PUBLICATION GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines will be returned to the authors for revision.

Authors are expected to provide three copies of their manuscript, double-spaced, with wide margins, on plain, standard A4. When the manuscript has been finally accepted an e-mailed copy of the final version will be asked for (WordPerfect or Word format).

The following information should appear on the first page: full title, author’s full name, affiliation, and address (including e-mail).

An abstract of no more than 200 words should also be provided, together with five key words in English and Spanish.

Contributors are advised to keep a copy of their MS since originals are only returned when alterations have to be made.

Citations

Double quotation marks should be used for citations. Single quotes may be used to draw attention to a particular item in the text. Italics are used for foreign words, or for emphasis. References in the text to publications should include the author’s surname, the year of publication, and, if necessary, page numbers, as in the following examples:

“…narrative to their function” (Labov and Waletzky 1967: 12).

…following Blakemore (1987: 35),…

…perform a distinctive function in discourse (Blakemore 1987).

…this issue has received a lot of attention by relevance theorists (Blakemore 1987, 1992; Wilson and Sperber 1993).

Should part of the original text be omitted, this will be made clear by inserting […], NOT (…).

Bibliographical references

Bibliographical references should be included in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript and under the heading WORKS CITED. Authors’ full first names should be used unless the authors themselves customarily use only initials. References to two or more works by the same author in a single year should be accompanied by a lower-case a, b, etc. after the year of publication, both in the reference list and in citations in the text. References to books should include the place of publication and the publisher’s name, and references to articles in journals should include volume, issue number (if necessary) and page numbers. Titles of books and journals will be written in italics. Titles of articles and of book chapters will be placed in double inverted commas.

Examples:

Monographs:

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). Year. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). (Year of 1st edition) Year of edition actually used. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

Editor’s surname(s), Editor’s first name(s). (ed.) Year. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

First author’s surname(s), First author’s first name(s), Second author’s first name(s) Second author’s surname(s) and Third author’s first name(s) Third author’s surname(s). Year. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). Year. Title in italics. Trans. Translator’s initials. Translator’s surname(s). Place: Publisher.

Chapter or article in a monograph:

If only one chapter or article has been used:

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). Year. “Title in double inverted commas”. In Editor’s surname(s), Editor’s first name(s). (ed.) Title of monograph in italics. Place: Publisher: 00-00.

If two or more chapters/ articles have been used:

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). Year. “Title in double inverted commas”. In Editor’s surname(s), Editor’s initials. (ed.): 00-00.

If the book is a compilation of another author’s works:

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). (Year of 1st edition) Year of edition actually used. Title in italics. Ed. Editor’s initials. Editor’s surname(s). Trad. Translator’s initials. Translator’s surname(s). Place: Publisher.

Article in a periodical or journal:

Author’s surname(s), Author’s first name(s). Year. “Title in double inverted commas”. Name of journal in italics, number (volume): 00-00.

Examples:

Gerlach, John. 1989. “The Margins of Narrative: The Very Short Story. The Prose Poem and the Lyric”. In Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey. (eds.) Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Baton Rouge: Louisiana U.P.: 74-84.

Neale, Steve. 1992. “The Big Romance or Something Wild? Romantic Comedy Today”. Screen 33 (3) (Autumn 1992): 284-299.

Williams, Tennessee. 1983. La gata sobre el tejado de zinc caliente. Trans. A. Diosdado. Madrid: Ediciones MK.

The following norms should also be taken into account

There should be no full stops after interrogation and exclamation marks.
Inverted commas should never appear after punctuation marks (eg. “this is correct”, but “this isn’t.”).
Current (CG Times or Times New Roman) typefaces should be used, and special symbols should be avoided as much as possible.
“&” should be avoided whenever possible.
Generally speaking, punctuation and orthography should be coherent (British or American style) all through the article. For example: “emphasise/ recognise” rather than “emphasize/ recognise”; “colour/ colour” rather than “colour/ color”.

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