Submissions

Author Guidelines

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Requirements for contributors to Revista de Indias

Revista de Indias publishes original and unpublished articles that, in addition to contributing to the knowledge of the Americas, encourage debate among researchers and reflect current historiographical trends. Topics cover social, cultural, political and economic aspects, covering chronologically the pre-Hispanic, colonial and contemporary periods. In addition to the miscellaneous issues, it publishes one or two dossiers per year.

Revista de Indias publishes texts in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

I. Articles. Only original and unpublished articles of americanist interest that have not been published in full or in part in any language before and that are not under review in other journals will be accepted. They should be between 10,000 and 12,000 words in length, including notes, graphs, tables and illustrations, as well as the bibliography cited. They should include a brief abstract and keywords (between 4 and 6) in Spanish and English. The abstract should specify the objectives, sources, methods and results of the research. The graphics and images contained in the articles should be sent in a separate file in high resolution. In case there are copyrights, due permission for their reproduction should be added.

Authors should provide the name of their institution, professional status, e-mail and ORCID code. If you do not have this personal identifier, it is possible to register free of charge at https://orcid.org.

In the case that the article has been carried out with public or private funding, the sources of funding should be clearly and concisely indicated, expressly mentioning the public or private entity responsible for the funding and the identification code of that funding, when it exists. This information will be included under the heading "Fuentes de financiación/Funding sources".

This journal uses iThenticate software as a plagiarism detection tool.

The originals received are sent to several external reviewers. The evaluation method used is "double blind", maintaining the anonymity of both the author and the reviewers.

II. Dossiers. Revista de Indias publishes annually one or two dossiers in which research articles with a common theme or some aspect that relates them, consisting of an introductory text by the editor(s) and a maximum of five articles. They will be subjected to the same peer review process as the rest of the articles.

III. Reviews and bibliographical essays. Revista de indias accepts the submission of reviews that may refer to one or more recently published books with a maximum length of 800 to 1,900 words. It also accepts critical essays on several books on the same subject or author of a maximum of 4,000 words.

IV. Authorship contribution statement

This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification". This information should be incorporated in the full version of the manuscript (Microsoft Word file, LibreOffice, or a compatible format), but not in the anonymised version (PDF file), under an "Authorship contribution statement" heading, located just before the bibliography, in the following format:

Authorship contribution statement

Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.

Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing.

V. Footnotes and bibliographical references (in articles, reviews and bibliographical essays) should be in Chicago style:

Footnotes:

Comments or clarifications on the text should be included, as well as references to works cited.

When a monograph, book chapter or magazine article is cited, the author's last name or surnames should be given in lower case, followed by the year of publication preceded by a comma, and by the volume or part, if any, also preceded by a comma. This should then be followed by the page numbers, preceded by a colon.

Rodríguez, 2014. González, Gutiérrez and Mañach, 1991: 82-99. Jiménez Pidal, 1915, vol. 1: 65-43.

References to different authors should be separated by a full stop:

Olivera Gutiérrez, 1992: 20-49. López Hoyos, 2006: 23-45.

References to different works by the same author should be separated by a semicolon, without giving the author's last name again:

Olivera Gutiérrez, 1999: 37-79; 2001; 2006: 3-45.

If different works by the same author are published in the same year, the works will be differentiated by adding a letter of the alphabet to each year of publication (both in the Bibliography and in the notes):

Olivera Gutiérrez, 1994a: 60-99; 1994b: 2-35.

When a newspaper article or text is cited, the author's surname(s) should be given, followed by the author’s first name, preceded by a comma, and then the title of the article in inverted commas, also preceded by a comma, followed by the name of the newspaper in italics, the city of publication, date and page numbers:

López, Paz, "The Republic Lives", El Sol, Santiago, Chile, 12/7/1899: 10-11.

In the case of primary sources, the name of the document should be written in italics and the place and date of the document and everything after it in roman print (non-italicised), separated by commas, including the name of the archive, collection, record, dossier, page... The first time a file is cited, the city in which it is located should be indicated after the name, followed by the abbreviation by which it will be referred to in subsequent notes:

Letter from the Marquis de Someruelos to the Spanish Secretary of State, Santiago de Chile, October 16, 1804, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid (AHN), State, leg. 6366, exp. 95.

When a citation is exactly the same as the previous one, it should be cited as Idem. When it is the similar to the previous one, but with certain differences, it should be cited as Ibidem, followed by the variations or details that differ from the previous citation.

Bibliography:

A bibliography should be included at the end of the article, with the authors listed in strict alphabetical order.

When citing several works by the same author, that author should always be mentioned before each of his or her works, which will be ordered chronologically. If the author has published more than one work in the same year, a letter from the alphabet should be added to the publication date:

Olivera Gutiérrez, Ana, Chocolate and cocoa, Bolivia, University of La Paz, 1994a.
Olivera Gutiérrez, Ana, Three centuries of exchanges between Europe and America, Mexico D.F., FCE, 1994b.
Olivera Gutiérrez, Ana, Violence in the Andes, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1994c.

In the case of several authors, a strict chronological order should also be followed and the names will be separated by commas, except the last name, which will be preceded by "and":

Pérez, Antonia, Carvajal, Luis and Sánchez, Ricardo, The sources for the study of agriculture in the Caribbean, Madrid, CSIC, 2005.
Pérez, Antonia, Sánchez, Ricardo and Carvajal, Luis, Study of agriculture in Chile, Madrid, CSIC, 2005.

In the case of monographs or collective works, the surnames and name of the author or authors or of the person(s) responsible for the work shall be given. In the latter case, their role should be written in in brackets, abbreviated and in lower case [(dir.), (dirs.), (coord.), (coords.), (ed.), (eds.), etc ...], followed by the book title in italics, the place of publication, the publisher and year of publication, all separated by commas:

Gutiérrez, Pedro, Corella, Pilar and Pavón, Elena (dirs.), Exchanges between Europe and America, Mexico City, FCE, 1994.
Olivera Gutiérrez, Ana, Three centuries of exchanges between Europe and America, Mexico D.F., FCE, 1994.
Pérez Gracia, Mariano, Europa y América, Barcelona, Cátedra, 2009.
Pérez Gracia, Mariano and Olivera Gutiérrez, Ana (eds.), Europa y América, Barcelona, Cátedra, 2003.

If an article from a collective work is cited, the author's last names should be stated, followed by the name and title of the book chapter in quotation marks and roman print (non-italicised). Then, separated only by a comma, the first names then surnames (in that order and not the other way around) of the coordinators, editors, etc. ... of the work, followed by the book title in italics, the place of publication, publishing house, year of publication and, finally preceded by a comma, the pages that the chapter occupies in the collective work:

Núñez Sánchez, Carlos, “Commercial relations between Seville and America, 1600-1670”, Ana Olivera Gutiérrez (ed.), Three centuries of exchanges between Europe and America, Mexico D.F., FCE, 1994: 378-420.

In the case of journal articles, the author's last names should be given, followed by the name, the title of the article in quotation marks, followed by the name of the magazine in italics, volume and number, separated by a slash, and with the place and year of publication in brackets. The brackets should then be followed by a colon and the page numbers.

Flores Ortiz, Margarita, "El arte prehispánico", Revista Peruana, VI/13 (Lima, 2002): 12-36.

VI. The originals published by Revista de Indias, both in print and electronic versions, are the property of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and this origin must be quoted whenever they are reproduced, either wholly or in part.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Revista de Indias

- How to send an original manuscript to Revista de Indias

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

How to register at Revista de Indias

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 Revista de Indias

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".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF