Submissions

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

Erasmo. Historia Medieval y Moderna is an annual editorial project focused on publishing original research studies related to Medieval and Modern History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques. Its content is divided into three sections: a monographic section, a miscellaneous section, and reviews.

The journal does not charge authors for submitting articles or reviews.

The submission period for articles remains open all year long, although the month of August is considered non-operational for editorial purposes. Submissions received by June 30 will be included, after peer review, in the next issue of the journal, which will be published in the last quarter of the same year.

If articles are co-authored by more than one person, the authors must inform the journal of the criteria used to determine the order of authorship and the specific contributions of each participant. This information should be included in a footnote at the beginning of the article. To ensure anonymity during the evaluation process, this information should only be added after the article has passed the review stage.

Articles and reviews must be submitted in Word format. Any graphic or illustrative content should be inserted in the appropriate location within the text. Authors are responsible for the authorship and originality of their submissions and must confirm that they hold the publication rights for any images included in their work.

To submit a work, authors must first register with the journal, providing their personal information and ORCID ID (available at http://orcid.org). Once registered, authors can click on the "Submit an Article" tab on the right-hand side of the journal’s website and begin the submission process (whether for an article or a review). The system will guide authors through the submission steps. When submitting an article, in “Step 3. Entering Submission Metadata,” authors should provide their full name, email address, article title, keywords, and abstracts in both Spanish and English. To do this, select "Spanish" in the corresponding language field and enter the data in Spanish; then select "English" and enter the data in English. Authors must also complete the sections for “Affiliation” (indicating the name and postal address of their institution) and “Biographical Statement” (including a brief note of approximately 200 words highlighting the main details of their academic background and current professional role). If the article was conducted within the framework of a research project or was funded by any supporting institution, this must be specified in the corresponding section.

FORMAT AND EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

ARTICLES

Articles must be original and unpublished, and may be written in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, or Italian. They should not exceed thirty pages (including bibliography and all accompanying data) after being formatted according to the template available at the following link: article format. Authors are requested to copy sections of their article and paste them over the corresponding parts of the template, maintaining the template’s format in all aspects (logos, title, abstracts, data, font sizes and styles, headings, paragraphs, indented quotations, footnotes, final bibliography, headers, footers, and page numbers). This will ensure that the article adopts a format that facilitates layout preparation.

DIRECT QUOTATIONS 

Short quotations (up to three lines) should be incorporated into the text, enclosed in double quotation marks (“ ”). If a quotation includes another quotation, the internal quotation should use angled quotation marks (« »).

Long quotations (over three lines) should be indented, single-spaced, without quotation marks, and use an 11-point font size.

If the article includes paleographic transcriptions, they must follow the transcription standards set forth in MILLARES CARLO, Agustín; RUIZ ASENCIO, José Manuel (coll.), Tratado de paleografía española, vol. II, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1983, pp. IX-XXIII; and BAUTIER, Robert-Henri (ed.), Folia Caesaraugustana, vol. 1: Diplomatica et Sigillographica. Travaux préliminaires de la Commission internationale de diplomatique et de la Commission internationale de sigillographie pour une normalisation des éditions internationales des éditions de documents et un Vocabulaire internationale de la diplomatique et de la sigillographie, Zaragoza: Institución “Fernando el Católico”, 1984.

FOOTNOTES 

All footnote markers should appear before punctuation marks. Example:

The text includes a quotation from Pliny: “Pliny says that there is no book, however bad, that does not contain something good”¹; however, the direct source is not Pliny himself² but an excellent prose writer: Gabriel Alonso de Herrera. In 1513, in Alcalá de Henares, Herrera’s Obra de agricultura was printed for the first time, a pioneering work and a marvel of lexical precision³.

The font size for footnotes should be 10 points.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS

Bibliographic citations, whether in the text or in footnotes, should follow the International Harvard Style, using parentheses to include the author's surname, followed by a comma, the year of publication, another comma, and "p." for a single page or "pp." for multiple pages separated by a dash. Examples:

"Recent research (Martínez, 2023, p. 15) indicates that..."

"Recent research (Martínez, 2023, pp. 15-30) indicates that..."

