Submissions

Author Guidelines

Articles and monographs should be sent as a file (MS Word or compatible) by e-mail to the contact address. If this is not possible, please contact the editorial board before submitting an article. The journal will acknowledge receipt to the authors of the articles and to the coordinators of the monographs.

In an attached document, sent independently, the authors of the article, or the coordinators of the Monograph if applicable, will include the following information: title in Spanish and English; name and surnames of authors or coordinators and their main curricular data, in a maximum of 10 lines, with an indication of their current academic affiliation, lines of research and main publications; postal address, telephone and e-mail; and date of submission.

The first page of the text of all articles, both Monographic and Miscellaneous, will include the title and an abstract in Spanish and English, with a maximum length of 150 words, and 5 keywords, also in Spanish and English (separated by ;), describing the content and facilitating its indexation in databases.

In the case of Monographs, the first page of the text will also include a table of contents with the title of the articles and the name and institution to which the authors belong.

The text of the articles must always comply with the following requirements:

Format: MS Word or compatible.

Languages: Spanish or English.

Character encoding: Unicode.

Maximum length: 12,000 words, including notes and bibliography.

The body of the text should be presented, if necessary, divided into sections numbered with Arabic digits, reserving "0" (zero) for the introduction.

Verbatim quotations should be placed in double inverted commas in the body of the text. If the quotation is longer than three lines, it should be written in indented text, without inverted commas.

 Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page and numbered. Footnotes should be placed before low punctuation (comma, semicolon, full stop) and after high punctuation ( ! and ? ), inverted commas and brackets.

In the note, it should be used see (and not vid.), op. cit. and art. cit. excluded, and using ibid. exclusively to refer to the last work cited.

The abbreviations to be used in the notes are: for editor(s), (ed.) or (eds.); for page(s)/folio(s), p./f. or pp./ff.; for volume(s), vol. or vols. with Arabic numerals (2 vols. if the work consists of 2 volumes, but vol. II if reference is made to the second volume); for chapter and volume, chap. and vol. with Roman numerals; for bundle, leg.; for manuscript(s), ms. or mss.; for section(s) § or §§ with Arabic numerals; and for recto and verso, r and v.

In the numerical expression of dates, the slash ( / ) should be used to separate the day, month and year.

References to archival, press or other non-library sources should be indicated in a footnote with the relevant information to locate the source and the document unequivocally. Repeated citations of the same source may be abbreviated. Electronic resources (with the exception of online journals) should be cited in the footnote but not in the bibliography, following this model:

«Papers, Battles and the Baroque Public. La Guerra y la Restauração Portuguesas en la Publicística Española de 1640 a 1668» [Online], by Fernando Bouza Álvarez: «Sala das Batalhas, Fundação das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna». Accessed on 30 March 2005. URL: http://www.fronteira-alorna.pt/Textos/papelesbatallas.htm.

Bibliographical references cited should also be indicated in footnotes and in abbreviated form:

Book: author’s surname(s) in roman type, year of publication: and page(s):

Kantorowicz, 1985: 318-319.

If the reference is to a classical work, the year should be replaced by an abbreviated citation of the title in italics. References to religious texts and other texts with their own well-established tradition of citation should be made in accordance with these rules:

Cicero, De Orat. 2.36.

If several books are cited in the same footnote, they should be separated by a full stop:

Kantorowicz, 1985: 318-319. McIlwain, 1991: 109.

If several works by the same author published in different years are cited, they should be separated by a semicolon without repeating the author's name:

Pocock, 2002, 32:329; 2011: 253.

If several works by the same author published in the same year are cited, each work should be differentiated by adding a letter of the alphabet to the year of publication.

Clavero, 1991 a: 188; 1991 b: 95.

Book chapter: author’s surname(s) in roman type, year of publication of the work and page(s):

Armitage, 2001: 51-60.

Article: surname(s) of author(s) in roman type, year of publication in brackets and page(s):

Tierny, (2002): 389-420.

All references cited in the notes should be listed in alphabetical order in a single final bibliography.

The different works by the same author should be arranged in ascending chronological order, replacing surname and first name by a long dash ( — ). If an author has several entries with the same year, they will be distinguished with lower case letters and a space next to the date: 1992 a, 1992 b, 1992 c.

In the case of a reference with several authors, the full names of all authors should be given (in the notes, et al. should only be used for three or more authors).

Final bibliography:

References to electronic journals should also be included, but under no circumstances other online resources.

Book: author’s surname(s) and first name(s) in roman type, title in italics, place of publication, publisher and year of publication:

Kantorowicz, Ernst H., The Two Bodies of the King. Un estudio de teología política medieval, Madrid, Alianza, 1985.

Collective work: the author and the work cited in the article will appear first, followed by the details of the work:

Armitage, David, «Empire and liberty: A Republican Dilemma», in Martin Val Gelderen & Quentin Skinner (eds.), Republicanism. A Shared European Heritage, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, vol. II: 29-46.

Article:

Tierny, Brian, «Natural Law and Natural Rights: Old Problems and Recent Approaches», Review of Politics, 64/3 (2002): 389-420.

Articles in electronic journals:

Hermant, Héloïse, «La publicité au service de la dissimulation», Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez [Online], 38-1 (2008). Accessed 25 April 2013. URL: http://mcv.revues.org/1060

The use of graphs, tables, maps and images must always respond to the real needs of the content. They should always include at the bottom a mention of the sources used for their elaboration and the method employed.

They shall be suitably titled and numbered in Arabic numerals. It is essential that the text contains an explicit reference to each of them.

Images should preferably be sent in TIFF, PNG or JPG format, with a minimum resolution of 300 pixels per inch. Maps and graphics should be in vector format, preferably MS Excel, AI or EPS.