Submissions

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• BEFORE SUBMISSION. Before submitting a manuscript, authors are recommended to read the following information about the journal and its publishing policy:
  
  
  
  • Focus and scope
  
  
  • Section policies
  
  
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  • Peer review process
  
  
  • Open access policy
  
  
  • Recommendations for use of inclusive and non-sexist language
  
  
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• AUTHORSHIP. All the authors of the manuscript should provide the journal with their personal ORCiD iD, an email address (preferably institutional), their affiliation and a brief CV. These details are included as part of the content of each article.
  
  
• MANUSCRIPT AND TEMPLATE. Papers submitted for publication in Hipertext.net should not have been published previously and cannot be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

  The manuscript file should be saved in Open Office, Microsoft Word or RTF document format and must be submitted using the journal’s official template:
  

  Download the template in Word format (.docx)

  Download the template in Open Document format (.odt)

• IMAGES. The images (with the same numbering as in the article) should be saved in separate files in .jpg or .png format (for attachment using OJS) and must be a minimum of 1200 x 800 pixels. They should be incorporated, together with the corresponding caption, in the correct place in the manuscript and adhere to a system of consecutive numbering (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). The source or origin of the image should be acknowledged in the Note below the image.
  
  

• BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES. All references should adhere to the APA 7th edition format and refer to works cited in the text using the author-date system as described below:

  Reference to a journal article: Surname1, N. and Surname2, N. (Year). Title of the article. Title of the journal, vol(nº), pp-pp. DOI reference

  
  

  Reference to a conference or congress paper published in proceedings: Surname1, N., Surname2, N. and Surname3, N. (Year). Title of the paper. Name of the conference or congress, pp-pp.

  
  

  Reference to a book: Surname1, N. and Surname2, N. (Year). Title of the book, publisher.

  Reference to a chapter in an edited book: Surname1, N. and Surname2, N. (Year). Title of the chapter. In: Surname1, N. and Surname2, N. Title of the book , (pp-pp) publisher.

  
  

  For references to other resources, see the detailed list in the journal’s official template:
  

  Download the template in Word format (.docx)

  Download the template in Open Document format (.odt)

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (IA). Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies should be used solely as support tools to enhance the readability and language quality of the manuscript, and must always be applied under the supervision and control of the authors. As a general rule, the inclusion of AI-generated content, whether textual, visual, or of any other nature, is not recommended. However, the use of AI may be permitted when its contribution responds to a justified need arising from the methodological design of the research or another substantial reason. In such cases, authors must:
  
  - Explicitly declare the use of AI and justify it on methodological grounds or another significant basis (convenience or time-savings are not considered valid justifications).
  
  - Clearly delimit the AI-generated content so that readers can identify its scope, indicating the model used, the prompts or instructions applied, and any information necessary to ensure its traceability.
  
  -Assume full responsibility for the validity and originality of the AI-generated content, for respecting the authorship of the sources, and for preventing plagiarism. This responsibility must be reflected in the manuscript (in the introduction, methodology, or a specific section, as appropriate).
  
  The final acceptance of manuscripts that include AI-generated content will be at the discretion of the editorial team, based on compliance with the above criteria.
• OPEN SCIENCE POLICY. Hipertext.net actively promotes the open science policies of the European Commission (Digital Science in Horizon, 2013; Open Science, 2019; Plan S, 2019, among others). In particular, it facilitates the open-access publishing of texts and authorizes authors to include the postprint and/or published versions of their articles in academic repositories.
  
  Since 2020, Hipertext.net has promoted the publication of research data (in a project known as ‘Share Research Data’) so that they might be consulted and reused by other researchers. Authors wishing to participate in this initiative must give authorization for their data to be shared and provide a URL address for their dataset so that it can be included in an article’s metadata. If you wish to share your data but have not published them on any server, Hipertext.net can publish and manage your dataset in the Catalan Open Research Area (CORA) repository.