Author Guidelines

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF AUTORSHIP

Those who send a collaboration to publish in this magazine must take into account that the writing must have been read and approved by all the signatories and that each of them must agree with its presentation to the magazine.

Acknowledgment of authorship should be based on: 1) significant contributions to the idea and design of the study or to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or critically revising it for substantial intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published. In the original articles, the roles of authorship and participation must be declared in accordance with the CRediT taxonomy:

1. Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
2. Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
3. Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
4. Funding acquisition ​- Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
5. Investigation – ​Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
6. Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
7. Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
8. Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
9. Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
10. Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
11. Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
12. Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
13. Writing – original draft –​Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
14. Writing – review & editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria should be included as “special thanks”. All academic collaboration roles are described in the CRediT taxonomy (hdlab.space/taxonomia). At the time of sending, all authors must be uploaded.

How to include this data: 

They are added at the end of the article under a subheading:

Contribution of authorship roles

Juana María (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) and Susana Pérez (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed to the conception of the idea and design of the study ; Nora González (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) participated in the research process and data collection; María Domínguez pl(https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data. All authors contributed to the writing of the article, approved the final version for publication, and are able to respond to all aspects of the manuscript.

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GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF WORK

Character. The works submitted for consideration for publication in the journal Signo y Seña constitute definitive manuscripts.

Languages. The final manuscript must be written exclusivelly in Spanish or Portuguese, including textual quotations incorporated into the work.

Title, summary and keywords: must be in Spanish, Portuguese and in English.

Editable file. A "doc" version of the final manuscript developed with any word processor (Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, etc.) must be loaded into the system as the main document.

File not editable. A "pdf" version of the final manuscript must be uploaded to the system as an additional document. ("Pdf" files can be generated from "doc" versions from <http://pdftools.egedsoft.com/>.)

Page format. The definitive manuscript must be produced in sheets size A4 (21,0 x 29,7 cm).

Text box. The final manuscript should flow within margins of 2.5 cm (upper and lower) and 3.0 cm (right and left).

Typography (fonts). The final manuscript must be composed of the Times New Roman font or, preferably, the Deja Vu Serif font. (This second typography is the one used in the magazine's construction, due to the fact that it is an open typeface and It offers a wide table of characters, including those of the AFI. It can be downloaded from <http: // dejavu-fonts. Org / wiki / Main_Page>.)

Body (size). The final manuscript must use a 12 point body in title and subtitle, author name, abstract, keywords and main text; And a 10-point body in every element that cuts the flow of the main text (long textual quotations, footnotes, examples, tables, diagrams, graphs and images) and bibliographical references.

Bold. They are only used to highlight titles and subtitles.

Italics. They are used to mark long textual quotations, titles of works, words in other language, or to highlight words in the text.

Formats. No special format is used, but only the normal template.

Justification. Only the left margin is used.

Line spacing. The line spacing is set to 1.5.

Separation of paragraphs. No tabs or indents are used to mark the beginnings of each paragraph, but only one blank line to separate one paragraph from the next.

Short textual quotations. Text quotations of less than three lines are quoted in the main text; the author, the year and the pages (author year, pages) are indicated in brackets.

Long textual quotations. Textual quotations of more than three lines are in a separate paragraph with a 10-point body letter, in italics and without quotation marks; the author, the year and the pages (author year, pages) are indicated in brackets.

Footnotes. The footnotes, written with a 10-point body letter, are textual, so this resource is not used for the inclusion of bibliographic references.

Examples. Examples are in separate paragraph with 10-point body letter, separated by a space of the main body of the previous and subsequent text, and are numbered in correlative form using round parentheses ((1), (2), (3), etc.) .).

Tables, diagrams, graphics and images. The tables, diagrams, graphics and images are numbered independently of each other and that of the examples; In all cases, are inserted in the text to predict their location, but will be rebuilt when editing the work. Graphs formed from numerical series must be accompanied, in an additional "xls" file, of the respective values.

First page. The title of the work is marked in ups and downs, in body letter 12 and bold. The name and surname of the author or authors along with their institutional affiliation and contact mail data are not included in any part of the work, but in an additional document that reflects, if appropriate, the relative order of the different authors. It includes a summary of up to 200 words in Spanish (abstract), in English (abstract) and in Portuguese (abstract) without indents or tabulations and with simple line spacing; Also, three to five key words in Spanish (keywords), in English (keywords) and in Portuguese (keywords) are included in round and with simple line spacing.

Subtitle. The titles of the different sections of the paper are highlighted in bold and are numbered in decimal form (1., 1.1., 1.1.1., 1.2., 1.3., 2., 2.1., 2.2.1., 2.2.2. .; 3, etc.) to give the logical structure of the text.

Forms of appointment. The definitive manuscript should follow the style "author and year" that is developed in the style manual of the University of Chicago. (A quick guide can be found at <http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html>.) The examples below (first, the citation form in the bibliographic references, second, the form of quotation in the text) are taken from the website of the reference work and hardly adapted to the traditional style guidelines of the Castilian language.

Book> An author

Pollan, Michael. 2006. The omnivore's dilemma: A natural history of four meals. New York: Penguin.

In the text: (Pollan 2006, 99-100).

Book> Two or more authors

Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns. 2007. The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945. New York: Knopf.

In the text: (Ward and Burns 2007, 52).

For more than three authors, list all the authors in the bibliographic references, but in the text only put the last name of the first one: (Barnes et al., 2010).

Book> Editor, translator or compiler instead of an author

Lattimore, Richmond, trans. 1951. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

In the text: (Lattimore 1951, 91-92).

Book> Editor, translator or compiler plus an author

García Márquez, Gabriel. 1988. Love in the time of cholera. Written by Edith Grossman. London: Cape.

In the text: (García Márquez 1988, 242-55).

Book> Chapter or another part of a book

Kelly, John D. 2010. "Seeing red: Mao fetishism, American pax, and the moral economy of war". In Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency, edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell and Jeremy Walton, 67-83. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

In the text: (Kelly 2010, 77).

Book> Preface, introduction, or similar part of a book

Rieger, James. 1982. "Introduction" to Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, xi-xxxvii. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

In the text: (Rieger 1982, xx-xxi).

Book> Electronic publishing

Austen, Jane. 2007. Pride and prejudice. New York: Penguin Classics. Kindle edition.

0Kurland, Philip B. and Ralph Lerner, eds. 1987. The Founders' Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

In the text: (Austen 2007).

In the text: (Kurland and Lerner 1987, Chapter 10, Doc 19).

Academic journal article> Printed magazine

Weinstein, Joshua I. 2009. "The Market in Plato's Republic." Classical Philology 104: 439-58.

In the text: (Weinstein 2009, 440).

Academic journal article> Electronic journal

Kossinets, Gueorgi and Duncan J. Watts. 2009. "Origins of homophily in an evolving social network". American Journal of Sociology 115: 405-450. Date of consultation, February 28, 2010.

Doi: 10.1086 / 599247.

In the text: (Kossinets and Watts 2009, 411).

Newspaper and magazine article> Print and electronic publication

Mendelsohn, Daniel. 2010. "But enough about me". New Yorker, January 25.

Stolberg, Sheryl Gay and Robert Pear. 2010. "Wary centrists posing challenge in health care vote". New York Times, February 27. Date of consultation, February 28, 2010.

Http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html

In the text: (Mendelsohn 2010, 68).

In the text: (Stolberg and Pear 2010).

Thesis

Choi, Mihwa. 2008. "Contesting imaginaires in death rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty". PhD thesis, University of Chicago.

In the text: (Choi 2008, 150-151).

Paper presented at a congress or meeting

Adelman, Rachel. 2009. " 'Such things as dreams are made on': God's footstool in the Aramaic targumim and midrashic tradition." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-24.

In the text: (Adelman 2009).

Websites and blog comments

Google. 2009. "Google privacy policy". Last modified, March 11.

Http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html.

McDonald's Corporation. 2008. "McDonald's happy meal toy safety facts". Date of consultation, 19 July 19.

Http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

Posner, Richard. 2010. "Double exports in five years?" The Becker-Posner Blog, February 21.

Http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/beckerposner/2010/02/double-exports-in-five-years-posner.html.

In the text: (Google 2009).

In the text: (McDonald's 2008).

In the text: (Posner 2010).

Number of references. Taking into account international standards for academic publications, it is recommended to take into account the following parameters when arming the bibliography:

Provide a minimum of ten (10) and a maximum of fifty (50) bibliographical references, of which at least fifty percent (50%) comes from articles in scientific journals.

To include " self quotations " (i.e. quotations to works or documents of the author), to prevent them from representing more than twenty percent (20%) in the body of the manuscript and to add more than three (3) in the bibliographic references.

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Each of the authors must send the ORCID number, unique identification of authors (https://orcid.org/ ).

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