Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author’s responsibility and authorship

By submitting a text for publication in the journal EU-topías, a Journal on Interculturality, Communication and European Studies, authors pledge that their manuscripts are original works, that have not been previously published elsewhere and are not being considered for publication in another medium. An exception to such rule can be stipulated by agreement with the editor-in-chief.

It will be clearly specified in the text if the manuscript has been written in collaboration with other people. Authorship should be limited to the person that has made the major contribution to the development of the work, any other person making a significant contribution should be listed as co-author.

Authors must identify all sources used in the elaboration of the manuscript by citing them properly according to the copyright and ethical rules that apply to scientific works. When reproducing partially any material by different sources such as texts, figures, images or tables, authors are responsible for obtaining the pertinent permission and must cite the materials’ origin properly. The general guidelines published in the journal EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication and European Studies can be consulted for further information about the matter.

Authors have the obligation to notify any economic, financial or other substantive conflict of interest that may influence the results or the interpretation of the manuscript.

Authors are required to report any error detected in the peer review evaluation process providing corrections in their own published work and cooperating with the journal’s editor or Editorial board by either withdrawing the paper or by publishing an appropriate correction statement or erratum.

It is the responsibility of the author to obtain the necessary permissions for images that are subject to copyright.

General Guidelines

Articles may be submitted in English, Spanish, French or Italian.

Articles should have a maximum length of 9,000 words, including references.

The title of the article should be in Times New Roman, 12 and bold. The text must be anonymised. No information about the author must be given.

The font throughout should be Times New Roman size 12, with a line spacing of 1.5.Quotationss should be included at the bottom of the page in the following format: Times New Roman 9, single-spaced. Quotations inserted in the text will have the following format: Times New Roman 10, indented 2 cm., single space.

When highlighting a word, use italics, not bold. Only highlight when strictly necessary. Only use bold for the title text and title of each section.

All text (including footnotes and title) will be justified. Insert a line between paragraphs.

References within the text shall adjust to the following format:

The following information should be placed in parenthesis: author’s surname, comma, space, page number. If the reference is to a whole book, page numbers can be omitted.

Examples:  

As mentioned (Minkenberg, 79) …

according to Minkenberg (79).

«no real convergence exists» (Minkenberg, 79).

When the quoted text is longer than three pages lines, it should be formatted as follows: Times New Roman 10, indented 2 cm. and single spaced. At the end of the text, the used reference sources should be included.

When citing a film, the reference shall be as follows: Title (in italics), parentheses, Original title (in italics), director, year, close parentheses.

Example: 

«As seen in The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena, Víctor, Erice, 1973) …»

TV series shall be cited in a similar way, replacing the director by the creator’s name and the year of production by the years of the series’ duration.

Example:  

«The character of McNulty in The Wire (David Simon, 2002-2008)…»

References (in accordance with the MLA Formatting and Style Guide)

Books 

Surname, Author’s name. Title of the book (in italics). Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.

Example: 

Eco, Umberto. Trattato di semiotica generale. Milano: Bompiani, 1975. 

In the case of a collective book, the authors’ names shall appear in the same order as they appear in the work. Only the first author shall appear with the last name first. It will be cited as follows: Last name, First name of the first author and First name of the second author, Last name of the second author. Place of publication: Publisher, year.

In the case of a coordinated or edited volume, "ed." or "coord." shall appear after the author(s).

Example:  

Frith, Simon & Andrew Goodwin, eds. On Record. Rock, Pop, and the Written Word. Londres: Routledge, 1990.

Book chapters

Surname, Author’s name. «Title of the chapter». Title of book (in italics). Ed./coord. Name and Surname of the author(s). Place of publication: publisher, year of publication, «pp.» followed by first and last page numbers of the chapter.

Examples: 

De Lauretis, Teresa. «El sujeto de la fantasía». Feminismo y teoría fílmica. Ed. Giulia Colaizzi. Valencia: Episteme, 1995, pp. 37-74.

Trías, Eugenio. «La revolución musical de Occidente». La imaginación sonora. Ed. Eugenio Trías. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2010, pp. 33-58.

Journal articles

The following is to be included:

Surname, Name. «Article Title», Journal title (in italics), volume number, year of publication, page number.

Example: 

Parrondo, Eva. «Lo personal es político». Trama y Fondo, 27, 2009, pp. 105-110.

If the article has a doi, it shall be included at the end of the reference, after the page numbers.

Example:

Aranzazu Ruiz, Paula. «Máquinas de histeria e hipervisibilidad: transferencias estéticas entre el imaginario médico ‘fin-de-siêcle’ y las vanguardias artísticas». Fotocinema. Revista científica de cine y fotografía, 22, 2020, pp. 19-44, https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2019.v2i19.6644 Recuperado el 27 de julio de 2020