A. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. EDITORIAL POLICY
Culture, Language and Representation is a biannual scientific-academic publication devoted to research in the area of cultural and linguistic studies. Each issue addresses a spectrum of cultural representations in their diverse linguistic manifestations (social, political, educational, artistic, historical, and others), placing a particular emphasis on innovative approaches.
Culture, Language and Representation aims to the spreading of relevant proposals for the international scientific community within the discipline of cultural and linguistic studies, for which it expresses its commitment to the publication of original contributions and high scientific content, following the global parameters of humanistic research.
Acceptance of articles for publication will be conditioned to the positive assessment of at least two external blind referees. The presentation of work for its evaluation implies that the material is not previously published and that it is not in the evaluation phase for another publication.
If an article already published in Culture, Language and Representation is to appear in another medium, it must mention Culture, Language and Representation as the original place of publication. For any questions about this matter, it is recommended to consult the publishing service at Universitat Jaume I.
B. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Contributions will be made electronically in WORD or RTF document (between 7000 and 8000 words).
The use of inclusive language is recommended in the articles submitted for review, prioritizing the use of the specific recommendations contained in the Guía de tratamiento no sexista del lenguaje administrativo de la Universitat Jaume I. CLR requires that information be provided on whether original research data take into account gender, to allow the identification of possible gender differences.
C. STYLE AND WRITING RULES
Original submissions may be submitted in Spanish, Valencian, or English.
The use of inclusive language is recommended in the original submissions submitted for review, prioritizing the use of the specific recommendations contained in the Universitat Jaume I's Guide to the Non-Sexist Treatment of Administrative Language. Furthermore, the CLR requires that information be provided on whether the research source data take gender into account in order to allow for the identification of possible differences.
Two types of original works can be submitted:
- Articles
- Manuscripts must be in Spanish, Catalan or English.
- The proposal should include a title, an abstract of between 150 and 250 words and between four and eight keywords. All this information must be entirely bilingual, necessarily in English and in one of the other languages of the journal, i.e. Spanish or Catalan.
- The structure of the abstract should include the following information: motivation, theoretical approach, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion.
- The length of the manuscript should range between 7000 and 8000 words, including abstract and references.
- Appendices, if any, will be considered separately and cannot exceed five pages (additional documentation that already exists independently of the text and that is not part of it, which incorporates data or information strictly necessary for understanding the article).
- Here is the template for writing articles
- Reviews
- Manuscripts must be in Spanish, Catalan or English.
- Reviews will have 3-5 pages (900-1500 words approx.).
- Reviews must include the full title of the book, the full names of the authors in the order in which they are cited in the book, publication place, publisher, the year of publication, the total number of pages (e.g. XII + 234), ISBN, and price (if known).
- Here is the template for writing reviews
The structure shall be as follows:
The first page of the articles should contain the following information (template for writing articles ):
Title of the article in the primary language (Times New Roman, 12. Alignment: justified. Followed by a line with no text)
A translation of the Title in English if the primary language is Spanish or Catalan (a translation in Spanish or Catalan if the primary language is English) (Times New Roman, 11. Alignment: justified. Followed by a line with no text)
Name and surname of the author (in bold and small cap. Times New Roman, 10. Left alignment)
University or Institution with which the author is linked (in small caps. Times New Roman, 10. Left alignment. Followed by a line with no text)
Abstract: the word "Abstract" in small caps, the rest of the summary in Times New Roman, 10. Justified alignment. Between 150 and 250 words.
Keywords: "Keywords" in italics, the rest of the abstract in Times New Roman, 10. Justified alignment. Between 4 and 8 words. (Followed by a line with no text). These keywords should be extracted from the European Thesaurus of Education (ERIC) or UNESCO Thesaurus.
The text is arranged in two columns. It will be followed by bibliographic references (described below) written in one column.
