Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal Cuadernos de Historia Moderna (ISSN: 0214-4018 / ISSN-e: 1988-2475) is a scientific journal published by the Department of Early Modern and Contemporary History of the Faculty of Geography and History of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It specialises in the history of Spain, Europe and the World in the Early Modern period. It publishes one volume a year, consisting of two issues: the first one is miscellaneous (being published in the first semester), while the other is a special issue (and is published in the second semester). It has two sections, Studies and Reviews, and a specific section for the miscellaneous issue, Instruments, which aims to showcase the interest and diversity of the documentary collections corresponding to the Early Modern Age in state Archives and Libraries. The second issue also includes the list of doctoral theses and research studies defended in the area of Early Modern History at the Department of Early Modern and Contemporary History, as well as the list of reviewers who have collaborated with the journal in the previous year. It accepts papers in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Cuadernos de Historia Moderna is also an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available at no charge to individuals or their institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without seeking prior permission from the publisher or author. In addition, it does not charge submission fees, nor does it charge fees for the publication of its articles.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

•  Submitting an article to this journal implies the acceptance of the Declaration of Originality and Authorship.
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• The format of the file sent is OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF.
• Web addresses have been included for references whenever possible.
• DOI references have been included when available.
• The text meets the reference and style requirements described in the Author Guidelines, which may be found in About the Journal.
• If you are submitting something for a peer-reviewed section of the journal, please make sure you have followed the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review.

Author Guidelines

1. All papers submitted to Cuadernos de Historia Moderna CHM) for possible publication must be original and refer to early Modern History. They must conform to the requirements stablished in this publication guidelines and to the standards of quality and scientific rigour in accordance with the category of this journal. This will be a required criterion in the acceptance and evaluation of the proposed papers.

Articles must be submitted using the online platform OJS, which can be accessed at <https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHMO/user/register. After registering as an author, proceed according to the indications given in the application. Any queries regarding the submission of articles can be addressed to the journal secretariat (cumodern@ghis.ucm.es).

2. Original papers that have been submitted simultaneously to other journals will not be accepted. If the paper has been presented or published before, totally or partially, in any scientific meeting (congress, seminar, etc.) or platform, the authors must inform the Journal of this circumstance when submitting it. They must also inform of any conflict of interest in relation to the work submitted for publication.

3. Papers will have a maximum lengthof twenty-five pages (equivalent to approximately 75,000 characters with spaces) for the “Estudios” section, twenty pages (60,000 characters with spaces) for the “Instrumentos” section, two pages for the “Crónica” section and another two pages for the Bibliographical Reviews section (equivalent to 7,500 characters). Where appropriate, it is understood that notes, tables, maps, charts, graphs, textual appendices, and bibliographies are included. For the Bibliographic review section, will be taken into consideration those volumes which, in their paper or digital edition, are received by the journal and which, after review by the members of the Editorial Board, are considered to be of interest for studies in the field of Early Modern History. The Editorial Board itself, in accordance with the nature and topic of the volumes, will select the authors of the reviews it considers most appropriate. It will send them the corresponding invitation, indicating the deadlines, format and length of the texts to be submitted.

All graphic material must be original and not photocopied from other publications; the title and number of the table, map or graphic material must be indicated and always referred to in the text or in the notes, in order to be able to alter its placement if deemed necessary in the final layout of the contribution. Illustrations shall be published in black and white.

A maximum of 10 illustrations will be sent. They must be presented in color or black and white, with maximum resolution in JPG/TIFF format, and must be numbered consecutively. The call in the text will adopt the following format: (fig. 1). The authors are responsible for the management of the reproduction rights. In addition to sending the images as independent files, they will be presented consecutively in a single Word or PDF document, accompanied by their respective references, to facilitate the review work.

4. The originals sent to the CHM Secretariat must be accompanied by the following information in a separate word document: the title of the contribution (in Spanish and English); the author's name; his/her academic qualifications; contact details (home and/or professional address, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses); details of the scientific institution to which he/she is linked; the date of submission of the article and a brief curriculum vitae (15 lines).

5. The journal is published primarily in Spanish, although articles may be published in other languages if these are the authors' mother tongue.

6. The text of the articles must be submitted in an anonymized version. All references, quotations, mentions and acknowledgements that could directly or indirectly identify authorship will be removed. The Journal will ensure that all texts comply with this condition before starting the evaluation process. Once the article has been accepted for publication, the author shall submit the non-anonymised version, including his/her institution, institutional email address and ORCID identifier.

6. a) In the event that there is more than one author, the order of signature that appears in the final document sent to the Secretariat of this journal (after the peer review) process) will be respected. The same order will appear in the Declaration of Originality and Authorship that all authors must complete before the final publication of their respective papers. An author is understood to be the person who has participated significantly in the conception, data collection, writing and revision of an article. Authors must specify their degree of participation in the published text by including a section entitled “Individual contribution” before the final bibliography. Authors are solely responsible for the content of the articles, as well as for not plagiarising or self-plagiarising. More information at the following link: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHMO/autoria

7. Papers must include a title, in Spanish and English, related to the content of the article; a linguistically correct abstract in Spanish and English, with a maximum of 10 lines each, and six key words, separated by semicolons, for indexing in both languages. They must also include a final list of the bibliography and a summary (immediately after Keywords) containing the headings into which the work is divided (including Introduction, Conclusions and Bibliography). The methodology, objectives and relevance of the work must be rigorously explained at the beginning of the article and must be appropriate to the area of knowledge of the journal.

8. In a first note, authors must declare any financial or personal relationship with any public or private entity that could intentionally influence the results of their work. This first note should also include any acknowledgements that the author wishes to make. The information contained in this point must always be included in the final version of the text in order to guarantee the anonymity of the peer review.

9. Authors must declare any non-financial relationship that could cause a conflict of interest (personal, academic, ideological, intellectual, political or religious). Conflicts of interest must be disclosed at the time of the submission. A note entitled “conflict of interest” or “none” (in case of absence) will be published at the end of the article.

10. Cuadernos de Historia Moderna promotes the use of inclusive and unbiased language. Articles will not contain assumptions about beliefs or allegiances, and will avoid any claims of superiority relating to race, gender, culture or any other quality.

10. a) In those cases requiring it, the authors must inform in the introduction of their work of the degree of relevance that the sex/gender variable has had in the design of their research, methodological proposal, results and discussion. In such cases, they should also state whether the conclusions of their work have taken into account possible sex/gender differences.

11. Manuscripts must be adapted to the following style guide:

11. a) All contributions will have this format: page size 24 x 17 cm., top and bottom margins 2,6 cm., left 2,1 cm. and right 1,8 cm.; Times New Roman and 12 points line spacing with an indent (0.5 cm) at the start of each new paragraph. Headings will be in bold and capital letters; first level sub-headings will be in italics.

11. b) Footnote marks in the main text shall always be preceded by a punctuation mark.

11. c) Quotations of more than four lines: Times New Roman 11, eleven space, and 1 cm. indented from the main text to the left without quotation marks. Footnotes: Times New Roman 10, eleven points line spacing. Paragraphs, words or quotations in a language other than Spanish (or the original paper’s language) will be in italics.

11. d) Documents and manuscripts references: type of sources (administrative records, letters, ...), author or producing institution, addressee (if known), date (place, day, month and year developed); and the current reference of the archive or library: full name of the archive or library (adding its acronym in capital letters in the first reference), sections, unit on the original language (legajo/leg, manuscript/ms., box/box, folder/carp., dossier/exp....), and foliation/pagination (if necessary and with the formula fol./fols. or p./pp.). Consider the following examples:

²⁷ Consulta del Consejo de Estado sobre los preparativos de la embajada a Persia, Madrid, 21 de enero de 1613, Archivo General de Simancas (AGS), Estado, leg. 2.643, s. fol.

³⁶ Copia de la “Relaçión de Juan Hervart tusón de oro de lo pasado en la investidura del tusón que se dio a Don Juan Baptista de Capua Príncipe de Caspuli y de Conca, por manos del Conde de Solre en la Iglesia del convento de St. Bernardino de franciscos descalços fuera de los muros de Madrid, en el día de St. Juan a 24 de junio 1633”, Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE), Ms. 11.137, fols. 1r-10v.

