About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia
ISSN: 0214-8188
E-ISSN: 2386-7159

Caplletra is an international journal of philology that publishes original research on all aspects related to languages and literature, with a special focus on Catalan Philology. It is addressed to all researchers in these areas. The journal has been published twice a year, in spring and autumn, since its first volume, in 1986.

Caplletra is edited and published by the Interuniversity Institute for Valencian Studies (Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana, IIFV).

Caplletra’s editorial team includes the Editorial Board of the journal and the Scientific Committee.

Caplletra only accepts original research papers not previously published in any other way or in any other language.

Papers received by Caplletra undergo a strictly anonymous double-blind peer review process. Reviewers are researchers from outside the Editorial Board and the Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana (IIFV), the Research Institute that publishes the journal.

More than 80% of papers published by Caplletra are by authors from outside IIFV and the journal Editorial Board.

Each volume of a Caplletra consists of three sections, namely a miscellaneous section, a monographic section and reviews.

Caplletra has been published regularly twice a year since it first appeared in 1986.

The editorial team of Caplletra follows a series of technical and ethical protocols in its review and publication system and carefully monitors any suggestion of malpractice.

Caplletra is indexed in platforms for the assessment, identification and/or impact of scientific journals, search engines for open access journals, journal directories, libraries and networks and collective catalogues.

Peer Review Process

The Editorial Board will carry out an initial review prior to the external evaluation process in order to check that the articles received (both those for publication in the miscellaneous section and those appearing in the monographic section) meet the journal criteria in terms of topic, quality of writing and length. The Board will also check that articles are based on original research and that they have not been previously published in any other form or in any other language. Articles should also comply with the presentation standards required for publication in Caplletra; if this is not the case, they will be returned to authors to make the appropriate changes before resubmitting them to the journal editors within a period not exceeding fifteen days.

The external evaluation process begins once papers have passed through the Editorial Board filter. This is a strictly anonymous double-blind peer review. It is performed by experts from outside the IIFV, the journal publishing body and the Editorial Board. This process is handled directly by Caplletra management. Each paper and monographic article is evaluated by two researchers chosen from members of the Scientific Committee, from the External Reviewers’ Committee or by renowned experts in the topics addressed who are occasionally asked to review a paper or monographic article.

Each reviewer will write a report specifying the reasons for accepting, requesting changes or rejecting the paper. The review will take into account the editing guidelines issued by the journal and the criteria of originality, relevance, methodological rigour and formal presentation of papers submitted.

Reviewers may recommend papers be published without any alterations or may suggest some corrections in order for an article to be published. In this case, reviewers’ indications will be conveyed to the authors so they can make the necessary changes and return the corrected version within a period not exceeding fifteen days.

If the two external reviewers consider that the paper is not suitable for publication, Caplletra will abide by their decision and inform the author/s, giving the reasons cited in the reviewers’ report. If the reviewers cannot agree on whether a paper should be published or not, the Editorial Board will take the final decision. If there is agreement that a paper should be published, the director of the journal and the editor’s secretary will supervise the insertion of any changes required to refine the text.

The journal undertakes to preserve the anonymity of both authors and reviewers throughout the review process.

Caplletra undertakes to review papers and tell authors whether their work has been accepted or not within a period not exceeding five months from the prior review carried out by the Editorial Board.

Reviews will be assessed by the Caplletra Editorial Board, which will need to check that they consist of original work that has not been previously published in any other medium or in any other language, and that they comply with journal criteria in terms of topic, quality and length. Texts must also comply with journal presentation standards; if this is not the case, they will be returned to the author/s for the necessary changes to be made within a period not exceeding fifteen days.

Caplletra does not necessarily share the views held in the papers published.

Frequency of publication

Twice yearly: in Spring and Autumn of every calendar year.

Open Access Policy

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia is an Open Access journal and the entire contents published therein are open and free to users and to the institution they belong to from the date of publication. According to the BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative) definition of Open Access, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link full texts of the papers in this publication without needing to request permission from either the author or the editor.

Work published in Caplletra is covered by the Creative Commons license type Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

No fees publication

Caplletra does not charge authors any administration or publication fees for their work.
Users may access, read, download, distribute, link and print the papers published in the journal free of charge.

