Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Submission of materials for publication

To submit proposals for articles, authors must register as users in the OJS platform. To complete this process, we suggest following these steps:

a) In the Index, click on the menu “Register”, located in the main header.

b) Fill in the form that appears.

c) At the end of the form, in the “Register as” section, check the boxes for “Reader” and “author”.

d) During the registration process, each user will be asked to select a user name and password; upon finalizing registration, return to the index to open a session as a “User”.

e) When initiating a session as a registered user, the “Personal area” appears as an option in the main header.

f) By clicking on “Personal area” the “Main user page” opens and the word “Author” appears with a link; click on “Author”.

g) The “Active submissions” page will open. Complete the form that appears on the sub-menu “Begin a new submission”.

h) Complete the information of Step 1 of the submission process. In the option “Journal section”, select one of the four options (“Theoretical reflection”, “Social topics in debate”, “General sections”, “Book reviews”. For a detailed description of each section, consult the respective information on the journal’s homepage (“Presentation and sections”).

i) Select the language of submission, and ensure that your proposal fulfills the requirements indicated in the editorial policy and the “Submission check-list” on the same form.

j) Save the information and go on to Step 2 of submission. This section offers the options for uploading the corresponding files. Make sure to “Upload” the file you have selected. Once the file is uploaded, click on “Save” and continue.

k) Complete the information required in Step 3, “Submission metadata”, as they are required to index the article.

l) If the article includes image files, upload them in Step 4. Click on “Save”, and continue (if no additional files are required for the article, go directly to the “Save” button and continue).

m) Step 5. Click on “Finish submission”.

2. General guidelines

All manuscripts submitted must comply with the following conditions:

a) All works must be unpublished and products of original research. No work that has already been published, or that has been sent previously for peer-review to be disseminated through any other printed or digital media, will be accepted.

b) The journal receives proposals for articles in Spanish or English.

c) Font: Times New Roman, 12-points; line-spacing: 1.5.

d) Letter-sized paper (21.5 x 28 centimeters), with margins of 2.5 centimeters on all four sides. Each page must be numbered progressively using Arabic numerals.

e) In MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD format, any version.

f) Except for Book reviews, all articles must be accompanied by a title in Spanish and English, an Abstract in Spanish and English no longer than 260 words, and a minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 keywords, also in both languages.

g) Texts for the “Theoretical reflections” section must be between 20 and 35 pages. A maximum of 5 articles will be published in this section in each issue. Texts for the “Social spaces for debate” and “General” sections shall be between 20 and 30 pages. In each issue, a maximum of four texts will be published in this section, while six may appear in the “General section”. In the case of “Book reviews”, texts must not exceed seven pages. A maximum of two book reviews will be published in each issue.

h) The title of the work must be placed in quotation marks in the center of the first page, with no underlining or italics. The author’s name will be omitted to ensure anonymity. In the event that the manuscript is approved for publication, the final version submitted will include two lines under the title, to the right, for the name(s) of the author(s), but without academic degrees. Immediately beneath this, the institution with which the author(s) is(are) affiliated will appear. The text shall begin two lines under this information. Each author’s contact information (e-mail, institutional affiliation, nationality) will be included in a footnote for the reader’s benefit.

i) Once the submission has been received and its compliance with these editorial rules verified, the manuscript will be returned to the author(s) for authentication. They must return it duly signed. Also, they will receive a form requesting a brief biographical note for each author that includes highlights of their academic trajectory, their current lines of research, ORCID, and an identification document, among other items.

j) Texts written in co-authorship are welcome for publication in Intersticios Sociales; however, the maximum number of authors in one manuscript is three (3). In such cases, the authors must indicate one person who will be responsible for all communications with the journal.

k) All footnotes will appear at the bottom of the page, numbered in Arabic numerals. The Bibliography shall be added at the end of the article. Intersticios Sociales’ publication format requires that footnotes be brief (and, preferably, limited to the bibliographic data).

l) All graphs, tables and charts must be numbered consecutively. Graphs or tables imported from Excel or Word will be included in the body of the text if their size allows it (otherwise, they will be added at the end with their location in the article indicated). Elements elaborated in other programs will be treated as “images”. They must be submitted in separate files with their location marked in the text for correct placement. Regardless of the programs used to make these elements, they must maintain uniformity in the position of the title (center-top) and source (beneath, at the right margin).

m) All images submitted must be sent separately in TIFF files at a minimum resolution of 300dpi, and with credit given to the photographer, painter or source. In the event that the source is protected by copyright, the author must obtain the corresponding permission to reproduce.

n) Authors must adapt their manuscripts to the comments and corrections made by the members of the editorial board and/or the spelling- and style-checker.

o) The journal applies anti-plagiarism software (iThenticate) to all articles and reviews submitted to prove that they are unpublished and original. In the event of a breach of these aspects, the journal will proceed according to the actions described for ethical breaches (See Section 2.5, subsection B).

q) Authors cannot submit more than one article for consideration for publication in the span of three years, in order to avoid practices that could be considered endogamic.

3. Use of punctuation marks

Quotation marks: 

The titles of stories, poems, articles or essays within a larger work must be placed between quotation marks. For example: ‘Luvina’ a tale included in the book El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo.

Due to the composition of modern keyboards, the use of English quotation marks [“…”] instead of Latin ones [«…»] is accepted for textual citations. It is recommended that authors use simple quotation marks [‘...’] and English quotation marks [“...”] to indicate a citation inside a larger citation. For example: “…a way to understand the world and a world for each ‘style’”.

Terms used to clarify the meaning of a word or phrase shall also be placed between simple quotation marks; for example: “Only that which is on display is on sale (i.e., ‘the things exhibited’)”.

