Authors wishing to publish inDiscurso y Sociedad must comply with the following manuscript submission guidelines. Otherwise, the manuscript may be rejected.

All submitted works will be peer-reviewed.

Only original research papers and book reviews will be considered for publication.

Submission deadlines for the monographic section will be set out in the relevant call for papers, available in the Announcements section and on the journal’s home page. Submission of articles and book reviews will remain open all year round, except in August. The journal reserves the right to establish periods of non-admission of articles in order to avoid undue delay in publication.

Besides ensuring compliance with these guidelines, authors are advised to read, before submitting their manuscripts, all sections of the journal’s website containing information applicable to submissions, such as our ethics policy, our anti-plagiarism policy, etc.

1 Requirements

Submissions to the journal must meet the following general requirements:

1. Originality: Only original and unpublished works will be accepted. Therefore, translations of previously published works, in full or in part, in any other medium or in languages other than that of the submitted manuscript, as well as those works under consideration for publication in other journals or publishing houses will not be admitted.
2. Compliance with the submission procedure: Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s platform, which requires users to log into the platform or create their user profile if they do not have one.
3. Languages: Works are published in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Galician.
4. Authorship: Authors must provide the following details: name and surnames, institutional affiliation (full name, without acronyms), country, email address (preferably an institutional email address) and ORCID identifier. When giving their name and surnames, authors are advised to follow the signature format used for indexing in international databases (please see the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). recommendations for standardising formats of author names and email addresses). Manuscripts will have no more than six authors.
5. Anonymisation: Submitted manuscripts must be anonymised (with no elements that may lead to identify the authors): author names and affiliations must not be included (they must be replaced by the label “Author”), and any other element that could directly or indirectly allow identification of the authors (in acknowledgments, references to projects, funding, specific geographical locations or institutions, etc.) must be deleted and marked as *anonymised*.
6. File format: Microsoft Word (.docx) or Open Document (.odt) file formats required.

   Articles will use this template.

7. Conflict of interests: In the “Comments for the Editor” section of the submission form, authors must disclose any personal or financial connection that may influence the conclusions of the manuscript. Otherwise, they must declare that there is no conflict of interest involved.
8. Funding: If the submitted manuscript is part of a research study having received funding, the following details must be provided in the “Supporting Agencies” section: funding entity, project code, etc. This information must not appear in the submitted file for the sake of anonymity.

2 Research papers

Research papers must be original studies or case studies based on the analysis of corpus of discourse, always in compliance with the standards accepted by the scientific community for each kind of work.

2.1 Structure

The following three elements must be provided at the start of the manuscript:

• Title: Must be informative (no rhetorical questions) and unambiguous, without acronyms or extremely specific terms.
• Abstract: Must provide information on the objectives, methodology and main results or conclusions, in a single paragraph, with no subsections or citations and its length will be between 200 and 300 words.
• Keywords: At least 5 must be provided. The use of domain-specific vocabulary or of terms frequently employed in the relevant field of knowledge is recommended.

These three elements must appear both in the original language of the manuscript and in English.

Compliance with these guidelines will make it easier to find the article online and on databases.

The recommended structure for the body of research papers is as follows:

• Introduction: It must include the state of research, purpose of the study (objectives) and a brief description of the corpus and methodology used.
• Theoretical Framework: This section must include the theoretical bases supporting the research, the methodology and a detailed description of the corpus used in the study.
• Analysis and Results: In which obtained results, their scope and projection will be shown and discussed.
• Conclusions: This section must summarise the main points that can be drawn from the results and discussion.
• Bibliography: It will contain the list of bibliographic references in APA format.

Text length will be between 7,000 and 9,000 words, excluding title, abstract and keywords (and their English translation, where appropriate).

2.2 Format

Articles will use this template.

To be accepted for review, submitted manuscripts must follow all format, structure, citing and referencing guidelines.

