Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. Responsibilities of authors

• Ensure that the data contained in the text were collected and analyzed according to the ethical guidelines indicated in the Editorial and Linguistic Policy of the journal.
• Acknowledge as co-authors all the people who have participated substantially in the content of the manuscript or production.
• Explain the sources of financial support for the research. (Add this information in a section at the end of the paper entitled Acknowledgements).
• Respect the criteria reported on the evaluation phases and observe the delivery times for corrections and comparisons (10 days after receiving the evaluations). If more time is needed, this will be arranged with the journal.
• Have in your possession the authorizations to reproduce and print the material that is not your property or authorship (maps, diagrams, photographs, etc.).
• Authorize the journal to edit, publish and distribute your paper in print and electronic media.
• Submit contributions following the journal's guidelines, with all necessary files (Word texts, JPG, JPN or TIFF images) through the platform https://ojs.unsj.edu.ar/index.php/Mdis. In case of having problems with the platform, the authors must manage the complete submission through the journal's email memodisidente@gmail.com.
• The authors must commit to the journal's code of ethics, respect the publication guidelines and the recommended good practice policies.

2. Guidelines for submission of contributions to the academic section

• This section accepts long research papers, state of the art papers, and academic essays.
• They must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously under review in another journal.
• Papers must have a suggested (maximum) length of 10,000 words. This length is not mandatory, but is an approximate reference.
• Manuscripts must be submitted with abstracts and main title in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. These must not exceed 250 words.
• Manuscripts must be submitted with 4 keywords in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
• Texts must be presented with the following information in the proposed order (full version):

- Title in Spanish and English (in capital letters, bold, not underlined, aligned to the right).

- Name of author(s) (right margin).

- Affiliation institution with acronym (right margin) and country of origin or residence of the authors.

- Margins must be 2.5 cm. Line spacing must be single. Alignment must be justified.

• Papers in this section may contain a suggested maximum of 5 images illustrating the work. Photographs will be received in digital format at 300 DPI in resolutions of no less than 3,000px. Images that, in the opinion of the editors, express gratuitous violence, gender-based violence, degrading acts or interference in the honor and dignity of people or other aspects that could hurt the sensitivity of people/groups will not be included. In this case, the sender will be notified.
• Authors must submit four (4) separate files, namely:

-The anonymized paper (without names, without institutional affiliation, without own bibliographical references and with the anonymized file). Identify this file with the name “titleoftheanonymized_paper”.

-The complete paper with references or identity marks. Identify this file with the name “titleofthecomplete_paper”.

-Description of personal data or mini biography of each author or authors. This data must include: full name and surname, institutional affiliation, email and brief professional career (mini biography of no more than 350 words), accompanied by a front-facing photograph of the author(s). The photo file must be sent in JPG format separate from the text in Word.

-If the paper contains images or graphics, they must be included in the text and also sent separately (tables and graphs must be in Excel or original format and images in JPG, JPN or TIFF with a resolution of 300 DPI).

3. Guidelines for submitting contributions to the review section

• This section welcomes reviews of books or theses related to topics of interest to our journal and which have been published in the last two years at the time of publication of the review.
• Reviews must be unpublished texts and cannot be simultaneously under review in another journal.
• They must have a suggested length of between (minimum) 1,500 and (maximum) 5,000 words, in which the content of the book and its sections are presented, providing a critical and reflective perspective on the contributions that the reviewed publication offers to the field of heritage studies, archives and memories. A brief mention of the person(s) who wrote the book may be included, allowing to know its/their academic, intellectual and/or activist production.
• The title of the review must be the same as the title of the book reviewed, including the complete details of the work reviewed (authors, title, date, city, publisher and total pages), the title and subtitle (in capital letters, bold, not underlined, aligned to the right).
• Below the title and details of the book reviewed, the full name of the author of the review must be included; below that the complete institutional affiliation details with acronyms, and country of residence.
• Description of personal data of each author or authors. These data must include: full name and surname, institutional affiliation, email and brief professional career (mini biography of no more than 350 words), accompanied by a front-facing photograph of the author(s). The photo file must be sent in JPG format separate from the text in Word.
• For reviews, authors should consider sending at least three files, namely:

- Written text with the review in Word format file.

