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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been published previously in any media nor has it been submitted for consideration in any journal (or else there is an explanation thereon provided in the comments to the editor).

  • The file of submission is in format OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect.

  • If possible, always provide the URLs for the references.

  • The abstract of the article includes goals, spatiotemporal coordinates and the conclusions of the investigation. The resumen was drawn up with the support of a specialized translator.

  • The key words or palabras clave are related to the article’s topic and describe the theoretical framework, methodology and key concepts of the article.

  • The bibliography is arranged in alphabetical order and its format matches with the given indications.

  • The critical apparatus carries on the format demanded by the journal.

  • The images, graphics and tables are included in good quality (at least 300 dpi) as complementary files and are editable.

  • The content of the sections is determined according to the following criteria:

    • Teoría: offers the lector theoretical works that contribute elements for the conceptual and methodological reflection and that present the advances and the current state of development of the critical feminist theory and of the gender studies.
    • Avances de trabajo: this section shares the advances, findings and proposals that are produced from ongoing and finished research works, both in the Universidad de Guadalajara as well as in other academic, local, national or foreign instances.
    • En la mira: includes reviews of book, film critics, memories of congresses, seminars and other academic encounters, reviews of events of the feminist movements, and others. Furthermore, it includes news of the field of gender studies and other related fields, announcements of academic events and of editorial novelties, as well as some short opinion pieces.

    • Contributions: presents international works of theoretical order to the reader in the original language (English, French, Portuguese) which contribute elements for the conceptual and methodological reflection and which present the advances and the current state of development of the critical feminist theory and the gender studies in other latitudes.

Author Guidelines

GENERAL INDICATIONS:

  1. The contributions must refer to the field of gender studies in any of its areas, aspects and levels; they must be unpublished and may not be participating in another tendering.
  2. Text will be received in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
  3. The contents of the articles are the responsibility of the author/s.
  4. The journal neither commits to publish all the received contributions nor to return the originals, even though these are solicited by the Coordination or by any member of the journal’s Editorial Council.
  5. Once the manuscript has been accepted for its publication, the author has to fill, sign, print, scan and send the format cesión de derecho (transfer of rights) back to the journal’s mailbox, which will be sent to him from part of our official address. The cesión de derechos (transfer of rights) is required for the publication of any manuscript without exceptions.
  6. The guidelines and recommendations about the use of not gender biased language in the collaboration proposals must be read in the following Non-sexist Language Guidelines for Article Proposals in the Revista de Estudios de Género, La ventana.

 

ON THE SUBMISSION OF ORIGINALS:

  1. The contributions have to be submitted by Open Journal Systema (OJS), a process for which the author has to register on the same website (http://www.revistascientificas.udg.mx/index.php/LV).
  2. The author has to submit his collaboration proposal in Word format, double-spaced. The extent of the works for the section ”Teoría” is up to 30 pages (no more than 10,000 words including titles, abstracts, keywords, bibliography, notes, tables and graphics); for ”Avances del trabajo” up to 20 pages (no more than 7,000 words including titles, abstracts, keywords, bibliography, notes, tables and graphics); and for “En la mira” (reviews, opinions, miscellaneous comments), up to 5 pages (1,750 words). For the first two sections, the minimal extent is 15 pages, for the third it is 3 pages. At the moment of submission, you will have to specify to which section your contribution refers to.
  3. The contributions, when accepted, must include the following information: title, complete name of the author/s without hyphens between the last names (except the cases in which it is required). When it comes to articles in co-authorship, you should specify the order in which they shall appear in the publication (first author, second, third, and so on, successively in the order of importance). It is necessary to fill in the corresponding data in the metadata in the submission form, as well as to specify the telephone number, e-mail and complete address where you can receive correspondence.

 

ON THE FORMAT:

  1. The article’s title has to appear in capital letters and the subtitles in italics.
  2. The body of the text has to be submitted in Times New Roman, font size 12, double-spaced lines.
  3. The document's margins must be 2.5 centimeters.
  4. All of the texts have to include an abstract in Spanish (titled as Resumen) and another one in English (titled as Abstract), with up to 300 words each one, as well as five key words (titled as Palabras Clave in Spanish) for each abstract. Abstracts translated by software tools (e.g. Google Translate) will not be accepted, but only well translated texts which comply with the grammatical, orthographical and lexical rules in Spanish and English. (Please see a description of each Journal section under "Manuscript Submission Checklist - point 9) Both categories have to point out the following parts: problems, theoretical lines of approach, implemented methodology, results and main conclusions. These elements have a direct effect on the impact factor of every single of the articles (and of the journal), this is why they should be worked out conscientiously. Moreover, the key words and palabras clave have to be registered in the corresponding format at the moment of submission.
  5. The explanatory notes have to be added at the end of the text (NOT in the footer), prior to the bibliography, properly numbered (with Arabic numbers) and they should not include personal information of the author/s of the article.
  6. There have to set final points to EVERY paragraph, only the titles, subtitles, subsections and the names of tables and graphics are exempt.
  7. The graphics (maps, illustrations, figures) have to be uploaded in the section “Nuevo envío“, corresponding to the complementary files. These files have to be submitted in their editable version, correctly numbered, with title and source where necessary, as well as the indication of place in the text where the illustration should appear. The illustrations have to be in the format .jpg or .tiff with a minimum of 300 ppi. Note: in this section there may not be uploaded the curriculum vitae for any reason. If you do so, you may be excluded from the process.

 

ON THE CRITICAL APPARATUS

  1. The bibliographic references will be placed in parentheses within the work. The complete information of the references is only given in the bibliography. The reference within the text limits to the paternal last name, the year of edition and, following a colon, the page or pages; for example: (Borja 1997, p. 2).
  2. The text citations that are larger than three lines (more than 40 words) have to be double spaced and count with indentation. If the citation is shorter than three lines, it appears within the text between quotation marks.
  3. The bibliography must be presented in alphabetical and chronological order (when it comes to different materials which have a common authorship, then name first the oldest work, followed by the subsequent). The references must follow the APA style as shown in the examples below:

Journal:

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Book:

Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

 

The submissions that do not comply with the required criteria and guidelines will be rejected and will not be eligible for peer review process. The verdict will be final and not open to appeal.

In cases where an article receives positive reviews and, because of space limitation the manuscript is not selected to be published by the Editorial Board, the article will be published the following issue in accordance with the evaluation process presented in the Code of Ethics.

 

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