Submissions

Author Guidelines

Only original and unpublished articles will be accepted.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

Only articles in Spanish, Portuguese or English will be accepted. In order to give greater dissemination to the articles and research, the possibility of translating the submitted works into Spanish and English is offered.

Papers should be submitted via the Prisma Social Journal website and must be adapted to the journal's template.

Cost of publication: 578,51€ +21%IVA (TAX) (700€) only in case the article is accepted. It includes publication in Open Access with a license CC BY NC ND.

General Requirements

• Authors should ensure the accuracy of the quotes, charts, tables and maps.
• Refrain from including irrelevant images and graphics in the article.
• Keywords are very important for search engine positioning. To achieve a better dissemination of the work, please make sure your keywords are clear an precise.
• The funding agency(ies) must be indicated, indicating the reference(s) of the project(s) in the framework of which the research that has given rise to the publication of the article has been carried out. This information should be referenced by the authors in the acknowledgements in the article. 
• Prisma Social requires authors to be identified in ORCID to standardize the citation of their publications.
• The order of signatures/affiliation in the article should reflect the effort and contribution.

Format Requirements

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

Bibliographic References

The citation style chosen by this journal is the APA’s (American Psychological Association).The references in the text must follow an abbreviated format (Author, Year: pp.). The full reference list shall appear at the end of the article. Preferably include references from the last five years; It will increase the article possibilities of acceptance by the reviewers. Efforts should be made to minimize the number of footnotes.

Whenever possible, include the DOI for each article in the bibliographic list. Authors can use a citation generator of APA style to adapt their bibliography to APA 7th edition as the one in the following link: https://www.scribbr.com/citation/generator/

The list of references should appear at the end and look as follows:

• Printed Book by One Author:

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

• Electronic Book by One Author:

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

• Several Books by One Author:

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

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

• Book by Two Authors:

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

• Book by 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:

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. En 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.

• Journal 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 Conference Presentation:

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:

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

• Online Newspaper Article:

Delicado, 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

• Printed Newspaper Article:

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

• PhD Dissertation:

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 the section REFERENCES distribution in several sections, with bibliographics references criteria different from the general ones: for example, including a webography or a primary sources list, without necessarily following the order of these instructions.

Editorial Quality

• The peer review process is rigorous in order to ensure the quality of the content published in the journal. We expect the authors to revise their texts following the suggestions of the reviewers. If the authors do not perform such reviews and do not submit comments back, the manuscript will be definitely rejected.
• Some manuscripts may be of excellent quality, but be poorly written in English. This may be the case for authors whose native language is not English. In this case, we could request the authors to re-write the article completely, independent of the final punctuation the article may have obtained. We have an editorial service that can be hired by the authors to improve the writing expression of the 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 source data of the research takes gender into account, in order to allow the identification of possible differences according to the proposals of the European Commission in Gender: https://op.europa.eu/es/publication-detail/-/publication/c86c598f-8ae0-4aa1-bbcd-92134bbdfb0c.