Editorial Rules

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

Pléyade consists of four sections. The publication of contributions is determined by the Editorial Board, based on expert opinions of anonymous reviewers in the object of study (double-blind peer review) and the availability of space.

Articles: unpublished texts coming from research (up to 10,000 words, not counting abstract or bibliography).

Interviews: Conversations with leading researchers relevant to the scope of the journal (up to7,000 words,not counting abstract or bibliography).

Book Reviews: original bibliographic articles on significant publications for the humanities and social sciences (2,000 words,not counting bibliography).

Interventions: brief articles dedicated to analyze any relevant issue for the humanities and social sciences (up to 5,000 words). This section is included in the issues where the editorial board decides previously.

Articles and Interviews must have the following characteristics:

• A title specifying the content of the article in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
• A summary of 150-200 words (written in the third person) in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
• Between 3 and 5 key words in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.
• Use the notes and bibliography system Chicago Style (see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.htm).

• Articles titles in bold letters and without numeration.
• Articles subtitles in italics and without numeration.
• Font Times New Roman 12
• Do not use abbreviations such as cit., loc. cit., cfr. o cf. (see next section).
• Charts, graphics, or images: they should be included in the body of the text and in separate files (JPG format and a resolution equal or over 250 dpi). The figures must be unpublished. Otherwise, the author must obtain the respective license to reproduce and cite the source in the legend.

 Also, the following separate files must be attached:

• A brief biographical note that contains the article title, author name, institutional affiliation (including country and city), as well as acknowledgment to people. The journal encourages authors to mention if the articles are originating from research projects. Include funding source, project name, year, and code (if applicable)
• A letter stating that the article is a piece of original and unpublished work and is not currently under evaluation in another journal.
• If some contents have already been published, or are part of a larger work, a letter should be attached in which this republication is reported.

Preparation of quotations and references

Authors are expected to format quotations according to Chicago Style. Both footnotes and bibliography should strictly follow this format. Also long quotations (those that exceed 5 or 6 lines) should be placed in block in the text. In preparing quotations and references, please consider the following recommendations:

The first time a book is cited, one must put first the author’s first name, then their surname followed by a comma. Then comes the full reference with title in italics (city publishing: publisher, year), pages:

Example: 1 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998), 211.

Subsequent references of the same text should have the author’s surname, followed by the title of the work, or the short title if it is too long, then a comma and page number:

Example: 1 Arendt, The Human Condition, 55.

If the same work is quoted immediately after, the abbreviation Ibid. is used (with point), followed by the page number corresponding to the new quotation:

Example: 1 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998), 211.

Example: 2 Ibid., 235.

But if the same work and the same page is quoted immediately after, the abbreviation Ibidem. should be used (with point):

Example: 1 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998), 211.

Example: 2 Ibidem.

All quotes must be as follows when referring to more than one page: 180-220; 135 ff.

Example: 1 García Düttmann, Philosophy of Exaggeration, 106-109.

Example: 2 Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism. The Western Tradition, 135 and ff.

To quote journal articles: name and surname of the author, “Article Title” (in quotes), Title of the journal (in italics), the number or volume of the issue (year publication): specific page being quoted. The complete range of pages occupied by the single item is placed in the bibliography:

Example: 1 Alice Ormiston, “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate: Towards a Reconsideration of the Role of Love in Hegel”, Canadian Journal of Political science / Revue canadienne de science politique 35 (2002): 504.

To quote book chapters: name and surname of the author, “Article Title” (in quotes), in Title of book or general work in which it is found (in italics), ed. editor(s) name and surname in small letters and/or publisher (city of publication: publisher, year of publication), specific page being quoted. The complete range of pages occupied by the article only appears in the bibliography:

Example:

Hans-Friedrich Fulda, “ ‘Science of the Phenomenology of Spirit ’: Hegel’s Program and its Implementation, ” in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit.” A Critical Guide, ed. by Dean Moyar and Michael Quante (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 25.

To quote an article in a newspaper or popular magazine: name and surname of the author (if there is no author, the citation starts with the article title), “Article Title,” name of the newspaper or popular magazine, date it was published, accessed followed by date it was accessed, link (emphasis added):

Example: 1 “Pakistan says US Drone Strike that Killed Taliban Leader violated Its Sovereignty,” The Guardian, May 22, 2016, accessed May 23, 2016, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/22/pakistan-us-drone-strike-taliban-violated-its-sovereignty.

The complete bibliography should go at the end of the article ordered alphabetically according to the name of the authors. The structure is almost the same as that of the footnotes page, listed as it follows:

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Fulda, Hans-Friedrich. “ ‘Science of the Phenomenology of Spirit ’: Hegel’s Program and its Implementation. ” In Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit.” A Critical Guide, edited by Dean Moyar and Michael Quante, 21-42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

García Düttmann, Alexander. Philosophy of Exaggeration. Translated by James Phillips. London: Continuum, 2007.

Nirenberg, David. Anti-Judaism. The Western Tradition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.

Ormiston, Alice. “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate: Towards a Reconsideration of the Role of Love in Hegel”. Canadian Journal of Political science / Revue canadienne de science politique 35 (2002): 499-525.

“Pakistan says US Drone Strike that Killed Taliban Leader violated Its Sovereignty.” The Guardian, May 22, 2016. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/22/pakistan-us-drone-strike-taliban-violated-its-sovereignty.

Book Reviews

The editorial team accepts book reviews. We encourage reviews that fit with the themes of the special issues of the journal.

On books and reviews:

• The book under review should be of general interest to scholars and students in relation to politics, from any discipline in the social sciences and humanities.
• The book under review should be in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. Some exceptions may be made for books not written in one of these languages, if they represent an important academic contribution.
• Review refers to recent titles.,
• Reviews should be between 1000-2000 words.
• Introduce a file in Microsoft Word (.doc) or RTF format.
• With full references in Chicago Style format, using the system of footnotes and bibliography (see https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html or at the end of this document).

• Include full details of the book (the author(s), city of publication, publisher, date of publication, ISBN, number of pages).
• Include a brief biographical note of no more than 100 words. It must contain the name of the reviews author(s), institutional affiliation (including the country and city). 

PEER REVIEW PROCESS 

Article manuscripts will be reviewed by the editorial team and two blind referees. After receiving the documents, the items are evaluated by the editorial team and guest editors according to their relevance to the theme of number. Then, an anonymous copy of the article is sent to two referees who evaluate and decide –based on the criteria established by the editorial board of the journal Pléyade– if the manuscript is of publishable quality.

The editorial team considers the following criteria: 1. Interest of the subject; 2. theoretical quality; 3. quality of argumentation; 4. quality of the conclusions; 5. quality of references. The reviews are sent back to the authors within a period ranging from 4-12 weeks after the end of the corresponding call for papers. The final decision on the manuscript can take the following forms:

• Rejection: the author will be contacted specifying the reasons.
• Approved, but with modifications: the author/s should correct the article according to the comments made by the editors.
• Approved: the article will be published in any of the next three numbers.