linking of this [special situation] to the end of the agent...".
Citations should include at the end a footnote indicating the author, the work (in italics), the city of publication, the publisher, the year and the page. This also applies to footnotes referring to a work.
8. The citation model for bibliographical references is as follows:
Heidegger, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen, Niemeyer, 2006. p. 23.
If the reference is a translation, the name of the translator should also be given:
Heidegger, M. El concepto de tiempo. Trad. R. Gabás Pallás and J. Adrián Escudero. Madrid, Trotta, 2011.
Texts by Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein and other similar texts will be cited according to the usual usage and without indicating the page number:
Plato. Phaedrus, 221b
If the citation corresponds to a book chapter in a collective work, it will be:
Price, D. "A general theory of bibliometric and other cumulative advantage processes", in Griffith, B. C. Key paper information sciencie. New York, Knowledge, 1980, pp. 177-191.
If it corresponds to a journal:
Vigo, A. "Prioridad ontologica y prioridad logica en la doctrina aristotelica de la substancia", in Philosophica 13, 1990, p. 20.
If it corresponds to an electronic document, either the date of publication or the date of its most recent update should be indicated; if neither of these can be determined, then the search date should be indicated. The URL should provide sufficient information to retrieve the document.
Morin, E. [online]. "La epistemología de la complejidad", in Gazeta de Antropología 20 (2004). Trad. J L. Solana. www.ugr.es/~pwlac/ G20_02Edgar_Morin.html [Accessed: 26/12/2013].
9. Abbreviated references may be used in footnotes in the following cases:
When only one work by the same author is cited, its title should be abbreviated as follows:
Heidegger, M. Op. cit., p. 108.
If more than one work is to be cited from the same author, the title will be reiterated in abbreviated form; for example:
Heidegger, M. Sein und Zeit. cit., p.15.
Ibidem, p. (page number)" or "Ib. p (...)" may be used when the same reference is repeated consecutively. Idem" or "Id" should also be used when the same work is cited consecutively on the same page.
In reviews, if it is necessary to include a citation other than that of the book being reviewed, this should be done in the body of the text, in brackets, following the guidelines for references indicated. These should be as few as possible. If the quotation is from the book being reviewed, it is sufficient to include the page number, as follows:
(p. 63), or (pp. 63-64).
10. The bibliographical references used for the preparation of articles or reviews must be presented in a final list, in the format established in point 8 of the publication rules of our journal and ordered alphabetically by author. In the case of including more than one work by the same author, the references will be ordered alphabetically according to the works of the same author.
11. Differenz. Revista internacional de estudios heideggerianos y sus derivas contemporáneas will communicate the acceptance or rejection of an article, together with the observations or suggestions made by the evaluators. The publication of the articles will take place in July and the corresponding authors will be informed.
Authors of articles in the process of publication will receive the proof of the text after typesetting, for immediate correction (maximum two weeks). Once published, they will be able to purchase an electronic offprint of their article on the website in pdf format.
In case of acceptance, Differenz. International Journal of Heideggerian Studies and its Contemporary Derivations to include the author's name and surname, ORCID, as well as institutional affiliation and, if applicable, e-mail address, in all documents related to the publication of the article submitted for evaluation. Likewise, the authorship and originality of the article is guaranteed, 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.
The reception of articles is open all year round. The issue closes around 30 April. Typesetting and proofreading takes place in May and June. The articles are posted on the website in the second half of July. All this in order to comply, always, with the periodicity indicated in due time and form.
If, in an exceptional case, for reasons beyond the journal's control, it were obliged to modify or delay the deadline for publication of the selected articles to a later issue, each author would be informed so that they could confirm their approval or, if not, have the article available for submission to other journals.
12. The editors cannot be held responsible for any errors that may have crept in as a result of not following these instructions. In the event of difficulties in deciphering, interpretation, format, etc., they will ask the author by e-mail to send a new file, and if they do not receive it within one week, they will understand that the author renounces the publication of the work.
