Information for authors

TRANS welcomes contributions in the form of original articles or book and academic events reviews. TRANS is an externally and anonymously refereed journal, published once a year. The deadline for receiving manuscripts is the month of September of every year. The Editorial Board makes a pre-selection of the manuscripts and communicates the results to the authors by November. The results of the external refereeing will be communicated by February. In case the outside referee makes suggestions to the author, he or she will have three weeks to make the appropriate changes. The journal will be issued in June. All contributions must follow the following

Editorial Norms

Manuscripts will be submitted to the following e-mail address, edicion@sibetrans.com, in WORD or RTF format.
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.
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.
Authors must submit a brief CV of no more than five lines, which should include their current institutional affiliation.
Footnotes will be typed in a smaller font size (Arial 10 pts.), at the end of the text and before the bibliography.
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).
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.
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.

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.

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.
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.
Tables, musical examples (only in .jpg format) and figures (also in .jpg format) must be numbered separately.
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