Diálogo de la lengua, Revista de investigación en filología y lingüística

Article submissions

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Only original papers about Linguistics and Philology written in Spanish or English will be considered (see Table of Contents).

Manuscripts are received with the explicit understanding that they are not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication. Accepted papers published in Diálogo de la Lengua may be reproduced as long as they show the original source.

Manuscripts should be send to dialogodelalengua@gmail.com in Pages or Word documents. Each illustration should be send separately in PDF or EPS format.

The Associate Editors will confirm receipt via e-mail to the provided e-mail address.

The evaluation process will be anonymous. Each manuscript will be evaluated by two criteriously selected members of our Advisory Board. Their decision will be personally delivered to the author by the Associate Editors in less than  four months.

Originality, clarity, methodology, conclusions, results and the bibliography will all be evaluated.

STYLE SHEET

Heading

TITLE. The title of the paper must be bold, centered and without any quotation marks. The font should be Times New Roman, 16 points.

AUTHOR´S NAME. The author’s name and last name must be in small capital letters, centered and separated from the title by two carriage returns. The font should be Times New Roman, 10 points.

INSTITUTION / E-MAIL. The name of the institution must be in italics, lower case letter and centered just below the author’s name. The e-mail address, in lower case letter and centered, should appear under the institution. The font should be Times New Roman, 10 points.

ABSTRACT / KEYWORDS. The abstract should be right below the e-mail address, separated by two carriage returns. The body of the abstract (Times New Roman, 10 points, with a maximum of 15 lines) will follow immediately the word “Abstract:” (bold and small capital letter, Times New Roman 10 points). The keywords (between 4 and 8) should be written under the abstract in Times New Roman, 10 points, and should be preceded by the word “Keywords:” (bold and lower case letter, Times New Roman, 10 points).

Main text

FONT SIZE. The main text must be separated by two carriage returns from the keywords and has to be written in Times New Roman, 12 points, simple-spaced and justified. Textual quotations longer than three lines (see Quotations below), and foot notes must be in Times New Roman, 10 points.

EMPHASIZED TEXT. To emphasize words or groups of words use italics.

ILLUSTRATIONS. Must be separated by one carriage return from the previous text and another carriage return from the following text.

TITLES. The titles of the sections and subsections must be written in bold small caps and no periods. The titles of the sections will not be indented and must be separated from the previous section by two carriage returns and one carriage return from the following text. The title of each subsection must be indented, separated from the previous text by one carriage return and the text must follow the subtitle in the same line. The font must be Times New Roman, 12 points.

ENUMERATION. The sections and subsections —with or without any title— will have to be enumerated with arabic numerals followed by a dot (1., 2., 3., etc.; 1.1., 1.2., 1.3., etc.), except the introduction that should  be enumerated with 0 (“0. Introduction”).

FOOTNOTES. Footnotes must have an arabic reference number in the body of the text written in superscript. The font used must be Times New Roman, 10 points.

PHONETIC ALPHABET. If any phonetic or phonological transcriptions are used, the font type and notation system ought to be mencionated. It is highly recommended to use International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The fonts recommended are the Charis SIL and Doulos SIL.

GLOSSING RULES. For glosses, Leipzig Glossing Rules of Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology must be used.

PUNCTUATION MARKS. Punctuation marks go after the quotation marks (";) and before the footnote reference number (word².).

Quotations

Quotations no longer than three lines must be integrated into the text between double quotation marks. Use single quotation marks for quotations within quotation. Quotations longer than three lines should be separated from the main text by one carriage return at its beginning and another carriage return at the end of it. Use Times New Roman, 10 points, without quotation marks and indentation of 1.25 centimetres. Omissions in quotations have to be indicated by three dots between square brackets ([…]).

Abbreviations

Abbreviations ("vid.", "ibid.", "op. cit.", "cf.", "et al.", etc.) must be in italics and lower-case letters except when they appear after a period or first position. The abbreviations for "page", "pages" and "following pages" will be "p.", "pp." and "et seq." in original English papers.

Bibliographical references

REFERENCES. All Bibliographical references quoted in the text must appear at the end of the paper, in alphabetical order, in a section called “references” (in bold capital letters).

IN THE TEXT. Bibliographical references integrated into the text must appear in brackets. For example: (Martínez de Sousa, 1991), (Martínez de Sousa, 1991: 25), (Martínez de Sousa, 1991: 25-34) and (Martínez de Sousa, 1991: 25 et seq.).

IN THE REFERENCES. Bibliographical references (Times New Roman, 12 points) must be French indented (1.25 centimetres). The author's last name (capitalized) must be in the first place followed by the author’s name initials, year (in brackets), title, place and publishing company and pages (if applicable):