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Signo y Pensamiento is a half-yearly academic journal devoted to the fields of communication, the media, information sciences, languages and language pedagogies. The authors may send their contributions to signoyp@javeriana.edu.co. The texts must abide by the following parameters:
1. The material must be unpublished and shall not be simultaneously submitted for publication purposes to any other journal, whether national or international. Articles whose content has been mostly or wholly published shall not be received (double publication). The authors shall be responsible for obtaining the authorizations from the copyright holders of any previously published material (pictures and graphs). The article shall include a letter certifying that all the authors support its publication in Signo y Pensamiento; likewise, the letter must state if the article has been submitted for consideration to any other publication and if part of its content has already been published.
2. The topics of interest of the journal include:
a. Theoretical and methodological trends in the field of communication and their multidisciplinary relationships: the mass media as cultural industries, their narratives and formats, the relationships between media-related narratives and the cultural environment; political communication and its articulations with communications policies, the media and citizenship agendas of modern societies; significance processes and communication practices
b. The conceptual, logical and physical models for the organization, storage, flow, dissemination and recovery of information and knowledge. The development and architectural processes of scientific knowledge and knowledge networks, as well as their integration with telecommunication systems and the hybridization of the systems for the organization of knowledge along with information systems. The environments of the organizations, their culture and the tasks related to knowledge and information management from the approach of dynamizing agents and countable assets.
c. The foundation of language as a discipline and its relationship with other knowledge domains. The analysis of different types of expression, the multiplicity of languages from the media and the diversity of types of social interaction. The analysis of language and discourse problems, applied linguistics, language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as the analysis and formulation of linguistic policies.
d. Social problems such as exclusion, the exercise of rights, the digital gap and method innovation including processes, products, uses and appropriations in relation to communication, language and information that increase social and cultural development.
e. Key and basic technologies and multimedia convergences from communication, language and information that may allow researchers, teachers and students to develop, transfer or appropriate emerging and incipient technologies.
3. The journal will prioritize articles derived from research and will receive manuscripts that make a contribution to its topics of interest from a critical, analytical or interpretative perspective. Their structure should follow a logical order evidencing the context of the research (introduction), the description of the tools used for obtaining the findings (results) and the explanation of what the results allow to deduce (conclusions). In the case of the article being a bibliographic research it should be careful and thorough; it shall also have at least fifty (50) references. We also welcome papers drawing on original research results which introduce theoretical, methodological or critical reflections in relation to our areas of interest.
4. The articles can be written and sent in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
5. The manuscripts shall be prepared pursuant to the Sixth Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). The instructions in English may be found at: http://www.apastyle.org/.
6. The articles should have a maximum of 8,000 words. Pages should be double-spaced; authors should use the 12-point Times New Roman font and .doc or .docx extensions (Word 2003, 2007 or 2010).
7. General guidelines for submitting the article:
a. Introductory page: it includes the full title of the article (in its original language with the corresponding English translation), a short version of the title for the headings of the pages (no more than 50 characters), the personal data of the authors (nationality, institutional filiation, postal address, phone numbers and e-mail address), origin of the article and acknowledgments, if any.
b. Page 1: it includes an abstract in its original language, with the corresponding translation into English (each one should have between 100 and 150 words). Likewise, this page should include a maximum of five key words in its original language, with their English translation. The summary should evidence the objective of the study, its relevance, the methodology used, the main results and its contribution (in the case of a research article).
c. Page 2 onwards: the title and the text of the article, without including the name of the author, in order to facilitate the review made by the reviewers. Likewise, starting on different pages, the following parts shall be submitted in the order in which they appear below:
i. Bibliographic references.
ii. Appendices.
iii. Tables (each one on a separate page with the corresponding title) and figures (each one on a separate page with the corresponding heading or title). The body of the text should mention all the tables and figures (those in charge of the editing process will try to place them as close as possible to the place where they are mentioned). The tables and figures shall be numbered according to their order of appearance; they should be formatted and titled according to the APA Manual (one table or figure per page, if possible). If pictures, drawings or images are sent, the formats accepted are TIFF, CDR, EPS, SVG with a 300 DPI resolution or, if possible, higher. If the table or figures do not correspond to the author of the article, the original source shall be cited.
