Convocatoria - Call for Papers

Antípodas announces it latest Calls For Papers/Convocatorias:

1. The Literature of Galicia: Critical Perspectives on Galician Literature in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries

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2. The literature of El Salvador: Releyendo la Literatura Salvadoreña/Re-reading Salvadorean Literature

NB: New submission date: December 1, 2008

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3.Trujillo, Trauma, Testimony:  Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and other writers on Hispaniola

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Evaluation

The following criteria are used for the evaluation of articles for publication in Antípodas:

· Each article submitted is sent to three referees, two from the Editorial Board and one who is external to the Editorial Board
· The decision to publish or not to publish is based on the following:
a) Originality and Excellence
b) Addressing a significant issue
c) Scholarly methodology
d) Cogent, well-structured, readable presentation
e) Clearly drawing out the implications of the article’s findings.

To facilitate the formatting of pages, please adhere to these points:

· Articles should be in Word, Times New Roman, font size 12 and double spaced (including notes and bibliography), paper size A4. The page layout should have 2.5 cm margins all around. Articles of more than 6,000 words will not be accepted. The word count includes notes, but not works cited. There should be no more than 10 notes with a maximum of 5 lines per note. Please follow the latest MLA Style Manual.
· Notes and/or citations should not be linked to each other electronically by any system such as automatic “endnotes” or "footnotes". they should be manually typed out and should appear after the text and before the works cites/bibliography.
· Do not use a tab at the start of a paragraph as an indent; it upsets our final format. Unless absolutely necessary, i.e., for long quotes, do not use tabs at all. Please put an extra return to distinguish one paragraph from the next.
· Do not use two spaces after full stops; one only, please. Do not put a space before punctuation marks, eg, full stops, commas, semi-colons and colons, etc.
· For articles in English, we use UK spelling, not US spelling (eg. colour, not color).
· Single quotes (‘ ’) used only within double quotes (“ ”).
· Punctuation within quoted text is within quotes if the text is a sentence, and without if the quoted segment is part of a sentence.
· Pronounceable acronyms preferable in lower case (Unesco, Qantas, radar, laser, etc).
· Proper nouns Caps and lower case, common nouns lower case.
· “En” rules ( – ) are twice the length of hyphens and are used for long pauses, before and after a relative clause, or for dialogues in Spanish; “em” rules are twice the length of “en” rules and are not used at all.
· Numbers up to nine are spelt out, 10 and over are in numerals except at the beginning of a sentence.