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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

We accept submissions of manuscripts in English and Spanish, with a maximum limit of 12,000 words (including notes and bibliography) per article using the MLA formatting style. There are no Article Processing Charges (APCs) associated with publishing in ConSecuencias.

Articles for publication sent to ConSecuencias should be original and not published or under consideration for publication anywhere else. All articles for consideration should have a 150-word abstract, in both English and Spanish. Please provide six keywords in both Spanish and English at the bottom of the abstract. Articles are reviewed anonymously, which is why the author’s name should not appear on the title page, and references to the author should be made in the third person.

All submissions will go to two experts in the field and peer-evaluated anonymously.

Articles must conform fully to style guidelines when submitted. Authors must obtain any permissions necessary to print images or other copyrighted materials.

Specific Style Guidelines

  1. For the text’s margins use 2 cm for each side.  Do not use any tab settings. Do not justify the text.
  2. Do not us headers. Use only page numbers as footers. 
  3. For the text itself use single-space throughout the article, including between paragraphs, and 12-point Times New Roman font.  However, leave an extra single space before and after any indented quotations, subtitles, or divisions between sections.
  4. For each new paragraph use a 2.5 cm. indentation.  Use the same indentation for quotations.
  5. For quoted titles use italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses, when available, in the works cited).  For emphasizing quoted words, do not use bold or underline; use italics instead.  To shorten or indicate missing text in quotes use parenthesis […].
  6. For endnotes, use short endnotes (less than 40 lines of typed text total) and use them sparingly.  Do not put extra spaces between the note number and the beginning of the note. Do not leave a space between notes.  Do not use the endnote function of Word; instead, just superscript the number and manually add the endnotes yourself, using a 10-point Times New Roman superscript font: 

    La muchacha salvaje es la primera narrativa gráfica de Mireia Pérez, y con ella ganó el primer premio de FNAC Sinsentido en 2011 por su originalidad temática […] La historietista se remonta a la prehistoria, una época perdida y arcaica de la que poco sabemos, pero lo que ofrece no es una visión fantástica de mundos imaginarios, utópicos o distópicos, sino la de un mundo muy similar al nuestro. No es un estudio fiel del pasado; no está basada en hechos científicos, sino que solo se trata de una especulación sobre cómo éramos ayer para saber cómo somos hoy, según indica la misma autora.1

    NOTAS

    1 Pérez explica: 
    Supongo que pienso mucho en dar explicación a por qué hacemos las cosas ahora, por qué son de esa manera y no de otra […] (Caballero). 
  1. For titles, use capital letters, 14 point Times New Roman bold font, and center it:
NI UTOPÍA, NI DISTOPÍA: VIAJE Y PREHISTORIA EN LA NARRATIVA GRÁFICA LA MUCHACHA SALVAJE, DE MIREIA PÉREZ
NOTAS (or NOTES, if the article is written in English)
OBRAS CITADAS (or WORKS CITED, if the article is written in English)
  1. For sub-headings (when employed), use 12- point Times New Roman bold font. Do not add numbers to sub-headings:
El cómic y la creación femenina: un poco de historia 
  1. For the works cited, use the hanging indent function. Cite only the works directly consulted, using the latest MLA formatting style. 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
    4. Authors are required to agree to the following license terms:

License Agreement

I grant to Boston College the right to include and publish the above-described submission in both the print and online versions of the journal, ConSecuencias. I will retain copyright ownership but hereby grant to Boston College the non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free right to use, copy, distribute, and display my submission in any format or medium for any educational, non-commercial purposes, including as part of the online and print journals. Boston College will apply the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to all works published in ConSecuencias.

These rights include, without limitation, the right to maintain one or more copies of the submission in multiple formats for security, back-up, and preservation purposes, and to allow a third party to hold one or more copies solely for such purposes.

I represent and warrant that the submission is my/our original work, that I have the right to grant the permission in this agreement and that, to the best of my knowledge, the submission will not infringe upon anyone’s intellectual property rights. I represent and warrant and that the work is not libelous, does not violate any right of privacy or contain otherwise unlawful matter. I have obtained all necessary permissions to include in my/our submission any materials created or owned by third parties and any such third party material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the content of the submission. I agree to submit a copy of each such permission to the editors of ConSecuencias upon submission of the finalized version of the work for publication.

If the submission is based upon work that has been sponsored or supported by an organization or agency other than Boston College, I certify that I have fulfilled any right of review or other obligations required by any contract or agreement with such agency or organization.

I agree that others may review the work and that editors of ConSecuencias may edit the work, as they deem necessary after reviewing proposed revisions with me. Boston College will clearly identify my/our name(s) as the author(s) or owner(s) of the submission.

Nothing in this agreement shall be deemed to obligate Boston College to publish the submission.

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