Submitting Manuscripts

The journal accepts articles in Spanish and Portuguese on a rolling basis throughout the year. Depending on the number of submissions received and accepted, authors will be informed in due course of the volume and issue in which their contributions will be published.

Submitted manuscripts must be original and unpublished and may not be under simultaneous consideration by other journals, conference proceedings, books, or publishers, whether national or international.

Acceptance of manuscripts by the journal implies the inclusion of the full text in any specialized databases deemed appropriate by the editor for indexing purposes, with the aim of increasing the visibility and reach of the journal and its articles.

The journal follows an Open Access model in order to promote the use and circulation of freely accessible information. It is also published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Accordingly, all works published in the journal are freely available online and may be shared within the international scientific and academic community.

This scientific journal does not charge article processing or publication fees, nor does it impose embargo periods on authors. All content is available in full text without restrictions.

The Editorial Board reserves the following rights:

  1. To commission articles or critical reviews from specialists when deemed appropriate. Such contributions will also be subject to external peer review;
  2. To reject submissions that fall outside the scope of the journal;
  3. To determine the order in which accepted works are published.

Authors are requested to familiarize themselves with the journal’s editorial policies before submitting their manuscripts.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Manuscripts must be prepared using the Article Template provided below and submitted in Word format (2007 version or later). If the text contains special characters, authors are advised to also submit a PDF version. The minimum length for articles is 6,500 words and the maximum is 10,000 words.

Submissions must be made through the journal’s website (https://rasal.sael.org.ar/) by registering as an author. For inquiries, please contact revistarasal@rasal.sael.org.ar.

In the submission form, authors must provide the Title, an Abstract in Spanish or Portuguese (depending on the language of the manuscript), an Abstract in English, and the name(s) of the author(s) (please do not complete the “Prefix” field). In addition, authors are requested to add their institutional affiliation(s) under the “Contact” tab via the “Edit Profile” option, along with their respective ORCID IDs.

In addition to the manuscript, authors must include the Statement of Authorship (available below) as part of the submission process on the platform.

ANONYMIZATION

Personal data must not appear in the manuscript.

  1. Author information must be provided through the OJS platform and must not be included in the manuscript.
  2. Information regarding project funding must also be removed.
  3. If self-citations are included, they must always be written in the third person. For example, avoid statements such as: “As we have previously demonstrated (López & Santos, 2021)”; instead use: “As López and Santos (2021) demonstrated …”. In this case, the full reference should be included in the bibliography: López, S., & Santos, P. (2021). Title, …
  4. If the first person is used to refer to the author’s own previous work, the author’s name(s) must be replaced with “XXXX (YEAR)”. The same anonymization procedure must be followed in the bibliography, indicating only “XXXX (YEAR)”, and entries should be listed alphabetically under “X”.

Once the manuscript has been accepted, it will be de-anonymized during the editing stage.

GENERAL FORMAT

Manuscripts must follow the structure outlined below:

  • Title of the article in Spanish/Portuguese and English
  • Full name(s) of the author(s) (do not include in the initial submission)
  • Institutional affiliation(s) (do not include in the initial submission)
  • Abstract in Spanish/Portuguese and in English (maximum 200 words each). Keywords should be provided below each abstract (in the corresponding language, no more than five), in lowercase and separated by semicolons
  • Main text following the template (guidelines and length are specified below)
  • Footnotes (no indentation; see template)
  • Abbreviations (if applicable)
  • Corpus (if applicable)
  • References

Template format (downloadable): Page size: 16 × 23.5 cm. Margins: Top 2.9 cm; Bottom 2.4 cm; Left and right: 1.5 cm. Main font: Times New Roman, 11 pt. Footnote font size: 10 pt. Line spacing: 1.15. Alignment: Justified. Indentation: 0.6 cm. Use automatic footnotes. Line numbering enabled.

All sections must be numbered, except for Abbreviations, Corpus (if applicable), and References.