If multiple works by the same author from the same year are cited, they should be distinguished by adding lowercase letters in alphabetical order after the year: (Bloom, 1994a; Bloom, 1994b…).

If the author's name is part of the sentence, only the year (and, if applicable, the page or pages) should be included in parentheses. Example:

“Segarra (1996, p. 25) presents a similar opinion on the matter.”

For works with 1 to 3 authors, all authors should be included. For two authors, their names should be separated by “and”; for three authors, the first two should be separated by a comma and the second and third by “and.” Example: “The analyses conducted (Barbastro, Pascual, and Segura, 2021) indicate that...”

For works with more than three authors, only the first author’s surname should be included, followed by “et al.” Example: “Recent studies (Fernández et al., 2018) show that...”

References to archives and libraries should include the full name of the institution the first time it is cited, followed by its abbreviation in brackets, which will be used for subsequent citations throughout the article.

Example:

Archivo General de Simancas [AGS], Est., leg. 2331, "Consulta del Consejo de Estado, 10 de noviembre de 1630", f. 126r.

Other types of references (e.g., cit., op. cit., id., ibidem…) should not be used.

The following abbreviations are recommended: p./pp. for page/pages; f./ff. for folio/folios; r/v/rv for recto/verso/recto and verso; ss. for following pages.

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

For the article to be accepted and evaluated, bibliographic citations must strictly adhere to the following guidelines.

The reference bibliography should be included at the end of the article under the centered heading Bibliography, arranged alphabetically with a hanging indent. Only works cited in the text should be included, following the International Harvard Style. Authors’ full names (not just initials) must be provided, adhering to the following criteria:

— Books:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). Title of the Book in Italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example:

Cabeza Rodríguez, Antonio (1996). Clérigos y señores: política y religión en Palencia en el Siglo de Oro. Palencia: Diputación Provincial de Palencia.

For multiple authors, citations should be formatted as follows:

Last Name(s), First Name and Last Name(s), First Name(s) (Year). Title of the Book in Italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example:

Araújo, Nara and Delgado, Teresa (2012). Textos de teorías y críticas literarias. (Del formalismo a los estudios postcoloniales). Barcelona: Antrhopos-Universidad de La Habana-Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

—Translations of Books:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). Title of the Book in Italics. Name and Last Name(s) of Translator (trans.). Place of Publication: Publisher.

Example:

Virgil (2008). Aeneid. Javier de Echave-Sustaeta (trans.). Barcelona: RBA.

— Edited Books:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). Title of the Book in Italics. Name and Last Name(s) of Editor (ed.). Place of Publication: Publisher.

Last Name(s), First Name (ed.) (Year). Title of the Book in Italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

Examples:

Pessoa, Fernando (1991). Libro del desasosiego de Bernardo Soares. Ángel Crespo (ed.). Barcelona: Seix Barral.

Herrero de la Fuente, Marta (ed.) (2014). Alma littera: estudios dedicados al profesor José Manuel Ruiz Asencio. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid.

— Book Chapters:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). “Title of the Chapter in Quotation Marks.” In First Name and Last Name(s) of Editor (ed.). Title of the Book in Italics. Place of Publication: Publisher, pp.

Example:

Del Val Valdivieso, M.ª Isabel (2009). “El agua en las crónicas del canciller Ayala.” In Rica Amrán Cohén (coord.). Autour de Pedro Lopez de Ayala. Paris: Université de Picardie, pp. 220-235.

For chapters in books by multiple authors:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). “Title of the Chapter in Quotation Marks.” In First Name Last Name(s) et al., Title of the Book in Italics. Place of Publication: Publisher, pp.

Example:

Genette, Gérard. (1986). “Introduction à l’architexte.” In Gérard Genette et al., Théorie des genres. Paris: Seuil, pp. 89-159.

— Articles:

If the article has a persistent identifier such as a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or Handle (identifier used by repositories), it must be included at the end of the reference, without indicating the access date, following this format:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). “Title of the Article in Quotation Marks.” Title of the Journal in Italics, volume, pp. DOI or Handle.

Examples:

Herrero Jiménez, Mauricio (2020). “Palabra de notario: el registro de Gonzalo Pérez, escribano de Castrillo Tejeriego (1334-1335).” Historia. Instituciones. Documentos, 47, pp. 235-254. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/hid.2020.i47.09.

