Submissions

Author Guidelines

1.The papers submitted for publication in Studia Poliana should take any aspect of the thought of Leonardo Polo as a reference point, either to expose, to compare it with other authors or philosophical doctrines, to criticize, to expand their thinking, etc.

2. The journal is directed to a specialized audience in philosophy.

3. All letters to be sent for publication, both articles and reviews, must be enterely unpublished, and must be original works of the submitting author. When they are sent must be accompanied for a letter to ensure this.
Authors wishing to include images, figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Authors wishing to include images, figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

In the case that authors wish to add supplementary explanatory material that exceeds the size or format limits of the article, they may upload it to the OJS platform as extraordinary files -one for each different type of format-, always smaller than 20 MB.

This material will be published exclusively in the electronic version of the journal, as an electronic annex to the corresponding article.

In the case of funding for research resulting in this work, authors should indicate on the first page of the article the funding agency(ies) and the code(s) of the project(s) under which the research was carried out.

4. While they are being evaluated for publication or undergoing editing, they must not be submitted to any other publication. Once an article has been published, authors retain the right to use it freely, provided that they cite its original publication in Studia Poliana.

Norms for articles

5. Articles must be uploaded in a standard and easily editable format (such as Word or RTF), using this platform. First you have to be registered as user. The articles should be submitted before July, in order to publish the issue in February.

6. Articles will be submitted to a double anonymous revision by peer reviewers external to the Scientific Advisory Board (double-blind reviewing procedure). They will be evaluated according to the following general criteria: the interest of the topic; the knowledge displayed of the state of the question; dialogue with the most relevant and current bibliography; the unity, clarity, coherence, equity and rigor of the argumentation; the appropriateness of the title, abstract and keywords, as well as the correctness of the English version of each of these; the proportionate extension of the text and footnotes; and the formal and literary elegance of the writing.
The Editorial Board will communicate its acceptance or rejection of the submission within a period of two months. The article will be returned to the author together with the evaluations of the reviewers. Authors whose articles have been accepted for publication will receive a set of typeset proofs, which will require immediate correction.

7. Articles should not be longer than 10,000 words including footnotes (70,000 characters including spaces). The number of words or characters in a document can easily be calculated using the word count function of one’s word processor.

8. On the first page of submitted articles, in addition to the name of the author, the academic institution at which he or she is employed and his or her email address, there must be included in both Spanish and English the title of the article, an abstract of up to 100 words, and up to four keywords (also in both Spanish and English).

9. The section titles within the article should be formatted in SMALL CAPS— available from the font format dialog box—and be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals: 1. 2. 3., etc. Subsection titles should be in italics, and should be numbered alphabetically: a) b) c), etc.
4. THE LAST COMMENTARIES OF THOMAS AQUINAS ON ARISTOTLE
a) The commentary on the «De caelo» Bold text should never be used in these subtitles.

10. Footnotes should be brief. Citations within the main text should be placed between double quotation marks (“like this”); they should also be brief. Square brackets can be used to clarify a given term within a quotation, e.g. “the link between this [special situation] and the agent’s end”.

11. Bibliographical references must always be placed in footnotes. They must use the following format:
a) Leonardo Polo's books will be cited as indicated in the Table of Abbreviations (at the end of each issue of Studia Poliana), indicating the edition number of each book.
b) For other books: JORGE MARIO POSADA, La física de causas en Leonardo Polo. La congruencia de la física filosófica y su distinción y compatibilidad con la física matemática, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1996, 134-135.
c) For articles: R. YEPES, “Los sentidos del acto en Aristóteles”, in Anuario Filosófico, 1992 (25), 493-512.
d) For collaborations in collective works: LEONARDO POLO, "El hombre como hijo", en JUAN CRUZ CRUZ (Ed.), Metafísica de la familia, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1995, 317-325.
e) For monographic issues of journals: A. M. GONZÁLEZ, R. LÁZARO (eds.), Razón práctica en la Ilustración escocesa, Monographic issue: “Anuario Filosófico”, 2009 (42/1) 1-257.

Abbreviated references may be used when more than one work by a given author is cited. For example:
R. SPAEMANN, Lo natural, 15.

The use of imprecise abbreviations like “op. cit.”, “ed. cit”, “ibid”, etc. is absolutely forbidden.

At the end of the studies and notes, all the bibliography cited in the article will be recorded in a separate section ("Bibliography"). Its items will be ordered by the alphabetical order of the surnames of the authors.
Each item on the list must include exhaustively all publication data. The way of writing the items on the list will be the same as that used for the references. No subsections will be made, if several works by the same author are cited, the surname and the name will be consigned each time. Since he or she has to make this bibliographical list, the author is allowed to abbreviate the references in the footnotes.

12. In order to guarantee the correct transcription of text in Greek, all such text much be formatted using the font Gentium, which is freely availably for Windows, Mac and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) from the following URL: https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium_download
In the case that it is necessary to use characters of other languages that are not included in this font, it will be obligatory to use a Unicode font.

Norms for book reviews

1. Book reviews must have been 600 and 2000 words, and must be completely original and unpublished elsewhere.

2. Except in exceptional cases, we will not accept reviews of books first published more than three years previously. The works reviewed must be first editions, or else posterior editions which have been substantially modified.

3. If it is necessary to include citations from works other than the one being reviewed, the citation must be placed in the body of the text, in parentheses, following the formatting indicated in items 11 and 12, above. If the citation is from the book being reviewed, it is sufficient to include the page number, as shown: (p. 63), or (pp. 63-64). At the end of book reviews, authors must include their name, their university or institutional affiliation (without including the postal address), and an email address that will remain valid for the foreseeable future. Book reviews must be submitted to the Editor Juan Fernando Sellés.