The font size in the body of the text must be single-spaced, justified, in Times New Roman 10 font. Times New Roman 8 font must be used for notes. Footnotes must never be used to accommodate bibliographic citations.
HEADINGS
Headings must have the following format:
- HEADING IN BOLD CAPITALIZED
1.1 SUBHEADING IN SMALL CAPITALS
1.1.1 Smaller subheading in italics
Italics and bold type
Italics shoud be restricted to foreign words, expressions and highlighted terms. Likewise, titles of books and periodical publications (journals, newspapers, etc.) must appear in italics.
Bold type should only be used in titles or section headings but not within the main body of the text. Similarly, the use of underlining should be avoided throughout the text.
Hyphens (-) and dashes (–)
Hyphens (-) should be used in compound expressions.
A close-up en dash (–) should be used to indicate page ranges in bibliographical references and as a substitute for brackets, in which case they should be preceded and followed by a space.
Metaphor denominations must appear in small capitals: LIFE IS A JOURNEY.
Notes
References to notes should be inserted in the body of the text using the function provided for this purpose in the text processor. They should be superscript Arabic numerals placed after any punctuation marks.
-The Times New Roman type size 8 will be used for notes. In no case will footnotes be used to accommodate bibliographic citations.
D. QUOTATIONS
Quoted fragments should be included in the main text and set between double quotation marks (" "). When quotation marks are required within quotation marks, the former should be single quotation marks: " ' ' "if the quoted text does not exceed four lines.
Longer quotations (more than four lines) should be placed in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks or italics, but indented 1,25cm and with a smaller font size; alternatively, the passage should be marked as a quotation. For quotations of four lines or higher, the text should be indented 1.25 cm, with no line separation from the previous paragraph and a line separated from the next paragraph.
- The system of abbreviated quotations will be used and incorporated in the body of the text using the following format: Marqués (2016a: 32); (Solà, 2008: 115).
- References to more than one author within a parenthesis must be separated by a semicolon and ordered chronologically.
Omissions should be indicated by ellipses between square brackets: […].
Likewise, square brackets should also be used to mark any digressions or additions by the author who quotes: “The only empirical evidence found by researchers [before the 1950s] is that included in ...”. Likewise, the author's comments within a quotation will be enclosed in square brackets.
Direct quotes in the text must be followed by their abbreviated bibliographical reference. However, references to longer quotations in a separate paragraph should be placed before rather than after them so that they cannot be interpreted as part of the quotation.
E. REFERENCES
The list of full references must appear at the end of the work, ordered alphabetically, and adjusted to the following criteria APA 7.ª Edition; first names are not abbreviated:
If the DOI is too long, you may use the DOI abbreviation (ensure it works).
E.1 Books
The city of publication should be omitted.
Olaria, Carme. 2007. A walk through prehistory. Jaume I University Publications.
Moro Ipola, Micaela and Laura Guillamón Mosque. 2015. Train the neurons: neurocognitive rehabilitation program for patients with severe mental disorders. Jaume I University Publications.
Monlleó Peris, Rosa, Iván Medall Peris and Alfredo Fornas Pallarés. 2014. Biographies rescued from silence. Experiences of war and post-war in Castellón. Jaume I University Publications.
Altava Rubio, Vicenta, Francisco Gimeno Agost, Gil Lorenzo Valentí, Inmaculada Pérez Serrano and Isabel Ríos García Molina. 2010. Classroom situations. Teaching materials for disciplinary use. Jaume I University Publications.
E.2 Electronic books
Sanz Gil, Mercedes (Ed.) (2022). Estrategias lingüísticas para la sociedad multilingüe. Octaedro. https://doi.org/10.36006/16333
E.3 Articles in Journals
Navarro i Ferrando, Ignasi (2017). Conceptual metaphor types in oncology. Ibérica, 34, 163-186.
