Submissions

Author Guidelines

Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria

Área Abierta is an online journal that aims to promote research and knowledge of the different areas of audiovisual and advertising communication. It is, therefore, an interdisciplinary journal, accessible to researchers from other national and international fields of knowledge. It is a quarterly publication that publishes three issues a year, in
March, July, and November.

Área Abierta accepts for consideration original and unpublished articles written in Spanish, English or Portuguese with a length of no more than 8,000 words and no less than 6,000. The authors of the articles must include the title in Spanish and English and a summary in these languages ​​of no more than 150 words, specifying the objectives, methodology, and results obtained.

In addition, a list of six keywords in Spanish and English must be included, as descriptors, that allow the work to be identified. Manuscripts will be submitted in Times New Roman, 12-point size for the body text and 10-point size for footnotes and citations longer than four lines.
When a textual quote is less than four lines, it will remain in the body of the text and the English quotation marks (“…”) will be used. If a text already enclosed in quotation marks is again enclosed in quotation marks, single quotation marks (“… ‘…’ …”) will be used. If the quoted text exceeds four lines, it will be left in an exempt paragraph, indented, and text size 10.
Italics will be used for foreign words and to cite the titles of the works. Bold will only be used in headings. Underlines of any kind are discarded. The long dash (—) will be used when it acts as parentheses.

The citation mode in the body of the text will follow the system (Author, year, page). In the cited works section, they will only appear in the referenced texts. If added, the notes must be numbered consecutively and added to the end of each page. They will only be used for complementary information, not for bibliographical references. The first time films are cited, they will be recorded as follows: Title in Spanish (Original title, director, year) (We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lynne Ramsay, 2011). When a television series is mentioned for the first time, the following is adopted: Title in Spanish (Original title, producer, start year-end year): Penny Dreadful (Showtime, 2014-2016). In the case of an episode: Title in Spanish (Original title, season number x episode number, producer, year): (Night Work, 01x1,
Showtime, 2014). Cited works must follow APA standards (7th edition):

Journal article

Last name, First name initial. (Year). Article title. Title of the magazine, vol.(no.), pages. doi.
Bluher D. (2019). Varda's Gift of Postcards. Área Abierta, 19(3), 287-306.
https://doi.org/10.5209/arab.62913

Book

Last name, First name initial. (Year). Book title. Publishing house.
Sontag, S. (1967). Against Interpretation, and Other Essays. Eyre & Spottiswoode.

Book chapter

Last name, First name initial. (Year). Chapter title. In Initial of the name, Last name
(Coord. / Ed.), Book title (pp.). Editorial.
Tuñón, J. (2010). Can heroines exist on celluloid? The representation of insurgent
women in Mexican cinema (1934-1991). In: S. B. Guardia (Ed.). Women in the
Independence of Latin America (pp. 303-316). University of San Martín de Porres.

Websites

Last name, First name initial (Date last updated). Content title. Link
Nieto, R. (2012, January 25). Miguel Delibes and Spanish cinema.
https://cinemanostrum.com.

Web pages in case of unknown author

Institution or organization (Date last updated). Content title. Link
Tate Modern. (2017). Monochrome. http://www.tate.org.uk.
In a separate Word document, the author’s personal data must be included: name and contact address, as well as their current professional affiliation. Additionally, you must declare that the article is original and unpublished and is not under consideration for publication in another journal.

Only those articles that have been positively evaluated by two professionals not linked to the editorial board will be published. All evaluations will be carried out anonymously. The final decision will be communicated to the author within six months and will include the experts’ assessment.
Área Abierta recommends that its authors incorporate bibliographic references from
other research into their work, especially those published more recently in national or international scientific journals, including the DOI at the end of the reference.

Articles may contain graphics, charts or images. All of them must have consecutive numbering [Graph 1; Table 1; Image 1] and, if possible, be mentioned in the text in bold to facilitate location. Each table or chart must occupy a maximum of the surface area of ​​one page so that it is legible. Tables and graphs must have a caption. All of them must specify the source of origin [Source:] in square brackets. If it is data prepared by the
author or authors, it must be specified [Source: own elaboration].

All these elements must be sent incorporated into the text, in the place where they are mentioned. In addition, images must be uploaded to the platform separately, as attachments, with their respective numbering, in jpg, tiff or vector formats with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and a minimum size of 210 mm x 148 mm.

Links to websites may also be included in the footnote. Likewise, audio can be included in WAV, or MP3 formats, with the same size recommended for images. These elements must also be numbered consecutively.

To submit articles, authors must register at http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARAB
using the link located in the upper right corner. Once registered, authors can submit their articles using the “New submission” option. To solve questions about this process, you can consult a tutorial at https://www.ucm.es/servicio-de-publicaciones-manual-ojs
Communication between authors and editors will be carried out through the OJS
platform. It is also possible to contact the magazine through the email
aabierta@ccinf.ucm.es.

On the use of non-sexist language

Área Abierta is committed to the non-sexist use of language. For this reason, it is encouraged to use inclusive language, avoiding generic masculine language in Spanish (e.g.: alumnado instead of alumnos, etc.).
You can follow, among other sources, the instructions suggested in:

• The Rector's Delegation for Diversity and Inclusion of the UCM publishes the book:
  UCM Guide to Communication and Inclusive Treatment. Madrid: Ediciones
  Complutense (publication date: October 2021).
• Guides for the non-sexist use of language, from the Women's Institute of the Government of Spain.
• Guide for the non-sexist use of language at the Autonomous University of Barcelona,
  ​​(Heura Marçal, Fiona Kelso and Mercè Nogués, Spanish translation by Gemma Lozano,
  2011).
  Guide for the non-sexist use of the Spanish language and images at the UPV/EHU