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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript must be original and unpublished; it must not have been previously published or submitted for consideration to any other journal.
  • The file can be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect formats.
  • The text follows the APA seventh edition guidelines: Arial 11, double-spaced.
  • Remove the author metadata from the Information section of the Word document. The article text should omit any references that could identify the author(s) and their academic affiliation. Author(s) information should be submitted in a separate document and included in the OJS registration. If the article has multiple authors, the lead author is responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions from the other authors.
  • The order of the manuscript for articles and essays should be as follows: title in Spanish and English, summary along with five keywords in Spanish, abstract and keywords; followed by the writing of the research and the
    references.
  • The text observes the stylistic and bibliographic requirements established by the Publication Standards for Authors.
  • Whenever possible, URLs or persistent identifiers (DOI, HANDLE) should be provided for references.
  • Abstracts for articles and essays should be no more than 300 characters long and should include the research objectives and results. Authors should include five to six keywords, separated by semicolons.

Author Guidelines

  • The manuscript must be original and unpublished, and neither previously published nor submitted to another journal for consideration.
  • Manuscripts cannot be a repetition of other people's work (plagiarism) or their own work. In the latter case, previously published work must be cited.
  • The manuscript must be organized as follows: the title in both Spanish and English, the abstract with five keywords in Spanish, the abstract with five keywords in English, the research text, and references.
  • Online bibliographic references must include URLs or permanent identifiers (DOI, HANDLE).
  • Take the author’s metadata out of the Word document’s Information section. The manuscript should not contain the author’s name.
  • The margins should all be 2.5 cm at the top, bottom, left, and right.

Articles

These in-depth research articles require expertise, objectivity, and the capacity to delve deeply into a specific topic. Every piece, excluding the bibliography, must convey original research and be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length.

Essays

These texts offer a thorough analysis. The author has greater freedom to support a certain viewpoint, with the aim of deepening the discussion or offering a new perspective or focus on a relevant subject. The ideas expressed must have a theoretical basis supported by information previously published in other academic sources. Essays, excluding bibliography, should be between 3,500 and 6,000 words in length.

Reviews

These pieces are expository and critical writings. They are short—no more than 1,350 words—and are designed to analyse scholarly books published in the last five years. Reviews must to be more than just summaries; they ought to demonstrate a critical approach and add fresh insights to the academic community. It is recommended that objections or criticism of the publications be included at the end. In addition to include the author’s full name, institutional affiliation, ORCID ID, and institutional email address, the review must contain the book’s title, author, year, and publisher.

Copyright Notice

Authors give the journal the right to publish their work first, but they keep the copyright of their articles. All content published in Sílex journal since 2021 is subject to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0). This license allows the content to be shared, copied, and redistributed in any medium or format, as well as to be adapted, remixed, transformed, and built upon for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

Authors should note that they are not able to impose legal requirements or apply technological restrictions that limit the use of the content beyond what is allowed by the license. It is imperative that the authors and the journal are properly acknowledged whenever the works are reproduced, distributed, or made public.

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