Guidelines for Authors

Since 2024, the Editorial Team of Littera Scripta. Revista de Filosofía has adopted the APA (American Psychological Association) format as a citation and reference standard. Manuscripts will be accepted if they follow the APA format from the 7th Edition onward.

It should be noted that the editorial board of Littera Scripta. Revista de Filosofía rejects any instance of partial or total plagiarism (or self-plagiarism) (cf. Ethical Standards).

Here is a summary of the application of the APA standard, along with examples from the philosophical discipline. Nonetheless, it is the author’s responsibility to review the corresponding manual and cite sources appropriately.o autora revisar el manual correspondiente y citar adecuadamente.

1.Bibliographic references at the end of the manuscripts.

Every manuscript must include a bibliography that lists all works mentioned by the author, whether in the text itself or in footnotes.

1.1 Books

The data should be presented in the following order: Author or Editor, Date, Title of the book in italics, and the publisher where it was published.

• Korsgaard, C. (1996). Creating the Kingdom of Ends. Harvard University Press.

• Vigo, A. (2022). Kant y la conciencia moral. Editorial Roneo.

• Gallagher, S & Zahavi, D. (2008). Phenomenological Mind. Routledge.

1.2 Books in other languages

• Merleau-Ponty, M. (1964). Le visible et l´invisible [Lo visible y lo Invisible]. Gallimard.

1.3 Book Chapters

The information should be organized in the following order:

1. Author of the chapter (Last name, First initial)
2. Year of publication (in parentheses)
3. Title of the chapter (in sentence case)
4. The word “In” (capitalized)
5. Name of the editor (Ed.) or editors (Eds.)
6. Title of the book (in italics)
7. Publisher

Please ensure each element is separated appropriately to enhance clarity.

• Ormeño, J. (2010). Dualismo y praxis o ¿Cuál es el problema de la moral kantiana, profesor Hegel?: la crítica a la “concepción moral del mundo” en la Fenomenología del espíritu (pp. 213–229). En V. Lemm & J. Ormeño (Eds.), Hegel, pensador en la actualidad. Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.

1.4 Encyclopedia Entries

Encyclopedia entries should include the author(s)’ name, the year in parentheses, the name of the encyclopedia editor (Ed.), the title of the encyclopedia in italics, the publisher, and the URL.

• Johnson, R & Cureton, A. (2022). Kant’s Moral Philosophy. En Zalta. E & Nodelman. U (Eds). The Stanford encyplopedia of philosophy. Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-moral/

1.5 Journal Articles

The proper order for listing data is: author’s last name, first initial(s), year of publication in parentheses, the article title, the journal name (italicized), and the volume italicized, the issue in parentheses, and/or page numbers.

• Espinosa, R. (2016). Falacia naturalista y razón teorética. Una aproximación sistemática al problema del “deber ser” en David Hume. Revista de Humanidades, 33, 181-212.

If a reference includes the DOI number, it should be placed at the end of the reference.

• Baquedano Jer, S. (2019). Ecocide or Environmental Self-Destruction?. Environmental Ethics, 41 (3), 237-247. https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics201941324

2. Citation

2.1 Citation in separate paragraph

If a quotation contains 40 words or more, it must be formatted in a separate paragraph. Quotation marks are not to be used around the quotation in this paragraph. The entire paragraph should be indented by 0.5 inches. If the quotation includes additional paragraphs, the indentation for those must follow the original formatting of the quoted text.

Aristóteles nos exhorta a tratar de aclarar o explicar todo lo que sucede. Y hay

tantos tipos distintos de aitíai o causas cuantos son los tipos distintos de explicaciones.

            La palabra latina causa significa también proceso judicial, o su objeto. De ella

derivan la actual palabra castellana causa (Anscombe, 1991, p.12).

2.2 Quotation within a paragraph (Less than 40 words).

If a quotation is fewer than 40 words, it is considered a short quotation. Such quotations should be included within the text, enclosed in double quotation marks, and should not be italicized.

• “El nombre de filosofía práctica remite, por el contrario, a una disciplina que apunta su reflexión a principios, al ocuparse de la razón práctica situada en medio del mundo del obrar tomándola como su objeto” (Wieland, 1996, p. 20).”

The final punctuation mark should be placed after the closing parenthesis of the quotation. In other words, the period marking the end of the sentence should come after the quotation rather than before it. Additionally, it is unnecessary to repeat the author’s name and the year in parentheses if they are already mentioned in the narrative of the manuscript.

2.3 Citation of canonical works

Classical philosophical works are cited according to each author’s canonical convention. Here are some examples.

