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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  • The manuscript is unpublished and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere.
  • The submitted file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format.
    The text must have single line spacing, a 12 point font, and must use cursive rather than underline (except for URLs). All illustrations, figures and tables must be positioned correctly, and not at the end of the text.
  • The article meets all requirements set in the Author Guidelines page in "About the Journal".

Author Guidelines

Originality of the work, languages of publication and evaluation process

Any work proposed for publication in Anàlisi should pay attention to the editorial line and follow the publishing guidelines set out in this section.

The journal accepts originals in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Anàlisi only publishes original work: any articles sent should not have been published beforehand or be undergoing assessment by any other journal. Very exceptionally, the Editorial Committee may recommend the translation of an article disseminated in another publication owing to its relevance.

After evaluation by the Publishing Committee, all articles received go through an blind peer review process by assessors appointed by the Editorial Committee.

Anàlisi admits academic essays whenever imply rigorous theoretical reflections of professors of recognized prestige and wide trajectory that contribute new knowledge to the analysis of the social reality and the communicative panorama. The extension can range between 4,000 and 6,000 words. The text must be well-founded, justified and referenced. Like all the other papers, it will be supervised by blind evaluation.


Blind peer review process

Anàlisi believes in a blind review process of the papers. The evaluation process shall be directed towards proposals for improvements or modifications that unambiguously help authors to improve their works, but shall never involve sanctions or impracticable revision proposals.

We see the review process as an dialogue between authors and reviewers, the sole purpose of which should be the improvement of the paper, in order to disseminate precise knowledge that promotes discussion and knowledge exchange in the scientific community.

Stages in the process of evaluating a paper

The time required to perform the evaluation process will be approximately three months

  1. Stage 1: sending of the original via the journal’s own platform. All the registration fields and steps must be completed. Then use the log in system to proceed.

  2. Stage 2: acceptance for the evaluation process by the journal’s Publishing Board. This stage can have two outcomes: (1) the Publishing Board may decline to publish the paper if it does not meet the journal’s criteria regarding subject matter and format; or (2) the Publishing Board begins the process of evaluation by external reviewers.

  3. Stage 3: notification to the author of the result of stage 2.

  4. Stage 4: evaluation of the original by external reviewers over a period of approximately 20 days.

  5. Stage 5: notification to the journal management of the evaluation process result, from the reviewers.

  6. Stage 6: notification to the author of the result of the evaluation.

The author shall receive a qualitative review with advice and comments that help them to improve their paper, as well as a quantitative review.

In order to improve their evaluation score, the author may resubmit their paper as many times as they see fit, provided it has passed the first stage of the review process involving the Publishing Board.

Formal criteria

All articles that are sent to the Editorial Committee of Anàlisi for consideration must include the following information:

  • Title.

  • Title in Spanish or Catalan. 

  • ORCID identifier, if available. Anàlisi. Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura, recommends authors to register in https://orcid.org/ in order to obtain an ORCID identifier.

  • Abstract (of 200-300 words) with the essential aspects and results of the work.

  • Abstract in Spanish.

  • Keywords (between 4 and 6).

  • Keywords (between 4 and 6) in English if this is not the original language.

  • Body of the article, organised in sections and subsections.

  • Bibliography

Originals should be submitted in electronic file format and may not under any circumstances exceed 6,000 words, including the body of the article, abstracts, notes and bibliography.

The bibliography must be acceptable and up-to-date. It is recommended that the authors mentioned would be approximately twenty, most of them from recent years and come from university academic journals, part of them in English.

It is recommended that self-citations [quotes from the author of the article] or self-references [citations to other articles published in the same journal] should not exceed 20% of the total.

Articles may include notes, providing they are essential, which should be placed at the foot of the page.

Quotes should be inserted in the text following the Harvard or parenthetical system, e.g. (Sartori, 1998: 123). Letters (a, b, c...) should be used to distinguish different work by the same author and year.

Graphs, tables and pictures that are interspersed in the text should also be sent in a separate file. These should be numbered and have a caption that identifies the content. We recommend that they should be restricted to no more than ten. Tables should be numbered using Roman numerals (Table I) and graphs with Arabic figures (Figure 1).

Bibliographical references

It is compulsory that the author checks all article references against CrossRef database through the Simple Text Query Service in order to include al existing Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).

These should also be obligatorily presented following the ISO 690 standard (INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ORGANIZATION), as shown in the following examples (check also our latest papers published for more examples of Bibliographical references)

a) Books or dossiers

SURNAME(S), Initial(s) of the forename. (year). Title. Edition number. Place of publication. Publisher. Length and material details. (Collection; number).

