Submissions

Author Guidelines

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Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Content

Arqueología de la Arquitectura is a scientific journal, electronically edited, devoted to promote, host and disseminate archaeological studies of constructions, regardless of their period, type and function. It deals with theoretical, interpretative and practical aspects within the archaeological discipline applied to the recording, interpretation, conservation, restoring, enhancing and socialization of architecture; of its contribution to the architectural history and its related technical, social and historical contexts; of its relationship with others Human, Earth and Experimental Sciences (archaeometry or geology, for instance); of its potentiality as knowledge and discussion tool; and of it use by archaeology, architecture, restoring, engineer and art history professionals, among others specialists on heritage. In short, it aspires to become an instrument for permanent renewal and reflection on the materiality of past and present architecture.

Acceptation

All articles are selected by the Associate Editors and are checked for possible plagiarism by means of Crossref Similarity Check system. Once accepted for its likely publication, articles must be favourably assessed by two referees who will not be members of the CSIC nor of the institution from the author or authors. These reviews will be undertaken according to the norms of publication of CSIC. A so called reviewing system “pair and double blind” is used to keep author or authors and the referees anonymous. Referees’ list will be published every three years, alphabetically listed and unrelated to the refereed article. After a favourable review, articles will de definitely accepted by the Associate Editors. Authors will be continuously informed during this process. After having been accepted, a year will be the maximal notifying time between the submission of the article and its final approval and publication. This period might enlarge regarding the program of the journal though.

Preliminary typescript

Articles must have not been published before nor accepted for publishing in another publication or journal.

There is no specific length for the articles, except for those included in monographic numbers, although synthesis will be positively considered. The Associate Editors reserve the right to accept those texts thought to be oversized regarding its content or character.

Title, author or authors (name, institution or company, how he/she wants to be named, address, phones, e-mail) and date of submission will be written in an additional page.

Authors must include a valid ORCID identifier along with the authors’ filiation. Authors without this personal identifier can register free of charge in https://orcid.org to complete this data. When the article is signed by several authors, it is required to include the ORCID of all of them.

According to the norms of CSIC, a “Declaration of Authorship” and an “Assignment of rights” will be attached and filled in by the authors. They will use those forms provided by the web of the journal. These statements are indispensable to publish the text. (Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF).

Preliminary typescript will be submitted electronically in Word format, to be layout. Illustrations will be also submitted electronically as independent jpg or tiff files compressed in a single zip or rar file.

Title, name and surname of author or authors, institution and email; abstract and key words will be included at the beginning of the article. Title, abstract and key words will be in Spanish and translated to English. If the article is not written in Spanish, title, abstract and key words will be in the original language and translated to English and Spanish. The abstract will be not longer than 150 words and will include aims, methods, results and conclusions of the article. Key words will allow to search in a computerised way after topic, methodology, geographical and chronological location, and they must not include words in the title, since both of them will be published together.

Pages must be correlatively numbered. Footnotes will be inserted at the end of the page. Footnotes and illustrations will be correlatively numbered according with its reference in the text.

Acknowledgments, administrative references or technical record, an Authorship contribution statement (see below), and the lists of primary sources (when available) and mentioned bibliographical references will be inserted at the end of the article. A final list of captions and another one with the wanted size to be published of them will be included. Each caption must include the authorship, but when the author/s are that of the text and it has been so expressed in the technical record.

Authorship contribution statement: this journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification". This information should be incorporated in the full version of the manuscript, under an "Authorship contribution statement" heading, located just before the bibliography, in the following format:

Authorship contribution statement

Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.

Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing.

A copy of the text in PDF format for the evaluation is also required, with images inserted in the body of the text or at the end. In this copy the author’s name, the institutional affiliation, the e-mail address and the ORCID identifier will not be included. It will also not include the Acknowledgements nor the Authorship contribution statement.

Additional files with complementary material (files with data or multimedia with video and/or sound) might be attached to the articles, always after the Associate Editors approval. These files will be referenced in the text and will be submitted together with an index including the mentioned metadata.

Final typescript and checking proofs

Final typescript and illustrations must incorporate those remarks and corrections given by the Associate Editors and the referees, even when these mean a significant reduction of the text. Taking into account this process, final acceptation or refusal of the original typescript will be notified within a maximum period of six months.

Final typescript will be given back carefully checked, since later modifications in the preliminary pdf proofs will not be possible. Illustrations will be submitted independently from the text.

