Author Guidelines

1. Formatting and Preparation of Submissions

To submit a manuscript, authors must have a registered user account. If they do not have one, they should go to the registration area and create an account. If they already have an account, they must log in through the login area. Once in the system, they should click on the "New Submission" button and follow the steps to upload their contributions.

Submitted manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.

Contributions are published in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. However, submissions in other languages may be accepted for evaluation. If a contribution in another language is accepted, a scientific translator will be assigned.

The Bulletin of aesthetics follows a double-blind external peer review process and adheres to the guidelines of the Open Journal System (OJS). To be evaluated, the author's identity must be provided in a separate file along with a brief curriculum in the original language, English, and Spanish. All submitted articles will be externaly reviewed.

Articles must not surpass 10,000 words; notes and critical studies, 6,000 words; discussions, 3,000 words; and bibliographic reviews, 1,500 words. The Director and the Academic Committee retain the prerogative to consider works that exceed the stipulated lengths for publication.

All submissions must be presented in Word, OpenOffice, RTF, or WordPerfect format and employ Times New Roman font, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. Direct quotations are to be indented on the left margin, utilizing the same font as the main text, albeit in size 11 and single line spacing. Footnotes shall employ font size 10 and single line spacing. Underlining is to be eschewed; italics are the preferred formatting method.

The title of each submission must be provided in both the original language of composition and in English. For works composed in English or Portuguese, the title must also be furnished in Spanish. All works must be accompanied by an abstract of up to 120 words and five keywords, both in the original language and English. The keywords should not replicate those employed in the title of the work.

Should submissions be organized into paragraphs, these sections ought to be titled and sequentially numbered. Subdivisions or subheadings should not be inserted within individual paragraphs. Footnotes should be minimized and primarily reserved for citations and bibliographic references.

Acknowledgments and/or institutional mentions should be positioned following the final punctuation of the main text. Notes should not be appended to the title of the work or paragraph headings.

Submissions that deviate from the prescribed formatting and preparation guidelines, bibliographic norms, and overarching conventions of academic/scientific discourse will be rejected.

 

2. Bibliographic Standards

2.1. Bibliographic References

All works cited, both in the main text and in footnotes, should be listed alphabetically at the end, under the heading References, and cited in accordance with the following models:

Books

Goodman, Nelson (1978), Ways of Worldmaking (Indianapolis: Hackett).

Edited Volumes

Leepert, Richard and McClary, Susan (eds.) (1987), The Politics of Composition, Performance and Reception (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Book Chapters

Frith, Simon (1987), "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music", in Leepert and McClary (1987: 133-172).

Articles

Wolheim, Richard (1998), "On Pictorial Representation", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 56, 3: 217-226.

Surnames should be rendered in small caps, and the first name should be spelled out completely. If an edition has been simultaneously published in two or more cities, only the first city should be indicated in the language of the article (not in the language of the cited work). In edited volumes, the role of the individuals mentioned within parentheses should be specified before the year: "(eds.)" for editors, "(comps.)" for compilers, etc. In the case of compilations that involve more than three editors or compilers, the Latin expression "et al." should be used after the first name, both in the entry corresponding to the compilation itself and in the entries of the chapters contained within. Entries with acronyms such as "VVAA" (for "various authors") should be avoided. Please observe the following example, in which a compilation edited by Stephen Davies, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Robert Hopkins, Robert Stecker, and David E. Cooper is cited, followed by a chapter from the compilation:

Davies, Stephen et al. (comps.) (2009), A Companion to Aesthetics (Chichester: Willey-Blackwell).
Wolterstorff, Nicolas (2009), "Ontology of artworks", in Davies et al. (2009: 453-456).

When the author of the cited book chapter is also the compiler, the reference should be formatted in the same way, with the exception that, since the year and the author coincide, the difference between entries should be marked with a lowercase letter at the end of the year in alphabetical order:

Grimaldi, Nicolas (comp.) (1983a), L’art ou la passion feinte. Essais sur l’expérience esthétique (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France).
____ (1983b), "La peinture hollandaise selon Hegel: le réalisme dans l’art comme déréalisation de la nature", in Grimaldi (1983a: 72-93).

The provided citation style is valid only for edited volumes. Chapters from works that are not compilations should not be differentiated in the citation.

