Aim and Scope

This journal’s aim is to publish innovative research on six main fields: English Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, Portuguese Studies, and Spanish Studies. Given its focus on modern literary expressions in different European languages, apart from articles on literary theory, Anuario de Letras Modernas also publishes annotated literary translations—to English, French, and Spanish—as well as articles on literature and language teaching. While spreading new critical and analytical approaches to the fields listed above, the journal publishes texts addressing a wide range of topics—from the classical tradition of these modern literary expressions to work on postcolonialism, for example. Thus, Anuario de Letras Modernas covers an broad geographical and temporal scope.

Journal Sections

Research Articles
This section contains articles on language, literature, criticism, literary theory, traductology, linguistics, and didactics. Here, authors discuss issues in the fields of English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Studies, as well as various academic perspectives and approaches to the literary phenomenon in general.

Literary Translations

This section contains annotated literary translations that showcase different aspects and approaches to traductology while bettering the understanding of the works they address. In all cases, translators must have a written permit to publish copyrighted material.

Reviews

This section includes critical reviews on recent literary texts or theoretical studies that contribute to the research and dissemination of the field of modern literature.

Languages

Anuario de Letras Modernas accepts texts written in Spanish, English, and French.

Publication Frequency

Anuario de Letras Modernas is a biannual publication that receives texts all year long through this website. It is published in the months of May and November.

Editorial and Review Process

Anuario de Letras Modernas uses Open Journal Systems 3 (OJS3), an open-source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals developed and financed by the Public Knowledge Project and subjected to a GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). All contributions to the journal are received and managed through this platform. Throughout the editorial process, every submission is analyzed with specialized software that detects plagiarism.

The journal uses a double-blind peer review system. Each submission is reviewed by two external specialists who must fill out an evaluation form in the OJS platform. Before evaluation, reviewers must clearly state that there is no conflict of interest concerning the submission. By "conflict of interest," we mean any professional, financial, or personal relationship that may affect the outcome of the review process.

On average, each issue takes six months to be completed, from the date the submissions period ends to the date of publication. Anuario de Letras Modernas is a biannual publication issued every May and November. For an article to be published in May, authors must submit all necessary documentation by 15 November of the previous year. In order to publish in November, submissions must be received by 15 May.

Copyright

Anuario de Letras Modernas acknowledges and respects the authors’ ownership rights. To authorize the review, publication, reproduction, and distribution of any of the accepted submissions, for academic purposes and in non-commercial settings, authors must transfer the ownership rights of their submission to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). For this reason, once their submission is accepted, authors must sign a letter transferring their ownership rights to the University. Authors may perform other non-exclusive contractual agreements for the distribution of their work and make it available elsewhere (like other journals, databases, or personal webpages), as long as they explicitly credit the original publication and, whenever possible, include a link to the publication contained in Anuario de Letras Modernas.

Access and Distribution Policies

Anuario de Letras Modernas is an Open Access publication. All of the publications of the journal are distributed under a Creative Commons Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) that allows anyone to copy, distribute, and communicate any of the texts published here provided that this is done free of charge, in educational and other non-commercial settings, for non-commercial purposes, and that the source is adequately credited. Every commercial and derivative reproduction of a text published in Anuario de Letras Modernas requires a permit. These permits should be requested via email to anuario.modernas@filos.unam.mx. Authors should provide a complete reference to the material they intend to use (volume, issue, year, author, title, DOI, page numbers), along with the reproduction purposes. If the request is accepted, correspondent credits will have to be published in the replicated text.

Preservation Policy

Under the teaching, research, and cultural promotion principles established in the Organic Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the School of Philosophy and Literature’s research journals carry out various processes to guarantee free and permanent access to all digital documents across time and technological changes. For this reason, all the digital documents published in Anuario de Letras Modernas are deposited in the institutional repository Athenea Digital FFyL, which is linked to the National Repository of Mexico through the CONACyT Institutional Repositories Project with number 296202.

Open and Free Access

Anuario de Letras Modernas is an academic journal sponsored by the School of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and financed through public funds. Submitting, reviewing, and publishing articles is free of charge for authors. No fees are charged to access any of the materials of the journal.

Ethics Code 

Responsibilities of the editorial committee

1. To pre-select the works that will be submitted to review according to the Editorial Norms and the journal’s scope. 
2. To assign at least two reviewers for each article or review.
3. In case a review is positive and the other negative, the committee must resolve the controversy. 
4. The decision of whether to publish an article should always be supported by academic evidence and in terms of the text’s relevance, originality, and the rigor of the research. 
5. To evaluate all manuscripts regardless of the author's gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, or political inclinations.

Responsibilities of the editorial director

1. To receive all submissions and reply to the authors; to submit the texts to the editorial committee and the reviewers.
2. To guarantee the anonymity and impartiality of the review process.
3. To submit corrections, clarifications, withdrawals, and apologies when necessary and in the editorial committee’s name.
4. To receive no profit from any of the submissions and make sure the author’s information remains confidential during the editorial process.  
5. To make all processes transparent in case of any nonconformity. 
6. To answer any questions that authors and reviewers may have regarding the editorial process. 

Responsibilities of the authors

1. At the moment of submitting a text, the author accepts the double-blind peer-review process and the publication timeline.
2. To guarantee that the text has not been previously published elsewhere and that it has not been simultaneously submitted to any other journal or publication.
3. To submit the text following the journal's Editorial Norms.
4. To accept and incorporate any pertinent corrections made by the editorial director, the committee, or the reviewers regarding the text’s content or format. 
5. To guarantee the full authorship of the submitted material and ensure that there is no plagiarism. All submissions are analyzed with specialized software that detects plagiarism throughout the editorial process. Plagiarism will be sanctioned with the immediate rejection of the submission, and the author will be banned from submitting anything to the journal again. 
6. To inform the journal if any institutions sponsored the article’s research and if there is any shared authorship. 
7. To notify immediately of any errors or mistakes that may result from the editorial process once the article has been published.

Responsibilities of the reviewers

1. To inform the editorial director if they accept the request to review a submission within five days of being notified.
2. To make a rigorous decision based on the form provided and in accordance with the editorial timeline.
3. To uphold the confidentiality of the information contained in the articles and respect authorship. Reviewers cannot profit from any of the contents. All manuscripts must be considered confidential.
4. To review objectively and equally, and commit themselves to clearly explain the reasons behind their editorial decision if necessary.
5. To notify the editorial director of any conflict of interest related to the submission or its contents.