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Author Guidelines

            TABANQUE is an annual publication. The journal not apply any cost to authors for publishing articles or reviews. The deadline for sending articles and reviews to each volume opens in mid-January. The current volume will be closed when one sufficient number of articles and reviews have been published. July 31 is the deadline for articles to appear in the current volume The same author may not publish two articles in consecutive volumes, or more than one review in the same volumen.

            Articles and review articles may be submitted in Word. Graphic contents and accompanying illustrations should be inserted in the corresponding place in the text. The author is responsible for the authorship and originality of the work submitted, confirming publising rights of any images included.

            To submit an article, in the "Step 3. Introduction of submission metadata", do not forget to indicate the author's name and your address of email, and include the title of the article, your keywords and abstracts in Spanish and English. To do this, select the "Spanish" language in the box that appears at the top of the page and include the data in Spanish; then, select the English language in the same box and enter data in English. You must also fill the box "Affliation", indicating the name and the mailing address of your institution and your academic category.

FORMAT AND GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

ARTÍCLES:

            The articles must be adapted to the format that can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: formato de artículos.

           The articles, which must be unpublished originals, may be written in Spanish in English, French, Italian or Portuguese. As the articles will be sent to referees, no information regarding the author should be present in the articles. In order to give the publication wider readership, the following information should also be sent: an abstract (in Spanish and English) of about ten lines in length; the title of the article (in Spanish and English) and five key words in both Spanish and English.

QUOTATIONS

            Short quotations (maximum three lines) will be included in the body of the text in quotation marks (" "). Guillemets (« ») should be used for embedded quotations. Longer quotations (more than three lines) will be indented and single-spaced, using an 11-point font, without quotation marks.

FOOTNOTES

Reference marks for footnotes will be placed after the puntuation markn marks.

      A 10-point font will be used for footnotes.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS

Bibliographical citations, both in the body of the text and in footnotes, should follow the English model: (Author's surname, year: page). For example: (Bloom, 1994: 25).

When several studies by the same author have been published in the same year, they will be identified by a small-case letter in alphabetical order following the year: (Bloom, 1994a; Bloom, 1994b...).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The reference bibliography will appear at the end of the article following the centered title Bibliography. The entries will be listed in alphabetical order and will use a hanging indent. They should adapt to the following examples:

— Books:

Surname/s, Name (year), Title of the book in italics, Place of publication, Publisher.

       Example:

Bajtin, Mijail (1989), Teoría y estética de la novela, Madrid, Taurus.

      In the case of more than one author, the book will be cited thus:

Surname/s, Name and Name Surname/s (year), Title of the book in italics, Place of publication, Publisher.

      Example:

Tovar Llorente, Antonio y Miguel de la Pinta Llorente (1941), Procesos inquisitoriales contra Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

— Editions of books:

Surname/s, Name (year), Title of the book in italics, ed. Name and Surname/s of the editor, Place of publication, Publisher.

Surname/s, Name (ed.) (year), Title of the book in italics, Place of publication, Publisher.

      Examples:

Pessoa, Fernando (1991), Libro del desasosiego de Bernardo Soares, ed. Ángel Crespo, Barcelona, Seix Barral.

Hermenegildo, Alfredo (ed.) (2002), El tirano en escena. Tragedias del siglo XVI, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva.

      Example of a prologue or introduction to a critical edition:

Crespo, Ángel (1991), "Introducción" a Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego de Bernardo Soares, ed. Ángel Crespo, Barcelona, Seix Barral, pp. 7-21.

— Chapters of books:

Surname/s, Name (year), "Title of the chapter in quotation marks", in Name and Surname/s of the editor (ed.), Title of the book in italics, Place of publication, Publisher, pp.

      Example:

Beller, Manfred (1984), "Tematología", en Manfred Schmeling (ed.), Teoría y praxis de la literatura comparada, Barcelona, Alfa, pp. 101-133.

      Example of a chapter of a book by various authors:

Genette, Gérard (1986), "Introduction à l’architexte", en Gérard Genette et al., Théorie des genres, Paris, Seuil, pp. 89-159.

— Proceedings from Symposia:

Surname/s, Name (ed./coord.) (year), Title of the publication in italics, Place of publication, Publisher.

      Examples:

García Lorenzo, Luciano (ed.) (1983), Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Calderón y el teatro español del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, CSIC.

