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Author Guidelines

ESCENA. Revista de las artes is a non-profit editorial project (under Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 license) that is attached to the Instituto de Investigaciones en Arte (IIArte) of the Universidad de Costa Rica. This magazine publishes articles, reflections, artistic works, reviews and interviews. These texts must be original and unpublished and must be submitted exclusively to our Editorial Board.

All files received must be accompanied by a letter authorizing ESCENA. Revista de las artes to publish them by the means that the magazine considers pertinent without charge. Likewise, the originality and authorship of the manuscript is guaranteed and it is stated that the manuscript is submitted exclusively to the Editorial Board of this journal.

The duration of the review process is approximately six months. For more details of the process, you can review the description of the publication process. Manuscript citations should conform to the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition in English or 4th edition in Spanish.

Our journal is updated towards XML-Jats tagging and towards the pursuit of quality. Therefore, we have updated and created supplementary material on some of the new guidelines that have been implemented. The following are the formal and content requirements that each manuscript must meet.

 

Formal aspects

1. Manuscripts must be submitted in Word format (.docs, .rtf) to the OJS system of our journal (click on "Submit an article"). To do so, you must be registered on our website. You can also send your manuscript to the journal's e-mail address (escena.iiarte@ucr.ac.cr); however, you must always send it to the OJS system available on our web page.

2. Texts should not exceed 12,000 words, including titles, summaries, tables, graphs, illustrations, footnotes and references. They should be presented in their final form. The font used should be Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced.

3. The manuscript must always be accompanied by the letter of authorization for publication completed and signed physically and digitally. In case the text includes figures, graphics or images, a letter of authorization for the publication of images must be provided if these are not unpublished or own elaborations.

4. If the text includes images, these must have a minimum quality of 300 dpi (dots per inch) and must be sent in separate files. In addition, each of these must be accompanied by its respective title (at the top) and source (at the bottom). All supporting material must be duly mentioned in the body of the text; for example, "according to figure 1".

5. The ORCID code of each author must be indicated in the letter. If you do not have one, ORCID registration can be done at this link.

6. Manuscripts should be headed by a title, which should succinctly express the main idea of the text, indicate the main topic and avoid the use of abbreviations. The recommended length for a title is less than 15 words. In any type of manuscript, the equivalent of the title in Spanish should also be included.

7. The name(s) of the author(s) should follow the title, followed by the institution where he/she works, the city and country where the institution is located, and his/her e-mail address.

8. For articles and reflections: The abstract (in Spanish and English) should be a clear and precise description of the content and should not exceed 200 words. It should follow a format of subtitles that summarize some aspect of the content of the text: introduction, objective, methods, results, conclusions. Some of these sections may be omitted if the content or subject matter of the text does not present these sections.

9. For articles and reflections: Keywords, both in English and Spanish, may not be mentioned in the title of the manuscript. The use of proper names and place names should also be avoided. Five should always be mentioned.

10. Section headings: the article must contain duly titled sections. These may be of a creative or aesthetic nature, but must clearly allude to the content of the section: introduction, development parts or conclusion. Sections may also be titled using their generic names, for example, "introduction".

11. Section headings: if the sections contain subheadings, these should not exceed three levels.

Section title (left-aligned, boldface).

Section subtitle (left-aligned, bold and in italics)

Section subtitle (left-aligned in italics)

12. If footnotes are required, they should be included at the bottom of the page.

 

Content aspects

1. All manuscripts submitted to the journal must be of interest to one of the fields of the arts. If it is a philosophical or literary work, it must be related to another artistic field such as cinema, aesthetics or visual semiotics. Any manuscript that is of an informative nature will be rejected.

2. The writing should follow the basic guidelines of academic discourse and try to follow the strategies of coherence and cohesion. It is also important to use inclusive language, when necessary, following the guidelines established by the Guide for the use of gender-inclusive language.

