Submissions

Author Guidelines

Articles

1.- Articles should be sent through the platform in a Word file. They should be presented paginated, in Times New Roman 12 in the text and Times New Roman 10 in the footnotes. The title should be presented in the original language and capital letters, and in English, in lower case. Next, the abstract of the text (not exceeding 700 characters) and keywords (ten maximum) should be presented in Spanish and English; the journal's management will be in charge of the Catalan version of the abstract and keywords. The bibliography cited in the text will be presented at the end of the text. Bibliographical references and documentary sources should be placed in footnotes and never in the body of the text. Articles should be between 43,000 and 63,000 characters long, including notes, bibliography, and spaces.

2.- Footnotes should be placed after the punctuation mark.

3.- The original historical documents used should be indicated in the footnotes, identifying the name of the archives and/or museums consulted and the data of the corresponding source as follows:

   * Letters of presentation of fr. Andrés Herrero in Archivio de la Sagrada Congregatione de Propaganda Fide (ASCPF). Scritture Riferite Nei Congressi (SRNC). America Meridionale (AM). Vol.6. Years 1826-1842, folios 185-240.

   * When the reference is the same as above, it will be cited as Ibid.

   * When the reference is the same as the previous one but some data varies, it will be cited as Ibid: page(s).

4.- The historical press used should be indicated in the footnotes following this model: Name and surname of the author [if known], «Title of the article», Name of the newspaper or journal, place of publication, and date. The date should be indicated as follows: d/m/yyyyyy. Example: 7/1/1852.

Bibliographical references should be indicated in the footnotes following this model: Author's surname, year of publication of the work, and the page(s). Example: Pérez, 2015: 20. In the case of citing a page(s) of a volume, it will be indicated as follows: (d'Orbigny, 2002, I: 34).

6.- The text, in the case of including textual quotations, if they do not exceed three lines, should be included in the text, in quotation marks and marked with low quotation marks («»); in the case of wanting to emphasize some word(s) or phrase(s), it should be put in italics, also called italics, and it should be indicated, in a note, if it is in the original or is from the author (italics in the original; italics from the author). If a quotation is longer than three lines, it should be separated from the text with a blank line at the beginning and the end, indented to the left, in Times New Roman 11 and with the corresponding bibliographical or documentary reference at the foot of the page with the corresponding callout. If a word that does not appear in the original should be inserted within a citation, or if a reference is to be made to an error in the original, this should be indicated by placing the word in square brackets [que].

7.- The bibliography cited in the text should include the following references, in alphabetical order:

Book: Surname author, Name author (Year). Title of the book. City where it was published: Publisher.

   * Example: Carrasco, Pedro (1996). Estructura político-territorial del imperio tenochca. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Journal article: Surname author, Name author (Year). «Title of the article». Name of the cited journal, number or volume, and pages.

   * Example: Langue, Frédérique (1995). «La representación venezolana en las cortes de Cádiz: José Domingo Rus». Boletín Americanista, 45, pp. 221-248.

Articles in collective works: Surname author, Name author (Year). «Title of the chapter». In: Surname author, personal name (ed., dir., or coord.). Title of the collective book. City: Publisher, pp.

   * Example: Zamora, Elías (1986). «Resistencia maya a la colonización: levantamientos indígenas en Guatemala durante el siglo XVI». In: Rivera, Miguel and Ciudad, Andrés (ed). Los Mayas de los tiempos tardíos. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas, pp. 197-214.

8.- Bibliographical references with more than 3 authors should be cited both in the footnotes and in the final bibliography as follows: SSurname author, Name author, et. al. (Year). «Title of the article». Name of the cited Journal, number or volume, pp. or Title of the book. City: Publisher, pp.

* Example: Aguilera, Felipe et al. (2016). «Eruptive activity of Planchón-Peteroa volcano for period 2010-2011, Southern Andean Volcanic Zone, Chile». Andean Geology, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 20-46.

9.- Tables and graphs should be included in the article, and also in attached files corresponding to the computer program used, identifying if it is taken from another work or if it is a personal elaboration. Illustrations, engravings and photographs should be included in the text and also outside the text, in jpg or tiff format and in high resolution. A maximum of 5 figures (illustrations, engravings and/or photographs) will be accepted as long as they are justified in the text and approved by the evaluators. In all cases, the origin of the resource used must be identified in the text with the initial term «Source». Each area mentioned must be clearly labelled with numbers.

10.- The writing of manuscripts shall consider where appropriate the Criteria of the University of Barcelona (https://www.ub.edu/cub/criteris.php).

11.- The Editorial Committee will decide whether or not to accept the final papers, as well as the volume in which they will be published. Authors will receive their article in pdf version and a paper copy.

Dossiers

The dossiers published by the Boletín Americanista consist of an introduction and five articles. The rules indicated above also apply to each of the articles in the dossier.  The presentation may not exceed 15,000 characters.

Steps to follow for the presentation of dossiers:

The dossier coordinator(s) will supervise the writing process of the manuscripts that will make up the dossier to ensure that they meet the editorial standards of the Boletín Americanista.

When the dossier is ready to be submitted, the coordinator(s) will register and upload the presentation of the dossier to the journal's platform, indicating that it be included in the «Dossier» section. If there are several coordinators, a single record will be made with the data of each of the coordinators.

Once the presentation of the dossier has been uploaded on the platform, the coordinator will advise the authors of each article to register on the platform and upload their manuscripts. When there are several authors of the same article, a single record will be made in which the data of each of the authors will be included.

The time elapsed between the registration of the submission of the dossier and the submission of all the articles that comprise it should not exceed 7 days, being the coordinator/s of the dossier in charge of ensuring compliance with this requirement.

All articles in the dossier will be submitted to a blind external peer review process.

A dossier will only be published if at least four of the articles in the dossier have been accepted for publication. On the contrary, if the number of accepted articles is less, they will be published as independent articles in the corresponding section.

Reviews

Reviews must contain full details of the work reviewed, as well as those of the author. They should not exceed 8,000 characters (including spaces) and should be submitted in the same format as the articles.

The publication of any review requires the previous sending by ordinary mail of a copy of the reviewed book to the following address:

Boletín Americanista. Area of History of America, Department of History and Archaeology. Faculty of Geography and History, Universitat de Barcelona. C/Montalegre 6, 08001, Barcelona, Spain.