Submissions

RLEE welcomes original empirical research articles of up to 8,500 words that have not been previously published in any language and that address writing topics that align with our aims and scope. We also welcome 2,000-word reviews of books published no more than three years ago. Submissions should be made on the WAC Clearinghouse submissions portal.

Instructions for Authors

  • All articles must be submitted through the journal’s platform. Articles sent by e-mail will not be accepted.
  • Manuscripts must fit the journal’s aims and scope.
  • Manuscripts should be a maximum of 8,500 words, including title, abstracts, and bibliographical references.
  • Each article should contain an abstract of up to 150 words in three languages: English, Spanish and Portuguese and three keywords.
  • The manuscript should not contain the name or affiliation of the authors; also, all authorship references should be removed from the text, including self-citations, which should be marked with the word "author".
  • Full author and affiliation information must be submitted in a separate file. No changes in authorship are allowed after acceptance of the article.
  • Articles must be original and unpublished. Translations of previously published articles are not accepted. If you intend to reuse any of your writing or images from previously published research, please refer to the guidelines in the TRRP Policy for Text Recycling: https://textrecycling.org/resources/trrp-policy-for-text-recycling/
  • By submitting your article to RLEE, you agree not to submit it to another journal until the refereeing process is completed and a final decision about its status has been made. 
  • Articles should be submitted in Calibri font size 11, single-spaced. Titles up to fourth level are allowed. Do not use word processor styles, numbers or bullets for titles. Example:

First level title (Boldface, no indentation)
Second level title (normal, no indentation)
Third level title (italics, no indentation)
Fourth level title (normal, indented).

  • RLEE operates under a Creative Commons license.
  • Format references according to the Publication Manual of the American Psycholocial Association, 7th edition. Always provide DOI when using online versions. Some examples are provided below.

Book

Street, B. V. (1995). Social literacies: Critical approaches to literacy in Development, ethnography and education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315844282

Chapter in a Book

Navarro, F., & Colombi, M. C. (2022). Alfabetización académica y estudios del discurso. In C. López Ferrero, I. Carranza, & T. van Dijk (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Discourse Studies (pp. 495-509). Routledge.

Journal Article

Errázuriz, M. C., Fuentes, L. Davison, O., Cocio, A., Becerra, R., & Aguilar, P. (2020). Concepciones sobre la lectura del profesorado de escuelas públicas de la Araucanía: ¿Cómo son sus perfiles lectores?. Revista Signos, 53(103), 419-448. https://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-09342020000200419

Conference Session or Paper Presentation

Hasanah, D., & Wirza, Y. Students’ identity in multicultural education: Reflection on communication practice. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics, 546, 548-554.

Dissertations and Thesis

Michels, P. (2018). "The english(es) in me": Investigating meanings of English and identity construction in narratives of Brazilian students. [Unpublished master’s thesis, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina]. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/198314

Ethics Statement

To learn more about RLEE's commitment to ethical publishing, including truthfulness, authorships, plagiarism, and manuscript duplication, please view our ethics statement. The statement is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. 

About Submissions to RLEE and Other Journals at the WAC Clearinghouse

For more information about submitting to this and other journals, please see the Clearinghouse invitation to contribute scholarly work, its statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and its statement on publication ethics. Submissions and peer reviews should be informed by these statements. Our peer review process is also expected to be guided by the statement on anti-racist scholarly reviewing practices, which can be found at https://tinyurl.com/reviewheuristic.

Like other publications on the Clearinghouse, articles in our journal are released under Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow authors to retain copyright to their work. To learn more about these licenses, please view the Clearinghouse's Creative Commons Licenses page.

Support

RLEE receives support from The WAC Clearinghouse and from a generous donation from an anonymous donor. 

Contact the Editorial Team

To contact RLEE, please email us at rev.lat.escritura@gmail.com.


Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios de la Escritura is published by the WAC Clearinghouse and sponsored by the Latin American Association of Writing Studies in Higher Education and Professional Contexts (ALES). Copyright © is held by the authors and editors of the publications in the journal. Works in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 United States License. ISSN 2998-7016.