Submissions

Author Guidelines

Text submission criteria

It is imperative for the submission criteria of our journal to be standardised, especially criteria related to abbreviations, quotations and references. In addition to the general standards on bibliographic references and their corresponding items, please bear in mind the following notes:

• Titles of books or volumes should be in italics; the titles of parts of books (poems, chapters, stories, etc.) or articles should be inside quotation marks unless the author determines that they should exceptionally appear in italics because of their length or uniqueness.
• The following hierarchy of quotation marks should be observed in quotations: “… ‘…’ …” (“double quotation marks ‘simple quotation marks’ double quotation marks”).
• Only transcriptions of extensive excerpts from a source or, in general, from any other work being studied should be indented in a smaller font sizes. Other kinds of quotations, such as the opinions of outsiders on the topic of study should usually be presented between quotation marks inside the paragraphs.
• Quotations of opinions of other scholars should preferably be in Spanish or the original language of the article. If the original poses some difficulty, the original term causing this difficulty can be noted in parentheses.
• Avoid the use of numbers for quantifications, that is, when not citing dates or using Roman or Arabic numerals to refer to verses, pages, songs or parts of a book. The dates should always be given in full form (1712-1718 instead of 1712-18). Italian numbers from periods/centuries should be written in upper-case in italics, such as Quattrocento. Spanish numbers which follow this form should be written in upper-case roman letters, such as Quinientos.
• The footnotes should not be used to provide complete bibliographic references, which should only appear in a single list at the end of the article (see below). Any mention or criticism of a bibliographic item should use the author and year (or other ways if referring to literary works or Golden Age sources in general) to refer to the corresponding item on this list.
• The footnotes should be referred to in the proper place in the text with a superscript number, preferably after the punctuation mark. The numbering of the footnotes should be correlative for the entire article (instead of starting over on each page).
• The most common conventional abbreviations may be used in the footnotes (vid., cf., passim). The bibliographic citation model used (indicating the author and year) makes indications like loc. cit., and ibid unnecessary.

The General Bibliography

Bibliography entries

The bibliography cited should refer to a single list that appears at the end of the article. The entries, which should be in alphabetical order, should start with the surname of an author or an abbreviated reference to the work. Publications by the same author should be listed chronologically. If works by the same author from the same year are cited, they should be identified with a lower-case letter in italics.

The bibliographic citations should adhere to the following models:

• surname(s) [comma] author’s first name [comma], book title [comma] city [comma] publisher or publishing institution [comma] year [full stop]
• surname(s) [comma] author’s name [comma] title [comma] full name of the editor or the anthologist or the author of the prologue [comma] city [comma] publisher or publishing institution [comma] year [full stop]
• surname(s) [comma] author’s first name [comma] "title of the article" [comma] journal [comma] volume in Arabic numerals (year of publication) pages [full stop]
• surname(s) [comma] author’s first name [comma] "title of the contribution or chapter" [comma] title of the collective volume [comma] full name of the compiler, coordinator or editor of the volume [comma] city [comma] publisher or publishing institution [comma] year [full stop]

Citations of publications that are available online should follow these rules:

• surname(s) [comma] author’s first name [comma] "title of the contribution" [comma], Title of the page, editor of the page [comma] date retrieved [comma] <URL of the website>
• Example: S. Kline, "Bringing up Jo: Little Women and the American Nineteenth Century Conduct Book Tradition”, Domestic Goddesses, Editora Kim Wells, 13-11-01, <http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/kleinalcott.htm>

General references (to the bibliography) from the text and footnotes

• When the text in the article refers to a bibliographic entry, the note should provide the surname that starts the corresponding entry with the year of publication in parentheses. When it refers to given passages, after the year there should be a colon and a space, then the numbers of the corresponding pages (never use the abbreviations pp.).
• When the text refers to a reissue with additions or modifications, this date should be reflected in the corresponding reference and bibliographic entry. In any event, the reprint date that the page refers to should always be provided.
• When referring to literary works, except in exceptional cases the internal divisions into songs, parts, books, chapters, acts, tec. and the practice of referring to acts, parts, books and songs should be in Roman numerals and verses in Arabic numerals. If there is more than one reference (e.g., to act, scene and verse) Roman numerals should be used first in small capitals, followed by Arabic numerals.
• When citing literary works, use the most common name (e.g., Hamlet, Don Quixote, Utopia) instead of the author’s indication and year, which is reserved for the secondary bibliography and reference volumes (that is, Don Quixote and never Cervantes (1605-1615)). In the final bibliography list, this form should only appear when its interpretation is not obvious or when it refers to one and only one of the different editions of the text. However, the prologue, footnotes or comments accompanying the texts should be cited by the name of the person or people in charge of the publication, introduction or footnotes, with an indication of the year and page, that is, the same way as in the secondary bibliography. For this reason, when there are citations and references to prologues, footnotes or comments, the scholar should have an entry of their own in the bibliographic list which properly refers to the work edited.
• When citing treatises on poetry, rhetoric or versification, the most common or reader-friendly abbreviated form should be used in order to make it easy to quickly identify the sources (e.g., Luzán’s Poética). The same rule applies for comments (e.g., Herrera’s Anotaciones, Robortello’s Explications, Donato’s Interpretations) and for relevant sources studied in the text (e.g., the Poetices Libri Septem, the Trattato sulla poesia lirica). In all cases, the identification should be unequivocal.
• When referring to classical works in the text, use the conventional divisions and chapters (e.g., Cicero, De oratore, II, 143; Horace, Ars Poetica, vv. 76 or alternatively Ad Pisones, v. 76). For works by Aristotle, Bekker’s numeration can be added, especially when the reference affects specific terms or passages (e.g., Aristotle, Poeticas, XX, 1456b22-24). When the text examines a specific translation or the equivalencies of a Greek or Latin term, we recommend referring not only to the place where it was translated but also to the passage in the Greek or Latin work cited.
• The reference bibliography (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, catalogues, general histories, biographic records, etc.) can be cited in the definitive text using abbreviations.

Keywords

Each article should include a list of the keywords in order to facilitate searches and identify the article by subject. The keywords should include proper names when the study focuses on the oeuvre of one or more authors.

PROJECT

At the beginning of the article, the first footnote should contain the code of the research team to which the author belongs and in which the study was performed.

Proper names

The most common way a given author is referred to can appear in the bibliography if this is different than their official name. This then sends the reader to another entry. Example:

• Pinciano: vid. Alonso López Pinciano

If an author is known by a Latin name or appears with a Latin name in any of the bibliographic entries, this name should also be included in the list. For Example,

• Madius, Vicentius: vid. Maggi, Vincenzo
• Crinitus, Petrus: vid. Ricci, Pietro

The same holds true when an author is known by several names in different modern languages or when several names are alternated in the bibliographic entries (e.g., Escalígero, Scaliger, Scaligero).