Scope

Poligramas is a biannual publication. The main objective of this publication is disseminating articles resulting from research in literature; literary and cultural critics and history; Colombian and Latin American literature, among other research purposes. In addition, reflection and review articles that become inputs for further studies on the respective field of development, and that deal with current and important issues for the academic community.

Poligramas journal is supported and sponsored by the School of Literature of the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia

The new version of the Journal responds to the need for establishing and strengthening dialogue with the university´s academic national and international community, and fomenting contemporary literature studies.

Poligramas includes the following sections: Articles, Leaf Storm and Reviews; occasionally we include the sections Annexes, or Reflections. Papers submitted to the Journal must be unpublished, include an abstract in Spanish and English (with five key words in both languages), and follow the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) citation format.

Journal ethics: Poligramas journal has editorial policies and editorial ethical standards, which are adhere to what is expressed in COPE and MLA.

Our journal follows editorial guidelines and rules of ethics, as expressed in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and MLA.

Creative Common: Poligramas has a CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) license.

Editorial process

Poligramas journal receives documents for the begining of the editorial process according to the arrival order of these.

Times of the editorial process

After acknowledging receipt, the document will initially be reviewed by the editor (in a maximum period of 4 weeks) to determine if the article complies with the basic requirements: appropriate theme for the Journal´s scope; compliance with citation guidelines; and plagiarism free record, which can be obtained using a software to detect possible plagiarism. Once having passed this first check, papers are sent for academic peer review by experts in the field. This step may require 4 to 8 weeks.

Note: if in the stipulated period of evaluator search the article has not yet begun that process, the author will be notified, the author will determine if the paper continues in the process with the journal for an additional week of evaluator search.

Arbitration process for articles

Articles for the journal Poligramas go through a double-blind arbitration process (whereby the reviewer and the author being evaluated do not know each other). The peer reviewer will use an evaluation format designed by the Journal´s editorial team, which is sent together with a copy of the paper in PDF format (without the author´s name) in addition to a formal peer review request. The reviewer will have a maximum of four weeks to turn in the corresponding review.

Upon receiving the evaluation, the editor will check the review and inform the author if his/her article has been approved, rejected or approved but requiring corrections specified in the evaluation letter.

Note: in as far as possible, two peer reviewers will be assigned to each paper; in case of differences in their evaluation, the paper would be sent to a third reviewer in order to arrive at a final decision.

Approved documents

The documents that are approved for publication will first go through a style correction, in which the consistency of citations with the bibliographic references will be reviewed, and vice versa. The authors will receive the corrected version of their article before it is published in the web version of the journal and sent to the press for printing.

About documents received

Original papers, interviews, reviews, translations, free essays, stories, poems, short texts, etc. must be sent through the OJS system of Poligramas journal (http://poligramas.univalle.edu.co/index.php/poligramas/index). In case of any problem with the website, you can send the article by email to revista.poligramas@correounivalle.edu.co as an attached file in Word format, according to the following specifications:

• Papers should not have more than 10,000 words, including name, abstract, and bibliography cited in MLA.
• Reviews or critical studies of books should not have more than 2000 words. In addition, reviews should address recent publications.
• Translations should have the corresponding legal permission from the author and/or the publisher.
• The documents sent should be formatted for letter-size paper, using Times News Roman 12 font, 1.5 spacing, and comply with MLA guidelines.

Requirements

Both articles and reviews or critical studies of books must include in the heading:

• Title in Spanish and English (the title can not be more than 35 words)
• Author´s signature
• University or institution to which the author is related, followed by the city and the country.
• Analytical abstract in original language and English, with no more than 150 words. The abstract should have the keywords among those 150 words.
• Five key words in Spanish and English, separated by colons (;).
• If the paper or review includes tables, these will be typed using table function, or, if not available, using TABs, but not the SPACE BAR.
• Subtitles should be in italics, aligned on the left margin, separated by one space from the previous paragraph and should not be numbered
• Reviews must cite the work being reviewed, including: author, title, place published, publisher, year, number of pages.
• The author must have ORCID and must complete some basic information requested by the journal, such as: institutional affiliation, institutional email address, academic degree(s), research areas, relevant publications and postal institutional address, and H5 index of Google Scholar.
• The author must sign a letter proving the originality of the article he has sent to publication, and, in addition, that this is not involved in another publication.

Criteria for excluding papers:

• The subject matter does not correspond to the field of discipline of the Journal´s edition.
• The paper exceeds the established length.
• References and citations do not follow MLA guidelines.
• Documentation required is incomplete.
• The paper is not sent in the required format (Word).

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Code of ethics and poor editorial practices

The journal Poligramas has a code of ethics and poor editorial practices–following the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines–in order to invoke the need of honest dissemination of academic knowledge. Thus, some of the Journal´s values are: soundness and reliability, honesty, acknowledgement of previous work, originality in the field of research, transparency, responsibility, adhesion to and respect for publication norms and intellectual property rights.

