Submissions

Author Guidelines

Before submitting an article, please make sure that your text observes the following guidelines. Articles that do not comply with the Atlantis style sheet may be returned for resubmission before proceeding to review.

§ 1. External presentation

1.1. Submission

Authors must submit their contribution (as a Word or rtf file) as well as the following:

• Consent for Data Processing, duly signed, dated and PDF'd (click on "Add another file" after uploading the article or book review article, then choose the option "Other" in the "Article component" menu).
• Metadata (in step 3 of the submission process, i.e. "Enter Metadata"). After introducing the Section, Title and Abstract of the contribution, it is essential to post a c. 60-word bionote by scrolling down to List of contributors, clicking on the blue triangle to the left of the author's name, then clicking on "Edit" to reach a window where it must be inserted.
• Additional files: If the submission includes images, tables or drawings, these should be included not only in the Word document in their intended position but they should also be uploaded in the submission as separate files in .jpg or .png format.

All details of personal identification must be absent from the manuscript, as well as from the file properties. If necessary, the author's name should be replaced by "author" throughout the article.

Please follow the indications on the journal’s webpage, especially with regard to the metadata accompanying your submission (see below):

1.2. Language

Manuscripts are to be submitted in English. Authors must consistently follow either British or American spelling conventions. A translation of the title, abstract and keywords in Spanish must be provided. For those contributors who do not handle Spanish, the Editors will provide the translation.

1.3. Length

For articles: 6,000-8,000 words (including abstract, keywords, footnotes and references); for book review articles: 4,500-6,000 words (including references).

1.4. Abstract (articles)

The first page of each article must include a title plus a 100-200 word summary. The abstract should be written in an 11-point Times New Roman font, 1.5 spacing, indented (0.5 cm) and positioned immediately before the body of the text. It should consist of one paragraph and contain no bibliographical references in parenthetical form.

1.5. Keywords (articles)

Just after the abstract, append a list of up to six keywords in an 11-point Times New Roman font, separated with semi-colons, so that your contribution can be accurately classified by international reference indexes. Do not use a period at the end of the list of keywords.

1.6. Gender Equality Policy

Atlantis is committed to gender balance, as reflected in the composition of its editorial team, board of advisors and board of referees.

• Inclusive Language Policy:  Authors are required to use inclusive language that avoids any biases or expressions that discriminate against groups of people based on race, gender or socioeconomic status. In particular, they are expected to avoid writing in a manner that promotes, reinforces or exploits questionable, unfair or irrelevant distinctions between or attitudes about the sexes. Likewise, they are expected to avoid using language that demeans, ignores or stereotypes any sex.

• Gender and Sex in Research: Research studies should avoid stereotypes and gender biases that adopt the male gender as a universal reference or naturalize socially constructed discriminatory differences. Likewise, the text must inform about whether the research original data take gender or sex into account, in such a way that possible differences between genders can be identified.

§ 2. General stylistic, structural and formatting guidelines

All manuscripts should follow the author-date guidelines of the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style unless otherwise specified.

2.1. Format

The text should be submitted in 1.5 line spacing, except for footnotes, which should be single-spaced. Use a 12-point Times New Roman font for the main text and an 11-point Times New Roman font for the abstract, keywords, footnotes and indented quotations.

The first line of each paragraph should be intended 0.5 cm (please use the indentation tool included in Word, not the tab key), with the exception of the first line in the first paragraph of each section. The first line of all footnotes should also be indented 0.5 cm.

2.2. Titles of contributions

Place them at the top and centre of the page on which the text begins. Capitalise only the first letter of the first word and all other significant words (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs) as well as proper nouns. Always capitalise the last word. Do not use a period after titles.

2.3. Textual divisions and headings

Section headings should be used with discretion. They must begin from the left margin, with no period at the end. They must be preceded by Arabic numerals followed by a period (e.g., 1.) and rendered in small caps. If absolutely necessary, further division within a section must be indicated by subheadings preceded by Arabic numerals separated by a period (e.g., 1.1.) and rendered in 12-point Times New Roman font. Do not capitalise headings or subheadings in full; only content words should be capitalised.

2.4. Tables, drawings and graphic items

Please avoid their proliferation, since it may result in an excessive number of pages. This could affect the eligibility of your work for publication. All tables and figures should be numbered consecutively and referred to by their numbers within the text (e.g., as we see in example/table/figure 1).

2.5. Punctuation

All punctuation marks, except colon and semicolon, should precede closing quotation marks (e.g., “the bookshelf,” she replied).

Question marks (?) and exclamation marks (!) should not normally be used in scholarly writing unless they are part of a quotation.

Do not use commas (,) before “and” and “or” in a series of three or more. Never use a comma and a dash together.

