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Call for Papers:BAJO PALABRA: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, Spain

General Call for Papers

BAJO PALABRA. JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY is an anonymously refereed, indexed publication adhering to standards of professional excellence. We welcome submissions representing a variety of philosophical approaches from all interested persons before the 30th of November of each year. Originals should be sent to this e-mail address:
revista.bajopalabra@uam.es

The Journal Bajo Palabra publishes quality, original articles on themes within the field of humanities, especially work of a philosophical character. It also admits thesis reports, philosophical dissertations, book reviews of philosophical interest and course, congress and conference reviews. The journal Bajo Palabra is open to students and researchers from any university who want to share their research with other interested academics. The Journal Bajo Palabra also calls for papers at all times of the year for consideration for publication in future issues.

The journal issues one printed and fully electronic volume each year, Interned based publication of the University Autonomous of Madrid (UAM).

The Journal Bajo Palabra diffuses the authors’ research results mainly through the Institutional Repository of Humanities Library at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM BIBLOS-E ARCHIVE), as well as through different databases, catalogues, institutional repositories, specialized blogs, for example: LATINDEX, DICE, BDDOC CSIC, DIALNET, CECIES, UNIVERSIA LIBRARY, REBIUN.

NETWORK OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, VIRTUAL LIBRARY OF BIOETCHNOLOGY FOR THE
AMERICAS, AL-DIA. SPECIALIZED JOURNALS, RedJIF, TENDENCIAS 21, CANAL BIBLOS, MATERIALS NOTEBOOK. PHILOSOPHY AND HUMAN SCIENCES, ESSENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY, and so on.

Thanks to the excellent service of journals exchange provided by the Humanities Library of the Autonomous University of Madrid, it is possible to consult Bajo Palabra’s in several libraries, and the journal is currently conducting an exchange with more than 20 national and international different humanities journals. The task of spreading Bajo Palabra. Revista de Filosofía’s scientific contents, is thus being successfully accomplished.

Publication procedures

All manuscripts must be submitted in electronic format. Manuscripts should be prepared for blind review.

Guidelines to submit papers
1. Articles should be written in Spanish or English, and should not exceed a maximum of 12 pages (footnotes included), book reviews should be between 2 and 4 pages, and research project reports between 5 and 8 pages.
2. Originals should be presented in Word Perfect or Word for Pc formats in an editable version. Font format used should be Times New Roman 12, justified, and with 1.5 line spacing.
3. Submitted originals should be signed with the author’s name and last name, and should indicate academic level, workplace, e-mail and/or personal Web page. When the original is signed by more than one author, the journal will respect the order choice made by the authors.
4. The editorial board reserves the right to publish or not received contributions and to decide on the number of contributions that will appear on the final publication. The evaluation process is conducted by an external scientific board formed by qualified researchers of the field. The authors who collaborate in one issue will receive a copy of the journal.

5. Every submitted article should include its title, a six-line abstract, and a list of key words both in English and Spanish.
6. Bibliographic references and footnotes should be numbered consecutively. Quotes should be presented in inverted comas (“…”). When possible, authors should include the following bibliographic information: Author, title of the work and/or journal, edition [this information is not required for first editions, incunabula, etc.], publisher, and date of publication, or periodical publication details (volume, number, date, etc.), followed by information about the location the chapter, paragraph, page, etc. if there are quoted passages.
6.1. Bibliographic references should be given in full the first time following this model: Last name, Name, “Chapter/article title”, Book/Magazine’s title, Edition’s city, Publisher, Year, pages. For example: Ortega y Gasset, J., “Lo que dijo a Goethe un capitán”, Meditaciones del Quijote, Madrid, Revista de Occidente en Alianza Editorial, 2001, pp. 51-54.
6.2. If this reference is repeated again, it will suffice to write: author, work’s title, op. cit., and page number. For example: Ortega y Gasset, J., Meditaciones del Quijote, op. cit., p. 106.
6.3. When the repetition is immediate, only de page number has to be specified as follow: Ibid., p. 15.
6.4. When not only the work’s title is repeated but referred page number is repeated too, the footnote should say “Idem.”.
6.5. Brackets [ ] should be used when personal additions are included within a quote. They should also be used for suspension points to express omissions within a quote […].
Originals should be sent by email to: revista.bajopalabra@uam.es

Authors can also register in our Web site in order to receive instructions by e-mail:
www.bajopalabra.es

Evaluation Process and Originals’ Selection:

1. Originals should be sent to the above-mentioned e-mail address before the 30th of November of each year.
2. The journal will acknowledge the reception of papers to the authors, but will not correspond again with them until the final decision.
3. The coordination team will send originals to editorial and scientific board anonymously to proceed for its evaluation. Two external experts will be involved in the evaluation process of each original, and will evaluate its originality, relevance, and quality. After the evaluation, a confidential report will be produced to assess the suitability of the publication. This report contains comments, and in some cases, it may be transmitted to the author in order to make corrections.
4. The journal’s secretary will communicate the reasoned decision of the editorial and scientific board, thus ensuring the anonymity of the process. The journal’s secretary will also communicate the foreseeable date of publication. When necessary, the secretary will contact the authors with suggestions and comments in order to meet the journal’s requirements.

Tentative Submission Deadline : 31 December 2010

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