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Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION PACKET REQUIREMENTS:

 Note: The quality of each paper is assessed using a blind review. In order to insure an unbiased consideration of all papers, the name of the author must appear ONLY on the cover page and NOT on the paper itself. Papers should NOT exceed 20 pages (reviews 3-4 pages; interviews 10 pages; short prose 5 pages; poetry 2-3 pages).

- Send submissions to:

TINTA
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

University of California, Santa Barbara

4206 Phelps Hall

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

 

- Cover page. All submissions must have a cover page that contains the following information:

  • Title of paper
  • Name of author
  • Affiliated university
  • Contact information (address, email, phone number)
  • A brief biography that explains where you are in your career, what you are working on, future interests, etc.

- First page of paper: The first page of the paper should include the TITLE and the text of the paper. The author's name should NOT appear on this page, or anywhere else on the paper.

- Digital and paper copies: Submit three hard-copies of your paper and one digital copy by email to tinta@mail.lsit.ucsb.edu.

- SASE: Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for decision notification.

 


FORMAT, STYLE and LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS for RESEARCH PAPER:

- Language: English, Portuguese or Spanish. Please note that due to time constraints, we are unable to work with authors to resolve grammatical errors. Please keep this in mind when choosing the language in which to submit your paper.

- Citation and reference style: MLA. Refer to the most recent edition of the MLA Handbook for formatting and style requirements for parenthetical references, block quotes, footnotes, and works cited (bibliography). Papers using the Chicago Manual or any other style will be returned. The list below includes some common problems in MLA Style. Please note that this list is not designed to serve as a substitute for the manual:

  • Punctuation with quotations: Colons and semicolons must be outside quotation marks, whereas periods and commas must be inside quotation marks.
  • Quotation style: quotations longer than four lines must be separated from the text in a block quote. Block quotes do not require quotation marks and should be double-spaced like the rest of the paper.
  • Punctuation: use ONE space after periods, commas, colons and semicolons.

- Format of titles of major works: italicized. We request that you italicize titles of major works instead of underlining them.

- Title and subtitle format:

  • Font: Times New Roman
  • Font style: bold
  • Font size: 12 point
  • Justification: centered
  • Spacing: 2 lines above text

- Body text format:

  • Spacing: double (includes long quotes)
  • Font: Times New Roman
  • Font size: 12 point

- Endnote text format - use endnotes, not footnotes

  • Spacing: single
  • Font: Times New Roman
  • Font Size: 10 point

- Page numbers: Please include page numbers on the bottom right corner of each page.

- Quotation mark style: all quotation marks should be round, not straight. In order to achieve this, you might have to insert opening and closing quotation marks as special characters under the symbol options.

- Corchete style: No use of << >> is permitted, instead « ».

- Foreign words: Foreign words in the body of your paper should be italicized.

 

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
 

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TINTA is a research journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara