Guidelines for authors

Researcher/s wishing to contribute to the journal can send us their articles signing in our website as authors and following the instructions ‘to the authors’ there established. Articles should be submitted in Word, without layout, in Times New Roman 12 font and between 7000 and 12000 words in length, including footnotes and bibliography. Each author must assure that his/her submissions are original and unpublished, and that they are not under evaluation by another publication. In addition, the text must be completely anonymized and must not contain any reference to works of authorship that could reveal responsibility for the text: if the article is accepted, these references may be included in the final version. Articles will be submitted to a plagiarism detection software before being sent for evaluation.

The journal promotes, stimulates and positively values the gender approach in the research it publishes. Likewise, in the case of quantitative analyses, the journal requests the inclusion of information on whether the source data of the research take into account gender, in order to allow the identification of possible differences.

The journal promotes and values the use of inclusive language in its different variants. We leave it up to the authors to choose which of the variants of inclusive language to use. In any case, we do not allow any publication that uses discriminatory, vexatious or exclusionary language based on gender.

The article should include an initial page containing the title and abstract in Spanish and English. Summary and abstract should be between 150 and 200 words in length and show the objectives and structure of the argument. It should also include a series of key words in the language in which it is written and in English.

Cited references should be listed in a final section, entitled 'Bibliography', according to the following models:

  • Books: Gilman, Claudia (2003). Entre la pluma y el fusil. Dilemas y debates del escritor revolucionario en América Latina. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.
  • Colective books: Mattalia, Sonia y Girona, Nuria (edas.) (2001). Aún y más allá: mujeres y discursos. Caracas: eXcultura.
  • Artícles in colective books: Peris Llorca, Jesús (2012). “La patrimonialización de la fiesta popular: las Fallas de Valencia, patrimonio inmaterial”. Girona, Núria (eda.) La cultura en tiempos de desarrollo: violencias, contradicciones y alternativas. València: Quaderns de Filologia: 221-248.
  • Articles in journals: Peris Blanes, Jaume. “El perseguidor, de Cortázar, entre la figuración de la vanguardia y la emergencia de una nueva subjetividad”. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 74 (2011): 71-92.
  • Blogs, and web sites: Villoro, Juan. “El cielo artificial” MEXartes-berlín.de (2002): http://www.mexartes-berlin.de/esp/02/villoro-print.html.
  • Films: Casabé, Daniel y Dieleke, Edgardo (2011). Cracks de nácar.Argentina: Casabé y Chesze

Miscellany: topics, poetics and issues of contemporary culture

Kamchatka keeps open a miscellany’s call for whom researchers can submit their articles to be evaluated, independently of the monograph or dossier calls connected to each issue. Investigations must have aim at 20th and 21st century’s cultural processes or events, within the sphere of Spanish-speaking culture. Articles will undergo an assessment through the standard procedure of anonymous peer review.

Material, interviews and documents

Kamchatka will publish some material and documents of major cultural value such as interviews, creative texts, testimonials and papers related to the topics discussed in each issue. In order to be published, these documents are required to have a high potential level for further investigations and to push forward the knowledge about a specific investigation theme, although they are not academic research in the strict sense.

Due to their different nature, material, interviews and documents published in the magazine will not undergo the peer review assessment. Nevertheless, all material will be carefully evaluated by the magazine’s editorship, the editorial secretariat and the coordinator/s of the monograph or dossier to which it’s associated.  

Material in this section shall not exceed in any case 20% of the total number of texts published in each issue. 

Monograph or dossier

Kamchatkawill publish monographic blocks or dossiers concerning specific problems, which will rely on the coordination of one or more research specialist/s who will act as invited editor/s. For this purpose, the magazine will launch public calls including thematic lines and axes of argumentation involved in the monographic block.   

 Articles participating in these calls will have to adhere to the thematic and methodological lines described in the call. The evaluation process will be standard, but it will always count on the presence of invited editors in every step and decision. In order to be published, articles will have to rely not only on the positive evaluation of the anonymous reviews, but also on the approval given by the monograph’s or dossier’s coordinator/s, who will ensure that each text conform to the lines proposed in the call.

Reviews

The journal will order and accept reviews of recent publications (last 4 years) linked to cultural analysis. Fundamentally, publications related to Hispanic cultures will be reviewed. However, reviews of theoretical publications related to other cultures will be accepted as well, only if they have a methodical and theoretical interest that justify its value in the debate around critics and actual analysis.  

Reviews will be subjected to an internal revision before acceptance.

Rescued Texts

Exceptionally, non-unpublished texts will be published, but previously published in part or in super totality that constitute a contribution of great relevance to a subject of study of the journal and that, for whatever reason, are not directly accessible by the public investigator . The rescued texts are preferably linked to Monographs or Specialized dossiers and made exceptional contributions. Only the publishers of dossiers or Monographs may propose the "rescue" of texts already published for super publication in the journal. In all cases the "rescued" texts including a clear mention of the original super publication.

Book proposal

Kamchatka will open periodic calls for the publication of annexed volumes in the Kamchatka collection of the publishing house La sheep red. The proposals submitted to these calls will be subjected to an internal pre-evaluation process from which a first shortlist of proposals will be drawn, whose authors will be summoned to present the manuscript of the book in a period not exceeding six months. With the presentation of the manuscript, a peer evaluation process identical to that of the journal's research articles will begin, which will have doctors specializing in the work area of the proposal, who may propose the acceptance, rejection or inclusion of modifications to the text.
The book will be considered an annexed volume of the magazine and will consist, for all purposes, with the quality indications derived from it.

 

Post-release Discussions and Corrections

The drafting Committee of Kamchatka. Journal of cultural analysis undertakes to publish adjustments, clarification, retractions and apologies when needed. In pursuance of this good practice, the arbitration system used to select articles and the assessment criteria applied by external evaluators (both anonymous and peer ones) are published. These will guarantee the confidentiality of the evaluation process at any time: the anonymity of evaluators and authors, the evaluated content, the reasoned report issued by evaluators and any other communication realized by the Editorial, Advisory and Scientific committees. In the same way, confidentiality will be maintained towards potential clarifications, claims or complaints wished to be sent by an author to the magazine’s committees or to the article’s evaluators.