Author Guidelines

Submission Guidelines 

El arco y la lira journal uses the Chicago - Notes and Bibliography system, oriented to the humanities, especially philosophy, history and critical theory. The following are the citation rules and editorial criteria to be followed by those who submit originals for evaluation.

1. Citations and bibliographical references

1.1 Citations in footnotes

Sources should be cited in numbered footnotes. The first citation should be complete, and subsequent citations should be abbreviated.

Example (1st citation):

1. Paul Ricoeur, The Living Metaphor (Madrid: Trotta, 2001), 77.
   
   

Example (abbreviated mention):
2. Ricoeur, The Living Metaphor, 79.

1.2 Final bibliographical entry

A section entitled Bibliography should be included at the end of the text, with complete references arranged alphabetically by author's last name.

Example:
Ricoeur, Paul. La metáfora viva. Madrid: Trotta, 2001.

For additional examples of translated books, book chapters, articles, and electronic sources, see the sections of the previous document.

General format of the manuscript

2.1 Typography and body text

• Recommended font: Times New Roman, body 12 pt.
• Line spacing: 1.5 (except footnotes, which should be single-spaced, body 10).
• Indentation of first line: 1.25 cm.
• Margins: 2.5 cm on all edges.
  
  

2.2 Titles and subtitles

Chicago does not prescribe a single style of hierarchy, but it is recommended to maintain visual and functional consistency throughout the document. For this magazine:

Avoid the use of more than three hierarchical levels.

3. Typographic use

3.1 Italics (italics)

Authorized uses according to the Chicago Manual of Style:

• Titles of books, magazines, films, works of art, and philosophical treatises: Being and time.
• Foreign words not incorporated into English: dasein, logos.
• Occasional emphasis (moderate use recommended).
• Defining terms: apodictic refers to....

3.2 Bold type

• Should not be used in the body of the text to highlight ideas.

3.3 Quotation marks

• Use double quotation marks (" "), according to academic Spanish convention.
• Single quotation marks (' ') are reserved for quotations within quotations.

3.4 Textual quotations

• Short quotations (up to 40 words): within the paragraph, between quotation marks.
• Long quotations (more than 40 words): in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, with left indentation of 1 cm, body size 11, single spacing.
  
  

4. Other elements

4.1 Footnotes

• They are numbered with consecutive Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3...).
• Do not use asterisks or other signs.
• Footnotes should be brief, pertinent and reserved for strictly necessary references or clarifying comments.
• The call for the footnote is made before the punctuation marks.

4.2 Use of capital letters

• Titles of works are written in lower case with initial capital letters, except for proper names: The structure of scientific revolutions.
• Avoid the indiscriminate use of emphatic capital letters.

5. Submission and presentation

Manuscripts should be submitted in editable format (.docx). It is requested that the texts:

• Include abstract (150-200 words) and 4-6 keywords, in Spanish and English.
• Present title in Spanish and English.
• Indicate institutional affiliation and ORCID of each contributor.
  

These instructions are based on the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2017). For more information, see www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.

Acknowledgement of authorship (CRediT)

Those who submit a contribution for publication in this journal should note that the paper must have been read and approved by all signatories and that each signatory must agree to its submission to the journal.

Acknowledgement of authorship should be based on: 1) major contributions to the idea and design of the study or to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; 2) the writing of the draft article or critical revision of the substantial intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published. In original articles, authorship and participation roles should be declared according to the CRediT taxonomy: 

1. Conceptualization - Ideas; formulation or evolution of the overall research objectives and goals.
2. Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code, when necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
3. Formal analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
4. Fund Acquisition - Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
5. Research - Conducting an investigation and research process, specifically performing experiments, or collecting data/evidence.
6. Methodology - Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
7. Project administration - Management responsibility and coordination of the planning and execution of the research activity.
8. Resources - Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory specimens, animals, instrumentation, computer resources or other analytical tools.
9. Software - Programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
10. Supervision - Supervisory and leadership responsibility for planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.
11. Validation - Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of overall replicability/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research products.
12. Visualization - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically visualization/presentation of data.
13. Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
14. Writing - review and editing - Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.

Contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria should be included as acknowledgements. All academic collaboration roles are described in the CRediT taxonomy (hdlab.space/taxonomy). All authors should be uploaded at the time of submission. 

These data are added at the end of the article under a subtitle Contribution, here is an example:

Authorship roles contribution.

Juana María (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) and Susana Pérez (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed in the conception of the idea and design of the study; Nora González (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) participated in the research process and data collection; María Domínguez (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed in the analysis and interpretation of the data. All authors contributed to the writing of the article, approved the final version for publication, and are able to respond to all aspects of the manuscript.