Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal accepts research articles and reviews throughout the year, except in the case of thematic dossiers, for which submission deadlines are announced in advance.

Submissions must be original and unpublished. Authors acknowledge responsibility for the content of their contributions and for the accuracy of all citations. Authors must ensure that manuscripts comply with the journal’s guidelines; otherwise, they may be rejected. The journal reserves the right to make stylistic corrections to the text while respecting the content of the original.

1. Submission

All manuscripts must be submitted by email to revistafilologia@gmail.com and through the journal’s OJS platform on the journal website. If you are not yet registered on the site, you may create an account here. Once logged into the system, you will be able to upload your submission in just a few steps. For any questions, please contact revistafilologia@gmail.com

1. Preliminary Information

The author’s personal information must be included on a separate cover page, apart from the manuscript itself. This page should include:

• Full name of the author
• Institutional affiliation (without abbreviations)
• Email address
• ORCID (if you do not yet have one, you may register at https://orcid.org/)

To ensure confidentiality during the review process, authors should avoid including identifying information in their manuscripts. When citing their own work, they should do so in the third person whenever possible.

3. Formatting

Manuscripts must be submitted as .doc or .docx files in A4 format, with 2.5 cm margins on all sides, using 12-point Times New Roman font and 1.5 line spacing. Paragraphs should not be indented; instead, a 12-point space should be inserted after each paragraph. The text must be justified and pages should not be numbered. Italics—not underlining or boldface—should be used for emphasis within the text and for words in languages other than that of the article.

Articles must begin with the title, aligned to the left, in 12-point bold font. After one blank line, an abstract in Spanish must be included under the heading “Resumen.” The abstract must not exceed 200 words. On the following line, a list introduced by the heading “Palabras clave” must include five keywords in lowercase, separated by semicolons and ending with a period. The title, abstract, and keywords must also be provided in English, under the headings “Abstract” and “Keywords.” Two blank lines should then be left before the beginning of the main text of the article.

If subheadings are used to divide sections or subsections within the text, they should be formatted in 12-point bold lowercase font, without underlining, aligned to the left, and preceded and followed by one blank line.

Reviews must begin with the bibliographic information of the work under review: full title of the work, author, editors, compilers, or translators, year of publication, city, publisher, number of pages, and ISBN. For example:

The Desertmakers. Travel, War and the State in Latin America. Javier Uriarte (2019). New York, Routledge, 306 pages. ISBN 9781317210801.

The reviewer’s name, institutional affiliation, email address, and ORCID should then be aligned to the right.

Reviews should preferably not include footnotes. In cases where bibliographic references are essential, authors are asked to follow the same guidelines established for articles.

4. Length

Articles must be between 40,000 and 65,000 characters with spaces, including notes and references.

Reviews must be between 7,000 and 15,000 characters with spaces, including notes. In the case of edited volumes, reviews may have a total length of up to 17,000 characters with spaces.

5. Citations

Filología follows the style guidelines established by the APA (American Psychological Association). Some general considerations applied by the journal are detailed below and should be taken into account when preparing manuscripts.

Citations should be incorporated into the text in roman type and enclosed in quotation marks. Comments or additions indicating omitted portions of the original text should be placed within square brackets. Direct quotations must include the author’s surname, year of publication, and page number, preceded by the abbreviation p. or pp. when referring to more than one page. For example:

Si bien hay casos que pueden considerarse como exponentes de “la clásica novela problema anglonorteamericana” (Lafforgue y Rivera, 1996, p. 278), es muy frecuente el diálogo con otros géneros o subgéneros.

In the case of a work by two authors, both surnames should be included, separated by “and.” When a work has three or more authors, the first surname should be followed by “et al.” and then by the year of publication and, where applicable, the page number(s). When citing different works by the same author published in the same year, they should be distinguished from the first mention onward by adding a letter (a, b, c, etc.) immediately after the year of publication (e.g., 2012b).

Quotations of 40 words or more should be presented in a separate paragraph, with a left indent of 1 cm, without quotation marks, and with 12-point spacing before and after the paragraph. In this case, the text should remain in 12-point font with 1.5 line spacing, and the source citation should be placed at the end, after the period. For example:

a fantastic confabulation of Gothic/romantic villain, literary vampire and werewolf, detective and “pulp” fiction conceits, film noir outsider, frontier outlaw, folkloric threatening figure and nineteenth-century pseudo-sociological conceptions of criminal types given contemporary plausibility. All of these, in turn, are mytho-apocalyptic guises of murdering. (Simpson, 2000, p. 15)

The initial letter of a quotation may be changed to uppercase or lowercase to fit the grammatical context of the sentence, and note numbers may be omitted.

