Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal publishes papers written in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French on any of the fields related to Kantian philosophy or in which the presence of Kantian philosophy has a significant relevance.

Except for reviews, interviews, reports, calls for papers and obituaries, all the contents of the journal are subject to double-blind refereeing.

After the journal’s editorial team accepts the contributions, the evaluation process takes between 3 and 6 months.

Contributions must be original, and their length may not exceed 80,000 characters with spaces. Reviews should not exceed 16,000 characters with spaces.

In addition to articles and reviews, the journal welcomes submissions of

- Translations into Spanish of Kantian sources or those directly related to Kantian philosophy.
- Translations into Spanish of articles written in other languages that are of special interest to the Kantian studies community.
- Proposals for thematic dossiers.
- Proposals for discussions on a published book to be included in the section “The author and his critics” of this journal. This section contains: an introduction, 3-5 articles discussing the contents of the book, the author’s responses to comments and objections.
- Reports of events developed and calls to Kantian events.

In the last three cases, proposals should be sent to the journal’s email address (rek.kant@gmail.com), so that its editorial board can determine their relevance and feasibility.

Preparation and submission of contributions

Contributions should be sent exclusively through the journal’s virtual platform. To submit a contribution, authors must have or generate a user on this platform.

The user profile must be updated and include the following data:
(i) the contact email address,
ii) the institutional affiliation without abbreviations (for example, it should not say “UBA”, but “Universidad de Buenos Aires”) and the country of the institution,
iii) the author's ORCID link. ORCID is a free and unique registry of authors. If the author has not generated such a record, he/she can do so through this link.

In the submission process through the platform, a document in .doc / .docx format containing the text of the contribution must be uploaded. Each author will remove from this document any indication that could denote his or her identity. In the case of references to own publications, all data must be replaced by the indication: [Data removed to favor the anonymity of the submission]. Similarly, care must be taken to ensure that the document does not contain any information on authorship in its computer properties. This document must conform to the following formal guidelines.

Formal guidelines

1. Heading

The text should be preceded by a title (Times New Roman, 14 point), an abstract (max. 200 words, Times New Roman, 10 point) and five keywords (Times New Roman, 10 point, separated by commas). All these elements must be in both the language of the article and in English.

2. Style

2.1. Body text

Texts should be written in Times New Roman, 12 points, 1,15 pointsspaced, with justified paragraphs and indented (1.25 cm) on the first line, provided that it is not the paragraph that begins a section.

2.2. Headings

Headings of paragraphs and subsections should be numbered as follows: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.1, etc., not in italics or bold, Times New Roman, 12 point. The numbering of listings shall use the codes i), ii), iii), etc. Each paragraph should be separated from the previous one by a blank space.

2.3. Use of inverted commas, hyphens, square brackets, and italics

Inverted commas (“ ”): for textual quotations, e.g. “everything pointed in that direction”; for titles of articles, book chapters, news items, posts, web entries, encyclopaedia entries, title of papers, etc., e.g. In the third chapter “The truth and the lie” / He demonstrated this in his article “The reception of colors”. Single inverted commas (‘ ’): to add emphasis to a word or expression, e.g. That ‘truth’ was very relative.

Square brackets ([ ]): for the translation of foreign words, e.g. When Heidegger speaks of Stimmung [state of mind], he is referring to... Italics: reserved for words or expressions in a language other than that of the manuscript, as well as for titles of books, magazines, newspapers, films, websites, blogs, conferences..., e.g. Thus, Kant describes it in the Critique of Pure Reason / The news appeared in El País / The journal Evolutionary Anthropology was responsible for the publication... / As the author points out on her website Seeing is believing...

2.4. Quotations

References to a textual quotation will appear in the body of the text, according to the model (APA 7th style):
...as indicated by the English naturalist (Darwin, 1871, p. 32)...
...as the English naturalist Darwin (1871, p. 32)... /
“...everything pointed in that direction” (Author1 and Author2, 2018, p. 15) 
“...everything pointed in that direction” (Author1 et al., 2018, p. 15)
[for more than two authors] / Author1 et al. (2018) has explained that “...everything pointed in that direction” (p. 15).

When quotations are longer than 40 words, they should be set apart, at 10 points, in a justified paragraph and indented on the first line at 1.25 cm.

2.5. Footnotes

Footnotes (Times New Roman 9, single-spaced, justified) are intended for explanatory comments and are not used to indicate references. They should, as far as possible, be included in the body of the text. Indicative footnote numbers (which should not be placed at the end of the document, but at the bottom of each page) should be placed after the footnotes.

2.6. Bibliographical references

The Journal adopts the conventions of the Kant-Gesellschaft  for referencing Kantian sources. Thus, for example, in the body of the text: (SF, AA 07: 83 / SF, AA VII: 83) or (KrV, A158/B197).

Full bibliographical references should appear at the end of the contribution, in alphabetical order, in a section entitled “References”. Should different publications of an author be edited in the same year, they will appear with characters (1999a, 1999b).

These shall be presented in accordance with APA, 7th edition. Examples:
Books: Moreno, J. (2008). Los retos actuales del darwinismo. ¿Una teoría en crisis? Síntesis.
Book chapters: Kinsbourne, M. (1988). Integrated field theory of consciousness. En A. Marcel and E. Bisiach (Eds.), Consciousness in Contemporary Science (pp. 35- 78). Oxford University Press.
Papers: Tinbergen, N. (1963). On aims and methods of Ethology. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 20(1), 410-433. Internet: Lemos, R. (2015). Conoce los beneficios del aburrimiento [Post]. La mente es maravillosa. https://lamenteesmaravillosa.com/conocelosbeneficios-del-aburrimiento/.