The journal adopts the notes and bibliography system of The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition (2024), with the editorial adaptations set out in these guidelines.

Manuscripts may be submitted for review using any internationally recognized citation system, such as Chicago, APA or MLA, provided that it is applied completely and consistently and indicates the page or locator of each citation. If the work is accepted, the final version must conform fully to these guidelines, and editorial production will not begin until it does.

General Instructions

• Notes are placed at the foot of the page and numbered consecutively. The note reference is set in superscript, after punctuation and before a dash, as in “As the authors argue.¹”
• Works should preferably be cited in their original language. The use of published translations and of the author’s own translations is governed by the section on translations.
• Quotations and paraphrases must indicate the page or page range of the passage. Canonical citations and unpaginated sources require a precise locator, such as section, paragraph or timestamp.
• The city of publication, the edition number and the abbreviations p. and pp. are omitted. The year given is always that of the edition consulted.
• Notes name up to two authors; when there are three or more, only the first is named, followed by et al. The first note gives the first name and surname, and subsequent notes the surname only.
• Several references in a single note are separated by semicolons.
• Ibid., ibidem, idem, op. cit. and loc. cit. are not used.
• The DOI of every work that has one is included as a link. If there is no DOI and the source was consulted online, a stable URL is added.
• In articles written in English or French, abbreviations, linking words (trans., ed., chap., accessed) and quotation marks follow the conventions of that language.
• Outputs of artificial intelligence systems are not cited as sources. They may be cited only when they constitute the object of study, under the conditions set out in the Use and Limits of Artificial Intelligence policy.

Quotations

Quotations of fewer than one hundred words are run into the text within double quotation marks (“ ”), and quotations of one hundred words or more are set off as a separate indented paragraph without quotation marks. Single quotation marks (‘ ’) are reserved for quotations within quotations. Omissions are indicated by ellipses in square brackets […], and the author’s interpolations are also placed in square brackets. When the author emphasizes a word that is not emphasized in the original, “emphasis added” is indicated in the note.

Citation Cases and Models

The examples use fictitious data, and the example.org addresses are illustrative. The models of canonical citations, by contrast, use real works and publication data. All models correspond to an article written in Spanish.

The first note is complete, even if the author or title appears in the text. Subsequent notes include the author’s surname or the name of the institution, the main title without its subtitle and the locator, also in consecutive notes. This criterion applies to all types of sources except canonical citations.

Book

First note: Elisa Monteluz, La memoria del umbral: reflexiones hermenéuticas (Nerfel, 2023), 47.

Subsequent note: Monteluz, La memoria del umbral, 52.

Translations

Passages from works in another language must be translated in the body of the text. If the translation is the author’s own, “own translation” is indicated in the note; if all translations are the author’s own, it is sufficient to state this in the first note. In that case, the note cites the edition and pagination of the original.

First note (own translation): Maëlle Vauprel, La patience du monde: événement et tradition (Lantier, 2017), 23, traducción propia.

When a published translation is used, the translator is identified. If the translation records the pagination of the original, indicating it is recommended.

First note (published translation): Maëlle Vauprel, La paciencia del mundo: acontecimiento y tradición, trad. Inés Valcera (Arcela, 2020), 18.

Subsequent note: Vauprel, La paciencia del mundo, 21.

Book Chapter

First note: Rafael Doresta y Mara Veldel, “La fragilidad compartida: aportes a la antropología”, en Pensar la convivencia, ed. Elisa Monteluz (Nerfel, 2022), 88–89.

Subsequent note: Doresta y Veldel, “La fragilidad compartida”, 92.

Journal Article

First note: Leonor Vesna, “El tiempo de la atención: lecturas contemporáneas”, Cuadernos del Umbral 12, n.º 2 (2024): 61–62, https://example.org/articulos/tiempo-atencion.

Subsequent note: Vesna, “El tiempo de la atención”, 63.

E-book

If the e-book has fixed pagination, the book model applies. If it does not, a chapter or section is cited. For downloaded files the format is stated, and for online consultation the URL or database is indicated.

First note: Bruno Talvera, La experiencia del paisaje: ecología en el mundo de hoy (Arcela, 2021), cap. 4, secc. 2, EPUB.

Subsequent note: Talvera, La experiencia del paisaje, cap. 4, secc. 3.

Lecture or Conference Paper

First note: Fabián Orelia, “Pensar la hospitalidad”, conferencia en el Encuentro Filosófico del Río, Universidad de Varela, 20 de agosto de 2024, video, 42 min, 18 s, en 00:12:05–00:13:10, https://example.org/conferencias/hospitalidad.

Subsequent note: Orelia, “Pensar la hospitalidad”, en 00:20:14–00:21:02.

If the recording was published after the event, the publication date and the responsible entity are added. For audio recordings, “video” is replaced by “audio”. Papers consulted in proceedings or journals follow the book chapter or journal article model.

A lecture with no text or consultable recording is not included in the references, but it may be mentioned in a note as an oral communication, indicating author, event and date, when this is necessary to attribute an idea.

