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GUIDELINES FOR THE JOURNAL "ANUARIO DE ESTUDIOS MEDIEVALES"

1. Manuscript submission, assessment and publication processes

— The Anuario de Estudios Medievales is published twice a year (in June and December). The issue published in June may focus on a specific subject and thus be monographic in nature. The contents of the December number cover a miscellaneous range of subjects.

— Manuscripts may be sent throughout year by means of the journal's website, in digital file format (.doc, .docx or .odt), and in a anonymisex file (.pdf).

— The editor of the journal and the Editorial Board reserves the right to reject any manuscript that does not meet the essential criteria (in terms of quality, form or editorial standards) to undergo the reviewing process. The authors will be notified of such a decision within a maximum period of two months.

— Texts that do not comply with the guidelines of the journal will be returned to the authors and will only be accepted for review when they have fulfilled the established norms.

— After their initial acceptance, texts will enter a double-blind peer review process. Each work will be reviewed by at least two external experts who are not members of the Editorial Board. Authors will be informed of the result of these reviews, within a period of six months. If a text needs to be restructured, the Editorial Board reserves the right to resubmit it for the experts’ approval or, if deemed necessary, to submit it to a new assessment process. Should it be necessary to seek the reviewers’ approval, authors will be notified of the results of the experts’ review within a further period of three months.

— If the article presented is accepted for publication after the review process, authors will be required to revise their texts and incorporate, where appropriate, any changes suggested or required by the reviewers. Authors must then send the final version of the text within three months.

— In the miscellaneous number, articles will appear according to the order in which they are received and accepted.

— Authors should correct the first proofs of their articles, but they will not be able to introduce any significant changes to the text. They may only correct misprints and typographical errors. If the time that has elapsed between acceptance of the text and its publication so justifies, authors will also be allowed to update the content of their article. This, however, will only be possible if the composition of the publication is not altered in any significant way.

— Proposals for monographic numbers may also be submitted; these will be reviewed by the editor and the Editorial Board of the journal. Proposals should be presented by the potential coordinator of the issue. They should include the title of the monograph, an explanatory report of up to 3000 characters and an index of articles and authors (including the institutional affiliation of each of them). If deemed appropriate, a summary of the content of each of the articles suggested may also be attached to the proposal by the coordinator. In principle, proposals for monographic numbers should not include more than fifteen articles. Upon acceptance of the monograph, each of the articles will be peer-reviewed individually following exactly the same procedure as that applied to miscellaneous issues. However, deadlines for presenting the definitive version of articles might need to be adjusted in accordance with the editorial requirements of the journal.

— As regards the administration and assessment of articles to be included in possible monographic issues, the journal will only communicate with the coordinator of the volume. He/she will then be in charge of contacting the authors. The coordinator will also be responsible for ensuring that all the articles comply with the guidelines of the journal, that deadlines are met, and that authors introduce any suggestions included in the peer-review reports.

— The director and Editorial Board may suggest modifications to proposals for monographic numbers that they consider appropriate.

— Conference and seminar proceedings of any sort will not be accepted as proposals for a monograph.

— Monographic numbers will include an introduction written by the coordinator, who will also be required to provide an image suitably related to the topic of the issue for the cover of the monograph.

2. General guidelines

— The authors of texts submitted for possible publication must send a duly completed and signed Authorship form. They must also follow the Good Practice Code.

— Articles should use bias-free language, and avoid stereotypes. Authors of research involving the participation of population groups (whether children, young people or adults) should consider the relevance of incorporating sex or gender as a variable of analysis in their research design and establishing whether it has had an influence on the results obtained. As a general orientation, the CSIC Press recommends consulting the Recommendations for an inclusive and non-sexist language (2022) and the Guide for a non-sexist use of the language of the Autonomous University of Madrid (2019).

— Texts submitted must be original and unpublished, as indicated in the Authorship form. Articles that fail the CSIC Press’s plagiarism detection tests will not be accepted. This tool detects PhD theses deposited in institutional repositories; we therefore recommend not reproducing precisely the same content.

— The official languages of the journal are Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

— Under no circumstances may articles to be published exceed 70,000 characters (spaces, footnotes and bibliography included).

— Articles must refer to the funding sources of the study or research. Thus, any public or private institution responsible for the funding, as well as the title and code of funded projects to which the author’s research may be linked must be explicitly indicated. These mentions are to be included in the first footnote, marked with an asterisk and placed at the end of the title in the original language of the article. This first footnote should only contain this information. Any other information should appear in a subsequent note.

