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Author Guidelines

Conditions for publication

The contributions must comply with the following publication rules

Before the submission process begins, authors must register on the journal's platform by filling out their entire profile, including

- your resume of between 100 and 150 words (maximum academic title acquired; current academic position; research area. Most important new publications).

- Institutional affiliations.

- ORCID identifier (recommended for validating your CV data).

To ensure a successful submission process, following data must be provided:

- Title of the article in the original language (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish) and its translation into English (in case this was not the original language). In case the original language of the article is not Spanish, a Spanish translation will  be provided in addition to the English translation.

- Abstract (between 100 and 150 words) in the original language (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish) and its translation into English (in case this is not the original language). It should contain: a brief presentation of the topic; the problem the article is based on; steps to solve it; main results. In case the original language of the article was not Spanish, a Spanish translation will be provided in addition to the English translation.

- Between 3 and 5 key words describing the work in the original language (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish) and its translation into English (in case this was not the original language). The key words may be made up of several words, in which case only the first one begins with a capital letter. In case the original language of the article is not Spanish, a Spanish translation will be provided in addition to the English translation.

The document submitted should not contain any identification of the author. Therefore, please follow the instructions offered during the submission process "Ensuring Anonymous Evaluation".

The platform will send the authors an automatic confirmation of receipt.

Maximum Length of Contributions according to Section:

Articles: maximum 10000 words

Bibliographic Reviews: maximum 3000 words

Discussions: maximum 5000 words

Translations: maximum 10000 words

 

 

Citation and References Conventions

Ética y Discurso has adopted the author-date system of the APA standard, 7th edition, 2020. For general information on APA standards, 7th edition, 2020: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles

 

Each cited paper must appear in the reference list, and each paper in the reference list must be cited in the text (or in a table, illustration, footnote or appendix).

Text quotations from authors and field researchers as well as transcriptions of interviews should be placed in quotation marks (without italics, bold or underlining).

Short quotations within the text should respect the following form: (surname of the author, year). Example: (Habermas, 1998). When citing text, the page number (Habermas, 1998, p. 45) or the initial and final page number (Habermas, 1998, pp. 45-47) should be indicated.

Notes should automatically be placed at the bottom of the page.

Images, graphics, photos and illustrations are not only placed in the text where they are annotated, but also sent in separate files (TIF, JPG or PNG format), numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.

The reference list is added to the end of the main part of the text in alphabetical order, without numbering or bullets.

Examples of References according to APA Standard

Articles in Scientific Journals

Griffin, D. (1978). Prospects for a cognitive ethology. Behavioral and brain sciences, 1(4), 527-538. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00076524.

Cancer, A. (1997). Discourse Ethics and Nature. Environmental values, 6 (3), 269-279.

Newspaper Articles

Carey, B. (2019, March 22): Can we make forgetting better? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html

Habermas, J. (2019, July 22). Abschied von einer Philosophin. Zum Tod von Agnes Heller. Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung.

Books

Apel, K.-O. (1998). Auseinandersetzungen in Erprobung des transzendentalpragmatischen Ansatzes. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

Habermas, J. (1998). Between Facts and Norms. Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Book Chapters with Editor

Apel, K.-O. (1990). Is the Ethics of the Ideal Communication Community a Utopia?” In S. Benhabib, & F. Dallmayr (Eds.), The Communicative Ethics Controversy (pp. 23-60). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Kettner, M. (2003). Gert's Moral Theory and Discourse Ethics. In W. Sinnott-Armstrong, & R. Audi (Eds.), Rationality, Rules, and Ideals. Critical Essays on Bernard Gert's Moral Theory (pp. 31–50). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Dictionary Entry

Martín Velasco, J. (1980). Religion and Morals. In L. Rossi, & A. Valsecchi (Dirs.), Diccionario Enciclopédico de Teología Moral (4th ed.) (pp. 1459-1468). Madrid: Paulinas.

Electronic Sources follow the same rules as the previous ones. Always add URL and date of last access.

UNESCO (2005). Constitution of UNESCO. Available at http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.html (02-11-2009).

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The contribution has not previously been published or submitted for review by any other journal (or an explanation has been given in the comments to the editor).
  • By submitting the contribution, the author expresses his/her full agreement with the editorial standards of this journal and the principles of scientific publication ethics to which it adheres
  • The submission file is in .odt .docx .doc or .rtf format The text is free of tabs and highlighted in bold. No custom styles were used, only normal styles. All illustrations, figures and tables are placed where they are commented in the text, not at the end.
  • If sent to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Anonymous Review should be followed.
  • The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographical requirements summarized in the Guidelines for Authors that appear in About the Journal.

Articles

The call for contributions to this section is open and continuous. Contributions received are subject to the evaluation guidelines listed in the section "Double Blind Peer Review Process".

Translations

The call for contributions to this section is open and continuous. Translations are subject to the same quality guidelines as the contributions assigned to the Articles Section, but reviewing will be carried out internally, by an editor and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board or the Scientific Advisory Board. They may also be prepared by members of the journal. In all cases they are additionally reviewed by a specialist in the original language of the text.

Book Reviews

La convocatoria para realizar envíos esta sección es abierta y permanente.
La reseñas bibliográficas están sujetas a las mismas pautas de calidad que las contribuciones asignadas a la sección Artículos, sin embargo la evaluación por pares es realizada internamente, por un editor y por un miembro del Comité Editorial o del Comité Asesor.

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