Articles may be written in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. Articles should be 3,000 to 5,000 words in length, including all notes and works cited, and should consist of original material not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. All articles should be accompanied by an abstract of 250 or fewer words, written in the same language as the article.
Romance Notes strictly adheres to the current MLA Style Manual (9th edition*), with a bibliographic list including all “Works Cited” at the end of the essay. For more information on the MLA style, please refer to the MLA Style Center website (https://style.mla.org/). Another helpful online resource is the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Book Reviews:
The journal does not publish book reviews.
About
Founded in 1959 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Romance Notes is published three times per year. The journal welcomes the submission of innovative, interdisciplinary articles on Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian literature and culture. We highly encourage submissions that present original approaches to the study of gender and feminism, historical memory, literary history and theory, popular culture, film, colonialism and postcoloniality, postnationalism and globalization.
Submission Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The text strictly adheres to the MLA style (8th edition) and bibliographic requirements. For more information on MLA, please refer to the MLA Style Center website (https://style.mla.org/).
- The submission must be 3,000 to 5,000 words in length, including all notes and works cited. Any articles submitted above or below the word limit will result in a request to adjust the word count.
- The article must be BLIND, meaning it cannot include any identifying information, such as your name or academic affiliation.
The submission is in a Microsoft Word file format. - Before submitting your article, please make sure that it complies with the following text preparation guidelines: https://romlpub.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/637/2019/07/RN-Text-Prep.pdf
- You must include keywords with the metadata for your submission.
- You must include an abstract of 250 words or less with your submission, written in the same language as the article.
Copyright Notice
If your submission to this journal is accepted for publication, you, as Author, agree to assign to us with full title guarantee all rights of copyright and related rights in your article. So that there is no doubt, this assignment includes the assignment of the rights (i)to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the Article worldwide in all forms, formats and media now known or as developed in the future, including print, electronic and digital forms, (ii) to translate the Article into other languages, create adaptations, summaries or extracts of the Article or other derivative works based on the Article and all provisions elaborated in 2(i) above shall apply in these respects, and (iii) to sub-license all such rights to others. For the avoidance of doubt electronic and digital forms shall include, but not be limited to databases, CD·ROM and in forms accessible via electronic and digital networks and wireless transmission and communication systems. You understand that we shall prepare and publish your Article in the journal. You understand that we reserve the right to make such editorial changes as may be necessary to make the Article suitable for publication, or as we reasonably consider necessary to avoid infringing third party rights or law and that we reserve the right not to proceed with publication for whatever reason.
The rights that you personally retain as Author include
1. the right to be identified as the Author of an article whenever and wherever the Article is published;
2. patent rights or rights to any process, product or procedure described in an article;
3. the right to share (but not on a commercial or systematic basis) with colleagues print or electronic 'preprints' (i.e., versions of the article created prior to peer review) of an unpublished Article, perhaps in the form and content as submitted for publication;
4. the right to post such a 'preprint' on your own website, or on your institution's intranet, or within the Institutional Repository of your institution or company of employment, but only with the following acknowledgement or such other acknowledgement as we may notify to you:
This is a preprint of an article submitted for consideration in Romance Notes © [year of publication]
[copyright Romance Notes]; Romance Notes is available online at: http://muse.jhu.edu/ with the open URL of your article;
5. the right to retain a preprint version of the Article as specified above following publication in our journal, on the following condition, and with the following acknowledgement or such other acknowledgement as Romance Notes may notify to you:
This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Romance Notes
© [year of publication] [copyright Romance Notes]; Romance Notes is available online at: http:// muse.jhu.edu/ with the open URL of your article;
6. the right to post your revised text version of the 'post print' of the Article (i.e., the Article in the form accepted for publication in our journal following the process of peer review), after an embargo period of 18 months as an electronic file on an Author's own website for personal or professional use, or on an Author's internal university, college, or corporate network or intranet, or within an Institutional or Subject Repository, but not for commercial sale or for any systematic external distribution by a third party (for example a listserv or database --e.g. academia.edu-- connected to a public access server) provided that you include any amendments or deletions or warnings relating to the Article issued or published by Romance Notes and only with the following acknowledgement or such other acknowledgement as Romance Notes may notify to you:
'This is an electronic version of an article published in Romance Notes [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the print edition of the journal]. Romance Notes is available online at: http://muse.jhu.edu/ with the open URL of your article.
For the avoidance of doubt, 'your version' is the author version and not the publisher-created PDF, HTML or XML version posted as the definitive, final version of scientific record.
7. the right to share with colleagues (but not on a commercial or systematic basis) copies of an article in its published form as supplied by Romance Notes as an electronic or printed offprint or reprint;
8. the right to make printed copies of all or part of an article for use by you for lecture or classroom purposes provided that such copies are not offered for sale or distributed in any systematic way, and provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in Romance Notes is made explicit;
9. the right to facilitate the distribution of the Article if the Article has been produced within the scope of an Author's employment, so that the Author's employer may use all or part of the Article internally within the institution or company provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in Romance Notes is made explicit;
10. the right to include an article in a thesis or dissertation that is not to be published commercially, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in the journal is made explicit;
11. the right to present an article at a meeting or conference and to distribute printed copies of the Article to the delegates attending the meeting provided that this is not for commercial purposes and provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in Romance Notes is made explicit;
12. the right to expand an article into book-length form for publication, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in Romance Notes is made explicit.
13. the right to use the Article in its published form in whole or in part without revision or modification in personal compilations [in print or electronic form] or other publications of an Author's own articles, provided that acknowledgement to prior publication in Romance Notes is made explicit.
Peer Review
Submissions to Romance Notes undergo a double-blind independent peer review process. Therefore, authors should not include their name or academic affiliation in the article text or abstract.
Licences
The following licences are allowed:
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None - imported
None - Permission
Before requesting permission, we encourage you to assess for fair use. Stanford University Library has good information here. We do not control copyright for most of the maps and images in our books and journals. In most cases our authors cleared permission from another source to use the map or image in their book. Please look at the information in the book or journal to see who controls copyright for images as a first step.
Inquiries should be sent to us by email (preferred) or mail. Please include the following information in your request.
Information about our publication:
- author/editor
- title of book
- name of journal; volume, issue, and number; title of article
- page numbers
- figure number and page number (attach a copy of the image if you can)
Information about your project:
- publisher or organization
- title
- author/editor
- formats (paperback, electronic, database, etc.)
- distribution territory (US only, world, etc.)
- print run
- publication date
- price
Send your request to:
Mail: UNC Press, Permissions Dept., 116 S. Boundary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Email: subrights@uncpress.org with “Title Permission Request” in subject line. Example: Capitalism and Slavery Permission Request
Publication Fees
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Sections
| Section or article type | Public Submissions | Peer Reviewed | Indexed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Articles | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Article | Yes | Yes | Yes |