Submissions

Author Guidelines

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF.
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF.

Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts should strictly conform to the guidelines defined by its section policy.

Length: Manuscripts should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (maximum), including title, abstract, keywords, authorship information, notes, and bibliography. Reviews should be between 1500 and 3000 words (maximum), including titles, authorship data, notes and bibliographical references.

Papers should follow the submission format available in the template downloadable here.

Responses to reviewers should be submitted using the template available for download here.

Submitted papers should follow the following rules:

1. Title: in the original language of the article and in English. It should be explicit and clearly reflect the content of the paper. It should not exceed 100 characters.
2. Authorship: Full name(s) and surname(s) of the person(s) signing the paper; indicating for each person the organisation or centre of work, country and e-mail address(es).
3. ORCID identifier number. If you are not registered, you can register in ORCID, free of charge, through the website https://orcid.org/register.
4. Abstract: articles must be accompanied by a summary of 150 words maximum, in the original language of the manuscript and in English, stating the objectives, approach and conclusions of the work.
5. Keywords: a maximum of 5 keywords should be included, in the original language of the article and in English.
6. Body of the text: the wording should be clear, concise and inclusive. Bold or underlined text is not allowed, only italics for expressions in other languages, titles of books or magazines, metalanguage, etc. If another typeface is to be used for mathematical signs or texts in other alphabets (e.g. Greek, Arabic or Japanese), the places where these signs have been used should be indicated in the text to avoid omissions in subsequent versions and proofs.
7. Idiom: texts can be written in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Catalan, Galician and English.
8. Font: texts shall be submitted in Verdana font size 14 for headings and Trebuchet MS size 11 for the body of the text.
9. Quotations and inverted commas: in general, inverted commas (“”) should be used to limit textual quotations or coined concepts, accompanied by their corresponding reference, which should include the page numbers; also to refer to expressions used in a figurative sense. Single inverted commas (‘’) should only be used when quotation is needed within a textual quotation that is already enclosed in inverted commas. Quotations of more than 40 words should be placed in a separate paragraph indented 2 cm on both sides.
10. Footnotes: footnotes are acceptable, provided they are the minimum necessary and do not include bibliographical references. Footnotes may be used to cite archival documentary sources or for essential terminological or contextual clarification.
11. Images, tables, maps and graphs. The number of images, tables, maps and graphs should be limited to those that are necessary to support the argumentation of the text: not as ornamentation. All of them must be cited in the main text of the article or they will not be considered necessary. They should be numbered consecutively according to their order of appearance in the text and each one should have an explanatory title at the top and a footnote at the bottom, indicating the source or the expression ‘own production’, when this has been carried out by the authors of the work. Images, tables, maps and graphs must be inserted in the text in their corresponding place; they must also be sent separately in JPEG or PNG format. Photographs and figures must have a minimum resolution of 300 pixels per inch for publication.
12. Mathematical formulae or expressions: these must be inserted in the Word or LibreOffice document itself, but under no circumstances should they be incorporated as images.
13. Headings: a maximum of two levels of headings should be used. Bold type should be used for the first level; italics should be used for the second level. Headings should not be numbered.

14. This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification". This information should be incorporated in the full version of the manuscript (Microsoft Word file, LibreOffice, or a compatible format), but not in the anonymised version (PDF file), under an "Authorship contribution statement" heading, located just before the bibliography, in the following format:

    Authorship contribution statement

    Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.

    Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing.

15. References. Revista de Estudios Utópicos uses the citation format of the Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition, author-date for all bibliographic references:
    
    1. In-text citation: in the author-date system, in-text citations include in parentheses the author's surname, the year of publication and, if necessary, the page number (separated from the year by a comma). This form of citation allows for fluent reading by integrating quotations into the flow of the text. Examples:
       
       1. When referring to the whole of a work: (Smith 2020)
       2. When citing a specific passage: (Smith 2020, 123) (Smith 2020, 45-47).
    2. List of references: at the end of the document, a complete list of all literature cited throughout the text is provided. References should appear in alphabetical order by author's surname. Examples:
       
       1. Book: Smith, John. 2020. Title of the book. City: Publisher.
       2. Journal Article: Doe, Jane. 2019. ‘Article Title.’ Journal Title 15 (2): 123-145.
       3. Edited book chapter: Brown, Lisa. 2018. ‘Chapter Title.’ In Title of Book, edited by Maria White, 45-67. City: Publisher.

    Detailed information on this citation style can be found on the official Chicago website (https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html).

Supplementary Files Preparation

Before you begin the submission, you should have the following files, in addition to the TWO versions of the article text (original and anonymised):

• Copyright Transfer Statement
• Compressed file with article images and graphics
• Reproduction contracts

These complementary files will be uploaded as different article components.

PROOFS AND COPIES FOR THE AUTHORS

Proofs will be sent to authors as PDF files for review and return within three days. No material corrections will be allowed on proofs.

Once final publication is made, the main author will be notified.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Reutopía

- How to send an original manuscript to Reutopía

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Reutopía

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Reutopía

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF