Instructions for authors

[Versió catalana], [Versión castellana]

1 Subject areas covered and guidelines for submission

The journal BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació accepts for publication original research and applied articles on any aspect of library and documentation sciences, and archive studies.

The working language of BiD: textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentació is Catalan. Contributions in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese are also accepted. They will be published in the original language with a translation into Catalan whenever possible.

Originals should be submitted to the Editorial Committee via the electronic form which appears in the publication: <http://bidoc.ub.es/rebd/bid_enviar_article.php>.

The Editorial Committee will write to authors confirming the reception of the originals. All articles will be reviewed anonymously by two peers. Within four months of receiving the article, authors will be sent any comments and suggestions for improvement, and will be informed of the Committee's decision concerning publication.

2 Presentation of texts

2.1 Format

BiD receives all submissions electronically, preferably in RTF or Word format.

2.2 Figures

Papers may include tables (with text and/or numbers) and figures (images, graphics, screen captures, etc.). This material should be numbered (figure 1, table 1, etc.) and submitted in separate files. The place in the text where figures are to appear should be indicated clearly by a short descriptive text, which will be published beneath the figure.

Captions of tables, figures, photographs and other such material should be written centred, in 10 pt, with no punctuation mark at the end. References to table, figure, graphic, photograph or image numbers should provide complete information.

Examples:

Figure 1. Access portal to the CDPAC architecture catalogue
Table 1. Comparison of data submitted and answers received

2.3 Length

The maximum length of contributions is 20 pages, approximately 6,000 words, single spaced.

2.4 Page format and font

The text should be aligned to the left and written in Times New Roman font 12 pt.

2.5 Paragraphs

Paragraphs should not be indented. Different paragraphs should be separated by a blank line. Before the title of a new section and after the last paragraph of the previous section there should be two blank lines.

2.6 Title page

The title page of the paper should include the title, the name of the author or authors and their job title, address, affiliation (if any), and e-mail address.

The titles and subtitles of the papers should not have final punctuation.

Titles should be written as follows:

Title of the article: lower case, bold 16 pt.

Information on the author(s):

Name: following a blank line, written in small capitals, 12 pt.

Job title: on the following line, lower case, 12 pt.

Address: on the following line, lower case, 12 pt.

Affiliation (if any): on the following line, lower case, 12 pt.

E-mail address: on the following line, lower case, 12 pt.

Example of an article with one author:

ERNEST ABADAL
Lecturer at the Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació
Universitat de Barcelona
abadal@ub.edu

Example of an article with two or more authors (different addresses):

MIGUEL ÁNGEL MARZAL GARCÍA-QUISMONDO
Lecturer in Library Science and Documentation
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
mmarzal@bib.uc3m.es

MARIA JESÚS BUTERA FAJARDO
PhD student in Documentation
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
mjbutera@gmail.com

Example of an article with two or more authors (same address):

MÒNICA BARÓ, MAITE COMALAT, TERESA MAÑÀ
Lecturers at the Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentació
Universitat de Barcelona
baro@ub.edu, comalat@ub.edu, mana@ub.edu

Titles within the article: titles should be graded according to their importance. In general, the titles of sections should be written in lower case. In general, titles will not be indented and will be written in lower case:

First level: bold 14 pt   3 Portal design

Second level: bold 12 pt   3.1 Accessibility

Third level: italics 12 pt   3.1.1 eAccessibility

2.7 Abstract

The main body of the papers to be included in the sections "Articles", "Experiences" and "Resources" should be preceded by an abstract of 100-150 words.

Abstracts should be included after the information on the author(s) and before the article. The word "Abstract" will be written in bold 14 pt, and the text of the abstract in 10 pt.

Example:

Abstract

The article discusses the technological features of blogs and explores their possible applications in learning in higher education. Taking a series of ongoing projects and practical cases in higher education as our starting-point, we review the characteristics and advantages of blogs as individual and collective learning tools. The results suggest that blogs represent a useful, valid tool in the new EHEA framework and appear to be ideally designed for the teaching of information literacy skills inside a constructivist educational approach that promotes an active role on the part of the student and a facilitating role on the part of the teacher. In addition, with their simplicity, low cost, and their range of potential applications, blogs represent a very promising alternative for bridging the digital divide in the adoption of new learning technologies.

2.8 Bibliography

The 'Harvard' system (author-date) should be used for bibliographical references. References in the text should be quoted by an author's name, followed by a comma and the date of publication, all in brackets. To cite one or several pages of the text, the page numbers should be placed after the date following a comma and the abbreviation for page (p.).

