As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission complies with all of the following items. Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines
FORM AND PREPARATION OF ARTICLES:
- Articles and studies will be between 7500 and 9000 words, and reviews, between 1500 and 3000 words, including, in all three cases, footnotes and bibliography.
2. Articles should be presented in Times New Roman 12 point font, 1.5 spaced, with 3 cm margins. The text should be in A4 size and paginated.
3. Footnotes should be in Times New Roman 10 point font, single spaced.
single spaced.
4. The first page should contain a summary (abstract) of the article, which should be 250 to 300 words long. It should consist of the following elements: objective/context, methodology, originality and conclusions. In English and Spanish.
5. After the abstract, a list of no more than 5 key words, also in English and Spanish. The title of the article in both languages, also in English and Spanish.
6. Authorship data, including name, address, telephone, e-mail, affiliation, etc. should be submitted in a separate file.
In general and for the body of the text, these should be the "technical" rules for the presentation of articles, studies and reviews:
- Subdivisions in the body of the text (chapters and subchapters) should be in Arabic numerals, except for the introduction and conclusion, which are not numbered.
- Latin terms and words in languages other than the language of the article should be italicized.
- The first time an abbreviation is used, it should be enclosed in parentheses after the complete formula. The following times only the abbreviation is used.
- Quotations from other authors in Spanish will be in the body of the text, but in quotation marks.
- Textual quotations longer than four lines should be placed in a separate paragraph, in 11-point font, between quotation marks and single-spaced.
- Type of quotation marks to be used: the so-called Latin quotation marks (" ") should be used.
- Paragraphs should not be indented and should be spaced.
Tables, graphs, illustrations, photographs and maps must be referenced and explained in the text. They must also be titled, sequentially numbered and accompanied by their respective captions and sources. They should be placed after the paragraph in which they are announced. In the initial version uploaded to the content manager, the images must be in low resolution. When the article is approved for publication,
these must be sent in jpg or tiff format, in high resolution (300 and 240 dpi). If they do not meet the requested quality, the journal will not commit to their publication. The author must submit a responsible statement on the use of images.
The bibliography should be placed at the end of the article, written in Times New Roman 12 point font, single spaced and numbered. They are organized into primary sources (archives, periodicals, printed primary documentation, interviews, etc.) and secondary sources. In the bibliography, the complete references of all works used in the footnotes of the article should be presented in alphabetical order.
CITATIONS SHOULD BE MADE ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING STANDARD:
Outline of the reference
Within the text
(Last name, year, p. X)
Footnote and bibliography
SURNAME, Author's name (year). Title of the book in italics. Place of publication: Publisher.
Footnote
1 Surname, First name author. Title of the book in italics. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.
2 Surname, First name author. Title of the book..., op. cit. p. X.
RECEPTION AND EVALUATION OF ARTICLES
- Articles should be submitted through the OJS platform whose link is available on the Journal's web page during the call for papers periods.
. Texts submitted to the Journal cannot be simultaneously under evaluation in another publication.
- At the close of the call for papers, an internal selection committee evaluates the relevance of the article and verifies strict compliance with the rules of authorship and editing rules.
- The Journal is informed of the status of the article within a maximum period of six months.
- The evaluation of the articles is in charge of two persons by the double-blind system, selected for their academic trajectory or knowledge of the subject. These evaluators will have a maximum period of one month to issue their evaluations, starting from the reception of the article to be evaluated. The evaluations should always be constructive in nature and will refer to methodological issues, style and/or content.
- In the case of a rigorously argued negative evaluation and another rigorously argued positive evaluation, if the author claims in a reasoned manner his/her disagreement with the evaluation that advises against the publication of the study, the Journal will propose a third person to evaluate the article.
- The results of the article evaluations are sent to the authors to notify rejection, approval without modifications, or approval conditioned to the modifications suggested by the evaluators.