Discourse Studies: Notas para los colaboradores
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Editorial
policy: For editorial policy and types of paper accepted for Discourse
Studies, see also Preferred
Articles and Aims and Scope.
Before submitting
your paper, please read the Criteria for Preferred Articles carefully,
and make sure your descriptions of fragments of discourse are
theory-based analyses, and not paraphrases, repetitions (citations),
summaries or mere "comments-on-content": More than 50% of all papers
submitted to DISCOURSE STUDIES are rejected on these grounds.
Copyright: Before
publication authors are requested to assign copyright to SAGE
Publications, subject to retaining their right to reuse the material in
other publications written or edited by themselves and due to be
published at least one year after initial publication in the Journal.
Typing: Articles
submitted for publication must be typed double-spaced, throughout.
Length: The
recommended length is 7000 words, including footnotes and references
with an abstract of up to 150 words and up to 10 key words.
Titles: Titles and
section headings should be clear and brief.
Quotations: Lengthy
quotations (over 40 words) should be displayed, indented, in the text,
without quotation marks. Short quotations in the text itself should be
marked as such, either with quotation marks or by italics.
Language and
Spelling: Only papers in English are published. Quotations of text
fragments in other languages should be followed by an English
translation. Consistent UK or US spellings may be used.
Tables and figures:
Tables and figures should have short descriptive titles and
camera-ready artwork should be supplied for all figures.
Notes: Essential
notes should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text and typed
at the end of the text.
References:
References cited in the text should read: Brown (1987: 63-4), Brown and
Smith (1984, 1989). Use 'et al.' for more than two authors. The letters
a, b, c, etc., should be used for different works by the same author in
the same year. All text references should be listed alphabetically
after the notes, as follows: Books: Van Dijk, T.A. and Kintsch, W.
(1983) Strategies of Discourse Comprehension. New York: Academic Press.
Articles: Billig, M. (1988a) 'Rhetorical and Historical Aspects of
Attitudes: The Case of the British Monarchy', Philosophical Psychology
1: 191-217. Please make sure to double check that all references in the
text appear in the References section of the paper, and vice
versa, that all names+years in the References also appear in the text.
Biographical note:
Authors should supply an autobiographical note of 50-100 words.
Cover sheet: The
paper should have a "cover sheet" with the following information:
* Journal submitted to: DISCOURSE STUDIES (our editorial office
receives papers for 4 journals).
* Title of paper
* Full names of all authors
* For the first (or corresponding) author: institutional, private and
email address, address for proofs and offprints, telephone and fax
numbers
* Short title (for running head)
* Size of the paper in words
The cover sheet
should be part of the same file as the paper, on top of the paper.
Offprints: Authors
receive proofs and a final PDF of their papers plus one copy of the
journal and are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for
reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations
previously published elsewhere.
Discussion and squib
sections: Contributions should be 1000 words (Discussion and comments
on earlier article) or 2000 words (squibs) maximum, with a short
descriptive title (not 'Comments on . . .') and a cover sheet with
details listed above for article submissions. Proofs will not be sent
but each author will receive 5 copies of the printed version.
Mailing instructions
and editorial address: Papers should be sent by e-mail only, in one
file (including cover sheet, bionote, abstract, references, figures,
tables, and appendices) preferably in WORD (formats .doc or .rtf), to
the editor at the following address: Revistas at discourses
dot org. Please write on the subject line: Paper for DISCOURSE
STUDIES. The file should be attached to an accompanying
message, in which you should identify yourself with your full name and
address, and address the editor by name, one of the ways to distinguish
your submission from --unfortunately all too frequent -- SPAM. For the
same reason, it is also strongly recommended that you add your full
name to your e-mail address in the header of your message when that
address does not clearly identify who you are; if necessary please edit
the settings of your e-mail program accordingly. Do not attach your
paper to a message without a personalized letter to the editor.
Questions and
information: For questions about submissions and editorial policy,
write to the editor:Revistas at
discourses dot org.