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EDITORIAL GUIDELINES 

 

Arbitration and evaluation of articles 

 

• The evaluation process undergone by the journal Aisthesis consists of the anonymous submission of texts for publication. A first stage contemplates an evaluation process undertaken by the journal’s internal committee, formed by academics from the Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. This committee will determine if the article fulfills basic guidelines, both formal and scientific, in order to be published in the journal, and will suggest possible outside peer reviewers within the field (two evaluators are considered for each article). 

 

• Peer reviewers are assigned on the grounds of their expertise on the subject, and every evaluation process is blind and anonymous (regarding both the authors and the reviewers). The evaluation is carried out through our OJS platform where reviewers must complete a form to present their final decision.  

 

• If one of the reviewers DOES NOT recommend the publication of an article or review but the second reviewer does, the collaboration of a third reviewer will be requested to determine the final decision. The evaluation form will be sent to the authors with the purpose of making the necessary modifications on the text or review, in the case of it being approved with modifications.  

 

• If the reviewers recommend the article must be sent to a third evaluator, the evaluation form will be sent to the authors with the purpose of making the necessary changes on the text or review before sending it to be evaluated by a third reviewer – usually one of the individuals who recommended it to be resent for review. Once subjected to that third evaluation, it will be determined, following the decision of the third reviewer, if the article has been accepted or not for publication in Aisthesis.  

 

• If an article is rejected, the reasons will be indicated to the author and the comments on the text will be forwarded.  

 

• Finally, the authors must send the final version of the text to be published in the journal Aisthesis. Along with receiving the article in its final form, the journal can grant – upon request of the interested person – a Letter of Acceptance certifying its future publication in one of the issue of the journal.  

 

• Articles that do not comply with editorial guidelines will be rejected on the pre-evaluation stage by the editorial committee; this situation will be informed to the authors.  

 

• The timeframe for the evaluation of articles, interviews, and reviews will be between twelve and fifteen months.  

 

• Upon the submission of an article, interview, or review, authors will grant publication, reproduction, and distribution rights, both in terms of the text and the images included in them, to the journal Aisthesis based at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. To do so, all images reproduced must have the corresponding licencing and references, this being an exclusive responsibility of the authors.  

 

• The journal invites its prospective authors to use inclusive language in their work.  

 

• The journal will not return any original copies to their authors.  

 

• Opinions presented in articles, interviews, or reviews are exclusive responsibility of the authors and do not represent the position of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. 

 

• Since 2024, Aisthesis is published twice a year, in the months of June and October. 

 

Text Presentation

• The Article section welcomes unpublished texts written in Spanish dealing with areas and themes that converse with our theoretical lines and editorial policy. The articles can be literary reviews, dissemination of new research, advancements in theory or methodology, and case studies, prioritizing original predicaments derived from institutionally-sanctioned research projects and showing a Latin American perspective. Their extension can fluctuate between six thousand (6.000) and twelve thousand (12.000) words.

 

• The Book Review section consists of a space for unpublished texts that approach new publications and describe, analyze, and grant them a value within the field. The length varies between one thousand and five hundred (1.500) and two thousand (2.000) words.

 

• The Interview section accepts those unpublished texts that are derived from an interview to any individual that represent a step forward for our editorial line and research objectives.

 

• The Dossier section gathers between six and ten unpublished texts under a common theme. The journal holds an open call for dossier proposals that must be coordinated by an academic who will be in charge of the first section of articles and who will work as the first peer reviewer of the blind-review process. Every proposed article accepted to be part of a dossier, similarly to the rest of the articles published in our journal, will be subjected to the blind peer-review process.

 

• The articles, interviews, dossier proposals, and book reviews can be sent all year round (from March to december) through our website.

