Focus and Scope

The journal publishes a volume each year as it alternates between those dedicated to Linguistics (odd numbers) and those dedicated to Literature (even numbers.) In the volumes oriented towards Linguistics the preferential areas are: the Spanish language, General Linguistics and Classical Philology, and only exceptionally is work related to other areas published. In the volumes oriented towards Literature, the preferential areas are: Spanish Literature, Galician Philology and Literary Theory, although other work on literature in all languages is also commonly accepted.

The common structure for the volumes of this journal includes articles and reviews. Quite frequently, above all in the volumes dedicated to Literature, there exists a monographic section which makes up the first block of articles. In those dedicated to Linguistics, the articles themselves are kept separate from the “notes”, or papers conceived as being shorter in format or about a very specific area of research.

Peer Review Process

The original articles received for their publication in Moenia will be reviewed by two specialists, whose selection will be based on their competence in the central scientific topic of the article in question. The reviewers will have to turn in their report on the article in two months’ time. Their reports will take into account the scientific quality of the work, the appropriate use of the existing bibliography on that topic, and their suitability to be included in the pages of a journal with the formal characteristics of Moenia.

Publication Frequency

Annual

Open Access Policy

Moenia has open access to its full-text content.

There are no processing charges.

Indexed/abstracted in

The journal, published annually, is indexed in ERIH PLUS, LLBA, MLA, LINGUISTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY, ESCI, REGESTA IMPERII, REDIB, Fuente Academica Premier, PASCAL, ISOC, ULRICH, DIALNET and is present at 43,39% of the Spanish universities ioffering philological studies (22/51).

In the RESH index, Moenia occupies, in the period 2004-2008, position 23 out of 50 among the Spanish journals in General Lingüistics with the highest impact. This index is provided by the citation index which is calculated on the basis of all the citations in the main Spanish scientific journals and the citations received at the Web of Science.

Disclaimer and exclusion of liability

Moenia is not responsible for the contents of any article, and the fact of its sponsoring the spreading of an article does not necessarily entail its agreement on the theses exposed in the article.  The editor, in any case, is free of any responsibility resulting from the author’s eventual violation of intellectual property rights.

Review form

Review form

Ethical Guidelines

The publication of scientific articles involves several actors, including the publisher, the editors in chief, the reviewers and the authors. It is expected that each of these agents have an ethical behaviour referred to ethical principles partially inspired in those provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines.

Publisher:

The publisher provides technical assistance and support to the journal editors in the use of the web platform, and maintains the software updated and able to facilitate the submission, evaluation and publication process of scientific works. The publisher also collaborates with the editors in chief indexing the papers, providing information about the databases requirements and, so, contributing to the Journal positioning in the usual rankings. Broadly, the publisher should helps to increase the editorial quality of the Journal, contributing to its visibility, internationalization and impact.

Editors in chief:

Editors in chief ensures that manuscripts submitted are evaluated based exclusively on its intellectual content, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political affiliation or philosophical trend of the authors. They guarantee the confidentiality of the work, not revealing the identity of the authors to other agents except to those authorized by the publisher, the potential reviewers, the actual reviewers or the editorial board of the journal. Editors can refuse a job if it not satisfy the formal requirements or approach a subject not belonging to the scope of the journal. Editors communicate within the deadlines, once they see the referees and heard the editorial board, the acceptance or rejection of the submitted papers.

Reviewers:

Reviewers should refuse to refer a paper if they do not feel qualified in the subject approached or if they can not take the evaluation within the deadline suggested by the Journal. The referee report should be objective and written in a clearly and reasoned style. Reviewers should avoid ad hominem references and offensive or demeaning comments; their suggestions should focus mainly on the improvement work. Reviewers should treat manuscripts as confidential documents, and their contents is not used in their own works. Reviewers should reject referee papers if they show a conflict of interest, for example a past or present relationship with the paper's authors or the institutions they depend.

