About the Journal

Focus and Scope

• The online journal Normas is an open and freely accessible scientific publication, published yearly, which aims to disseminate original research on current Spanish language and its varieties and registers.


• This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is available and free to the user and their institutions. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link full texts of articles in this journal without having to ask for permission from the editor or author, in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.


• The journal is open to scholars and researchers of the Spanish language.


• The journal has an editorial board and a scientific committee, whose members are identified in the corresponding lists.


• Both committees are for the most part (more than two thirds) made up of researchers external to the Universitat de València (headquarters of the journal), and are affiliated to Spanish and foreign institutions.


• More than 20% of the researchers in the scientific committee are researchers from foreign institutions.


• The journal has a panel of external reviewers (anonymous peer review, double-blind system), members of the advisory scientific committee and other specialists external to both committees.


• More than 70% of the articles in each issue are published by researchers that are external to the Universitat de València. More than 90% of the authors are external to the editorial board of the journal.


• The journal has a review section and a collection of supplements for the publication of scientific monographs related to the Spanish language, resulting from original research.


• The journal is published once a year in November/December. The journal was first published in 2011.


• All the articles in the journal include a title, abstract and keywords in Spanish and English.

Peer Review Process

• The papers must be original and they must present scientific quality. They will be subject to a peer evaluation process (double-blind) for approval and subsequent publication.


• The originality, relevance, novelty and methodological quality of the works will be valued.


• All the papers have to follow the editing guidelines.


• Reviewers must follow this file. Once the reviewing is done, the file must be fulfilled and sent to adrian.cabedo@uv.es


• The papers must be sent, with no exceptions, before July 1 of each year. The evaluation process will be carried out during the following month.


• The identity of the authors and the identity of the reviewers or evaluators (double anonymity) will always be hidden in the evaluation process.


• The journal has a panel of external reviewers (anonymous peer review, double-blind system), members of the advisory scientific committee and other specialists external to both committees.


• The editor will communicate the final decision to the authors. In case of acceptance, the last version of the paper must be sent before September 15 of each year.

Publication Frequency

Publication is annual (exceptionally, it will be considered the possibility of two numbers into the same year).

The deadline to submit an article for evaluation is July of the current year; each issue is published during the months of November and December of the current year.

Open Access Policy

As an open access journal, this journal provides free content. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking permission from the editor or the author. This is in accordance with the open access BOAI definition.

Fees

There are no fees to read the content of the journal. The content of this journal is free.

Ethics in publishing

The quality of a scientific journal is contingent on adherence to the established ethical rules that govern the publication. These rules pertain to the editorial board, the anonymous reviewers and the authors themselves. In the case of the journal Normas, the ethical guidelines followed are based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines)

Editorial board and scientific committee

The quality of a periodical publication such as the journal Normas is safeguarded by the editorial board and an advisory scientific committee. Members of both of these committees are renowned specialists in the principal subject of the journal, namely the Spanish language.
All data received is strictly confidential and is shared only between the editorial board and the author or the anonymous reviewers. In this last case, the reviewers will receive a document in which all references to the authors are eliminated or edited to avoid identification of the authors.
The members of the editorial board follow the publishing instructions and procedure, accessible on the website, where the publishing processes of the journal and the specific requirements related to academic plagiarism and to the authors’ rights or copyright are established.
The participants in the editorial board assess the content of the papers according to their specialism (Spanish philology, Spanish language or, on certain occasions where this can be justified, philology in general). Scrupulous attention is paid to submission in order to identify cases of academic plagiarism either with respect to the use of unquoted works from other authors or the use of articles of the same author already published in other publications.
Moreover, the decision by the editorial board is sovereign and said board is free to publish or reject any paper. In situations in which various reviewers make differing assessments of the merit of a given paper (for example, where one reviewer suggests acceptance and another rejection), the editorial board intervenes to prioritize one of the evaluations or, as far as possible, ask for a final, third evaluation.

2. Authors

Authors who wish to contribute an article for the journal Normas must send original manuscripts resulting from their own research. The evaluation of articles that are being evaluated simultaneously in other journals or books, as well as research already presented partially or fully elsewhere (journals or books) will not be allowed.
An author submitting an article to be reviewed in Normas is the only and ultimately responsible party for providing all the identification details for themselves and for any other authors participating in the paper. All authors must have participated in the in the research.
Similarly, in cases of quotations, authors are committed to referring adequately to the corresponding bibliographical sources. In this sense, in cases where a formal authorization for quoting other publications is required, authors are also responsible for obtaining these authorizations.
If authors consider it appropriate to refer to sources of funding (for a research project, for example), they are allowed to do so in the body of the text submitted. Furthermore, any conflicts of interest must be identified with the original manuscript submission.
Once the process of publication takes place, if authors detect any mistakes in their articles, they should immediately contact the editorial board in order to make the necessary corrections.
Authors must provide personal data such as their name, surnames, email address, country and institution of affiliation. Some of these data will be used only for editorial purposes, such as including the academic institution in the submitted article.

3. Reviewers

All the content of the journal is subject to double blind and anonymous peer review. Two reviewers will advise the editorial board about the scientific quality of the evaluated papers. At the same time, reviewers may suggest to the authors, if needed, important references that may not have been mentioned initially in the article.
The evaluations carried out by the reviewers are objective. In the event that a reviewer is able to identify the author whose work is being assessed or in situations in which there may be a conflict of interest, the reviewer must decline to evaluate the received article. Similarly, the evaluation of the article must be confidential. The evaluated information must not be used for personal interests.
In the review procedure both the authors and the reviewers’ identities will be concealed (double blind and anonymous). The journal has a document containing detailed instructions for the process of revision and evaluation. Moreover, this document explains how to initiate the review procedure via the virtual community used by the journal, which is housed on the virtual platform created by the Universitat de València’s IT service (Aula Virtual).

Indexing

You will find Normas indexed in ERIH PLUS, LATINDEX, ISOC, DICE, MLA, Dialnet.

ERIH PLUS:

https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/periodical/info?id=483700

Sponsors

• Departamento de Filología Española