Submission guidelines

Authors who wish to submit articles and reviews, or information regarding linguistic questions, are required to adhere to the following norms:

 

  1. General norms 
  1. Articles and reviews should be unpublished and original

  2. Articles may pose a recent state of the question with regard to a topic of linguistic theory, discuss some point of linguistic theory or explain a question, with regard to several languages or only one, from the theoretical perspective of any of the linguistic methodologies currently in use, either formal or functional. Likewise, Lingüística en la Red will include articles presenting research results concerning the application of theoretical knowledge, either from a general perspective or from a perspective arising from the analysis of a particular language. Articles should offer conclusions and be based on relevant current references for the topic in question.
  1. Articles, reviews and reports on linguistic topics may be written in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, English, French, Portuguese, German or Italian.
  1. The maximum permitted length for articles is 40 pages, 6 pages for reviews and 10 pages for reports on linguistic topics.
  2. Lingüística en la Red will not be held responsible for the opinions expressed in articles and other manuscripts nor for their originality, which is the sole responsibility of the authors. Should there be any suggestion that a submitted manuscript does not fulfill the current legislation regarding intellectual property, it will be checked on Turnitin on the UAH digital platform.

 

  1. Typography and Style

    A) Font type and size
  1. Manuscripts must be written using Calibri (or, failing that, Times New Roman) font size 12 for the text and 10 for footnotes, with 1.5 line spacing.

 

  1. B) Title, abstract and keywords

 

  1. Papers must have a title page with the following information, with each item centered and on separate lines.
  • Title of the paper in Spanish and English (size 14 in bold; size 12 in bold for the subheading, if there were one);
  • First name and surname(s) of the author;
  • ORCID identification number, if the author has one.
  • Email address;
  • Academic post;
  • Institutional affiliation.

 

Following this, there should be a brief abstract (10 lines maximum) of the paper in Spanish and English. Finally, the author should provide from 6 to 10 key words, separated by semi-colons, in Spanish and English. The author’s full name, ORCID ID, email address and affiliation should appear at the end of the paper.

 

  1. Reviews should be headed by the complete cataloging data of the book being reviewed, using the following model:

Francisco Moreno Fernández, Principios de sociolingüística y sociología del lenguaje, Barcelona, Ariel, 1998, 399 pp. ISBN: 97884344827777

The author’s full name, email address, and affiliation should appear at the end of the review. Authors should also attach a color copy of the cover of the book reviewed in .jpg or .gif format.

  1. Reports on linguistic topics should be headed with the following information, centered and on separate lines: title of the report, author’s full name, email address, and affiliation.

 

  1. C) Sections and sub-sections

 

  1. Papers may be structured in titled sections, numbered using the decimal system, in bold.

 

  1. D) Notes

 

  1. 11. Footnote numbers should appear in the text in superscript. The number of the note should be placed before full stops, commas, semi-colons or colons. Notes should appear at the foot of the page in font size 10 with single spacing.

 

  1. E) Metalinguistic and foreign words and phrases.

 

  1. Italics should be used for linguistic units (except sounds and phonemes) subject to analysis, for specialized terminology and for words written in a different language from the body of the text.

 

  1. Examples

 

  1. Examples that are not included in the body of the text should be separated by a double space before and after, with an Arabic numeral in brackets: (1). If necessary, letters may be used to order the component parts: (1) a.

 

  1. Citations

 

  1. Short citations not exceeding three lines will be included in the text in double inverted commas, with the same typeface as that used in the text. Longer citations will be placed in a separate paragraph, in double inverted commas, with an indentation on the left, font size 10 and single spacing.

