Guide for Authors

The journal Vegueta: Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia aims to include original and unpublished articles and bibliographic reviews on recent publications.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 written in Times New Roman 12 point).
10. The document should 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 size of which will vary 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. It is recommended that articles follow the IMR&D model (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) and have 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. 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 acknowledgements section is included, it should be placed before the bibliography. Documentary annexes, if any, should be placed at the end of the text.
15. With regard to the content of the papers, authors are recommended to pay attention to the following observations: the title of the article should be concise and refer, as precisely as possible, to the content of the paper; abstracts should include the aims, methods, results and conclusions of the work presented (within the space limitations set out in § 13); keywords should include terms or names that facilitate the location of the article in computer searches in databases by subject, methodology, chronology and geographical location; translations of the title, abstract and keywords should be as rigorous as possible; the final section of references should include only the bibliography cited in the text, following the guidelines established below (§§ 29-31).

VI. Recensions
16. Bibliographic reviews will be headed by the complete bibliographic information of the work in bold type: full name of the author/s; full title of the work (including subtitle, if any); publisher, collection (or series) and number within the same; place and year of publication; pages and ISBN.
17. If reviews include bibliographical references, these should be added in the body of the text, following the instructions below (section 29-31).

VII. Illustrations and formulae
18. The text may be accompanied by illustrations, provided that they are of the necessary quality to be reproduced (minimum size of 15 x 10 cm and minimum resolution of 300 dpi, although 600 dpi is recommended). 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 must be submitted on computer support, preferably in TIF format.
20. All illustrations must have an explanatory caption, stating the source of the data. The captions of the illustrations must be submitted on a separate page, in correlative order. They must specify the complete identification data, including the authorship or origin in brackets. On the rights of reproduction of illustrations, see above (§ 2).
21. For illustrations, a distinction must be made between Figures (drawings, maps and line plans), Tables, Plates (photographs and slides) and Graphics. Illustrations should be submitted in separate files and a complete list of illustrations, numbered in Arabic numerals, in the same order in which they are cited in the text, should be attached in a separate text document.
22. Formulas shall be included in the text with the Microsoft Equation Editor.

VIII. Citations, abbreviations and acronyms
23. Short textual quotations (less than 50 words) should be written between angle or Latin inverted commas (‘...’). High or English inverted commas (‘...’) should not be used in any case, except within a text marked in angle quotation marks or in the title of the article or abstract in English. Long quotations (more than 50 words) should always be written in a separate paragraph, indented, without quotation marks, in the typeface indicated above (§ 11).
24. Within textual quotations, text breaks or gaps should be indicated by three dots in round brackets (...), comments within a quotation or additions by the author should be written in square brackets [...].
25. Bibliographical citations will be included in the text of the article itself, in abbreviated form, as indicated in § 29.
26. References to textual citations should be cited in the text itself when they come from published works (cf. § 29). In the case of quotations from unpublished sources, the reference may be given in a note. The number of the note must always follow the punctuation mark.
27. Acronyms and abbreviations, both those used in the text and in the notes, should be clearly specified, preferably in the first note of the article. The acronyms and abbreviations used should be standardised or those most frequently used in the field of the article (e.g. AHN = National Historical Archive).
Figures and tables should be cited in the text so that they form an active part of the publication. To this end, references to figures in the text should be cited as follows: Fig. 1. While tables should be cited as follows: Table 1. Both figure captions and table captions should indicate the full name (Figure 1.; Table 1.).

IX. Bibliographical references
29. Bibliographical citations will appear in the text in brackets, citing the surname of the author(s) in VERSALITA, year of edition and, if appropriate, the number of the corresponding page(s), 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, in chronological order. In the case of several publications in the same year, these will be differentiated, following the order in which they appear in the text, by means of letters (e.g. 1995a, 1995b, 1995c). Bibliographical references should be indented on the second line with a French indentation of 1 cm. Authors' surnames should be separated by a semicolon and placed in VERSALITA.
31. Titles of articles and book chapters should be written without inverted commas, titles of works in italics, preceded by the preposition ‘en’ in the case of collective works. For electronic resources, please follow the International Standard ISO 690-2, available on the journal's website, and include the DOI of those references that have it.
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): ‘Los capellanes reales de la Catedral de Las Palmas, el Cabildo y el Real Patronato (1515-1750)’, Vegueta, 0: 55-65.
GUITIÁN, C.; MARTÍN, F.; NADAL, I. (1983): ‘Formaciones sedimentarias del Cuaternario Medio al Holoceno en la isla de Gran Canaria’, in VIII Coloquio de Geografía, vol. 1, AGE, Pamplona: 239-242.
RUMEU DE ARMAS, A. (1947): Piraterías y ataques navales contra las Islas Canarias, Instituto Jerónima Zurita, CSIC, Madrid.

X. Rules of style
32. The journal follows the rules approved by the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (Association of Spanish Language Academies) for all matters relating to grammar and spelling. In addition, Vegueta reserves the right to introduce style corrections in the texts in order to adapt them to its editorial standards and to the general nature of the journal, especially in the formal matters mentioned above. The journal has a proofreader and proofreader in English, who will check the correct translation of the title, abstract and keywords of the article. With regard to the rules of style, in the event of disagreement with the author, the journal's criteria will prevail.

XI. Proofreading
33. Authors will receive only one proof of printing and undertake to correct their originals within a maximum period of fifteen days after receipt. Proofs of articles signed by two or more authors will be sent to the first of the signatories, unless otherwise indicated by the signatories, which must be indicated at the time of sending the paper for publication.
34. Authors may make certain minor changes to the proofs, which will be limited to grammatical, spelling and typographical errors in accordance with the journal's rules. No changes may be made that significantly alter the typographical adjustment. Authors may under no circumstances introduce excessive modifications that could affect the publication costs of the journal.

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