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Submission of a manuscript to the Journal implies that: 

1. The author’s manuscript has not been published before or simultaneously in any other written journal. 
2. The coauthor (if applicable) agrees with the publication 
3. The Director agrees with delivering the evaluation of the manuscripts that have come to the Journal before the expiration of three months, and the Journal makes express recognition of the received and accepted dates. 
4. Every submitted manuscript will be evaluated by a double-blind peer review, and by a third in the case of a tie. All evaluators are independent of the Director and the committees of the Journal. However, the Executive Committee will review the sending before selecting the peer reviewers and can return the paper to the author(s), if considering it does not fulfill the minimum acceptable requirements, and in case of detecting plagiarism, self-plagiarism, offensive words, and sarcastic or hatred expressions.
5. Manuscripts may be accepted, rejected, or accepted with modifications. All manuscripts that need to make substantive changes and that are submitted once more time will be peer-reviewed again. 
6. The Director reserves the right to make formal changes to manuscripts approved for publication with the sole purpose of standardizing the format of the issue. 
7. The copyright of the articles published in the Journal belongs to the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, but reproduction of any content is permitted with full citation of the source (journal title, year, number, article title, and author's name or authors). 
8. Once an article is accepted for publication, its author or authors lose the right to distribute it, unless the complete source of publication is cited. However, authors are reminded to divulge her/his article once it is already published.

Preparation of manuscripts:

Aporia receives manuscripts preferably in Spanish and English, but Portuguese, French and Italian are also accepted languages. All manuscripts must be submitted through the platform of Open Journal System (OJS). However, the Journal has also an e-mail: aporia@uc.cl, where the Director can be contacted.

The formal requirements to submit an article are the following:

i) Authors are commended to prepare two versions of the article: one containing all the academic antecedents, and the other without any related information to the author, which is special for blind review, and that will be used to that effect. 
ii) Number of pages: there is a maximum of 18 pages and a minimum of 5, including footnotes and bibliography. 
iii) Characteristics of the page: letter size; top and bottom margins: 2.5 cm; left and right margins: 3 cm. 
iv) Type, size, and spacing of letters: Times New Roman, 12 points, and 1.5 spacing along the body of the text. 
v) No space between paragraphs.

How to cite literature in Bibliography:

a) In general, the Journal bibliography follows APA style, but the following must be noted:
b) The title of an article should be written in double-quotes. For example Mancilla, A. 2012. “Samuel Pufendorf and the right of necessity”. Aporia • International Journal for Philosophical Investigations, Nº3, pp. 47-64. It is also acceptable to put the year of publication in brackets. For example Mancilla (2012): “Samuel Pufendorf and the right of necessity”.  Aporia • International Journal for Philosophical Investigations, Nº3, pp. 47-64. 
c) The title of a book must be cited in italics together with all its credits, including the editorial house. For example Thom, P. 1981. The Syllogism, München: Philosophia Verlag.
d) The title of an article contained in a collective volume must be treated as explained in a), but the title of the containing book must also be cited as in c). For example: Buchner, H. (1990): “Skeptizismus und Dialektik”, Hegel und die antike Dialektik, M. Riedel (ed.), pp. 227-243. Frankfurt a.M: Suhrkamp.

How to cite within the article:

e) In the article the author must cite only the author, the year(s) of the publication, and the page(s). For example Rosen (1966), p. 33. Or: Marín (1834-1835), pp. 64-65. Or: Marín (1834-1835), pp. 64 and ff.
f) The comments on an author must cite the page or pages of the commented text. For example, Mancilla (2012), p. 48, says that (...). Or: Mancilla (2012), pp. 47-48, says that (…).

In general:

g) Use of italics: all technical terms from languages other than the current language of the article must be written in italics, but not common abbreviations (for example it is correct to write in italics ad honorem, and kósmos, but not common abbreviations like: e.g., sc., etc., i.e., and so on). 
h) Terms of art and creative terms must be enclosed in single quotation marks (e.g., ‘deconstructionism’, but not deconstructionism or “deconstructionism”. 
i) The quotes from published authors should always be written in double quotation marks. For example, Aristotle says “All men by nature desire to know” (Metaphysics I, 1, 980a21). 
j) The first page of the submitted manuscript should include (in this order): the title of the article, the author’s name, academic affiliation, acknowledgments (if applicable), and author e-mail address. However, authors are commended to prepare and send another copy of the manuscript to be reviewed in the blind-review system.
k) The footnotes will be placed at the bottom of the very same page where the reference has been made. They will be numbered in Arabic numerals and in Times New Roman, 10 points, single-spaced. 
l) The superscript number flagging a footnote should be placed after any period, comma, or another punctuation mark. For instance, it is correct to write: (...) Plato.¹  But not: (...) Platón.¹

Preparation of Book Reviews and Remarks:

m) Remarks and Discussion notes must follow the same formal criteria and style described above, but their page numbers should be reduced to 6 pages.
n) Book Reviews: maximum 4 pages. 
o) The limits mentioned in m) and n) can be exceeded only if the information given by the author cannot be reduced.

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