TEBEOSFERA'S EDITORIAL POLICY [Versión española aquí]
TEBEOSFERA, journal, edited by the Asociación Cultural Tebeosfera (ACyT), was created in 2001 and since then publishes research, dissemination and reviews on comics and other media based on the still image. Since 2016 it has expanded its interests to popular culture in full, including popular literature, cinematography, illustration and games. The magazine is published every four months (three issues per year in March, July and November) under a non profit scheme. The Editorial Board is made up of members of the ACyT, including researchers and specialists in different disciplines related to the topics of interest, and has an international scientific committee composed by experts from outside the publishing entity. The journal is indexed by Latindex, DOAJ, REDIB, DRJI, ERIH PLUS, Dialnet, Dulcinea, MIAR and has an OAI-PMH interface compatible with Dublin Core.
The journal is open to the participation of any author. Any work written in Spanish and, exceptionally, in other co-official languages in Spain, as well as in English or French, will be accepted, although in these cases a parallel publication also in Spanish will always be preferable. The following will be evaluated, in this order:
Proposed papers may be of any length, but must have at least 2,000 words. Reviews, however, may not exceed 5,000 words, although 1,000 to 2,000 words are preferred.
Exclusivity is required in the submitted works, i.e., once it has been agreed with the editorial staff of the journal the development of a topic for publication, the author will reserve the work for inclusion in Tebeosfera and not in another publication, and will not disseminate fragments or conclusions of their research linked to that particular work, nor publicize the edition of the final document before the editorial staff does so. If in the course of editing the work it is detected that the author has destined the text or part of it to another publication, analogic or digital, it will no longer be published in Tebeosfera despite the agreements adopted. Excluded from this policy are those rescues of documents of proven importance that are already published analogically (without online edition) and that the editor considers that they should be recovered to amend them, expand them or achieve a wider dissemination of them in the digital environment.
Drafting Protocol
The initial validation of the papers received will be the responsibility of the issue coordinator. The coordinator will consider whether the document is publishable, rejectable or admissible with amendments. In case of doubts, it will be submitted to the criteria of two other members of the editorial staff of Tebeosfera. This process will not exceed one month.
For academic profile documents, the review of the documents initially admitted will follow the peer review procedure, blind and anonymous, ensuring objectivity in the correction. The members of the Tebeosfera Scientific Committee will review those texts that by their content or orientation (methodological, thematic, conclusive) have more affinities with the methods, themes or areas of work of the same scientific advisor. The deadline for indicating the details of the text to be improved, modified or retouched, both by the editors and the committee, will be a maximum of one month after the initial validation. The author will receive an explanatory note with, as the case may be, the admission of the work, the reasons for its rejection or the advisable modifications to admit it again for processing.
Subsequently, the text will be subjected to an orthosyntactic correction in accordance with the RAE and style correction in accordance with the formal aspects described in this normative section (including that related to the consultation of the Style Book in force). After correction, the text will be sent to the author with the necessary indications and suggestions so that he/she may modify it if he/she sees fit. He will be asked to reply as soon as possible, in no more than one week.
The author will also be asked for the images to illustrate the document, the captions for them. The author will provide two synthetic summaries of the text, one in English and the other in Spanish, preferably no longer than 75 words in each case. The author will also choose a set of about five key words, simple or compound, also in Spanish and English. If the author is not able to develop these contributions, help from Tebeosfera's editorial team would be provided.
Ethics and plagiarism detection policies
Tebeosfera journal will ensure that all the actors involved in the editorial process are informed of the basic ethical rules that govern scientific publications, following as a basis the ethical standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and specifically the Code of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors.
Authors are free to express opinions in their texts, as long as these opinions do not fall within the scope of what is punishable, do not affect the honor of persons (unless there is justifiable proof), or in those cases in which the subject matter is used to issue propagandistic, dogmatic or plamphleteer messages that completely escape the subject matter of their writing.
For the detection of plagiarism and other forms of use of similar texts, ACyT uses several tools and services: Plag.es, Plagiarisma, Google, Bing. If plagiarism is detected, the document submitted by the author for publication will be rejected outright, even in cases where it is the author himself who reuses or recycles fragments of his own previously published texts.
See also our PUBLICATION RULES.