Example:

(Larsgaard, 1996, p. 78–80)
(Osman, 1998; Praditteera, 2002)
(Fenoll; Llueca, 2006; Artigal, 2007)

Bibliographical references should be listed jointly at the end of the article, preceded by the word "Bibliography" in bold 14 pt, and in alphabetical order of the lead name or the first word in the reference and year of publication. References should follow ISO 690 and ISO 690-2, in the Catalan adaptation by Assumpció Estivill and Cristóbal Urbano.

A reference to a monograph:

Pattie, Ling-yuh W.; Cox, Bonnie Jean (eds.) (1966). Electronic resources: selection and bibliographic control. New York: Haworth Press.

A reference to a journal article:

Larsgaard, Mary Lynette (1996). "Dades espacials en format digital en cartoteques universitàries: 'un altre format i prou?'". Item: revista de biblioteconomia i documentació, núm. 18 (gener-juny 1996), p. 75–82.

A reference to a book chapter:

Hirons, Jean (2002). "AACR2 and seriality". En: Jones, Wayne; Ahronheim, Judith R.; Crawford, Josephine (eds.). Cataloguing the web: metadata, AARC, and MARC 21. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, p. 31–34.

A reference to an electronic resource:

The European Library (2005). <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html>. [Accessed: 23/02/2008].

Willet, Perry (1996). "The Victorian Women Writers Project: the library as a creator and publisher of electronic texts". The public-access computer systems review, vol. 7, no. 6. <http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v7/n6/will7n6.html>. [Accessed: 03/01/2008].

The date of consultation should appear in square brackets, preceded by the word "Accessed", and a colon and a space. The date should have the Day-Month-Year format in numbers and separated by slashes: 00/00/0000.

Example:

[Accessed: 01/03/2008]

The following texts present more reference examples, and guidelines for writing them:

Estivill, Assumpció; Urbano, Cristóbal (1994). "Proposta de directrius per establir l'estil de les referències i citacions de fonts bibliogràfiques i no bibliogràfiques de la revista Item". Item, núm. 15 (jul.-des. 1994), p. 15–59. <http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Item/article/viewFile/22448/22282>. [Accessed: 23/01/2008].

Estivill, Assumpció; Urbano, Cristóbal (1997). "Cómo citar recursos electrónicos". El profesional de la información, vol. 6, n.º 9 (sept. 1997), p. 16–26. <http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com/contenidos/1997/septiembre/como_citar_recursos_electrnicos.html>. [Accessed: 09/01/2008].

2.9 Notes

Notes shall be placed under the heading "Notes" in bold 14 pt. after the bibliography at the end of the text with the same font (Times New Roman) and a smaller size (10pt.).

Notes in the text should be numbered, with numbers inserted above the line (¹, ², ³). following the punctuation mark, if any, according to typographic tradition.

Example:

The 2000 edition solves the terminology problems.¹

Notes



¹ Earlier editions only indicate that the terminology problems are a possible source of the ambiguity in the nomenclature detected by specialists.

2.10 Appendices

If the article includes appendices, they will be placed after the notes introduced by the word "Appendix" in 14 pt. The text will be written in 10 pt.

2.11 Translation of proper names

The names of the organizations and bodies that appear in the text should be kept in the original language, with a translation if deemed appropriate.

Examples:

Generalitat Valenciana
Högskolan i Borås (col·legi universitari de Borås)
Ministerio de Cultura
New York Public Library

2.12 Other typographic issues

Other types of contributions will receive the following typographic treatment:

2.12.1 According to type

2.12.2 Apostrophes and quotation marks

Apostrophes and quotation marks should be straight, never curly:

Apostrophe: '
Quotation marks: " "

Main quotation marks should be double: " ". For quoted words or phrases within quotations, single quotation marks should be used, as follows:

First level: double quotes (" ")
Second level: single quotes (' ')

Example:

According to the programmer "we should not forget to access 'Change of keyword' in the menu to ensure its functioning".

2.12.3 The dash

The dash in lists and interpolations should be an em dash (—).

For a closed range of values (pages, years, etc.), the en dash or minus sign should be used (–).

2.13 Web addresses

The electronic addresses in the text should be explicit, that is, they should appear next to the name.

Example:

The TERMCAT <http://www.termcat.cat> provides solutions for the new terms.

Updated: 28/02/2008