E.4 Parts, chapters ... of a collective book
Martí-Contreras, Jorge (2022). La mediación lingüística en español para fines específicos: el ámbito de los negocios. En M.Sanz (Ed), Estrategias lingüísticas para la sociedad multilingüe (pp. 63-76). Octaedro. https://doi.org/10.36006/16333
E.5 If the authorship is awarded to an institution
Consejo de Europa (2001). Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas: aprendizaje, enseñanza, evaluación. Consejo de Europa.
E.6 More than one work by the same author published in a single year:
It will be indicated with a round letter just after the year, without separation:
Duque, Eladio (2011a). The texture of discourse: Towards an outline of connectivity theory by Jan Renkema. Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, 45, 56-64.
Duque, Eladio (2011b). Integración de conocimiento en las relaciones de discurso. Tonos digital: revista de estudios filológicos, 21. https://www.um.es/tonosdigital/znum21/secciones/estudios-11-duque.htm
E.7. More than one work by the same author(s):
Complete surname and name should appear in every reference (no dashes or lines).
F. INFORMATION ON THE EDITORIAL PROCESS AND TERMS
The average number of weeks between article submission & publication is 24 weeks. The time estimate is as follows:
- CLR receives the articles and assigns the editor in charge (3 weeks)
- Two external reviewers are selected for each article, and it is ensured that the article goes through a blind review (2 weeks).
- The reviewers send their reports to the editor proposing (I) acceptance of the article without modification, (II) acceptance with modifications or (III) non-acceptance (3 weeks).
- The editors send the authors the reviewers' reports and give them a deadline, if necessary, for improving the article (3 weeks).
- The authors upload the improved article to the platform, including a modifications report (2 weeks).
- The editors send the article to external evaluators for final acceptance or refusal (2 weeks). If the changes are not accepted, the process returns to point c).
- The reviewers, who had already reviewed the article, issue a report on the improvements made (2 weeks).
- The editors send the article to the author for deanonymization (1 week).
- The editors send the article to the final layout (1 week).
- The article is laid out, and proofs are sent to the authors (5 weeks)
- The editors publish the volume.
G. AUTHORSHIP AND CONTRIBUTION POLICY
The authors' personal and contact information will be introduced in the Culture, Language and Representation website application. Still, external referees will not have access to information on the authorship of articles and reviews. The following information is required:
- Authors' name and surname
- Affiliation; postal address; phone;
- Institutional email address (not Gmail, Hotmail…);
- up-to-date ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-.
Articles authorised by more than one person should explain the motivation for signature ordering (if any) and specify each co-author's contribution. All co-authors must register an account with the OJS system, and their data must be entered into the submission metadata files.
In the case of co-authorship or multiple authorship, the order of signatures in the article indicates the degree of contribution of each co-author to the manuscript. To detail the individual contribution of each co-author, it is recommended to follow the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). Likewise, the journal reminds us that the status of authorship is linked to compliance with the principles established in good practice guides of the Vancouver standards, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the Code of Good Practice in Research and Doctorate (CBPID) of the Universitat Jaume I.
At least 10% of the members of the Board or Committee (Editorial, Advisory, Scientific, etc.) or the authors belong to foreign institutions.
More than 80% of the published articles are signed by authors outside the Editorial Board and the UJI to avoid inbreeding.
H. FUNDING AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT POLICY
As authors upload their articles, they must enter their metadata on the OJS platform, including information on the research's funding (agencies or entities and project codes). Once the article has been accepted, this information will also be placed on the first page of the article in a footnote, along with the acknowledgements.
I. OPEN SCIENCE
The contents are published in open access under CC-BY-SA licenses (Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY SA).
Authors are encouraged to deposit the complementary material, at least the research data underlying the publications, in institutional or thematic open-access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Once the article is accepted for publication in the journal, the authors will be sent the protocol to upload the data to the Universitat Jaume I repository. Información at: https://www.uji.es/serveis/cd/bib/serveis/investigacio/dades/
The list of authorized reviewers for published volumes in specific periods is publicly displayed.
