Instructions for submitting original manuscripts

Formal aspects

Original manuscripts should be submitted using Recerca TEMPLATE.

Manuscript length:

- Thought and analysis essays: minimum 5000 words, maximum 8000 words (including bibliography).

- Reviews: maximum 2000 words.

The first page of the article should include the title, an abstract no longer than 150 words, and 4 or 5 keywords reflecting the content of the article. The title, abstract and keywords must be provided in both in Spanish and English.

The author(s) name(s) and any references to their university or other affiliation must not appear in the article so as to guarantee full anonymity of the blind peer review process. Likewise, the manuscript should contain no bibliographical references to publications by the author(s) that might reveal their identity. Any such references will be incorporated once the manuscript has been accepted for publication. References to works by the author(s) should be cited in the text as “Author 1” followed by the year, for example: “Author 1 (2016)”. The full reference will be added once the manuscript has been accepted.

To submit a manuscript, authors must first register through the Open Journal System (OJS) on the Recerca website (www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca). Registration in the OJS system and manuscript submission is free for authors. (Further information is available in the instructions set out in the Guide to author registration in the OJS).

Original manuscripts must not have been published in Spanish, Catalan or English and must not be pending publication in any other journal, conference proceedings, or as part of a book or book chapter.

B) Stylistic aspects

References

In-text references to journals, newspapers and book titles should be in italics; titles of articles and book chapters should be placed in double inverted commas. Direct quotations in the main body of the text should also appear in inverted commas (“…”). Where necessary, single inverted commas can be used for quotations within a quotation as follows: “ ‘…’ ”.

Longer quotations (more than three lines) should appear as a separate paragraph with no quotation marks or italics, indented 1 cm on the left, in a smaller font size (10 point Times New Roman), and single spacing, or indicating clearly that it is a quotation. Ellipses enclosed in square brackets are used to denote omitted text in a quotation: [...].

Hyphens and dashes: Hyphens are used for compound words and page references (e.g. 245-247). Em dashes are used to set off parenthetical statements (e.g. ––understood as a moral reflection), with one space before it but not after. Where they come at the end of a sentence, the second dash is not used.

Bibliographical references

Abbreviated references: Abbreviated in-text references should appear in brackets and provide the author’s surname, the year of publication, and the page numbers, where appropriate; full information is given in the bibliography. E.g., (Bellés, 1999: 34-56).

References with more than two authors should provide the surname of the first author followed by et al. The names of all the authors should appear in the final list of references. E.g., (Linderberger et al., 2008).

Where several consecutive pages are referenced, use a hyphen between the numbers; otherwise, use commas. E.g., (Bellés, 1999: 34-37, 67, 109).

If the cited work consists of various volumes, the number of the volume referred to should be given in Roman numerals, preceded by a colon. E.g., (Riquer-Valverde, 1984: II, 193)

Latin abbreviations are not used: loc. cit., op. cit., ibídem....

References: The full list of references should be provided at the end of the article, in alphabetical order by author, with a hanging indent and 1.0 line spacing, as follows:

- Books:

The reference begins with the author’s full surname, followed by a comma and his or her forename. The book’s title is then given in italics, followed by where it was published and the publisher. In accordance with the II Equality Plan at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón and the publication procedure of the university’s Communications Service, forenames must be provided in full, not simply the initials, so as to raise the profile of women authors.

Gracia, Diego (2007). Procedimientos de decisión en ética clínica. Madrid: Triacastela.

When citing two or more books published by the same author in the same year, they are differentiated by letters, in alphabetical order, as follows:

Cortina, Adela (1992a). Ética mínima. Introducción a la filosofía práctica. Madrid: Tecnos.

Cortina, Adela (1992b). Ética sin moral. Madrid: Tecnos.

Books with more than one author are referenced as follows:

Maturana, Humberto & Varela, Francisco (1980). Autopoiesis: The Organization of the Living. Dodrecht: Reidel Publishing Company.

Any other important information about the book, such as the translator(s) or the original title, can be included as follows:

Habermas, Jürgen (1982). Conocimiento e interés. Madrid: Taurus. (Manuel Jiménez, José Ivars and Luís Martín trans.). Original title (1968). Erkenntis und Interesse, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag.

- Journal articles:

The article’s title (not in inverted commas) is followed by a full stop and the journal name in italics, the volume (if there is one), number and page numbers, as follows:

García-Marzá, Domingo (2008). Sociedad civil: una concepción radical. Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 8, 27-46.

If the volume contains several issues, the issue number is added in brackets without a space after the volume number, for example:

Alonso, Luís Enrique & Fernández Rodríguez, Carlos Jesús (2006). El imaginario managerial: el discurso de la fluidez en la sociedad económica. Política y Sociedad, 23(2), 127-151.

If the journal article has a DOI, it is included at the end of the reference:

Levy, Neil (2008). Introducing Neuroethics. Neuroethics, 1, 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s12152-008-90077.

DOIs must be given for recently published articles that have not yet been assigned a number, volume, and/or pages.

