This article reports on an analysis of author guidelines to examine the influence of academic publishers and journals over the video abstract as an emerging genre. The data consist of author guidelines from a Spanish journal index and were analyzed based on a two-layered multimodal analysis adapted from the Genre and Multimodality model. The layout layer concerns the organizational features of author guidelines, while the thematic layer focuses on the content themes. The analysis shows that the selected author guidelines do not share many commonalities as expected; rather, they display miscellaneous features, even in technological specifications where standardization should be the norm. The analysis indicates that academic publishers and other stakeholders should shoulder greater responsibilities such as quality assurance in transitioning to multimodal spaces.

本文报告了作者指南的分析，以检查学术出版商和期刊对作为新兴类型的视频摘要的影响。数据由来自西班牙期刊索引的作者指南组成，并根据改编自流派和多模态模型的两层多模态分析进行了分析。布局层关注作者指南的组织特征，而主题层则关注内容主题。分析表明，所选的作者指南并不像预期的那样具有许多共性。相反，它们显示了杂项功能，即使在以规范为标准的技术规范中也是如此。