EDITORIAL SINDÉRESIS

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR THE WRITTEN CONTRIBUTION

Once the oral presentation has been approved, the scientific committee may invite the speaker to write up his/her dissertation for possible publication in a volume with the results of the congress. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that the texts are original and unpublished. The scientific committee will evaluate the texts received according to the following criteria:

  • The relevance of the contribution in relation to the theme of the conference, The challenges of journalism in the era of disinformation, with special emphasis on one of the thematic areas, in which a humanistic look on the challenges of current journalism is proposed.
  • The scientific quality of the proposals and their possible impact on the training of communication and journalism professionals.
  • The originality and innovative nature of the proposal.

The texts that receive the favorable opinion of the scientific committee will be published in Sindéresis, a publishing house present in the Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI), in the Norwegian list and in the Finnist list.

Before sending the texts, authors are recommended to review the indications on the format for submission of originals, the structure of the text, tables and figures and orthotypographic norms. If any of these rules are not met, the text will be returned to the author for correction; if they are not met in the second revision, the text will be rejected for publication.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION OF ORIGINALS

  • Word file; Times New Roman font; 12 point font; 1.5 point spacing; footnotes in 10 point font, single spacing; 2.5 cm top and bottom margins; 3 cm left and right margins.
  • Language: Spanish or English.
  • Title of the article in bold.
  • Author’s name and surname, cell phone, email, DNI (Spanish National Identity Number), Orcyd number and affiliation.
  • Abstract (maximum 200 words) and between 4-6 key words.
  • Brief CV (100-150 words) with photograph in a separate file.
  • The text should begin with a heading of Introduction, where the problem to be addressed, the purpose of the research, the methodology used and the most relevant results and conclusions are stated.
  • The text should end with a heading of Conclusion that includes the conclusions, limits and prospects, followed by a heading of References.
  • It is advisable to divide the body of the text into several headings, which make it easier to recognize the structure of the dissertation.
  • The text should contain a minimum of 4000 and a maximum of 7000 words, exclusive of titles, abstracts, keywords, footnotes and references.
  • Verbatim quotations: if the quotation is less than 40 words, it will be incorporated into the body of the text, between “quotation marks”; if it is more than 40 words, it will be cited in a separate paragraph, without italics or quotation marks, with an indentation on the left margin of 0.64 cm.
  • It will be cited according to CMOS 17 ed. (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html), which allows two systems, one more often-used in Humanities (footnotes and bibliography) and the one more usual in Social Sciences (author-date in parentheses). The author can choose either of the two systems, as long as their citation mode is consistent throughout the text

TEXT STRUCTURE

The structure of the content of the various sections will follow the following guidelines:

Summary

Introduction

1. First level

1.1. Second level

1.1.1. Third level

Conclusion

References

TABLES AND FIGURES

  • Tables and figures (photographs, images and graphs) must be the minimum and essential and must be included in the article and in a different file.
  • They should be numbered with Arabic numerals according to order of appearance. Example: Table 1; Table 2; Image 1; Figure 1; etc.
  • The required quality of the figures is: 300 dpi and JPEG format.
  • Images must not have been resampled by an image editor. Resampling does not increase the quality of the image.
  • Images that do not conform to the above mentioned qualities will not be included in the work.
  • The publisher may vary the size and position of the image for reasons of adjustment and with the authorization of the author.
  • For identification purposes all images (tables and figures) will have a short title at the top and the source of origin at the bottom.

ORTHOGRAPHIC RULES

  • Bold type should be avoided whenever possible
  • Likewise, underlining should be avoided, except when writing a url.
  • Paragraphs should end with a period.
  • A blank line should be left between paragraphs.
  • When dialogues are reproduced or clarifications are indicated in the text, the long dash will always be used – like these– and not a mixture of both – like this-.
  • Angular or Latin quotation marks («») will be used when so indicated by the norm. In the event that quotation marks appear between quotation marks, the interior ones will be straight or English (“”): “…..”……..”……”. The period, the comma and the final semicolon are placed after the closing quotation marks; if there ellipsis, they are placed before the closing quotation marks and after, the corresponding sign.
  • The number indicating a footnote is placed immediately after the quotation marks or the literal quotation, before (if any) the punctuation mark after the quotation.
  • Unnecessary foreign words should be eliminated.
  • Acronyms that have an equivalent in Spanish should be used. Example: EE.UU and not USA. The plural of acronyms is not marked graphically with s