Submissions

Author Guidelines

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GUIDELINES FOR SENDING AND SUBMITTING ORIGINALS

Disparidades. Revista de Antropología (DRA) continues the path laid forth by Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares (1944-2018) and therefore collects a long history of a valuable repository of Spanish cultural traditions. Today it is an academic journal with an international readership of specialists in the fields of social and cultural anthropology, which encourages a broad, plural, and scholarly interpretation of the theory and methods of anthropological research. It values particularly innovative contributions to social and cultural anthropology. Spanish and English are the Journal’s priority languages. Exceptionally, other languages may be used if authorized by the Assistant Editors.

Published twice a year, DRA will accept original research articles, brief essays and photographic essays, research notes, book reviews, and anthropological news divided into the following sections: «Cartographies», «Emergent Themes, «Articles», «In a Few Words», «Sources and Testimonies», «In the Wild», «Book Notes» and «Tientos bibliográficos» (Review essays).

The regular sections are «Articles» —published in both bi-annual issues—, «Cartographies» and «Emerging Themes», both of which will published alternately once a year. These sections, which represent the main contributions to the journal, will be evaluated using the double-blind peer review system.

The rest of the sections will appear occasionally, and articles for publication will correspond to the Editorial Board of the journal.

In the «Cartographies» section, we publish the state of the question in different fields of social and cultural anthropology, with an international scope but giving ample space to the contributions in Spanish. The cartographies will include the review of already consolidated lines of research on the anthropological field under examination, as well as the analysis of the most novel emerging perspectives.

The «Emerging Themes» section consists of a multi-authored text that discusses current ethnographic and social issues with a public-oriented approach.

Articles submitted to the «In a Few Words» section can include contemporary ethnography—including work in progress—, encourage reflection, debate, and critique of articles published in previous issues, reviews of academic congresses, or news relevant to the discipline.

The section «Sources and Testimonies» includes unpublished work with testimonial value, which, even where it does not explicitly deal with ethnographic reflection, nevertheless contributes to it; this may include unpublished documents on contexts where a relevant contribution is made to contemporary social anthropology, interviews, obituaries, etc. The same acceptance and publication guidelines will apply to all submissions to any section, except for «Sources and Testimonies».

The section «In the Wild» will accommodate special texts that do not fit in the other sections.

The section "Tientos bibliográficos" is oriented to the publication of bibliographic essays on one or more books. Bibliographical essays will be commissioned by the Editorial Board.

The "Book notes" consist of brief reviews of current publications. Book reviews will be commissioned by the Editorial Board.

With the exception of "Articles", contributions to all other sections must be approved by the Editorial Board prior to submission.

Submitted manuscripts must be original and may not have been published in any other format and/or language. In exceptional circumstances, Spanish adaptations of relevant articles published in non-official languages of the journal will be accepted. They may not be submitted for publication simultaneously in another journal. Articles received that do not comply with the formal specifications established in these rules regarding bibliographies, abstracts, keywords, etc., will be returned to the authors before being considered for publication.

The Editorial Board, taking into account the external reviews, decides whether or not to accept the papers, as well as the volume in which they will be published. In cases where the Editorial Board requests the author to make changes to the paper, the edited article will be sent together with a document explaining the modifications made. Authors will be informed of the acceptance o rejection of their article within a period of six months after submission, although exceptionally this period may be extended to one year.

1. The originals submitted to the "Articles" section shall be between 8000 and 9000 words in length. Once accepted, the Editorial Board may exceptionally authorize extending the length of the manuscript up to a maximum of 10,000 words.

Submissions to the sections "Cartographies" and "Emerging Themes" will have a maximum of 18,000 words in the section as a whole, regardless of the number of contributions they include.

Texts for the "In a few words" section will be between 2000 and 2500 words. Texts for the section "Tientos bibliográficos (Review Essays)" will be between 4000 and 5000 words. "Book Notes" will not exceed 2500 words.

Texts should be submitted on numbered pages, double-spaced. In all cases, an abstract of no more than 200 words and between 4 and 6 keywords should be included. Abstract, keywords, as well as the title, must be in Spanish and English.

2. The bibliography should appear at the end, under the heading "Bibliography cited". The surnames and names of the authors should always appear in lowercase, and neither small nor capital letters should be used (except for the initial letter). In the text, these articles, books or contributions to books must be cited and references that have not been cited in the text will not be accepted, nor vice versa, that is, citations whose works do not appear in the final bibliography. Both must follow the requirements detailed in the "Style Guide" included in the journal's Web page.

3. The use of non-sexist language is recommended.
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4. All the material must be sent online through the OJS system of the journal. The author's information should be sent on a separate sheet, including the title of the article, name and surname, telephone number, academic status, name of the institution to which they belong, the date the article was sent, e-mail address, and ORCID identifier. Articles by the same author submitted within less than three years will not be accepted. The originals must be accompanied by the Declaration of Authorship Form, completed and signed. The form can be downloaded from the journal's web page.

5. The text, in its two versions in Microsoft Word, LibreOffice or compatible format (with all authorship data) and .pdf (anonymized), must follow the template provided by the journal. The following sections should be included at the end of the text before the Bibliography cited:

Description of the files to be published attached to the main manuscript, their filenames and/or identification, and contents (if any).

Brief description of the data sets available in repositories, archive identification code and name, user and distribution license, URL (if any).

Acknowledgments to individuals and/or institutions that have contributed to the manuscript without attaining authorship or provided funding (if any). Funding institutions must be credited in another section below.

CSIC's Good Practice Code, in Section 2.6, includes a statement for the declaration of existing competing interests. In case of NON-existence, the following text should be added: “The authors of this article declare that they have no financial, professional or personal conflicts of interest that could have inappropriately influenced this work”.

Include the project’s funding agency, code and title.

This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles (https://credit.niso.org/). For more information see “Submission/Authorship Identification” on the journal’s Web.

Name and Surname author 01: specific authorship contributions
Name and Surname author 02: specific authorship contributions
List the rest of possible authors following this model.

6. Illustrations and graphs must be numbered and their location in the text clearly indicated in the manuscript with Arabic numerals. Each image must be sent as a separate file, in TIFF or JPEG format, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Charts and illustrations must be submitted as vector graphics. Images must be accompanied by captions, and tables by titles. Captions and titles must be listed on a separate page. All artwork shall be attached to the submission in a single ZIP or RAR compressed file. Only images, graphs or drawings expressly mentioned in the text will be admitted.

7. Authors of manuscripts approved for publication in DRA will receive proofs by e-mail for revision. Authors will have up to 7 days to make any necessary corrections. These corrections should be limited to the removal of typos and other minor amendments; substantial modifications or additions to the text will not be allowed at this point.

8. Publication of a manuscript in CSIC journals does not entitle authors to any form of payment for their work. CSIC reserves the copyright of the publication and its written permission is therefore required for any partial or complete reproduction of the publication. The authors will receive notice of the availability of their work when published on the website of the journal.

9. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to their author(s) for modification.

STYLE GUIDE OF DISPARIDADES. REVISTA DE ANTROPOLOGÍA

The format of all works published in the journal will be subject to the rules set out in the "Style guide".

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Disparidades. Revista de Antropología

- How to send an original manuscript to Disparidades. Revista de Antropología

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Disparidades. Revista de Antropología

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Disparidades. Revista de Antropología

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF