Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

Checklist for preparing submissions

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission complies with all of the following requirements.

Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

• The submission has not been previously published or submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the editor).
• The signed publication authorization has been attached.
• The file submitted is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
• Web addresses have been added for references where possible.
• The text is single-spaced; the font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are within the text in their proper place and not at the end.
• The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors, which can be found in About the Journal.
• If you are submitting to a section of the journal that is peer-reviewed, you must ensure that the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

We present the Submission Guidelines for the Journal of Philosophy, which detail all the guidelines to follow for optimal presentation of texts.

For blind peer review, please verify that the text complies with the following guidelines of the Journal of Philosophy:

• Send the electronic version of the text, preferably in MS Word for Windows, via the submission page.
• Attach the signed authorization for publication.
• Send only original and unpublished works.
• The Editorial Board will determine whether or not to accept translations of texts previously published in another language.
• Works written in Spanish, English, or Portuguese will be accepted. In special cases, works written in other languages will be accepted.
• Texts should not exceed 55,000 characters, including spaces, notes, and bibliographic references. Use the character counter in your word processor to determine the length.
• All texts must include the title in both English and Spanish, regardless of the language of the content.
• Verify the use of inclusive language. For guidelines on this subject, please consult the Guide to the Use of Gender-Inclusive Language in Costa Rican Formal Speech (2015) by Lillyam Rojas Blanco and Marta Eugenia Rojas Porras.

Organization of submissions

Justified text; one and a half spacing; Times New Roman, font size 12.

1. Author's first and last name (bold, centered)
2. Title of the work (bold, centered)
3. Abstract (in Spanish and English or original language)
4. Keywords (maximum 5)
5. Text
6. Notes*
7. Bibliographic references
8. Biographical information (verify email and institutional affiliation)**

*Notes

If your article includes notes, incorporate them as part of the text, in parentheses, e.g., [1]. That is, without using specific word processor commands. Place the notes at the end of the document, after the conclusions or the end of the text and before the bibliographical references, as in the example: 

**Biographical information

At the end of the document, please include your academic or institutional affiliation, contact email address, degree, postal address, and a very brief list of your most important or recent publications, as in the example below:

Final structure

• Conclusions/end of the body text
• Notes

1. Macedonio Fernández en su breve Una imposibilidad de crecer, reflexiona sobre la imposibilidad de creer que no hay más que lo evidente y que la vida sea solo un drama insignificante. Ver No todo es vigilia la de los ojos abiertos (2001, 381).
2. Gustavo Gutiérrez en Teología de la liberación. Perspectivas, usa el término antropofanía.

• Bibliographic references (use hanging indent)

Barbaras, Renaud. 2013. Introducción a una fenomenología de la vida. Intencionalidad y deseo. Traducido por Jesús María Ayuso Díez. Madrid: Encuentro.

Biographical information structure

María Torres Sánchez (maría.torres@ucr.ac.cr) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and recently published Cartografías de la memoria y el tiempo (Cartographies of Memory and Time).

Abstract structure

The abstract (in Spanish and English) should provide a clear and accurate description of the text's content and should not exceed 200 words. The abstract should be written in the third person, without direct quotations. Its structure should be organized into the following sections: objective, problem, methodology, development, and conclusions. The objective should state the central purpose of the article, i.e., the problematization of a concept, the analysis of a philosophical tradition, or the discussion of a theoretical debate. The problem should define and mention the philosophical question being addressed. The methodology describes the philosophical approach adopted, i.e., conceptual, hermeneutic, phenomenological, or discursive criticism analysis. The development summarizes the main arguments and central discussion of the text. Finally, the conclusions summarize the philosophical contributions of the article and its possible impact on the field of research.

Keywords: 5 words

Articles whose abstracts in English are not correctly written will be rejected outright.

Text structure

1. Titles and subtitles should be in bold. Prioritize the use of numbering 1, 2, 3. Avoid using 1 for introductions.
2. Do not use underlining. If you want to emphasize or write words in another language, including concepts, use italics. Bold type is reserved for titles and subtitles. Italics are also used for references to titles (books, magazines, works) within the text.
3. If you make literal quotations within the body of the text, place them in double quotation marks [« »]. 
4. Do not use quotation marks if you place them in a separate paragraph.
5. The model based on the Chicago-Deusto author-date provisions will be used, that is, with citations in parentheses. This model is characterized by being shorter. Within the text, the work will be referenced in parentheses, noting only the author's last name, the year of publication, and the page number. It should be noted that quotation marks in this citation system are Spanish (or Latin) and not English, both in the body of the text and in the bibliography.

Body text

1. Within the body of the article, each time this text is cited, it will appear as a parenthetical citation: (Murillo Zamora 1987, 34). 

• If you choose to use a narrative citation, do not repeat the information that is already in the text:

Murillo Zamora believes that this is a mistake (1987, 34).

• If you mention the year of publication, you should not repeat it either:

In 1987, Professor Murillo Zamora wrote emphatically that this was a mistake (34).

2. When you include citations in the notes, remember that they should be the same as in the body of the text, for example:

José Carlos Mariátegui has argued that Peru, despite mining, remains an agricultural country (2007, 20).

3. References: Write down the author's name and place the surnames as they appear in the text (whether one or two surnames), then insert the year without enclosing it in parentheses:

Murillo Zamora, Roberto. 1987. La forma y la diferencia. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.

