In an attempt to facilitate and hasten the publication process, the Editors of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos request that authors adhere to the following recommendations when preparing their articles.
- Place all notes at the end in a separate Notes section (endnotes). This section should be double-spaced. Use the same font as the rest of the text.
- The Notes (endnotes) section must always precede the Works Cited.
- If your essay is accepted, double-check all Notes and Note numbers throughout the editorial process, as numbering may sometimes be altered during this process.
- Place no footnote in the title of the article.
- Use only one footnote per sentence. Place the footnote number at the end of the sentence, outside the period if the article is in English and inside the period if the article is in Spanish.
- Extremely short footnotes should be incorporated parenthetically within the body of the text. All parenthetical references should adhere to the MLA Style Manual. Place parenthetical references at the end of the sentence or clause rather than in the middle of a phrase so as to maintain readability.
- Page numbers should be placed at the end of the sentence.
- Use punctuation consistently. If you place a comma before the "and" in a series of three or more items, use the comma in all instances. Remember also that this rule applies to all series with conjunctions (with "or," "but not," etc.).
- Do not over-punctuate. Remember that punctuation serves to clarify the text for the reader.
- Do not put a comma after "Thus" at the beginning of a sentence unless a dependent clause follows.
- Use a comma after an introductory prepositional phrase only if the phrase is parenthetical or if confusion could result without the comma.
- The list of Works Cited should conform strictly with the MLA Style Manual. Include complete titles (including subtitles) of all books. Bibliographies with excessive deviations from these norms will be returned to the author for emendation, thus delaying the publication process.
- Spell proper nouns correctly in each instance.
- Proofread the article carefully. Do not rely solely on the "Spell Check" function of the word processing program.
- Do not use an apostrophe for plurals or for decades. "The 1950s" should not have an apostrophe, for example, but the omission of the century would require one: the '50s. (Note the direction of the apostrophe. Most word processing programs automatically invert the direction. You must enter this symbol manually.)
- Do not use split infinitives or contractions.
- Hyphenate "twentieth-century" if it is used as an adjective: "twentieth-century literature," but not if you refer to the "twentieth century" as a time period.
- Paragraphs of more than an entire page are extremely difficult to follow. Divide excessively long paragraphs where appropriate to the logic of the argument. But also avoid extremely short paragraphs.
- Insert a space before opening a parenthetical page reference.
- In the body of the text the period should follow the parenthetical page reference. If a quotation is indented, the period should follow the last word of the quoted passage, not the parenthetical page reference.
- For each journal entry included in the Works Cited, please make sure that you check whether it has continuous pagination, or if the journal pages each issue separately. If the journal has continuous pagination, you need only cite the volume number, ignoring the issue number, month or season. If, however, the journal pages each issue separately, both the volume and issue numbers must be included in the entry. (See Sec. 6.7: "Citing Articles and Other Publications in Periodicals" of the MLA Style Manual.)
- If you omit words or sentences from a quote, place square brackets [. . .] around your ellipsis to distinguish them from any ellipsis that may be original to the quote. (See Sec. 3.9.5 "Ellipsis" of the MLA Style Manual.)
- When quoting text from an original source, quote in the same language as the original quote if the text is Spanish or English. Do not rewrite the quote by translating the text yourself. For example, when quoting from a Spanish text, quote in Spanish, and do not translate it to English yourself.
- Ensure that your final manuscript still adheres to the limit of 9,000 words (including notes and works cited) indicated in the submission guidelines.
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