Author Guidelines

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MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Pléyade is composed of four sections. The publication of contributions is decided by the editorial board, based on anonymous opinions of expert reviewers in the subject of study (double-blind peer review) and according to space availability.

Articles: unpublished texts that come from research, up to 8,500 words with summary and bibliography included. Open submissions.

Reviews: original bibliographic articles referring to significant publications for the humanities and social sciences of the last 5 years, up to 2,000 words. Open submissions.

Interviews: conversations with prominent researchers on topics relevant to the scope of the journal, up to 7,000 words. Open submissions.

Interventions: short articles dedicated to analyzing a relevant issue for the humanities and social sciences, of up to 5,000 thousand words. This section is included in the issues where the editorial board decides previously.

The articles must meet the following characteristics:

• A title that fits the content of the article in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
• A summary of 150 to 200 words, written in the third person in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
• Between 3 and 5 keywords in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
• Use the APA 7th Edition notes and bibliography system (https://normas-apa.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Normas-APA-7ma-edicion.pdf)
• Titles of the article without numbering and in bold.
• Subtitles of the article without numbering, in italics and in bold.
• Times New Roman 12 font (in Microsoft Word format)
• Do not use abbreviations such as cit., loc. cit., cfr. or cf. (see next section).
• Sending tables, charts and images: they must be presented in the body of the text and in separate files. Graphs (Excel) and figures (only in jpg format with a resolution of no less than 300 dpi) must be submitted separately. Tables and figures must be unpublished; otherwise, the author must obtain the respective permission for their reproduction and cite the source in the legend.

Along with the document, the following separate files must be attached:

• A brief biographical summary containing the title of the article, the name of the author, institutional affiliation (mentioning the country and city), as well as any type of acknowledgment. Authors are encouraged to mention if the articles are originated from research projects. Include the source of funding, name of the project, year, and code (if applicable).
• A letter stating that the article is original and unpublished and that it is not being reviewed by another journal.
• If some of the content has been published, or is part of a longer work, a letter stating this must be attached.

Book reviews

The submission of reviews in accordance with the themes of the journal's editions is encouraged. The reviewed books should:

• Present a general interest for academics and students in relation to politics, from the social sciences and humanities.
• The reviewed books must be in Spanish, English or Portuguese and must be between 1,000 and 2,000 words.
• Include the complete details of the book (author(s), city of publication, publisher, publication date, ISBN, number of pages).
• Include a brief biographical sketch that does not exceed 100 words. It must contain the name of the author(s), institutional affiliation (mentioning the country and city).

PREPARATION OF CITES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES

The editorial committee requests that authors use the APA format (7th edition) as their standard for citing sources. Both footnotes and bibliography must strictly follow this format, and long citations in the text (those exceeding 40 words) must be placed in blocks. When preparing citations, authors are advised to consider the following recommendations:

Citations in the body of the text:

APA format uses the author-date citation system, where a brief in-text citation directs readers to the full reference in the work's bibliography. The in-text citation appears within the body of the article – or in a footnote – and briefly identifies the cited work.

Both direct and indirect (or paraphrased) citations must be cited following the author-date scheme, in parentheses and at the end of the citation. Some examples are:

When the citation is direct and brief, it is necessary to include the page number at the end of the parentheses. In addition, it is necessary to use the abbreviation “p.” (for one page) and “pp.” (for multiple pages), and the page numbers separated by a “-”:

Example 1: “What all Greek philosophers took for granted, whatever their opposition to the life of the polis, is that freedom is located exclusively in the political sphere” (Arendt, 2009, p. 43).

Example 2: “Within the domestic sphere, freedom did not exist, since the head of the family was only considered free insofar as he had the ability to leave the home and enter the political sphere” (Arendt, 2009, pp. 44-45).

It is possible to introduce the quote with a sentence that includes the author's surname followed by the publication date in parentheses:

Example 3: According to Arendt (2009), “what all Greek philosophers took for granted, whatever their opposition to the life of the polis, is that freedom is located exclusively in the political sphere” (p. 43).

Example 4: Arendt (2009) maintained that “what all Greek philosophers took for granted, whatever their opposition to the life of the polis, is that freedom is located exclusively in the political sphere” (p. 43).

In the case of long or block quotes (more than 40 words), these should be in a separate paragraph from the body of the text and the quotation marks should be omitted. The quote should begin on a new line with a ½ inch indent from the left margin. In addition, the parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

Example 5: When trying to understand the meaning of a feminist aesthetic, it is important to begin with the following reflection:

It is important to note that the problem with feminism is not simply that people are situated differently based on sex and gender. The problem is that we are all systematically situated in a hierarchically structured world where men have privileges just because they are men and women are disadvantaged in many contexts just because they are women. That is, gender and sex are hierarchical modes of social location according to which everyone, including art producers and audiences, is situated. On this point all feminist philosophers agree. The question is: What do we do with situatedness? What difference, if any, does situatedness make to the production or reception of art? What difference, if any, should it make? These questions, in my view, set the agenda for any feminist intervention in the philosophy of art, although there is little agreement on how to do so. (Eaton, 2008, pp. 874-875)

In the case of direct quotations that do not have a page number, we must refer to another element that allows identification: a paragraph; chapter number; section number; table number; figure number. Older works (e.g., classic works) can be cited according to the standard abbreviation for cited works:

Example 6: Sismondo (2008), maps the studies in Science, Technology and Society from four dimensions (fig. 1.1).

