About the Journal

On February 7th, 2013, under the wing of the ‘Miguel Delibes International Conference’, held in New York, the agreement of academic collaboration between the Junta of Castile and León, the University of Valladolid and City University of New York’s Graduate Center was signed, for the creation of the ‘Cátedra Miguel Delibes’ (http://www.catedramdelibes.com), dedicated to the study of Spanish current literature. The ‘Cátedra’, which carries the name of the Castilian writer ‘Miguel Delibes’, as acknowledgement of his work that, loaded with ethical, aesthetic and social values, has accomplished a universal impact. The ‘Cátedra Miguel Delibes’ has two permanent seats: the Graduate Center at CUNY and the University of Valladolid, and its main objectives are:

• To open a forum for the study and debate of current Spanish literature.
• To advertise in the United States the literary creation of current Spanish writers.
• To promote project that further the expansion of the Spanish language and literature through new technologies.

The same year of the creation of the Cátedra Miguel Delibes, the first issue of Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas (2003) was published. Up until the twelfth issue it was published in print (ISSN 1697-0659) and digital (ISSN 2172-7457). Since issue number 13, it is only published in its digital version. In 2017, with volume number 15, it has been incorporated to the new periodical platform of the University of Valladolid (which uses the OJS system). Previous issues have also been transferred to this platform.

All articles are original and unpublished, written in Spanish or English  (must not exceed 20 pages). The sent originals will be submitted to the rules of the journal and will be evaluated by two independent experts (unrelated to the editing company of the journal). Each article will be accompanied by a brief summary both in Spanish and English, as well as the reference to the kew words, in both languages. Reviews of monographies or editions are also admitted.

The editing team of Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas is formed by professionals of the University of Valladolid and of CUNY (City University of New York), as well as from other universities of diverse countries. In the same way, the Scientific Committee has a nature that is clearly international.

Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas does not apply any cost to authors for publishing articles or reviews. Articles SIGLO XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas and reviews published in  may be included in thematic or institutional repositories immediately after their publication as long as the text is not modified and the place where it is published is clearly stated.

The members of the Editorial Team will publish articles that have received a positive evaluation in the blind evaluation process. At least 75% of the articles published in Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas will be by authors with no relation to member of the Editorial Team.

Articles and reviews published in Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas may be included in thematic or institutional repositories immediately after their publication as long as the text is not modified and the place where it is published is clearly stated.

Institutional affilitaion

This journal is owned by the University of Valladolid (Spain), which provides its digital hosting and is responsible for its maintenance and management through Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid (EdUVa) and the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC). The University of Valladolid guarantees open access to the contents of the journal. The works published in the journal will be included in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid, guaranteeing their long-term preservation.

Financing

The magazine does not charge authors for sending their articles or reviews or for publishing them, and is financed and managed through the resources of Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid.

Peer Review Process (Double Blind)

 Articles which do not comply with all the requisites established in the "Author Guidelines" will be returned to the authors for their eventual correction. Articles which comply with all the requisites will be subject to a double process of evaluation: At first, the Editorial Board will make a selection from the texts received, valuing if they meet the applicable requirements associated to quality academic publications. In a second moment, articles that have passed the first selection will be submitted to two experts in the field for a blind examination, a high percentage of which will be external to the journal's publishing institution.

In order to maintain anonymity, authors are requested to refrain from referring to themselves in the first person. Should the evaluations be contradictory, the Editorial Board would request a third evaluation and then decide whether to publish the article. The decision of the Editorial Board is final and the authors will be informed of the decision within a maximum of ninety days following the reception of the paper (the evaluators' leave time will not be included in this ninety-day period). As the journal is committed to carrying out the evaluation process in a brief period of time and as a consideration to the referees, authors are kindly asked not to submit their article to another journal until they have received the results of the evaluation.

Articles with two positive reports will be sent to the authors to make the corrections suggested by the evaluators. The authors have a maximum period of one month to return articles which will be published when they are corrected.

The evaluation process is described in more detail in the "Submissions" section.

Publication Frequency

SIGLO XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas is an annual publication.

