Papers submitted to this Seminar must comply with the guidelines set out in the following sections. Submissions that do not meet the established requirements will not be accepted.
All papers will be evaluated through a peer-review process conducted by the Seminar’s Scientific Committee or by external reviewers. Only original papers that have not been previously presented will be considered.
The acceptance process will take place in two stages. First, authors must submit paper proposals including an abstract, structure, methodology, and preliminary conclusions of the research carried out. Once the 30 papers to be included in the Seminar have been selected, their authors will be given a period of time to prepare the full text of their paper, as well as a brief biography. This final text will be published digitally in the Seminar proceedings.
Texts may be submitted in either English or Spanish. The tone of the papers must be academic, including specific names and references to relevant authors, works, or events related to the topic. Text files must be submitted in .doc or .docx format (never in .pdf).
Length of texts:
Title: up to 20 words, including title and subtitle.
Abstract: up to 500 words. Abstracts must include the objectives, methods, results, and main conclusions of the proposal.
Paper proposal: minimum 1,000 words, outlining the structure of the proposed paper, the research methodology, and preliminary conclusions.
Keywords: up to 5. Keywords should enable electronic searches by topic, methodology, geographical area, and chronological framework, and must not repeat terms already included in the title, since both will always be published together.
Images: at least 3 high-quality images representative of the subject studied must be provided.
Full paper: between 4,000 and 5,000 words, excluding bibliography. Papers must be properly structured and include an introduction, a presentation of the research methodology, and conclusions summarizing the main results of the study, in coherence with the proposal submitted and accepted in the first phase. Bibliographic lists (in alphabetical order of authors) must be included at the end of the text itself, not in separate files. The paper must include, in the approximate place chosen by the author, the figures (photographs, drawings, or plans) illustrating the text. The bibliography and, where applicable, the list of primary sources must be arranged alphabetically by the surname of the first author (or first author if there are several) and the year of publication. If the author does not appear in the referenced work, the entry must be replaced by the translator or editor (indicating the corresponding abbreviation in parentheses) or by the title of the work. When several works by the same author(s) are included, the full name must be repeated in each case, without replacing it with a dash. If several works by the same author(s) were published in the same year(s), a distinguishing letter must be added after the year (a, b, c…).
Biographical note: up to 120 words. To be submitted in a separate file, including the author’s full name, institutional affiliation, and email address.
Images: in addition to the images projected during the presentation, authors must submit 20 selected images from the presentation in a separate file, in an appropriate format (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tiff), including those already submitted in the first phase. Any graphic documentation—drawings, photographs, maps, plans, or charts—is considered a figure (Fig.). Figures must be ordered and numbered, with their intended placement indicated in the text between paragraphs. This suggested placement will be respected as far as possible in the layout process, but the final number and position of the images will depend on the constraints of the journal’s design. Image files must be accompanied by a single Word document containing the captions, with image names identical to those used in the corresponding file. Captions must always indicate the image’s author and/or source, with the appropriate credits.
Books
Surname(s), First name. (Year). Title of the book in italics. Place of publication: Publisher.
Conference proceedings or book chapters
Surname(s), First name. (Year). “Title of the chapter or article, in quotation marks”, in Surname(s), First name (ed.), Title of the book in italics, page range 00–00. Place of publication: Publisher. This system will be used for chapters written by one author within a book that contains chapters by different authors. Such books usually have a compiler/editor, who should be referenced as such.
Journal articles
Surname(s), First name. (Year). “Title of the article, in quotation marks”. Name of the journal in italics, volume number (if applicable), issue number, date of publication: page range 00–00, doi (if available).
Internet references
References must follow the style of the corresponding document (website or online publication), adding at the end the permanent link (doi or handle, if available) or the URL, followed by the date of consultation in the format: (accessed on 00/00/0000).
Names and titles in non-Latin scripts
When a title exists only in a language that does not use the Latin alphabet, or when its author is not widely known internationally, the following system should be applied:
Transliteration of an author’s name: Although the choice of transliteration will be left to the author, the use of standard transliteration systems is encouraged: pīnyīn, ISO 9:1995, and DIN 31635. The name should also be given in its original script in parentheses in the bibliography.
Translation of a title: When referring to the title in the main body of the text, it should be given in its Spanish or English translation, depending on the language of the paper. In the bibliography, the original title should be included in parentheses.
Each in-text citation must correspond to a bibliographic reference or primary source (and vice versa) and must include at least the surname of the author(s), or, if unavailable, the editor(s), translator(s), or the title of the work, together with the year of publication. Citations should appear in parentheses, including the surname(s) of the author(s) (without first names), followed by the year of publication. After a colon, if necessary, the volume (vol.) should be indicated, followed by the cited page(s). When the cited work has three or more authors, the abbreviated form et al. should be used after the first author; however, this expression is not permitted in the final bibliography, where all authors must be included.
Example: (Ameriks 2000: 227)
Titles of works must be written in italics, except in the case of articles or shorter texts, which should appear in quotation marks. When citing in English, all words except articles or prepositions must begin with a capital letter. Quotations from individuals may be placed in quotation marks, or, if long, in an indented separate paragraph.
Example of a book citation: As Reyner Banham states in Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
Example of an article citation: In “The Metropolis and Mental Life”, Simmel says that…
Quoted text may be incorporated into the paragraph, enclosed in quotation marks. If it is a long passage, it should appear in an indented paragraph, italicized and without quotation marks. The use of lengthy quotations is not recommended.
Example: According to Steven Spielberg, “you have to score a box-office hit before you run dry”.
Words in other languages within the text should be written in italics, while quotation marks should be reserved for words in the main language of the paper that are meant to be emphasized.
Footnotes are not permitted.
Particular attention must be paid to the quality of all images, whether submitted for publication or projected during the presentation. A strict selection process will be applied to both photographs and drawings.
Images should be submitted separately, not inserted into the text, to avoid quality loss, as noted above. Regarding image references, authors may choose their preferred method. Since not all submitted images will be included, it is recommended not to use references such as (see figure 4), but rather to provide clear or simple captions, whose placement does not decisively affect the understanding of the text.
All paragraphs must be justified, with no indentation. A paragraph break will be indicated by a space between two paragraphs. Text documents must be submitted single-spaced, in Times New Roman, font size 11.