Author Guidelines

Manuscript Reception and Arbitration

1. To be eligible for publication, all submitted manuscripts will undergo a selection and an arbitration process.
2. At the first stage, all manuscripts will undergo evaluation by the Editorial Committee to determine whether they are eligible for publication in terms of their thematic, methodological and formal qualities.
3. Only those manuscripts that comply with the editorial standards (first filter) will be submitted to the arbitration process, in which two or more specialists will determine whether they are eligible for publication.
4. The arbitration process will take 21 days. It will follow the “double-blind” procedure, in which anonymity of both the parties will be observed, according to the best academic practices.
5. Arbitration results may be:
   a) publishable
   b) publishable with recommendations to improve the manuscript
   c) publishable on condition to make important changes
   d) not publishable.

 

Manuscripts Accepted for Publication

1. Once the external arbitration process has been completed, the author(s) will receive the results in writing. If applicable, authors are expected to attend to the observations made by the arbiters within the following five weeks.
2. Once the review has been completed, authors are expected to return the manuscript to the Journal accompanied by a letter specifying the changes made and, should any observation be not attended, a justification to do so.
3. The Editorial Committee will go through the arbiters’ reports and the letter and will give its consent to proceed to the next stage.
4. At every moment of the editorial process, the Journal will notify the author(s) of the status of their manuscript.
5. By submitting a manuscript, authors accept that, should arbitration be favorable, the manuscript will be published in Debate Feminista and its full text will be uploaded on the Journal’s website (www.debatefeminista.cieg.unam.mx). On its part, Debate Feminista will respect the right of every author to further publish the manuscript elsewhere, in the form they see fit, provided explicit recognition is made of its first appearance in Debate Feminista and the full bibliographic reference is given.
6. Authors will send a previously autographed and scanned letter of commitment (downloadable from our website) in which they declare:
   a) the manuscript’s originality
   b) that the manuscript has not been disseminated through other means or simultaneously submitted to another journal for publication
   c) that ethical practices were observed throughout its preparation
   d) that they accept the norms and timings of the Journal
   e) that they assume responsibility for the manuscript’s contents as well as the copyright issues their research and report may incur into
   f) that no plagiarism of any sort was incurred into
   g) that they accept the publishing and dissemination date and conditions.

Authors must autographically sign and send a publication agreement to the Journal.

 

Norms and Formalities

1. Articles must have a minimum of 6,000 and a maximum of 8,000 words including tables, graphs, references and notes. Book reviews must not exceed 3,000 words and they must refer to a first edition (not translation) not older than two years.
   Exceptionally, when their academic interest justifies it, the Editorial Committee may send for arbitration manuscripts exceeding the above-mentioned extension. 

 

Manuscripts must have the following technical characteristics: 

• be processed in digital format, compatible with Word processor
• in letter size (21.5 x 28 cm)
• in Arial font, 12 points and double spaced
• with superior and inferior margins of 2.5 cm, and left and right margins of 3 cm
• keep justified margins throughout the body of the text. 

3. Apart from its quality and relevance, manuscripts are expected to observe high formal standards, including spelling, syntax, style, clarity of expression and structure, and citation norms. Without consulting the author(s), the Journal may conduct minor style corrections for publication, without altering the sense of the text.

 

Information About the Authors, Abstract and Keywords

1. Every manuscript must include a cover page specifying:
   a. the title of the article or review (maximum 10 words)
   b. the author(s) full name(s)
   c. a brief résumé (no longer than 15 lines) indicating:
       - institutional adscription
       -ORCID ID (If unregistered, it may be obtained at https://orcid.org/signin)
       - academic degree and issuing institution
       - lines of research 
       - telephone number
       - e-mail
       - postal address
       - two bibliographical references of their recent work
   d. A brief declaration stating that the manuscript is original and has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
   
   
2. A brief abstract (maximum 150 words) in both Spanish and English must accompany the manuscript stating its intention, results, and conclusions. Following the abstract, three to six keywords must be included. We recommend consulting the Gender Equality Glossary and Thesaurus of the European Institute for Gender Equality (https://eige.europa.eu/publications-resources/thesaurus/browse).

 

Footnotes, Citations and Bibliography 

Notes and bibliography must be complete for the manuscript to be accepted; therefore, take the next instructions into consideration:

1. The editing location is the city and not the country. It must be in Spanish when possible.
2. In titles in Spanish, only the first word begins with an upper case. With titles in English, all the main words begin with upper case (nouns, verbs); prepositions, conjunctions, articles, etc. begin with lower case.
3. When citing web pages, date of access should only be included if it’s available for every source, otherwise it should be omitted for the sake of uniformity.
4. URL’s should be concealed by brackets <http://>.
5. Being this a consultation too, it’s necessary to display the initials of the editing entities, be it universities, institutions, research centers, programs, editorials, etc.
6. Footnotes will appear at the end of every page and most be included in this way:
   - justified, in Arial, size 11, single line spacing
   - the numbering should be done in arabic numbers, as superscript, with no period in the calling
   - the least amount of notes should be used and only for expositional purpose.
7. All citations should be in the body of the text (not as a footnote). The Harvard modified reference system (in the body of the text and with in text) The reference will be included immediately after quotation marks, in parenthesis and should only convey the name, year and page(s) after two points.
8. Citations with four lines or less, will be included in the body of the text in quotation marks; longer citations will be arranged in a separated paragraph with a 2cm indentation on the left side and single space line, with the reference in parenthesis.
9. For non textual quotes, they will be included in the body of the text without quotation marks, with the corresponding citations between parenthesis.
10. In the body of the text, the first mention of a work with several authors will include the last name of every author.
11. The works cited page will be included at the end of the text and will only list cited sources. The list will be presented in alphabetical order according to the author’s last name; if there are several works by the same author, the name repeats and the works will appear in chronological order (from oldest to newest); if there was more than one work per year, they will be identified with the letters “a”, “b”, “c”, etcetera, after the publishing year.
12. For the bibliography, the modified Harvard reference system will be used.

 

Tables, Graphs and Figures

1. Tables, graphs, and figures should be numbered and included at the end, (for example, table 1, figure 1, etc.); the place where each one os to be inserted should be indicated in the text.
2. The original table, graph or chart file should be submitted in Excel or Word to facilitate the editing process.
3. An effort should be made to avoid notes in graphs and tables, but if any, they shall be included at the end of the text with numerical calls in the text. These suppor elements (graphs, diagrams, figures, and tables) should be understood without the need to refer to the text of the document.
4. It is recommended to restrict the number of tables and graphs to what is strictly necessary.
5. The following criteria should be considered for the preparation of tables, figures, and graphs:

• the title should be synthetic, but sufficiently explicit
• the sources from which the information is derived should be indicated
• acronyms, abbreviations, and initials appearing in the graphs, tables, figures and similar, should be adequately described in a footnote thereto.

6. If figures, tables, or graphs are included, they should be cited in the text following Arabic numerals (for example, figure 1, figure 3, table 5).
7. If photographs or other images are included, they should be attached at the end, cited in the text, and listed in Arabic numerals (for example, figure 1, figure 2). In addition, they should be sent in separate additional files, in .tiff format with a minimum of 300 dpi. If copyrighted images are used, it is the author’s responsibility to obtain the corresponding permits.