Submitting a research article

 

The submitted manuscripts must be original and unpublished and must not be simultaneosly under consideration in other journals, conference proceedings, or books published by local or international publishing houses. 

RASAL Lingüística accepts articles in Spanish and Portuguese and the call for articles is open during the entire year. On the basis of the number of received and accepted manuscripts, the journal will opportunely communicate the year and issue in which an accepted article will be published.

The acceptance of a manuscript in Spanish or Portuguese implies the inclusion of the complete  text in Zenodo Academic Digital Repository and in all specialized databases the Editor considers adequate for its indexicalization, which has the aim of increasing the visibility of the journal and its articles.

The publication of the journal follows an Open Access policy in order to contribute to the use and regulation of open access information. Moreover, the journal works under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license. For this reason, the works published in the journal will be available for their free distribution in the web, which allows for the sharing of the published material among the members of the international scientific and academic community.

This scientific journal does not charge any fees for the editing or publication of articles nor will it set liens to the authors. The published content is available in its entirety and without restrictions.

The Editorial Board reserves the following rights:

  1. To invite specialists to submit articles or book reviews when necessary. In these cases, the manuscripts will also be subjected to external evaluation.
  2. To reject manuscripts whose content is deemed irrelevant.
  3. To establish the order of publication of accepted works.

 

GENERAL GUIDELINES

The articles must be written on the template below. Authors must submit their manuscripts electronically to http://rasal.sael.org.ar/ in a Word file (2007 version or later) and in a Word and a PDF files if the paper contains special symbols. Potential contributors must first register as authors (“Autor”) in the platform. (If you have technical problems or questions, contact RASAL Support at revistarasal@gmail.com). 

Once the responsible author has created an account, they must upload their article (an anonymized Word document), the complete name of all the authors, the title of the article, and the abstracts in Spanish (or Portuguese) and English. In addition, authors must edit their profile (“editar perfil”), and they must include their institutional affiliation in “Contacto”, their ORCID number and a brief bio-note of about 5 lines that specifies the author’s position, academic qualifications and research areas of interests in “Público”. 

Research articles must be between 6.500 and 10.000 words.

 

 

FORMAT

Research articles must contain the following structure and the following elements:

  • Title of the article in Spanish and in English
  • Name and family name of the author (do not include this in the first submission)
  • Name of the institution of affiliation (do not include this in the first submission)
  • Abstracts in Spanish and in English (maximum of 200 words each). Below each abstract, there must be not more than 5 keywords in the corresponding language, in small-case letters, separated by semi-colon and stop at the end.
  • The body of the article must respect the conventions and extension specified as follows
  • Abbreviations (if there are)
  • Notes (if there are)
  • Corpus (if there is)
  • References

Manuscripts must use 10-point Times New Roman font, single spacing, 16 x 23,5 centimeters page size (top margin: 2,9 centimeters; bottom margin: 2,4 centimeters; left and right margins: 1,5 centimeters), with no spaces between paragraphs of the template to facilitate the unification and editing process. 

Metalinguistic uses and mentions, foreign language expressions, expressions in Latin, Latin abbreviations like “e.g.” and “i.e.”, among others, must be written in italics, and not in-between inverted commas. Bold type must not be used. All caps must not be used in the rest of the body of the article. Long dashes must be used for clarifications. 

For phonetic transcriptions we kindly ask authors to use symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet and Doulos SIL font.

TITLE AND HEADINGS
  1. The title of research articles must begin flush left and in small caps.
  2. Section headings should not contain bold-type letters, and they must be case-sensitive and numbered consecutively. The first-level heading (1.) must be written in Roman print and 11-point font. Second-level headings (1.1.) must be written in italics and 10-point font size. Third-level headings and those of subsequent levels must also be written in italics and 10-point font. Do not include a stop after the title and headings. The nature and the number of sections are expected to be those that are typical of quality research papers. If a section includes different subsections, there needs to be at least two different ones. Sections containing only one subsection need to be avoided because that implies that subdivisions are not necessary.
  3. Leave a space before and after each heading.
BODY OF THE ARTICLE

The body of the article must be written in 10-point Times New Roman, single spacing, and with no spaces between paragraphs. Paragraphs in the body of the article must be justified on both sides.

