Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal Vegueta: Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia aims to include original and unpublished articles and bibliographic reviews on recent publications. The content of submitted work should follow the editorial line of this Journal. The original articles submitted to the Editorial Board should also follow the instructions set out below.

I. General

1. Papers should be in Spanish, English, French or Portuguese and should be originals. Published works or works submitted to other publications should not be included. However, if such works must be published, original source must be included. Papers in other languages could be accepted by the Editorial Board if there is a general interest.

2. Authors of accepted originals assign copyright and copies of their papers before publication. This assignment is intended to protect the mutual interest of authors and editors. The form for this procedure is available on our website (download here).

It is the responsibility of an author to obtain any necessary permission for quotation of copyright material. The author should ensure that written permission to reproduce material, including illustrations, is granted.

3. The opinions and facts contained in each paper are the sole responsibility of their authors. The Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is not responsible, in any case, for the credibility and authenticity of the works.

II. Procedure for Reviewing Original Papers

4. Papers will be evaluated by anonymous peer reviewers. All papers submitted to the Editorial Board will be sent to two external reviewers, specialists on the subject, who will return them together with an evaluation report that will determine whether the papers complies with the Procedures for Submission of Papers. Papers will be accepted or rejected within four months of receipt.

III. Sending originals
5. This journal uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) to manage anonymous peer review. All submissions must be processed through this system. If you have not previously submitted an article to this journal through OJS, you must first register here. Please make sure you have read these instructions for authors beforehand.
6. The journal Secretariat will acknowledge receipt of all manuscripts received within twenty working days of receipt. Such notification will not be considered as a declaration of acceptance for publication, which will be determined by the positive evaluation by external refereeing (see § 3).
7. In a separate Word file, the following data must be provided: full address of the author(s), research centre or university to which he/she belongs, contact telephone number, e-mail address and ORCID of the author(s). For the acceptance of the work it is essential to send a letter signed by all the authors certifying the declaration of authorship, good practices and cession of rights. A form is available for authors on the journal's website (download here).
8. Articles and bibliographical reviews submitted for publication must comply strictly with the rules detailed below.

IV. Format and length
9. Articles should be written in the most common word processors for PC or Macintosh (preferably DOC or ASCII format), single-spaced, with a maximum length of 25 pages (approximately 11,000 words written in Times New Roman 12-point font), including figures, tables, notes and bibliography. Contributions submitted for publication in the Reviews section should not exceed 5 pages (approximately 7,000 words in Times New Roman 12-point font).
10. The document must have the following format: margins (top 2.5 cm; bottom 2.5 cm; left 2.5 cm; right 2.5 cm); binding 0 cm; header 1.25 cm; footer 1.25 cm; paper size DIN-A4; vertical orientation.
11. Papers should be written in Times New Roman font, the type size varying as follows: 12 points for the text, including headings; 11 points for indented quotations within the text and captions for photos, figures, graphs or illustrations; 10 points for notes. References to the centuries in which certain events took place should be in small capitals (e.g. 19th CENTURY).

V. Structure and content
12. Articles should follow the IMR&D model (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) and include the following sections:
a) Introduction, with the objective of the study.
b) A brief explanation of the methodology, including sources and historiographical references on the issue.
c) Development of the research results, contribution and originality to what is already known.
d) Clear and concise conclusions.
e) References.
13. In addition, articles must necessarily include the following elements: title; abstract (maximum 120 words); keywords (no more than five terms), all of them also translated into English. The title in the main language must be centred in Times New Roman font size 14 and in bold, the title in English in 14 points and in italics; the abstract and keywords in 10.5 points, with the headings in bold (Abstract; Keywords).
14. The headings into which the body of the paper is subdivided (including the introduction and conclusions) must be ordered in a correlative order with Arabic numerals. In no case should the hierarchy of the internal divisions of the text exceed the third level. (e.g. 1. METHODOLOGY); second level headings should be written in bold and lower case (e.g.: 1.1. Sources of information; 1.2. Spatial analysis); third level headings should be written in lower case and in italics (e.g.: 1.1.1. Historical sources). A space should be left between the title of the headings and the text. The first line of the paragraph should be indented 1 cm.
Example.
1. INTRODUCTION
The Second World War (1939-1945) unleashed an ideological conflict...

If a specific acknowledgments section is included, it must be placed before the bibliography. Documentary annexes, if they exist, should be placed at the end of the text.
15. Regarding the content of the works, authors are recommended to pay attention to the following observations: the title of the article must be concise and refer, as precisely as possible, to the content of the work; summaries will include the objectives, methods, results and conclusions of the work presented (within the space limitations established in § 13); The keywords will include the terms or names that facilitate the location of the article in computer searches in databases by subject, methodology, chronology and geographical location; the translations of the title, summary and keywords must be carried out with the greatest possible rigor;; The final section of references will collect exclusively the bibliography cited in the text, following the guidelines established below (§§ 29-31).

VI. Reviews
16. The bibliographic reviews will be headed by the complete bibliographic information of the reviewed work in bold: full name of the author/s; full title of the work (including subtitle, if it has one); publisher, collection (or series) and number within it; place and year of publication; pages and ISBN.
17. If the reviews include bibliographic references, these must be added in the body of the text, following the instructions indicated below (section 29-31).

VII. Illustrations and formulas
18. Texts may be accompanied by illustrations, as long as they have the necessary quality to be reproduced (minimum size of 15 x 10 cm and minimum resolution of 300 dpi, although 600 dpi is recommended). The illustrations must provide important information for the work, not repetitive with respect to the text, so it is recommended not to include banal illustrations.
19. Illustrations will be delivered on computer support, preferably in TIF format.
20. All illustrations will have an explanatory caption, which will state the source of the data. The captions of the illustrations will be delivered on a separate page, ordered consecutively. They must specify complete identification data, including its authorship or origin in parentheses. Regarding the reproduction rights of illustrations, see what was said above (§ 2).
21. For illustrations, a distinction will be made between Figures (drawings, maps and line plans), Tables, Plates (photographs and slides) and Graphs. The illustrations will be delivered in independent files and a complete list of them will be attached in a separate text document, numbered in Arabic, in the same order in which they are cited in the text.
22. The formulas will be included in the text with the Microsoft Equation Editor.

VIII. Citations, acronyms and abbreviations
23. Short textual quotations (less than 50 words) will be written between angular or Latin quotation marks ("..."). In no case will high or English quotation marks (“…”) be used, except within a text marked between angular quotation marks or in the title of the article or abstract in English. Long textual quotations (more than 50 words) will always be written in a separate indented paragraph, without quotation marks, with the body of the letter indicated above (§ 11).
24. Within the textual quotations, text breaks or gaps will be indicated with three points in round parentheses (...), comments within a quote or the author's additions will be written in square parentheses [...].
25. Bibliographic citations will be included in the text of the article, in abbreviated form, as indicated in § 29.
26. The references of the textual quotations will be cited in the text itself when they come from published works (cf. § 29). In the event that the citations collect information from unpublished sources, the reference may be included in a note. The note number will always come after the punctuation mark.
27. Acronyms and abbreviations, both those used in the text and in the notes, will be specified clearly, preferably in the first note of the article. The standardized or most frequently used acronyms and abbreviations in the specialty on which the work is covered will be used (for example, AHN = National Historical Archive).
28. It is recommended to cite figures and tables in the text, so that they form an active part of the publication. To do this, the references to the figures in the text will be cited as follows: Fig. 1. While the tables will be cited as follows: Table 1. Both the figure captions and the table captions will indicate the full name (Figure 1.; Table 1.).

IX. Bibliographic references
29. Bibliographic citations will appear included in the text in parentheses, citing the last name of the author or authors in small caps, year of publication and, if applicable, the number of the corresponding page or pages, as follows: (MORALES, 1988: 82 ), (BAUER AND SHERMAN, 1999: 72), (VELÁZQUEZ ET AL., 1985).
30. The bibliographical references cited in the text will be included in the References (cf. § 12e), ordered alphabetically by the author's first surname and, within the references of the same author, by chronological order. In the case of several publications in the same year, these will be differentiated, following the order in which they appear cited in the text, using letters (Example: 1995a, 1995b, 1995c). Bibliographic references will have a French indentation of 1 cm on their second line. The last names of the authors will be separated with a semicolon and will be put in small caps.
31. The titles of the articles and book chapters will be written without quotation marks, the titles of the works in italics, preceded by the preposition "en", if they are collective works. For electronic resources, please follow the International Standard ISO 690-2, available on the journal's website, in addition to including the DOI of those references that have them.
Examples:
BAUER, B. D.; SHERMAN, D. J. (1999): Coastal dune dynamics: problems and prospects, in A. S. GOUDIE; I. LIVINGSTONE; S. SOKES (eds.), Aeolian environments, sediments and landforms, John Wiley and sons, London: 71-104.
BETHENCOURT MASSIEU, A. (1992): The royal chaplains of the Cathedral of Las Palmas, the Chapter and the Royal Board of Trustees (1515-1750), Vegueta, 0: 55-65.
GUITIÁN, C.; MARTIN, F.; NADAL, I. (1983): Sedimentary formations from the Middle Quaternary to the Holocene on the island of Gran Canaria, in VIII Geography Colloquium, vol. 1, AGE, Pamplona: 239-242.
RUMEU DE ARMAS, A. (1947): Piracy and naval attacks against the Canary Islands, Instituto Jerónima Zurita, CSIC, Madrid.

X. Style rules
32. The magazine adheres to the standards approved by the Association of Spanish Language Academies for everything related to grammatical and spelling issues. In addition, Vegueta reserves the right to introduce stylistic corrections to the texts to adapt them to its editing standards and the general nature of the magazine, especially in the formal issues listed above. The magazine has a style editor and proofreader in English, who will check the correct translation of the title, summary and keywords of the article. Regarding style standards, in the event of disagreement with the author, the magazine's criteria will prevail.

XI. Test fixes
33. The authors will receive a single printing proof, agreeing to correct their originals within a maximum period of fifteen days after receipt. Print proofs of articles signed by two or more authors will be sent to the first of the signatories, unless otherwise indicated by them, which must be indicated at the time of sending the work for publication.
34. Authors may make certain minor changes to the proofs, which will be limited to grammatical, spelling and typographical errors according to the journal's standards. No modifications may be introduced that significantly alter the typographical adjustment. The authors, under no circumstances, may introduce excessive modifications that may affect the editing costs of the journal.

XII. Separates
35. The authors will receive a free copy of the article or review in computer format (PDF format), as an offprint, so that they can disseminate it among their potential readers.