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La Cifra Impar. Revista de estudios de audiovisuales

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor), nor is it available on any type of blog or preprint sites.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Bibliographic citations and references are under the Chicago Standards for Abbreviated Footnotes. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is spaced at 1,5; uses a Times New Roman 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Images are provided, at a rate of at least 1 image per 1,200 words, with no maximum limit on images. These are free of copyright, and/or the transfer of the rights to said images is available for the purposes of being published in the corresponding article. They have a quality of at least 150 dpi, and are placed in the text in the corresponding place, and are attached in high quality separately when uploading the document.
  • The length of the article is between 6,000 and 9,000 words.
  • An abstract of no more than 300 words and between 3 and 5 keywords are included. Regardless of the language of the article, the title, abstract and keywords must also be entered in Spanish and English.

Author Guidelines

Original and unpublished research articles on cinema and audiovisual arts will be received. They will be accepted in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.

No type of fee or fee is charged for the presentation of works, nor for the subscription to the magazine The odd figure.

All articles will be submitted to double-blind review, and their publication will be subject to the relevance criteria defined by the Editorial Committee of the journal. Articles previously published or disseminated in any way, including websites of any type, will not be accepted.

The presentation format of the articles is in an editable Word document, in Times New Roman font size 12, 1.5 line spacing, right and left justification, without tabs, with a minimum length of 6,000 and a maximum of 9,000 words. If the article exceeds the maximum word limit, its acceptance will be at the discretion of the Editorial Committee.

The article must clearly state at the beginning: the title, name of the authors, their respective institutional affiliations and emails. It must include a summary or abstract of no more than 300 words, and between 3 and 5 keywords. Regardless of the language of the article, the title, abstract and keywords must also be entered in Spanish and English.

Images must be included to accompany the article, these must be copyright-free or assigned for publication, and must have a quality of at least 150 dpi. They must be at least one image every 1,200 words, and must be attached separately (if the article has 6,000 words, at least 5 images must be attached, if it has 7,000, at least 6 images, etc.). There is no maximum limit for images per article.

The articles must include at the end a list of the bibliography and filmography used. Citations and bibliographic references will be governed by the Chicago Abbreviated Footnote standards (examples can be consulted below, or on the page https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html).

The works must be uploaded to the magazine page: www.lacifraimparrevista.ucine.net (information in the “Authors” tab), and will be received until February 29, 2024.

The publication of texts is carried out under a Creative Commons License, Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike (by-nc-sa), whose rules can be consulted at http://www.creativecommons.org.ar/

The authors retain the intellectual property of their work, but the right to the first publication goes to the magazine La cipher odd.

The magazine's contact email is lacifraimparrevista@ucine.edu.ar.

Submitting an article to this call implies acceptance of these rules.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Unpublished and original research papers on cinema and audiovisual arts are published, which have been approved through the peer review process.

 

TRANSLATIONS

The journal publishes translations of texts of interest to researchers, teachers, filmmakers, students, critics, etc., that have not been previously published in Spanish.

REVIEWS

Unpublished reviews of current publications are published, in Spanish, Portuguese, French or English. They do not undergo the peer review process, but are reviewed by the Editorial Committee.

DOSSIER

The journal's Dossiers may be directed by members of the Editorial Committee, or by invited editors. They gather unpublished and original research articles on cinema and audiovisual arts referring to a specific topic, and must have been approved through the peer review process. The same peer review system applies as for the open call articles.

INTERVIEWS

Unpublished interviews of interest to both the subjects involved and the topics they discuss are published in Spanish, Portuguese, French or English. They do not undergo the peer review process, but are reviewed by the Editorial Committee.

Copyright Notice

The publication of texts is carried out under a Creative Commons License, whose rules can be consulted at http://www.creativecommons.org.ar/


The authors retain the intellectual property of their work, but the right to the first publication goes to the magazine La cifra impar.

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