Submissions

Author Guidelines

Mutatis Mutandis: Latin American Translation Journal is a biannual, thematic journal that only accepts articles through the public calls for papers posted on its website  or via e-mail. The journal is published in January and July. Calls for papers are announced about 12 months before publication.

The reception and publication process is described below:

-Mutatis Mutandis publishes a call for papers together with the deadlines for abstracts and articles. Proposals are sent to revistamutatismutandis@udea.edu.co. The proposal should be presented complete with a title, an abstract of up to 250 words, and three to five key words. Additionally, you should specify which thematic line, from those listed in the call for proposals, you are applying to, the type of article (following the typology listed by Mutatis Mutandis), along with a brief author’s bio.

-The journal’s editor and the guest editors make decisions about the sent abstracts. It is not necessary to justify the rejection of proposals.

-After sending the abstracts, authors have about eight weeks to send the article’s final version. The article must be submitted through the journal system at https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/mutatismutandis/about/submissions 

When the authors send the article’s final version, it is then sent to peer reviewers. The review process lasts approximately four weeks, and the complete process of corrections and final editing of the article takes from about four to five weeks. This period might be shorter or longer, depending on the work volume at the moment.

1. The journal accepts articles in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.

2. Articles must be original and not submitted for simultaneous evaluation to other journals. If the article was submitted previously to a different journal and rejected, we ask the author to explain this in the comments to the editor when they submit it. It may be a modified version, but this should be clarified, as a reviewer who had, by coincidence, already reviewed it might think the article is being published twice.

3. Articles must include, in metadata, the author’s name, email address and institutional affiliation. Also include your ORCID iD, if you have one. If the author, for any reason, includes this information within the document (they may do so if they wish to), it will be deleted during the editorial process to ensure anonymity while it is being reviewed.

4. Authors must specify the section in which they intend their article to be published.

5. Research and review articles must have a length of between 7000 and 12,000 words. Reflection articles not resulting from a research project must have a length of between 5000 and 10,000 words. The article must include: title, abstract (250 words maximum), in its original language and in English and French, and its respective keywords in all three languages.

The journal expects papers submitted to evaluation to meet the highest standards of academic and scientific quality. The articles should show academic rigor and be written with the utmost clarity, precision, and coherence, avoiding any biased or prejudiced views. They must follow the guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, APA (7th edition). Any issues detected in this regard might result in the article’s rejection.

6. Translations must have a length of between 7000 and 12,000 words. Translators must credit the original work and provide the publication permissions by both the author and whoever owns the publications rights, either in digital or physical format.

7. Interviews must have a length of between 4000 and 7000 words, while book reviews must have a length of between 1000 and 2500 words.

8. If the article is a research article, the author must state the research project it is derived from. Research articles should preferably be the result of finished projects. Reflection articles may or may not be the result of ongoing or finished research projects. Authors must also include a biographical note of between 5 and 10 lines indicating their academic level, institutional affiliation and current participation in research projects.

9. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to edit the article’s format in order to keep the journal’s style and look after the journal’s legibility and editorial quality.

10. The article must be submitted as a Microsoft Word (97 and beyond) document, either through the journal’s platform creating an author account, or by sending it to the journal’s email address revistamutatismutandis@udea.edu.co

11. Special format guidelines:

a) The text must not have any formatting, and it must use the Times New Roman font, 12 points.

b) Paragraphs must be justified with simple spacing between them. Avoid using indentation.

c) Avoid using page or line breaks in the document

d) Do not confuse the dash (—) with the hyphen (-). While the former is used to indicate parenthetical statements within texts, among other uses, the latter is not. When using a dash, do not leave any spaces between the text and the dash, e.g.:

I was waiting for Emilio —a great friend—. Sadly, he did not come.

I was waiting for Emilio —a great friend—, who, sadly, did not come.