 

  1. Bibliographical citations within the body of the text

 

  1. All citations in the body of the text must be presented following these guidelines:

 

  • Author’s surname(s) (year and appended letter of order within the year if necessary: reference page or pages). Example: According to Penadés Martínez (2017a: 121-123).
  • If the name of the cited author is in brackets, the format (Author year) should be used. Example: (Penadés Martínez 2017a).
  • In the case of multiple page references, these should be separated by commas. Example: Penadés Martínez (2017a: 121-123, 135-136). If the pages are not consecutive, the conjunction and will be used. Example: Penadés Martínez (2017a: 121 and 133).
  • If several authors or works are cited, they should be separated by semi-colons and placed in chronological order. Example: (Penadés Martínez 2017a: 121-133; 2021: 3; Moreno Fernández et al.: 2020: 64).
  • If, in the body of the text, a work by several authors is cited, it is recommended that the first author be named, followed by et al. In “References” at the end of the manuscript, if possible all authors should be mentioned. Example: Moreno Fernández et al.(2020).

 

As far as possible, this type of citation should be used in order to avoid the use of footnotes for references.

  1. References
  2. References should be included at the end of the article, in alphabetical order, and, within this order, chronologically, using the following format:

Books:

Baltin, Mark; Collins, Chris (2001, 1ª ed.): The handbook of contemporary syntactic theory, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Bréal, Michel (1976, reimp.): Essai de sémantique. Science des significations, Genève: Slatkine Reprints.

Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana (1984): Linguistique appliquée: une introduction, Brescia: La Scuole.

Articles:

Daneš, František (1964): “A three-level approach to syntax”, Travaux Linguistiques de Prague, 1, pp. 225-240.

Martí Sánchez, Manuel (2021): "La pragmática en español, hoy", Revista Española de Lingüística, 51(1), pp. 177-206.

Chapters of books:

García-Hernández, Benjamín (1981): “Proporcionalidad y relaciones clasemáticas”, Horts Geckeler; Brigitte Schlieben-Lange; Jürgen Trabant; Harald Weydt (eds.), Logos semantikos. Studia linguistica in honorem Eugenio Coseriu, 1921-1981, Madrid / Berlin – New York: Gredos / Walter de Gruyter, pp. 23-35.

Hernández Sacristán, Carlos (2002): “Nota sobre ambigüedad estructural y redundancia en sintaxis”, M. Dolores Muñoz Núñez; Ana Isabel Rodríguez-Piñero Alcalá; Gérard Fernández Smith; Victoria Benítez Soto (eds.), IV Congreso de Lingüística General, Cádiz, del 3 al 6 de abril de 2000, Volumen III. Comunicaciones, Cádiz: Área de Lingüística General de la Universidad de Cádiz / Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz / Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcalá, pp. 1387-1394.

Sgall, Petr (1992): “Classical structuralism and present-day Praguian linguistics”, Hans-Heinrich Lieb (ed.), Prospects for a new structuralism, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 75-90.

Works in press:

Martí Sánchez (in press); Martí Sánchez (in press 1); Martí Sánchez (in press 2).

Digital texts, data bases and computer programs

Books and articles should be cited in the usual manner. The complete email address should appear at the end of the reference, with the date of consultation in square brackets. Example: Penadés Martínez, Inmaculada (2019): Diccionario de locuciones idiomáticas del español actual, Albaida, Author’s edition, online. Available at <http://www.dilea.es> [Consultation: 31/05/21].

If the publication has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), this should be included at the end of the reference. Example: Ureña Tormo, Clara and Penadés Martínez, Inmaculada (2020): “Análisis del uso del diccionario en L2”, Logos: Revista de Lingüística, Filosofía y Literatura, 30/1, pp. 154-170. DOI: 10.15443/RL3013.    

If the reference is to a web page, the address and date of consultation should be given: <http://www.rae.es> [Consultation: 21/11/2021].

Other recommendations:

In the case of several publications by the same author in the same year, these will be identified by letters, in alphabetical order. This order will be used both for citations in the body of the text and in the reference section at the end of the article. Example: (2020a), (2021b), (2021c).

If several works by a single author are cited, the full name must be mentioned in every case. They may not be replaced by dashes.

For collective volumes the following abbreviations should be used: Editor (ed.), Editors (eds.), Director (dir.), Directors (dirs.), Coordinator (coord.), Coordinators (coords.).