References and citations (After the title)

• After the book title, include any relevant information (editor, translator, without abbreviations), and if you cite works by the same author and year, use an author dash line, for example (use hanging indent):

Derrida, Jacques. 1976. Of Grammatology. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Gadamer, Hans‑Georg. 2004. Truth and Method. Translated by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. London: Continuum.

__________________. 2008. Philosophical Hermeneutics (30th Anniversary Edition). Edited and translated by David E. Linge. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Putnam, Ruth Anna, comp. 1997. The Cambridge Companion to William James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Remember not to use abbreviations. A correct reference would be:

Rozelle‑Stone, Rebecca. 2024. Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Punctuation of references in the text structure

1. Citation of multiple authors: (Vandenberg et al. 2019).
2. Short citation: «If deterritorialization is the only thing accelerationism has talked about» (Land 2021b, 23).

Citation of more than three lines: separate paragraph, without quotation marks, size is 11 points. The period comes before the parentheses and the reference, as in the example below:

argumentación aceleracionista es el siguiente:

¿Retirarse del mercado mundial como aconseja Samir Amin a los países del tercer mundo, en una curiosa renovación de la «solución económica» fascista? ¿O bien ir en sentido contrario? Es decir, ir aún más lejos en el movimiento del mercado, de la descodificación y de la desterritorialización. Pues tal vez los flujos no están aún bastante desterritorializados, bastante descodificados, desde el punto de vista de una teoría y una práctica de los flujos de alto nivel esquizofrénico. No retirarse del proceso, sino ir más lejos, «acelerar el proceso», como decía Nietzsche: en verdad, en esta materia todavía no hemos visto nada. (Deleuze & Guattari 2021, 247)

References at the end of the document

1. The titles of journal articles should be enclosed in quotation marks, with the name of the journal in italics; other information should be abbreviated as follows:

Brenes Vargas. Alonso. 2022. «Subjetividad afectiva e infancia queer: Un análisis de la película Wild tigers I have known». Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 39, no. 161: 11-24. https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2022.49411.

2. Only the name of the publisher should be noted; so instead of writing, for example, “Editorial Grijalbo” or “Editorial Gredos,” you should only write “Grijalbo” or ‘Gredos’ (unless the name itself includes the word “editorial”).
3. The bibliography should be arranged in alphabetical order by the authors' last names. References by the same author should be listed by year, with the oldest text first and so on; publications from the same year should be listed in alphabetical order by title, and publications that have not yet been published (i.e., in press) should be placed last. 

In Spanish, it is not customary to capitalize all the words in titles; write, for example, Teoría de la acción comunicativa, and not Teoría de la Acción Comunicativa.

Books:

Murillo Zamora, Roberto. 1987. La forma y la diferencia. San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica.

Book translations: 

Butler, Judith. 2010. Marcos de Guerra: Las vidas lloradas. Translated by Bernardo Moreno Carrillo. Barcelona: Paidós.

Multiple references to the same author:

Gadamer, Hans‑Georg. 2004. Truth and Method. Translated by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. London: Continuum.

__________________. 2008. Philosophical Hermeneutics (30th Anniversary Edition). Edited and translated by David E. Linge. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Reference to the compiler/editor instead of the author:

Putnam, Ruth Anna, comp. 1997. The Cambridge Companion to William James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles:

Brenes Vargas. Alonso. 2022. «Subjetividad afectiva e infancia queer: Un análisis de la película Wild tigers I have known». Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 39, no. 161: 11-24. https://doi.org/10.15517/revfil.2022.49411.

Book chapters in collective works:

Last name, First name. Year. «Chapter title». In Book title, edited by First name Last name, pages. Place: Publisher.

Theses and academic papers:

Last name, First name. Year. Thesis title. Bachelor's/Master's/Doctoral thesis, University. DOI.

Published interviews:

Segato, Rita Laura. 2018. «La pedagogía de la crueldad». By Verónica Gago. Página/12. May 12, 2025.

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/las12/13-9737-2015-05-29.html   

Electronic sources (online articles or documents):

Mbembe, Achille. 2019. «The Universal Right to Breathe». Critical Inquiry. Accessed August 12, 2025.

 https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/the-universal-right-to-breathe/ 

Social media posts:

Last name, First name [username if different from name]. Year. «Initial text of the post (up to 20 words) or title if available». Name of social media platform, date of publication. URL.

Personal conversations

Personal conversations, unpublished interviews, and emails are cited with the name, type of communication, and date. As they are not retrievable, they must be supported by documentation. 

i.e. Rodríguez, Mariela. 2025. Personal interview with the author, February 2, 2025. Personal record.

Painting/sculpture/installation:

Last name, First name. Year. Title of the work. [Materials or technique]. [Location where it is located or was exhibited, City, Country].

Performance:

Last name, First name. Year. Title of the work. Performance, [Location], [City, Country], [Dates of presentation].

Work consulted online:

Last name, First name. Year. Title of the work. [Materials or technique]. [Location where it is located or was exhibited, City, Country]. Consulted on [date of access]. [URL].

Documented own performance:

Last name, First name. Year. Title of the work. [Type of record: photograph, video, etc.], [materials or format], [dimensions]. Documented in [Place], [City, Country], [Date].