Introduction
De Medio Aevo (ISSN-e 2255-5889) is a biannual scientific journal published by the CAPIRE Research Group (Collective for the Multidisciplinary Analysis of European Religious Iconography), attached to the Complutense University of Madrid. The thematic coverage of this journal covers lifestyles, historical events, cultural processes, religion and beliefs, society and customs, mentality, artistic productions, systematizations of thought, science and technology, literary expressions in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and medieval Romance languages, epigraphic and palaeographic documents, or any other topic referring to the Middle Ages. De Medio Aevo is a multidisciplinary scientific journal and, as such, is aimed at recipients interested in many different fields of knowledge. Its four sections are: "Monographic", "Miscellany", "Reviews" and "In Memoriam". The journal accepts papers in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
I. MANAGEMENT BODIES
The management bodies in charge of scientific coordination and editing of the journal are the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board. All the members of both Boards undertake to respect the principles of the Code of Ethics that the Complutense University of Madrid establishes in its case for scientific journals.
1. EDITORIAL BOARD
a) Composition: The Editorial Board will be made up of the Director (Editor in Chief), the Secretary, and the Members. The position of Director must be filled by an active professor with a full-time contractual relationship with the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). Among the members, there will necessarily be different representatives from each of the areas of knowledge related to the journal: history, art history, the various philologies, historiographic sciences and techniques, philosophy, law, and musicology. At least two-thirds of the members of the Editorial Board must be made up of renowned specialists from different scientific institutions of the Complutense University of Madrid.
The Editorial Board will assist the Director in all his functions and, especially, in the follow-up of the works (reception, evaluation, acceptance) and the definition of the contents and style of the journal (original presentation rules), creation, and focus of the sections, etc.).
b) Election of the members: The members of the Editorial Board will be proposed by the CAPIRE Research Group. There will be three votes on the candidates recommended for each of the positions: one for the election of the Director, another for the election of the members of the institution, and another for the election of the external members. The post of Secretary will be designated directly by the Director.
c) Duration of the positions: All the Members will be elected for four years and may renew their position for a second period of four years. The Director will be elected for five years, renewable for another five years. After two terms, the Members will have a four-year grace period to reapply, unless at that time no other candidates attend to fill the vacant Members.
The Editorial Board will take its agreements by consensus or a simple majority.
1.1. Functions of the Director
The Director will exercise the following functions:
a) Coordinate the journal and represent it, as well as take charge of relations with the Editorial Board, with the Advisory Boardl, with Ediciones Complutense and with other institutions for any matter related to the journal.
b) Elect the Secretary of the Editorial Board, as well as the possible Guest Editors.
c) Convene the Editorial Board meetings.
d) Inform the CAPIRE Research Group about the operation of the journal and its needs.
e) Ensure the maintenance of the highest scientific quality of the journal, as well as its recognition and inclusion in databases, directories, and national and international evaluation agencies and its evaluation to obtain quality seals, for which it will have the help from the remaining members of the Editorial Board.
The Director will have a casting vote in the event of a tie in the deliberations of the Editorial Board.
1.2. Secretary functions
It corresponds to the Secretary of the Editorial Board:
a) Take responsibility for the reception, custody, and management of the originals throughout the evaluation and publication process.
b) Carry out the ordinary correspondence of the journal with authors, collaborators and external evaluators, with the members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards, and with the Publications Service of the Complutense University of Madrid (or the publishing house).
c) Acknowledge receipt to the authors of all papers received.
d) Organize the review process of the originals received by the Editorial Board to decide which papers are submitted for evaluation and which are returned, once compliance with the requirements of the journal has been verified.
e) Send the originals to the evaluators together with an instructions document and an evaluation template.
f) Take charge of sending the authors the reasoned communication of the decision to publish their originals.
g) Monitor the complete editorial process of the issues of the journal (preparation and delivery of originals –including the first pages and statistics–, layout process, sending proofs to the authors, revision of the pre-printing version, communication to the authors of the publication).
h) Prepare the meetings with the Director, prepare minutes of the Editorial Board meetings, take responsibility for the custody of the minutes, and certify the work carried out by the members, the scientific advisers, and the evaluators.
i) Collaborate with the Director in the dissemination of the journal, in institutional relations, exchanges, indexing, and any other task that may lead to improving the quality and recognition of the journal.
j) Issue the certifications corresponding to any form of collaboration with the journal.
1.3. Permanent Commission
To speed up the operation of the journal, the Editorial Board will have a Permanent Commission, which will attend to and resolve minor issues that need urgent processing. The Permanent Commission will be made up of five members, of which the Director, who will preside over it, and the Secretary will be ex-officio members, and the other three will be appointed from among the remaining Members.
2. ADVISORY BOARD
The Advisory Board will be made up of national and international professionals and researchers of recognized prestige and solvency in the areas of knowledge to which the journal is dedicated, and which do not have an institutional link with the Complutense University of Madrid. The Advisory Board, in addition to ensuring the scientific rigor of the journal, will take care of outlining its editorial policy, making it attractive to authors and readers, and disseminating it as much as possible in international academic forums. It will also collaborate in the evaluation and audit processes of the journal.
The Advisory Board will be made up of prestigious specialists, preferably from foreign institutions. The members of the Advisory Council will be chosen by the Editorial Board from among the candidates proposed by the CAPIRE Research Group.
The members of the Advisory Board, who can evaluate articles as external peers, will collaborate with their experience and support in the recognition, dissemination, and consolidation of the journal in the scientific and cultural field at the international level.
II. CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATION OF THE JOURNAL
II.1. Periodicity
De Medio Aevo will be published every six months, with an issue focused on a monographic topic. Besides, with extraordinary character, the magazine may propose to Ediciones Complutense the publication of some special issue.
II.2. Structure
The journal will consist of the following sections: 1. Monographic; 2. Miscellany; 3. Reviews. 4. In Memoriam.
Regardless of the last three Sections ("Miscellany", "Reviews" and "In Memoriam"), each semester of De Medio Aevo will be centered around a monographic theme, which will be agreed upon by the Editorial Board among the various proposals for their Vowels. In the call for papers, open to all interested parties, this “Monographic” Section will be specified with a specific title and a brief introduction, in which some of the possible research topics included in it are indicated, always leaving ample margin for the Authors present articles on collateral or related topics to those indicated in such introduction. It will be the responsibility of the Editorial Board to determine whether these articles are included in the “Monographic” or “Miscellany” Section.
II.3. Publication rules
The editorial norms are published separately in the file "Authors Guidelines", where precise information is given on the format and guidelines of the document, modality of presentation of text, notes, sources and bibliographic references, submission, revision and evaluation of proposed texts, publication of the accepted ones, etc., as well as a Template, to which the authors will adapt their articles.