- Chapters in books with one or more than two authors with editor:

The surname(s) and forename(s) of the author of the chapter followed by the title of the chapter (no inverted commas or italics). The authors of the book are then cited followed by their function as editors (eds.) or coordinators (coords.), the full book title in italics, the number of pages of the chapter in brackets, the city of publication and the publisher, as follows:

MacIntyre, Alasdair (2003). ¿Se basa la ética aplicada en un error? In Cortina, Adela & García-Marzá, Domingo (Eds). Razón pública y éticas aplicadas. Los caminos de la razón práctica en una sociedad pluralista (71-91). Madrid: Tecnos.

- Book reviews:

Pallarés-Domínguez, Daniel (2013). Review of Cortina, Adela (2011). Neuroética y Neuropolítica. Sugerencias para la educación moral. Madrid Tecnos. In Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 13, 183-187.

- Conference publications:

The structure is the same as a book chapter reference, as follows:

Pallarés-Domínguez, Daniel (2013). Aportaciones a la neuroética de los antecedentes filosóficos de la relación emoción-razón. In Murillo, Ildefonso (Ed.). La Filosofía Práctica. Presented at the IX Jornadas de Diálogo Filosófico (547-556). Madrid: Diálogo Filosófico.

- Doctoral theses:

Codina, María José (2014). Neuroeducación en virtudes cordiales. Una propuesta a partir de la neuroeducación y la ética discursiva cordial. Doctoral thesis. Facultad de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación. València: Universitat de València.

- National and international reports:

Where there is no author, the name of the organisation responsible for the report should appear:

WHO (2010). Guidance on the WHO review of psychoactive substances for internal control. France: WHO Press.

OECD (2002). Understanding the Brain: Towards a New Learning Science. Paris: OECD.

Where the report has an author, the reference appears under their name:

Hall, John (2005). Neuroscience and Education. A Review of the contribution of brain science to teaching and learning. Glasgow: The Scottish Council for Research in Education.

- Online resources:

Many of the academic references in publications today come from online resources. Blogs, websites, databases, tweets and any other online resource must always be accompanied by the date on which they were consulted.

a) Blog post

The author’s surname and forename, separated by a comma, is followed by the day, month and year in brackets. The title of the blog post is then given with a description of the format in square brackets, and the source from where it was retrieved, as follows:

Medina-Vicent, Maria (9 May, 2017). Domingo García-Marzá propone una nueva concepción de democracia participativa. [Ética y Democracia. Blog of the “Filosofía Política y Ética Empresarial” Group at Universitat Jaume I]. Retrieved from: http://eticaydemocracia-uji.blogspot.com.es/2017/05/domingo-garcia-marza-propone-una-nueva.html.

b) Websites with author

Amen, Daniel (2012). Amen clinics. Retrieved from http://danielamenmd.amenclinics.com/ [Consulted 18 November, 2013].

c) Websites with no author and no publication date

Census data revisited (n.d.). Harvard Psychology of Population website. Retrieved from http://www.harvard.edu/data/index.php. [Consulted 20 January, 2009].

d) Newspaper articles with no author

The reference should begin with the title of the article, followed by the month and year of publication in brackets, the name of the newspaper in italics, the URL and the date consulted, as follows:

Losilla se somete a prueba cerebral para ver dónde escondió el cadáver de su mujer (19 December, 2013) Heraldo.es. Retrieved from http://www.heraldo.es/noticias/aragon/zaragoza_provincia/2013/12/18/losilla_so

e) Newspaper articles with author

The day, month and year of the publication appear in brackets after the name of the author, followed by the title of the article and, in italics, the name of the newspaper. The URL is then given together with the date the article was consulted, as follows:

Pardo, José Luís (10 July, 2014). ¿Son fáciles las humanidades? El País. Retrieved from http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/06/12/opinion/1402599468_450394.html [Consulted 15 July, 2014].

f) Tweets

The Twitter username is followed by the day, month and year in brackets. The full tweet is then cited, stating that it is a tweet in square brackets, and the URL as follows:

@EticaDemocracia (11 May, 2017). Hoy a las 13:00h en la Sala de Graus Germà Colón tendrá lugar el Seminario Permanente del Grado en Humanidades de la @UJI_noticies [Tweet]. Retrieved from  https://twitter.com/EticaDemocracia?lang=es

g) YouTube video

The full name of the video’s creator or institution is followed by the day, month and year in brackets, the title of the video, video file in square brackets, and the URL, as follows:

Universitat Jaume I (9 December, 2013). Domingo García-Marzá: “Neuropoder: la desafección normalizada”. [Video file]. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00645xp6xQ.

h) Interviews (recording, podcast, transcript)

Interviews used as research material should not mention the names of interviewees, but rather their affiliation, the positions they occupy, or their responsibilities. For example, Greenpeace spokesperson; Activist from the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages; Member of the OCU consumer association; Ecology Party member; etc. Where various members of the same organisation are interviewed, they should be numbered as follows: (Interviewee 1, Greenpeace spokesperson).

Recerca will base its decision to publish original manuscripts on the reports of two external reviewers assigned to review the article according to their specialisations, following the blind peer review process.

Authors will receive a report of the reviewers’ observations and comments and asked to revise their manuscripts. At the end of this process, if the manuscript is accepted authors should upload the final version to the OJS.

Recerca respects the opinions of its collaborators, but does not necessarily share all the points of view expressed in the articles it publishes.

Recerca will regularly publish calls for papers.

Remember to consult the code of good practices for authors before sending your manuscript, which you can find at the following URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9khKRatKBsxZFE2dmJhYkhGRjA/view.