Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission of manuscripts

1. 1. The manuscript must be prepared in Microsoft Word for Windows or in RTF (Rich Text Format), using Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spaced, and fully justified.
   2. Articles must be between 6,000 and 10,000 words in length, excluding abstracts, notes, and the references.
   3. Authors must submit one version with a biographical note that allows identification of the author(s) and another anonymized version for peer review.
   4. The biographical note will be placed at the end of the manuscript and must be between 100 and 150 words, including: full name; research center or institute and institutional affiliation; city; country; research lines; recent publications; email address; and ORCID identifier.
   5. If the manuscript includes tables, graphs, or images, they must be inserted in the exact place within the body of the text. If their complexity makes them difficult to handle in the word processor, they should be sent separately in JPG or PNG format at 300 pixels per inch resolution. In addition, the text must refer to all included tables and figures in accordance with MLA (9th edition) citation guidelines.

Structure
The text must include the following elements in this order:

Title
In English, Spanish or Portuguese followed by its translation into English (or into Spanish if this is not the original language), in bold, centered, 14-point font size, with a maximum length of 12 words and without footnotes.

For titles and subtitles, use upper- and lowercase letters. Capital letters should only be used at the beginning of the title, for proper names, and for institutional names; small caps should be used for acronyms and initialisms.

Abstract
In its original language and in English, with a maximum length of 120 words.

Keywords
Five or six keywords in the original language and in English that do not repeat words already included in the title. They must be separated by semicolons.

Introduction
Development

Sections
Sections must be clearly differentiated and organized in subsections or numbered points. The first paragraph following any title or subtitle should not be indented; indentation is used from the second paragraph onward, with no extra space between paragraphs.

Conclusions

References
The list of works cited must follow the rules specified in the “In-text citations and references” section of this manual.

Statement of originality
To guarantee the originality of the manuscript, the author must add a letter with the following content:

Estudios del Discurso
Editorial Coordination

I hereby declare that the article “(title of the article)”, submitted for publication in Estudios del Discurso, is an original and unpublished text written by me, that it has not been published nor is it under review in any other printed or digital media.

Name, handwritten signature, and date.

In-text citations and references
Citation and referencing will follow the norms established by the system proposed by the Modern Language Association of America in the ninth edition of its handbook (MLA, 9th ed.).

In-text citations
References of all cited documents must be placed within the body of the text, never in footnotes; you must use parentheses for all of them. The complete information of each cited document appears at the end of the manuscript in the Works Cited section.

Latin abbreviations such as cfr., cf., ibid., ibidem, or op. cit. will not be used. The author of each citation must be specified in every instance.

The parenthetical reference includes the author’s last name and the page number from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken, as follows:

Short quotations (no more than four lines)
Quotations of four lines or fewer are incorporated into the text in double quotation marks. If the author is mentioned in the signal phrase, include only the page number in parentheses; otherwise, include the author’s last name followed by the page number, separated by a space:

The author argues that “soft cultural exchanges of children’s art in the 1940s made this charitable and paternalist brand of imperialism seem more palatable” (Jackson 24).

Elena Jackson maintains that “soft cultural exchanges of children’s art in the 1940s made this charitable and paternalist brand of imperialism seem more palatable” (24).

Paraphrase
When information is paraphrased, quotation marks are not used, but the source of the information must be clearly indicated:

The author suggests that cultural exchanges around children’s art in the 1940s helped to present a charitable and paternalistic version of imperialism as more acceptable (Jackson 24).

Long quotations (five lines or more)
Long quotations must appear as a block quotation in a separate paragraph, in a font size one point smaller than the main text, fully indented from the left margin, with one line of space before and after the quotation. The quotation ends with a period, followed by the parenthetical reference without an additional period: (Jackson 24)

In these cases, the quotation should begin with a capital letter, and it is preferable not to start the quotation by omitting text with an ellipsis in square brackets [].

For example:

Primitivism was modern when forcibly reproduced by Europeans such as Klee, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Renoir, but the same aesthetic was considered folkloric documentation when produced by infantilized people. In fact, the children saw themselves as emerging technical professionals, trained in the latest transnational techniques, while the international art world read their art through a primitivist lens as proof of innate biological creative potential. (Jackson 24)

Secondary citations
When using secondary citations, the parenthetical reference must include the words “qtd. in” before the last name of the source actually consulted. In such cases, the entry in the Works Cited list must correspond to the source that the author has consulted.

Roberto Reyes Pérez describes Spanish children as bearers of “the vestiges of a conquering race.” (qtd. in Jackson 146).

Whenever possible, primary sources should be preferred over secondary citations, which should be used only when it is not possible to consult the original source.

Citations without page numbers
When the cited page does not contain a page number, other location indicators can be used, such as the number of the chapter (ch., chs.), paragraph (par., pars.), section (sec., secs.), line (line, lines), or volume (vol., vols.). Example:

For example, when a source explicitly uses paragraph numbers instead of page numbers:
“Postmodern cinema destabilizes fixed notions of identity and space” (Chan, par. 2).