If a source has already been mentioned in a previous footnote, an abbreviated reference will be made by the abbreviation of the archive or library included in the first mention.

11. e) Bibliographical referenceswill follow The Chicago Manual of Stylewith the system “Notes and bibliography"as it appears in the following UCM link: https://www.ucm.es/ediciones-complutense/citas-y-bibliografia

11. f) References to images: Author, Title, date, technique, measurements, city, institution [inventory number].

11. g) Consider the following formulas and abbreviations: ed./eds. (edition/editor/s); coord./coords. (coordinator/coordinators); dir./dirs. (director/directors); comp. (compiler); trad. (translation/translator); see (instead of: v./vid); p./pp. (page/pages); t./tt. (tomo/tomos); vol. (volume/volumes); vol./vols. (volume/volumes); fol./fols. (folio/folios); fig./figs. (figure/figures); lám./láms. (print/prints); cap./caps. (chapter/chapters); núm./núms. (number/numbers); leg./legs. (file/files); c. (box); c. (box); book (not shown); book (not shown). (box); libro (not to be abbreviated); exp. (expediente); carp. (folder); doc./docs. (document/s); ca. (circa instead of “ca.” or “h.”);

11. h) In main text, should always be used inverted commas (“example”). If these require further internal inverted commas, single inverted commas (ʻexampleʼ) should be used. To insert explanations, intermediate hyphens should be used as parentheses: -example of hyphens- and long dashes (⸺) should be used only for dialogues.

12. Once the manuscript has been received, the Editorial Board will check that the text submitted complies with the CHM style guidelines in no more than 15 days. If any formal defects are detected, the author will be notified so that he/she may adapt the text.

12. a) The original manuscripts received will be subject to an internal review by the members of the Editorial Board, who will decide whether they are in line with the thematic lines and chronology of the journal and meet the scientific quality criteria required to be sent to the anonymous external reviewers. This process will be completed in accordance with the following criteria: writing, methodology and primary sources used, originality/relevance of the contribution and conclusions.

12.b) The originals received that successfully pass the internal review carried out by the members of the CHM Editorial Board will be subject to scientific evaluation by a double blind peer review system, carried out by experts of recognised prestige in the field and external to the Editorial Board. The external reviewers will be assigned by the Editorial Board and will have an estimated period of four months to issue an opinion on the work. A positive evaluation by both evaluators will be required for final publication. In the event of not receiving a positive evaluation from both reviewers, the original will be submitted for a third evaluation. Further information can be found at the following link: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHMO/revision

13. The report could be considered “Accepted”, “Accepted with modifications” or “Rejected”. In the second case, authors will be suggested changes to be published. If it is rejected, authors will be notified of the reasons given by the reviewers. The main criteria in this evaluation will be: sources and methodology used, relevance and updating of the bibliography, compliance with publishing standards, writing in the language of publication, structure and originality, conclusions and the general scientific interest of the work, as well as its most significant contributions.

13a. The final acceptance, and therefore publication, of the articles submitted to Cuadernos de Historia Moderna will be subject to the author’s observance of all the journal's style guide.

14. As a general criterion, articles will not be accepted from authors who have recently published in CHM, respecting in all cases a period of no less than five years since the last time. This criterion will not apply to the Bibliographical Reviews section, and to “Instrumentos” section.

15. The CHM journal pledges to initiate and complete the evaluation process within a period not exceeding one year, and to inform the author of the results. After receiving the referees’ reports, the author will have fifteen working days to make the necessary corrections and amendments, and to send the text to the secretariat of the journal, which will verify that the required changes have been made before proceeding to publication.

16. If the original is accepted by CHM, the author, once been informed, must communicate his/her agreement or resignation within a maximum seven days.

17. The CHM journal pledges to publish the accepted original within two years after its approval; otherwise, it must request the author's agreement to adjust the new publication date or the withdrawal of the accepted original.

18. In the proof correction process, no new variations or additions to the text will be admitted. Authors must correct the first proofs within fifteen days; otherwise, it will be understood that they accept the correction made by the Editorial Board of the journal. The second proofs will be corrected by the Editorial Board.

For further information, please refer to the editorial policy of Cuadernos de Historia Moderna at the following link: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CHMO/politicas