 

• Contributions must only be submitted through the Open Journal System platform at the address: revistaaisthesis.uc.cl. Articles, interviews, and reviews must be sent in two types of files: 

- Word Format (97-2003) 

- .ZIP File to attach images (compressed folder) 

 

Articles (miscellany and dossier related)

• Full text, including images within (if applicable) to be referenced and signaled in the text as figures, followed by their corresponding numbering (images must be included as complementary files, as indicated below). Authors must also include the corresponding captions below each image.  
• The text must be between six thousand (6.000) and twelve thousand (12.000) words in length.  
• The text must not have any personal information regarding the author or other details that interfere with its anonymity. Details for each author must be attached in a separate Word document and state: Name and last name, institutional affiliation, email address, and Orcid (failure to comply with this indication can result in the rejection of the article at the first stage of evaluation by the internal committee).  
• If the text contains self-references, these must be crossed out (XXXX 45), and in case of acceptance of the article, the information will be filled in during the corrections stage. 
• The text must not have page numbers. 
• It is essential that the author profile be completed in the platform, which is considered their basic biography. It is preferable you register with an institutional email account. You must indicate your institutional affiliation, residence, Orcid, research interests, and in the «Biographical summary» section, you must state: academic degrees and latest published research, among others. Upon registering a profile,  you must select from the options labelled as Author, External reviewer, and Reader. 

 

Interviews 

• The interview must be between six thousand (6.000) and twelve thousand (12.000) words. 
• The interview must not contain any images. 
• The text must contain personal information of the authors and the interviewee. 
• The interview must not have page numbers. 

 

Book reviews

• The length of a review must be between one thousand and five hundred (1.500) and two thousand (2.000) words. 
• The text must not include images except for the cover of the book being reviewed.  
• The text must indicate the personal information of the authors, both of the review and of the reviewed text.  
• The review must contain the bibliographic information of the reviewed book: full title; author/s name/s; location; publisher; year of publication; and page range.  
• The text must not have page numbers. 

 

Images

• Images (if applicable) in an article or review must have a resolution of or higher than 300 dpi in Letter size (size is essential for an adequate resolution of the image), they must be referred as figures and be captioned below. They must be sent in JPG or PDF format, through the journal’s platform. It is the responsibility of the authors to have the proper clearance for the use and transfer of rights of every single image. Images that do not comply with this requirement will not be published. 

 

Format and preparation of manuscripts

Articles and reviews must follow the formatting and configuration guidelines indicated below: 

• Letter size page, with 2.5 size margins per side. 
• Times New Roman or Cambria font, size 12, spacing at 1.5, left-aligned text. 
• Epigraphs must be right aligned, size 10, and enclosed in angular quotation marks (« »). 
• The first paragraph must not be indented while all others must have indentation. 
• Notes must be placed at the end of every page, not at the end of the text, using the same font, size 11 and single spacing. 
• Markings for footnotes come after the punctuation mark:  
• Deleuze,¹ in his final book, states that… 
• On this subject, Deleuze does not agree with Guattari’s position.²
• Every submission, in the case of articles, must have the following sections: 
• Spanish and English title
• Abstract written in Spanish, from 150 to 200 words 
• Abstract translated into English
• Keywords, from 3 to 5
• Keywords translated into English
• Body: text and images
• Annexes (optional)
• Acknowledgements (optional)
• References

 

• The main title of the article or review must be in bold, with initial capital letters, Times New Roman or Cambria font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, and centered. It should not exceed 90 characters including spaces.
• Titles for Abstracts, both in Spanish and English, must be lower case and in bold, with initial capital letters, Times New Roman or Cambria font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, and left aligned.  
• The abstract must denote the basic information and follow the structure of the original text. Its contents are of greater importance than its length. It must state how the authors deal with the subject or nature of the written text in terms of, for instance, it being a theoretical study, case study, status report, historical review, literary review, etc.  
• Keywords, in both Spanish and English, are left aligned, in lower case, and separated by a comma. They must be meaningful concepts taken from the text. Generally, keywords are common nouns or brief compound words, for example: social representation. 
• Regarding the body of the text, it is recommended it be divided into at least the following sections: introduction, antecedents, methodology, results, discussion of results, conclusions, acknowledgements (if applicable), and quoted references. These sections must be adapted to the nature of the article. Subtitles can be literalized. 
• The text can be structured regarding sections organized through primary, secondary, and tertiary titles. Primary titles must be written in lower case (with an initial capital), in bold, aligned left. Secondary titles must be written in lower case (with an initial capital), in bold and in italics, aligned left. Tertiary titles must be placed at the beginning of their corresponding paragraphs, in italics, and aligned left. All titles must be in Times New Roman or Cambria, size 12, 1.5 spacing. In no case they should be numbered. 
• Italics are used for the titles of novels, poetry collections, anthologies, paintings, films, photography books, art books, sculpture books, magazines, and newspapers. They are also used to highlight non-Spanish words (for example: continuum, lapsus, ergo, reality). 
• Titles for tables or figures and captions must be in Times New Roman or Cambria, size 11, centered, and with their respective numbering.  
• Regarding percentages, a comma must be used for decimals, and a single space must be included to separate the number from the symbol: 16,5 %. 
• Quotation marks must precede other marks (comma, period, etc.): It discusses the existence of «a bunch of notes about a novel». 

