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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published nor has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal. However, we consider manuscripts that have been published as theses in institutional repositories or works that have been presented in academic contexts such as classes or conferences, as long as they comply with the format detailed in the author's guide.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
  • The text has 1.5 line spacing; 12 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • The conclusions of the texts are based on the adequate, justified and appropriate interpretation of the philosophical, literary bibliographic material or of the pictorial works that are going to be analyzed in the different sections.
  • The manuscripts follow the standards used in the different disciplines.
  • Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, that appear in About the journal.

Author Guidelines

The monographic series Ánima accepts only unpublished works related to Art History, Philosophy and Literature, as well as thesis publications in institutional repositories and works that have been carried out in academic contexts such as classes or conferences. Each subject treated should specialize in only one of these three branches. To be considered, the articles must respect the following guidelines:

Length and Text Formatting

  • Length: They will be between 1500 and 2500 words of length
  • Format: File in Microsoft Word format (* .doc or * .docx)
  • Font type: Times New Roman, 12 points
  • Page layout: A4 sheet, 2.5 cm margins per side, 1.5 spacing
  • Any word in a language other than the one used in the text must be written in italics
  • Do not use bold or underlining to emphasize words. Instead, italics will be used to mark the emphasis
  • If necessary, the tables and figures used must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text. Examples: Tab. 1, Tab. 1-3; Fig. 1; Figs. 1-4
  • Each figure or table must have a brief explanation below it to provide the necessary context for its correct interpretation
  • If necessary, the images sent must have a resolution of 300 dpi
  • Illustration captions: for the pictorial works that are intended to be shown, it is necessary to specify the author, title of the work, date, dimensions and city.
  • All citations will use parenthetical form and follow the MLA format
  • Footnotes should be used for clarification only and not for citations
  • Each text must contain at the end the list of the bibliography used in MLA format
  • The text must not have any additional formatting

First page

  • Title: in bold
    • It should be concise and understandable for readers who are not familiar with the subject of the article
    • Only the first word and proper names begin with a capital letter
    • If necessary, it can be divided into title and subtitle using a colon (:)
    • The title must be presented in English and Spanish
  • Name of the authors
    • They must be present on the OJS platform and on the first page of the manuscript
    • When there is more than one author, the names are separated only with commas (,)
  • Author affiliations
    • Every author must have an institutional affiliation
    • The affiliation must include the name of the organization and its location (country)
    • All authors must meet the requisites of "Ánima authorship requirements". Those who have collaborated with the writing of the text and do not meet these requirements will be mentioned in Acknowledgments
    • Authors must ensure that their name is well written both on the platform and in the manuscript
  • Abstract
    • All texts must have a paragraph of maximum 250 words that explains the main arguments of the article, the methodology used, and the most important conclusions
    • It should not include quotes
    • It should not include abbreviations
    • It should not be more than one paragraph
    • If the original text is in English, the Ánima Editorial Committee will be in charge of translating the abstract into Spanish
  • Resumen
    • It is the Spanish translation of the abstract
    • If the original text is in Spanish, the Ánima Editorial Committee will be in charge of translating the abstract into English
  • Key words
    • Maximum 10 words or groups of words in English, separated by commas and different from those contained by the title
    • If the original text is in English, Ánima Editorial Committee will be in charge of translating the keywords into Spanish
  • Palabras clave
    • Spanish translation of the key words
    • If the original text is in Spanish, Ánima Editorial Committee will be in charge of translating the keywords into English

Manuscript Organization

It is suggested that the manuscript will be structured in the following way:

  1. Title
  2. Title in second language
  3. Abstract
  4. Key words
  5. Resumen
  6. Palabras clave
  7. Text with introduction, development and conclusions
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. References

Citation manual

For its publication, each text must have its sources cited in accord to the MLA format, which is summarised here:

The cites and references style of the Modern Language Association (MLA) is a commonly utilised format used in the humanities areas and interdisciplinary fields associated to these disciplines. After its creation in the United States, this style has reached a global range. Currently, the format is on its Eight Edition and a Ninth Edition has been announced for April 2021. The works cited list goes at the end of the document, in a separate page, in alphabetical order, and with hanging indentation. The citations and references in the MLA format require the identification of the source"™s information in the following order:

  • Author
  • Title
  • Institution or Journal
  • Contributors (editors, translators, or compliers)
  • Version or volume
  • Number
  • Publisher
  • Publication date
  • Page numbers
  • URL

It might be the case that a source doesn"™t have all of these elements, but it is necessary to have as many as possible so as to have a more complete works cited list. In case that the author"™s name is not present, the citations will be done with the title and it will be done as thus successively.

There are two ways to cite: with direct quotations or paraphrasing. For short quotes, with less than 35 words, the citation is included inside the paragraph between quotation marks. For a large quote, with more than 35 words, the citation is written outside the paragraph, with indentation and without quotation marks.

Detailed below, there will be examples of the most common sources referenced in MLA and the following hyperlinks direct to more complete guides from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ"™s Writing Center, in both English and Spanish.

  • Books with one or two authors

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1932.

(Huxley 59)

  • Books with editors or translators instead of authors:

Tolkien, John, translator. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Del Rey, 1975.

(Tolkien 25)

  • Article or entry in an encyclopaedia or dictionary

"Splendent." Wiktionary, 15 Aug. 2020, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splendent.

("Splendent")

  • Article of a newspaper, magazine or professional web page:

Marcillo, Yuliana. "Medardo Ángel Silva, el niño poeta que odiaba la luz." Revista Casapalabras, no. 37, Feb-2019, pp. 4-7, https://issuu.com/ccegobec/docs/casapalabras_37_febrero_2019.

(Marcillo 6)

  • Article from a database:

Applegate, Lauren. "The Rebel and the Icon: Juana de Ibarbourou and the Emblem of Juana de América." Pacifit Coast Philology, vol. 49, no. 1, 2014, pp. 58-77, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/pacificcoastphil.49.1.0058.

(Applegate 64)

Uploading the article

  • Every text must be sent through the Portal OJS after creating an account in the "Submissions" section
  • The uploaded document must include all the required information (name and affiliation of the author, etc.)
  • There must be only one uploaded document
  • For a detailed guide on how to submit the manuscript to the OJS platform, see the OJS .

Copyright Notice

Los autores que publiquen en la revista aceptan los siguientes términos: 

  1. Los autores conservarán sus derechos de autor y garantizarán a la revista el derecho de primera publicación de su obra, la cual estará simultáneamente sujeto a la Licencia de reconocimiento de Creative Commons que permite a terceros compartir la obra siempre que se indique su autor y su primera publicación esta revista.
  2. Los autores podrán adoptar otros acuerdos de licencia no exclusiva de distribución de la versión de la obra publicada, pudiendo de esa forma publicarla en un volumen monográfico o reproducirla de otras formas, siempre que se indique la publicación inicial en esta revista.
  3. Se permite y se recomienda a los autores difundir su obra a través de Internet:
    1. Antes del envío a la revista, los autores pueden depositar el manuscrito en archivos/repositorios de pre-publicaciones (preprint servers/repositories), incluyendo  arXiv, bioRxiv, figshare, PeerJ Preprints, SSRN, entre otros, lo cual puede producir intercambios interesantes y aumentar las citas de la obra publicada (Véase El efecto del acceso abierto).
    2. Después del envío, se recomiendo que los autores depositen su artículo en su repositorio institucional, página web personal, o red social científica (como Zenodo, ResearchGate o Academia.edu).

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