Submissions

Author Guidelines

Wirapuru is published biannually, in June and December of each year. The journal accepts contributions on a continuous basis. Texts received by February 15 will be considered for the first-semester issue; those received by July 31, for the second.

Contributions may take four main forms:

• Scientific articles (open topic or for the thematic Dossier)
• Critical essays
• Interviews with relevant figures
• Reviews of books published in the last three years

They may be written in Spanish, Portuguese, English, or French. In all cases, they are published in their original language.

Contributions must be original and unpublished. This means they must not have been previously published, nor be in the process of being published, in any medium, whether print or electronic (journals, books, websites).

Once received, each contribution undergoes a review process by the Editorial Collective, which determines the suitability and relevance of the submission. Scientific articles are then evaluated by academic peers (double-blind system) unaffiliated with the journal and its editorial unit. The first process takes no more than ten days, while the results of the second are reported within the following 45 business days.

Those submitting contributions to Wirapuru must do so following the editorial guidelines detailed below. Submissions that do not strictly comply with the formatting, length, and citation criteria set out in the guidelines will be returned to the authors at the initial stage, that is, without beginning the review/evaluation phase.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, works published in Wirapuru always represent the views of their authors and do not involve the positions of the journal's editorial board, council, or committee.

Editorial Guidelines

Two files must be submitted: one containing all the information and text, and the other anonymized, that is, without explicit or implicit authorship data that could reveal the author's identity during the double-blind review.

Title, abstract, and keywords

All articles, critical essays, reviews, and interviews must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words, as well as three to five keywords. The title, abstract, and keywords must all be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. The abstract and keywords must be presented on a separate page at the beginning of the manuscript, as a cover sheet.

Author(s): affiliation, academic rank

All contributions must be accompanied by the following author information: first and last name, nationality, highest academic degree, main institutional affiliation (written out in full, with the acronym in parentheses), and email address.

If the author has an ORCID, it should be included here. If there is more than one author, the information must be specified for each, respecting the order from the main author to the secondary ones. It is of the utmost importance not to confuse the role of author with that of possible collaborators or assistants (see the CRediT taxonomy on academic collaboration roles). This information will be presented on a separate page at the beginning of each contribution, as a cover sheet (b).

Format and font

Submissions sent to Wirapuru must be prepared according to the following guidelines:

• Single line spacing, with a first-line left indent of 0.6.
• Times New Roman 12 font for the body text.
• Times New Roman 10 font for footnotes.

Title and subheadings

• Main title centered, in Times New Roman 16 font. The main title is recommended not to exceed sixteen words. A blank line should be left after the title.
• Level 1 subheadings, centered, unnumbered, in Times New Roman 14 font. A blank line should be left before and after each level 1 subheading.
• Level 2 subheadings, left-aligned, unnumbered, in italics, in Times New Roman 12 font. A blank line should be left before and after each level 2 subheading.

Bold and italics

The use of bold and italics in the body of the text should be avoided. Italics should be reserved for highlighting expressions in languages other than that of the contribution.

Length

• Scientific articles: a minimum of 5,000 words, a maximum of 8,000 (including footnotes)
• Critical essays: a maximum of 10,000 words
• Interviews: a minimum of 2,000 words, a maximum of 4,000
• Book reviews: a minimum of 1,000 words, a maximum of 3,000

Citations

Regarding citations and other paratextual entries, APA style must be used. For examples and usage guidelines, see https://normas-apa.org/referencias/ejemplos/

Bibliography format: listed alphabetically, with a hanging indent of 0.6 cm.

Authorship recognition (CRediT)

Those who submit a collaboration for publication in this journal must take into account that the writing must have been read and approved by all signatories and that each of them must agree with its submission to the journal.

Recognition of authorship must be based on: 1) important contributions to the idea and design of the study or to the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or critical review of substantial intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published. When applicable, in original articles authorship and participation roles must be declared according to the CRediT taxonomy:

• Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
• Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Funding acquisition – Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources or other analysis tools.
• Software – Programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Writing – original draft – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing – review & editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Collaborators who do not meet authorship criteria should be included in acknowledgments. The CRediT taxonomy describes all academic collaboration roles (hdlab.space/taxonomia). All authors must be uploaded at the time of submission.

This information is added at the end of the article under a subtitle Contribution, here is an example:

Authorship role contribution

Juana María (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) and Susana Pérez (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed to the conception of the idea and study design; 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 to the analysis and interpretation of data. All authors contributed to the writing of the article, approved the final version to be published and are able to respond regarding all aspects of the manuscript.