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.
Further guidelines
Bibliography
The bibliography should appear in a list at the end of the document ordered in a congruent way with the author-year style used in the text; that is, alphabetically and by year; starting with the most recent work (works in press will be listed last). All the works that are referred to in the body of the text will be included, and all the pertinent data of each one of them will be given. The information corresponding to the imprint (publisher, city, date) and the complementary data of the work (volume, number, collection) must be presented in Spanish or English depending on the language in which the text is written. It is recommended that references in the bibliography include the DOI.
1) Book. It will include the name and last name of the author, the year, the full name of the book in italics, the publisher, the city of publication. [All separated by commas.]
Nagel, Ernest, 1961, The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation, Harcourt, Brace and World, New York.
2) Text that is part of a collective work. When referring to several parts or chapters of a compilation, each entry will be recorded separately in the bibliography and the complete reference for the compilation will be added separately:
Dummett, Michael, 1986, “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs: Some Comments on Davidson and Hacking”, en Ernest Lepore 1986, pp. 459–476.
Kraut, Robert, 1986, “The Third Dogma”, en Ernest Lepore 1986, pp. 398–416.
Lepore, Ernest (comp.), 1986, Truth and Interpretation, Blackwell, Oxford.
Vermazen, Bruce, 1986, “Testing Theories of Interpretation”, en Ernest Lepore 1986, pp. 235–244.
When only referring to a part or chapter of a compilation, the complete information of the compilation will be included in the same entry:
Dummett, Michael, 1986, “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs: Some Comments on Davidson and Hacking”, en Ernest Lepore (comp.), Truth and Interpretation, Blackwell, Oxford.
3) Work in several volumes. It will include the last name, first name, the year, the title of the book, the translator (if it is the case), the publisher, the city of publication, the no. of volumes (collection, if it is the case). [All separated by commas.]
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 there are two or more works by an author published in the same year in the references, a lowercase letter will be added to the date following the alphabet.
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.
4) Article of a journal. It will include the name and last name of the author, the year, the name of the article in quotation marks, the full name of the journal in italics, the number of the volume and the issue, and the pages on which it appears. [All separated by commas.]
Fodor, Jerry A. y Zenon W. Pylyshyn, 1988, “Connectionism and Cognitive Architecture: A Critical Analysis”, Cognition, vol. 28, no. 1-2, pp. 3-71.
5) Electronic publication references
1. Individual work
Author, year, Title of the work, downloaded from URL [accessed: Day / Month / Year]
2. Part of a work
Author, year, "Title of the chapter or article", compiler, Title of the complete work, downloaded from URL [accessed: Day / Month / Year].
3. Collaboration in journal, newspaper
Author, year, "Title of the collaboration", Title of the magazine or newspaper, vol., No., Pages (if it is the case), downloaded from URL [accessed: Day / Month / Year]
6) DOI included
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)
Citations within text
In-text citations must appear thus:
1. Individual work
(Quine 1974, p. 20).
2. Collective work
Two authors:
(Russell y Whitehead 1962)
Three authors:
(Rozas, Cancino Rodezno y Horta 2021)
More than three authors:
(Ferdowsian et al. 2020)
3. Different authors, different works:
(Feyerabend 1974; Miller 1981; Nugayev 1983)
(Berka 1983; Mari 2003; Chang 2004; Tal 2012)
4. Same author, different works:
(Busch 1990a; 1990b; 2008)
(Jansen 1995; 2002; 2019)
5. Narrative citation
Peacocke follows Scott (1963) in treating magnitudes as an “extensive system”.
6. Block quotations
Quotations of 5 or more lines must appear on a new line, in block format, single spaced and not enclose with quotation marks. The source must be cite in parentheses after the quotation’s final punctuation: . (Dummett 1986, p. 460) or cite the author and year in the narrative before the quotation and place only the page number in parentheses after the quotation’s final punctuation:
Dutilh Novaes and French (2018) say about this system that it:
Block quotation. (p. 131)
Images
Any illustration (drawing, figure, or any image) must be sent as a digital file in the EPS format, along with a high resolution PDF file. Please specify the programme in which the illustration was created and include all special fonts used. Full credit must be given to the source of all illustrations, even if it is your own work. If necessary, the author must have a formal permission from the copyright holder of them.
Originals that do not comply with these guidelines will not be considered for publication.