 

Intertextual quotes 

• The journal Aisthesis follows the ninth edition of the MLA style guide for references and quotations. 
• Intertextual quotations follow the Author’s last name page model; if there is more than one work by the same author, a shortened version of the title is added, in italics or in between quotation marks, depending on the list of works cited, and the page number: 
• Author page: 
  • Foucault 45
  • Deleuze and Guattari 435.
• Author, shortened title page
  • Segato, La guerra contra las mujeres 62
  • Segato, La guerra
• In the case of two authors, last names are presented following the order of the publication itself 
  • Deleuze and Guattari 11.
• When the referenced text has more than three authors, the last name of the first person is cited followed by the phrase «et al.», without the use of italics:  
  • Monge et al. 103.
• If there are two authors with the same last name, initials must be added:  
  • Fernández and M. Fernández 45
• If, in the body of the text, the author is mentioned, only the page number is included inside the parenthetical note (and the title of the work, if applicable): 
  • Foucault states that… (45)
  • Segato, in La guerra contra las mujeres 62 argues that…
  • Rita Segato argues that… (La guerra 62).
• When citing from an indirect source, the phrase «qtd. in»  o «quoted in» must be included before including the rest of the information: 
  • Boccioni argues that dynamism «is the simultaneous action of the characteristic and particular movement of the object» (qtd. in De Micheli 214). 
• If the quote extends itself over a page, the page range must be pointed out in parenthesis and separated by a hyphen: (288-289). 
• During the entirety of the text, angular quotation marks (« ») must be used for direct quotes of up to 4 lines; quotes over 4 lines must be indented, without quotation marks. The final period is placed after the parenthesis indicating the author and page number being quoted; the following paragraph must not be indented.  
• Centuries must be written in small caps: xx century 
• Brackets are to be used:  
  • With omissions, which must be indicated with ellipsis: [...], to signal a piece of text that has been added by the authors within the quote, to indicate if an underlined section of the text is part of the original or done by the authors, or if the quoted text is a translation, for example: 
  • [original emphasis]
  • [my or our emphasis]
  • [translated by Navarro 23]
  • [translated by the authors].
  • [my translation]
• Footnotes must be used in exceptional cases to supply essential information not included in the main text to avoid disrupting the coherence of the argument. Furthermore, they can be used to point out information available in the list of works cited. For example: For more information on the subject, see Segato (La guerra contra las mujeres). 
• When an author included in the bibliography has a title or preposition in their name, they must be included in the reference list following the first letter of their last name, not the preposition or title preceding it: 
  • Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la
  • Certau, Michael de
• If the last name includes the word ‘Del,’ this is considered to be part of the last name and regarded within the alphabetical order: 
  • Del Toro, Ignacio

 

Reference list 

• It must only include the titles cited within the article or review. Likewise, all works incorporated in the Reference list must be cited within the text. It is the responsibility of the authors to be exact and thorough with their bibliographical entries.  
• References must be included in their totality at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically, and indicating the basic data of every publication, following the guidelines presented below. 
• The Reference list must have a hanging indent of 2.5 cm. 

