Instructions for authors

Submissions will be done over the journal’s OJS web.  Authors wishing to publish their work in Análisis Filosófico may create a user’s account clicking here or go to the platform if they already have an account.  They should fill all the submission data required by the system.

Papers submitted must be original and unpublished and should not be under review by the editorial board of any other journal or sent to other journals during the review process. 

Análisis Filosófico publishes original articles, discussions, critical commentaries and book reviews in English, Portuguese and Spanish.  It also welcomes critical contributions about papers that were published in the journal.

Articles must not have over 12,000 words; critical contributions, up to 4000 words and book reviews, 2000 words.  The journal holds the right to consider publishing papers beyond the number of words set.

Submitted papers will be assessed by at least two external reviewers, in a double-blind process.  The Editorial Board will have the last word, after considering the information submitted by the reviewers.

Once the submission is accepted, the author will receive his paper via e-mail in .PDF format.  He should check it carefully and send his comments within five working days to info@analisisfilosofico.org.  Authors will receive the digital version of their article in .pdf format.

Format and preparation of manuscripts

Footnotes should be consecutively numbered in the paper.  References should be quoted as follows: Author’s surname and year of publication, e.g., Fodor (1998) or (Dworkin, 1995, p. 28) along the main body of the paper.  Below the article there should be a full list of references mentioned along the paper under "References", with authors’ surnames in alphabetical order, titles of books and journals in italics, in the following order: 

Carnap, R. (1928). Der logische Aufbau der Welt. Springer. DOI or URL

Lewis, D. (1971). Counterparts of persons and their bodies. Journal of Philosophy, 68(7), 187-221. https://doi.org/xxxx

Overall, the Journal abides by the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Warning about authorship rights

The journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that providing open access to research works contributes to a greater global interchange of knowledge.  Every work published by the journal follows the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).  Authors keep the copyright of their manuscripts.

Privacy statement

Names and e-mail addresses included in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes detailed in it and will not be shared with third parties or be used for any other purpose.