Authors:

Authors should submit papers containing original research on a clearly identifiable and not previously published subject. They should not send articles including a substantial part of others papers or books already published. Papers should be written so that they can be understood or replicated by reviewers. If ideas of others are used, they should be clearly referenced; plagiarism is an unacceptable behaviour and its detection involves cancel the submission or remove it from the platform if it was already published. In case of co-authorship, all people that significantly contribute to the paper are considered its author; each author should be able to identify which parts of the work are own and which parts are from others authors, and must maintain confidentiality of the all contents until the article is published. Simultaneous paper sending to other Journals is a sufficient condition for archiving it. If in the process of the paper edition the authors find errors or improprieties, they should communicate to the editors in chief as soon as possible and cooperate in their correction. Authors should communicate the potential conflict of interest between the paper findings and the financial support.

These guidelines are consistent with the ethical code of the University of Santiago de Compostela, institution to which this Journal belongs.

https://www.usc.es/gl/goberno/valedor/codigoetico/CodigoEtico.html

Digital preservation policy

This journal develops various processes in order to preserve permanent access to digital objects hosted on its own servers:

- Backups.
- Monitoring of the technological environment to foresee possible migrations of obsolete formats or software.
- Digital preservation metadata.
- Use of DOI.

The files published on this website are available in easily reproducible formats (PDF)

Interoperability protocols

Moenia provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) that allows other websites and information services to harvest the published content metadata.

Specifications:

OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0
Dublin Core Metadata 1.1

URL for harvesters:
https://revistas.usc.gal/index.php/moenia/oai

Journal History

Moenia came about in 1995 as the first scientific periodical published at the Lugo Campus; it was the result of the strong demand for periodical publications at the University level in the Hispanic world for the fields of Linguistics and Literature. Moenia was initially conceived with this dual focus on the fields of Linguistics and Literature, which would cause its publications to alternate between the two so that volumes dedicated to Linguistics are published in odd years and to Language in even years. Consequently, the director of the journal shared by two professors, Dr. Alexandre Veiga and Dr. Claudio Rodríguez Fer whose areas of specialization are respectively, Spanish Language and Spanish Literature. Currently, the secretarial role is shared by two professors, Dr. Miguel González Pereira (Linguistics) and Dr. Ana Chouciño Fernández (Literature).

Since its beginnings, the scientific interests of this periodical have been centered on the areas of Spanish language and literature, Galician Philology, Classical Philology, General Linguistics and Literary Theory, although a it may also admit work done on literature in other languages.

The selection of the members that make up the scientific committee was carried out from the onset with a certain rigorous thoroughness so as to include the names of the primary figures of philological and linguistic research in Spain as well as in other foreign countries. Some of the researchers who formed part of the initial scientific committee have already passed away such as Emilio Alarcos Llorach, Eugenio Coseriu, Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz, Claudio Guillén, Rafael Lapesa, Isaías Lerner, José Luis Rivarola o Alonso Zamora Vicente.

During the first period of the journal’s history, which was produced in printed volumes annually until 2011, the pages of Moenia were honored to publish the work of some of the most well-known figures to be found at the international level in the fields focused on by this journal, among them are: Eugenio Coseriu, Noam Chomsky, and Tullio de Mauro,as well as Academics who form part of the Real Academia Española such as Emilio Alarcos Llorach, Ignacio Bosque, Rafael Lapesa, Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Salvador Gutiérrez Ordóñez, Darío Villanueva and Alonso Zamora Vicente, and also many other names worthy of the highest scientific recognition, in some cases, they have appeared alongside new researchers who found in this publication an excellent setting in which to communicate and circulate the products of their investigative research. The plurality in the academic training of its contributors has been another of the magazine’s interests since the start. Hence, during its first stage on paper, Moenia published work coming not only from Spanish universities, but also from those of many other countries such as: Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, China, Cuba, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Mexico, Portugal, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The planning of Moenia as an international journal since its first volume solidified the selection of the members of its scientific committee as well, and at a later date, allowed for the incorporation of some foreign researchers into the editorial committee.