— All articles must follow the format available in the downloadable template. Download the template.

3. Text structure

— Manuscripts should be presented in the following general format: left and right justified, single line spacing, Times New Roman, font size 11 for the main text and 9 point for the footnotes.

— Titles of articles must be written in the same language as the article (in Roman and capital letters) and in English (in italics and capital letters), both centred. Articles in English must include a Spanish translation of the title.

— The name(s) of the author(s) must be stated after the title, aligned to the right, in font size 9. The names and surnames should be written on the first line, in lowercase letters. Institutional affiliation should follow, written in Roman, on the second line. Finally, the author’s ORCID identifier must be written on the third line in the following format: http://orcid.org/XXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX.

— Texts must be preceded by an abstract (of between 80 and 150 words) and a list of keywords (between five and seven words, in lowercase letters, separated by semicolons and with a full stop after the last word) in the same language as the article. Texts must also be accompanied by abstract and keywords in English in the same format. Texts written in English must include a Spanish translation of the abstract and keywords. All these elements must be preceded by the following titles, in lowercase letters, Roman and followed by colons: Resumen, Palabras clave, Abstract, Keywords.

— Articles must be preceded by a list of sub-headings, including the final bibliography. Sub-headings must be reproduced up to two levels (1., 1.1., but not 1.1.1.), regardless of the number of levels appearing in the article, in accordance with this format: 1. Introduction.— 2. Sub-heading (level 1).— 2.1. Sub-heading (level 2).— 2.2. Sub-heading (level 2).— 3. Sub-heading (level 1).— 4. Conclusions.— 5. Bibliography cited.

— The titles of sections and sub-sections should be numbered in Arabic numerals, followed by a full stop, with a maximum of three levels: 1., 1.1., 1.1.1. The titles of sections should be centred and in lowercase letters, the title of sub-sections (level 1) should be written in bold and lowercase letters and the title of sub-sections (level 2) in italics and lowercase letters, as in the following example:

1. Introductión

1.1. Hypothesis and objectives

1.1.1. General objectives

4. Quotations

— Authors are recommended not to overuse textual quotations within the body of the text.

— Passages of more than four lines in length should be placed in a separate paragraph, indented in full (1.25 cm from both margins), font size 10 and in Roman, with a full stop at the end of the quotation. A blank line will be left before and after the quotation.

— Other quotations should be part of the body of the text or footnote, written between angle quotation marks or guillemets («»).

5. Orthotypographical aspects

— Within the text, italics are used for:

• foreign expressions.
• words or expressions used in a metalinguistic sense.
• literary, artistic and scientific productions. Since the italics already clearly delimit their length, the use of capitals will be restricted to the first word, also in English titles. This rule should be applied to the titles of all original creations, including those dating from periods in which it was customary to apply capital letters in a different way: the journal Caplletra, the painting El jardín de las delicias.

— Bold type should not be used to highlight words or expressions.

— Small capital letters should not be used under any circumstances.

6. Documentary appendices

— The Anuario de Estudios Medievales does not publish documentary appendices. These will only be admitted in exceptional and highly justified cases. Their relevance should be approved by the reviewers. Nevertheless, the Editorial Board reserves the right to reject them.

— In cases when documentary appendices are admitted, the authors should follow these rules for transcription:

• The same format as the text will be used.
• The titles of the documents should be written in italics, with Arabic numerals in this format: Document 1, Document 2, etc.
• The date of the document and place where it was written should be added below the title, in accordance with the following example: 1450, August 14. Barcelona (year, month day. Place).
• A regestum will be added in italics in a separate paragraph.
• The source should be added below.
• Finally, the text will be transcribed.
• A blank line will be left between each of these elements.

7. Illustrations, maps, tables and graphs

— Their relevance should be approved by the reviewers. Nevertheless, the Editorial Board reserves the right to reject them.

— Illustrations, maps, tables and graphs must be sent in duplicate:

• Within the article (lightweight file), placed at the approximate point where they should appear.
• As suitably identified files in a single compressed ZIP or RAR file with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

— Illustrations and maps should be sent in .jpg or .tiff format; tables and graphs in .doc, .docx, .xls, or .xlsx format. Tables and graphs should not be sent in image format. Tables should not contain tabs, underlining or shading. They should not contain embedded titles.

— All illustrations, maps, tables and graphs must have an identifying caption or heading and should be numbered with Arabic numerals.

