Guidelines for Contributors
Articles for publication should be original material not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should not exceed 8,000 words and should preferably be shorter. Unsolicited reviews are not accepted. Contributors are requested to provide abstracts of their article, in both English and Spanish, the length of each abstract not to exceed 150 words.
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All contributions must be submitted in a form ready for publication, with double line-spacing and one space only after a full stop. All quotations and references should have been verified.
Single quotation marks should be used throughout the article, but long indented extracts do not require quotation marks. Double quotation marks should be used only within single ones.
Articles are peer reviewed anonymously. The author’s name should not appear on the title page; references to the author’s own work should be made in the third person.
Please submit articles in the end-bibliography and textual reference (author–date) style. Titles of books and periodicals should be in italics, titles of articles within single inverted commas and periodical volume numbers in Arabic numerals.
Examples:
WORKS CITED
Badía Margarit, Antonio, 1958. El habla del Valle de Bielsa (Barcelona: CSIC).
Bustos Gisbert, E., 1992. ‘La alternancia «ove » / «pude» en castellano medieval y clásico’, in Estudios filológicos en homenaje a Eugenio de Bustos Tovar, ed. José Antonio Bartol Hernández, Juan Felipe García Santos, Javier de Santiago Guervós (Salamanca: Univ. de Salamanca), I, pp. 137-65.
Dworkin, Stephen, 1985. ‘From –ir to –ecer in Spanish: the loss of O.Sp. de-adjectival –ir verbs’, Hispanic Review, 53: 295-305.
Mena, Juan de, 1989. Obras completas, ed. Miguel Ángel Pérez Priego (Barcelona: Planeta).
Rico, Francisco, 1986. El pequeño mundo del hombre: varia fortuna de una idea en la cultura española, 2a ed., Alianza Universidad, 463 (Madrid: Alianza).
Notes to articles should be kept to a minimum; reviews must not have footnotes. Footnotes should be indicated serially within the text using superscript Arabic numerals. References within the text or within footnotes should cite the author’s name and the year of publication of the item, with pagination where necessary, in parentheses as follows: (Dworkin 1985: 295).
Contact details:
The Editors
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
The University of Liverpool
