Crítica publishes articles, discussions, critical studies, states of the art, and reviews. Manuscripts have to be original, so no translations will be published, and not to have appeared anywhere else in print. All manuscripts will only be published when they have two favorable reports and are approved by the Editor. The review process is double blind, that is, both referees and authors are unaware of each other's identity. Papers by members of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas-UNAM are sent out to external referees only.
Before submission of any contribution, a thorough proofreading is required to ensure intelligibility of the text.
Manuscripts must be sent electronically either in Word, rtf or PDF/LaTex format. Manuscripts should be double-spaced in a legible typeface (12 points) including notes and bibliography. All the pages should be numbered consecutively, and text heads and subheads clearly distinguished. Submissions must not exceed 10 000 words.
Authors must send two electronic versions of their manuscripts: One should include the author’s name and surname(s), institutional affiliation and country, ORCID, e-mail address, postal address (including phone number); and a second version should be prepared for blind refereeing, where all references to the author including acknowledgements and bibliographical details are omitted. Both versions must include the title, an abstract (110 words maximum) and a list of five keywords not mentioned in the title. Whenever possible the latter should also be sent in Spanish.
Four months should be allowed for refereeing.
When a contribution is accepted the author must send the final version in the following formats: word/LaTex and PDF. Major changes are not allowed at this point.
From the e-mail address critica@filosoficas.unam.mx the author will receive proofs in PDF format. The author must check these carefully and send her comments to critica@filosoficas.unam.mx within five working days.
Publication of a text supposes that the author's copyright is passed on to the editorial institution of the journal.
Reviews
The reviews we publish undergo a review process similar to that of articles, and they are of three types: purely informative review (one report), critical note (one report) and critical study (two reports). The maximum length of a purely informative review is 2000 words, a critical note 4000 and a critical study 8000. Bibliographical information on the book and ISBN must be included. Publication date of the books reviewed should be no more than three years old.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be numbered progressively, it is suggested to be short and kept to a minimum. Acknowledgements should be in a footnote at the end of the last paragraph of the text, before the bibliography.
Style Guide
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, you will be required to prepare a final version according to Crítica’s house style.
Crítica uses footnotes rather than endnotes. Footnotes should be short and numbered consecutively. They should be used sparingly.
Acknowledgements should be included in the last footnote, at the end of the last paragraph, before the Bibliography.
All manuscripts should include a list of all cited sources at the end of the text. That list should be titled “Bibliography”.
All references must be ordered alphabetically and by year, in the following order: most recently published works first and works in press last.
You must include all the relevant information of each cited document, including publishing house, city, date, and—when relevant—volume, issue, and collection.
References must be given in the language of the article (English or Spanish).
If possible, please include the DOI in the Bibliography.
Books. Please include the name(s) and last name(s) of the author(s), year of publication, full title of the book in italics, translator (if applicable), publisher, and city of publication. All of them are separated by commas.
Example:
Nagel, Ernest, 1961, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, Harcourt, Brace and World, New York.
Text in an Edited Volume. If you cite several chapters or articles from an edited volume, please include a separate entry for each text as well as a separate entry for the edited volume.
Examples:
Dummett, Michael, 1986, “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs: Some Comments on Davidson and Hacking”, in Ernest Lepore 1986, pp. 459–476.
Kraut, Robert, 1986, “The Third Dogma”, in Ernest Lepore 1986, pp. 398–416.
Lepore, Ernest (ed.), 1986, Truth and Interpretation, Blackwell, Oxford.
Vermazen, Bruce, 1986, “Testing Theories of Interpretation”, in Ernest Lepore 1986, pp. 235–244.
If you cite a single chapter or article from an edited volume, please include all the information in a single entry.
Example:
Dummett, Michael, 1986, “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs: Some Comments on Davidson and Hacking”, in Ernest Lepore (ed.), Truth and Interpretation, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 459–476.
Book with Several Volumes. If the book has several volumes, please include the name(s) and last name(s) of the author(s), year of publication, full title of the book in italics, translator (if applicable), publisher, city of publication, number of volumes, and collection (if applicable). All of them are separated by commas.
Examples:
Habermas, Jürgen, 1981, Teoría de la acción comunicativa, trans. Manuel Jiménez Redondo, Taurus, Madrid, 2 vols.
Or
Habermas, Jürgen, 1981, Teoría de la acción comunicativa, vol. 1: Racionalidad de la acción y racionalización social, vol. 2: Crítica de la razón funcionalista, trans. Manuel Jiménez Redondo, Taurus, Madrid.
If two or more works by the same author were published in the same year, please add a lowercase letter to the date in alphabetical order.
Examples:
Dipert, Randall R., 1980a, Types and Tokens, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Dipert, Randall R., 1980b, The Composer’s Intentions, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Article in a Journal. Please include the name(s) and last name(s) of the author(s), year of publication, title of the article in quotation marks, full title of the journal in italics, volume and issue, and page range. All of them are separated by commas.
Example:
Fodor, Jerry A. and Zenon W. Pylyshyn, 1988, “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis”, Cognition, vol. 28, no. 1–2, pp. 3–71.
Electronic Publications
Single-Authored Work
Author, year, Title, downloaded from URL [accessed: Day/Month/Year]
Chapter or Article
Author, year, “Title of Chapter or Article”, editor(s), Title of the edited collection, downloaded from URL [accessed: Day/Month/Year].
Contribution to a Magazine or Newspaper
Author, year, “Title of the Contribution”, Title of the Magazine or Newspaper, volume, issue, page range (if applicable), downloaded from URL [accessed: Day/Month/Year]
How to Include the DOI
Example:
Litland, Jon Erling, 2016, “Grounding, Explanation, and the Limit of Internality”, Philosophical Review, vol. 124, no. 4, pp. 481–532. (https://doi.org/10.1215/00318-108-3147011)
In-Text Citations
Single-Authored Texts
(Quine 1974, p. 20)
Texts with More than One Author
Two authors:
(Russell and Whitehead 1962)
Three authors:
(Rozas, Cancino Rodezno and Horta 2021)
More than three authors:
(Ferdowsian et al. 2020)
Different Texts from Different Authors
(Feyerabend 1974; Miller 1981; Nugayev 1983)
(Berka 1983; Mari 2003; Chang 2004; Tal 2012)
Different Texts from the Same Author
Please order them chronologically:
(Busch 2008; 1990a; 1990b)
(Jansen 2019; 2002; 1995)
In-Text Citations
Peacocke follows Scott (1963) in treating magnitudes as an “extensive system”.
Block Quotations
Quotations longer than five or more lines must appear on a new line, in block format, single-spaced, and without quotation marks.
There are two ways of citing the source:
In brackets after the end period of the quoted text. So: . (Dummett 1986, p. 460)
In the text that immediately precedes the quotation. So:
Dutilh Novaes and French (2018) say about this system that:
Block quotation. (p. 131)
Images
Any image (drawing, figure, etc.) must be sent as a digital file in EPS format, along with a high-resolution PDF file. Please specify the software used to create the image and include all special fonts used. Full credit must be given to the sources, even if it is your own work. If necessary, authors must have formal permission from copyright holders.