Direct references to individual elements are also to be placed between quotation marks (not marked with italics); for example: “The notions of ‘anteriority’, ‘posteriority’ and ‘simultaneity’ show the relational nature of the linguistic […]”.

Square brackets: 

Square brackets […] shall be used to indicate that text has been suppressed in a citation; for example: “[...] the constant coming and going that is established between the increasing massification and development of these micro groups that I call ‘tribes’. [...] The metaphor of tribe allows [...]”.

Italics:
1. — Titles of books, works, films, exhibitions and newspapers must be in italics –for example: El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo– and the grammatical criteria for the use of capital and lowercase letters must be applied.

2. — To identify a word in another language, an idiomatic expression, or to indicate emphasis.

Long Dash [ – ]:

This is used to indicate an annotation inside the body of a text and to differentiate it from the dash [ -]. For example: ‘Hence, “people”, according to their various “identifiers” – defined by their affections and rejections– may participate in multiple “tribes”’.

Small caps (Format, font, effects):

Small caps are used –in Spanish– for the Roman numerals that indicate a century (for example: siglo xxi, where lowercase + small caps = xxi, instead of: siglo XXI (uppercase, or capital, letters).

These are also used for institutional acronyms, such as fce, ciesas (not fce, ciesas), etc. Note that the first time that an institutional acronym is used in a text it must be accompanied by the full name of the institution to which it refers, in parenthesis.

Acronyms:

Acronyms made up of the union of various words shall be written in upper- and lowercase letters; for example: Conaculta (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes), or Infonavit (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores).

Note that the first time that an institutional acronym is used in a text it must be accompanied by the full name of the institution to which it refers, in parenthesis.

4. Quotations and References:

The articles and reviews proposed for publication in Intersticios Sociales must follow the reference style for ‘footnotes’ or the ‘humanities style’ of The Chicago Manual of Style.

For a more detailed description of this style of quotations and references, consult the website http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.

In general, adopting this footnote style means that manuscripts submitted to Intersticios Sociales will show the following structure:

First quotation:

BOOK: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the book in italics [with no punctuation mark after the title] [open parentheses] (city of printing in English [colon]: publisher [comma], year of publication [close parentheses]) [comma], page(s) quoted; for example:

⁷ Samuel Villela and Silvia Gastélum, Los cholos: transculturación chicana en bandas juveniles de Sinaloa (Culiacán: UAS, 1981), 62.

BOOK CHAPTER: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the chapter in quotation marks [comma], title of the book preceded by in [comma], name of the book’s coordinator or editor [open parentheses] (city of printing in English [colon]: publisher [comma], year of publication [close parentheses]) [comma], page(s) quoted.

For example:

⁸ Andrés Lira, “La consolidación nacional (1853-1887)”, in Historia de México, coord. Gisela Von Wobeser (Mexico: Academia Mexicana de la Historia – SEP – Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010), 185-207.

ARTICLE in a printed science journal: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the article in quotation marks [comma], name of the journal in italics [no punctuation mark after the name] volume and/or issue [open parentheses] (date of publication [close parentheses]) [colon]: page(s) quoted.

For example:

⁹ Robert A. Potash, “Historiografía del México independiente”, Historia Mexicana 39 (January-March 1961): 361-413.

ARTICLE from an online science journal: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the article in quotation marks [comma], name of the journal in italics [no punctuation mark after the name] volume and/or issue [open parenthesis] (date of publication [close parenthesis]) [comma], website [no immediate punctuation mark] (date consulted in parentheses).

For example:

¹⁰ Louis Cardaillac, “Erotismo y santidad”, Intersticios Sociales 3 (March-August 2012), http://148.202.248.171/colegiojal/index.php/is/article/view/25, (Consulted March 1 2012).

THESIS: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the thesis in quotation marks [no punctuation marks after the title] [open parentheses] (Degree of the thesis [comma], city, university [comma], year of thesis defense [close parentheses]) [comma], pages consulted.

For example:

¹¹ Alma Dorantes, “Protestantes de ayer y hoy en una sociedad católica: el caso jalisciense” (Doctoral Thesis, Guadalajara, CIESAS Occidente, 2004), 35-45.

Subsequent quotations:

From the second occasion in which a book, book chapter, article or other source is cited, only the author(s) surname(s) and first words of the title will appear used; for example:

¹¹ Villela and Gastélum, Los cholos, 61.

¹² Lira, “La consolidación”, 188.

¹³ Potash, “Historiografía”, 370-398.

¹⁴ Aceves, “El culto”.

¹⁵ Dorantes, “Protestantes”, 56.

Archival documents:

Because The Chicago Manual of Style does not include concrete guidelines for citing archival documents, Intersticios Sociales uses the following convention: Author, header or title of the document, place where the document was elaborated or signed, date, location of the repository or archive where held, and location of the documents according to the classification system used by that institution.

When references include correspondence, reports or other documents that have no title, only the information about the document and its respective reference shall appear, in the order mentioned above.

On the first occasion that an archive is mentioned, its full name must appear (e.g.: Archivo General de Indias / Archivo Histórico de Jalisco), but the appropriate acronyms (AGI / AHJ) shall be used in subsequent citations.

References to websites:

Name of the webmaster or website, title of the document or section consulted with the preposition ‘in’ followed by colon [in:], and the website’s name underlined, respecting the grammar of links. At the end, write the date when the website was consulted in parentheses.

For example:

¹⁶ Coordinación General Académica, “Programa de formación, actualización y capacitación docente”, in:

www.cga.udg.mx/?q=formacion-docente/evaluación-acreditacion-y-certificacion (consulted May 13 2016).