Menchacatorre, Félix (1983), "Relaciones entre La sibila del oriente y El árbol del mejor fruto", en Luciano García Lorenzo (ed.), Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Calderón y el teatro español del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, CSIC, pp. 955-961.

— Articles:

Surname/s, Name (year), "Title of the article in quotation marks", Title of the journal in italics, volume, pp.

      Example:

Behiels, Lieve (1984), "El criterio de verosimilitud en la crítica de Larra", Castilla. Estudios de Literatura, 8, pp. 25-46.

— Documents from the Internet:

Surname/s, Name (year), "Title of the document in quotation marks", en http://www. [URL] (date on which the page was consulted).

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The author's given name may be substituted for the initial/s followed by a period as long as there is consistency in this use.

Examples:

Bajtin, M. (1989), Teoría y estética de la novela, Madrid, Taurus.

Tovar Llorente, A. y M. de la Pinta Llorente (1941), Procesos inquisitoriales contra Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

Pessoa, F. (1991), Libro del desasosiego de Bernardo Soares, ed. Á. Crespo, Barcelona, Seix Barral.

Beller, M. (1984), "Tematología", en M. Schmeling (ed.), Teoría y praxis de la literatura comparada, Barcelona, Alfa, pp. 101-133.

Genette, G. (1986), "Introduction à l’architexte", en G. Genette et al., Théorie des genres, Paris, Seuil, pp. 89-159.

Menchacatorre, F. (1983), "Relaciones entre La sibila del oriente y El árbol del mejor fruto" en L. García Lorenzo (ed.), Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Calderón y el teatro español del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, CSIC, pp. 955-961.

Behiels, L. (1984), "El criterio de verosimilitud en la crítica de Larra", Castilla. Estudios de Literatura, 8, pp. 25-46.

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By submitting the article, it is recommended including in the "References" box a copy of the list of bibliographical works cited at the end of the article. To do this, you can copy the list of references of the original document of the article and paste it into a text document (Word, etc.), treating the text of the following recommended way:

— Each reference must be separated from the previous with a blank line.

— DO NOT use labels <br>, <br/> <br /> <p>.

— Do not apply any style because when you paste the text in the field references does not keep it. DO NOT use HTML tags (such as bold <b> italic <i> or <em> indexes <sub>, etc.).

— No classification titles include references eg consulted primary source, secondary source, viewed files, etc. Leave only the list of references.

— The names of the authors should be omitted if repeated in different appointments must be entered in each of the appointments.

            Finally, the text must be pasted in the "References" box.

BOOK REVIEWS:

            Review articles may be written in Spanish or in English and must have no more than 15,000 characters (including spacing). Review articles must adopt the format: formato de reseñas.

REWIEW

            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 work received, valuing if they meet the applicable requirements 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.

            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 to 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.

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.

1. I am responsible for the authorship and originality of the work I submit. I hereby certify that this paper has not been previously published in any other Journal and I declare that I will not send it for evaluation to any other scientific Journal until Castilla. Estudios de Literatura informs me of the results.
2. The document sent is in Microsoft Word.
3. All illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in their due places. If the work includes images, I have their publishing rights.
4. The text conforms in format to the models that are included in the links "formato de artículos" or "formato de reseñas" and complies with all bibliographic and publishing standards indicated in the "Author Guidelines" (in the section "About: Submissions").
5. If you are sending an article that will be evaluated anonymously, make sure that you have not included  any information that may identify you.
6. To submit an article in "Step 3. Entering the Submission's Metadata", do not forget to include your name, surname and email address, as well as the title of the article, its keywords and abstracts in Spanish and English. To do this, please select the "Spanish" language in the box that appears at the top of the page and include the information in Spanish; then, select the “English” language in the same box and enter the information in English. You must also fill in the “Affiliation” box, indicating the name and mailing address of your institution and academic category.

Copyright Notice

The articles published at Castilla. Estudios de Literatura will have a “Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Spain” (CC-by-nc). Basic information and legal text of the license.

The journal allow the authors to retain publisshing rights. Authors may reprint their articles in other media without habing to request authorization, provided they indicate that the article was originally published in TABANQUE.

Privacy Statement

Names and e-mail addresses used in this Journal will be exclusively used with the purposes so declared in it, and will not be made available for other purposes or to other persons.