Author Guidelines
Trace (Travaux et Recherches dans les Amériques du Centre) is a biannual journal that publishes papers in Spanish, English and French. Its mission is to permanently open a door to dialogue, refutation and comments generated by any transcendent process. It offers a space for original research work which can contribute to relevant knowledge of related disciplines. Texts that are accepted by Trace must be original and unpublished, cannot have been published previously in any print or electronic media and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or publishing house.
The editorial board will only submit items to opinion if presented with the following specifications:
• Personal information: full name, institution, school or department, full postal address, telephone and email.
• A letter declaring that the text is original and unpublished, that has not previously been distributed in any printed or electronic medium and that the probable publication in Trace has been acknowledged. (The format of this letter is available at: www.trace.org.mx)
• The author’s/authors’ biographical data (maximum 800 characters with spaces).
Requirements for Texts
- Items should be presented in letter size, written with Times New Roman 12 point font and with 1.5 line spacing. (Please, send the electronic version in the following extensions: *.rtf, *.doc or *.odt, accompanied by a PDF version).
- The title of the manuscript should be sent in both, Spanish and English, with a maximum of 10 words.
- Subtitles should be clear and be marked in the manuscript, either numbered or with defining styles in bold, italic, etc.
- Articles should be between 40 000 and 60 000 characters with spaces. Reviews should have a minimum of 3,000 and a maximum of 6,000 characters with spaces.
- Each article must be accompanied by a summary (in Spanish, English and French) of a maximum length of 900 characters with spaces (150 words). The subject or target of the text, the study or fieldwork conducted, the methodology, the proposal (if any), and the result and conclusion should be expressed clearly and specifically. 5 keywords (in Spanish, English and French) should be selected.
- When quotations or citations are used, the author's surname followed by the date of publication of the text used should be placed in parentheses. If necessary, page numbers should be added. Examples: (Olivier, 2015), (Bataillon, 2016: 26).
- Texts submitted should include conclusions or results.
In case images are used, the final draft will have to display them in the exact place where the author wishes them to be positioned. The images must be submitted separately: illustrations (drawings, charts, maps, etc.) in the original file (*.ai or *.eps), curves, or strokes with editable text. The photos must be original and submitted in .tiff, .psd or .jpg format (minimum size should be 300 dpi [dots per inch]). All illustrations should be numbered and submitted in a separate file with respective sources. In case an author is not the owner of the rights of the images, the holder’s consent (in writing) for publication in Trace must be attached.
Citations[1]
Citations within the text should be incorporated as shown below:
One author: (Olivier, 2015)
With page number: (Govers, 2013: 45)
Two authors: (Nadai and Labussière, 2010)
More than three authors: (Fortin et al, 2013)
The bibliography should be grouped at the end of the article, in alphabetical order according to the following model:
Books
Díaz, Héctor y Consuelo Sánchez, 2002, México diverso: el debate por la autonomía, México, Siglo XXI.
Olivier, Guilhem, 2015, Cacería, sacrificio y poder en Mesoamérica. Tras las huellas de Mixcóatl, “Serpiente de nube”, México, Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos.
Book Chapters
Periáñez, Rocío, 2010, “¿Cómo se llaman los esclavos en la Extremadura moderna?”, en Salinero, Gregorio e Isabel Testón (comps.), Un juego de engaños. Movilidad, nombres y apellidos en los siglos xv al xviii, Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, pp. 221-228.
Carballo, David M., 2013, “The social organization of craft production and interregional exchange at Teotihuacan”, en Hirth, Kenneth G. y Joanne Pillsbury (eds.), Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World, Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, pp. 113-140.
Magazine Articles
Beligand, Nadine, 2009, “Por descargo de mi conciencia. En la vida el amor y más allá la libertad” Historia y Grafía, núm 33, pp. 133-166.
Gómez, Jaime, 2010, “La migración internacional: teorías y enfoques, una mirada actual”, Semestre Económico, vol. 13, núm. 26, pp. 81-100.
Online Magazine Articles
Bourdieu, P., 1987, “Los tres estados del capital cultural”, Sociológica, México, núm. 5, pp. 11-17, en http://www.revistasociologica.com.mx/pdf/0503.pdf, consulta: 28 de noviembre del 2009.
Electronic Sources
Acervo digital de lenguas indígenas Víctor Franco Pellotier, K’aay Nikté, 2015, en http://lenguasindigenas.mx/blog-de-noticias/item/175-poema.html
Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas, 2014, recuperado el 20 de septiembre de 2014, en http://www.inali.gob.mx
Periodical (newspaper report)
Brooks, David, 1 de julio del 2016, “Alzan muro en EU para encerrar la política de odio de Trump”, La Jornada, p. 25.
When more than two references from one author have to be included, the author’s name should be written again in full and not replaced with hyphens.
NOTA BENE: The literature is to be written in the language in which the text is published, except in the case of languages which can cause a typographic compression problem (Chinese, Korean, Arabic).
Appendices and other supplements should appear as a separate set at the end of the article, after the bibliography. Only in exceptional cases CEMCA may make the translation of an article from another language into Spanish.
[1] The citation guidelines below are for articles published in Spanish.