Immanuel Kant

When citing the works of Kant, reference should be made to the edition published by the Berlin Academy of Sciences (AA). This involves using the initials of the work in German, followed by the volume number and the specific pages from that edition. The only exception to this guideline is the Critique of Pure Reason (KrV), which is cited according to tradition by indicating the numbers of the first and second editions, abbreviated as A and B, respectively.

“El imperativo categórico es así pues único, y por cierto, este: obra sólo según la máxima a través de la cual puedas querer al mismo tiempo que se convierta en una ley universal (GMS AA IV 421).
“La felicidad es la satisfacción de todas nuestras inclinaciones (tanto en extensive, en lo que se refiere a la multiplicidad de ellas, como intensive en lo que se refiere al grado, como también protensive, en lo que se refiere a la duración)” (KrV A 806/ B 834).

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Edmund Husserl

In the case of Edmund Husserl, the German edition of his complete works is titled “Husserliana”, which currently consists of 43 volumes. Specialists commonly cite his work using the abbreviation “Hua”, which stands for “Husserliana gesammelte Werke”, followed by the volume and page number. For example, when referencing passages from the “Krisis”, which is found in volume six of his complete works, the citation would be formatted as follows: Hua VI 215, where “VI” indicates the volume and “215” denotes the page number.

• Una vez alcanzada la recta actitud consolidada mediante la práctica, pero ante todo, una vez alcanzado el denuedo de prestar obediencia, con radical exención de prejuicios, sin preocuparse de ninguna de las teorías circulantes aprendidas, a las claras daciones esenciales, pronto se obtienen firmes resultados, y los mismos en todos los que guardan la misma actitud; se producen firmes posibilidades de comunicar a otros lo visto por uno mismo, de poner a prueba sus descripciones, poner de relieve las palabras vacías de significaciones que se deslizan sin advertirlo, denunciar y extirpar errores que también
  aquí, como en toda esfera de validez, son posibles, midiéndolos con la vara de la intuición (Hua III/1 201).

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René Descartes

In the case of Descartes, the standard citation corresponds to the edition edited by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, titled Oeuvres de Descartes, published from 1964 to 1974 by J. Vrin in Paris.

This collection consists of 12 volumes, which should be cited by referring to the work, followed by the acronym “AT”, the volume number, and finally the page number.

“Y cuando alguien dice yo pienso, por lo tanto, yo soy, es decir, yo existo, no deduce la existencia a partir del pensamiento por medio de un silogismo, sino que la reconoce como una cosa conocida por sí misma, por medio de una intuición simple de la mente” (Meditaciones, AT VIII 140).

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3.  Some Stylistic Rules:

1) Foreign words are in italics:

Fiestas, celebraciones, performances o representaciones artísticas…

2) Brackets are used […] for interventions or omissions.

“…para ellos [los italianos] fue siempre así”, sostiene Pedro.

“Las letras equivocadas […] se tachan con un signo o llamada, que se repite al margen”.

Neither titles nor epigraphs should have footnotes.

3) Quotation marks always precede other punctuation (the comma, the period, etc.):

Habla de la existencia de “montones de notas sobre una novela”.

4) In English and Portuguese, the words in titles are capitalized – except for articles and prepositions:

As I Lay Dying – O Crime do Padre Amaro

5) In Spanish, only the first word and proper names:

Maldición eterna a quien lea estas páginas. Los terribles amores de Agliberto y Celedonia.

6) In French, only the first two important words of the title:

Les Femmes savantes. – Les Liaisons dangereuses

7) The capital letter must be used when naming a period or a movement:

Romanticism, Modernism, the Colony, the Conquest, the Middle Ages.

8) Not so when the word is used as an adjective or name of a place:

“La poesía modernista de Darío”. “Había estado en la India antes, y se resolvió volver a vivir en la colonia”. “Los tapices medievales”.

9) Use “pos” instead of “post” in compound words:

Posmoderno – Pos-feminista

10) Compound words that are frequently used must be written without a hyphen:

Sociopolítico – Sociohistórico

11) Numbers must be written in letters, within the text:

one, two, three.

12) Capital letters must be accented.

AMÉRICA – Álbum – LA NACIÓN

13) It is recommended not to use abbreviations and acronyms in the body of the text. If they had to be used (to standardize criteria) we name some abbreviations recognized and used by the magazine:

Ant. (Anthology) – Col.(Collection) – Comp. (Compiler) – Pub. (Publisher) – ed. (1st ed.; 2nd ed.) – ed. (editor) – O. C. (Complete Works) – pseud. (Pseudonym).