Submissions

Author Guidelines

Publishing process (peer review)

1. The Editorial Board of Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought undertakes to respect the principles of the Code of Ethics that may be established for scientific journals by Complutense Editions and subscribes to the Code of good practices prepared by the Higher Council of Scientific Research in Spain.
2. The journal does not charge any fee for receiving articles or for their evaluation.
3. Articles are to be submitted through the OJS system (Open Journal Systems). In the case of shared authorship, the authors are requested to indicate the criteria used to decide the order of the signatures (alphabetical, different degree of work, etc.)
4. The journal carries out a prior editorial review of all the articles received in a period of approximately one month from its reception.
5. The first page of the submitted document should include the title of the work in Spanish, Portuguese and English, the full name of the author(s), the institution they’re affiliated with, and their email address, an analytical abstract in Spanish, English and Portuguese (of approximately 150 words), key words in Spanish, Portuguese and English (between 3 and 5), and a classification JEL (to two digits). The abstract must provide an adequate summary of the content of the article.
6. The following exclusion criteria will be applied:
   a) The submission does not meet the requirement of originality, or it has been already published.
   b) The submission is not focused on the scientific field of the journal.
   c) The submission exceeds the extension established according to the type of collaboration.
   d) The submission does not use the proposed citation systems in the manner indicated.
   e) The submission has not been sent in the required medium.
   f) The submission is under evaluation or in the process of being published in another Journal.
7. All submissions that have the approval of the Editorial Board go to the double-blind arbitration phase by peers.
8. Those who edit each manuscript select two experts from outside the Editorial Board, who are asked, through the OJS system, for an opinion on the originality, novelty, relevance, and methodological quality of all the manuscripts received.
9. The evaluators must complete the Journal's evaluation form, which includes evaluation criteria for originality, relevance, methodological rigor, and formal presentation of the manuscripts.
10. The integrity of the blind peer review and the anonymity of the authorship is ensured by the existence of two different submissions: one with the original anonymous text and the other with the personal information of the authors.
11. Those who evaluate the works will inform the Council through a virtual form.
12. The articles evaluated can receive the following opinions: a) Unconditional acceptance; b) Acceptance subject to the proposed improvements, c) Rejection, encouraging the author to redo the document and send it again; d) Unconditional rejection.
13. In case of discrepancy in the evaluation reports, a third evaluation report will be used.
14. Only articles that have two acceptance opinions will be published.
15. After the evaluation opinion, and in a period that will not normally exceed six months from its reception, the Secretary will notify the author of the decision made by the Editorial Board, ensuring anonymity at all stages of the process. The communication will include the reasons for the acceptance, revision or rejection of the manuscript, and the original opinions or the main arguments used in the reports.
16. The decision will be final.
17. The articles evaluated with the opinion "Acceptance subject to the proposed improvements" will be forwarded to the author with the indications suggested by the evaluators. The author may: a) desist from publication; b) resubmit it according to the suggestions of the evaluation reports. In case of resubmitting the article, it will be sent to the original evaluator for the approval or rejection of the corrections.
18. The articles evaluated with the opinion "Rejection, encouraging the author to redo the document and send it again" are evaluated again, where appropriate, as original submissions.
19. The authors must correct the proofs before publication.
20. Since its inception, the external evaluation system maintains a percentage of external expert personnel greater than 50%. The list of external evaluators that are part of the process is published on the website.
21. The editorial management of the journal is carried out through the OJS system.
22. The guidelines for authors include a set of form and substance guidelines and are published on the website. These guidelines include commitment to originality, format (fonts, size, line spacing, etc.), abstract, keywords, length of papers, citation, and bibliographical references in accordance with APA standardization (7th edition), style issues, etc. In the same way, the information to the authors includes the editorial process followed by the manuscripts and the selection and evaluation criteria for publication according to the Open Journal Systems.
23. The Journal defends the complete absence of inbreeding in the authorship of the articles and dossiers in the numbers published. Those who are part of the Editorial Board can collaborate with the Journal in sections such as reviews or editorials of dossiers.

Submission of articles
All the articles must be original, unpublished and not under consideration for publication in other journals. The articles must deal with the scientific realm of the history of economic thought with a wide range of topics and methodologies, as well as the political trends underlying them. The cover letter must show the title of the article and the institutional affiliation of the authors. Sections must be entitled in capital letters, numbered from the introduction to the conclusions and without any line between the title and the first paragraph. Articles should not exceed 12.000 words, with book reviews limited to 2500 words. They must include a summary (150 word maximum), keywords in Spanish and English and up to three JEL classification codes http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php. The manuscripts written in English are more appreciated, but texts written in Spanish and Portuguese languages are also accepted.

Articles must be double spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font. The files must be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or any other software that complies with the Open Document Format for Office Applications. Articles must be submitted to the journal email het.iberianjournal@gmail.com, or to the managers' email. To guarantee anonymity, the name and affiliation of the authors must not appear on the title page, and any personal references must be omitted. The tables and figures must be sent separately and it is the responsibility of the authors to clear permissions to reproduce copyrighted material.

Bibliographical references
The in-text citations must follow the style used in (Llombart 2011, 12) or Llombart (2011). The references at the end of the text should be listed in the following order:

Books

Lluch, Ernest. [1973] 2009. El pensament econòmic a Catalunya (1760-1840). Edicions 62: Barcelona.

Roncaglia, Alessandro y Alfonso Sánchez-Hormigo. 2011. Economistas clásicos. Madrid: Síntesis.

Chapters of book

Llombart, Vicent. 2011. El pensamiento económico de Jovellanos y sus intérpretes. En Ignacio Fernández Sarasola et alia/(eds.), Jovellanos: el valor de la razón (1811-2011). Gijón, Ediciones Trea, pp. 75-103.

Articles

Bastien, Carlos and José Luís Cardoso. 2004. Corporatism and the Theory of the Firm: Lessons from the Portuguese Experience. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 26(2), 197-219.

Trincado, Estrella. 2010. The current relevance of Rosa Luxemburg's thought, Socialist Studies/Etudes Socialistes, 6(2), 141-159.

Cover letter's pattern

PROPOSAL FOR THE IBERIAN JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

Title of the article:

Institutional Affiliation:

Abstract (no more than 150 words):

Keywords (no more than 5):

JEL classification (no more than three codes):