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Author Guidelines

  1. The articles must be submitted in one of the Romance languages of theIberian Peninsula (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan or Galician).
  2. The article should be no longer than 30 000 characters (including spaces); the editorial board will decide whether to publish articles that exceed this limit.
  3. Contributions should be submitted in electronic form; use 12-pt Times New Roman font, and 1.5 line spacing.
  4. A list of five keywords should accompany the text.
  5. Use full justification (i.e. right and left margins); do not use additional lines between paragraphs.
  6. Use footnotes. They should not contain only bibliographic data.
  7. Short quotations (up to three lines) should be in normal font and in quotation marks (« »); longer quotations should be in the form of a special spaced paragraph (1.25), without quotation marks, Times New Roman, size 11.
  8. Use italics rather than capital letters or underline for emphasis.
  9. Do not number the document.
  10. The complete the list of cited references and literature should be cited at the end of the document. The list should be followed by the two abstracts, in the language of the article and in English, with full title and keywords. The volume of each abstract should not exceed 1500 characters (including spaces).
  11. The author should provide a short biography (no more than 100 words) containing basic information about the author’s education, profession, place of employment and research/work area; biographical information must contain a postal and e-mail address.
 

GUIDELINES FOR CITING:

1) Cite sources and literature within the text, in brackets.

Works cited in the text (the first and all subsequent references) should be limited to the most necessary information and included in round brackets.

Example: (Rodríguez Puértolas, 1981: 229); Rodríguez Puértolas (1981: 229).

2) The list of Works Cited should follow these rules:

 

INDIVIDUAL MONOGRAPH

Cabañas, P. (1948): El mito de Orfeo en la literatura española. Madrid: Aries.

Carsten Sinner, Elia Hernández Socas, Christian Bahr (eds.) (2011): La expresión de tiempo y espacio y las relaciones espacio-temporales. Nuevas aportaciones de los estudios contrastivos. Fráncfort del Meno: Peter Lang.

 

BOOK CHAPTER OR ARTICLE WITHIN A COLLECTION  

García Fernández, L. (2008): «Las clasificaciones de las perífrasis verbales españolas». En: Francisco Carriscondo Esquivel, Carsten Sinner (eds.), Lingüística española contemporánea. Enfoques y soluciones. Múnich: Peniope.

De Miguel, E. (2006): «Tensión y equilibrio semántico entre nombres y verbos: el reparto de la tarea de predicar». En: Milka Villayandre (ed.), Actas del XXXV Simposio de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. León: Ediciones del Dpto. de Filología Hispánica y Clásica, Universidad de León, 1289–1313.

 

ACADEMIC PERIODICAL

Rojo, G. (1974): «La temporalidad verbal en español». Verba, 1, 68–149.

Boldy, S. (1987): «Carlos Fuentes». En: John King (ed.), Modern Latin American Fiction: A Survey. Londres–Boston: Faber&Faber, 155–172.

 

DICTIONARY

DRAE: Real Academia Española (200122): Diccionario de la lengua española. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.

Seco, M., Andrés O., Ramos G. (2004): Diccionario fraseológico documentado del español actual. Locuciones y modismos españoles.Madrid: Aguilar.

 

Cite ELECTRONIC SOURCES according to the type of publication (electronic book, magazine, primary source…) and include the URL and the date viewed

Van Dijk, T. A. (1995): «De la gramática del texto al análisis crítico del discurso», BELIAR (Boletín de Estudios Lingüísticos Argentinos), 2, 6: http://www.teun.uva.nl/teun (06–10–2003).

 

BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES:

Verba Hispanica publishes reviews of academic works in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan or Galician, that are usually no more than two years old. Book reviews should not exceed 1500 words. Use Times New Roman, 12 point font, and 1.5 line spacing. Your text should be proofread before you submit it. At the top of the first page, write: the name of the author of the reviewed book, the title and sub-title of the book as well as the name of the editor, place and year of publication, and the number of pages. The name of the reviewer appears at the end of the text, along with the reviewer's academic title, his/her institutional affiliation, and e-mail address. The reviewer should present the reviewed work, its structure and content, as well as its arguments and conclusions. Adopt a critical stance toward the book and provide an expert assessment or judgement of the reviewed book.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in journal Verba Hispanica by University of Ljubljana Press (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of the publisher.
  2. Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
  3. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  5. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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