Author Guidelines
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Standards for manuscripts
RELACES receives scientific articles (not essays) and original bibliographic reviews on topics related to the sociology of bodies and emotions. Originals are understood to be those works that have not been previously published and that have not been sent to other journals for consideration. Only submissions made through the OJS system and that respect the following editorial rules will be accepted:
Form and Preparation of the articles
- The submission must be made in a file compatible with Microsoft Word;
- The length must be a minimum of 6000 words and a maximum of 8000, counting notes, bibliography and footnotes (and excluding abstracts in two languages);
- The first page should include the following information:
The Title of the work in the original language in which it was sent and English. A short summary of up to 200 words in English and Spanish (or Portuguese) as well as 5 keywords in English and Spanish (or Portuguese). Separated by semicolons and capitalized in the first letter.
Author (s) data as follows: Surname, Name. Center or department to which he / she is / are employed, complete, without using acronyms, followed by the Country. Email address and ORCID.
The name must include a footnote with the academic degree of the author (s) as well as a brief summary of institutional membership, membership in thematic networks, research teams, teaching positions and other information that they consider relevant.
- Text Settings:
Source: Calibrí
Body: 11 points
Paragraph alignment: justified
Line spacing: single
The first line indentation by 1.25 cm.
Paragraph spacing: back 6 pts.
- Tables, as well as graphs, maps, figures and diagrams: they must be presented in the place in the text where they should be inserted. The epigraph or references must be after it (without space of separation) in Calibrí 9 letter, left alignment. Tables must be numbered with the Arabic system (table 1, 2, 3, etc.) and Roman for maps, plans, figures, plates and photographs (figure i, ii, iii, etc.).
- Use of bold and italics: The bold will be used only for titles. The bold and underlined that have the function of highlighting text, should be replaced by italics / italics (for example, a word in another language, interview phrases).
- Titles or subtitles: they must be differentiated from each other. Convert the titles adopting the following levels.
Level 1: Use bold capital and lowercase letters, left margin.
Level 2: Use upper and lower case, bold italic, left margin.
Level 3: Use uppercase and lowercase in italics, no bold, left margin.
Level 4: Use Uppercase and Lowercase, Left Margin
- Footnotes: They should go to the footer and added with the function “Insert / Footnote. The size of the font in the footer must be 9 points, justified alignment, without spacing, or line spacing.
- Quotes:
Transcripts in the body of text (that is, they do not go in a separate paragraph due to their length) must be enclosed in double quotation marks (""). If the text is in italics, they should be removed.
Transcriptions of more than 5 lines of text will be in a separate paragraph, without first line indentation, without opening and closing quotation marks, and their left margin will be 0.5 cm.
Both for short or long transcriptions (with a separate paragraph) in cases where the text of a sentence cited at the beginning or at the end is deleted, ellipsis should be added. For example: “… the quoted text begins here. And here it ends without a period… ”In cases where part of a quotation has been deleted from the text of this, an ellipsis must be placed between parentheses. For example: “The quote begins here (…) Text has already been deleted. End."
Bibliographic references within the text: the author's last name, year and page written in parentheses will be used: (Gomes Minho, 1995: 28).
- Preparation of Bibliographic References
Bibliography: We will follow APA standards. Only those texts that are cited in the body of the work should be cited in the bibliographic references. The bibliographical references will be at the end of the article. It should contain DOI, where applicable.
Indicative examples:
Magazine article:
Surname, X. & Surname, Y. (year). Article title. Magazine, volume (number), pages. http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxxxxxScribano, A. (2020). L’amour comme scandale. Societes, (3), 11-14. https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.149.0011
Schaefer, NK y Shapiro, B. (2019). Nuevo capítulo intermedio en la historia de la evolución humana. Science, 365 (6457), 981–982. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay3550
Book:
Surname, X. (year). Title of the book. Editorial.
Scribano, A. (2019). Love as a Collective Action: Latin America, Emotions and Interstitial Practices. Routledge.
Sapolsky, RM (2017). Comportarse: la biología de los humanos en nuestro mejor y peor. Penguin Books.
Chapter of the book:
Surname, X. and Surname, Y. (year). Title of the book chapter. In X. Surname (Ed.), Book Title (pp. Xx-xx). Editorial. DOI
Nievas, F. (2007). La moral del consumo. En A. Scribano (comp.) Policromia corporal. Cuerpos, Grafías y Sociedad (págs.20-44). Universitas.
Aron, L., Botella, M. y Lubart, T. (2019). Artes culinarias: el talento y su desarrollo. En RF Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius y FC Worrell (Eds.), La psicología del alto rendimiento: desarrollo del potencial humano en talento específico de dominio (págs. 345–359). Asociación Americana de Psicología. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016
About Reviews
The format of the reviews must respect what is stipulated for the articles regarding the format and manner of citation. However, the minimum length for them will be 1500 words and the maximum 2000 words.
They must be original (and not have been sent simultaneously to another publication for consideration) and a recent bibliographic work linked to the theme of the journal.
Additionally, reviews must:
. Have an independent title different from that of the reviewed work.
. Have an abstract (between 100 and 200 words in length), title and five keywords in two languages: English and Spanish, or Portuguese and English (as appropriate).
. Include all the bibliographic data of the reviewed work.
Manuscript submission
The articles will only be received through the online upload form that the site has (see section "Online shipments" above); after having completed the registration in the system as "author".
Failure to respect these guidelines may be sufficient reason for rejection and automatic removal of articles and reviews without the need for an evaluation process.
Since September 2010 (until further notice), the magazine has permanently open the call for the presentation of originals, and these can be sent throughout the year to be considered for publication.
Copyright notice
The authors retain the copyright, granting the journal the right of first publication.
"Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad" of the Programa de Acción Colectiva y Conflicto Social is protected under Creative Commons Reconocimiento-No comercial-Sin obras derivadas 2.5 Argentina License.
Permissions beyond this license can be acquired at www.relaces.com.ar.
This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle that making research freely available to the public contributes to a greater global knowledge exchange.
Measures will be taken to identify and prevent the publication of articles in which cases of misconduct have occurred in the investigation.
Neither the "Latin American Journal of Studies on Bodies, Emotions and Society", nor the "Program of Studies of Collective Action and Social Conflict", nor the CENTER OF INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES ON CULTURE AND SOCIETY - CENTRO CIENTIFICO TECNOLOGICO CONICET - CORDOBA - CONSEJO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Y TECNICAS, on which the latter depends, are responsible for the non-compliance or violation by the authors of the rules hereby subscribed and explicitly accepted by them when sending the manuscripts.