Square brackets ([ ]) are used for an unavoidable parenthesis within a parenthesis, to enclose interpolations or comments in a quotation or incomplete data and to enclose phonetic transcription. Slash marks (/ /) are used to enclose phonemic transcription.

2.6. Numbers

Spell out whole numbers from zero to one hundred and numbers followed by hundred, thousand, hundred thousand, million or billion. Spell out all numbers beginning a sentence.

2.7. Dates

Centuries are spelled out and lowercased (the twenty-first century). Use standard dating (April 13, 1990). No comma is used between month and year when no day is given (May 1990).

Express decades in numerals (the 1870s, the 1920s).

2.8. Italics

Use italics for emphasis (only when strictly necessary), foreign words, technical terms and linguistic forms (words, phrases, letters) cited as examples or as subjects of discussion. Italicise titles of books, plays, periodicals, films, television and radio programmes, paintings, drawings, photographs, statues or other works of art.

2.9. Capitalisation

Capitalise the first letter of the first word and all of the principal words—including nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs in hyphenated compounds, but not articles, prepositions and conjunctions—in titles of publications, lectures or papers. In mentioning magazines, journals or newspapers (e.g., the Gentleman’s Magazine), do not treat an initial definite article as a part of the title.

Do not capitalise references to standard parts of a specific work, such as preface, acknowledgements, appendix, chapter, etc. (e.g., as discussed in chapter four).

2.10. Quotation marks

Double quotation marks (“ ”) are used to enclose quoted speech or writing when they are run into the text. They are also used for titles or articles, book chapters and poems. Do not use straight double quotation marks (" ").

For quotations within run-in quotations and within titles of articles or book chapters, use single quotation marks (‘ ’) (e.g., “‘Fractions of Men’: Engendering Amputation in Victorian Culture”). For quotations within indented quotations, use double quotations marks (“ ”).

2.11. Quotations

All quotations should correspond exactly with the originals in wording, spelling, capitalisation and internal punctuation. Italicising words for emphasis should be used with discretion and be explicitly indicated as follows: “You find yourself, at the final blackout, holding your breath” (Tripney 2015, 8; italics added). If the emphasis is in the original, it should also be indicated: “The writerly text is ourselves writing” (Barthes 1974, 5; italics in the original).

If the source contains a spelling error, insert the italicized word sic in square brackets ([sic]). Clarifications, as well as translations, must be enclosed in brackets—e.g., “He [Stephen Spender] is one of the finest poets Britain has ever produced.”

When using the author-date system, the reference of the quotation should always be placed at the end of the clause, before the punctuation mark—e.g., a “nice suggestion” (Russell 2016, 36).

Second-hand quotations or references must be used only sparingly. If an original source is unavailable and “quoted in” must be resorted to, mention the original author and date in the main text and reference the source used both in the parenthetical reference and in the works cited list, as follows:

• Main text: In Louis Zukofsky’s “Sincerity and Objectification,” from the February 1931 issue of Poetry Magazine (quoted in Costello 1981, 53), …
• Works Cited: Costello, Bonnie. 1981. Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.

2.12. Run-on and indented quotations

Unless special emphasis is required, prose quotations up to about 75 words should be run into the surrounding text. Longer quotations should be set off, indented (0.5 cm) and never enclosed in quotation marks. An 11-point font should be used for indented quotations.

Verse quotations of up to two lines should be run in, with the lines separated with a slash, leaving one space on either side (/). Longer verse quotations must be set off.

2.13. Ellipsis within quotations

Use three periods enclosed in brackets […] to indicate that part of a quotation has been deleted. Avoid using this device to open or close quotations that are obviously complete syntactic fragments.

2.14. Em dash (—)

The use of em dash instead of parentheses is advised. Do not leave any space before or after them—e.g., “haunting ghosts of the past—slavery and its legacy—should be laid to rest before a better future can be built.”

2.15. Footnotes

These should be limited to authorial commentary that cannot be easily accommodated in the body of the text and their use is discouraged. They must not be used to give bibliographical references that can appear in parenthetical form within the text. They should be numbered, superscripted and placed after the closest punctuation mark. The text of the footnote should be single-spaced and the first line should be indented (0.5 cm).

2.16. Exemplification

If the author provides a list of examples including sentences they should be listed, indented (0.5 cm) and written in an 11-point font following the example:

• (1) Hello my name is Charlie. My town is xxx. (S5b4P)
• (2) Hello! Mr. and Mrs Edwards. I’m Julia and I live in xxx. (S210g5P)
• (3) Hello family! My name is Berta and my surname is Santos. (S1g6P)

§ 3. Documenting sources

Do not forget to add to your list of works cited all the references you mention throughout the text. Bear in mind that specific page numbers must be provided for all quotations included. Please consult and follow the Stylesheet for references and the works cited list.