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Submission Preparation Checklist

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.

  • 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.

Author Guidelines

• The journal will publish articles in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese or Italian.

• The articles will be sent through the platform, filling in all the fields of the submission form.

• Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be original and unpublished and must not be under evaluation or consideration by any other journal or publication at the time of their submission or for the following three months.

• Works by the same author will not be published until at least 2 years have passed since their last publication in addition to.

• Manuscripts must be preceded by the title of the article in Spanish and English, the name(s) of the author or authors, their postal address, telephone number and email address, and also their academic or professional position. The date of submission to the journal shall also be stated and a brief abstract of the article included, with a maximum length of ten lines, in Spanish and in English, followed by the appropriate keywords and the title also in English.

• Original contributions must not exceed 7,500 words in length, including footnotes and bibliography. They are to be submitted in Times New Roman font, using 12-point type for the text and 10 for the notes.

• Up to fifteen images may be included per article (photographs, tables or graphics) and must be submitted as separate files (not inserted in the text). Photographs must have a resolution of 300 dpi and must be free of rights; authors are responsible for managing any reproduction rights that may apply to the illustrations. Tables must be in .doc or .xls format. All images are to be numbered and appropriately labelled. A list must be provided containing the captions for each photo (author, title, object, date, institution/location where it is preserved).

• Notes must be numbered consecutively, in superscript arabic numerals, and inserted at the foot of the page.

• Quoted text should be in inverted commas (quotation marks).

• Individual words and phrases in another language should appear in italics, including abbreviations in Latin.

• The bibliography used must be included at the end of each article.

• Bibliographical references are to be cited according to the following examples:

 

Books: FERRANDIS TORRES, J., Alfombras antiguas españolas, Madrid, Publicaciones de  la Escuela de Artes y Oficios Artísticos de Madrid, 1941.

Article in collective book: RAMÍREZ RUIZ, V. y CABRERA LAFUENTE, A., "Tapiz Dios Padre con Tetramorfos (conocido como La visión de Ezequiel)", en VILLALBA SALVADOR, M. (coord.), Viaje a través de las artes decorativas y el diseño. Siete siglos de historia y cultura artística, Madrid, Asociación de Amigos del Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, 2012, p.23.

Journal article: JUNQUERA, P., "Las aventuras de Telémaco. Tres series de tapices del Patrimonio Nacional", Reales Sitios,) núm. 52, 1977, pp. 45-56.

Exhibition catalogue: RODRÍGUEZ BERNIS, S. y PEREDA, R. (coms.), El Quijote en sus trajes, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 2005.

 

Texts that do not meet these criteria will be returned to their authors so that they can bring them into line with the journal's rules.

 

• References to archive documents should be done as follows (slight variations are permitted in specific cases): Document title, date. Archive in which it is preserved, box or protocol, page or folio numbers.

• The use of hyperlinks should be limited to well-established websites and resources, and the most recent access date should be indicated.

• Articles submitted will be examined by the Editorial Committee to determine that they fit the journal’s contents and objectives. Once they have been accepted, they will be submitted for assessment, by the double blind peer review system, to outside experts, who will issue a report certifying their quality. Following this assessment, the Editorial Committee will decide whether or not to publish them.

• The journal's secretariat will acknowledge receipt of papers on receipt.

• Authors will be notified of the editorial board's decision within six months of receipt.

• Authors will be provided with proofs for them to correct and must undertake to return them corrected within a period not exceeding fifteen days. Changes will be limited essentially to typographical errors or grammatical changes. No alterations that significantly modify the typesetting will be accepted.

• The journal will publish reviews of books that are donated to it and are selected by the Editorial Committee.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

•Authors retain copyright and assign the right of first publication to the journal, with the article registered under the Creative Commons attribution licence, which allows third parties to use the published material provided that they mention the authorship of the work and its publication in this journal.

•Authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the preprint (the version submitted to the editor), the postprint (the version after peer review) and the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., to include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), provided that they clearly indicate that the work was first published in this journal. Authors are permitted and recommended to disseminate their work on the internet (for example, in institutional online archives or on their websites) after publication in Además de; this can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).