Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission process

The journal does not apply any cost to authors for publishing articles or reviews.

TST is open for receiving proposals for special issues, original articles and reviews throughout the year.

Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of recent submissions. Go to “Sign in” to a access an existing account or to “Register” to create a new account.

In the event that the articles are signed by more than one person, their authors must inform about the criteria chosen regarding the order of signature and about the specific contribution made by each participant. That information should be in a footnote at the beginning of the article. To guarantee anonymity in the evaluation, it must be included after the article has passed the evaluation.

Author Guidelines

The original articles will have a length of no more than 12,000 words and no less than 7,500 words, including title, Author's details, abstract, notes, tables, graphs, appendices, and bibliography. The graphic contents will be inserted in the corresponding places of the text with a title and the source. The bibliography used will be inserted at the end of the article.

Reviews of recent books or classic works will have an extension of no more than 3,000 words and no less than 1,500 words, including title, Author's data and bibliography. The bibliography used will be inserted at the end of the article.

Format and Editorial Norms

Articles must conform to the format that can be downloaded from this link: ARTICLE FORMAT.

Reviews must conform to the format that can be downloaded from this link: REVIEW FORMAT.

FOOTNOTES

Reference marks for footnotes will be placed after the puntuation marks. Example:

A continuación aparece en el texto una cita de Plinio: "Y a este propósito dice Plinio que no hay libro, por malo que sea, que no tenga alguna cosa buena";¹ pero no es la fuente directa el propio Plinio,² sino un espléndido prosista: Gabriel Alonso de Herrera. En 1513, en Alcalá de Henares, se imprime por primera vez su Obra de agricultura, creación pionera y maravilla de exactitud léxica.³

A 10-point font will be used for footnotes.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS

Bibliographical citations, both in the body of the text and in footnotes, should follow the English model: (Author's surname, year: page). For example: (Bloom, 1994: 25).

When several studies by the same author have been published in the same year, they will be identified by a small-case letter in alphabetical order following the year: (Bloom, 1994a; Bloom, 1994b...).

If the author's name is part of the sentence, only the date should be included in the parenthesis. Example: "Segarra (2006) holds a similar opinion on the matter".

If a work has between one and three authors, all of them are included. If there are two, they are separated by an "and"; if there are three, the first two are separated by a comma and the second and third by an "and". Example: "The analyses carried out in this respect (Barbastro, Pascual and Segura, 2021) indicate that...".

When a paper has more than three authors, the surname of the first author followed by "et al." must be cited. Example: "The latest studies (Fernández et al., 2018) show that...".

Other types of references, such as cit., op. cit., id., ibid... should not be used.

DOCUMENTARY/ARCHIVAL CITATIONS

Documentary/archive citations are included in footnotes as follows: Full name of the file/library, location, sections, file, box, etc. and folios/pages; Example: The National Archives (London), Foreign Office, FO 63/963, South Eastern Railway, 34-42v;

Citations from newspapers (without author indication) are included in footnotes as follows: Full name of the newspaper, number/volume (date of publication), pages. Examples:

* Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. 20, 1861, 56-57.

* Gazeta de Caminos de Hierro, vol. 27, no. 22 (May 28, 1882), p. 342.

* Illustração Portugueza, no. 206 (January 31, 1910), 246.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The final list of bibliographic references will be limited to the works cited and will differentiate, on the one hand, the archival sources, and on the other, the references of books, articles, etc. The sources (files, newspaper archives, etc.) consulted will be specified in a section before the bibliography. Next, in a separate section, the remaining references (books, articles, work documents, etc.) will be indicated, in alphabetical order, according to the International Harvard standar giving the authors' full first names (and not only their initials), using the following criteria:

a) Books:

- Surname(s), Name(s) (Year of publication). Title, Place of publication: Publisher.

- Examples:

* [1 author] Herranz Loncán, Alfonso (2008). Infraestructuras y crecimiento económico en España (1850-1935). Madrid: Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles.

