ISSN 0121-3628
printed version

ISSN 2256-358X
online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Note to Collaborators
• Reception, evaluation and acceptance of the contributions
• Sending of manuscripts

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 or sent to another journal. Otherwise an explanation has been provided in the "Comments to the Editor".
• The file is sent in Microsoft Word 2003-2010 format or docx.
• The author/s has/have provided web addresses (URLs) for references consulted from the internet.
• The text has spacing 1.5 points, the font size is between 11 and 12 points, italics are used instead underlined (except internet sites URL), and all figures and tables are within the text and not at the end of the manuscript.
• The text accords with stylistic and bibliographic requirements specified in the Author Guidelines. In particular, the references follow the APA style.
• If the paper is submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the author's name and afiliation should be removed from the manuscript.
• The author has a PhD or a Master degree.
• In the OJS system: the author must submit a file with a brief intellectual biography, with the following information: name and surname; completed institutional affiliation (university, faculty, research group); studies (degrees obtained, institution); recently published books and articles; areas of expertise; e-mail and ORCID.

Author Guidelines 

Authors are required to register on the Estudios de Filosofía website before beginning the submission process. If you are already registered as an author, just log in to submit your paper through five steps. Be sure to comply with the manuscript preparation guide as shown below, and also read the copyright notice.

Estudios de Filosofía has adopted the APA Style (Seventh Edition) as the standard citation system for our papers. Helpful information may be found in APA Reference Style.

There is no publishing or article processing charge (APC).

The journal cannot consider more than one paper at a time from any one author, whether as the author or as co-author. So, until a final decision to publish or reject has been made on one paper, its author(s) will not be eligible to submit another paper for consideration.

The journal only accepts manuscripts from authors who have a Ph.D. or master degree. 

Introduction

All manuscripts will undergo an initial review with an anti-plagiarism tool. Once confirmed with the anti-plagiarism report that the text meets the originality requirements, it will be submitted for initial review by the Journal Editor and the Editorial Committee to determine that it is appropriate to the journal's theme, scope, objective, and editorial guidelines.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in order to improve the readability of the texts, but in no case to produce manuscripts. AI can produce content that is incorrect, false, biased, or even appropriate original work from another author without proper citation. Without pretending to ignore technological advances, this journal reiterates its commitment to the production of new knowledge, the authenticity of documents submitted to editorial processes, academic curatorship, integrity, and ethics in research and publication. Thus, Estudios de Filosofía will reject articles in which the indiscriminate use of AI is detected.

Once the manuscript is accepted for editorial consideration by the journal, it will undergo double-blind peer review to determine its potential publication. The author might be required to review the manuscript before publication, yet the right to refuse publication of articles is restricted to the editor or the director. All manuscripts must be submitted in MS Word 2003-2010 or .docx. The following information is suggested as a guide for organizing your submission.

All authors must attach, in addition to the paper, a file with a brief biography, including their studies, their institutional affiliation, and their lines of work and research.

Language

In addition to publishing articles in Spanish, Estudios de filosofía also considers the publication of contributions in English. In the case of manuscripts submitted in English, as part of the editorial review process, the journal may refrain from publishing them when it considers that their writing in English is not optimal or is not clearly linked to the debate or context to which it wishes to contribute. Articles in English, whose authors are not native speakers, should be sent to the journal once they have been carefully reviewed by a proofreader and should follow the suggestions made by the editorial team during the publication process.

Paper structure

Proceed according to the following structure for presenting your paper.

The author's name and affiliation should be removed from the manuscript.

1.     Title: in Spanish and English.

2.     Abstract: The abstract should have between 150 and 200 words in a single paragraph. It should clearly present the subject of the paper, its goal, and the conclusion. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

3.     Keywords: A 5-7 list of descriptors which are used for indexing purposes.

4.     Text of the paper: Research papers normally have at least four main sections: introduction, state of the art, discussion, and conclusions.

5.     Acknowledgments: should only be included after the paper has been accepted.

6.     References: APA (7th edition).

7.     Academic biography of the author(s): between 80 and 120 words.

Text Layout

1.     The file must be sent in MS Word 2003-2010 or .docx. Otherwise, you can use the RTF formats.

2.     Font: Size 11 or 12 points and standard fonts.

3.     Spacing: 1.5.

Proofs

Correspondence and proofs will be sent to the first named author or the nominated principal contact; this can be established during the online submission process. Proofs are sent via email in PDF format, and corrections should be returned within five business days to the publisher. Only typesetting, minor changes, or small corrections are accepted by authors at proof checking stage. Should comments for proofs not be returned within two weeks, it will be assumed that there are no corrections.

Types of papers

Foreword

Make a new submission to the Foreword section.

Original or Research articles

This document presents the results of a research project. Its structure generally contains four parts: introduction, analysis, discussion and conclusion. Word limit: 10000 words, including footnotes and references.

Make a new submission to the Original or Research articles section.

Reflection article

The document presents results from a research project from an analytical, critical or interpretative point of view. Word limit: 7000-9000, including footnotes and references.

Make a new submission to the Reflection article section.

Symposium

The papers published in this section comment or discuss a recent book. All the papers in this section pass through double blind review. Word limit: 8000.

Make a new submission to the Symposium section.

Book Review

The document presents and criticizes a recently published book. Word limit: 2000 words, including footnotes and references. The journal favors critical reviews over merely descriptive reviews. 

Make a new submission to the Book Review section.

Copyright Notice 

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. The Author retains copyright in the Work, where the term "Work" shall include all digital objects that may result in subsequent electronic publication or distribution.

2. Upon acceptance of the Work, the author shall grant to the Publisher the right of first publication of the Work.

3. The Author shall grant to the Publisher a nonexclusive perpetual right and license to publish, archive, and make accessible the Work in whole or in part in all forms of media now or hereafter known under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoCommercia-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), or its equivalent, which, for the avoidance of doubt, allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the Work under the following conditions: (a) Attribution: Other users must attribute the Work in the manner specified by the author as indicated on the journal Web site;(b) Noncommercial: Other users (including Publisher) may not use this Work for commercial purposes;

4. The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal;

5. Authors are permitted, and Estudios de Filosofía promotes, to post online the preprint manuscript of the Work in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access). Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work is expected be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Estudios de Filosofía's assigned URL to the Article and its final published version in Estudios de Filosofía.     

Privacy Statement 

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.