ISSN:1697-0101

 Revista Transcultural de Música
Transcultural Music Review

Information for authors

  1. TRANS is an externally and anonymously refereed journal in the field of ethnomusicology, published once a year by SIBE-Society for Ethnomusicology (Spain).
  2. TRANS welcomes contributions in the form of original research articles and book, record or film reviews. Manuscripts submitted to TRANS should not have been published elsewhere nor should they simultaneously be under review or scheduled for publication in another journal or in a book.
  3. The deadline for receiving manuscripts is September.
  4. A manuscript is read first by the editorial board, who determines if it is of sufficient interest to proceed further. If not, the editor notifies the author that this is the case. If the manuscript is of sufficient interest, it is sent to outside referees who send written evaluations and recommendations, sometimes with suggestions for revision, to the editor. The results of the external refereeing will be communicated to the author in March.
  5. The review process is generally completed within four months
  6. All authors and texts published in TRANS must be in compliance with the “Ethical Considerations” approved by the SIBE-Society for Ethnomusicology.
  7. Authors should follow the editorial norms and be aware of the evaluation process. 

See the Terms of Evaluation of Articles and reviews in TRANS and the Editorial Norms.

 

 

 

 

Terms of Evaluation of Articles and reviews in TRANS

Evaluation of articles

Articles submitted to TRANS must be original and should not have been published elsewhere nor should the simultaneously be under review or scheduled for publication in another journal or in a book. The author should communicate if the article has been presented or rejected in another forum.

If an author submits a paper to TRANS that is based on material closely related to that in other published or submitted papers or books, the author should explain the relationships among them, in a cover letter to the editor.

Articles in TRANS follow a two-step review process: An internal evaluation and an external one.

 

Internal evaluation

The Editorial Board of the journal proceeds this way.

The compliance of the Editorial norms, the correspondence with TRANS profile and the quality of writing within protocols and academic uses and grammar and stylistics are taken into account. The specific criteria for this evaluation are:

  • Interest and relevance of the subject
  • Clear presentation of an hypothesis or research problem
  • Concretion in the argumentation and way of developing the hypothesis
  • Suitability of the critic apparatus (notes, bibliography references) with the subject and the topics presented.
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External evaluation

Once the article has gone through the first phase, the manuscript  is sent to an outside referee, alien to the journal's Editorial Board.  The editor will remove any information that might disclose the identity of an author. This external referee reviews the contents of the manuscript in-depth and, in the end, decides whether it is publishable or not. TRANS asks the outside referees to asses the following criteria: 

  • Interest and development of the arguments presented.
  • Innovation in the ideas and the data exposed.
  • Contribution to the academic community.
  • Organization and clarity in the presentation of the ideas and arguments.
  • Syntax quality.
  • Originality in the empirical data and fonts.
  • Accuracy of bibliography and foot-notes.
  • Adaptation to TRANS' editorial line

The outside referee could make any other comments or recommendations she or he considers appropriate.

The written evaluation will be forwarded to the author.  Authors of articles will have the opportunity to incorporate the recommendations of the external referee and make final changes to the manuscript prior its publication.

 

Book, record and film review evaluation criteria

Book, record and film reviews only go through an internal process of evaluation. The editors value the compliance to the editorial norms, the adaptation to the editorial line of the journal and the quality of the writing, both in the academic usage and in estilistic and gramatical terms. The specific criteria for evaluation are:

  • summary and commentary on the content of the reviewed work.
  • clarity in the exposition of the main arguments of the reviewed work.
  • critical insights in relation to the contents of the reviewed work.
  • contribution of elements for academic assesment of the reviewed work.
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For further information, please contact to edicion@sibetrans.com

 

 

 

 

Editorial Norms

  1. Manuscripts will be submitted to the following e-mail address, edicion@sibetrans.com, in WORD or RTF format.
  2. The article extension would be between 6000 and 12000 words (between 15 and 30 pages), and between 2000 and 4000 words (5-10 pages) for reviews. Manuscripts must be taped using Arial 12 pts.  and one and a half line spacing.
  3. TRANS accepts manuscripts written in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Italian. Submit two abstracts of no more than ten lines one in the original language of the article and the other in English. Submit also no less of three key words in the original language of the article and in English, It is possible to include a version of the whole article in a different language.
  4. Authors must submit a brief CV of no more than five lines, which should include their current institutional affiliation.
  5. Footnotes will be typed in a smaller font size (Arial 10 pts.), at the end of the text.
  6. Quotations will be incorporated into the text and enclosed in double quotation marks. If they run to more than three lines, they should be set off from the text and indented from the margin with no quotation marks. Use a smaller font size (Arial 10pts.). Quotations of specific texts must be followed by the corresponding bibliographical reference. These should be incorporated in the text using the parenthetical or author-date style: (Pelinski 2001: 24), (Morris 1971: 287-294).
  7. The full bibliographical details for the cited works must be given in a list of references, arranged by author’s family names and chronologically within groups of works by the same author, at the end of the article. Bibliographical references not quoted in the text should not be included in the list of references.
  8. Models:
    • Books: Blacking, John. 1995. How Musical Is Man?. Washington: University of Washington Press.
    • Journal articles: During, Jean. 1982. "Revelation and spiritual audition in Islam". The World of Music 24(3): 68-84.
    • Chapters of a book: Idel, Moshe. 1997. "Conceptualizations of Music in Jewish Mysticism". En Enchanting Powers. Music in the World's Religions, ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan, 159-188. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    • Collective works: Balaban, Mira; Ebciogulu, Kemal y Laske, Otto (eds.). 1992. Understanding Music with Al: Perspectives on Music Cognition. Cambridge: MIT Press.
    • Collective works with more than three authors: Borofsky, Robert et al. 2001. “When: A Conversation about Culture.” American Anthropologist 103 (2): 432-446.
    • Edited Books: Nettl, Bruno (ed.). 1998. In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    • On-line resources: Nattiez, Jean Jaques. 1995. “El pasado anterior. Tiempo, estructuras y creación musical colectiva. A propósito de Lévi-Strauss y el etnomusicólogo Brailoiu”. Trans 1 <http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans1/nattiez.htm> [Consulta: 22 de febrero de 2005].
    • Group of Works by the same author: Bouissac, Paul. 1976a. Circus and Culture: A Semiotic Approach. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
      ____1976b. The "golden legend" of semiotics. Semiotica 17(4): 371-382.
  9. Recording and audiovisual references should be listed in separate lists. TRANS suggests the following models, although the authors are free to include additional information for a better identification of the source:
    • Recordings: Manolín, el médico de la salsa. 1994. Una aventura Loca. Caribe.
    • Audiovisuals: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash. 2001. Dir. Eric Idle y Gary Weis. DVD. Rhino Video.
  10. References to recordings or audiovisual materials in the manuscript must include the necesarry information in the text or footnote so that the reader could identify them in the list of references.
  11. Tables, artwork, musical examples or illustrations must be submitted in .jpg format. The should be inserted in the body of the text, numbered and indentified with a title.
  12. Tables, musical examples (only in .jpg format) and figures (also in .jpg format) must be numbered separately.
  13. Book reviews must contain the following information: John Shepherd y Peter Wicke. Music and Cultural Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-7456-0864-7