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Author Guidelines

Submissions must be research articles focused on Theoretical Linguistics or Applied Linguistics. They may be written in Spanish or English.

Articles must be original and unpublished, and must not be under simultaneous consideration for review or publication elsewhere; they must be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

Manuscripts may be submitted through the journal's online platform, via the Submissions tab. Articles will not be accepted by any other means. Once the manuscript has been received, the author will receive an acknowledgment-of-receipt email. They will subsequently be informed whether or not the article proceeds to the peer-review process.

Two digital files must be submitted for each contribution. One of them will contain the author(s)' information and must include: first and last name(s), as customarily used to sign their work and without using initials (if the text is the work of more than one author, the first will be considered the lead author); city and country; a brief biographical note including teaching or research positions and ranks; and an email address. The other file will contain the full body of the article, avoiding any reference to the author(s) in order to preserve their anonymity during the review process.

Each manuscript must be accompanied by:

Title of the text in Spanish and English.

An abstract of the text in Spanish and English, not exceeding 150 words. It must be written in a single paragraph that concisely presents the purpose, the main results, and the conclusions of the research.

Between 3 and 8 keywords or key phrases, in Spanish and English. They must not duplicate words or phrases already present in the title of the text.

The following must also be clearly defined: an introduction stating the aims and any other elements to be highlighted; the sections, with their corresponding headings; the conclusions; and the bibliographic references.

Formatting guidelines for manuscripts:

Text format: .doc or .rtf

Document size: Letter (215 x 279 mm)

Font: Times New Roman 12

Line spacing: 1.5

Maximum length for research articles: 20 pages

Maximum length for reviews: 5 pages

All sources cited in the articles or mentioned in the body of the text must be clearly identified, following the guidelines established in the 7th edition of the APA style.

Submission Preparation Checklist

 

All submissions must meet the following requirements:

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by any other journal.
  • Citations and the reference section conform to the 7th edition of the APA style.
  • Figures and tables follow the format of the 7th edition of the APA style.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in Semas agree to the following terms:

  • As the copyright owner, the author assigns the economic rights, for an unlimited term, to Semas —published by the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro— so that it may reproduce, edit, distribute, display, and communicate the manuscript through print and electronic media, databases, pre- and post-publication repositories, the internet, or any other medium now known or hereafter devised.
  • The author certifies that they hold the moral rights to the work and assumes responsibility for any claim related to intellectual property rights, releasing the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro from all liability.
  • The author acknowledges and accepts Semas's Open Access Policy and therefore authorizes the dissemination of their work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows third parties to share and adapt the content in any format, provided that authorship and first publication in this journal are acknowledged, the work is not used for commercial purposes, and derivative works are distributed under the same license. The text of the license is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

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