Example 7: According to Kant, space and time are nothing other than the subjective forms of sensible intuition (A26/B42).

When the citation is a summary or paraphrase of another work, it is only necessary to refer to the author and year of publication (i.e., it is not necessary to include the page number).

Example 8: In another sense, Kronfeldner (2021) distinguishes between a relational and a non-relational mode of dehumanization.

In the case that the citation refers to the work of one author, we must refer to the author's surname:

Example 9: (Arendt, 2009); As Arendt (2009) points out.

In the case that the citation refers to the work of two authors, it is necessary to indicate the surname of both authors in the parentheses corresponding to the citation. We must use the letter "and" between the surnames of the authors:

Example 10: (Sovacool and Hess, 2017); The research of Sovacool and Hess (2017) allows…

In the case of citations of works by three or more authors, we should only write the surname of the first author followed by the word “et al” (in Spanish it is valid to use “et al.” or “et ál.”).

Example 11: (Potochnik et al., 2019); Potochnik et al. (2019) suggest that…

If the authorship of the work corresponds to an organization or government agency, it must be mentioned in the paragraph or in the parentheses corresponding to the citation. If the organization has a known abbreviation, it is possible to include it in parentheses the first time the source is cited and then use only the abbreviation in subsequent citations:

Example 12: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2020) an infodemic is….

Example 13: According to the WHO (2020) it is urgent to review the way in which news about the pandemic is disseminated on social networks.

When a citation includes two or more works, they should be ordered alphabetically (following the same order as the reference list) and separated by a “semicolon”:

Example 14: (Althuser, 2003; Gramsci, 1936).

If the citation refers to multiple works by the same author, the author’s last name should only be included once, followed by the dates of the corresponding works, separated by a “comma” (the order is undated work – abbreviated “n.d.” – and then in ascending order according to publication date):

Example 15: (Arendt 1996, 2003, 2009).

To avoid confusion, if a citation refers to authors with the same last name, the initial of the first name should be used, along with the last name:

Example 16: (I. Young, 2006; S. Young, 2008).

If there are two or more references from the same author and year, it is necessary to use lowercase letters (a, b, c), along with the year in order to order the list of references.

Example 17: Floridi's research (2023a) suggests a new way of understanding artificial intelligence, which is later expanded by the same author (Floridi, 2023b).

In the case of personal communications (e.g., interviews, letters, emails), it is necessary to cite the name of the person with whom the communication was established, specify that it was a communication and the date on which it occurred (personal communications should not be included in the reference list).

Example 18: (J. Rancière, personal communication, March 3, 2008).

Footnotes and endnotes

In the APA format there are 2 uses for notes: (1) Content and (2) Copyright.

Content notes serve to provide complementary information for readers. In this type of notes, it is important that they are brief and focused on only one topic. The suggestion is to limit comments to a small paragraph. The suggestion is that these notes only be added if the information allows to reinforce the discussion. These notes can also be used to point readers to information available online or in more detail elsewhere:

Example 19: See Feenberg (2016), for more information on the history of the philosophy of technology.

If a quote is longer than 500 words or in case of incurring a violation of copyright laws, it is necessary to obtain formal permission from the author referred to. In case of reproducing a graph, table or diagram from another source, it is necessary to add a special note that includes the copyright information. In both cases, the suggestion is to attach the permission of use along with the work.

The information included in a copyright notice includes the same information as the reference list, but with some additional details. It should specify whether the material was reprinted or just adapted (for this, use the word “From” if it is reprinted or “Adapted from” for adaptations). In addition, we should specify who owns the copyright (whether it is the author or the publisher - this depends on the information that appears in the cited source itself). For example:

Example 20: 1 From Why Hasn't Everything Disappeared Yet? by J. Baudrillard, 2010, Enclave de libros ediciones. Copyright © 2010 Enclave de libros ediciones. Reprinted with permission.

Example 21: 1 Adapted from Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth by S. Psillos, 1999, Routledge. Copyright © 1999 Stathis Psillos. Adapted with permission.

References

The reference list should be placed at the end of the paper and serves to provide information that allows readers to locate and search any sources cited in the body of the paper. Every citation should appear in the reference list, just as every entry in the reference list should be cited in the paper.

Some basic rules of reference list structure are:

All lines after the first should be indented one-half inch from the left margin (i.e., use the hanging indent).

Author names should be reversed (i.e., write the last name first, followed by the initial(s) of the author's name).

