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.

Bibliographic references

The Chicago-Deusto author-date style will be used, i.e., with citations in parentheses. This style is characterized by being more concise. Within the text, references to the work should be made 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. 

The list of bibliographic references should include the complete reference, in accordance with the following provisions:

1. Write 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. For example:

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

2. Within the body of the article, each time this text is cited, it should appear as a parenthetical citation: 

• (Murillo Zamora 1987, 34) 

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

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

For example, 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).

When a parenthetical citation appears at the end of a paragraph, place the period after the citation: 

• Light is the thread that elevates man from the realm of appearance to that of being (Murillo Zamora 1987, 27).

If the same sentence were to be quoted, incomplete, within the text, the reference would look like this:

• In his 1987 text, Roberto Murillo Zamora recalled how it has always been considered that light elevates us “from the realm of appearance to that of being” (27).

4. After the title of the book, you can include other relevant information, such as the details of the editor or translator. Remember not to use abbreviations. A correct reference would be: 

• Butler, Judith. 2010.  Frames of War: The Lived Experience of War. Translated by Bernardo Moreno Carrillo. Barcelona: Paidós.

If, in this model, you need to cite references by the same author with the same date, distinguish them as follows:

• Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1998a. Art and Truth in the Word. Translated by Arturo Parada. Barcelona: Paidós.
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1998b. The Hermeneutic Turn. Translated by José Francisco Zúñiga García & Faustino Oncina. Madrid: Cátedra.

5. If you decide to cite the compiler or editor instead of the author, this information should be abbreviated and without parentheses in the bibliographic references, as shown below:

• Avanessian, Armen and Reis, Mauro, comps. 2017. Accelerationism: Strategies for a Transition to Postcapitalism. Buenos Aires: Caja Negra. 

6. 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. «Affective Subjectivity and Queer Childhood: An Analysis of the Film Wild Tigers I Have Known». Journal of Philosophy of the University of Costa Rica 39, no. 161: 11-24.

7. 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”).

8. In the bibliography, entries 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. 9. When inserting quotations within the notes, remember that they should be the same as in the body of the text, for example:

• 1. José Carlos Mariátegui has argued that Peru, despite mining, retains its character as an agricultural country (2007, 20).

10. Remember that in Spanish, not all words in titles are capitalized; write, for example, Teoría de la acción comunicativa, and not Teoría de la Acción Comunicativa. In English and other languages, capitalization is required.

11. If you translate a foreign language quotation yourself in the text, then you must follow the guidelines for paraphrasing: you must cite the source, either through a narrative or parenthetical quotation, and omit quotation marks. 

12. Please use non-sexist language in your article(s). For guidelines on this, 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: https://ofinase.go.cr/wp-content/uploads/Guia-de-uso-de-lenguaje-inclusivo-de-genero.pdf