 

Books:

• One author

Last name (comma), followed by Name (period). Full book title in italics; if a subtitle is included, this follows a colon. Publisher’s name (only add name, not the word ‘Editorial’; if it does not have a publisher, write [s.n.] from the Latin sine nomine), followed by a comma, publication year (full stop). 

• • Díaz Arrieta, Hernán. Los cuatro grandes de la literatura chilena   durante el siglo xx: Augusto D’Halmar, Pedro Prado, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda. Zig-Zag, 1962.
    
    
    
• Two author
• Last name (comma), followed by the Name of the first person following the order of the publication itself («and») First name followed by Last name of the next author. Title in italics followed by a period. Publisher’s name followed by a comma, publication year (full stop). 
  • Deleuze, Gilles and Féliz Guattari. Mil mesteas: capitalismo y esquizofrenia. Pre-textos, 2020.
    
    
    
• Three or more author
  
  Last name (comma), followed by the Name of the first person following the order of the publication itself (comma), First name followed by Last name of the next author (comma), First name followed by Last name of the next author (period). Title in italics followed by a period. Publisher’s name followed by a comma, publication year (full stop). 
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo. Antología de la literatura fantástica. Edhasa, 2018.
• Editor as Author
• If the individuals listed on the cover of the referenced work agree with the people in charge of its edition, translation, or compilation, place a comma after the last name, followed by: eds., trans., or comp., accordingly. 
  • Romera Castillo, José, Alicia Yllera and Mario García-Page, editors. Semiótica(s): Homenaje a Greimas. Visor, 1994.
• If citing an author within an book with an important editor, compiler, translator, they must be included after the title of the book itself 
  • Colón, Cristóbal. Textos y documentos completos, ed. Consuelo Varela. Alianza Universidad, 1984.
• Unknown author
• If the author or editor is not indicated, the reference must be placed alphabetically following the title: 
  • Literatura del México antiguo: los textos en lengua nahuatl. Edición, estudios introductorios y versiones de textos de Miguel León-portilla. Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1978
• If the original year of publication is available and considered pertinent information, it must follow the title: 
• Martín Barbero, Jesús. De los medios a las mediaciones. Comunicación, cultura y hegemonía. 1987. Ediciones G. Gili, 1991.

 

Parts or chapters of books

The title of the article should be cited in quotation marks, preceding the title of the book. Cite using the last name of the author of the article referred to:

• Author's last name, first name. «Title of the article» (in quotation marks). Name of the book (italics), ed. Name of the publisher. Publisher, year, pages
• Goic, Cedomil. «La novela hispanoamericana colonial». Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Tomo I. Época Colonial, ed. Luis Iñigo-Madrigal. Ediciones Cátedra, 1982, pp. 369-406
• If several articles from the same book are used, all the bibliographic data should be included in each of the references, and also include a bibliographic reference to the complete book, in which the editors or compilers appear at the beginning of the citation. This makes it easier for the reading public to quickly and clearly find the place where the articles and the book are published.

Journal articles

The order in which the data should appear is as follows:

• Author's last name, First name. «Title of the article» (in angle quotes), followed by a period. Name of the journal (italics), followed by comma, volume/number (comma), year of publication, pages. In the case of electronic journals, the website or Doi of the publication may be added after the final period.

• • Adorno, Rolena. «El sujeto colonial y la construcción de la alteridad». Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamérica, vol. 28, 1988, pp. 55-68. 
  • Concha, Jaime. «La literatura colonial hispano-americana: Problemas e hipótesis». Neohelicón, vol. 4, nº 1-2, 1976, pp. 31-50.  
  • Véliz, Mariano. «Retratos cinematográficos de Salvador Allende: tensiones entre tiempos, voces e imágenes». Aisthesis, nº 74, 2023, pp. Doi: https://doi.org/10.7764/Aisth.74.

Newspapers

The order in which the data should appear is as follows: Author's last name, First name. «Title of the article». Name of the newspaper (italics). Date (day, month, year), section, page.