- Text written with the details of the author/s mini biography.

- Author/s full title in JPG, JPN or TIF format.

4. Guidelines for submission of contributions in the “constituent languages” section

The "Instituting Languages" section serves as the journal’s hallmark. It aims to expand upon and transcend purely academic criteria by providing a space for contributions in diverse formats—such as poems, songs, essays, photographs, and other artistic, academic, or activist projects—that seek to engage with issues relevant to the journal’s editorial focus, drawing upon original languages, perspectives, and contexts. These submissions are not expected to follow a conventional academic style; rather, they should align with the core objective of fostering "instituting languages"—modes of expression that communicate and disseminate reflections and content from fresh, original vantage points and meanings.

• ​​Proposals must be unpublished and in line with the themes of the journal.
• Personal and/or collective works are accepted.
• Works in different registers (sound, audiovisual, graphic, textual) and in digital format are accepted to be published on the journal's website.
• In the case of textual proposals (poems, narratives, stories, etc.), these may be accompanied by figures that seek to articulate with the work.
• Submitting a work or artistic project implies knowing and accepting the editorial criteria and publication policies of the journal.
• For works that use music and images that are not your own, it is recommended to submit copyright authorization through the forms provided by the journal.
• Synopsis or Summary of the work: It is advisable to accompany the work (image, video or sound productions) with a brief text (between 350 and 500 words) that describes the context of the production of the work, methodology, procedural and/or conceptual development. The text must follow the editorial standards of the journal for academic papers (title of the work and name of the authors, collectives or organizations to which it belongs, emails).
• Description of personal data of each author or authors or of the Collective or Group. This data must include: full name and surname, institutional affiliation, email and brief professional career (mini biography of no more than 350 words), accompanied by a front-facing photograph of the author(s). The photo file must be sent in JPG format separate from the text in Word.

For the submission of proposals the following requirements apply:

- Title in Spanish (in capital letters, bold, not underlined, aligned to the right). Name of author(s) (right margin). Institution or organization to which the author belongs, with acronyms (right margin) and country of origin or residence of the authors. Add an image with the organization's logo if it has one.

- For contributions that are specifically based on the publication of a creative or activist experience through a text, a maximum length of 4,500 words is suggested and accompanied by images that go with the text. The text must be sent in Word format and the images separately in JPG, JPN or TIFF format, indicating the place of their insertion in the body of the text. The texts must follow the APA 7th edition standards for citations and bibliographical references if they have them. Preferably, the length for poems/poetry is up to 600 words; narratives and stories up to 1,200 words; micro-stories up to 500 words.

- Images. Photographs will be received in digital format at 300 DPI in resolutions of no less than 3,000px. Maximum of 5 images. They may be in black and white. Size: the size of the figure box must not exceed 15 x 19 cm. Images that, in the opinion of the editors, express gratuitous violence, gender-based violence, degrading acts or interference in the honor and dignity of people or other aspects that could hurt the sensitivity of people/groups will not be included. In such cases, the sender will be notified.

- Files in Codec: H264/Frame frequency: 25 fps./Aspect ratio: 16:9. Resolution: HD (1280 x 720) or Full HD (1980 x 1080) / Audio codec: AAC (faac) stereo. 48 kHz at 24 bits 2 channels. Duration between 3 and 30 minutes. One video is received per contribution (large files must be sent to the official email of the journal through a shared link such as Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive).

- Sound productions (songs, stories, stories with music) are received in files with WAV format, 16bit, 44.1Khz, 2 channels. Duration: between 3 and 8 minutes. One file is recommended per contribution in total.

- Any other format must be consulted with the journal through its email memodisidente@gmail.com

- Authors should consider sending at least four files:

• Synopsis or summary of the work in Word format;
• Written text with the data of the author/s’ mini biography;
• Audiovisual files (text, photos, figures, audios, videos, etc.) central to the work;
• Photo or logo of author/xs, group or collective in JPG, JPN or TIF format.