For phonetic transcriptions, authors are required to use the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the Doulos SIL font.

Please keep the line numbering configured in the template; it will be removed during the editing stage.

HEADINGS AND SUBHEADINGS
  1. The title of the article must be left-aligned, in 14 pt, and set in small caps.
  2. Headings must follow standard capitalization (upper/lower case), should not be in bold, and must be numbered consecutively. First-level headings (1.) should be in regular font and 12 pt; second-level headings (1.1.) should be in italics and 11 pt. The use of a third level of headings (1.1.1.) is discouraged; however, if necessary, they should also be in italics and 11 pt. Do not use periods after headings or subheadings. The type and number of sections should correspond to those expected in a publishable research paper. If a section contains subdivisions, there must be at least two subsections; a section should not contain only one subsection, as this indicates that subdivision is unnecessary.
  3. Leave two blank lines before first-level headings and one blank line before second- and third-level headings. After each heading, leave one blank line before the main text.
MAIN TEXT

The main text must be written in Times New Roman, 11 pt, with 1.15 line spacing and a 0.6 cm indentation. Footnotes should be in 10 pt font. The text must be justified.

EXAMPLES
  1. Examples must be numbered consecutively, set in 10 pt regular font, and separated from the main text by one blank line (before and after).
  2. The example number must appear in parentheses and be indented 1 cm.
  3. If there are variants under the same example number, use letters without parentheses followed by a period:

                       (1)       a. This is an example.
                                   b. This is another example.

  1. If abbreviations are used for glosses, they must be specified in the “Abbreviations” section at the end of the paper (see Abbreviations section).
  2. When examples are glossed, ensure that the glosses are aligned with the segmentation in the language under study.
  3. The translation line must end with a period if it is a sentence and must be enclosed in single quotation marks. The period should precede the closing quotation mark.
  4. References to examples in the text must appear in parentheses and without periods: “In example (8)”, “In example (8a)”, “In examples (8) and (9)”, “In examples (8)-(10)”.
  5. Check the numbering of examples and ensure that references to them in the text correspond to their numbering.
FIGURES AND TABLES
  1. If figures (e.g., images, photographs, diagrams, schemata) or tables are included, they must be numbered consecutively, set in regular font, 10 pt (e.g., Figure 1. Title).
  2. The title or caption of figures and tables must be placed below them, following the number, in regular font, 10 pt, without bold. Both the table and its caption must be centered.
  3. Figures and tables must be numbered independently from each other.
  4. Row and column headings within tables must be in bold.
  5. Use the term cuadro rather than tabla.
  6. Ensure that the numbering of tables and figures is consecutive in each case and that it corresponds to the references made in the text.
NOTES AND ABBREVIATIONS
  1. Notes must be footnotes (using Word’s automatic function), in 10 pt font, and without indentation. The use of footnotes should be kept to a minimum.
  2. The footnote reference number in the text must be inserted before the final period of the sentence.
  3. Abbreviations used in glosses must be specified under the heading “Abbreviations” at the end of the text, before the references. Leave a space between the abbreviation and the word, and separate each entry with a semicolon.
  4. Abbreviations must be set in small caps, and their full forms in lowercase.
CITATIONS AND QUOTATIONS
  1. Short quotations must be incorporated into the main text and enclosed in quotation marks. Page numbers must be provided.
  2. Long quotations (more than three lines) must be written with 1.15 line spacing, in regular font, 11 pt, without quotation marks, and indented 1.5 cm on both sides. Page numbers must be provided.
  3. The use of direct quotations in languages other than Spanish or Portuguese should be kept to a minimum. When necessary, a translation must be included in the main text, and the original quotation may be added in a footnote.
  4. To indicate emphasis added by the author in a quotation, include the note “emphasis added”; likewise, if the translation is by the author, indicate “translation mine.”

