Authors wishing to publish in Feminismo/s must comply with the following manuscript submission guidelines. Otherwise, the manuscript may be rejected. For any related queries, please email the journal’s contact person.

Besides ensuring compliance with these guidelines, authors are advised to read, before submitting their manuscripts, all sections of the journal’s website containing information applicable to submissions, such as our publication ethics policy, our anti-plagiarism policy, etc.

Submissions, which are open all year round except in August, can be research papers and book reviews. Calls for papers for monographic issues will be available in the Announcements section and on the journal’s home page.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed and, where appropriate, published within the applicable timeframes.

1 Requirements

Submissions must meet the following requirements:

1. Originality. All articles must be original and unpublished. No articles under review by another journal will be taken into consideration.
2. Compliance with the submission procedure. Manuscript must be submitted via the journal’s platform, which requires authors to log into the platform or create their user profile if they do not have one.
3. Languages. Manuscripts must be in English or Spanish.
4. Authorship. Authors must provide their name and surnames, email address (preferably an institutional or professional email address), main institutional or professional affiliation, country and ORCID identifier (https://orcid.org/XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX).
5. Competing interests. In the “Comments for the Editor” section of the submission form authors must disclose any personal or financial connection that may influence the conclusions of the manuscript. Otherwise, they must declare that there is no conflict of interest involved.
6. Anonymisation. Submitted files must be anonymised. Microsoft Word (.docx) or Open Document (.odt) file formats required.
7. Funding. If the submitted manuscript is part of a research study having received funding, the following details must be provided in the "Supporting Agencies": funding entity, project code, etc. This information must not appear in the submitted file for the sake of anonymity.

2 Research papers

At the start of the manuscript, the following elements must be provided:

• Title: clear, concise and informative. In it, authors are advised to include the keywords that indicate the topic of the article and avoid acronyms or extremely specific terms.
• Abstract: between 250 and 350 words. It must state the objectives, design, methods, main results and most relevant conclusions from the study.
• Keywords: at least eight, they must clearly indicate the topic of the article and be frequently used in the relevant field of study.

If the manuscript is not in English, the title, abstract and keywords must also appear in English.

The recommended structure for research papers is as follows: introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions and bibliography:

• Introduction. This section must state the basis and purpose of the study. Citations should be provided only when strictly necessary. No data or conclusions from the study must be included. The introduction must not contain a detailed literature review.
• Methodology. When describing the research methods used in the study, authors must be as detailed as they see fit. They must provide sufficient information on the empirical work conducted, as this will allow others to understand and replicate the process. Previously published sources and methods must be succinctly described, with relevant citations, unless such sources and methods have been modified. When appropriate, this section must describe the methods for calculating sample size as well as the sampling methods used in each case. The type of analysis (documentary, critical, statistical, etc.) must be stated. If an original methodology is employed, it will be necessary to indicate the reasons for using it, as well as potential limitations.
• Results. Results must follow a logical sequence and appear within the text or in tables or figures (without repeating data). It is advisable to highlight relevant remarks.
• Discussion. A summary of the findings must be provided. Authors must relate their own observations to other relevant studies and indicate the contributions and limitations of their and others’ studies. Data or other material already discussed in other sections must not be repeated again in detail. Authors must specify the inferences made from the findings and their limitations, including those inferences that could be useful for future research.
• Conclusions. This section must summarise the main points that can be drawn from the results and discussion.
• Bibliography. This section must appear after the discussion and conclusions. Authors must be listed in alphabetical order and APA format (7th edition) is required.

Text length required for research papers (which must be unpublished): 9,000 words, including notes, charts and reference lists. Any exceptions must be justified and authorised by the Editorial Board.

Font: Times New Roman, 12 pt. Text justification and 1.5 spacing required. The first line of each paragraph must be indented.

Section headings must be in bold and capitalised. Arabic numerals must be used for numbering section (1, 2, 3, etc.) and subsection (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.) headings. Subsection headings must be in bold and lowercase.

Footnotes (font: Times New Roman, 10 pt) must be included only when strictly necessary, exclusively for additional information and never for bibliographic references. Footnote marks must appear before punctuation marks.

Photographs and images must be provided in digital format. They must not be included in the text. TIFF format and 300 dpi required. Whenever referred to in the text, they must be properly identified.

Only images, drawings, photographs, figures, tables, charts, etc. created by the authors of the article are accepted. Authors can also use rights-free images, etc. or those under Creative Commons licences allowing for them to be reused and listing the allowed uses. Rights-protected images, charts, etc. can be used as long as the authors of the article have requested and secured the relevant authorisation from the creators of such images, charts, etc.

3 Book reviews

Maximum length for book reviews: 1,500 words. The book must have been published within the two years preceding the submission of the review.

In the “Abstract” section, the following details must be provided: author or editor, title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, ISBN and number of pages.

At least four keywords must be included.

4 Citing and referencing

The journal adheres to the citing and referencing guidelines set out in the APA style manual, 7th edition. If these guidelines are not followed, the manuscript will not be peer-reviewed. For further information, the guide (PDF) produced by the University of Alicante Library.

A section titled “Bibliographic references” must be included after the conclusions. The list must be given in alphabetical order (if there are several works by the same author, these must appear in chronological order) and contain all those works cited in the article. All reference entries not ending with a URL or DOI must end with a full stop followed by a line break.

If a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is available, it must be provided as a secure URL link, in full and with no prefixes or full stops after the link. For example:

Amaefula, R. (2021). African Feminisms: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects. Feminismo/s, (37), 289-305. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2021.37.12

Crossref’s Simple Text Query can be used for checking DOIs included in a reference list.