Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Publication Guidelines

1.1. Information to provide

Manuscripts must be sent in editable format (Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect) preferably through the journal's OJS website (Submissions) or to the mail themata@us.es (the file must be identified with the author's last name).

On the first page of the text, the full name of the author should be included along with the following information in their original language and in English about the articles: the title, an abstract of 100 words maximum and about 5 keywords separated by semicolons. They must also provide a brief curriculum, with their affiliation and contact information.

Information on the source of funding for the article will also be requested in the submission: funding agency, project codes and dates. The author will include this information as Acknowledgements in a footnote, and it will also be required in the submission.

1.2. Originality

All the writings that are sent for publication in Thémata Revista de Filosofía, such as articles, notes, reviews, translations, etc., must be completely unpublished. While they are in the evaluation or editing process, they should not be referred to any other publication. Once they have been published, the authors will be able to use their texts with complete freedom, always citing their original publication in Thémata Revista de Filosofía. Very exceptionally, and if the editors and reviewers consider it appropriate, articles already published in other journals with little circulation may be published, specifying it in each case.

1.3. No identification of own citations

To assure its anonymous review, the author must eliminate all references in the article to other works and articles written by himself or herself – both in the text and in the bibliography –, or do so in a way that does not reveal their own authorship. He should also omit the mention of acknowledgements of his participation in funded projects and other acknowledgements.

2. Format of publications

2.1. The text will be sent in DIN A 4 format, with 12th Century Schoolbook font, and 1.5 line spacing.

2.2. The research articles (studies) will have an extension of between 6,000 and 8,000 words (between 15 and 20 pages). Discussions and notes will have a maximum length of 4,000 words (between 5 and 10 pages). Critical translations or research materials and bibliographic studies up to 8,000 words (between 10 and 20 pages). The word count should be indicated at the end of the text. The article must respect the IMRYD format (introduction, methods, results and discussion).

2.3. Indicate in the submission if any special signs have been used (Greek, Hebrew, logical, mathematical). We recommend restricting them to the maximum and, in any case, sending the originals in which a certain number of them appear processed in Microsoft Office and not in another type of word processor.

2.4. The subtitles must be numbered sequentially, as follows: 1., 2., 3., etc. The titles of subsequent subdivisions must follow a numerical order, as follows: 1.1; 1.2; 1.3, etc. For example:

1. Thomas Aquinas's last comments to Aristotle

1.1 The comment to De caelo

2.5. Bibliographic reviews must have a maximum of 1,800 words.

Except in special cases, reviews of books older than five years will not be accepted. The reviewed works must be first editions, or reissues with substantive 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 editing or design. The author of a reviewed book must not have a professional background over the author of the review, as is the case of a thesis supervisor.

3. Bibliographic references

As of 2021, Thémata Revista de Filosofía adopts the MLA format as a reference standard. Authors are invited to guarantee the originality of the manuscript and ensure correct recognition of bibliographic references through the required citation standards.

Failure to comply with the aforementioned citation rules will lead to the rejection of the contribution by the editorial staff of the journal.

3.1. Bibliographic references at the end of the text

At the end of each text, a bibliography will be included in which all the works mentioned appear, organized alphabetically by surname.

3.1.1. Books

The data must appear in this order: Author's last name, First name. Title of the book (in italics). Place of publication: Editorial, year.

Zambrano, María. Islas. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2007.

To mark the translation:

Schopenhauer, Arthur. El mundo como voluntad y representación I, trad. Pilar López de Santamaría. Madrid: Trotta, 2016.

To indicate the person in charge of the edition of another authorship, it must be included after the title of the book:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Obra completa, ed. Isidoro Reguera. Madrid: Gredos, 2009.

In collective works with one or more editors or coordinators:

Pérez Carreño, Francisca, ed. Estética. Madrid: Trotta, 2013.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg y Gottfried Boehm, eds. Seminar: Die Hermeneutik und die Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1978.

If it is considered important to indicate the year of the first edition, it should come right after the title:

Heller, Ágnes. Everyday Life. 1984. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2017.

If the book has 2 or 3 authors:

Cohnitz, Daniel and Luis Estrada-González. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

More than 3 authors:

• Quoting all authors:

Stutts, John P., Sylvia Smith, Henry Cass, and Lisa Round. History of Linguistics. London: Scribes, 1999.

• Or first name of author plus "and others":

Stutts, John P. and others. History of Linguistics. London: Scribes, 1999.

If it is a corporate authorship:

Center for Research on Nationalism. Ethnicity and Multiculturalism. Advancing Multiculturalism, Post 7/7. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

3.1.2. Journal articles

The data will appear in this order: Author's last name, First name. "Article title" (in quotation marks), Name of the journal (italics) volume / number (year of publication): pages.

Hernández-Pacheco Sanz, Javier. “El círculo de Jena o la filosofía romántica”, Fedro. Revista de Estética y Teoría de las Artes 9 (2010): 16-29.