Examples:

CASTELLS, M. (1997). La era de la información. La sociedad red. Madrid: Alianza, 2000. 2nd. ed., vol. 1

SHANE, P. M. (ed.) (2004). Democracy online: The prospects for political renewal through the Internet. New York: Routledge.

b) For parts of books, contributions in a miscellany, compilations

SURNAME(S), Initial(s) of the forename. (year). "Title of the part of the book". At: Bibliographical details of the complete work, location of the part of the book.

If the author or editor of the book is the same as the part of the book being quoted:

Example:

KOLLOCK, P. (2003). "Regalos y bienes públicos en el ciberespacio". In: M. SMITH, P. KOLLOCK (ed.). Comunidades en el ciberespacio. Barcelona: Editorial UOC. 1st. ed., pp. 259-282.

If the author or editor of the book is not the same as the part of the book being quoted:

Example:

BAYM, N. K. (1998) "The Emergence of On-line Community". A: S. G. Jones (ed.). Cybersociety 2.0. Revisting Computer Mediated Commmunications and Community. SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452243689 


c) For periodical publications

Title: subtitle (year). Vol. Issue Place of publication. Publisher. Frequency.

Example:

Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento (RUSC). Vol. 2. Issue 1. UOC. Twice a year

d) For articles in periodical publications

SURNAME(S), Initial(s) of the forename. (year). "Title of the article". Title of the journal or manual. Vol., issue number, pp, start-end page.

Example:

COLL, C. (2004). "Psicología de la educación y prácticas educativas mediadas miedo las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Una mirada constructivista". Sinéctica. Issue 25, separata, pp. 1-24.

e) For electronic documents

SURNAME(S), Initial(s) of the forename. (year). Title of the work [content unit + type of medium]. Publisher. [Date consulted: dd/mm/yy]. <URL>

Example:

TRÉNEL, M. (2004). Measuring the quality of online deliberation. Coding scheme 2.4 [on line]. Berlín: Social Science Research Center. [Date consulted: 06/06/05].

 

Thesis

The purpose of this section is to help spread news of new lines of study and of progress made by researchers who have recently completed their doctorates, through reviews of the defended theses. The reviews may be sent by the author of the thesis or by a member of the publication’s Publishing Board or Editorial Board, which will post notifications on doctoral theses recently published openly in any of the existing institutional repositories.

The publication of reviews will not be subject to any peer review processes, indexing, or criteria relating to the publication frequency of the journal, as they will be updated on the web site periodically.

Copyright Notice

All contents published by Anàlisi are subject to license Attribution 3.0 Spain from Creative Commons, whose complete text can be consulted at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed.en. Thus, copying, distribution, public communication, derivative works and commercial use of content are permitted as of the aforementioned issue provided that the source (Anàlisi) and the author of the text are cited.

It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the necessary permits for images that are subject to copyright. 

For uses of the contents not foreseen in these rules of publication it is necessary to directly contact the director of the journal through the address revista.analisi@uab.cat

Unless otherwise indicated, we'll consider our privacy statement and legal notice accepted upon completion of a submission and of the register form.

The author hereby declares that he/she is the original author of the work. The editors shall thus not be held responsible for any obligation or legal action that may derive from the work submitted in terms of violation of third parties' rights, whether intellectual property, trade secret or any other right.

Privacy Statement

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1. Data Collection and Consent

In compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we herein inform users that the personal data requested in our forms or that might be provided via our email addresses, based on unambiguous explicit consent, is included in our personal data files for which the UAB is the owner and responsible. Thus, when filling in any of the forms with the personal data requested and accepting its being sent or sending us an email with personal data, the user expressly authorizes and consents to the UAB processing and incorporating this personal data provided and all the data generated from the user's participation or use of the different products or services offered on this website, though this may be revoked but not with retroactive effects, and accepts the data processing terms set out below.

Likewise, we inform users that all data shall be processed confidentially and in accordance with the data protection legislation in force, and that our files are legally registered in the Catalan Data Protection Agency's General Register.

The UAB accepts no responsibility for personal data processing on web pages that users access via the different links to be found on our website.

This website is regulated by the legislation exclusively applicable to Spain, to which users of this website, whether in Spain or abroad, shall be subject.

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Personal metadata related with a published article (name and surname, profesional affiliation, ORCID number, country) are deposited and distributed, associated with an article, in order to assign a DOI through Crossreff.

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8. Modifications of this Data Protection Policy

This data protection policy was established on 5 May 2018. The UAB reserves the right to modify its data protection policy in future in accordance with its own criteria or due to a change in the legislation, jurisprudence or business practices. If the UAB introduces any changes, the new text shall be published on this same page, where the user is provided with information on the data protection policy. In any case, the relationship with users shall be governed by the regulations in force at the precise moment when they access the website and, as a result, they must be read every time users provide their data via our website.