Vega García-Luengos, Germán (1984). “Notas para una bibliografía de Felipe Godínez.” Castilla: Estudios de literatura, 8, pp. 127-139. Handle: https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/16183.

If the article does not have a DOI or Handle, include the website where it is available and the access date in brackets, following this format:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). “Title of the Article in Quotation Marks.” Title of the Journal in Italics, volume, pp., URL [dd/mm/yyyy].

Example:

Torremocha Hernández, Margarita (2009). “Nuevos enfoques en la historia de las universidades: la vida cotidiana de los universitarios en la Península Ibérica durante la Edad Moderna.” Chronica Nova: Revista historia moderna de la Universidad de Granada, 35, pp. 193-219, https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=320379 [20/01/2024].

— Online Documents with an Author:

Last Name(s), First Name (Year). “Title of the Document in Quotation Marks,” URL [dd/mm/yyyy].

Example:

Mora, Vicente Luis (2018). “El conflicto producido por la llegada de la poesía pop tardoadolescente,” https://vicenteluismora.blogspot.com/search?q=2019 [30/11/2022].

Cárcel Ortí, M.ª Milagros (ed.) (1997). Vocabulaire international de la diplomatique, §74, http://www.cei.lmu.de/VID/ [21/09/2020].

— Online Documents without an Author:

Title of the Document in Italics, URL [dd/mm/yyyy].

Example:

Biografía de Federico García Lorca, https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/federico_garcia_lorca/biografia/ [29/11/2022].

WORKS WITH A DOI (DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER):

It is necessary to include the DOI for all works that have one and are available for free and open access. DOIs for paywalled works should not be included. To verify which works in your bibliography have a DOI, you can use the Simple Text Query Tool (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/), following these steps:

1. Register on the Simple Text Query portal (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/) by providing an email address and clicking "Submit." You will receive an email with a link to activate your account.
2. Once registered, go to the Simple Text Query homepage (http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/), enter your registered email address, and paste the complete bibliography into the designated box. Ensure that the entries are formatted in a widely recognized style, alphabetically arranged, and separated by blank lines. Click "Submit," and in 1-2 minutes, the system will highlight which works have a DOI.

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It is recommended that authors, when submitting their articles electronically, include a copy of the list of bibliographic references cited at the end of their article in the “References” field. To do so, authors can copy the list of references from the original document and paste it into a text file (Word, etc.), following these recommended guidelines:

• Each reference must be separated from the previous one by a blank line.
• Each reference must be included on a single line, avoiding line breaks. Do NOT use the tags <br>, <br/>, <br />, <p>.
• Do not apply any styles, as the text formatting will not be preserved when pasted into the references field. Do NOT use HTML tags (such as bold <b>, italics <i> or <em>, subscript <sub>, etc.).
• Do not include titles classifying references, such as "Primary Sources," "Secondary Sources," or "Consulted Archives." Only include the list of references.
• Authors’ full names and surnames should not be omitted, even if repeated in multiple citations. They must be included in each citation.

Finally, paste the text into the "References" field.

SPECIAL ISSUES 

Proposals for special issues must be submitted by the coordinator(s) within the usual deadlines of the journal. This means that the reception of proposals will close on May 10 for publication in the issue of the same year.

Each proposal may have a maximum of two coordinators.

Proposals must include two parts. Firstly, a theoretical justification that explains the relevance of the special issue within the journal's editorial line and its impact on current scientific production. If the proposal is accepted, this justification will be made public as a call for papers to receive additional articles for the special issue. Secondly, at least five authors who will participate in the special issue, specifying their institutional affiliation and the title of their contribution. This information will not be made public.

Once the proposal is received, it will be evaluated by the members of the Editorial Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the journal, who will have 15 working days to decide on whether to approve the publication or not. Acceptance of the proposal does not imply automatic acceptance of the contributions, which will still be subject to the journal's usual double-blind peer review process.

Once the special issue proposal is accepted, a call for additional articles will be launched. A call for papers will be announced under the "Notices" section of the journal’s website. At this point, all authors must submit their articles following the journal’s general procedures, explicitly indicating in their submission that they wish to be included in the special issue rather than in the miscellaneous section.

The priority for publishing a special issue, once it has passed the evaluation process, will be determined by strict order of submission, unless the coordinators request publication in a different issue. In such cases, this must be specified in advance by the coordinators and will depend on whether another proposal has already been accepted for the intended publication date.

REVIEWS

Reviews can be written in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, or Italian, and must not exceed four pages in length, adhering to the template format that can be downloaded from the following link: review format. Authors are requested to copy the parts of their review and paste them onto the corresponding sections of the template, keeping the template’s format in all aspects (logos, title, font sizes and types, paragraphs, headings, footnotes, and page numbers). This way, the review will be formatted to facilitate its layout.

EVALUATION

Works that do not comply with the “Format and Editorial Guidelines” and the citation style indicated on this website will not be accepted or evaluated.

All works will be analyzed with a plagiarism prevention tool. The journal’s editorial board may reject works if it considers that they exhibit plagiarism or present a high number of matches with other texts.

To maintain anonymity in the evaluation process, authors are advised to avoid citing themselves in the first person and not to include data in the article that would allow them to be identified (if the article passes the evaluation, personal data can be added before publication).

Articles that comply with the format and editorial guidelines will undergo a double evaluation process:

Initially, members of the Managing Team and Editorial Board will select the received works, assessing whether each article meets the following requirements: (1) The work strictly aligns with the journal’s topics (Medieval History, Modern History, and Historical Sciences and Techniques); (2) its writing and use of language are correct; (3) the bibliography is coherently cited and follows the International Harvard standard, and the article has sufficient bibliographic support; (4) it can be anonymously evaluated (since it contains no clues that would allow the identification of the author); and (5) it meets the required academic level and is not an essay or literary article, nor a summary of the state of the subject, but a contribution of real interest and relevance. In this first phase, articles may be rated as: “Passes the first selection,” “Passes the first selection if modifications are made,” or “Does not pass the first selection.” The Editorial Board will communicate the decision to the authors within 15 business days. In the second case (“Passes the first selection if modifications are made”), authors will have a maximum of one month to make the suggested changes.

In the case of a proposal for a monograph, its justification report will be evaluated by the Scientific Advisory Committee, which will have 15 business days to decide on the appropriateness of its publication. Only if the proposal is accepted by the committee members, the coordinator will send the articles in the manner and time specified by the journal’s guidelines. In no case can this deadline exceed the submission period for the issue in which it will be published.

Once the Editorial Board accepts the original submissions, they will be evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process by two recognized external experts in the field, who are not part of the Editorial Board. A third external reviewer will be called upon if the initial reports differ regarding the suitability for publication. The reviewers will be appointed by the members of the Scientific Advisory and Editorial Boards. A list of the members who participated in the evaluation will be published annually. The external reviewers will complete a scientific evaluation form in which they will assess the following aspects of the article: (1) The originality of the presented work, its impact on scientific production, its relevance, and interest; (2) the methodology applied throughout the work, with particular attention to the use and nature of sources, the solidity of its theoretical framework, and management of the bibliography; (3) the level of achievement of the objectives set by the author and its alignment with the journal’ goals (interdisciplinarity, knowledge dissemination, and innovative proposals in scientific knowledge); and (4) the formal presentation and/or scientific content. They will then make one of the following recommendations: "Publishable," "Publishable with modifications," or "Not publishable." Additionally, reviewers will have space in the form to provide any suggestions, indications, or corrections they deem appropriate. The review process will not exceed 30 calendar days. Once the reports are received, the Editorial Board will communicate the outcome to the author within a maximum of 15 business days.

In the case of contradictory reports, the Editorial Board will request a third report. Works with two positive reviews will be sent to the authors for them to make the necessary corrections suggested by the reviewers. Authors will have a maximum of one month to return the corrected articles, along with a report indicating the changes made based on the suggested modifications in the evaluation reports. After assessing the report and any changes made, a final decision on publication will be made, and the author will be informed. The Editorial Board's decision is final.

The Editorial Board may send the prepared original to the author for minor modifications that do not include content aspects, which should be sent within 10 business days.

The journal will aim to expedite the evaluation process. Authors are requested not to submit their articles to other journals until the evaluation outcome is known.