Hyphens are only used to separate composite words or syllables

e) Use italics for foreign language words

f) Use italics for highlighting and emphasis. Bold or underlining should not be used for these purposes.

g) Figures (graphics, diagrams, maps, drawings and photographs) should be numbered and given a descriptive title. If they were not created by the author, their source should also be stated.

h) Every figure taken from a different source should have its respective reference at the end of the text, with the respective credits where it appears (according to APA guidelines).

i) The hierarchy of titles and subtitles will be differentiated with numbers (1., 1.1., 1.1.1.). Titles and subtitles must be in lowercase letters (except for the initial letter and proper nouns), in bold, aligned to the left and in Times New Roman font, 12 points.

j) Notes must be included as footnotes.

k) Direct quotes over 40 words should be set off from the main text by a line break above and below, without quotation marks and with single spacing.

12. Bibliographic references must be listed alphabetically at the end of the article according to APA guidelines. References not quoted in the article must not be in the bibliography list. Ideally, each reference should include its DOI number.

In-text citations should be referenced in the text, wherever they are relevant, at the same level as the text, and separated from the previous word by a space, following this model: (Author(s) surname, year of publication, page or page range, whichever is necessary).

Example:

(Delisle, 1995).

For direct citations and paraphrases of specific passages of a work, the format is as follows:

(Delisle, 1995, p. 162).

According to the new version of APA guidelines, only the first author’s surname is mentioned within the text, with a et al. the year, and the pages, if necessary. The rest of the authors are no longer mentioned in the citation’s first instance. They will be mentioned later, in the reference at the end of the article. The exception for this is when the first author’s surname and the year are the same in more than one reference. In this case, the coauthors’ surnames are included.

References should follow the models below:

- Conference proceedings published in books:

Katz, I., Gabayan, K., & Aghajan, H. (2007). A multi-touch surface using multiple cameras. In J. Blanc-Talon, W. Philips, D. Popescu & P. Scheunders (Eds.), Lectures notes in computer science : Vol. 4678. Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems (pp. 97-108). Springer-Verlag.

- Article in electronic journal:

Henitiuk, V. (1999). Translating woman: Reading the female through the male. Meta, 44(3), 469-484. https://doi.org/10.7202/003045ar

-Article in print journal:

Delisle, J. (2009). La historia de la traducción: su importancia para la traductología y su enseñanza mediante un programa didáctico multimedia y multilingüe. Íkala, 8(1), 221-235.

-Complete book, printed version:

Eco, U. (2004). Mouse or rat? Translation as negotiation. Orion Books.

-Book exclusively in electronic format:

O’Keefe, E. (2004). Egoism and the crisis in Western Values. http://www.onlineoriginals.com/showitem.asp?itemlD=135

-Chapter of a printed book:

Dʼhulst, L. (2011). Translation History. In Y. Gambier & L. Van Doorslaer (Eds.), Handbook of Translation Studies (Revised 2011) (Vol. 1, pp. 397–405). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/hts

-Filmography:

For a film, use this format:

Producer, A. A. (Producer), & Director, B. B. (Director). (Year). Film title. [Film]. Country: Studio

For a video, use this format:

American Psychological Association. (Producer). (2000). Responding therapeutically to patient expressions of sexual attraction [DVD]. From http://www.apa.org/videos/

If your reference is taken from a website that is constantly updated, such as Facebook or Twitter, write the author, date, name of the publication, website, and URL.

Example:

APA Education [@APAEducation]. (2018, June 29). College students are forming mental-health clubs—and they’re making a difference @washingtonpost [Thumbnail with link attached] [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/apaeducation/status/1012810490530140161

For specific questions about the citation style, please check Chapter 10 of the APA guidelines (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition).

13. Footnotes should be used only to clarify or specify things that the text requires. If a footnote is longer thant a paragraph, you should consider expanding this idea within the main text.

14. The journal is the copyright holder of the edited articles.

15. Article contents are the responsibility of the authors