Submissions

Author Guidelines

PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

1. The Editorial Board of "Las Torres de Lucca" 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 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.
6. All submissions that have the approval of the Editorial Board go to the double-blind arbitration phase by peers.
7. 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.
8. The evaluators must complete the Journal's evaluation form, which includes evaluation criteria for originality, relevance, methodological rigor, and formal presentation of the manuscripts.
9. 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.
10. Those who evaluate the works will inform the Council through a virtual form.
11. 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.
12. In case of discrepancy in the evaluation reports, a third evaluation report will be used.
13. Only articles that have two acceptance opinions will be published.
14. 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.
15. The decision will be final.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. The authors must correct the proofs before publication.
19. 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.
20. The editorial management of the journal is carried out through the OJS system.
21. 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.
22. 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.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

In accordance with our editorial policy and the interest expressed in expository clarity and argumentative rigor, authors are requested to take into consideration the accessibility of the text for readers of different origins and avoid incurring in the use of specialized jargon to facilitate communication and discussion of the works.

Articles should be between 7,000 and 10,000 words in length and reviews 2,500 words (approx. 4 pages).

Articles must include an abstract (200 words, maximum) and keywords both in Spanish and English.

The manuscript must be fully prepared according to APA standardization (7th edition). This includes the writing criteria, use of punctuation marks (spelling), citation modality (author-date) and final list of references.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all the elements below. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to authors.

1. The submission has not been previously published or considered by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the “Comments to the editor”).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
3. Wherever possible, URLs are provided for references.
4. The text has single line spacing; 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the appropriate places in the text, not at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of the journal and avoids the use of sexist or discriminatory language.