3.1.3. Chapters of books

The order of the data is as follows: Chapter author's last name, Name. "Chapter title" (in quotation marks). Book title (italics). ed. Publisher name / coord. Coordinator's name. Place of publication: Editorial, year. Pages.

Nussbaum, Martha C. “Beyond ‘Compassion and Humanity’: Justice for Nonhuman Animals”. Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions, eds. Cass R. Sunstein and Martha C. Nussbaum. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 299-320.

3.2. In-text citations

The citations or references located within the text must appear in parentheses as follows:

3.2.1. The intratextual reference only requires the author's last name and page number, without separating signs:

(Rancière 108)

Commas are only used if non-contiguous pages are flagged:

(Arendt 21, 54)

3.2.2. The year is only added when there are several works by the same author. No sign is included between last name, year and page number.

(Ricoeur 1996 28)

3.2.3. If several works by the same author published in the same year are cited, a letter will be added next to the year to identify them. This same reference should be kept in the bibliography at the end of the text.

In the final Bibliography:

Anscombe, Gertrude E. M. Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume 2. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991a.

Anscombe, Gertrude E. M. Ethics, Religion and Politics: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume 3. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 1991b.

In the text:

(Anscombe 1991a 45) or (Anscombe 1991b 46).

3.2.4. The abbreviation 'cf.', used when the reference is not textual, is optional.

(cf. Arana 54)

3.2.5. When the bibliographic reference does not refer to a set of pages of the text, but to the entire work, only the author's last name and the corresponding year are entered:

(Cortina 1986)

3.2.6. If the author's last name is explicitly mentioned in the sentence in which the reference appears, only the corresponding year is written:

Kristeva (1974) argues that poetic language has effects within a specific historical and economic context.

3.2.7. If the author's name is incorporated in the text, only the page number is included (if there are more works by the same author, also the year of publication):

As Carroll states, "Horrific creatures seem to be regarded not only as inconceivable but also as unclean and disgusting" (21).

3.2.8. If a part of the citation is emphasized with italics highlighted by the author of the article, it is written inside the parenthesis and after the page number: “emphasis mine”:

(Nancy 2007 31, emphasis mine)

3.2.9. You can use "Ibid." when the same reference is repeated consecutively, without accent, in italics and with the page number: (Ibid. 36).

3.2.10. And "Id." when the same work and the same page are cited consecutively, in italics: (Id.).

3.2.11. In the case of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein and the like, the canonical manner of citation is used. For example:

a) This is what Kant calls the “exposition of the practical rational faculty” (AA 04 412 23–24)

b) Aristotle in his Politics (1259a) describes how Thales shows that the sage can be useful in practical life.

3.3. Verbatim quotes

3.3.1. Quotes of more than three lines must appear in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks and with a greater indentation on the left. In these quotes, the end point must come before the parentheses. For example:

Originariedad y no-originariedad constituyen la pareja de conceptos a la que recurre Edith Stein:

Originarias son todas las vivencias propias presentes como tales –¿qué podría ser más originario sino la vivencia misma?– Pero no todas las vivencias están dándose originariamente, no todas son originarias según su contenido. El recuerdo, la espera, la fantasía tienen su objeto no como propiamente presente ante sí, sino que sólo lo presentifican. (23-24)

3.3.2. When the quote is less than three lines, it can be included within the text, between quotation marks. In this case, the period must appear after the parentheses:

Por eso dice Hegel que “[…] el individuo es mandado por el espíritu al mundo a buscar su felicidad” (460).

3.3.3. If there are quotation marks within the text that is cited, the general quotation marks of the quotation must be double, and those within the quotation must be single:

Como señala Victoria Camps, “El individuo no ‘se hace’ ni puede llegar a ser ‘de algún modo todas las cosas’” (102).

4. Footnotes

If footnotes are used, they must be concise and follow the citation rules indicated in section 3.

5. Stylistic Guidelines

5.1. Foreign words and expressions must appear in italics:

Wilde's formulation is a boutade.

5.2. The terms you want to emphasize will also appear in italics:

The subject in the real and the subject from the real.

But if you want to highlight a term coined or used by an author you are talking about, it will be done with quotation marks:

Deleuze's "percepts" refer to Kant's "aesthetic ideas".

5.3. Square brackets "[...]" are used for elisions and dimensions:

Es la autosuficiencia del buen salvaje, “[…] sin ninguna necesidad de sus semejantes, tanto como sin deseo alguno de perjudicarles, quizá incluso sin reconocer nunca a ninguno individualmente”.

“Paradójicamente, [el arte] tiene que dar testimonio de lo irreconciliable y, sin embargo, tiende a reconciliarse” (251)

5.4. The quotation marks must always come before another punctuation (period, comma, etc.):

Derrida lo llama el “devenir humano de la piedad”.