- Cabrujas, José Ignacio. «Con real y medio». Nacional. 16 nov. 1990, C-7. 
Some newspapers contain different information in different editions. In this case it is important to specify the edition after the date and preceded by a comma:

- Collins, Glen. «Single-Father Survey Finds Adjustment a Problem». New York Times. 21 Nov. 1983, late ed.: B-17. 

Thesis

Author. «Title of thesis in quotation marks». Thesis for the degree of [add academic degree]. University where it was done, year.

- Aldunate, Carlos. «Crítica literaria en Chile: cómo y para quién se escribe en la prensa». Tesis para optar al grado de magíster en Literatura. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1993.

 

Newspaper or online magazine article

Author of the article followed by a period. «Title in quotation marks». Name of the journal in italics. For English-language journals, omit article. Date of publication (if any): day, abbreviated month, year, followed by comma, web address without period (URL).

- Bruna, Roberto. «El déficit cultural de la inminente ley de televisión digital». El Mostrador, 14 oct. 2013, http://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2013/10/14/el-deficit-cultural-de-la-inminente-ley-de-television-digital/

Conferences, congresses or meetings

Paper presented at a conference:

Author of the presentation. «Title of the presentation in quotation marks». Title of the conference in italics. Conference information: place (if not mentioned in the title), date, publisher(s). Publication data: place, publisher, year, pages.

- Zapata, Manuel. «La negredumbre en García Márquez». XX Congreso Nacional de Literatura, Lingüística y Semiótica: «Cien años de soledad», treinta años después. Santa Fe de Bogotá, 29-31 de octubre de 1997. Santa Fe de Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1998, pp. 107-112. 

Minutes of a published conference:

Name of the rapporteur(s). «Title of presentation (if known) in quotation marks». Name of the conference in italics, if applicable. Name of sponsoring organization, if applicable, followed by comma and place, day, abbreviated month, year.

- Miranda, Paula. «Gabriela Mistral y Violeta Parra: voces de la identidad chilena». Biblioteca de Humanidades de la Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 12 sept. 2012. 

Web site

Publications on websites should be cited according to the type of work they are, following the model of the same in their printed or other medium (book, part of a book, journal article, etc.). In general, they will have author, title and publication data. If the name of the institution in charge of the website is available, it should be indicated after the name of the site itself if it is not similar.

 

Audiovisual works

Film or videotape

Title in italics. Directed by First Name Last Name, produced, acted (as appropriate or to be emphasized) by name, distributor, year.

Example with emphasis on direction: 

- Las horas. Dirigida por Stephen Daldry, Paramount Pictures/Miramax, 2002. Las horas. Dirigida por Stephen Daldry, Paramount Pictures/Miramax, 2002. 

Example with emphasis on direction and acting:

- Las horas. Dirigida por Stephen Daldry, actuada por Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Harris y Miranda Richardson, Paramount Pictures/Miramax, 2002.

 

Audio recordings

Interpreter's last name, first name. Title in italics. Stamp, year. In case it corresponds to a virtual publication, web address is added at the end.

- Holliday, Billie. The Essence of Billie Holliday. Columbia, 1991. 

A piece of audio inside a disc

Last name, First name of the performer. «Title of the piece in quotation marks». Disc title in italics. Stamp, year. In case it corresponds to a virtual publication, web address is added at the end.

- Jara, Víctor. «Plegaria a un labrador». El derecho de vivir en paz, DICAP, 1971, http://fundacionvictorjara.org/tienda/producto/el-derecho-de-vivir-en-paz-victor-jara-edicion-cd/ 

 

Painting, sculpture or photography

Last name, First name. Title of the work in italics. Composition. Institution where the work is located, city, date.

- Renoir, Pierre Auguste. Paisaje de l’lle de France. Óleo sobre lienzo. Museo Botero, Banco de la República, Bogotá, 1883. 

 

Abbreviations

n. d.: no date

n. l.: no location

n. p.: no page

s. n.: no publisher’s name (sine nomine)

p. pp.: page - pages

cf. o cfr.: compare, consult (confer)

ant.: anthology 

col.: collection 

comp.: compiler 

ed.: editorial, editor, o edition 

C. W.: Complete Works