If the quoted passage itself contains words or excerpts in quotation marks, these should appear in single quotation marks when the quotation is brief and incorporated into the body of the text:

According to Simpson (2000), “a fantastic confabulation of Gothic/romantic villain, literary vampire and werewolf, detective and ‘pulp’ fiction conceits”, characterize serial killers…

or in double quotation marks if the quotation exceeds 40 words and is presented in a separate paragraph:

a fantastic confabulation of Gothic/romantic villain, literary vampire and werewolf, detective and “pulp” fiction conceits, film noir outsider, frontier outlaw, folkloric threatening figure and nineteenth-century pseudo-sociological conceptions of criminal types given contemporary plausibility. All of these, in turn, are mytho-apocalyptic guises of murdering. (Simpson, 2000, p. 15)

When italics are added to direct quotations in order to emphasize a passage that was not originally highlighted, this must be indicated specifying that the emphasis was added by the author. Ellipses should not be used to indicate that the quoted text comes from a longer passage or continues beyond the quotation, either at the beginning or at the end of the quotation. However, ellipses enclosed in square brackets […] should be used to indicate omissions within a direct quotation.

6. Footnotes

Footnote markers should always be placed after the nearest punctuation mark (period, comma, semicolon, colon, closing parenthesis, or dash). Footnotes should appear in 10-point font, justified, and with single line spacing.

7. Figures, Tables, and Images

Figures, tables, and images should be inserted in the appropriate place within the text and numbered consecutively. They may include a caption in 10-point font. Tables must be created using the same word processor as the article. Images must be submitted with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

8. Examples

Examples should be numbered consecutively. Translations of examples should appear in single quotation marks.

9. References

At the end of the text, references to cited works should be listed under the heading “References,” in bold, 12-point font, aligned to the left. All works referred to or cited in the body text or footnotes must be included. References should be arranged alphabetically and, in the case of multiple works by the same author, chronologically from the earliest to the most recent. When there are several works by the same author or authors, surnames must be repeated in full and should never be replaced by dashes or other symbols. If two or more works by the same author published in the same year are listed, they should be distinguished by lowercase letters placed immediately after the year.

Depending on the type of authorship, references should be formatted as follows:

• One author: Pérez, V.
• Between two and five authors: Pérez, V.; Romero, P.; Castro, P., and Arana, S.
• More than five authors: Pérez, V. et al.
• Editor or compiler: Pérez, V. (Ed.). / Pérez, V. (Comp.).
• Institutional author: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras.

In the case of a reprint or translation, the year of the first edition or original composition of the work may be included in square brackets:

Hernández, J. (1962 [1872]).

If the material has no publication date, “n.d.” should be used in place of the year:

Hernández, J. (n.d.).

If a work is in the process of publication, “in press” should be used in place of the year:

Hernández, J. (In press).

If considered necessary by the author, translations may be included after the title, in parentheses and preceded by the abbreviation “trans.”:

Introducción a la literatura inglesa (trans. by J. Pérez).

Below are some examples of the most commonly cited reference types. For cases not illustrated here, authors may consult the APA Manual:

Books

Monographs

Author(s). (Year). Title. Publisher.

Lee, A. R. (2009). Gothic to Multicultural. Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction. Rodopi.

For electronic books, add the DOI or URL:

Author, N. (Year). Title of the book. Publisher. DOI or URL

Hrisztova-Gotthardt, H. and Aleksa Varga, M. (2015). Introduction to Paremiology. De Gruyter Open Poland. https://doi.org/10.2478/9783110410167

Edited Volumes

Author(s). (Ed./Eds.). (Year). Title. Publisher.

Purdie, R. and Cichon, M. (Eds.). (2011). Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts. Boydell & Brewer.

Book Chapter

Author(s). (Year). Title. In Editor(s) (Ed./Eds.) / Compiler(s) (Comp./Comps.), Title of the book (pp. xx–xx). Publisher. [Note that, unlike other styles, APA guidelines indicate that chapter titles should not be placed in quotation marks.]

Sandoe, J. (1947). Dagger of the mind. In H. Haycraft (Ed.), The Art of The Mystery Story: A collection of critical essays (pp. 254-263). Grosset and Dunlap.

Perkins, N. (2011). Ekphrasis and Narrative in Emaré and Sir Eglamour of Artois. In R. Purdie and M. Cichon (Eds.), Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts (pp. 47-60). Boydell & Brewer.

Journal Article

Author(s). (Year). Title. Journal Title, volume(number), pp.–pp. [There should be no space between the volume number and the parenthesis indicating the issue number. Note that, unlike other styles, APA guidelines indicate that article titles should not be placed in quotation marks.]

Duggan, E. (1999). Writing in the darkness: the world of Cornell Woolrich. Crime Time, 2(6), 114-126.

For electronic journal articles, include the DOI or URL after the reference:

Mihatsch, W. (2018). From ad hoc category to ad hoc categorization: The proceduralization of Argentinian Spanish tipo. Folia Linguistica, 39, 147-176. https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2018-0009.

Other

Review

Bordelois, I. (2000). [Review of the book Victoria Ocampo, cronista outsider, by María Celia Vázquez]. Filología, 52, 71–72.

Unpublished Dissertation

Camargo, M. (1978). The Middle English Love Letter and its Rhetorical Background [Unpublished doctoral dissertation], University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America.

Conference Paper Published in Proceedings

Pérez, V. (2001). Tradición, traición y risa en la literatura argentina. In P. González (Ed.), Actas de las Jornadas de literatura argentina (pp. 23-50). Eudeba.

Unpublished Manuscript

Pérez, V. (2006). Estudios lingüísticos. [Unpublished manuscript]. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.