All the guidelines mentioned for edited volumes also apply when citing introductions or epilogues of works (commonly compilations themselves, translations, or re-editions):

Doxiadis, Apostolos et al. (comps.) (2014), Logicomix. Una búsqueda épica de la verdad, trans. by Julia Osuna Aguilar (Barcelona: Salamandra).
Savater, Fernando (2014), "Introducción", in Doxiadis et al. (2014: 11).

When citing a source from the internet, the URL where the text is available should be included at the end of the entry in brackets:

Nietzsche, Friedrich W. (2009), Digitale Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Werke und Briefe, ed. by Paolo D’Iorio, based on the critic edition by G. Colli and M. Montinari (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter). [Available at http://www.nietzschesource.org/]

Brackets should also be used to indicate the DOI of an article, if the author deems it necessary:

Margot, Jean-Paul (2021), "La revalorización de la pintura holandesa del siglo XVII en Francia: Thoré, Taine y Fromentin", Boletín de estética, 56: 7-48. [DOI: 10.36446/be.2021.56.280]

When utilizing an edition in a language different from that of the original edition, the details of the translator, editor, and prologue writer (if applicable) should be provided in the language of the article (not the language of the cited work). These details should follow the order of name-surname:

Bürger, Peter (1997), Teoría de la vanguardia, trans. by Jorge García, prologue by Helio Piñón (Barcelona: Península).

 

2.2 References for Direct Quotations

The Bulletin of Aesthetics employs the author-year citation system. Consequently, references to direct quotations in the main text or in footnotes should adhere to the following model:

Book or article with page number: (Radford 1975: 69)
Book or article with paragraph number: (Baumgarten 1750: §1)
Book or article with page number and note: (Goodman 1978: 69, n. 9)

When citing a single work, the bibliographic reference should be placed in the main text. When citing or referring to multiple works or authors, the corresponding references should be placed in a footnote. All Latin expressions or abbreviations, such as idem, ibidem, op. cit., cfr., and similar, should be avoided. When the same page is repeatedly cited within a sentence, the repetition of the reference in parentheses should be avoided. Instead, the reference should appear at the end of the sentence or, if the pagination allows, each time a new page is referenced.

Unless in exceptional cases, direct quotations should refer to the source (in any of its editions and translations) and not to third-party works. For this reason, references of the type (cited in Fernández 2018: 33) should be avoided.

Extended direct quotations, exceeding forty (40) words, should be presented without quotation marks, in a smaller font size, and indented on the left margin. The corresponding bibliographic reference should not be included in a footnote but rather in parentheses after the final punctuation of the quoted text. Extended quotations should be introduced with a colon and care should be taken to prevent the immediate continuation or completion of the preceding sentence in the main text. Shorter quotations, less than forty words in length, whether complete sentences or parts of a sentence, should be integrated into the main text enclosed in double quotation marks, followed by the corresponding bibliographic reference in parentheses.

All direct quotations must be translated into the original language of the article. The original text of the passages translated in the main text should not be included in the footnotes. In cases where philological considerations are relevant, the corresponding original words or expressions are permitted, enclosed in square brackets and in italics, for instance: [mimetiké téchne], [imitatio naturae], [élan], [Pathosformel].

When it is necessary to indicate that the italics or underlining in the quotation are the author's own, it should be noted as follows: (Marinas 2020: 133; emphasis added). The original emphasis, on the other hand, should not be indicated.

 

2.2.1 Classical or Complete Works

In the case of direct quotations from classical authors or complete works, customary acronyms or abbreviations used among specialists are permissible. For instance: (Aristotle, De an. III 2, 426a1-5); (Kant, KrV A 445 / B 473); (Hume, PhW III: 245); (Benjamin, GS II/1: 211-212). When such acronyms or abbreviations are unavailable, references may be made to editions considered canonical or well-known. In the References section, the utilized edition should be indicated as outlined in section 2.1. If required, the abbreviation used in the citation can be included in the bibliographic entry within brackets, immediately following the title of the work:

Hume, David [1824] (2014), The philosophical works of David Hume [PhW], in four volumes (New York: William S. Hein & Company).