5.5. The initial capital letter must be used to name a period or a current:

Modernity, Romanticism, Modernism, Modern Age.

5.6. Compound words that are widely used should be written without a hyphen:

Sociocultural, Sociopolitical.

6. Publication agenda

Publishing process

6.1. In a usual period of two and a half months, the Board of Directors will communicate the acceptance or rejection of the article, together with the observations or suggestions issued by the evaluators. In the months of April and October, the Board of Directors selects, from among all the accepted articles, which ones will be included in the corresponding number that is published in June and December of each year and will inform the authors of this.

6.2. Authors of articles in the process of publication will receive the proof of the text after being layout, for immediate correction (maximum two weeks). Once published, they will be able to acquire a copy of the corresponding number in the form specified on the web based on availability and the electronic reprint of their article will also be posted on the web in pdf format.

The reception of articles is open all year. Numbers close in April and October. The layout and spelling correction is carried out in the months of May for the number that comes out in June and in November for the number that comes out in December. Printing and placement on the web takes place at the end of November and May respectively. All this to always comply with the indicated periodicity in a timely manner (both online and on paper).

If, in an exceptional case, for reasons beyond the control of Thémata Revista de Filosofía, it is forced to modify or delay the publication period of the selected articles, at a later number, each author will be notified so that they can confirm their approval or, otherwise, have the article available to present it to other journals.

If an article accepted in April or October is not published in the next number (June or December respectively) and is destined for a later one, the author will be notified to confirm its approval or, otherwise, have the article available to present it to other journals.

7. In case of error

The editors are not responsible for errors that may have been slipped due to not following these instructions. In case of encountering difficulties in deciphering, interpretation, format, etc., they will require the author via e-mail to send a new file, and if they do not receive it within a week, they will understand that they renounce the publication of the work.

8. To ensure an anonymous review

To ensure the integrity of the double-blind evaluation, it must be ensured that the authors and evaluators are unaware of their identities between them. This implies that the authors, editors and evaluators verify that the following steps have been followed regarding the properties of the file:

1. The authors of the document have eliminated their names from the text, with "Author" and the year used in the references and in the footnotes, instead of the name of the authors, the title of the article, etc.
2. In Microsoft Office documents, the author identification must also be removed from the file properties.

For Microsoft 2003 and earlier versions, and Macintosh versions of Word:

• In the File menu, choose: Save As> Tools (or Options on Mac)> Security> Delete personal information in the file properties when saving> Save.

For Macintosh Word 2008 (and future versions)

1. In the File menu select "Properties".
2. On the Summary tab remove identifying information from all fields.
3. Save the File.

For Microsoft 2007 (Windows):

1. Click the Office button in the upper left corner of the Office application.
2. Select "Prepare" from the Options menu.
3. Select "Properties" for the "Prepare" Options menu.
4. Remove all information from the document properties fields that appear below the main options menu.
5. Save the document and close the document properties fields section.

For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):

1. From the File menu select "Prepare for Sharing".
2. Click on the "Check for Problems" icon.
3. Click on the "Inspect Document" icon.
4. Uncheck all the boxes except "Document properties and personal information".
5. Run the document inspector, which will search the document properties and indicate whether any property fields in the document contain any information.
6. If the document inspector finds any information it will notify you and give you the option to "Delete all", which you will have to click to delete all the document properties and personal information.

For PDF files:

• In PDFs, the names of the authors must also be removed from the document properties found under File in the Adobe Acrobat main menu.

9. Order of authorship

In texts by more than one author, the criteria applied in the order of the authors must be reported. The possible criteria are the following:

1. By relevance of contribution: first place is assigned to the person who makes the greatest contribution. The order of the remainder is decreasing in terms of its relevance. This approach is appropriate for publications reporting the results of research projects.
2. In alphabetical order of the surnames.

An exact description of the tasks performed by each author in the research will also be required. The intention is to avoid both honorary authorship (include signatories who have not contributed), and ghost authorship (researchers with substantial contributions that do not appear).

10. Evaluation criteria

The interest of the topic will be valued; the depth and innovation in its treatment; knowledge of the state of the matter; dialogue with the most relevant and updated bibliography; the unity, clarity, coherence, fairness and rigor of the argumentation; the adequacy of the title, abstract and keywords; the length of the text and notes provided; and formal and literary elegance.

11. Acceptance or rejection after evaluation

After the expert review, the editorial committee decides whether to accept the article without further ado, ask the author to make the modifications recommended by the reviewers, ask the author for a thorough review of the article, or reject the publication.

12. Inclusive and non-sexist language

All contributions will ensure an inclusive and non-sexist use of language. This use does not affect the masculine or feminine character of the words, but rather the consideration of an explicit reference to men and women.

For futher information, see: Manual para el uso no sexista del lenguaje [Manual for a non-sexist use of language]. Sevilla: Consejería de Empleo, Junta de Andalucía, 2010, available here.