• Images and maps: titles should be centred below the object, in font size 9 with a final full stop. They should be numbered consecutively (Fig. 1. Title; Fig. 2. Title).
• Tables and graphs: titles should be centred above the object, in font size 10. They should be numbered consecutively (Table 1. Title; Table 2. Title). The sources should be added below, in 9-point round font. When the text of the article refers to a photograph, figure or illustration, it should be indicated in lowercase letters and, in the case of figures, in abbreviated form. Example: figs. 1 and 2; map 1 or (fig. 2).

— Authors of texts must take responsibility for the copyright associated with the images, for which the journal is exempt from liability.

8. Abbreviations

— The authors should use the abbreviations listed in Annex II of the CSIC Style Guide.

— If the article is written in a language other than Spanish: if the abbreviations coincide in both languages, they will be used as they appear in Annex II of the CSIC Style Guide. Otherwise, authors should follow the rules of each language, as in the example:

       N.º Spanish
       Núm. Catalan
       No. English

— Other abbreviations should be listed in the first numerical footnote, which should be placed at the end of the first section title (if the article has no sections, it should be placed at the end of the title). This footnote will begin with the indication «Abbreviations used:» and provide a list of abbreviations used in the text or footnotes in alphabetical order. The abbreviations should be presented as follows: the abbreviation, the sign = (between blank spaces) and its full form or equivalence; and be separated by semicolons.

— Full stops should always be removed from initials (ACA, not A.C.A.).

— Archive material should always be cited in Roman script.

— Citations from foliated originals should always indicate their recto or verso, using «r», «v» or «r-v» after the folio number, without spaces or punctuation marks. When more than one folio is cited, a hyphen should be used without a space. Examples: f. 14r, f. 14v, f. 14r-v, ff. 14v-15r. Folios should always be abbreviated as f. / ff. (or their equivalent in the language that the article is written in).

— Pages should always be abbreviated as p. / pp. If necessary, “ff.” may be used (or its equivalent in the language that the article was written in).

9. Internal references

— If it is considered necessary, «see» (or its equivalent in the language that the article is written in), as well as cf., vid. (not vd.), supra and infra may be used to locate internal references.

10. Footnotes

— In the text, the numerical references of footnotes (in superscript) should be placed after punctuation marks.

— Footnotes should be without any indentation and left and right justified.

— No blank lines are to be left between notes.

11. References

— Authors must check that the references included in the bibliography cited have been cited in the text, and vice versa.

— The DOI identifiers of works that have them must be included. The use of CrossRef’s Simple Text Query tool is recommended for this check.

— Anuario de Estudios Medievales uses the Chicago Manual of Style for footnotes and bibliography.

— Chicago style (notes and bibliography) presents bibliographic information through footnotes and organises them at the end of the text into a single complete bibliography.

— Footnotes should reproduce the entire reference in the first citation, and an abbreviated reference in subsequent citations (between 2 and 5 words, and the last one must not be a preposition or article). See the following examples:

       First reference:
       The search for an heir: The wives and concubines of Alfonso VI
       Tres Violantes: las mujeres de una familia en el poder a lo largo del siglo XIII
       La Estoria de los godos: la fundación de Castilla
       Construir i decorar un teginat: del document a l'obra

       Following references:
       The search for an heir
       Tres Violantes
       La Estoria de los godos
       Construir i decorar

— It is recommended to consult the Chicago Manual Citation Guide, or the detailed guide offered, with free access, by Purdue University.

12. Chicago citation examples

Book with author(-s) or editor(-s)

Note
¹ Eloy Benito Ruano, El libro del limosnero de Isabel la Católica (Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales, 1996), 12.
¹ Gerardo Boto, Isabel Escandell y Esther Lozano, eds., The memory of the bishop in Medieval cathedrals ceremonies and visualization (Berna: Peter Lang, 2019), 47.
¹ Rosa Lluch Bramon et al., cur., Migrazioni interne e forme di dipendenza libera e servile nelle champagne bassomedievali (Cherasco: Centro Internazionale di Studi Sugli Insediamenti Medievali, 2015), 56.

Note (abbreviated)
¹ Benito Ruano, Libro del limosnero, 37.
¹ Boto, Escandell y Lozano, Memory of the bishop, 59-68.
¹ Lluch Bramon et al., Migrazioni interne e forme di dipendenza, 56.

Bibliography
Benito Ruano, Eloy. El libro del limosnero de Isabel la Católica. Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales, 1996.
Boto, Gerardo, Isabel Escandell y Esther Lozano, eds. The memory of the bishop in Medieval cathedrals ceremonies and visualisation. Berna: Peter Lang, 2019.
Lluch Bramon, Rosa, Pere Orti Gost, Francesco Panero y Lluís To Figueras, cur. Migrazioni interne e forme di dipendenza libera e servile nelle champagne bassomedievali. Cherasco: Centro Internazionale di Studi Sugli Insediamenti Medievali, 2015.