Both in the main text and in footnotes, references through dates of current editions or translations of the cited works that are anachronistic in relation to the authors should be avoided, such as (Aristotle 1998: 27); (Kant 2005: 287); (Hume 2014: 245).

 

2.2.2 Translations

When citing one's own translations, the indication should be provided as follows: (Deleuze 1965: 76; own translation). If the author translates the same work regularly throughout the text, instead of using the indicated expression, it is necessary to note the fact in a footnote only once, at the first citation of the respective work, to represent all subsequent appearances.

In the case of third-party translations, the original work should be cited first, followed by a semicolon, the year, and the page number of the translation used. For classical works, the citation should appear, for instance, as follows: (Plato, Phdr. 208a; 1988: 27). In the References section, under the author's name and with an explicit indication of the translator, the entry should be formatted as follows:

PLATO (1988), Diálogos III. Fedro [Phdr.], trans. by Emilio Lledó Íñigo (Madrid: Gredos).

For non-classical works, the citation should be formatted as follows: (Chevalier 1959: 93; 1960: 134). In the References section, the entries should be formatted as follows:

Chevalier, Jacques (1959), Entretiens avec Bergson (Paris: Plon) [Conversaciones con Bergson, trans. by José Antonio Miguez, Madrid: Aguilar, 1960].

If the translation has been modified by the author of the article, the citation should be provided as: (Chevalier 1959: 93; 1960: 134; mod. trans.).

 

2.2.3 Original Editions

The Bulletin of Aesthetics encourages authors to indicate the year of the original edition of classical works within brackets when they are not cited, for any reason, using the customary acronyms or abbreviations among specialists. For example: (Hegel [1842-1843] 1970: 223). In the References section, it is not necessary to create a new bibliographic entry for the original edition; only the year of the first edition should be placed within brackets before the year of the used edition:

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich [1842-1843] (1970), Werke in zwanzig Bände, Band 13: Vorlesungen über die Äesthetik I, new edition, ed. by Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel, based on the 1832-1845 works (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp).

In the case of translations of classical works not cited using the customary acronyms or abbreviations among specialists, the direct quotation in the main text or footnotes should be conducted as in the following example: (Gadamer [1977] 1993: 97; 1991: 34). In the References section, the entry should be indicated as follows:

Gadamer, Hans-Georg [1977] (1993), Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest [GW 8] (Stuttgart: Reclam) [La actualidad de lo bello. El arte como juego, símbolo y fiesta, Barcelona: Paidós, 1991].

A scenario could arise where the source is a book chapter, and the translation is also found in another chapter, either within the same translated compilation or a different compilation. In the former case, the entry in the References section should appear as follows:

Bene, Carmelo and Deleuze, Gilles (1979), Superpositions (Paris: Éditions de Minuit) [Superposiciones, trans. by Pablo Ariel Ires, Buenos Aires: Cactus, 2020].
Deleuze, Gilles (1979), "Un manifeste de moins", in Bene and Deleuze (1979: 87-131) ["Un manifiesto de menos", trans. by Pablo Ariel Ires, in Bene and Deleuze (2020: 13-37)].

In the latter case, the entry in the References section should be formatted as follows:

Heidegger, Martin (1960), Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Stuttgart: Reclam).
Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1960), "Zur Einführung", in Heidegger (1960: 102-125) ["La verdad de la obra de arte", in Gadamer (2002: 95-108)].
_______ (2002), Los caminos de Heidegger, trans. by Angela Ackermann Pilári (Barcelona: Herder).

 

2.3 Non-Textual Reference

When providing a non-textual reference, the citation should be included in the main text following the following models:

Book or article with general reference: (see Danto 1981).
Book or article with reference to multiple pages: (Gombrich 1960: 43 ff.)

Non-textual references in footnotes should be written as follows:

Single author with multiple works: See Carroll 1988a, 1988b, 1996, 1998, and 2003.
Multiple authors: See Dufrenne 1963: 15 and Sartre 1948: 47.
Multiple authors and works: See Gadamer 1960 and 1977; Ricœur 1967, 1973, and 1987.

 

2.4 Additional Clarifications

Should any doubts arise concerning the proper way to cite editions and translations of works used, whether in the main text, footnotes, or the final bibliography, authors should refer to Robert Ritter's work, The Oxford Guide to Style (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), particularly Chapter 15, pages 566-572.