The list of entries should be organized alphabetically, taking into account the authors' last names.

Example 22: Karmy, R. (2009). Carl Schmitt and the Politics of the Antichrist. Representation, Political Form, and Nihilism, Pléyade 3, 25-52.

For the same works by the same author(s), these should be organized chronologically (from the oldest to the newest).

Example 23: Arendt, H. (1996). The Human Condition. Barcelona: Paidós.

Arendt, H. (2004). On Revolution. Madrid: Alianza Editorial

Rules for articles in academic journals

Author, A. (year of publication). Title of the article. Title of the journal, volume (issue of the journal), start page-end page. Url or doi.

Example 24: Ince, K, (2013). Feminist Phenomenology and the Film World of Agnès Varda. Hypatia 28 (3): 602-617. Doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01303.x

Rules for books and book chapters

Basic book format:

Author, A. (year of publication). Title of book. Publisher.

Example 25: Arguedas, J. Los ríos profundos. Cátedra.

Edited book:

Editor, E. E. (Ed.). (year of publication). Title of book. Publisher.

Example 26: Kronfeldner, M. E. (Ed.). (2021). The Routledge handbook of dehumanization. Routledge.

Book chapter with editor

Last name, A. (year of publication). Title of chapter in E. Editor (Ed.), Title of book (ed. no., pp. start-end of chapter). Publisher.

Example 27: Kreimer, P. (2009). The scientist is also a human being. Science under the magnifying glass. Siglo XXI Editores.

Lafont, C. (2015). Religion and the public sphere. What are the deliberative obligations of democratic citizenship? In N. del Valle (Ed.), The current state of criticism. Essays on the Frankfurt School (pp. 293-329). Editorial Metales Pesados.

Translated books:

Author, A. (year of publication). Title of the book (T. Translator, Trans.). Publisher. (Original work published in the year of the original publication).

Example 28: Habermas, J (1990). The logic of the social sciences (M. Jiménez Redonde, Trans.). Tecnos. (Original work published in 1982).

Books with second edition or higher

Author, A. (year of publication). Title of the book (edition number). Publisher.

Example 29: Kuhn, T. (2013). The structure of scientific revolutions (C. Solís Santos, Trans.; 4th ed.). Fondo de Cultura Económica. (Original work published in 1962).

Newspaper or magazine

Author, A. (year, month and date of publication). Title of the article in the newspaper. Name of the newspaper in italics. Url (if it is an electronic medium).

Example 30: Sanhueza, A. M. (2023, December 17). This is the Constitution that will remain in force in Chile and that was attempted to be changed twice in four years. El país. https://elpais.com/chile/2023-12-17/asi-es-la-constitucion-que-seguira-vigente-en-chile-y-que-se-intento-cambiar-dos-veces-en-cuatro-anos.html

Published thesis

Author, A. (year). Thesis title [PhD/MA/BA thesis, Name of the institution that awarded the degree]. Database name.

Example 31: Benjamin, J. (2023). Machine Horizons: Post-phenomenological AI Studies [PhD thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente Research Information.

Unpublished thesis

Author, A. (year). Title of the thesis [Unpublished PhD/Master's/Bachelor's thesis]. Name of the Academic Institution.

Example 32: Benjamín, J. (2023). Machine Horizons: Post-phenomenological AI Studies [Unpublished PhD thesis]. University of Twente.

Web page or online content

If the page has an individual author, the author must be cited first:

Author, A. (year, month and date of publication). Title. Name of the page. URL

Example 33:

Nanay, B. (2017, November 2). “Know yourself” is not only stupid advice, it is actually dangerous. Scientific Culture Notebook. https://culturacientifica.com/2017/11/02/conocete-ti-no-solo-consejo-estupido-realmente-peligroso/

If the source is a group or organization, we must add it as the author:

Example 34: Pan American Health Organization. (2020, February 2). Understanding the infodemic and misinformation in the fight against COVID-19. Iris.paho. https://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/52053.

If the publication date is not included, we use the abbreviation “n.d.”:

Example 35: WHO. (n.d.). Let’s flatten the infodemic curve. https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/let-s-flatten-the-infodemic-curve

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Once the documents have been received, the articles are evaluated by the editorial team and the guest editors according to their relevance to the theme of the issue. An anonymous copy of the article is then sent to two referees, who evaluate and decide – based on the criteria established by the Pléyade editorial committee – whether or not the articles are fit for publication.

The editorial committee considers the following criteria as fundamental when evaluating an article: 1. interest of the topic; 2. theoretical quality of the article; 3. argumentative quality; 4. quality of the conclusions; 5. quality of the bibliographical references. The response from the referee is sent to the authors within a period that varies from 4 to 12 weeks, after the end of the corresponding call. The final resolution of this process may include the following alternatives:

• If the article is rejected, the author will be notified, specifying the reasons.
• If it is approved, but with qualifications, the author(s) must correct their article in light of the comments made by the arbitration process.
• If approved, the article will be published in one of the three following issues.