Author Guidelines

For the submission of originals Ítaca. Revista de Filologia establishes the rules described below. Acceptance of papers is subject to compliance with these guidelines. For any clarification or additional information regarding these guidelines, authors may contact the journal's main contact person by mail.

Ítaca welcomes research articles and book reviews. The call for papers is open all year round. Calls for monographs (call for papers), if appropriate, will be published in the Notices section and on the main page of the journal.

All original submissions will be subject to a peer review process and will be edited in accordance with the journal's publication schedule.

In addition to these guidelines, authors are encouraged to consult all sections of the journal with information affecting their work, such as ethical publication policies, anti-plagiarism policy, etc., before submitting their manuscripts.

1 Requirements

The general requirements for papers submitted to the journal are as follows:

  1. Originality: All papers submitted must be original and unpublished, and must not be in the process of acceptance by another journal.
  2. Submission procedure: You must be logged in to submit your work. If you do not have a user account, you will have to register.
  3. Authorship: Authors must provide their first and last name, main institutional or professional affiliation (full name without acronyms), country, e-mail address (preferably institutional or professional) and the ORCID identifier (https://orcid.org/XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX). When giving their name and surnames, authors are advised to follow the signature format used for indexing in international databases. You can consult the FECYT section “Recommendations for the standardisation of authors and electronic addresses”. The number of authors will not be more than six.
  4. Languages: Works may be submitted in Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or English.
  5. File format: Works must be submitted in a Microsoft Word (.docx) or Open Document Format (.odt) text file.
  6. Anonymisation: Manuscripts must be fully anonymized (with no elements that may allow identification of the authors): author names and affiliations must not be included (they must be replaced by the label “Author”), and any other element that could directly or indirectly allow identification of the authors (in acknowledgments, references to projects, funding, specific geographical locations or institutions, etc.) must be deleted and marked as *anonymised*.
  7. Datasets: The datasets used in the research that led to the work may be attached in separate files in .xlsx, csv, or ods format. If the article is published, the data will be deposited alongside the work and will be linked by the same persistent identifier.
  8. Competing interests: The persons submitting originals must declare in the section ‘Comments to the editor’ any personal or economic connection that may influence the conclusions of the work submitted. Otherwise, they will have to declare the non-existence of a conflict of interest.
  9. Funding: If the submitted manuscript is part of a research study having received funding, the following details must be provided in the “Supporting Agencies” section: funding entity, project code, etc. This information must not appear in the submitted file for the sake of anonymity.

2 Research articles

2.1 Structure

Original manuscripts must include the following three elements in the language of the article and in English:

  • Title: It must be short, informative and unambiguous, without overly specific acronyms or terms, and must include keywords that define the subject matter of the article.
  • Abstract: It should be between 200 200-300 words in length. The abstract should concisely state the purpose and objective of the research, the methodology used, the most important results and the main conclusions or recommendations that can be drawn. New and relevant aspects of the work should be emphasised.
  • Keywords:A minimum of 6 words should be indicated. It is recommended that some of the key words come from philology, literature or linguistics vocabularies, or are commonly used in these fields.

Compliance with these guidelines will make it easier to find the article online and in databases.

The recommended structure for the body of a research paper is as follows:

  • Introduction: This section must state the basis and purpose of the study, using the strictly necessary bibliographic citations. It should not include data or conclusions of the work presented. The introduction should not include a detailed bibliographic review.
  • Development: The research will be developed in sections (with numbering and headings), as deemed necessary. The theoretical framework and methodology underpinning the research must be included in the appropriate place.
  • Conclusions: This section will summarise the ideas that can be drawn from the results and their discussion.
  • Use of artificial intelligence: The use or non-use of AI tools in the preparation of the manuscript must be declared.
  • Bibliography: A list of bibliographical references will be presented following the style of the standards indicated on this website.

2.2 Format

Manuscripts must conform to the journal's guidelines for citations and bibliographical references.

Length

Manuscripts in Ítaca. Revista de Filologia will not exceed a maximum length of 65,000 characters, spaces included.

Body and font

Manuscripts must be submitted in Times New Roman font, 14 pt. in headings, 12 pt. in the body of the text and 10 pt. in citations and footnotes with single spacing. Page layout will be A4 (21x29.7 cm) with top and bottom margins of 2.5 cm and left and right margins of 3 cm.

Article sections

The headings of the sections and subsections into which the article is divided will be in lower case and without full stops. They shall be numbered in arabic numerals: 1., 1.1, 2., 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.1, etc.