* [2 authors] Mata, Maria Eugénia y Nuno Valério (1993). História económica de Portugal. Uma perspectiva global. Lisboa: Editorial Presença.

* [Three or more authors] Piret, Anne, Jean Nizet y Etienne Bourgeois (1996). L’analyse structurale. Une méthode d’analyse de contenu pour les sciences humaines. Bruxelas: De Boeck & Larcier.

b) Book chapters or dictionary/encyclopedia entry:

- Surname(s), Name(s) (Year of publication). “Title of the chapter”. In Name and Surname(s) of the editor (ed.). Title of the edited volume. Place of publication: Publisher, vol., pages.

- Examples:

* [1 author/1 editor] Molina de Dios, Ramón (2005). “Mallorca: un sistema ferroviario insular”. En Miguel Muñoz Rubio (ed.). Historia de los Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha en España. Madrid: Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, vol. 1, pp. 585-615.

* [2 authors/2 editors] Silva, Ana Paula y Maria Paula Diogo (2006). “From Host and Hostage: Portugal, Britain and the Atlantic Telegraph Networks”.  En Erik van der Vleuten y Arne Kaijser (eds.). Networking Europe. Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850-2000. Sagamore Beach: Science History Publications, pp. 51-70.

* [3 or more authors/editors] Silveira, Luís Espinha da, Nuno Miguel Lima y Ana Alcântara (2011).  “The impact of accessibility to railroads on the population of Portugal’s Inland North Region (1878-1930). The Tua and the Beira Baixa lines”. En Anne McCants, Eduardo Beira, José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro y Paulo B. Lourenço (eds.). Railroads in Historical Context: construction, costs and consequences. Porto: INOVATEC, vol. 1, pp. 123-141.

c) Articles:

If the article has a persistent identifier such as DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or Handle (persistent identifier used by repositories), it will be included at the end of the reference, without indicating the date of consultation, according to the following model:

- Surname(s), Name(s) (Year of Publication). “Title of the article”. Name of the journal, volume, number, initial and final pages, DOI (if available).

- Examples:

Utrera Torremocha, María Victoria (2022). “El criterio de verosimilitud en la crítica de Larra”. Castilla. Estudios de Literatura, 8, pp. 25-46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/cel.13.2022.582-611.

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, the web page where it is available and the date of consultation should be indicated in square brackets, according to the following model:

- Surname(s), Name(s) (Year of Publication). “Title of the article”. Name of the journal, volume, number, initial and final pages, Available at URL [dd/mm/yy].

- Examples:

* [1 author] Salerno, Elena (2002). “Los Ferrocarriles del Estado, conectividad y política en la Argentina”. Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones, 4, pp. 217-235.

* [2 authors] Hirsch, Marianne y Leo Spitzer (2009). “Incongruous Images: «Before, During, and After» The Holocaust”. History And Theory, 48, pp. 9-25.

* [3 or more authors] Vleuten, Erik van der, Irene Anastasiadou, Vincent Lagendijk y Frank Schipper (2007). “Europe’s System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks”. Contemporary European History, 16, 3, pp. 321-347, DOI: 10.1017/S0960777307003967

d) Unpublished theses:

- Surname(s), Name(s) (Year of presentation). Title of the thesis. Unpublished Doctoral/Master's Thesis, University where it was presented.

- Examples: Santos, Luís Filipe Lopes dos (2011). Política Ferroviaria Ibérica: de Principios de Siglo XX a la Agrupación de los Ferrocarriles (1901-1951). Tesis Doctoral inédita, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

e) Documentary and archival citations (footnotes)

- Full name of the file/library (location), sections, file, box, etc.

- Example: The National Archives (London), Foreign Office, FO 63/963, South Eastern Railway.

f) Newspapers

- Full name of the newspaper, number (date of publication)

- Examples:

* Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, vol. 20, 1861.

* Gazeta de Caminos de Hierro, vol. 27, no. 22 (May 28, 1882).

* Illustração Portugueza, no. 206 (January 31, 1910).