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Author Guidelines

Authors interested in having their articles considered for publication should submit them via email to: ricercare@eafit.edu.co. Once verified that the writing conforms to requirements outlined in the Guide for Authors, the process of evaluation by academic peers will begin.

Each of the received items is subject to a review and selection process in two stages: internal, by any member of the Editorial Committee, who will evaluate the originality and relevance of the work; and external, by arbitrators outside the Music Department of EAFIT University who will judge either its quality, structure, foundation, source handling, and conceptual rigor.

 

Submission

Basic information

• Title in the language in which the article is written and in English (for those who can, in Spanish, if the article is written in English).

• Author information (ORCID, nationality, title, institutional affiliation and email address).

• Summary and keywords in the language in which the article is written and in English (for those who can, in Spanish, if the article is written in English), with a length of 100 to 150 words and 3 to 5 words, respectively.

 

Guidelines

• The author agrees to submit an unpublished article.

• Texts will be recieved both in Spanish and English. In special cases, other languages may be considered.

• The estimated length of texts should be:

            - research articles: between 5,000 and 10,000 words.

            - reviews: between 500 and 1,000 words.

            - musical scores: no more than 15 pages.

• The name of the author should not appear in the text.

• The text must be submitted in electronic format using Microsoft Word in Times New Roman size 12 for the main text, 11 for indented quotations and references and 10 for footnotes. 

• Photographs, images, maps and illustrations must be attached in digital format 300 dpi (minimum). Their location should appear in the text marked with the corresponding information.

• Graphics, tables and similar items should appear in tabs, not with "insert table" in Microsoft Word.

• Images, photographs, illustrations, charts, graphs and similar items must appear with their respective order numbers, captions and author (who owns the copyright), if any.

• Terms and expressions not belonging to the language in which the text is written must appear in italics.

 

Citations and References

The journal follows the form established by the American Psychological Association (APA) in the work Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 10th ed., 2010, Washington.

Citations and references should be included within the body of the text according to the following format: Surname, year of publication, comma, p. or pp., as appropriate for a single page or multiple pages, and page number(s). Examples: (Pineda, 1998, p. 35); (Restrepo, 2004, pp. 34-39).

At the end of the article there must appear a section entitled "References" in alphabetical order without numbering or bullets, all the texts cited or referred to. The above list should not contain any text not cited in the article.

The footnotes page may only be used for clarification or additional comments. It should not include bibliographic references, unless they are unseparable from the clarification or the comment. It should be written in Times New Roman size 10. Citations of other texts should appear as (Cf. author's surname and year of publication). If citing more than one work by the same author, sort by date, beginning with the oldest. If more than three lines long, the citation should be placed in a separate paragraph and one centimeter to the right of the overall margin, in Times New Roman size 11.

Citation of books

Author’s surname and initial of first name (uppercase initials, separated by commas) and year of publication (in parentheses). Title and subtitle (if any in italics and upper case initials. City of publication and name of publisher, separated by a colon.

Example: Kühn, C. (1992) Treatment of musical form. Barcelona: Laborchapter.

Citation of book chapters

Last name and initials of the author (uppercase initials, separated by commas); year of publication (in parentheses), chapter title in ordinary font, followed by the reference. Academic editor or compiler of the work (initial(s) of the name followed by the surname), title (in italics); City of publication and name of publisher or organization, separated by a colon).

Citation of serial publications (magazine or newspaper)

Author’s surname and first name or initial(s) (uppercase initial(s), separated by commas), year of publication (with the month and day). Title in ordinary font and title of the magazine or newspaper in italics, volume and/or number), city of publication and institution in charge of the magazine or newspaper, page number(s) (without the words "p." or "pp.")

Citation of online publications

Author’s surname and first name or initial(s) (uppercase initial(s), separated by commas), year of publication in parentheses. Title in italics. Retrieved on ... of ... of ... of ... from: URL ("Uniform Resource Locator"), in bold font and not underlined; at the sites of the ellipses are written the day, month and year of the consultation.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The article is unpublished and has not been submitted to any other journals.
  • The text fulfills the submission's requirements indicated in the "Author Guidelines."
  • The name(s) of the author(s) and institution(s) are included neither in the submitted text nor in the properties of the digital document.

Copyright Notice

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

- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

- 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.

- 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).

Privacy Statement

Reviewers have the responsability to communicate whether there exists a confilct of interest with regard to a text when this can affect their objectivity in the evaluation. The Editors of Ricercare require the reviewers to sign a declaration about the conflict of interest they may have during the revision of the assigned texts. The Editors understand that this declaration, if submitted, must report information such as patent properties, stock properties, consultancy, fees for conferences, financial, political, intelectual or religious interests related to the field of research.