Footnotes

The use of footnotes should be limited as much as possible and the content should preferably be integrated into the body of the text. Footnotes should only be used for clarifications that cannot be included in the text.

Abbreviations

Only universally accepted standard abbreviations should be used. If a term used frequently in the text is to be shortened, its abbreviation, in brackets, must accompany the full name the first time it appears. Roman numerals should not be used in the text, and decimals should be written with a full stop instead of a comma.

Figures and Tables

All illustrations, figures, charts, tables, and graphs must be placed in the appropriate position within the text, not at the end of the document. They must include a title, be consecutively numbered, and referred to in the body of the article.

Each must include a heading with its number and title. Examples:

  • Table 3. Distribution of data by subject
  • Figure 7. Representation

Each item must also include a caption indicating the source. Examples:

  • Source: Author’s own
  • Source: The British Library

Images, drawings, photos, figures, tables, charts, etc. must either be original works by the author(s), rights-free, or under Creative Commons licences that allow for reuse and specify usage terms. If copyrighted materials are used, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright holders.

3 Book reviews

Book reviews must have a maximum length of 15,000 characters and follow the rules indicated for articles as far as possible.

The maximum age of the books to be reviewed is five years.

A minimum of three terms must be included in the ‘Keywords’ section.

With regard to bibliographical references, at least the reference to the book reviewed shall be indicated.

To see an example, click here.

4 Guidelines for citations and references

The journal adopts and adheres to the publication standards established in the 7th edition of the APA style guide with slight adaptations. You can also consult the APA style guide (PDF) of the Library of the University of Alicante.

4.1 In-text citations

In-text citations are considered to be those in which the author's words are reproduced exactly.

4.1.1 Citations of 40 words or more

The in-text citation system indicates that the text reproducing an exact citation of more than 40 words in an article will be indented separately from the text of the article in a separate paragraph and the source of the text will be indicated with the system (author/year: page):

En rigor, les tendències extremes no han influït pas gaire en la literatura catalana contemporània. És un error citar en Salvat-Papasseit. S’hi enganyà ell i ha enganyat els altres. Aquest malaurat poeta mai no fou un avantguardista ni en la interpretació ni en l’equívoca donada a aquesta activitat literària. Els seus cal·ligrames són infelicíssims. Crec que els nostres crítics faran una bella obra d’abandonar tota hipòtesi de filiació d’en Salvat-Papasseit a cap escola ni tendència extrema. No tan solament fracassà en el seu intent d’aportació de formes noves, sinó que demostrà no comprendre’n ni llur significació més elemental. (Foix 1925: 69-70)

4.1.2 Citations of less than 40 words

French inverted commas will be used for citations of less than 40 words:

El poeta afirma que «en rigor, les tendències extremes no han influït pas gaire en la literatura catalana contemporània» (Foix 1925: 69)

Indirect citations to other people's works will also follow the system (author/year: page).

4.2 Bibliographical references

The list of bibliographical references will be introduced as a section at the end of the text, with the heading ‘Bibliography’. It will be in 12 pt. Times New Roman with French indentation and no Arabic numerals will be used. It will be ordered first alphabetically and then chronologically, and will contain only the works cited in the body of the text. The hyphen system should not be used to replace an author's surname.

4.2.1 Digital Object Identifier

If the publication has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), it must appear at the end of the entry as a secure URL link, without prefixes or a final full stop. The DOI replaces any web address in the reference.

CrossRef’s Simple Text Query can be used for checking DOIs included in a reference list.

4.2.2 Examples

Examples are given below.

  • Books
    Fuster, Joan. (1972). Literatura catalana contemporània. Curial.
    Bauer, Dominique i Michael J. Kelly. (Eds.) (2019). The Imagery of Interior Spaces. Punctum Books.
  • Book chapters
    Balaguer, Enric. (1997). La poesia de Guillaume Apollinaire i la de Joan Salvat-Papasseit. Sobre l’estrebada cubista i alguns temes compartits. Dins Claude Benoit, Ferran Carbó, Dolors Jiménez i Vicent Simbor (Eds.), Les literatures catalana i francesa al llarg del segle XX. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 29-44.
  • Articles
    Keown, Dominic. (2019). Naïfs però no pas innocents: el corrent subversiu en la poesia de Joan Salvat-Papasseit i E. E. Cummings. Els Marges, 118, 39-63.