Subject matter and scope

Rétor is a biannual digital publication owned by the Argentine Association of Rhetoric (AAR). The journal aims to disseminate scientific and academic production in relation to the field of Rhetoric and to generate a space for discussion on issues and problems inherent to the various branches of Rhetorical Studies and its relationship with other disciplines.

Rétor accepts contributions from Argentine and foreign specialists who approach Rhetoric from both Greco-Latin antiquity studies and interdisciplinary perspectives. It publishes only original and unpublished works that are submitted to anonymous and external arbitration. It also publishes reviews.

The journal is included in Dialnet, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, DOAJ, Rebiun, EBSCO, CIRC and is part of the LATINDEX directory.

The journal Rétor will accept original and unpublished papers dealing with the various branches of Rhetoric and its relations with other disciplines.

The papers submitted will be subject to arbitration and must not be simultaneously affected by another refereeing or publication process.

Authors should send them in Word or RTF format by e-mail to editor@revistaretor.org. The papers should be accompanied by another file containing the following information: name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation, position, last academic degree obtained, e-mail, postal address and telephone number.

Peer review process

The arbitration is external, double-blind, and guarantees the anonymity of both the evaluators and the author of the evaluated text. To ensure the anonymity of the author, the body of the articles should not contain any information that could identify the author, so that references to previous works should be made in the third person.

The refereeing process contemplates that -at least- two anonymous peers will evaluate each paper.

The journal will inform authors if their papers have been accepted, with or without modifications, or if they have been rejected. If necessary, authors should reformulate their papers following the recommendations given by the referees. The final evaluation of these reformulations will be the responsibility of the Editorial Board, which has the faculty to return the article to the author, so that he/she can make the requested modifications, if he/she does not respect the recommendations of the referees.

The journal's management does not necessarily share the scientific contents or the points of view expressed by the authors, who are responsible for both. 

Rétor is an open access electronic journal that follows the BOAI criteria.

Open Access Policy and Article Processing Charges (APC)

Rétor is committed to Open Access policies for scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and publicly funded research should circulate on the Internet in a free, unrestricted and unrestricted way. It adheres to the Open Access model of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration and therefore provides free, open and immediate access to its contents online, without establishing temporary embargoes.

Readers and users in general have immediate access to the materials published in the journal, being able to read them, download them, copy them, distribute them, print them, add links to their full texts, track them for indexing, incorporate them as data in software, or use them for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, apart from those that are inseparable from access to the Internet itself, and with the only requirement of acknowledging the corresponding credits to the authors and to the journal as the first publication.

This journal does not charge any fees for the reception and/or processing of articles (APC).

The content published in this journal is distributed under Creative Commons License 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC): it is allowed to share -i.e., copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format-, as well as to adapt -remix

Copyright

Authors retain the rights to the work and grant the journal the right of first publication under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors may make other independent and additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., inclusion in an institutional repository or publication in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their work on the Internet (e.g., on institutional or personal web pages).

Code of ethics and good practices

The journal is based on the guidelines of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) adapted according to the uses and requirements of our disciplinary field. In compliance with this code, the journal will ensure the scientific quality of the publications and the adequate response to the needs of readers and authors. The code is addressed to the editorial team, authors and reviewers. Papers that do not comply with these ethical standards will be discarded.

Plagiarism detection policies

The collaboration of the editors, authors and reviewers of this journal and the ethics guide of editorial processes is governed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Principles of Transparency and Good Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All articles submitted to this publication will be monitored by means of an online search and through plagiarism detection software.

Preservation

Rétor is collected periodically by the PKP-PN (Lockss) digital preservation network.

Research data

Rétor adheres to open research data policies (Law 26.899). Where applicable, the data supporting the research results that gave rise to the article should be archived in a public repository. Authors should report the availability of data by citing it at the end of the bibliographic references.

Self-archiving policy

This journal allows all versions of the article to be deposited in repositories, institutional websites, or other sites.

Acknowledgment of authorship (CRediT)

Those who submit a contribution for publication in this journal should bear in mind that the manuscript must have been read and approved by all signatories and that each of them must agree to its submission to the journal.

Acknowledgment of authorship should be based on: 1) significant contributions to the conception and design of the study or the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or critically revising substantial intellectual content; 3) final approval of the version to be published. In original articles, authorship and participation roles must be declared in accordance with the CRediT taxonomy:

1. Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of the general objectives and goals of the research.
2. Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), cleanse data, and maintain research data (including software code, when necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
3. Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
4. Funding acquisition – Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
5. Research – Conducting research and the research process, specifically performing experiments or collecting data/evidence.
6. Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
7. Project management – Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
8. Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools.
9. Software – Programming, software development; computer program design; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
10. Supervision – Responsibility for supervision and leadership in the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring outside the core team.
11. Validation – Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replicability/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
12. Visualization – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work, specifically the visualization/presentation of data.
13. Writing – original draft – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
14. Writing – review and editing – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- and post-publication stages.

Contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be included in the acknowledgments. All academic collaboration roles are described in the CRediT taxonomy (hdlab.space/taxonomia). All authors must be listed at the time of submission.

This information is added at the end of the article under a subtitle Contribution, here is an example:

Contribution of authorship roles

Juana María (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) and Susana Pérez (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed to the conception of the idea and design of the study; Nora González (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) participated in the research process and data collection; María Domínguez (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-xxxx-xxxx) contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data. All authors contributed to the writing of the article, approved the final version for publication, and are able to respond to all aspects of the manuscript.