Chapters

Note
¹ Bethany Aram, «El cuerpo real como texto: de Isabel I a Juana I», en Andalucía y Granada en tiempos de los Reyes Católicos, ed. Manuel García Fernández y Carlos González Sánchez (Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2006), 178.

Note (abbreviated)
¹ Aram, «El cuerpo real», 181.

Bibliography
Aram, Bethany. «El cuerpo real como texto: de Isabel I a Juana I». En Andalucía y Granada en tiempos de los Reyes Católicos, editado por Manuel García Fernández y Carlos González Sánchez, 173-184. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2006.

More about books: digital works, books with variable number of authors, collective books, anonymous books, etc.

Articles

Note
¹ Francisco J. Hernández, «La reina Violante de Aragón, Jofré de Loaysa y la crónica de Alfonso X. Un gran fragmento cronístico del siglo XIII reutilizado en el XIV», Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 7, n.º 1 (2015): 102. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2014.956778.
² Chris Briggs, «Seigniorial control of villagers’ litigation beyond the manor in later medieval England», Historical Research 81 (2008): 410-412.

Note (abbreviated)
¹ Hernández, «Reina Violante de Aragón», 89-101.
² Briggs, «Seigniorial control of villagers’ litigation», 418.

Bibliography
Hernández, Francisco J. «La reina Violante de Aragón, Jofré de Loaysa y la crónica de Alfonso X. Un gran fragmento cronístico del siglo XIII reutilizado en el XIV». Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 7, n.º 1 (2015): 87-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2014.956778.
Briggs, Chris. «Seigniorial control of villagers’ litigation beyond the manor in later medieval England». Historical Research 81 (2008): 399-422.

More about periodic publications: digital publications, newspaper articles, etc.

PhD theses

Note
¹ Eva Izquierdo, «Edició crítica dels capitols 1-100 del Llibre de les dones de Francesc Eiximenis: estudi codicològic, estudi ecdòtic i estudi històric» (tesis doctoral, Universitat de Girona, 2019), 99-100. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/667739.

Note (abbreviated)
² Izquierdo, «Edició crítica», 158.

Bibliography
Izquierdo, Eva. «Edició crítica dels capitols 1-100 del Llibre de les dones de Francesc Eiximenis: estudi codicològic, estudi ecdòtic i estudi històric». Tesis doctoral, Universitat de Girona, 2019. https://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/667739.

Conference contributions

These references appear in the footnote, but not in the bibliography:

² Monique Bourin, «La naissance des noms de famille: une innovation médiévale» (conferencia, Universitat de Girona, Girona, 22 de febrero de 2013).

Classical references

— — References to classical primary sources are normally given in the text or in the notes. They are only included in the bibliography when the reference is to information or an annotation provided by a modern author.
        ¹ Ovid, Amores 1.7.27.
        ² Aristotle, Metaphysics 3.2.996b5-8; Plato, Republic 360e-361b.

— References to Jewish or Christian scriptures usually appear in quotations or notes but not in the bibliography. References in parentheses or notes to the Bible should include the book (in Roman and usually abbreviated), chapter and verse, but never the page number. A colon is used between chapter and verse.
        ³ Gn 25:19-36:43.

Other types of documents

Web pages
Interviews and personal communications
Legal materials, public or unpublished
Artistic works

13. Reviews

— The Anuario de Estudios Medievales includes a section of «Publicaciones recibidas» [«Publications received»] in each of its numbers. This section consists of a list of all the books that have been received by the editors, and publishes a number of bibliographical notes and reviews. It also includes joint reviews that comment on two or more works dealing with similar topics or written by the same author.

— Books for review should be sent (two copies) to:

       Anuario de Estudios Medievales
       Institución Milà i Fontanals, CSIC.
       C/ Egipcíaques, 15.- 08001 Barcelona.

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The updated norms and all the information regarding the journal Anuario de Estudios Medievales can be consulted at http://estudiosmedievales.revistas.csic.es/.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Anuario de Estudios Medievales

- How to send an original manuscript to Anuario de Estudios Medievales

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Anuario de Estudios Medievales

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Anuario de Estudios Medievales

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

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Manuscripts published in both the printed and online versions of Anuario de Estudios Medievales are the property of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and quoting this source is a requirement for any partial or full reproduction.

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