Bibliographical identification and periodicity

Title: Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia
Abbreviation: Caplletra
ISSN 0214-8188
E-ISSN 2386-7159
Other identifications: Every article and book review within Caplletra has it own DOI identifier.
Frequency of publication: biannual
First publication year: 1986

Editorial Comittee

PUBLISHER
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana (IIFV)
Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació
Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32
46010 València

EDITOR
Eulàlia Miralles
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat de València (Espanya)
eulalia.miralles@uv.es

EDITORIAL SECRETARY
Josep Miquel Manzanaro
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat d’Alacant (Espanya)
manzo@ua.es

EDITORIAL BOARD
Bert Cornillie
Department of Linguistics
University of Leuven (Belgium)
bert.cornillie@arts.kuleuven.be

Carles Cortés
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat d’Alacant (Espanya)
carles.cortes@ua.es

Dominique de Courcelles
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
École des Hautes Etudes en Sciencies Sociales
París (França)
dominique.decourcelles@club-internet.fr

Antoni Ferrando
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat de València (Espanya)
antoni.ferrando@uv.es

Enric Gallén
Departament de Traducció i Comunicació
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Espanya)
enric.gallen@upf.edu

Joan Mas
Departament de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General
Universitat de les Illes Balears (Espanya)
joan.mas@uib.es

Robert Martínez-Carrasco
Departament de Traducció i Comunicació
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat Jaume I, Castelló (Espanya)
rcarrasc@uji.es

Josep Maria Nadal
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Universitat de Girona (Espanya)
josep.nadal@udg.edu

Manuel Pérez Saldanya
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat de València (Espanya)
manuel.perez-saldanya@uv.es

Kathryn Woolard
Anthropology Department
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, CA (EUA)
kwoolard@ucsd.edu

SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE
Anna Maria Annicchiarico (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Maria Teresa Cabré i Castellví (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Germà Colón (Universität Basel)
Nicole Delbecque (University of Leuven)
Brad Epps (University of Cambridge)
Giuseppe Grilli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Joseph Gulsoy (University of Toronto)
Georg Kremnitz (Universität Wien)
Josep Massot i Muntaner (Institut d’Estudis Catalans)
Lluís Payrató (Universitat de Barcelona)
Joaquim Rafel (Universitat de Barcelona)
Philip Rasico (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
Vicent Simbor (Universitat de València)
Lesley Twomey (Northumbria University)
Joan Veny (Institut d’Estudis Catalans)
Max Wheeler (University of Sussex)
Curt Wittlin (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
M. Claire Zimmermann (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)

TECHNICAL TEAM
Enric Izquierdo
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat de València (Espanya)
enrik@valencia.edu

Josep Miquel Manzanaro
Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Universitat d’Alacant (Espanya)
manzo@ua.es

ADDRESSES
Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia
URL: www.revistacaplletra.com
Adreça electrònica: infocaplletra@uv.es
Adreça postal:
Caplletra, Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana
Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32
46010 València (Espanya)

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Diffusion

Caplletra encourages authors to disseminate their work (in post-print version) on personal web pages, institutional repositories and research-oriented social networks. Wherever possible, authors are asked to do the dissemination by means of a link to the paper on the journal website, thereby increasing readership, citation and impact of the journal.

Indexing

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia is indexed on the following platforms:

REVIEWING SYSTEMS

CARHUS Plus 2014 (Score: A)
Classification of scientific journals in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities published at local, national and international level (Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalonia’s Regional Government).

CIRC (Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas) (Group B)
Classification of scientific journals in the fields of Social and Human Sciences according to review products used by agencies such as CNEAI and ANECA (Spanish Government).

DICE (Difusión y Calidad Editorial de las Revistas Españolas de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas)
Information on some of the editorial characteristics and quality indicators used by Spanish Humanities and Social Sciences journals (CSIC and ANECA, Spanish Government).

Catálogo LATINDEX (All criteria: 33)
Online information system about scientific journals in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.

Catálogo LATINDEX revistas electrónicas (All criteria: 36)
Online information system about scientific journals in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal.

ERIH PLUS
European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

MIAR (Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals) (ICDS 2016: 10.0)
Key information for evaluating scientific journals. It includes a quantitative database showing whether publications appear on indexing databases.

RESH (Revistas Españolas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) (High score by experts: 68.57)
Information including quality indicators for Spanish scientific journals in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities.

SPECIALISED DATABASES

ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index)
Index of all journals that are being evaluated to take part of databases in Web of Science Core Collections (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index).

ISOC - Social Sciences and Humanities
Information on scientific publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities across the Spanish State since the 1970s. It includes summaries and journal directories (CSIC).

Linguistic Bibliography
The most comprehensive index in terms of scientific and university publications in the field of linguistics. (Permanent International Committee of Linguists, UNESCO).

MLA (Modern Language Association Database - MLA International Bibliography Journal List)
Index of published books and articles on modern languages, literature, folklore and linguistics.

Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library
A means of spreading Hispanic culture as an instrument of information communication and dissemination and cultural and scientific production.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

DIALNET
Portal for accessing scientific and scholarly content in the field of Hispanic and Portuguese studies by means of an electronic periodicals library of scientific journals.

Periodicals Index Online
Index giving access to millions of articles on Art, Social Sciences and Humanities published during the last three centuries.

RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
A cooperative repository for open access consultation of full text articles in Catalan scientific, cultural and scholarly journals.

REDIBRed Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico.

SCOPUSDatabase produced by Elsevier which includes some 18,000 publications about 5,000 international publishers. Includes the largest collection worldwide multidisciplinary abstracts, references and indexes of scientific literature, technical and medical.

RODERIC
Open content repository run by the University of Valencia.