3. Proposals are accepted in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.

4. For articles and reflections: all submissions must include citations of academic and artistic texts. If this requirement is not met, the manuscript will be rejected ad portas.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All required documents (<a href="https://mega.nz/file/AeIAUR4J#jBOb7yPF0udMnq6TbVN9xG4TLzh-3cD4-D-5yV4iotA">authorization for publication</a>) are duly completed. If the manuscript has more than one author, a letter of authorization must be signed by all the authors. In addition, each author must provide his or her author information.

If the text contains images, the necessary requirements have been reviewed: quality and authorization for the publication of images. These must come in separate files in .tiff, .png or .jpeg format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. All images that are not the work of the author(s) must come with their respective authorization letter. If all images are the property of a single person, only one letter of authorization should be sent. If images belonging to more than one owner are included, an authorization letter must be sent for each owner.

The references are accordingly to APA format (Sixth edition).

If it is an article, the text contains the title, abstract and keywords in Spanish and its equivalent in English. If it is a reflection, review, interview or artistic work, the text contains the title in Spanish and English.

The submitted manuscript is in OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word format.

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Artículos

Sección consagrada a la publicación y divulgación de resultados de investigaciones académicas en el ámbito de las artes en general, excluyendo los estudios específicamente literarios. Sin embargo, los estudios comparativos con la literatura sí se publican en ESCENA. Revista de las artes.

Academic reflections

Sección diseñada como un espacio en el cual el artista o académico puede comentar y reflexionar acerca del proceso artístico que envuelve determinada creación, la cual puede ser personal o no. Asimismo, se puede incluir entrevistas.

Artworks

Esta sección es un espacio que publica diversas producciones artísticas tales como obras de arte visual, partituras, dramaturgia,entre otros. Los aportes recibidos en esta sección serán evaluados mediante pares ciegos por un experto en el campo al que pertenece la obra con el fin de detertminar la orginalidad y calidad de la obra. 

Dossier

Esta sección publica artículos de corte académico-científico relacionados a través de un eje temático, agrupados por la persona editora, de acuerdo con las directrices dictadas por la dirección. La persona editora propondrá una temática al Consejo editorial, una vez que esta se valora y se aprueba, la persona editora realizará la labor de primera revisión por pares.

La cantidad de artículos mínima para proponer un dossier temático es de cinco. No hay restricción en el máximo de artículos.

Los artículos postulados para el dossier temático deben de contener al menos un 40% de autores internacionales.

Quien esté a cargo de la edición enviará todos los artículos en un único momento al correo electrónico iiarte@ucr.ac.cr con los correos de todos los autores, o bien estos pueden ser copiados al correo de envío.

Todos los artículos propuestos pasarán por un proceso de mínimo una evaluación por pares ciegos, según las directrices de la revista.

El equipo editorial de ESCENA se hará cargo del proceso editorial posterior.

Interviews

This section does not need summary or keywords; in addition, it does not go through peer review. The review of the documents in this section is carried out by the editorial team of the journal.

Review

En esta sección se publican los comentarios críticos sobre diferentes obras, no solo libros, también se pueden publicar comentarios de obras musicales, películas o cualquier obra visual. Esta sección no incluye resumen ni palabras clave debido a que se consideraría redudante, pues es una síntesis crítica de una obra mayor, cuyo contenido y autor(a) se específica claramente en el título. 

Suplemento Músicas de Costa Rica

Este suplemento nace a partir de un acuerdo colaborativo entre ESCENA. Revista de las artes y la Escuela de Artes Musicales de la Universidad de Costa Rica. El objetivo del mismo es dar a conocer los diferentes tipos, estilos y obras musicales compuestas por músicos y músicas nacionales. En el texto se incluye la edición de una o varias partituras de un compositor o compositora costarricnese acompañada de un estudio musicológico. El estudio pasa por la respectiva revisión por pares ciegos para garantizar la calidad académica del mismo.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

* They retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work registered under the Creative Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) attribution license, which allows third parties to use the published work as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal. It also allows the creation of new works based on the published work.

* Authors may make other independent and additional contractual arrangements for nonexclusive distribution of the version of the manuscript published in this journal (e.g., inclusion in an institutional repository or publication in a book), as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal.

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