Editorial policy

 

 

FOCUS AND SCOPE

L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos is a vehicle of expression in both the theoretical and professional fields of the medium and covers, in addition to the praxis of cinema, the most diverse topics within the audiovisual context. The target audience are those whose work, research or interests are related to the object of the journal.

Papers will be unpublished essays on topics related to film theory and/or praxis that stand out for their innovative nature. Articles should focus on approaches to the cinematographic fact made preferably from the perspectives of historiography or audiovisual analysis. Those texts that approach novel objects of study with rigorous and well-evidenced methodologies will be appreciated. Articles that take as their main reference the processes of signification through the analysis of the audiovisual form and/or the narratological elements specific to our field, focusing on methodologies specifically related to the treatment of the image will be favoured in the selection process. Although we accept works with other methodologies that approach the filmic fact from transversal perspectives (Cultural Studies, philological approaches, etc.) we consider that the main interest of the journal is located on the studies that take the specifically cinematographic expressive tools as the main elements of discourse. Likewise, texts that are not limited to describing, enumerating or summarizing details of the plot, but that rigorously apply a specific and well-evidenced analysis methodology, reaching particular and novel results, will be given priority.

 

CONTENTS

L'Atalante has four fixed sections:

Notebook: monographic dossier on a cinematographic theme of special interest in the field of cinema and image studies. It includes papers received through a public CFP.

(Dis)agreements: debate on a topic that deserves discussion or updating by interdisciplinary specialists related to the subject. This section is related to the Notebook and is developed on commission.

Dialogue: in-depth interview with a relevant figure in the film world (directors, screenwriters, actors and actresses, etc.) or academic world. This section is related to the Notebook and is developed on commission.

Vanishing Points: research papers on miscellaneus themes that share the common denominator of film analysis around key films, filmmakers, currents or cinematographic movements. It includes papers received through a public CFP.

 

FREQUENCY

L'Atalante is a biannual publication and is published in January and July.

 

OPEN ACCESS AND CONTENT REUSE POLICY

L'Atalante provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that providing the public with free access to research aids the greater global exchange of knowledge. The complete PDF contents are available electronically in open access with no embargo period. See in DOAJ.

The texts published in this journal are, unless otherwise indicated, protected by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License. You may copy, distribute and publicly communicate them, and adapt them, provided that you cite their author and the name of this publication, L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos. Do not use them for commercial purposes.

Authors are allowed to deposit the published version of the article in institutional or thematic open access repositories. View in Dulcinea

 

COPYRIGHT

Authors retain the copyright. The intellectual property rights of the texts and images belong to their respective authors. Authors may republish texts submitted to the journal one year after their appearance in L'Atalante. In this case, they must inform the journal of this circumstance and state the source of the text in the credits.

L'Atalante is not responsible for the opinions expressed in its articles or interviews.

 

PUBLICATION FEES

Authors do not have to pay any article-processing charges (APC).

However, authors of articles accepted for publication must pay the costs of translating their article into English or Spanish (more information).

L'Atalante does not offer remuneration for published contributions.

 

ORIGINALITY AND GOOD PRACTICES (PLAGIARITY, FRAUD, RETRACTION, IA)

Authors must certify that the article submitted for publication in the journal is original and unpublished. If this is not the case, the Editorial Board will be informed of this circumstance at the time of submission. With justified exceptions and by decision of the Editorial Board, articles received will not be accepted under any circumstances if they include content previously published in other media. This means that texts that repeat, without providing new elements, ideas already developed in books, web pages, media articles or any other written or oral format, whether or not linked to the academic sphere, will not be accepted. In the case of doctoral theses, this circumstance must be indicated in a footnote. L'Atalante considers originality to be a key requirement of academic activity. If such practices are detected at any time during the evaluation or publication process, the Editorial Board reserves the right to withdraw the text in question.

Authors must also ensure that the data and results presented in the paper are original and have not been copied, invented, distorted or manipulated. Plagiarism in all its forms, self-plagiarism, multiple or redundant publication, as well as the invention or manipulation of data constitute serious ethical misconduct and are considered scientific fraud.

When an author discovers a serious error in his/her work, he/she is obliged to inform the journal's editors as soon as possible in order to modify his/her work, withdraw it, retract it or publish a correction or erratum. If the possible error is detected by any of the members of the Editorial Board, authors are obliged to prove that their work is correct.

In order to ensure academic integrity and research transparency, authors undertake not to use artificial intelligence tools for the authorship of the article or for the autonomous generation of scientific content. If AI has been used to generate or facilitate a research task, this must be indicated. Failure to indicate the use of AI in the article is considered academic misconduct and may lead to the rejection of an article or its withdrawal if it has already been published.

 

CODE OF ETHICS

L'Atalante takes as a reference the principles published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors concerning the duties and responsibilities of editors, the relationship with readers, authors, reviewers, committee members, journal owners and editors, editorial and peer review processes, quality, protection of personal data, support for ethical research, misconduct, integrity of academic standards, intellectual property, support for debates, complaints handling, commercial considerations and conflicts of interest.

 

EDITORIAL PRACTICES ON GENDER EQUALITY

L'Atalante is committed to gender equality and follows editorial practices to make women visible:

Inclusive language
The use of inclusive language is recommended in scientific articles that contributes to making the situation of women in society more visible. In this sense, it is advisable to replace the use of the generic masculine when referring to men and women, for example, talking about ‘people’ instead of ‘men’, etc.

Gender perspective in research
It is recommended to incorporate a gender perspective in research work. On the one hand, gender stereotypes and biases that adopt the masculine as a universal referent or naturalise socially constructed differences should be avoided. On the other hand, the sex variable should be considered in any type of research, in order to allow for the identification of possible differences.

Visibility of women
In order to contribute to making visible the scientific production and contributions of women, the journal includes the full name of the authors of the works it publishes.

Gender parity
L'Atalante emphasises gender parity in the composition of the different boards of the editorial team and of the people who evaluate the texts.

 

ACCESSIBILITY, DIFFUSION AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION

L'Atalante uses the OJS platform to manage the editorial flow and public browsing. The structure and aesthetics of the journal is a variation on the OJS Classic theme. The platform contains summaries, tables of contents and a structure that allows direct access and download to the articles and a search engine that facilitates access to the contents by title, authors, keywords, and year of publication. The website is adaptable to mobile devices. The website is accessible and complies with level AA of the WCAG 2.1.
L'Atalante publishes articles in PDF format, with complementary materials (images, figures, tables, etc.) integrated into the layout of the articles.

The articles mention how to cite and the website offers options for different standards (APA, Harvard, ISO, Vancouver or other). The website allows the bibliography of the articles to be exported to reference managers.

Once the issues are published, the articles are disseminated through social networks such as X from the journal's account @RevistaAtalante and BlueSky @revistaatalante.bsky.social, as well as other professional networks such as LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/revistaatalante/)

L'Atalante keeps copies of all published issues on local disks and the server where the journal is hosted automatically backs up the editorial process in OJS.

 

PRIVACY STATEMENT

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The data will form part of an automated file. If you wish to exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation or opposition, you must write to EL CAMAROTE DE PÈRE JULES, with address C/Músico Hipólito Martínez, n. 15, pta. 6, València, 46020 or to the e-mail info@revistaatalante.com