8. General guidelines on bibliographical references:
a. In general, references within the article follow the APA author-date system (Warschauer, 2000, p. 511).
b. The references at the end of the article are displayed in alphabetical order. In general, they include the following:
i. Articles: surname of the author, the initial letters of his / her name; publication date in parentheses, title of the article, name of the publication in italics, volume in italics, number, pages. If it is an online article, the ‘doi’ (digital object identifier) shall be added. However, if it is not available, it shall be replaced by the URL of the web publication but not by the one of the article itself.
Examples:
• Obregon R., Waisbord, S. (2010). The Complexity of Social Mobilization in Health Communication: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Experiences in Polio Eradication. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 15(1), 25-47. doi: 10.1080/10810731003695367
• Larraín, J. (2007). Identidad latinoamericana: crítica del discurso esencialista católico. Contacorriente, 4(3), 1-28. Retrieved [March 2008] from http://www.ncsu.edu /project/acontracorriente
ii. Books: surname of the author and initial letters of his / her name, publication date in parentheses, title of the book in italics, place of publication, editorial house.
Example:
• Halliday, M.A.K. (1974). Explorations in the functions of language. New York, Oxford, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
iii. Compilations: surname of the author of the chapter, year of publication in parentheses, title of the chapter. Name of the editor, title book in italics, page numbers, place of publication,
Example:
• Tollefson, J. (2000). Policy and Ideology in the spread of English. In: JK, Hall & W. Eggington 6 of the editorial house (Eds). The sociopolitics of English language teaching (pp. 7-21). Clevedon, England , Tonawanda, NY: Multilingual Matters.
9. The articles shall be subject to a review carried out by reviewers who will not know the name of the author and whose names will not be known by him / her (Double-Blind review). The manuscripts shall not include references that may allow identifying the author, except on the page of the title which will be withheld by the editors.
10. The author shall have access to the decision made on the article, at most, three months after the closing of the call for article submission. Signo y Pensamiento does not guarantee that every article received shall be published. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to suggest formal amendments required by the articles. If such is the case, a due date shall be set for the author to make the corresponding changes.
11. General Guidelines for Book Reviews:
a. Signo y Pensamiento usually includes two to three book reviews in every issue.
b. The journal will give priority to reviews of books published in the previous or same year as the publication of the issue.
c. Reviews must be about a single book.
d. The text should not exceed 1500 words.
e. The authors of the reviews cannot be the same authors or co-authors of the reviewed books.
f. The journal welcomes especially, but not exclusively, reviews on Latin American or Spanish publications.
12. Copyright Guidelines
a. Signo y Pensamiento follows the general guidelines established by the 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual regarding author references (1.13). According to this: “Authorship is reserved for persons who make a substantial contribution to and who accept responsibility for a published work” (2010, p. 18). In other words, authorship should be recognized to those contributing towards the formulation of the problem, methodology design, analysis and interpretation of results, as well as writing the paper. Minor contributions such as consultancy or research assistance should be included in the acknowledgments or in a footnote. It will be the responsibility of the authors to decide the level of credits, according to their level of contribution to the paper.
b. The journal also follows the guidelines set in the 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual regarding copyright during the process of revision of the papers (1.15). Papers will be treated as confidential documents and will not be quoted or used by the Editor or the evaluators who take part in the selection process.
c. Authors will own the property rights (publication, reproduction, translation, etc.) of their papers until publication in Signo y Pensamiento is confirmed. Once it has been confirmed, the rights over the articles will be transferred to Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Consequently, further use of the article by the author or a third party (translation, distribution, adaptation or reproduction) needs written authorization from Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
d. According to copyright laws in Colombia (law 23 of 1982, chapter 3, articles 31 and 32), excerpts from the papers can be quoted by other publications and media, provided that the author and the journal are duly referenced.
