• First Call for Papers
• Second Call for Papers

• 15 March 2009: Submission deadline for the presentation of paper proposals. Maximum: 300 words. Valid Formats Word XP/2003, or TXT
• 15 May 2009: Submission deadline for the final version of the paper conforming to the publications guidelines.  Maximum:  3000 words, abstract, key words and references included. Valid format: MS Word XP/2003 only
• 15 June 2009: Deadline for reduced registration payment.

A. General Publication Criteria

LENGTH: The total lenght of the essay should not exceed 3,000 words, including title, authors, abstract, key words, notes, and bibliographical references.

LANGUAGES: The final versions of the papers/lectures/seminars may be submitted in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

TEXTS: Only MS Word XP/2003 (.doc) documents will be accepted. All texts must be double-spaced, with a 3-cm margin on DIN A-4 paper, and using Times 12 (or Times New Roman 12) font. MS The file name must go as follows: First name initial + family name (no extra space) of the main researcher, not using any graphic stress sign. E.g.: John Smith Þ jsmith.doc.

GRAPHS AND TABLES: Will be sent as independent files from the main text. All graphs must be either in .jpg or .png format. All tables must be in MS Word XP/2003 (.doc) format. The file name must go as follows: First name initial + family name (no extra space) of the main researcher, not using any graphic stress sign, followed by underscore and file order number, with no extra space. E.g.: John Smith, Graph 1 => jsmith_1.doc.

B. Essay format and sections

TEXT: It should have no special lettering, no bold type or underlining, not even in the title of sections, which will appear numbered in a new line. The main body of the text will be double-spaced and the pages will be numbered consecutively at the upper right-hand side.

ESSAY TITLE AND AUTHORS: The title must appear centred and in block capitals. There will be a blank space and, then, in small case letters, the name(s) of the author(s), followed by the name of the origin institution in brackets. E.g.:

ACADEMIC WRITING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

 John Swales (University of Michigan)
Christine Feak (University of Michigan)

ABSTRACT: The essay must be preceded by an abstract of not more than 300 words.

KEY TERMS: Next there will be a maximum of 6 key terms. The terms must be indicative of the research field(s) the paper deals with; e.g.: gender, needs’ analysis, lexicon, discourse analysis, curricular design, corpus linguistics, and etcetera. The essay title, the abstract, and the key terms must all be written in the language used for the whole paper.

SECTION TITLES AND SUBTITLES: These must be clear and brief, not using bold type or italics, and written in small-case letters, and the sections and subsections should not be numbered. The headings of the internal sections must be separated from the previous section by an additional double space. Between the title of the section and the text immediately underneath there must be just one space. The subheadings (introducing a subsection) must be written in small case letters and separated by one single space from the previous subsection.

PARAGRAPHS: Do not indent the text. It is advisable not to write too short paragraphs or divide the whole text into many sections and subsections. Within the main text body no words must be written in bold type or italics, except in the case of words in a language different from the one used in the text as a whole, in whose case these must be written in italics.

QUOTATIONS AND REFERENCES: For quotations and references the rules to follow are the ones established by Ibérica magazine. Long quotations, that is those exceeding more than three lines long, must be written separately from the main body of the text, not using inverted commas or italics. The references quoted in the text must appear as follows:

Swales (1990: 37-38)
(Swales, 1990; Bhatia, 1993; Alcaraz, 2000)
(Gumperz, 1982)
(Dudley-Evans & St John, 1998)
(Swales, 1981, 1990)
(Kourilová, 1996a,b)
(Quirk et al., 1985)

            Et al. will be used in case the text quoted has more than two authors; nevertheless, in the References section the names of all the authors must be consigned. The & symbol can be used only in the References section or in the main text in case the names of the authors are in brackets. In the main text the conjunction will be the one corresponding to the language used (and / et / und / e / y).

TABLES AND GRAPHS: The graphs (all of them in .jpg or .png format) and tables will be sent as an independent file. Each graph or table will be called “Figure 1,” “Figure 2”… In the text, reference shall be made to the corresponding graph or table. E.g.: “As we can observe in figure 1…” In the place where the graph should appear the phrase Figure 1: Graph description will be inserted, which will be used as the image foot. The position of graphs and tables will be respected as mush as possible, although, for edition reasons, these will always appear on the upper side of the page.

AKNOWLEDGEMENTS: In case of including any acknowledgements, these must appear right after the main text and immediately before the References section. The same applies for any other specification concerning the paper that cannot be included in the main text.

NOTES: All the notes must appear, numbered, at the end of the main text.

REFERENCES: The bibliographical references must appear at the end at the end of the article, after the notes, and they must follow the system applied by Ibérica magazine. Below there appear a number of examples of bibliographical references:

Bernstein, B. (ed.) (1971). Class, Codes, and Control. London: Routledge Kegan Paul.

Gumperz, J. (1982). Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1971). "Linguistic Function and Literary Style" in S. Chatman (ed.), Literary Style: A Symposium, 330-365. London: Oxford University Press.

Mateijka, L. & K. Pomorska (eds.) (1978). Readings in Russian Poetics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

McHale, B. (1978). "Free indirect discourse: a survey of recent accounts". Poetics and the Theory of Literature 1,3: 235-287.

Petofi, J. & A. García Berrio (1978). Lingüística del texto y crítica literaria. Madrid: Comunicación.

Electronic references will follow the model used for magazines, adding the date of access to the document, as shown below:

Breure, L. (2001). "Development of the genre concept". URL: http://www.cs.rl/people/leen/ GenreDev/GenreDevelopment.htm [03/25/03].
Hegedüs, A. (2003). "Modality in English and Hungarian Drug Information Leaflets". ESP World 2,5. URL: http://www.esp-world.info/ articles_5/issue_5.html [06/13/04].

In case of quoting two or more papers from the same essay collection, as in the example below, the cross-references system will be used in order not to overextend the bibliography:

Eber, R. & R. Little (2000). "German for academic purposes: A comparison of English and German lecture notes for students of mechanical engineering" in Ruane & Ó Baoill (eds.), 1-13.

Piqué, J. & J.-V. Andreu-Besó (2000). "A textual perspective in scientific articles: Patterns and moves" in Ruane & Ó Baoill (eds.), 57-70.

Ruane, M. & D. P. Ó Baoill (eds.) (2000). Integrating Theory and Practice in LSP and LAP. Dublin: ALD & IRAL.

• Miguel Ruiz (Universitat Jaume I - UJI)
• Lluïsa Gea (Universitat Jaume I - UJI)

• Ángel Felices (Universidad de Granada - UGR)
• Chelo Vargas (Universitat d'Alacant - UA)

• Silvia Molina (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM)
• Pedro Fuertes (Universidad de Valladolid - UVA)

• Carmen Rueda (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC)
• Elisabet Arnó (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC)

• Carmen Sancho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM)
• Pilar Durán (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM)

• Rafael Alejo (Universidad de Extremadura - UNEX)
• Georgina Cuadrado (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - UPM)

• Final programme (PDF) [Subject to minor last minute changes without prior notice]