Submissions

Author Guidelines

ARTICLES

1. Submissions should be made through the journal's website using the OJS system.

2. The author must include the following documentation:

    2.1. Full text in Word (according to template) and the same text anonymized.

AS INDICATED IN THE TEMPLATE:

TITLE

The title must be centered and included in both Spanish and English, using Garamond 12 font in uppercase and small caps, followed by the full name of the author(s), their affiliation, and ORCID.

ABSTRACT

The abstract must not exceed 150 words and must be included in both Spanish and English. When the article is written in a language other than Spanish, the abstract in Spanish must also be included.

KEYWORDS

A maximum of 6 keywords must be included in both Spanish and English. When the article is written in a language other than Spanish, keywords in Spanish must also be included.

ARTICLE TEXT

Section titles must be centered, in Garamond 12, uppercase and bold. Subsection titles must follow the same format but without bold.

The body of the text must be in Garamond 12 with 1.5 line spacing.

Each paragraph must begin with an indent.

When a quote of more than four lines is included, the font size should be reduced to 11, keeping all other characteristics except for the indentation, which should be 1 cm from the left. At the end of the quote, the bibliographic reference must be included in the format (Last name year, page). Examples: (Rodríguez 2014, 45) / (Rodríguez 2014, 320–27).

The first time a film is cited, the following format must be used: Title in Spanish (Original title, Director, year). The original title should be included only if it is different from the one used for the Spanish release. El portero de noche (Il Portiere di notte, Liliana Cavani, 1974). For subsequent citations of a film already mentioned, it is sufficient to use the Spanish release title in italics. If the citation is immediately preceded by information such as the director’s name or the year, it is not necessary to repeat it in parentheses. Example: In 1974, Liliana Cavani directed El portero de noche (Il Portiere di notte).

When the article contains images, tables, or graphs, they must be included in the body of the text at the appropriate point according to the reference in the text, using (Fig. 1), (Fig. 2), (Fig. 3), etc. Below the image, a caption must be included in Garamond 10 font, indicating the title, author, and source. Image resolution must not be lower than 300 dpi.

Footnotes must be included at the bottom of the page, not at the end of the text, using Garamond 10 font.

    2.2. Metadata should include:

                   — Full name of each author 

                   — Affiliation

                  — E-mail address

                  — ORCID

3. Latente does not charge authors for article processing or publication costs.

4. Articles must be unpublished and original.

5. The length should be between 6.000 and 10.000 words. In exceptional cases it may be exceeded with the prior agreement of the editorial board.

6. Papers in other languages are welcome, especially in English and Italian. Articles written in a language other than Spanish will include an abstract in both languages.

7. Structure of the article:

The structure of the article should follow the requirements indicated in the template proposed by the journal. 

The body of the article should follow the following minimum structure:

Introduction, Body of the article and Conclusions.

Bibliographical references should follow the Chicago-Deusto system (for films, tv shows, music and speaches see the following guidelines)

- Single-author book

Last name, First name. Year of publication. Title of the Book in Italics. Place of publication: Publisher.

Example: Camporesi, Valeria. 2014. Pensar la historia del cine. Madrid: Cátedra.

Chapter in an edited volume

Last name, First name. Year of publication. “Title of the Chapter in Quotation Marks.” Title of the Book in Italics, compiled, edited or coordinated by First name Last name, page range. Place of publication: Publisher

Example: Mulvey, Laura. 2021. “Intertextual Dialogue and New Feminist Film Theory.” Cine, interculturalidad y políticas de género, edited by Giulia Colaizzi, 27–43. Madrid: Cátedra.

- Journal article

The article title is placed in quotation marks, followed by the journal title in italics. Then comes the volume number (not in italics and with no punctuation in between), followed by the issue number in parentheses. If no volume number exists, only the issue number is provided (without parentheses). Whenever possible, the page range of the article must be included. Last name, First name. Year of publication. “Title of the Article in Quotation Marks.” Name of the Journal in Italics volume (issue number): page range

Example: Lapeña, Óscar. 2022. “Foundational Myths of Rome in Film and Television.” Revista Latente (20): 53–80.

- All references must include a hanging indent.

Regarding the bibliography, the following recommendations are made:

• references should be as up to date as possible.
• up to 20% self-citation is accepted, with a maximum of 3 self-citations, only from published texts.
• only bibliographical references that have been cited in the text of the article should be included.
• part of the bibliography must be in English, if the subject requires it. 

8. Authors should send their contributions in docx format using the Word word processor. 

REVIEWS 

1. Submissions should be made through the journal's website using the OJS system.

2. The author should include the following documentation:

     2.1. Full text in Word (according to template).

     2.2. In the metadata should be included:

                   — Full name of each author

                   — Affiliation

                  — E-mail address

                  — ORCID

3. The maximum length of the reviews will be 3500 words. 

DOCUMENTS

1. This section will include texts that serve as sources and documents for the study of visual culture, resulting from translations or transcriptions of primary sources, archive documents, letters, unpublished television interviews, etc. These texts will be accompanied by a brief introduction written by the author.

2. Submissions will be made through the journal's website using the OJS system.

3. The author must include the following documentation:

    3.1. Full text in Word

    3.2. The metadata must include:

           — Full name of each author

           — Affiliation 

           — E-mail address

           — ORCID

INTERVIEWS

1. This section will feature interviews with individuals involved in the fields of study covered by the journal (directors, screenwriters, art directors, photographers, illustrators, etc.). These texts will be accompanied by a brief introduction written by the author.

2. Submissions must be made through the journal’s website using the OJS system.

3. The length should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words.

4. Questions posed by the author should be in Garamond 12 bold, followed by the interviewee’s response in Garamond 12 regular, as indicated in the template.