Submissions

Author Guidelines

The collaborations must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously under review elsewhere, nor committed for forthcoming publication in books. Finally, contributions must be written in Spanish and must follow the guidelines of the regulatory framework governing the journal. This document can be consulted on our website.

1.Reception of contributions and peer review system
Revista de Humanidades receives contributions between March and December. It is published in January with articles organized in two sections: a dossier with a previously announced open call and a miscellaneous section. The second issue only includes the second section and is published in July.​

All articles received by Revista de Humanidades that meet the minimum requirements stated in the instructions for authors (originality, citation style, length, research results) are sent to external reviewers (academic peers chosen by the Editorial Board), who review them according to an evaluation rubric. The process follows a double-blind modality. The editor decides, together with the Editorial Board, on the publication of the article based on the reviewers’ reports and may, if deemed necessary, request a third review. Articles must include an up-to-date bibliographic review of their field of study, including academic publications, journals, books, and book chapters in their references. Reviews and documents are evaluated by the editor and the Editorial Board.​

The editor and the Editorial Board reserve the right to reject articles that do not comply with the publication guidelines or with the editorial profile of the journal. The author will receive the result of the evaluation process within a maximum period of six months from the date of receipt. The article may be accepted, rejected, or accepted with changes in form and/or content, in which case the author will be given a new deadline to submit the revised article incorporating the requested changes. The editor reserves the right to make editorial modifications that do not involve changes to the content.​

2. Publication guidelines

• All submissions must be sent in the following format: letter-size page, 3 cm margins, double spacing, Times New Roman 12-point font. They must include: the author’s name, affiliation (institution – only the main one – postal address, city, and country), and an institutional email address. Articles must be 30 pages in length, references included.​
• Citations and bibliography must follow the MLA format (see the guidelines presented at the end of this document). Words in a foreign language must be in italics.
• Footnotes must be used for comments or to add additional information, not to indicate bibliographic references; the latter must appear in the body of the text. Their use should be limited to what is strictly necessary.​
• If there are subtitles within the article, they are identified with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.2).

3. Submission of manuscripts
Manuscripts must be sent by email to the following address: revistahumanidades@unab.cl. Receipt of the manuscript will be acknowledged. The body of the email must include an explicit declaration that the manuscript is unpublished and is not under review for publication in any other journal. Only contributions intended for the “Documents” section may, depending on the case, be exempt from this condition.​

All authors will receive two issues of the journal free of charge.​

4. Citations and references
The guidelines presented below follow the MLA format. In case of doubt, the corresponding edition of that manual should be consulted (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, published by the Modern Language Association of America).​

4.1. Format of quotations

• If the quotation is four lines or fewer, it should appear within the paragraph in double quotation marks.
• If the quotation is more than four lines, it should be placed in a separate paragraph without quotation marks. The paragraph should be indented to a distance of two tabs.​
• The bibliographic reference for a quotation must appear in the body of the text, not in a footnote. If text is omitted within a quotation, brackets with ellipsis should be used to indicate the omission […]. This should never be done at the beginning or end of the quotation.​

4.2. In-text references

• In the case of a quotation or paraphrase, the bibliographic reference to the author must be given in parentheses with the page number. Example:​

Quotation
Although on the one hand there is contradiction and the negative, on the other there is the requirement to cancel such contradiction: “Solo superando tal negación en sí misma deviene por consiguiente afirmativa la vida. Recorrer este proceso de oposición, contradicción y solución de la contradicción es el privilegio de las naturalezas vivas; lo que de suyo es y permanece solo afirmativo, es y permanece sin Vida” (Hegel 134).​

Paraphrase
Although on the one hand there is contradiction and the negative, on the other there is the requirement to cancel such contradiction; processes of contradiction are affirmatively overcome by living natures in a process of confronting oppositions (Hegel 134).​

• If the author’s name appears in the text, it is enough to place only the page number in parentheses. Example:​

The protagonist Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is, in Raymond Williams’s words, a “héroe mítico” (311).

• If more than one work by the same author is cited, the parenthetical reference must include the author’s surname and, separated by a comma, an abbreviated title and the page number. Example:

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Shakespeare’s King Lear has been described as a “comedia grotesca” (Frye, Anatomía de la crítica 237).​

• If the source is an archive or a document with no author, the author’s name is replaced by the title of the document or file, followed by the page number. If additional information is needed to locate the source (tome, volume number, etc.), it is added before the page number. Example:​

In that case, her mistress preferred dexarlos por limitado tiempo a personas de mi satisfacción” (Testamento de Blase Díaz f. 312).​

Indirect quotations should be avoided. If they are used, the source of the information must be indicated. A footnote may provide information about the original source. Example:​
Jorge Larraín states that “los individuos se definen a sí mismos, o se identifican con ciertas cualidades, en términos de ciertas categorías compartidas” (citado en Ramírez 45).​