Submissions

Author Guidelines

Teknokultura is a diamond open-access journal with a peer‑review system (including open peer‑review modalities). It publishes primarily in Spanish and English and is interested in analyzing how technology and digital environments reshape social, economic, political, and cultural life.

The journal is published twice a year. Thanks to its online‑first publication system, the average time from submission to publication is under three months (according to the available editorial statistics). Online‑first articles are immediately disseminated in open access with their corresponding DOI.

Journal sections

Teknokultura organizes its contents in the following sections. All sections are subject to peer review, except for book reviews, which are assessed exclusively by the editorial team (see the Section Policy).

• Karpeta: Includes articles based on original research that analyze the growing prominence of technology in contexts of communication and social mobilization. The maximum length is 7,000 words, including references and supplementary materials.
• Miscellany: Welcomes pieces on technological and technoscientific debates from a sociocultural perspective. The section accepts theoretical essays, interviews, and analytical snapshots which, while maintaining rigor, adopt more agile and exploratory formats. The maximum length is 7,000 words, including references and supplementary materials.
• Thematic reviews: Brings together articles that systematize states of the art, theoretical currents, and key debates in fields aligned with the journal. The goal is to provide tools for synthesis and dissemination rather than original empirical contributions. Manuscripts may be up to 8,000 words.
• Video essays: Publishes original audiovisual works that explore issues central to the journal’s approach. Each video essay must be accompanied by an explanatory text describing the aims and the research process. The maximum video length is 10 minutes, and the accompanying text must not exceed 1,000 words.
• Reviews: Includes critical reviews of recent publications (books, reports, special issues, or other relevant materials), oriented to analyzing and contextualizing the work under review. The maximum length is 2,500 words. Reviews are not peer reviewed; they are evaluated directly by the editorial team.

Online submission of manuscripts (via the OJS platform)

• Language: The journal receives and edits manuscripts primarily in Spanish or English. Other languages may be accepted depending on the availability of evaluation and copy‑editing resources.
• File format: Files in ODT/RTF (open format) or Word are accepted. Submissions in PDF are not accepted.

Use of templates: Using the Submission templates for each section is mandatory. We strongly recommend drafting the manuscript directly in the templates, which already incorporate the final layout (typefaces, sizes, indents, and heading styles).

• Online submission: Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively through the journal’s OJS platform. Registration or login is required.
• Required documentation: In addition to the manuscript—properly anonymized and prepared in the template—you must upload the following as separate files:
  • Statement of originality and authorship
  • Data Sheet (author information and metadata form)

Once the submission is completed, the metadata cannot be modified and it will not be possible to add new authors.

Manuscript anonymization

• The manuscript must be fully anonymized: no names, affiliations, identifiable acknowledgements, or any information that could allow authorship to be inferred in the text, headers, files, or metadata.
• Self‑citations must be presented in the normal way, following citation rules (Author, year). Do not use phrasing that identifies the author(s) (e.g., “in my previous work”).
• We recommend checking the file properties to remove metadata that may contain authorship information.
• If the manuscript is accepted, you will be asked to provide a non‑anonymized version for publication.

Minimum manuscript structure

• Sections must be numbered and titled in lowercase, as indicated in the submission templates available for each journal section.
• The table of contents (summary) should be included only in the article’s language and must list only the main sections, separated by periods. Subsections (1.1, 1.1.1) are not included in the summary.
• Abstract (and resumen) must be no longer than 150 words and must end with a period.

Keywords (and palabras clave) must be a maximum of five per language. They must be in alphabetical order, separated by semicolons, and end with a period. At least three descriptors must come from the UNESCO Thesaurus.

Style and formatting requirements

• Do not use bold, italics, uppercase, or underlining for emphasis.
• Italics should be used only for standard normative purposes, such as titles of works or words in a foreign language.
• Verbatim quotations must be written between angle quotes (« »). (On most keyboards, angle quotes can be entered by enabling the numeric keypad and using Alt + 174 («) and Alt + 175 (»).)
• Specialized terms should be indicated with single quotation marks (‘ ’) only the first time they appear in the text; subsequent mentions should be written without quotation marks.
• Do not use footnotes or endnotes, except for a single note on the first page to indicate funding or links to research projects.
• Do not insert active hyperlinks in the body of the text. Also disable automatic fields from reference managers.
• Whole numbers should be written out in words, except for dates, years, percentages, or currencies. Use numerals only when numbers exceed four digits (e.g., three studies conducted in 2021, with a sample of 1,250 participants and a 15% budget increase).
• Decimal numbers should be written in numerals, with a maximum of two decimals, using a comma as the decimal separator (e.g., 4,38).

In‑text citations

• Citations and references in the text must follow APA 7th edition (author–date).
• As an editorial exception, the first time an author is mentioned in running text (i.e., not in parentheses), include their given name and first surname. In subsequent mentions, use only the surname.
• Short verbatim quotations (up to 40 words) should be integrated in the text within angle quotes (« »), indicating the relevant page(s): (Author, year, p. 18) or (Author, year, pp. 46–47).
• Long verbatim quotations (more than 40 words) should be presented as a separate paragraph with a 0.5 cm left indent, without quotation marks or italics. The reference is included at the end of the quoted block, followed by a period.
• You may consult the common practice in recently published articles on the journal website.

References

• The final bibliography must appear under the heading References.
• Include only works cited in the manuscript, and ensure that every in‑text citation has a corresponding entry in the final list (and vice versa).
• References must follow APA 7th edition. As an editorial exception aligned with gender‑equality recommendations, the full given name of cited authors must be included in the reference list.
• References should be ordered alphabetically by surname and, for multiple works by the same author, chronologically by year.
• Include the DOI when available or, if not, the URL for online access, ensuring that links work correctly.

Editorial transparency: data, contributions, and AI use

All articles must include the following sections in the order established in the submission templates:

• Data availability, even if only to state that there are no new data or that they cannot be shared. If open data are available, they must also be cited in the References section.
• Author contributions statement: specify each author’s contribution according to the contributions taxonomy and its rubrics, included in the contributions table.
• LLM/Generative AI use statement: indicate whether AI was used in drafting the text, for what purpose, and with which applications. AI use must be cited according to APA 7th edition. If the work includes AI‑generated images or videos, provide (as a supplementary file) the name of the tool used and the prompt employed, and reference it in the Data availability section.

To optimize evaluation and copy‑editing times, submissions that do not follow the established template and formatting requirements will be returned for correction before the review process begins.