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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

1) Submitted manuscripts must be unpublished and not being under revision by another journal.

2) Originals are accepted in the following languages: Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish.

3) You can use any word processors for WINDOWS or Apple-Macintosh.

4) Manuscript length should not exceed 9,000 words. Title, text, footnotes and bibliography should be formatted in Times New Roman 12; quotes in separate paragraph, in size 10 Times New Roman.

5) The papers must be headed in the following way:

  • title of the paper: centered, block capitals in bold, size 12;
  • name and surnames of the author: under the title, centered, fine small letters, size 10;
  • affiliation (university or institution):  under the name, centered, size 10;
  • abstract (maximum 150 words);
  • key words (maximum of 5);
  • abstract in English;
  • keywords in English

6) Quotes up to 3 lines with angular quotes («») in the text (not italics), size 12. Longer quotes shall be placed in a separate paragraph, justified and left indentation, size 10; optionally with angular quotes («»).  Use single quotation marks for a quote within a quote ('').

7) Footnotes using the word processor

8) The indentation of the first line of the paragraphs, both in the text and in the footnotes, will be done with the “format” or “paragraph design” from the toolbar.

9) It is not recommended to use bibliographical references in footnotes. It is recommend to include bibliographical references in the text, according these models:

or without round brackets. Examples:

10)  If authors don’t include the bibliography at the end of the article, they will include the complete bibliographical reference in the first citation in footnote and according to these models:

11) Do not repeat a full reference after the first entry. Please use forms as op. cit., ibidem, idem.

12) If you include the bibliography at the end of the work, use a separate heading:   Bibliography, centered, size 12,  and the references in alphabetical order. Examples: 


13) Editorial board reserves the right to make slight alterations to the papers received, in order to correct mechanical or linguistic mistakes. If the modifications needed were significant, the author would be consulted to request his/her approval.

 

Tables and charts

Tables and charts shall comply with the following standards:

  • -double spaced;
  • -numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals;
  • -with a concise heading and explanatory notes;
  • -maximum of 20 columns;
  • -referenced in the main text as Table I, Table II, etc.

Figures
The maps, graphs, drawings, plans (without framing) and photographs will be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.).  A list of figures, numbered correlatively with corresponding footnotes (as complete as possible), must be included.

In case of digitalisation (“scanning”) it shall be in line mode or bitmap (never in grey scale):

  • -drawings, plans, maps, etc. in TIFF format, resolution of 600-1200 dots per inch;
  • -photographs in TIFF format, resolution of 300 dots per inch.

Copyright Notice

When publishing in Sémata, the author/authors cedes/cede all the exploitation rights of his/her/their article (including distribution, public communication, reproduction and transformation) to the University of Santiago de Compostela, which, under the conditions and within the restrictions stated in the legislation on intellectual property, is the holder of the copyright and, therefore, of all the patrimonial rights expressed, while the author/authors maintain all the moral rights corresponding to them by the law (art. 14 TRLPI).

Not withstanding the above considerations, all contents of this edition, except where otherwise noted, are distributed open access under a Creative Commons BY NC ND 4.0 international license. Any form of reproduction, distribution, public communication or transformation of this work not included under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license can only be carried out with the express authorization of the copyright holder, save where otherwise provided by the law. You can access the full text of the license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode