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Only original and unpublished articles will be accepted . It is essential that the proposed works are not submitted for publication in other journals or publishing bodies.

Only articles in Spanish, English, or Portuguese will be accepted. To further disseminate the articles and research, the possibility of translating submitted works into Spanish and English is offered.

Submissions will be sent via the Prisma Social Magazine website and must be formatted according to the magazine's template.

Publication cost: €1800 only if the article is accepted. Includes Open Access publication with a CC BY NC ND license.

General requirements

• Authors must ensure the accuracy of quotations, diagrams, tables, and maps.
• Please refrain from including irrelevant images or graphics in the article. 
• Keywords are very important for search engine optimization. To achieve better exposure for your work, please ensure your keywords are clear and precise.
• The funding agency(ies) must be indicated, specifying the project code(s) under which the research leading to the publication of the article was conducted. This information must be referenced by the authors in the acknowledgments section of the article itself.
• Prisma Social  requires authors to be identified in  ORCID  in order to standardize the citation of their publications.

• The order of signatures/affiliation in the article should reflect the effort and contribution.

Format requirements

• The graphics and images must be clear and easy to see. We cannot improve the image quality.
• All images, graphics, and tables must be accompanied by a title and source.
• All images, graphics, and tables should be placed where they will appear in the text.
• Avoid using certain advanced Word features, such as drawing objects and automatic tables of contents and indexes.

Bibliographic references

Bibliographic references should follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. Within the text, references should be abbreviated (author, year, pp.), with the full reference included in the final list. It is preferable to include references from the last five years; this will increase the likelihood of the article being accepted by the reviewers. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum.

Whenever possible, include the DOI in the bibliography. Authors can use an APA citation generator to adapt their bibliography to APA 7 style, such as the one at the following link: https://www.scribbr.es/citar/generador/apa/

The list of bibliographic references will be placed at the end and will follow the following APA format:

• Printed book by one author:

Clare, R. (2021). Ancient Greece and Rome in video games. Representation, play, transmedia . Bloomsbury Academic.

• E-book by one author:

Spyer, P. (2021). Orphaned landscapes: violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia . Fordham Universities Libraries.

• Several works by the same author:

Mirzoeff, N. (2015). How to see the World . Pelican.

Mirzoeff, N. (2017). The appearance of Black Lives Matter . NAME Publications.

• Book with two authors:

Cohen, D. & Anderson S. (2021). A Visual Language . Bloomsbury Publishing.

• Book with more than two authors:

Newbury, D., Rizzo, L., & Thomas, K. (2020). Women and photography in Africa: Creative practices and feminist challenges . Routledge.

• Collective book with editors or coordinators:

Kinder, M. & McPherson, T. (Eds.). (2021). Transmedia frictions: The digital, the arts, and the humanities . University of California Press.

• Book chapter:

Kavka, M. (2019). From the “Belfie” to the Death-of-Me: The Affective Archive of the Self/ie. In J. Riquet & M. Heusser (Eds). Imaging identity. Text, mediality and contemporary visual culture (pp. 35-59). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org.10.1007/978-3-030-21774-7 .

• Magazine article:

McSwiney, J., Vaughan, M., Heft A. & Hoffmann, M. (2021). Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right's digital visual culture. Information, Communication & Society.  https://doi.og/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1961006

• Video or presentation at a conference:

Mills, C. (2012, July 19).  Civil War Monuments . The Visual Culture of the American Civil War.  NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers. [Video]. https://civilwar.picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/presentations-about-visual-media/public-sculpture/

• Film or documentary:

Millepied, B. (Director). (2020).  Dance of Dreams  [Film]. Sony/ATV Harmony.

• Article in a digital newspaper:

Delicate, A. & Rowland, J. (2021, May 7). Visual representations of science in a pandemic: COVID-19 in images. Front. Commun . https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.645725/full . https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.645725

• Article in a printed newspaper:

Vilela, R. (2021, May 19). A collective of Latin American photographers tell the stories of their countries during the pandemic. The Washington Post .

• Doctoral thesis:

Baynes, T. D. (2019). More than a spasm, less than a sign: Queer masculinity in American visual culture, 1915-1955. [Doctoral thesis, The University of Western Ontario]. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 6238. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/6238

• Blog post:

Verstappen, S. (2021, January 14). Hidden behind toilet rolls: visual landscapes of COVID-19. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology . https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/01/14/sanderien-verstappen-hidden-behind-toilet-rolls-visual-landscapes-of-covid-19/

The author may decide, where appropriate, to divide the REFERENCES section into several sections with citation criteria different from the general ones: e.g., include a Webography or a list of Primary Sources (ancient, medieval) whose order does not have to adhere to the dictates in these instructions.

Editorial quality

• The manuscript review process is rigorous to ensure the quality of the content published in the journal. Authors are expected to revise their texts according to the reviewers' recommendations. If authors fail to perform these revisions and do not submit an appeal, the manuscript will be rejected.
• Some articles may have excellent content but be poorly written in Spanish or English. This can be the case, for example, with authors whose native language is not Spanish or English. In this case, we can request that the author completely rewrite the article, regardless of the overall score it received. We have an Editorial Service that these authors can use to improve the written expression of their article.
• The submitted originals make appropriate use of inclusive language according to the Report of the Royal Spanish Academy on inclusive language:  https://www.rae.es/sites/default/files/Informe_lenguaje_inclusivo.pdf .
• The submitted originals adequately report on whether the research source data takes sex into account, in order to allow the identification of possible differences according to the proposals of the European Commission in Gender in Research: https://op.europa.eu/es/publication-detail/-/publication/c86c598f-8ae0-4aa1-bbcd-92134bbdfb0c .

SHIPPING PROCEDURE:

1. Introduction. In this section, you must indicate the language of the article, the section for which it is being submitted, and review and accept the submission requirements and the copyright/privacy statement. You may also include any comments or messages for the Journal editors.

Next, you will need to click the "Save and Continue" button .

2. Upload the shipment. The job will be sent in duplicate :

• Anonymous version . The anonymized version must not contain any references that could reveal the authorship of the work. This includes: name, affiliation, citations and references to the author's own work within the text, etc. In the case of self-citations, it must be clearly indicated that the reference has been removed to maintain anonymity.

• Authored version . This version will include full authorship (in order of participation), institutional affiliation, and email address.

File upload:

• To upload the anonymous version of the work, proceed to "Upload submission file ," selecting the "Article - Anonymous version" option within the "Article component" section. Once the file is uploaded, click the "Continue" button, and a "File added" notification will appear .

• To upload the authored version of the work, you must click the "Submit another file" button, selecting the " Article - Authored version " option within the "Article component" section . Once the file is uploaded, click the " Continue " button and a " File added " notification will appear .

• After this, you will need to click on the " Complete " button.

Next, you will need to click the "Save and Continue" button . 

3. Enter the metadata. This section should include:

• Article Title . The title of the work in both Spanish and English, which should concisely and clearly summarize the main idea of ​​the research. Specialized abbreviations should be avoided. Approximately 70 characters.

• Subtitle (optional). In Spanish and English. Approximately 40-50 characters.

• Abstract . A summary in Spanish of the work's content, briefly addressing the following: background, methodology, techniques used, results, and main conclusions. Avoid specialized abbreviations. The abstract should not exceed 200 words.

• Authorship and collaborators . Full name(s) of all authors, as well as their email address and ORCID identifier. In order to correctly identify each author, especially when surnames are common, and to give visibility to women through their names, both surnames and the first name must be included. The institution, city, and country of the entity where the researcher works or collaborates should be included, and, if applicable, the institution and country where the research was carried out. 

• Keywords . Main terms that identify the research conducted. 2 to 8 keywords in Spanish and English. They must be entered one by one.

• Supporting Agencies . Research articles that include the publication of research results that have been funded must indicate the source of funding here.

• Citations/References . According to the APA 7th edition guidelines (American Psychological Association). The bibliography used—that is, only those referenced in the text—will be listed alphabetically by the author's last name and first name. The last name and first name will be repeated in each entry. You can consult these guidelines in detail on the APA website or use the following guide: https://cutt.ly/pyxodu6 .

4. Confirmation . In this section, you can confirm the submission or review the previous sections. Once ready, click the " Finish Submission " button.

For any questions, you can write to the following email address: administracion@prismasocialediciones.es .