Editor´s role

The editor is committed to complying with the Journal´s internal policies and editorial ethics norms described in this document; and to maintaining the required appropriate communication channels among authors and reviewers. Finally, the editor is responsible for addressing suggestions made by readers, reviewers and the overall public regarding the contents of Poligramas.

Responsibilities of the editor:

• Admitting or rejecting for review and editorial evaluation documents that do not comply with basic reception and publication requirements. This is done following verifiable impartiality criteria and considering the Journal´s main objectives described in its scope.
• The editor is commitment with the principle of confidentiality and anonymity of document authors and reviewers.
• The editor will not use research work in his own benefit or that of others, keeping respect for the authenticity of the documents.
• The editor should communicate to the authors in a timely and appropriate manner the status of their document in the stipulated time of the editorial process.
• The editor must inform the evaluators of the commitments that are assumed at the moment of accepting the arbitration of the document.
• The editor has to ensure compliance with the Journal´s internal and editorial policies, and guarantee the pu1blication on schedule of each printed or electronic edition.
• The editor should be willing to consider suggestions and answer authors’ and reviewers’ concerns in order to improve the publishing process.
• When encountering an error after publishing an issue, the editor is required to immediately publish an erratum correcting such mistakes and indicating where these are located in the publication. For the digital version, the editor must    modify the erratum and announce it in the central page of the journal in its digital version.
• When in suspicion of malpractice done by the authors, that is to say, to identify plagiarism or self-plagiarism, the editor has to deal the issue directly with the authors if the issue is not satisfactorily solved with the authors, the editor will communicate it to the author’s institution and attempt to solve the conflict.

Role of the reviewer

The reviewer´s role is extremely important: his/her concept allows us to identify the appropriateness of publishing specific papers. As is the case with the editor, the reviewer’s concepts and evaluations respond to criteria unlinked from any financial or commercial retribution, and he/she will act following objective judgments.

Responsibilities of the reviewer:

• Address requests for anonymous review of the paper, implying not sharing information of the undergoing process with third parties. The reviewer cannot use unpublished papers for his/her personal benefit.
• In reasonable time, accept or reject evaluating the paper. If the reviewer has conflict of interests regarding the paper, he/she must report this to the editor who will in turn decide on the appropriateness of the reviewer’s participation in the process.
• Inform the Journal´s editor if encountering, during review of the document, plagiarism or malpractice on the part of the author(s), in order for the editor to proceed as is proper and stipulated in this manual.

Role of the author

Authors play a basic role in the editing and publishing of papers and they must comply with a conduct based on knowledge and respect for the rights and transparency of the research presented.

Responsibilities of the author:

• Be informed and comply with initial requirements for submitting original papers and with the publication guidelines of the journal Poligramas.
• Submit novel papers that promote academic discussion, resulting from the author´s research, and meeting the conditions of originality and free of plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
• Inform the Journal if an entity sponsored the research project or if it has to do with postgraduate studies research.
• If the article is co-authored, report this to the Journal, indicating the order in which authors would appear.
• Use the MLA reference. Bibliographic references at the end of the paper should include only documents cited in the body of the text.
• Report to the editor errors found after publication.
• Solve corrections pointed out by peer reviewers for eventual publication of the paper in the Journal.
• The author should review in a timely manner and as soon as possible, the style correction made to the article.

EDITORIAL MAL PRACTICE
Editors and reviewers

The following are considered editorial malpractice:

• Non-compliance with the non-disclosure agreement.
• Using unpublished confidential materials for the personal benefit of reviewers or editors without acknowledging intellectual property rights.
• Not to inform the editorial team of the Poligramas journal, in a timely manner, when the contents of an academic contribution present elements of plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
• Carry out personal (and non-objective) criticisms of the author or his or her academic position stated in the text. The arbitrators must express their points of view with arguments that value the presented material.
• The editors must evaluate, objectively, the relevance of the document according to the scope of the journal.

Authors

The following actions are considered ethical mal practice:

• Forgery of documents submitted to the Journal.
• Submitting the paper at the same time to two (or more) journals or dissemination media.
• Submitting a paper that has already been published in another printed or electronic dissemination media, including pages such as Scrib or Academia.edu.
• Plagiarism and self-plagiarism (“recycling fraud”); this practice may be penalized by the Law of Author Rights and Intellectual Property Rights.
• Do not recognize the academic sources used to perform your research work.

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Conflict of interests

Both authors and reviewers, as well as members of the editorial and scientific committees of the Poligramas journal, maintain professional communication based on objectivity and impartiality, being the editor the “bridge” for communication between author(s) and reviewer(s).

Paper reviewers will hold a professional title and not have close relationship with authors; furthermore, the double-blind arbitration evaluation modality will be used.

Reviewers (and members of the editorial team) are obliged to maintain confidentiality of the article, implying that it is prohibited to comment its content with anyone different from members of the editorial team.