5. Textual

• Editable files in OpenOffice (.odt), Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or RTF format. PDF texts will not be accepted.
• Textual records may be accompanied by figures (photos, drawings, paintings) that contribute to deepening the articulation with the text.
• The criteria for presenting images must follow those previously stated.
• Contributions must be sent in Times New Roman font, size 12, single-spaced, justified.
• All submissions will be considered by the Editorial Committee, taking into account the profile and publication policies.
• The authors of the proposals accepted for publication will have to sign and present a declaration of responsibility for permission to reproduce images and publication rights in the journal. https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1lquwav2OLGKJ5x0H7_hlUaIK7PJpZ2rx/edit
• Any other aspect not covered may be resolved by the Editorial Committee. Likewise, it is recommended to consult the Editorial and Linguistic Policy of the journal.

6. Quotations

• The journal follows the APA (American Psychological Association) standards updated in the 7th edition, although it also adopts its own specific criteria.
• ​​Bibliographic and source quotations within the text are placed in quotation marks without italics, specifying the source (author, year and page). If the quoted section has 40 words or less, it is transcribed within the paragraph. When the quoted section has more than 40 words, it is placed in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, separated from the text by a blank line, with a special margin of 1.5 cm indented on the right. At the end of the quote, a period is placed and then the author, year and page data are mentioned in parentheses, without a period after the reference.
• Within a quote, three ellipses are used without putting them in parentheses to indicate that part of the original sentence has been omitted. If entire sentences are omitted from the original source the deletion is indicated with four ellipses without using parentheses. Ellipses are not used at the beginning or end of a quote, even if material has been omitted. Use brackets (not parentheses) to include additions or explanations from the author of the paper. If there are words written incorrectly, in bold, in capital letters, etc., the word [sic] must be entered next to it in brackets or a footnote must be made to indicate that it appears that way in the original.
• When quoting texts by more than two authors et al. should be used (e.g. Vergara et al.) and if quoting several works they should be ordered alphabetically, separated by a semicolon (e.g. Alvarez, 2020; Céspedes, 2019; Fulner, 2013; Orozco, 2024).

7. Bibliographic references

• The journal follows the APA (American Psychological Association) standards updated in the 7th edition. Memorias Disidentes has made some adaptations, such as: the first name of each author is included to adapt these standards to the inclusive language policies of the journal.
• Bibliographic references with complete data of the texts and other cited sources are placed at the end of the text of the paper, and not at the bottom of the page.
• The list must contain only the works cited in the body of the paper.
• The order to follow is in alphabetical order by last name of the author and chronological order of the cited work.
• If more than one work by the same author is included, the chronological order of edition is respected —from the oldest text to the most recent—.
• The last name and full name are mentioned in lowercase. If there is more than one person responsible for the authorship, all the first and last names are listed.
• Titles of chapters, journals, and papers are italicized as appropriate according to APA Standards 7th edition, and should not be in quotation marks.
• If the papers, book chapters, audios, videos, images, and even software cited in the paper have a link with a persistent identifier assigned, that is, a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) ​​or ARK (Archival Resource Key) number, this must be included at the end of the bibliographic reference data. E.g. Molinares-Hassan, Viridiana and Orozco-Arcieri, Carlos Andrés (2020). Memoria colectiva, derecho al olvido y comisiones: análisis de experiencias comparadas. Jurídicas, 17 (2), 72–89.

https://doi.org/10.17151/jurid.2020.17.2.4

• All journal papers or books that are available in free format should preferably have the link at the end of the reference. E.g. Crespo, Carolina (2020). Hacer

desde los fragmentos. Desplazamientos conceptuales y de sentido sobre las colecciones de expresiones, espacios y ancestros indígenas. In Ana Margarita Ramos and Mariela Eva Rodríguez (Eds.), Memorias fragmentadas en contexto de lucha. Teseo. https://www.teseopress.com/memoriasfragmentadas/chapter/hacerse-desde-los-fragmentos-desplazamientos-conceptuales-y/

• Websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, Facebook pages, manuscripts, law quotes, etc. follow the citation and reference style recommended in APA 7th edition standards, this means that they should not go as a footnote, but are introduced as entries in the bibliographical references and are cited in the body of the text. E.g. Solari Paz, Ana Cecilia (March 17, 2021). Amorales en dictadura. Potencia Tortillera. http://potenciatortillera.blogspot.com/2021/03/ana-cecilia-solari-paz-amorales-en.html