Information For Authors

Guide for authors

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).

• 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• The author agrees to submit an unpublished article.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 between 5,000 and 10,000 words (including abstract and bibliography).

• 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.

• Those texts that have been rejected may not be submitted again.

 

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.