EXAMPLES
  1. Examples must be numbered consecutively, in 9-point size font, and in Roman print. They should be separated from the body of the article by a space (before and after each example).
  2. The example number should be written in between parenthesis. Left-align examples 1 centimeter from the margin.
  3. To list subsequent variants within one example, use letters followed by stop, not a parenthesis.
FIGURES AND CHARTS
  1. If there are figures (e.g., images, photographs, schemas, systematizations) or charts, they must be numbered consecutively, in 9-point Roman font (e.g., “Figure 1. Title”).
  2. Figures and chart captions should be included right below the figure or graph. Captions should be included after the corresponding number. Use 9-point Roman font. Do not use bold letters. All figures and charts should be centered.
  3. Figures and charts should be numbered independently from one another.
  4. Titles of rows and columns inside charts must be written in bold letters.
  5. Use the expression “chart”, rather than “table”.
END-NOTES AND ABBREVIATIONS
  1. Footnotes are not allowed. It is strongly advisable to keep end-notes to a minimum. All end-notes need to be included at the end of the research article.
  2. In the body of the article, end-note numbers need to be placed at the end of a sentence and after the stop.
  3. The abbreviations used in sample glosses must be listed in the “Abbreviations” section after the main body and before the “Notes” and “References” sections. Leave a space between the word and the abbreviation and separate each of them with a semi-colon.
  4. Abbreviations must be written in small caps.
QUOTATIONS
  1. Short quotations (less than 3 lines long) should run-on in the text and be enclosed in double quotation marks. Include the corresponding page number/s.
  2. Longer quotations (those exceeding 3 lines) should appear as a separate block using 10-point size font and single spacing. Align the quotation 1.5 centimeter from each margin. Do not use quotation marks. Include the corresponding page number/s in all quotations.
  3. It is strongly advisable to keep quotations that are not in Spanish or Portuguese to a minimum. In case they are needed, a translation should be included in the body of the article, and it is possible to include the original quoted text in an end-note.
DATA CORPUS

In case of using a corpus, it should be included in an additional section right before the “References” section. The title of this section should be “Corpus” and it must be written in small caps.

REFERENCES

In the body of the article, the references must be indicated taking the following examples as model:

  • Citation without page number in the body of the text: Blake (1990)
  • Citation with page number in the body of the text: Blake (1990, p. 15)
  • Parenthetical citation without page number: (Talmy, 2000)
  • Parenthetical citation with page number: (Talmy, 2000, p. 88)
  • Citation with date of original publication different from the one cited: Chomsky (1980 [1970]); Chomsky (1980 [1970], p. 27)

Please, follow APA (7th edition) conventions for all references at the end of an article or book review. Nevertheless, given that the available information may vary, it is expected that all references include the following:

  • Information about the author: Family name/s followed by initial letter/s of first and/or second name/s;
  • Date: Date of publication;
  • Information about the title: Title of the work and kind of resource;
  • Information about the source: Preferably, the unique and never-changing string of the location where the content is available;
  • (For digital content) Version: Date of last modification of the work cited.

References should be adapted to suit the following model:

Author(s). (Year). Title. Kind of resource. Version. DOI

Examples:

Books

  • By one and up to twenty authors:

Salinas, J. J. (1999). AMIA, el atentado. Planeta.

Sánchez, M. & Wilson, E. M. (1994). Bases teóricas de enfermería. Editorial Médica.

Albarracin Jordan, J. V. (1999). The Archaeology of Tiwanaku the Myths, History and Science of an Ancient Andean Civilization. Author’s edition.

Niebe S. (2015). Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation. Morgan & Claypool. January 2015. https://doi.org/10.2200/S00621ED1V01Y201412CGR018

Chomsky, N. (1974 [1957]). Estructuras sintácticas. Siglo XXI. Transl. Carlos Peregrín Otero.

  • Works by more than 20 authors:

For publications by more than 20 authors, include 19 authors and then use three ellipsis followed by the name of the last author.

For listing authors, use “&” in the body of the article, in the reference section and in the English abstract. In the Spanish abstract, use “y”. 

