Submissions

SCOPE AND EDITORIAL POLICY

Pilquen review publishes articles of teachers and researchers of national and foreign universities and also writers invited by the editorial board. The works must be sent by e-mail in any Microsoft Word version for Windows.

The articles must be original and unpublished or simultaneously presented in other Magazines. Sending any kind of collaboration to this publication implies acceptance of editorial criteria and authorization to the Editorial Committee to publish the articles either in the Magazine, data base or indexing system, print or digital where Pilquen’s material is allocated. A note signed by the author of transfer of right and reproduction materials will accompany the work.

TIMING AND EDITORIAL PROCESS

The articles received will be evaluated according to the basic editorial parameters of Pilquen. Once an article is accepted it will be submitted to a double blind, anonymous and external evaluation by academic peers. If no unanimity is reach, Pilquen will send the article to a third evaluator. The final results will be sent to the authors via email.

The Editorial Committee can make style and editing corrections if necessary.

FORM AND PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Title of article

The author will title his/her article in the briefest fashion possible, and will sign it with name and academic address and along with his/her email address at the end. He/She will add —in Spanish and English— the title, and abstract and key worlds (no more than five).

The following rules must be followed:

Style

The style format used -mostly from the MLA Style Manual- is the following:

The articles cannot be more than 20 A4 pages. They must be in font Times New Roman, double spaced, justified, the font size must be 12pt. Bold type or underlining cannot be used. Paragraphs should begin with indentation (without using tabulation).

Charts, tables and illustrations with their captions and titles must be included in the text.

Test notes take flow numbers, without parenthesis and are written at the page footer.

Indentation of the first word of paragraphs by 5 spaces is required on the left margin. A paragraph is separated from the previous one like the rest of the text.

A letter, word, phrase or sentence cited as an example should be in italics. The meaning of a word should be put in quotation marks.

Citations are put in quotation marks if they do not four lines, if they do, they are written in a 10 space-indented paragraph, without quotation marks separated from the text with another space. At the end of the citation the reference must be included as if it were a text reference (see below).

This is also valid for indirect citations and references. Quotation marks and footnotes go before punctuation.

Decimal numbers are used in case of subdivision (starting with 1, then 1.1 or 2, as required)

Text reference. The parenthetical system author-date is used for citing sources. It includes author´s last name and year of publication (a space between them)

Examples:

A source with two authors: (Mangone y Warley 1994: 37) More than three authors: (González Stephan et al. 1995) Two or three works, same author: (Mignolo 1996b: 12)

Reference with three citations: (Gómez 1980: 162; Daroqui 1995 y García 1959: 89) Citing an indirect source: (Cit. en Rama 1995, 2: 32-36)

Citing literary works: (Borges 1966: 65)

Cited works. Only those considered when writing the article must appear, not exceeding two pages at headed by “cited Works” list.

Titles of books, reviews go in italics, titles of parts of a book, articles are put in quotation marks.

Citation of books. A list of cited works has three main parts: author, title and publication data; all of them being separated by full stop:

Alonso, Amado. Materia y forma en poesía. Madrid: Gredos. 1955.

Should more information be added, it is separated by a full stop, as follows: Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales. Año VII. Nº 7, 2005.

Author´s name. Entries are in alphabetical order by the authors´ surnames. The author´s name must coincide with the one on the page previous to the title page of the book (no abbreviations can be used if it appears in full or vice versa)

Year of publication. In the case of several works by the same author published in the same year, they are distinguished with the letters a, b, c, respectively, written after the year, with no space or comma.

Book title. The complete name is cited as well as the subtitle. In this case they are separated by a full stop and in italics. An extremely long title can be abbreviated but not reduced to the first words.

Title of a part of a book. The name of a work in an anthology or an essay in a compilation is cited after the name of the book generally in quotation marks, except when the part has been published alone (as a book itself), in that case, it is written in italics.

Name of editor, translator or compiler. If they appear on the title page, they are included after the title leaving only one space, without parenthesis and abbreviated as follows:

Ed(s), Trad., Org. o Comp.

Number of volumes: when a multivolume work is cited, the numbers of all the volumes are included at the end followed by a space as well as the first and last year of publication.

Place and date of publication and editorial: a colon and a space are used between the publication place and the editorial, a comma and a space between the editorial and the date and a full stop after it. If there is more than one city, only the first is cited. If there are two editorials on the title page, both must be cited and are separated by a semicolon. If the date does not appear on the title page, use the last date in the copyright.

When  a  work  does  not  have  place,  editorial  or  publication  date,  information  must  be  given (between square brackets), otherwise the abbreviations n.p, n.p, n.d are used.

Number of pages. When part of a book is cited (essay, chapter, introduction), the first and last page of the same must be given. Example: (34-58)

A book, same author:

Todorov, Tzevetan. La conquista de América. La cuestión del otro. México: Siglo XXI. 1987.

A book, two or more authors:

Rowe, William y Schelling, Vivian. Memoria y modernidad. Cultura popular en América Latina. México: Grijalbo. 1993.

A book, more than three authors:

Edens, Walter et al. (eds.) Teaching Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton UP. 1977.