The deadline for sending articles and reviews to each volume opens on January 1st. every year. The current volume will be closed when a sufficient number of articles and reviews have been published. December 1st.  will be the closing date for each current volume. As a period of ninety days is required for the reviewing process, September 30th. is the deadline for articles to appear in the current volume (if the deaddline for sending articles is closed before, it woud be indicated in the section "Announcements"). Reviews may be sent until November 15th. Contributions receiving a positive evaluation will be published shortly after recepction.

Open Access Policy

This journal enables free and immediate access to its content to foster global knowledge.

Dissemination Policy

Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas is an open access journal, authors are recommended that, for greater dissemination of their work, they incorporate reference to them in the Repositories of their respective Universities and Institutions, as well as in academic networks.

Code of Conduct

The journal will comply with the ethical code established in the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines, which adheres to the principles proposed by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). This guide establishes the ethical way of proceeding by authors, editorial committees and reviewers, the content of which is summarized below:

1. Authors

Authors of articles must undertake to conduct their research in an ethical and responsible manner, in compliance with prevailing legislation and the aspects included in section 1 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines. Work shall be original and unpublished, and shall be duly attributed to those who have prepared it, avoiding plagiarism (misappropriation of others' work or ideas), self-plagiarism (taking advantage of ideas or previous works of one's own authorship without citing the source) and multiple or redundant publication of the same work. Clear reference should be made to the sources used and to previous papers on the same subject matter, explaining the origin of the data and ideas, of the literal quotations or of other resources (such as graphs, images, tables, etc.). Failure to comply with these aspects may lead to the public disavowal of the articles, as explained in section 2. 2 of the aforementioned guide.

Information from private conversations or discussions with others in academia or science may not be used without their explicit permission. If images or graphics that are not originally from the author are included in the work, they must have express permission to use them and cite the authorship appropriately.

Woks that are being evaluated in whole or in part by another publisher cannot be submitted. Once submitted to Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid, the originals cannot be sent to another journal or publisher until the evaluation process has been completed.

2. Editorial committee

The members of the editorial committee must ensure the quality of the publications, promoting good practices in research, trying to avoid malpractice and trying to speed up the publication processes.

The evaluation process must be managed fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of those who have written the work and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.

It is the responsibility of the editorial committee to manage the evaluation process of publications fairly and impartially, respecting the thinking of authors and guaranteeing them the right to disagree with the evaluation reports.

Members of the editorial committees must respect the confidentiality of the articles and their contents until the time of publication and may not use the data in the work for their own research, unless they have the express permission of the authors.

The editorial committees may consider the refusal of authors to have their work evaluated by certain persons, evaluating whether the reasons provided are justified, but they are not obliged to dispense with the use of these persons.

The editorial committees shall recognise the work of the reviewers, issuing, where appropriate, the corresponding accreditations to those who have adequately carried out their work.

The editorial committee must try to avoid malpractice in research (redundant publication, plagiarism or selfplagiarism, omission of cited sources, invented, misrepresented, manipulated or unauthorised use of data ...). Where instances of research malpractice are noted in manuscripts received, the author will be invited to correct them if the misuse affects a small part of the article, and the manuscript will be rejected if it affects a substantial part.

If malpractice is discovered after publication, the editorial committee will request clarifications from the author and, after evaluating their explanations, will make a decision on the matter. If only part of the work contains errors, this can be resolved by publishing an erratum. If the malpractice affects a substantial part of the article, it must be retracted, in accordance with the procedure described in section 2. 2 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.

Likewise, the editorial committee will try to resolve any possible conflicts of interest described in section 2. 4 of the aforementioned guide.

3. Reviewer/s

Reviewers must refrain from reviewing the works if they had any relationship with the authors that would advise against it, as explained in section 3 of the Ediciones Universidad Valladolid Good Practice Guidelines.

The work of reviewers must be confidential, both during the evaluation process and after the eventual publication of the evaluated work. Reviewers will not be able to use the evaluated content for their own personal benefit or that of other people, and they must respect the opinions and intellectual position of those who have written the articles, judging the work objectively and impartially, arguing their judgements appropriately, showing respect, constructively correcting possible errors and providing suggestions for improvement with regard to the contents, formal presentation, writing and bibliography used in the work.

