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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • It has read the Code of Good Practices for Electronic Journals of the UAM and the Guide for a non-sexist language of the language and assumes all the principles contained therein.
  • The article has not been previously published, nor has it been sent to another journal for review.
  • Authors must ensure that their contribution consists of an original work of scientific relevance.
  • The submission does not infringe the copying and reproduction rights of other works of authorship. If necessary, the author has obtained the appropriate permissions for reproduction and includes supporting documents in the submission.
  • The person making the submission has received authorization from the other authors of the article to make the submission and to act as the sole interlocutor with the journal throughout the review, editing and publication process.
  • When sending image files, if any, it will be checked that they do not involve any violation of reproduction rights. The authors are responsible for any copyrights associated with the images.
  • All papers must include:
    - First name (preferably developed) and last name.
    - E-mail address.
    - Country of professional activity.
    - Institutional affiliation.
    - Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID).
  • Authors must expressly warn if the text submitted for peer review has used any type of Artificial Intelligence tools or applications for the revision, creation, summary, expansion, translation or writing of any text, image, graphic, infographic, audiovisual, research data set or other elements present in the article that is the object of this submission.

Author Guidelines

PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES:

*The deposit of this type of material will be done through this platform.

*Works of the same author will not be published until at least 2 years (4 issues) have passed since their last publication in Libroselacorte.es.

 

*Authors are required to participate in the peer review process and are required to provide corrections to their work.

*The journal undertakes to acknowledge receipt to the contributions’ authors via e-mail. Librosdelacorte.es accepts original articles and book reviews. Papers are accepted in Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.

Papers must have a minimum length of 6,000 words and a maximum of 12,000 words. (excluded resumen/abstract and final bibliograhy)

Text files must be sent in .doc or .docx format (depending on the version).They will be presented in Garamond font size 12 and single line spacing. Manuscripts should begin with the title (centred, bold Garamond 12, single line spacing) and, in the next line, full author’s name and her/his affiliation in brackets.  

References are presented using a numbered footnote system, cued in the text by
superscript numbers, no brackets. Footnotes text is in Garamond 10 (no notes at the end of the document or apostilles in the margin of the text), following the Turabian style described below.

A list with the bibliographical references cited must be attached. Authors, prior to submission, must check whether or not the cited works have a DOI, which should be added whenever appropriate. To do so, we recommend to follow the instructions of the following document: Simple Text Query User's Manual.

The images, if any, should be preferably sent in .png or .tiff format, as long as they do not imply any violation of reproduction rights. When images are referenced to in the text, “fig.” followed by the corresponding number must be added in brackets (Fig. 1). The images will appear integrated within the text, with a caption as mentioned below:

Fig. 1- Ambrosius Francken, Allegory of the coronation of Ferdinand II on 9 September 1619, towards 1620. Berlin, Deutsches Historisches Museum.

Intertextual quotations should be between double quotes in angle ("") and without italics. When they exceed three lines, they should be placed outside the text, without quotation marks, in Garamond font, size 11, single-spaced and with the entire paragraph tabulated.

Italics will be used to highlight Latin expressions, neologisms and foreign words.

 

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PUBLICATION OF REVIEWS

*Reviews should be sent to the journal's e-mail address. Reviews cannot be sent via the submission platform.

*The complete record of the book will appear first, then the text of the review and finally the author's name with his surname and the institution to which he belongs. Reviews longer than 5 pages will not be accepted.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES: TURABIAN STYLE

Follow the TURABIAN style as shown in the following examples:

 

Book by an author

Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 65.

2. Ibidem, 67.

7. Doniger, Splitting, 120.

 

Book of several authors

1. Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White, eds., Rome: Late Republic and Principate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 35.

 

Chapter of Book

1. Quintus Tullius Cicero. "Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship," in Rome: Late Republic and Principate, ed. Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 35-54.

 

Electronic Book

Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders' Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ (accessed 27 June 2006).

 

Printed journal article

1. John Smith, "The Origin of Altruism," Nature 393 (1998): 639-640, 643.

2. Smith, "The Origin," 645.

 

Online magazine article

Mark A. Hlatky, "Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial," Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (2002), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull (accessed January 7, 2004).

 

File Sources

AGS, State, Leg. 2994, Fol. 32v.

2. BNE, Mss. 2387: Report of the happy news that King Philip IV had near the marriages of Maria Theresa and Louis XIV and signature of the much desired peace, n. f.

 

Doctoral thesis or thesis

1. M. Amundin, "Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena" (Doctoral Thesis, Stockholm University, 1991), 22-29, 35.

 

Website

Evanston Public Library Board, "Evanston Public Strategic Plan, 2000-2010: A Decade of Outreach," Evanston Public Library, http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html (accessed June 1, 2005).

 

Online databases

1. Velasco y rojas, Pedro de, in Character Database, http://www.iulce.es (accessed April 30, 2012).

 

*For more information you can consult the following page created by Biblioteca Universidad de Extremadura: "Quick guide Turabian style".

 

 

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