  • Books available online or in repositories

Béhague, G. (2013). Maxixe. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/18147

Article in collective volume

  • By one and up to five authors

Renteria Salazar, P. (2006). El comienzo de la renovación. In M. A. Flórez Góngora (Ed.), Bogotá: Renovación Urbana, Renovacion Humana (pp. 80-100). Empresa De Renovacion Urbana.

  • Preface, prologue or introduction

Sánchez, A. (prólogo de Ayala, D.). (2019). Contabilidad para dummies. Editorial Universitaria.

  • Translations

Chomsky, N. (1974 [1957]). Estructuras sintácticas. Siglo XXI. Transl. Carlos Peregrín Otero.

Chapters

Renteria Salazar, P. (2006). El comienzo de la renovación. In M. A. Flórez Góngora (Ed.), Bogotá: Renovación Urbana, Renovacion Humana (pp. 80-100). Empresa De Renovacion Urbana.

Periodic publications. Bulletins and journals

  • Article in printed journal

Peñuela Contreras, D. M. & Rodríguez Murcia C. M. (2012). Cine y pedagogía, entre la política instituida y el pensamiento instituyente. Revista Internacional Magisterio, 54, 88—93.

  • Article in online journal

Meredov, A., Klionovski, K & Shamim A. (2019). Screen-Printed, Flexible, Parasitic Beam-Switching Millimeter-Wave Antenna Array for Wearable Applications. IEEE, 1, 2-10. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJAP.2019.2955507

  • Online newspaper article

Yamada, G. (17 de marzo de 2018). Setenta mil años de historia. El Comercio. https://elcomercio.pe/economia/setenta-mil-anos-historia-gustavo-yamada-noticia-505124

Theses or monographs

Manrique Gómez, A. S. (2013). Gentrificación de La Candelaria (Bogotá D.C). Agentes y estrategias intervinientes [Monograph]. http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/11605/.

Martínez Ribón, J. G. T. (2011) Propuesta de metodología para la implementación de la filosofía Lean (construcción esbelta) en proyectos de construcción [M.A Thesis, National University of Colombia]. http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/10578/

Web page

Sánchez, C. (21 de febrero de 2020). Bullying Laboral – Definición y Consecuencias. No Más Bullying. https://nomasbullying.org/bullying-laboral-definicion-y-consecuencias/

Various works by the same author must be ordered by year of publication.

For more information about APA conventions, visit:

https://normas-apa.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Normas-APA-7ma-edicion.pdf.

 

DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEW

To ensure the double-blind peer review procedure, the manuscript must be anonymous, that is, the name of the author/s must be omitted all throughout the text.

 

PRE-PRINTS

RASAL Lingüística accepts original and unpublished pre-prints that are available in pre-prints repositories. Pre-prints must be sent together with their unique and never-changing string (link, DOI, etc.). Pre-prints are subjected to a single blind review, in which the reviewers know the identity of the author.

 

ETHICAL GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWERSS

  • Agreeing to carry out a review. The invitation to participate as reviewer that is sent by RASAL Lingüística is based on the fact that the academic trajectory of the selected peer is clearly related to the topic dealt with in the manuscript that is subject to evaluation. It is expected that, after acknowledging receipt of the invitation and within the following ten calendar days, the peer informs RASAL Lingüística of their decision to accept or reject the invitation to act as reviewer, making explicit if there is a conflict of interests, if they consider themselves fit to carry out the task, and if they have the time availability to finish the review on time.
  • Meeting deadlines. It is expected that reviewers comply with the time-limit established by RASAL Lingüística and send their reviews within 20 calendar days after receiving the manuscript. In case a potential reviewer considers the time allotted to be insufficient, they may reject the invitation to participate as reviewer, or they may contact the Editorial Board in order to agree on a new deadline.
  • Strictness and argumentation. The reviewer should aim at producing an evaluation that is rigurous and well founded, so that it is useful both for the author and the Editor.
  • Use of sent material. The manuscripts RASAL Lingüística sends reviewers are strictly confidential. It is completely prohibited to cite or make use of the content before its publication.