In the event that any malpractice is detected in the work reviewed, reviewers must notify the editorial committees so that their members can take the corresponding decisions.

Reviewers are required to submit their reports within the agreed time. If they are unable to complete their task on time, or if they do not consider themselves capable of evaluating the work, they should inform the members of the editorial committees as soon as possible.

Good editorial practices in gender equality

Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas journal is committed to promoting equality between men and women, giving visibility to women's scientific work, and promoting the use of inclusive language in scientific publications. This is reflected in the paritary structure of the Editorial Committee, in the Ethical Declaration on publication and good practices, and in the rules on inclusive language that we include in the instructions for authors and reviewers. In the citation standards, we request that the full name of authors must be published to make their gender visible. The analysis of the percentage of authors and reviewers of the journal also reflects a majority presence of women.

When writing research works, authors must avoid gender biases whereby the masculine is used as a universal reference. They are advised to consult the European Union toolkit Gender in research and, where appropriate, provide information about the sex variable in research concerning persons, presenting the results disaggregated by sex.

In cases where it is relevant, the article reviewers should assess whether the studies include a sex and/or gender disaggregated analysis and whether they address its importance in the research planning and discussion, as well as in the results and limitations.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal (namely, those relating the processing of manuscripts submitted for publication, their evaluating process, or the distribution of information concerning the published works) and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Under REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), users can exercise their rights to request access to, and to rectification and erasure (right to be forgotten) of their personal information, restriction of and/or objection to data processing and portability, as well as not to transfer and/ or share your information with third parties individually.

Copyright Notice

The articles published at  SIGLO XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas will have a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The journal allows the authors to retain publishing rights. Authors may reprint their articles in other media without having to request authorization, provided they indicate that the article was originally published in SIGLO XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas.

To disseminate knowledge, authors are encouraged to share the work they have published in the journal in open access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and on social networks of a scientific or academic nature.

The published contents do not represent the thinking of the journal's editors, but that of its authors.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and preservation of digital files

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to the articles published in the journal. The articles will also be housed in the Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Valladolid and in other databases, and will be archived by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).

Plagiarism prevention tool

The journal has an plagiarism prevention tool provided by the Servicio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid (STIC).

UsPolicy on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the editorial process

The journal SIGLO XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas ensures the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the editorial process, guaranteeing transparency, impartiality, and confidentiality in the publication of scientific articles.
1. Transparency: The use of AI in the writing, editing, or analysis of manuscripts must be explicitly declared by authors in a specific section of the article (e.g., “Declaration on the Use of AI” or “Acknowledgments”), specifying the software used and its function.
2. Impartiality: AI does not replace academic judgment or peer review. All editorial decisions are made by the journal’s human editorial team. The use of AI tools that may introduce biases in the evaluation of manuscripts or the selection of content will be avoided.
3. Confidentiality: The security and privacy of data from authors, reviewers, and evaluators will be guaranteed, preventing the use of AI in open-access platforms without the consent of the parties involved. Manuscripts under review will not be submitted to generative AI systems without the journal’s explicit authorization.
4. Authorship and responsibility: AI cannot be listed as an author or co-author of articles published in the journal, as it does not meet the authorship requirements established by scientific standards. The use of AI in writing or analyzing the article does not exempt authors from responsibility for the integrity, originality, and quality of the submitted content.

This policy will be updated as regulations and best practices in the editorial and academic fields evolve.

Information policy on funding sources

If there is any type of public or private funding for the research that has given rise to the article, it must be declared when submitting it, filling in the corresponding section in the metadata box. In the case of multiple authorships, each author must declare all the information related to their sources of information, including the name of the financing entity, the identification number of the financing and the description of the role that the financing entity has played in the investigation. Once the article passes the evaluation, a call to a footnote will be included after its title in which it will be indicated if it has had any type of financing or has been carried out within the framework of a research project.

Interoperability protocol

The journal has an OAI-PMH interface (Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that enables databases or information services to access the metadata of published works. Path to obtain the metadata: https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/sigloxxi/oai?verb=Identify.