Citations with no known author or with a corporate author
When the source does not indicate a personal author, include the name of the institution or organization, or a shortened version of the title. Titles of short works such as articles should appear in quotation marks; titles of books, websites, plays, or television programs should be italicized:

“Media narratives often reproduce gendered stereotypes of childhood in ways that naturalize social hierarchies” (“Children and Media Representations” 12).

In the Works Cited list at the end of the manuscript, the entry must begin with the name of the organization or with the title of the work used in the citation so that readers can easily identify the source.

Citations with more than one author
Two authors
Write only the last names of both authors in parentheses:

“Community-based action research can challenge traditional hierarchies of knowledge production” (Gullion and Tilton 50).

Three or more authors
List only the last name of the first author and replace the remaining names with the abbreviation “et al.” (not in italics and with a period after “al”).

“We also wished to underscore the diversity of approaches, the sense of developing from position to position.” (Hall et al. 9).

Mention of works without direct quotation
When a work is mentioned in the text without a direct quotation or paraphrase, the parenthetical reference must include the author’s last name and the year of the work, separated by a comma:

Studies on gender and media have highlighted the persistence of sexist stereotypes in televised debates (Gill and Orgad, 2018)

Works Cited
Only the references of works actually cited in the text should be listed. It is crucial that authors verify that the list indeed contains all works cited in the text and that the data match what appears in the citations.

References must always be listed at the end of the document and must never be included in the body of the text as footnotes.

Entries are ordered alphabetically, with hanging indentation, and capital letters only in the first letter of the first word and in proper names, not in the entire last name. When more than one work by the same author is listed, the last name and first name must be repeated in each entry; dashes or underscores must not be used to substitute the name.

Example:
Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. SAGE, 1997.

Hall, Stuart. The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left. Verso, 1988.

Not:
Hall, Stuart. Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. SAGE, 1997.
-----. The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left. Verso, 1988.

The following are some examples of commonly consulted information sources:

Printed book
Agha, Asif. Language and social relations. Cambridge University Press. 2007.

E-book
Starbäck, Georg. Ritari Siniparta Neliseikkailuinen satunäytelmä. Translated by Lauri Soini, U. W. Telén & Co., 1909, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78865

Book chapter
Sbisá, Marina. “Illocutionary force and degrees of strength in language.” Essays on speech acts and other topics in pragmatics. Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 105-128.

Book with two authors
Kukla, Rebecca, and Mark Lance. ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’ The pragmatic topography of the space of reasons. Harvard University Press. 2009.

Book with three or more authors
Cornman, James W., et al. Philosophical problems and arguments. An introduction. Hackett Publishing. 1992.

Edited collections with one or more editors
Langton, Rae. “Beyond belief: Pragmatics in hate speech and pornography.” Speech and harm. Controversies over free speech, edited by Ishani Maitra and Mari Kate McGowan, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 72-93..

Hom, Christopher, and Robert May. “Pejoratives as fiction.” Bad words. Philosophical perspectives on slurs, edited by en Ernst Sosa. Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 108-131.

When you want to include the translator or editor as the author, their name is followed by the appropriate label (ed., coord., comp., etc.):

Capponetto, Laura, and Paolo Labinaz, eds. Sbisà on speech as action. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Translations
Austin, John L. Cómo hacer cosas con palabras. Translated by Genaro R. Carrió y Eduardo A Rabossi, Paidós, 1990.

Volume in a collected works edition
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Oval Portrait.” The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison, vol. 4, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1902, pp. 245–249.

Corporate author or books without a personal author
APA Dictionary of psychology 2^nd ed. American Psychological Association, 2015.

Encyclopedia
Jödicke, Ansgar. “Alchemy.” Religion Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion, edited by Hans Dieter Betz et al., vol. 1, Brill, 2007, pp. 107–38.

Thesis
Vojnić, Viktor. Semantics and pragmatics of negation. 2018. University of Rijeka, masters thesis.

Corporate author
Unesco. The UNESCO Global Geoparks. Unesco-Gestalten. 2025.

If the corporate author is also the publisher, the reference begins with the title of the document:

The state of the world’s human rights. Amnesty International. 2026.

Journal articles
Maitra, Ishani. “Silencing speech.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 309-338,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.0.0050

For electronic sources, it is recommended, whenever possible, to use permanent identifiers and links, such as the DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

Newspaper articles
Buckley, Nick. “‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time” The Guardian, 15 Jun 2026, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jun/15/dark-mofo-film-that-only-one-person-can-see-at-a-time-loris-greaud-sculpt-eye-of-the-duck-willem-dafoe

Acknowledgment of receipt
The editorial team will acknowledge receipt of submissions immediately. If there is any problem with the submission, please write to estudiosdeldiscurso@uaem.mx to report the issue and send your files by that means.