Publications Standards

1. Works should deal with themes on social sciences, specially communication and information. Works should preferably show strict coherence with the theme line of the current monograph.
2. Papers should be original unedited works. Writing language accepted are Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian. Address your paper to sphera@pdi.ucam.edu or postal service to:
   

   Revista Sphera Publica
   Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación
   Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
   Campus de los Jerónimos s/n
   30107 Guadalupe Murcia
   Spain

3. Papers should be sent by e-mail or in a diskette containing WORD or RTF format file, plus two paper copies with a maximum length of 15 pages (30 lines each page in single space).
4. The first page should contain the paper title, author’s name and surname, working institution and address, followed by a 100 word abstract in the original language plus an English version of it (in case the writing language is not English). Keywords are also to be included.
5. Please, do not use footnotes. References are to be made at the end of the text.
6. References in text should include referred author’s surname and year in brackets, as follows: Castells (1998) or (Castells, 1998).
7. Works should be followed by a bibliographical references list according to the following standards:
   1. Books: SURNAME, INITIALS. (Year): Title. Place, Publisher.
            Example: CASTELLS, M. (1998): Internet Galaxy. London, Kluwer Academic Publisher.
   2. Papers: SURNAME, INITIALS. (Year): “Paper title”. Journal title, volume, number, pages of the paper.
            Example: CASTELLS, M. (1998): “Information society”. Journal of Computer Madiated Communication, 16, 2, pp. 121-142.
   3. Book chapters: SURNAME, INITIALS. (Year): “Chapter title” in Book title. EDITORS’ SURNAME, EDITORS’ INITIALS (Eds.). Place, Publisher.
            Example: CASTELLS, M. (1998): “Time and Space in the Information Age” en Information Society. BROWN, J. (Ed.). New York, Kluwer Academic Publisher.
   4. If there is more than three authors, please write the surname and initials of the first one followed by “et al.”.
8. Contributions will be peer reviwed by experts and/or academicians specialized in the matter the deal with.
9. SPHERA PUBLICA reserves the right to publish contributions in the number that considers more appropriate. In case a contribution is postponed to another number, the author concerned will be properly informed.
10. SPHERA PUBLICA will send to each contributor three exemplars of the issue he or she collaborates with, and one exemplar to those contributing with a literature review.
11. SPHERA PUBLICA is not responsible for the opinions and viewpoints stated by the authors in their papers.