Submissions

Author Guidelines

Text extension of a maximum of 20 pages.

Documents must be sent in Microsoft Word (with a .doc extension).

The first page should include:

Title of the work, not long, that clearly refers to the content.

Author (s).

College or University.

Email address.

From the second page the text will begin. First, an abstract in Spanish, no more than 200 words, as well as five keywords. Title, abstract and keywords must also come in English, without the use of online translators.

The footnotes should only be explanatory, they will only serve to expand or illustrate what has been said in the body of the text, and not to indicate bibliographic sources, in which case they must go in the text according to the following example (Lagomarsino, 2019: 12-14).

About bibliographic references:

They should not be extended unnecessarily, so only the references cited in the text will be included and must comply with the APA system.

General aspects based on APA on the use of typography:

a) Arial at 12 points, with variations in the cases described below.
b) Quotations of more than 40 words will be written without quotation marks, in a separate paragraph, with 11-point font and 1-space spacing (see other details below).
c) In the footnotes the font will be used at 10 points and line spacing at 1 space.
d) It is suggested not to underline unnecessarily.
e) It is recommended to use italics in foreign words and enter their Spanish meaning in quotation marks.
When you want to highlight the sense, nuance or particular tone (different from the literal) of a certain term or expression, you can resort to the use of quotation marks.

About the general format of the document:

a) The line spacing will be 1.5 spaces for the entire document (including titles and subtitles, list of references, indexes).
b) The paragraphs will be justified throughout the document.
c) When the quotations have less than 40 words, they will be included in the text in quotation marks; At the end of these, your reference (First author's last name, year: page) will be entered in parentheses.
d) Quotations of more than 40 words will be incorporated in separate paragraphs with an 11-point font, indents of 1 cm. to the right and left of the paragraph, and the corresponding reference.

On the management of references and the integration of the critical apparatus:

Quotations and references

a) References will be quote in the text in parentheses (Author's last name, year: page) and will be listed at the end of the document, preceded by the following heading with an initial capital letter: Bibliographic references.

About the list of references

a) For the integration of the list of references, the following  recommendations are established by type of document:
a.1 They are arranged alphabetically. When there is more than one work per author, they are written in chronological order starting from the least recent.
a.2 If the information of the document covers more than one line, a French indentation is used where the first line protrudes from the left side. The paragraph formed with the French indentation is called the French paragraph.
a.3 Below are recommendations and examples by type of work

Book

It begins by writing the author's first last name followed by a comma and the initial (s) of his / her name (s) followed by a period. Then the year of the edition used is written in parentheses, followed by a period. Next, the title of the book is written in italics followed by a period. Subsequently the city of publication is written, followed by a colon, and the publisher, followed by a period. If there is more than one city or more than one publisher, both are reported.

General forms for books:

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. City: Editorial.
Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. Recovered from
Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. doi: xx.xxxxxxxx
Surname, A. A. (Ed.). (Year). Title. City: Editorial.
Surname, A. A. (Coord.). (Year). Title. City: Editorial.

Chapter in book

The author's last name is written first, followed by a comma, and the initials of his / her name (s), followed by a period. Then the year of the edition used in parentheses, followed by a period. Then the title of the chapter or article followed by period. Then the word En and the author's name in the same format (first last name followed by the initial, in parentheses you specify if you are editor, compiler or coordinator, followed by period), then the title of the book in italics, followed by chapter pages in parentheses and a period; then the city is written, followed by a colon, and lastly, the editorial.

General forms for book chapters:

Surname, A. A. and Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In Surnames, A. A. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. Xx-xx). City: Editorial.
Surname, A. A. & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In Surnames, A. A. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. Xx-xx). City: Editorial. Recovered from http: //www.xxxxxx
Surname, A. A. & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In Surnames, A. A. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. Xx-xx). City: Editorial. doi: Xxxxxxxx

Article in journal

It is stated as follows: first the author's last name, followed by a comma; then the initials (es) of your name (s) followed by a period. Next, the year of the edition used in parentheses, followed by a period; then the article title, followed by a period. Then, the title of the journal in italics, followed by a comma, the volume number consulted, the number corresponding to the volume in parentheses and a colon, followed by the number of the pages of the article from start to finish. In the case of online magazines, their electronic coding is also included if it appears:

General form for journal article:

Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B. and Surname, C. C. (Date). Article title. Publication title, volume, number, xx-xx. doi: xx.xxxxxxx

Thesis

Theses refer similarly to books. It also includes the name of Bachelor's Thesis, Master's Thesis or PhD Thesis, as appropriate. Example:
Zamudio, C. (2004). The role of alphabetic writing in the construction of oral data. PhD thesis, Mexico: Colegio de México, Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies.

Paper on congresses

The paper is recorded as an article in a book, only the legend Paper presented in is added, followed by the name of the event, the place and the date. If it was presented in edited reports, in print or in digital format, the data is aggregated following the recommendations presented.

Journalistic sources

Journalistic sources refer similarly to books, first the author's last name, followed by a comma; then the initial (s) of your name (s) followed by a period. Next, the year in parentheses, followed by a period; then the article title, followed by a comma; then the font title in italics, followed by a period. Finally the place, a comma and the date followed by a period.
Rodríguez, M. and García Partida, J. C. (2006). Guanajuato substitutes first grade books with study guides, La Jornada. Mexico, August 21.

Documents, articles or sources from the Internet

References to publications available on the Internet must include, in addition to the general information (author, date, title), the protocol and the complete electronic address in angle brackets <>, followed by the last date the page was consulted, written in brackets ( ).

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