Submissions

Author Guidelines

Apart from a certain definite format which might be required by the editor, the articles that are sent for possible publication in Moenia should be sent to the Secretary of this journal and should comply with the following rules:

1) The extension of any paper postulated as an article will not be inferior to 30,000 characters nor superior to 250,000.

2) In the case of co-authorship, an article will not be signed by more than three names.

3) The text should be written for DIN-A4 page format, using the format applied by the computer program by default.

4) The letter should be, as a rule, Times, or Times New Roman

5) Letter size should be as follows: 12 for the general text, title of the article and author information, 10 for the abstract and key words, examples, spaced quotes, copied texts, and bibliographies, 9 for foot-notes, text included in tables and graphs, and also headers and table and graph notes.

6) The letter style should be as follows:

— General text: normal lower case (using no other upper case letters than those necessary for correct spelling).

• — Article title: bold lower case.
• — Main sections: bold upper case.
• — Sub-sections: bold lower case.
• — Other sections (lowest levels): normal lower case italics.
• — To emphasize when using normal lower case: italics (ex. “The structure of Hamlet”).
• — To emphasize when using italics: bold italics (ex. The structure of Hamlet).
• — The use of underlining is to be avoided, except for special cases.

7) It should be single-spaced.

8) Blank spaces having letter size 12 will only be allowed in the following cases:

• — Before the title of the article: 6 lines.
• — Between the title and the author information: 1 line.
• — Between the author information and the abstract + key words: 2 lines.
• — Between the keywords and the beginning of the article: 1 line.
• — Before each section or the beginning of each numbered paragraph: 1 line.
• — Before the “Bibliography” section: 3 lines.

9) Original articles should be no longer than 50 pages, except for special cases.

10) The authors should not include headers or footers. If the pages are numbered in the original, this enumeration should start with the number 1.

11) In the first paragraph in the text, after the section and after the indentation, each paragraph will have a 1cm margin.

12) A 1 cm hanging indentation will be used for each of the entries included in the list of bibliographical references. The same margin will be applied to all sections longer than one line.

• — 11) Centered information will only be used for those paragraphs that have:
• — The name(s) and information about the author(s). In a column in co-authored cases.
• — Headers and titles of tables and graphs.
• — The “Bibliography” section.

13) Between the author’s information and the beginning of the text, the author should include, in the same language in which the article is written, an abstract followed by the keywords. The abstract and keywords will be repeated in English if this is not the language in which the article is written; in those cases in which the author prefers it, the editorial department of Moenia will provide a translation.

14) Authorship of works. In works of multiple authorship, the responsible author must be identified, who will also be the contact author. It is the responsibility of the responsible author to ensure the recognition of all authors who share responsibility for the work and to ensure that all of them know and have approved the final version of the document.
The names of the authors must appear in alphabetical order by the first surname in case they all contributed in the same way in the work. If the contribution of each author is different, it is recommended to state it in a note using the conventionalized terminology CRediT (https://casrai.org/credit/).

15) Abbreviations or commonly used Latin expressions (ex.: vid., op. cit., ibid., cfr. supra, infra) should be expressed in italics. Terms used in a foreign language different from the one in which the text is written should always appear in italics.

16) “English” quotation marks should be used to delimit titles of articles, quoted texts, and emphasized long texts. The use of italics is preferred to emphasize single words or brief phrases.

17) For texts written in romance languages, the single quotation marks will be used to emphasize meanings or meaning features.

18) Quotes for the author-date system will follow these general models:

• Williams (1999: 123-4).
• Williams (1999: § 33).
• (Williams 1999: 123-4).
• (Williams 1999: § 33).

It is understood that in these references, only the last names should appear and no punctuation marks should be used except for the periods between the date and the page number, paragraph, etc. In the co-authored cases “&” should be used: (ex. Smith & Williams; Smith, Dubois & Williams). The last name(s) of the author(s) should appear exactly as they do in the text quoted.

19) For the bibliographical references, general criteria as applied to the following examples should be used:

• Williams, T. (1999): Artists in the diaspora. Cambridge: Kings Books.
• Williams, T. (1999): Artists in the diaspora. Cambridge: Kings Books, 2005³.
• Williams, T. (1999): Artists in the diaspora. Cambridge: Kings Books / New York: McMillan.
• Williams, T. (1999): “Problems on textual criticism”. Millennium Review 3/1, 223-9.
• Williams, T. & W. Smith: “On artificial languages”. En V. T. González Fernández & W. Smith (eds.): Communicative dimensions. Raleigh WV: Littera, 114-25.