Author Guidelines

  1. Disjuntiva aims to disseminate academic studies that contribute to understanding how society works in every facet under the capitalist mode of production and learning about transformative alternatives. Its purpose is to publish empirical and theoretical research results at a regional, national and international level in social sciences. Topics discussed are related to, among others, human geography, social psychology, political science, sociology, social anthropology, political economy, urban planning, history or political philosophy.
  2. In the Articles section, priority will be given to papers where the results of original academic research are shared, as long as they follow the I+M+R&D+C+B structure (introduction, methodology, results and discussion, conclusions, and updated bibliography).
  3. Works can be written in Catalan, Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese or French.
  4. Works must be sent in digital format (.DOCX or .ODT) through the submissions page.
  5. If the author has an ORCID identifier, it must be added to the author’s record before the manuscript is submitted.
  6. Articles can be submitted during the periods specified in the Notices section of the journal, except in August.
  7. Disjuntiva does not charge authors for processing (APC) or publishing articles.
  8. Issues are published in January and July. Each issue includes articles that have been peer reviewed and approved at least during the month preceding that of publication.
  9. Documents submitted for the Articles and Reflections sections must be maximum 10,000 words long, including abstracts, keywords, titles and bibliography. Book reviews must not be longer than 2,500 words, and the author, title, publisher, place and date of publication of the reviewed work must be stated, as well as name, surname and contact address of the author of the review. Only reviews of books published in the last 4 years will be accepted. Interviews must not exceed 7,000 words, including questions, headings, a brief description of the interviewee, footnotes and bibliographical references if they appear in the interview.
  10. Submitted works must follow these format rules:
    1. Times New Roman, 12 pt. Single spacing, page size DIN A4.
    2. Section names will be shown in bold, and only the first letter will be capitalised. The same font and size as in the body of the text will be used.
    3. The first line of each paragraph must NOT be indented.
    4. Words in a language other than that of the work must be written in italics.
    5. Inverted commas must be used for quotations under 3 lines. For quotations longer than 3 lines, which must be italicised and left-indented, inverted commas will not be used. The surname of the quoted author(s), the year of publication and the page must be written in brackets (in the indented paragraphs in italics, the author must not be in italics). For example: (Luxembourg, 2018: 23). When more than two authors but fewer than five are quoted, the names of all of them will be stated the first time they are mentioned. From then on, the expression “et al.” must be used. For quotations by five or more authors, “et al.” will be used right from the first time they are mentioned.
    6. APA (American Psychological Association) style must be used in the bibliography section at the end of the paper.

      The DOI (Digital Object Identifier), if any, must be provided as a secure URL link, in full and with no prefixes, at the end of each entry.

      For example: https://doi.org/xx.xxxxx/xxxxx

      To check DOIs included in a reference list, go to CrossRef’s Simple Text Query form.

      Format examples are provided below:

      Books and chapters:

      Hobsbawm, E. J. y T. Ranger (Comps.) (1988). El invento de la tradición. Eumo. 

      Camara, S. (2010). "Producción, explotaciones, acumulación y reproducción ". En J. P. Mateo y R. Molero (Coords.), Otra teoría económica es posible. Ensayos críticos de economía política (pp. 51-86). Editorial Popular.

      Journals:

      Soler, J. R. (1985). Papel del Consejo de Sanidad de Guerra la Generalidad de Cataluña en la Guerra Civil española. Gimbernat-Revista Catalana de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 4 (2), 349-355.

      If online documents are quoted, the date when they were consulted must also be specified.

      Whenever several references by the same author are included, the author’s name must be stated in each title without hyphens / dashes.

      If the reference is an electronic document, it must appear in brackets at the end of the URL.

      For other formats (web pages, doctoral theses, audiovisual documents, etc.) or cases not included here, we recommend following the instructions available at: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/138792/3/APA_Style_7th_Edition_2023.pdf

    7. Images and diagrams must be embedded in the text. Depending on image resolution and quality, the journal’s editors may request that the original images are re-sent in order to proceed to publication.

      Only images, drawings, photographs, figures, tables, charts, etc. created by the authors of the article are accepted. Authors can also use rights-free images, etc. or those under Creative Commons licences allowing for them to be reused and listing the allowed uses. Rights-protected images, charts, etc. can be used as long as the authors of the article have requested and secured the relevant authorisation from the creators of such images, charts, etc.

    8. All works must include the following basic elements, both in the language of the article and in English: title, abstract (150 to 250 words) and 4 to 8 keywords, which will be separated by semicolons. For works written in English, these items must be included in English and in Catalan.
  11. Articles must be unpublished. This requirement must be confirmed during the submission process.
  12. Proposals for contributions to Disjuntiva cannot be sent simultaneously to any other journal.
  13. All original works are subject to peer review. In order to guarantee objectivity and impartiality in paper selection, both authors and evaluators will remain anonymous during the review process. To that end, the text of the articles must be sent anonymised: the name of the authors and their affiliation must not be included, and acknowledgments, references to funding projects or any other element that could directly or indirectly allow the identification of the author must be deleted (and marked as *anonymised*). Disjuntiva’s editors will ensure compliance with this requirement. If the article is accepted for publication, the journal will request the non-anonymised version together with any modifications that may be required after the review process.
  14. For works with several authors, the following details of all of them must be attached in a separate section of the article: full name, institution to which they belong (affiliation), country, e-mail address and ORCID identifier (if the author has one, which is highly advisable). The corresponding author must also be stated.