Bibliography

References. Final list of bibliography and primary sources will only collect those references cited in the text. Bibliographical list will not include references no primary sources (archive material, press, PhDs or unpublished reports), which will be only collected in footnotes or, if necessary, in the independent list of primary sources. A text is considered “published” if it has an ISBN or ISSN.

Both lists will be alphabetically listed by first surname’s author (of the first author, when there is various authors) and year of publication. If the cited reference has no author, translator or editor or title will be then cited (mentioning in brackets the corresponding abbreviation). If there are various references of the same author, filiations will be repeated completely, being not possible to substitute it by a dash. If there are various references of the same author and year, a letter (a, b, c …) will be added to the year to distinguish it. If there is not year of publication, this will be substituted by the abbreviation “s.a.” (without year). Authors, editors and translators will mention surnames (in lower case letter, title case), detached by comma of the abbreviated names. Every reference will collect the complete filiations of every author, editor and translator or similar, detached by comma and the two last of them by “and”. Arabic names will have surname and name complete, not abbreviated. Arabic words will be written without phonetic transcription. Place of edition must be cited in the bibliography as in original.

References in the bibliographical list will follow this system:

Books. Author/s and year of publication; after colon (:) title (in italics and complete), series and number of issue if necessary (vol., t.). Publisher and place of publication.

Editions and translations of sources. Author/s and year of publication; after colon (:) title (in italics and complete). Editor or translator, adding (ed. or eds., trad. or trads., or similar). Series and number of issue if necessary (vol., t.). Publisher and place of publication.

Contributions to acts or chapters in collective books. Author/s and year of publication; after colon (:) title of the contribution (in quotations and complete); editor or coordinator preceded by comma and in (, in) and followed by (ed. or. eds., coor. or coors. or similar), title of the acts or book (in italics and complete), series and number of issue if necessary (vol., t.), initial and final pages (pp. 00-000). Publisher and place of publication.

Journals. Author/s and year of publication; after colon (:) title (in quotations and complete); title of the journal (in italics and complete), number of issue (without vol. or t.), initial and final pages (pp. 00-000).

Contributions to acts, dossiers or similar works published in journals. References like those in the previous one. Following that, it might be included in Roman type the name of the congress, tribute or similar, year and place of celebration when available.

Works in internet. References will follow the corresponding style, adding at the end the permanent link (doi or handle) or: [on-line] and URL address [consulted 00/00/0000].

References in text. Every reference in text must correspond to a bibliographical or source reference and vice versa, and it will mention at least the author/s or, when lacking, the editor/s or translator/s or title of the work, and date of edition. Citations will be between brackets and will include the first surname of the author or authors (without name), followed by the year of publication. After colon, tome or volume when possible (t. or vol.) and pages, footnotes, figures or illustrations (p. or pp., n. or nn., fig. or figs., lám. or láms. or similar). If there are more than two authors to be cited, et al. will be added to the first one. For works with three or more authors, you should include only the first author's surname, followed by the abbreviation et al., but in the bibliography this expression is not allowed and must appear all the authors.

Footnotes. Footnotes will be as few as possible. All bibliographical quotes will be included in the text.

Illustrations

As mentioned above, any illustration will be submitted digitally in another pdf or tiff file, with as much quality as possible, considering the HTML format, so that its reduction does not avoid identifying correctly the legends nor it damages the drawing. Illustrations must follow these conditions, otherwise they will be rejected. Illustrations will be sent altogether in a single zip file.

Any illustration is considered as figure (Fig.); drawing, photography, map (northwards oriented), plan, table or graphic, ordered in Arabic numbers. Place for figures must be suggested to be included in the text.

The maximum area available in the journal is 23,5 by 18 cm; the column, 23,5 by 8,8 cm.

Drawings, plans and any other illustrations must include metric scale; fit the available area and be reduced to a whole scale (1/2, 1/3, 1/10, ... 1/2.000, 1/20.000, 1/50.000, etc.). The dimensions of the figures must be anyway suggested in the text (fitted to the area, to 10/12 cm wide or to the column).

Others

Recommendations on the use of inclusive and non-sexist language will be considered following those published at the web of the journal. If sex is taking into account by the original research data must be included at the abstract, in order to facilitate the identification of possible differences.

Publication of articles in CSIC’s journal is not paid. Original typescripts will not be returned unless author’s petition.

Every author will receive a pdf file of the article, along with the link to access to the volume of the journal. Referees will also receive free access to the link of the volume of the journal.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Arqueología de la Arquitectura

- How to send an original manuscript to Arqueología de la Arquitectura

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Arqueología de la Arquitectura

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Arqueología de la Arquitectura

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF