Author Guidelines
To publish in Librosdelacorte.es journal, authors must send their work (only articles, see "Reviews" section below), together with their personal data (name, surname, ORCID, institutional affiliation, e-mail and contact telephone number) through this platform (works received by other means will not be taken into account).
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Authors must ensure that their contribution consists of an original work of scientific relevance, not having been published in whole or in part by any other journal. Thus, those in the process of publication or evaluation will not be admitted either.
Works of the same author will not be published until at least 2 years have passed since their last publication in Libroselacorte.es.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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Each modality must present a series of obligatory fields specified below:
ARTICLES
They must be headed by: Title of the article, Author, Institution, Abstract (150 words) and Keywords (5). Also in Spanish: Title of the article , Author (institution), Abstract (150 words) and Key words (5)
*No text that does not contain title, abstract and keywords in English will be accepted *
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.
Model file:
SURNAME, Name: Title of the book. Place of publication: publisher, year. number of pages. ISBN:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
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".