Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. All articles submitted for possible publication must be entirely academic; because of the nature of the journal, journalistic articles or general commentaries on any topic will not be accepted. The IMRAD structure is recommended for the structure of a scientific journal article of the original research type. IMRAD is an acronym for introduction, methods, results, and discussion o conclusions.

2. The articles must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted to any other printed media at the same time.

3. Articles are accepted in the languages of Spanish and English.

4. Every issue of the journal will be comprised of the articles which, at the edition deadline, have the approval of at least two referees or reviewers. Nonetheless, in order to achieve thematic coherence of an issue, Revista de Humanidades reserves the right to advance or postpone any accepted articles.

5. The editorial board of the journal reserves the right to carry out any editorial or stylistic amends that it deems necessary to improve the text.

6. Any case not considered in these guidelines will be resolved by the journal’s editorial board.

7. All submissions must be delivered as an electronic file, plain text Microsoft Word, via e-mail.

8. Acronyms must be written out fully the first time they appear in the text, bibliography, tables, charts and graphs. For instance, in the text, the first time it must be written: World Health Organization, then subsequently: WHO.

9. In an attached file, the author(s) must include a brief bio-sketch with the following elements: current academic degree, institution and place of work, country, research lines, last three publications, e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers.

10. The authors may use material from their article in other works or papers they publish, on the condition that Revista de Humanidades must be cited as the original source for the quotations.

For the articles

1. Articles must include an introduction that clearly states the background of the work, its development and conclusions.

2. Revista de Humanidades only accepts articles with no more than six authors and with a length of between 7.000 and 10.000 words, including graphs, tables, footnotes and bibliography, on letter size page (A4), with a line spacing of 1.5, and a font of 12-point size Times New Roman.

3. Articles must bear a descriptive title, both in Spanish and English; preferably brief (no more than 12 words) which clearly depicts the content.

4. Articles must be preceded by an abstract, of between 100 and 150 words, as well as three to six keywords for the text; both in the original language of the text and in English. The abstract must contain concise information on the content (main results, method and conclusions).

5. The titles and subtitles must be distinguishable; use of the decimal system is recommended.

6. Illustrations (maps, charts, tables, graphs) should only be included when strictly necessary and must be self-explanatory, not requiring additional text to explain them. In tables and charts, statistical information should be presented in the most concise manner possible.

7. The format of images (maps and figures) must be JPG. Since the journal is printed in only one color, they must be in greyscale, with no highlights or textures whatsoever. Diagrams or pictures may not be copied from the Internet. Images containing data, numbers and/or text should be sent in the original format in which they were created, or in the form of a spreadsheet, preferably using Microsoft Excel.

8. Due to editorial policies, the journal reserves the right not to publish excessively large illustrations.

9. Footnotes shall be used solely to clarify, explain, broaden, or illustrate the main text, and not to indicate bibliographic sources, as the bibliography serves this purpose.

10. Citations must follow the Harvard-APA system, in accordance with the following examples:

a) When a work is referred to in a general manner, the surname of the author, publication year and page number shall be written in brackets:

(Amador, 2002, p. 39), or in the case of two authors (Cruz and García: 1998, p. 56); if there are more than two authors it will be (Sánchez et al., 2003).

b) In the case of using works by the same author published in the same year, they will be alphabetically ordered and will be distinguished with a small letter after the year:

"In the past ten years, the immigrant population in Spain has increased sevenfold" (Cárdenas, 2008a, p. 120).

"Immigrant women are the group that has higher rates of part-time employment" (Cárdenas, 2008b, p. 100).

11. Bibliographies must contain the complete references of all works cited in the text and no works not cited in the text. Works by the author(s) of the article must not comprise more than 30 percent of the total bibliography.

12. Bibliographical citations must be written consistently with the same system, alphabetically and chronologically ordered as necessary. Continual capitals letters should not be used. The surnames and given names of the authors must be fully stated, i.e., with no abbreviations. See the following examples:

a) For books:

Romero, Carlos José (2004). El rosario en Sevilla: devoción, rosarios públicos y hermandades (siglos XVI-XXI). Sevilla: Ayuntamiento de Sevilla, Delegación de Fiestas Mayores.

García, Antonio and Hernández, Teresa (2004). Crítica literaria: iniciación al estudio de la literatura. Madrid: Cátedra.

b) For journals or book chapters:

Monreal, María Carmen and Amador, Luis (2002). La Unión Europea ante la educación a distancia (no presencial). Eúphoros, n. 4, pp. 207-216.

Domínguez, Antonio (1996). Las probanzas de limpieza de sangre y los albéitares de Sevilla”. In Checa, José y Álvarez, Joaquín (coord.). El siglo que llaman ilustrado: homenaje a Francisco Aguilar Piñal. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, pp. 285-288.

c) Citations to websites must include the full URL and the retrieval date:

Castilla, Carmen (1999). De neófitos a iniciados: el movimiento neocatecumenal y sus ritos de admisión. Gaceta de Antropología [online], n. 15, text 15-4. Available at: http://www.gazeta-antropologia.es/?p=3443

For book reviews

1. Reviews must be critical reviews of books related to the study of social sciences or humanities that have been published within the previous calendar year. The title of the review must be different from the book itself. Reviews must be between 1.500-3.500 words long, in page format A4, with a line spacing of 1.5, and a font of 12-point size Times New Roman.

2. An illustration of the front cover of the book must be sent along with the review, in JPG format at 300 DPI. Additionally, the following data must be provided: book title, author, year, publisher, country, number of pages and ISBN number.

3. Reviews will be selected by the editorial board, taking into account their quality and relevance.