• The title will be centre-aligned in 18 pt. Times New Roman, in bold capital and small letters. Followed by a blank line, the name of the author will be centre-aligned in 14 pt. in italics; below, the affiliation/author’s University will be centre-aligned in 12 pt. Followed by two blank lines and preceded by the corresponding title in italics, the abstract will appear centre-aligned in 10 pt. Times New Roman. And followed by two blank lines, the keywords, preceded by the corresponding title in italics and separated by semicolon, will be in 10 pt. Times New Roman.
• The typeface of the main text should be in 12 pt. Times New Roman, justified and single spaced. The first line of a section should not be indented. Paragraphs preceded by other paragraphs should be indented by 1 cm. The first line of a section (after a subheading, after examples, tables, etc.) and the first line of a page will not be indented.
• Notes, examples and tables will be in 10 pt. Examples will have a 1 cm indentation throughout the text and will be numbered (1), (2), etc. A blank line should always be inserted before and after examples, and between examples.
• Different sections in the article will have bold headings. Main section headings will be centre-aligned in 14 pt. Subsections headings will be left-aligned, also in bold. Arabic numerals must be used for numbering section and subsection headings: 1., 1.1, 2., 2.1, etc.
• All illustrations, figures, graphs, charts and tables must be properly placed in the text, with their corresponding heading, and numbered in sequential order. Each of them must be mentioned in the body of the paper.
• Only images, drawings, photographs, figures, tables, charts, etc. created by the authors of the article are accepted. Authors can also use rights-free images, etc. or those under Creative Commons licences allowing for them to be reused and listing the allowed uses. Rights-protected images, charts, etc. can be used as long as the authors of the article have requested and secured authorisation from the creators of such images, charts, etc.
• Italics (rather than quotation marks, underlining or bold) must be used when highlighting in-text words or sentences employed for metalinguistic purposes or in a language other than that of the body of the text.
• Footnotes must be added only when strictly necessary. Their content should preferably be integrated into the body of the text. Footnotes must be used only for explanatory remarks that cannot appear in the text. Footnotes will be inserted at the end of the article, followed by the appendices and, finally, the references

3 Book reviews

Maximum text length will be around 1,500 words for single-authored books and 2,000 for collective volumes. It will be headed with the following details of the work: author’s full name, full title, place and year of publication, publisher, number of pages and ISBN. In the case of e-books, the corresponding internet address will be added. Format standards used in articles will also apply to e-books.

Name signature and institution of affiliation will be right-aligned. E-mail address may be added.

Books reviewed will not be older than two years.

4 Citing and referencing guidelines

The journal adopts and adheres to the citing and referencing guidelines set out in the American Psychological Association (APA) style manual, 7th edition. For further information on such guidelines, the guide produced by the University of Alicante Library is available here (PDF).

4.1 In-text citations

In a verbatim quotation, the author’s exact words are provided. Quotations exceeding 3 lines will appear in a separate indented paragraph (1 cm left indentation applied to the whole paragraph with justified alignment) in 11 pt. Verbatim quotations not exceeding 3 lines will appear in the text in quotation marks.

In-text citations must be given as follows:

• Author’s surname(s) (year and, if necessary, letter to indicate the order of publication that year: page or pages). Example: Para van Dijk (2011b, p. 104-106).
• If the cited author is also given in brackets, the citation format must be (Author year). Example: (Barthes 1980).
• In multiple page references, these will be separated by commas. Example: Escandell 1993, p. 58-62, 103-105).
• When citing multiple authors or works, they must be separated by commas and listed in order of publication. Example: (Lakoff y Jonhson 1980; Kövecses 2000, p. 65).
• For in-text citations of works by multiple authors, it is advisable to indicate the first author followed by et al. At the end, in the “Bibliographic references” section, all authors must be listed if possible. Example: Llopis-García et al. (2012).

4.2 Bibliographic references (at the end of the text)

A section titled “Bibliographic references” (Times New Roman, bold, 14 pt) must be included at the end of the text, preceded by two blank lines and followed by another blank line.

The list of bibliographic references (Times New Roman, 12 pt, hanging indentation) must be given in alphabetical order (if there are several works by the same author, these must appear in chronological order) and contain only those works cited in the text body. If an author’s surname is repeated, it must not be replaced by a dash or hyphen.

If the publication has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), the URL and the retrieval date must be replaced by the DOI, which must appear at the end of the entry as a secure URL link, preceded (but not followed) by a full stop. CrossRef’s Simple Text Query can be used for checking DOIs included in a reference list.

Below are some examples of how to reference different types of sources:

Books

Moreno Cabrera, Juan Carlos. (2008). El nacionalismo lingüístico, una ideología destructiva. Barcelona: Península.

Book chapters

Jernudd, Björn. (1989). The texture of language purism: An Introduction. En Björn Jernudd y Michael Shapiro. The politics of language purism (p. 1-19). Berlín: Mouton de

Articles

Del Valle, José y Narvaja de Arnoux, Elvira. (2010). Ideologías lingüísticas y el español en contexto histórico. Spanish in Context, (7), 1-24.

Newspaper articles

De Miguel, Amando. (05 de enero de 2007). “Lenguas regionales”. Libertad Digital.

Electronic texts

Gutiérrez Ordóñez, Salvador. Perfiles y dimensiones en el concepto de norma (las otras normas). II Congreso Internacional de la Lengua española. 2001. https://cvc.cervantes.es/obref/congresos/valladolid/ponencias/unidad_diversidad_del_espanol/1_la_norma_hispanica/gutierrez_s.htm

Websites

Recomendación (2002)12 del Comité de Ministros a los Estados miembros relativa a la educación para la ciudadanía democrática http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/edc/Source/Pdf/Documents/By_Country/Spain/2002_38_Rec2002_12_Es.PDF