In-text citations:

  • Citations without page number in the text: Blake (1990)
  • Citations with page number in the text: Blake (1990, p. 15)
  • Citations without page number in parentheses: (Talmy, 2000)
  • Citations with page number in parentheses: (Talmy, 2000, p. 88)
  • Citations of works with an original publication date different from the edition consulted: Chomsky (1980 [1970]); (Chomsky, 1980 [1970]); Chomsky (1980 [1970], p. 27); (Chomsky, 1980 [1970], p. 27)
  • Citations with two authors: Chambers and Trudgill (1994); (Chambers and Trudgill, 1994)
  • Citations with three or more authors: Clark et al. (2007); (Clark et al., 2007)
  • Citations with multiple sources [alphabetical order]: Several studies (Hayes, 1995; Lass, 1984)
CORPUS
  1. If a corpus is used, corpus references must be included in an additional section titled corpus (in small caps), placed immediately before the References section.
  2. Use corpus as both singular and plural, rather than corpora.
REFERENCES
  1. References to cited works must be listed in alphabetical order in the “References” section at the end of the manuscript. They must be in 10 pt font and use a hanging indent of 1.25 cm.
  2. Ensure that all works cited in the text are included in the “References” section and, conversely, that all references correspond to works cited in the text.
  3. The reference list must follow the guidelines of APA Style, 7th edition. Note that for works with multiple authors (up to 20), all authors must be listed in the full reference. For further details, consult the APA 7th edition guidelines online: https://normas-apa.org/referencias/. Downloadable PDF: https://normas-apa.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Normas-APA-7ma-edicion.pdf 
  4. The DOI or URL must be provided in the references whenever possible.
  5. All bibliographic references suggested by AI tools must be verified, as these tools may generate entirely fabricated sources or portions thereof (see the journal’s Editorial Policy on the Use of AI).
OTHER EDITORIAL ASPECTS
  1. Metalinguistic uses, as well as words in other languages, unassimilated Latin expressions, and Latin abbreviations such as g. and i.e., among others, must be set in italics, not in quotation marks.
  2. Avoid the use of boldface in the manuscript.
  3. Use en dashes (–), not hyphens (-), in parenthetical expressions.
  4. Page ranges must be indicated with hyphens (e.g., 10-15).
  5. Use commas for decimals (e.g., 12,5).
  6. Use “y” instead of “&”.
  7. Cross-references to sections within the article should be indicated using only the section number in regular font (e.g., in Section 3).
  8. The abbreviation for “compare” should be “cf.” (in regular font).
  9. Centuries must be written in lowercase and in small caps (e.g., siglo xxi).
  10. Dates: when in parentheses, dates must be given numerically, with zero-padded months and slashes (e.g., 07/05/2016). In the main text, dates must be written out in full, following the format: 8 de mayo de 2014.

BLIND REVIEWS

To ensure a blind review process, the manuscript must be anonymized upon initial submission (see “Anonymization”). That is, it must not contain any mention or reference that could reveal the author’s identity throughout the text.

PREPRINTS

RASAL accepts the submission of original and unpublished manuscripts that are available in preprint repositories. Such manuscripts must be submitted together with their unique and persistent identifier (e.g., link, DOI) and will undergo a single-blind peer review process, in which reviewers are aware of the author’s identity.

SUBMISSION PREPARATION CHECKLIST

Manuscripts must meet the following requirements before being submitted:

  • The submission has not been previously published nor is it under consideration by any other journal simultaneously.
  • The manuscript complies with the journal’s submission guidelines.
  • The source of funding or any other institutional support for the research must be declared during the submission process.
  • The Authorship Statement is attached along with the manuscript through the submission platform.
  • The journal’s template was used for the manuscript.
  • The submission file is in Word format (a PDF may also be attached; cf. “General Guidelines”).
  • The manuscript has been anonymized.
  • All in-text citations correspond to their full references in the “References” section, and vice versa.
  • The existence of all references included in the manuscript has been verified.
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of APA 7th edition.
  • The editorial policies on the Use of AI are followed.