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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  • The submitted manuscript has not been and will not be published elsewhere (except in the abstract form) and is not being submitted to review elsewhere (alternatively, this has been made explicit in Comments to the Editor).
  • Sent files are in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or RTF format.
  • The manuscript follows all bibliographic and style requirements indicated in Author Guidelines.
  • The file with the manuscript does NOT include personal information about the author. Should there be a reference to the author/s, their name/s must be substituted by the word AUTHOR.

Author Guidelines

1) Collaborations - articles or book reviews - should be submitted either by email to the Editorial Secretariat (redaccion@metatheoria.com.ar) or electronically at www.metatheoria.com.ar. For online submissions, new contributors should first register at this site and check the Guide for Authors.

2) Collaborations should be original. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has not been published elsewhere and that it is not being submitted for review elsewhere.

3) Main articles are limited to 15000 words and book reports to 3000 words, including footnotes and bibliographic references.

4) All manuscripts must be prepared and submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) formats. Microsoft Word 2007 users must use the compatibility mode (.doc).

5) Manuscripts should be prepared using the 12-point Time New Roman font, double-spaced throughout. All pages must be numbered. Italics should be used for emphasis. An equation editor or MathType should be used for equations. The location of figures, tables, graphs or maps should be indicated in the main manuscript. Figures, tables, graphs and maps should be submitted as separately from the manuscript text, numbered and titled. Numbers are for ¨figures¨ (graphs, maps, etc.) or ¨photos¨. Figures and photos should be submitted in a finished form suitable for high-quality journal reproduction, and only black-and-white figures are accepted. Figures can be submitted as Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpeg or .jpg), Graphic Interchange Format (.gif), Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) or Tagged-Image File Format (.tiff or .tif). Authors are responsible of obtaining copyright permission from other publishers or authors when submitting non-original figures or pictures. Headings should use decimal system with no more than 3 levels. Abbreviations should be defined at their first occurrence and used consistently throughout the manuscript.

 

Title, abstract and keywords

6) Page 1 should contain the article title (small letter, bold and centred), the names and affiliations of all authors, their postal addresses and emails. Acknowledgements should also be mentioned in this page, as a footnote (* from the article title). Funding agencies should be named completely.

7) Page 2 should contain an abstract of the article that is not to exceed 150 words, written in the same language as the manuscript. Abstracts should not include undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. A list of up to 4 keywords should be provided. In the case of articles written in Spanish or Portuguese, English title, abstract and keywords should be provided.

 

Manuscript format

8) The manuscript should be headed by the title. Footnotes should be identified in the text by consecutive superscript Arabic numerals.

9) Footnotes should be included in the corresponding page.

10) The name and date system should be used for citing all references. All citations in the text should refer to author's name and year of publication in parenthesis. Page number should be included when necessary.

Example for single author: "Carnap (1938) supports" or "'The analysis of the linguistic expressions under such an abstraction is logic of science' (Carnap 1938, pp. 408-409)".

Example for two authors: "Da Costa & French (2003) claim that" or "an unified account of the different types of models used in science (Da Costa & French 2003)".

Example for three or more authors: "In Balzer, Moulines and Sneed (1987) it is hold that" or "theories can be conceived as series of theory-elements hierarchically organized (Balzer, Moulines and Sneed 1987)".

 

References

11) References should be arranged alphabetically, as follows:

a. Books: a) author's surname and initials; b) year of publication in parenthesis; c) book title in italics; d) volume, number, etc.; e) city; f) publisher.

Examples:

Single author: Cartwright, N. (1983), How the Laws of Physics Lie, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Two authors: Da Costa, N. and S. French (2003), Science and Partial Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Three or more authors: Balzer, W., Moulines, C.U. and J.D. Sneed (1987), An Architectonic for Science. The Structuralist Program, Dordrecht: Reidel.

Editor, translator, compilation: Parrini, P., Salmon, W.C. and M. Salmon (eds.) (2003), Logical Empiricism. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

b. Journal articles: a) author's surname and initials; b) year of publication in parenthesis; c) article title between quotes; d) journal title in italics; e) volume, number, etc.; f) pages.

Example: van Fraassen, B. (2006), "Structure: its Shadow and Substance", The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57: 275-307.

c. Book articles: a) author's surname and initials; b) year of publication in parenthesis; c) article title between quotes; d) name of the book's editor; e) year of publication in parenthesis; f) pages. The book should be included in the bibliography as indicated in a).

Example: Rheinberger, H.-J. (1998), "Experimental Systems, Graphematic Spaces", in Lenoir, T. (ed.), Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 285-303.

d. Internet publications, books: Torretti, R. (1998), El paraíso de Cantor, http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0031052.pdf.

e. Internet publications, books or book chapters: Gayon, J. (2009), "From Darwin to today in evolutionary biology", in Hodge, J. and G. Radick (eds.) (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://cco.cambridge.org/extract?id=ccol9780521884754_CCOL9780521884754A015

f. Internet publications in journals: Moulines, C.U. (2005), "Explicación teórica y compromisos ontológicos: un modelo estructuralista", Enrahonar 37: 45-53, http://ddd.uab.cat/pub/enrahonar/0211402Xn37p45.pdf Web (access January 13, 2010).

g. Newspapers articles: Moledo, L., “Pensando en la Biología. Diálogo con Pablo Lorenzano, Doctor en Filosofia”, Section “Ciencia”, Página/12, July 7, 2010, p.  18, http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ciencia/19-148975-2010-07-07.html (access July 9, 2010).

h. Thesis, dissertations: Olivé, L. (1980), The Significance of Epistemological and Ontological Preconceptions in three Sociological Theories of the State, PhD Thesis, University of Oxford.

i. Meetings communications: Laudan, L. (2008), "The Epistemic Arithmetic of Criminal Justice", Presented at the Conference on Evidence and Law, Hanover, New Hampshire.

 

 

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