Online Documents and Reference Works

Official documents of the UN, the WHO or other bodies and recognized reference works, such as those of the Real Academia Española or academic encyclopedias, are accepted. The specific document or entry is cited, with author or institution, title, date and direct URL. If there is no date of publication or update, the date of access is indicated.

Press releases, blogs and other web pages are accepted only when they constitute primary sources for the object of study. This restriction does not apply to official documents, academic publications or recognized reference works consulted online.

Institutional Documents

The document code is indicated when it exists.

First note: Consejo Internacional del Patrimonio Humano, Declaración sobre la memoria y la dignidad, CIPH/2024/7, 6 de mayo de 2024, art. 7, https://example.org/documentos/memoria-dignidad.

Subsequent note: Consejo Internacional del Patrimonio Humano, Declaración sobre la memoria y la dignidad, art. 9.

Online Dictionaries

The entry is identified with s.v., and the sense is specified where applicable.

First note: Academia del Habla Común, Diccionario de usos compartidos, s.v. “hospitalidad”, acep. 2, consultado el 10 de octubre de 2026, https://example.org/diccionario/hospitalidad.

Subsequent note: Academia del Habla Común, Diccionario de usos compartidos, s.v. “hospitalidad”, acep. 3.

Online Encyclopedias

If the entry has an author, the author’s name is cited; otherwise, the responsible institution is indicated. The section or paragraph of the passage is specified.

First note: Lía Vardena, “Dignidad”, en Enciclopedia de la vida común (Instituto de Estudios Ardel, 2024), secc. 2.1, https://example.org/enciclopedia/dignidad.

Subsequent note: Vardena, “Dignidad”, secc. 3.

Canonical Citations

The abbreviations and locators recognized in each tradition are used. The first note identifies the work and the edition used and declares the abbreviation; thereafter, only the abbreviation and the locator are used. The edition or translation used is also recorded in the references.

First note: Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, vol. 2 de Gesamtausgabe (Vittorio Klostermann, 1977), 15 (en adelante, GA 2).

Subsequent note: GA 2, 27.

Other Examples of Canonical Citations

• Plato. Stephanus pagination, with page and section letter (Rep. 514a–515a).
• Aristotle. Bekker numbering, with page, column and lines (Metaph. 1028b33–36).
• Thomas Aquinas. Part, question and article (S. Th. I, q. 2, a. 3).
• Immanuel Kant. The Critique of Pure Reason, according to the pagination of the first (A) and second (B) editions (KrV A 51/B 75). Other works, by volume and page of the Academy edition (AA IV, 421).
• Edmund Husserl. Husserliana, with volume and page (Hua III/1, 51).
• Bible. Book, chapter and verse, with a comma between chapter and verse (Lc 8, 43–48).

References

References are arranged by surname or by the name of the institution and, for the same author, by year of publication, from the earliest to the most recent. If author and year coincide, they are arranged by title. The author’s name is repeated in each entry, and a hanging indent is applied.

The name of the first author is inverted. Up to six authors are listed; if there are more, the first three are listed, followed by et al.

Entries retain complete titles, including subtitles. References to book chapters and journal articles must include the full page range.

The list includes all works cited in the notes and only those, with the exception of oral communications. Sources written in non-Latin scripts, such as Greek, Hebrew or Cyrillic, are transliterated according to a recognized system.

Academia del Habla Común. Diccionario de usos compartidos. S.v. “hospitalidad”. Consultado el 10 de octubre de 2026. https://example.org/diccionario/hospitalidad.

Consejo Internacional del Patrimonio Humano. Declaración sobre la memoria y la dignidad. CIPH/2024/7. 6 de mayo de 2024. https://example.org/documentos/memoria-dignidad.

Doresta, Rafael, y Mara Veldel. “La fragilidad compartida: aportes a la antropología”. En Pensar la convivencia, editado por Elisa Monteluz, 81–103. Nerfel, 2022.

Heidegger, Martin. Sein und Zeit. Editado por Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Vol. 2 de Gesamtausgabe. Vittorio Klostermann, 1977.

Monteluz, Elisa. La memoria del umbral: reflexiones hermenéuticas. Nerfel, 2023.

Orelia, Fabián. “Pensar la hospitalidad”. Conferencia en el Encuentro Filosófico del Río, Universidad de Varela, 20 de agosto de 2024. Video, 42 min, 18 s. https://example.org/conferencias/hospitalidad.

Talvera, Bruno. La experiencia del paisaje: ecología en el mundo de hoy. Arcela, 2021. EPUB.

Vardena, Lía. “Dignidad”. En Enciclopedia de la vida común. Instituto de Estudios Ardel, 2024. https://example.org/enciclopedia/dignidad.

Vauprel, Maëlle. La patience du monde: événement et tradition. Lantier, 2017.

Vauprel, Maëlle. La paciencia del mundo: acontecimiento y tradición. Traducido por Inés Valcera. Arcela, 2020.

Vesna, Leonor. “El tiempo de la atención: lecturas contemporáneas”. Cuadernos del Umbral 12, n.º 2 (2024): 55–74. https://example.org/articulos/tiempo-atencion.

 

For other types of sources, consult the official Chicago citation guide.

Effective as of October 2026.