TRACES
Database by Department of Catalan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) that includes bibliographical information about Catalan language and literature.

DATABASES ON AUTHORS' RIGHTS

DULCINEA
Database giving information on usage rights and storage permissions for Spanish scientific journals.

LIBRARY CATALOGUES

CCUC (Catàleg Col·lectiu de les Universitats de Catalunya)

COPAC (United Kingdom and Ireland)
Library catalogue including research material in the main libraries of United Kingdom and Ireland.

REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias)
Network of Spanish university libraries.

SUDOC (France)
Library Catalogue that includes more than 10 million bibliographic references of documents in French libraries and other research and documentation centres.

ZDB (Germany)
Database of journal and periodical titles held in more than 4,400 German and Austrian libraries. Does not show the titles of articles.

OCLC WorldCat (Worldwide)
The world's biggest network in terms of library content and services.

Caplletra is currently applying to be included in SHERPA ROMEO.

Ethical principles in research and publication

Nowadays, the quality and rigour that a research journal must demand needs to go hand in hand with a series of ethical principles affecting editors, reviewers and authors during the publishing process. With this in mind, Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia is keen to show its commitment to the ethical code by which it is governed and which is based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), as set out below

Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

Uphold the quality of all content in the journal by carrying out external reviews done by experts to ensure that papers make a significant contribution to knowledge in their area of expertise and that they follow the basic principles governing any research article.

Guarantee the acceptance or rejection of papers taking into account only the academic value of the text and no other criterion that may personally or professionally discriminate against the author.

Provide external reviewers with a standard review form enabling them to assess papers following criteria of originality, relevance for the field of knowledge, methodological rigour and formal presentation.

Thank and recognise external reviewers for completed work. Upon request, Caplletra will issue reviewers with documentary evidence of completed review work.

Resolve any conflicts relating to non-ethical behaviour that the editorial team may become aware of.

Guarantee that papers are original and have not been previously published,. To this aim, specific programmes for preventing plagiarism and redundant or duplicated publication (an article or paper coincides in its essential content with that of another published work) will be used. If, at any point in the editorial process, evidence of any kind of practice that contravenes this ethical principle is found, the paper will be rejected automatically.

Preserve the anonymity of authors and reviewers throughout the entire editorial process.

Keep an updated list of external reviewers who are experts in the various fields of knowledge covered by the journal, including their name and institution, e-mail address, field of expertise and a record of reviews requested and completed.

Offer authors the chance to appeal editorial decisions. Appeals must be addressed to the journal director. The Editorial Board will attempt to resolve the conflict and will respond as quickly as possible.

Be willing to publish corrections, clarifications or apologies when appropriate.

Resolve any conflicts relating to non-ethical behaviour that the editorial team may become aware of.

Reviewers' responsibilities

Accept the review job only if they believe that they have the correct skills to complete it successfully.

Make a judgement, as specialists, on whether the papers they review are of the correct quality for publication in the journal.

Review original articles objectively and not undertake to do a review if they feel that a conflict of interest of any kind (academic or personal) could mean that they are unable to produce a a neutral and objective report.

Review manuscripts constructively, respecting the author's intellectual and academic ability.

Ensure that papers include the most important bibliographic references on the topic discussed.

Abstain from making comments about the work they are reviewing and from using the information contained in it before the paper is published.

Respect the anonymity of the review process and commit to safeguarding confidentiality both during the review and once it is completed.

Inform the editors if they find that an article contains material that is substantially similar to already published work.

Undertake to produce the review report by the deadline set by the editors.

Authors' responsibilities

Guarantee that the paper is an original piece of work, not previously published in any other medium or in any other language, and that it has not been submitted to any other publication.

Indicate in the text whether the study has received some kind of funding.

Ensure that all bibliographic references cited in the text, and only these, are listed in the bibliography at the end.

Include any changes that the reviewers have considered necessary in order for the paper to be published in its final version.

Guarantee that permission has been obtained to use any kind of material that may complement the text of the paper (images, tables, diagrams, etc.) and provide the editors with proof of this when requested.

Action in the event of non-ethical behaviour

Anyone may inform the Editorial Board of cases of non-ethical behaviour, provided that they can be substantiated by evidence, which will subsequently be examined by the journal. The author involved will be the first to have the opportunity of responding to the allegations made. If the response is not satisfactory, the Editorial Board will resolve the problem either by consulting experts in the matter or by any other means they consider to be appropriate.

Publication languages

The first language of Caplletra is Catalan. The journal also accepts papers and critical reviews in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English.

In addition to the original papers in the text language, the titles, abstract and key words of all Caplletra articles are shown in English.

Digital archiving policy

Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia uses the University of Valencia's institutional repository RODERIC as its digital database.
All papers and reviews published in Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia are given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) shown on page footers.

Sources of Support

Medieval and Modern Literature
Contemporary Literature
Diachronic Linguistics and Dialectology
Synchronic Linguistics
Applied Linguistics