Submissions

Author Guidelines

A) Formal Guidelines

1. Scope
   Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofía publishes original and unpublished contributions in all areas of Philosophy. Submissions may be written in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, or Italian. Articles must not have been previously published in any journal, conference proceedings, book, or book chapter. In order to promote a diversity of contributions, authors who have already published in Contrastes. Revista Internacional de Filosofíamust wait at least two years from the date of publication before submitting a new manuscript (this rule applies only to research articles, critical translations, and bibliographic reports—not to book reviews).

2. Submission Format
   Manuscripts should be submitted in commonly used text formats (.doc, .docx, .odt). Files in .pdf format will not be accepted. Authors may submit their work under one of the following sections: Research Articles, Critical Translations or Research Materials, Bibliographic Reports, or Book Reviews.

3. Template
   All submissions must conform to the official journal template. No manuscript will be sent for peer review until it has been formatted according to this template, which can be downloaded from the following link:
   Download template here

4. Anonymous Review
   In order to ensure double-blind peer review, authors must omit their names and affiliations from the manuscript. No self-references or citations should reveal the identity of the author(s). References to the author’s own work should be indicated as “Author 1” and the corresponding year (e.g., Author 1, 2016). Full citations will be added upon acceptance of the manuscript.

5. Length Requirements

• Research Articles: 6,000 to 8,000 words (including title, abstract, keywords, and references in both Spanish and English)

• Critical Translations: maximum 7,000 words

• Bibliographic Reports: maximum 7,000 words

• Book Reviews: maximum 1,000 words

6. Submission Platform
   All manuscripts must be submitted through the Open Journal System (OJS) available on the journal’s website: https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/contrastes/index. Submissions will not enter peer review until all metadata, including the English version, funding agencies, and project codes (if applicable), have been correctly completed.

7. Authorship Criteria
   Once accepted, authors must provide the order of authorship and the specific contributions of each author (if applicable). This journal follows the authorship criteria recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). An author is defined as someone who has made a substantial intellectual contribution to the manuscript, specifically:

• Participated in the conception or design of the work, or in data collection, analysis, or interpretation.

• Participated in drafting or revising the manuscript critically.

• Approved the final version to be published.

Anyone who does not meet these three criteria should be acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section only. To prevent disputes or misattributions of authorship, contributors are encouraged to agree upon authorship order and contributions prior to submission. To specify contributions, the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) is recommended. Accepted practices for ordering authors include:

• First-last-author-emphasis (FLAE): first and last authors contributed most; order in between indicates descending contributions.

• Sequence-determines-credit (SDC): order reflects the magnitude of contribution.

• Equal contribution (EC): alphabetical order is used when contributions are comparable or to avoid conflict in collaborative groups.

Anonymous publications will not be accepted. Once the manuscript is accepted, the author must add the following information: institutional affiliation, position, email address, current research lines, and references to a selection of their most relevant recent publications.

8. Funding Acknowledgement
   Upon acceptance, authors must disclose any financial support received for the research, including the names of the funding agencies and project codes. This information should also be included in the journal's metadata.

9. Use of Generative AI
   The use of generative AI for content creation—including the abstract and references—is not permitted. If the topic of the article requires reference to a text generated by AI, this must be explicitly stated. Generative AI may be used only to enhance language and improve the readability of content already written by the author. Authors remain fully responsible for the originality of their work.

10. Contact Information
    For queries related to submissions, please contact Rafael Reyna (Associate Editor): rreyna@uma.es

B) Style and Formatting Guidelines

1. Titles and Abstracts
   The first page of the manuscript must include the article’s title (and its English translation), along with an abstract in both Spanish and English (150–200 words each), followed by 5–7 keywords in both languages.

2. Quotations
   Journal and book titles should appear in italics, while article and book chapter titles should be enclosed in quotation marks. Short quotations should be integrated into the text using double quotation marks (“ ”). Nested quotations should use single quotation marks (‘ ’) within double quotation marks.

Quotations longer than three lines should be formatted as block quotes: separated from the main text, without quotation marks or italics, indented 1 cm from the left margin, in smaller font size, and single-spaced. Omissions within quotations must be indicated using square brackets: […].

3. Dashes and Hyphens
   Hyphens (-) should be used for compound terms and page ranges (e.g., 245–247). Em dashes (—) may be used as parenthetical marks—with a space before but not after. If the parenthetical ends with a period, the dash should not be closed.

4. Footnotes
   Footnotes should be used rather than endnotes. Note indicators should follow punctuation marks in the main text. Footnotes must be formatted in single spacing and font size 10.

5. References

In-text citations:
Follow APA style. Citations should appear in parentheses and include only the author’s surname, year of publication, and relevant page numbers, as full details will be listed in the final bibliography. Example: (Arendt, 1958: 26–28).
For works with more than two authors, use the first surname followed by et al. in the in-text citation, but list all authors in full in the bibliography. Example: (Deleuze et al., 2020).
Use a dash for consecutive page numbers and commas for non-consecutive ones. Example: (Zambrano, 1996: 7–8).
When citing volumes, use Roman numerals followed by a colon. Example: (Gadamer, 1998: II, 193).

Final Bibliography:
The final section of the manuscript must be titled References and list all works cited, in alphabetical order, following APA style.

Examples:

Books
Arendt, H. (1958). The human condition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Journal Articles
Zambrano, M. (1996). “Ausencia y presencia.” Contrastes, 1, 7–10.

Book Chapters
Kuhn, T. S. (1970). “Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?” In I. Lakatos & A. Musgrave (Eds.), Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (pp. 1–24). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

C) Privacy Statement
Names and email addresses provided to this journal will be used exclusively for the stated purposes and will not be shared with third parties or used for other purposes.