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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The manuscript must be original and must not have been published previously, either in part or in full.
  • The text must comply with the style and bibliographical requirements set out in the Guidelines for authors.
  • Permission to use any images contained in the document must have been obtained. High quality images must be sent in separate files in .jpeg or .gif format.
  • All signatories of the manuscript give their consent for their name and email address to be published.

Author Guidelines

Original manuscripts are accepted in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.

Manuscripts should be submitted in Rich Text Format (rtf), OpenOffice Writer (odt) or Microsoft Word (doc) via the journal website. You must register as an author, enter the website with your username and password and make a new submission. If you are not yet registered you can do so at https://revistes.uab.cat/quaderns/user/register. If you need to send a corrected version you should also use the same space opened for the initial version on the journal website. Do not submit it as if it were a new manuscript. If you require any clarification please contact the journal at revista.quaderns.traduccio@uab.cat.

Articles should be between 12 and 15 pages long (approximately 25,000-35,000 spaces). Reviews should be between 3 and 4 pages long (approximately 6,000-8,000 spaces). Articles should be accompanied by a 10-line summary, 4 or 5 key words, and the title written in English.

The title of the manuscript should be given at the beginning of the text, followed by the full name of the author and the institution to which they belongs, their email address and full postal address and their ORCID number or professional activity, as appropriate.

Non-textual elements (illustrations, graphs, tables etc.) should either be included in the appropriate place within the text and should also be submitted separately along with the manuscript (step 2. Upload submission). These elements should be clearly numbered and titled with the source specified underneath. Tables should be inserted in the manuscript document and illustrations must be submitted in .jpg or .tiff format, compressed as much as possible and with minimum dimensions of 10 x 15 cm and 300 ppp. 

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and should appear at the end of the page. Footnote numbers should be placed after punctuation marks.

Foreign words or phrases should be in italics. Those that the author wishes to emphasise should be in inverted commas.

Double inverted commas (“ ”) should be used for quotations and single commas (‘ ’) where necessary within the quotation.

Quotations longer than three lines should be indented and in a smaller type than the surrounding text. A space of one line should be inserted both before and after the quotation.

Bibliographical references should consist of the name of the author or editor of the work concerned, followed by the year of publication and, in the case of quotations, the original page number, all of which should be written in brackets, as in the following example: (Morris 1993b: 154-155).

The bibliography should contain the works quoted in the text, in alphabetical order, according to author and date, that is, indicating, in this order, the name of the author or editor, the year of publication, the full title (in italics in the case of a book or  periodical, and between commas in the case of an article), the place of publication and the publisher. Examples:

  • Lefevere, André (1992). Translating Literature. Practice and Theory in a Comparative Literature Context. Nova York: The Modern Language Association of America.
  • Vermeer, Hans-J. (1978). “Sprache und Kulturanthropologie”. Jahrbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache 4: 1-21.
  • Mounin, Georges (1963). “La notion de qualité en matière de traduction littéraire”. A: Cary, Edmond; Jumpelt, Rudolph (ed.). Quality in Translation. Nova York: Macmillan, p. 45-59.

Dossier

Thematic academic contributions.

Articles

Free academic contributions.

Texts

Re-publication and/or translation of old or rare texts reflecting on the translation discipline along with the corresponding presentation.

Experiences

Articles about any aspect of translation and interpreting, or interviews with leading translators and interpreters.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright.
  2. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0international licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
  3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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