Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author guidelines

Articles and reviews proposals should be sent to the journal board, in Microsoft Word (doc) or OpenOffice Writer (odt) format, through the journal website. Firstly, it is needed to be registered as author, to sign in using the username and password and to click in “New Submission”. If not yet registered, go to https://archivodominicano.dominicos.org/user/register. If a new version of the manuscript is required by reviewers and/or editors, please, upload it on the same website, and entering the same place of the initial version. Don’t upload it as a new article. The journal will not accept manuscripts sent by any other method or in any other format, and will not maintain correspondence about them.

Authors should check previously that their submitted text closely follows these rules:

• It has to be an unpublished work and not being considered for publication in other journals. Articles in English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish are admitted. It has to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.
• Original manuscripts may run up to 70,000 characters (including spaces), unless proved exception.
• Original manuscripts for Notes may run up to 50,000 characters (spaces included), unless proved exceptions. The category of Notes includes texts of scientific quality that establish historiographical or bibliographical balances on themes or periods, presentations of documentary resources, news or chronicles of congresses.
• Reviews should be headed by the complete reference of the discussed book. Their length should not run up to more than 8,000 characters (including spaces).
• The title should be in its original language and English, abstracts should be in both languages and run up to 150 words, with six keywords attached to each one of it. 
• The authors must write their academic affiliation (university or research center, department, institute or unity, city and country) and their email address.

Submission guidelines

Bibliography
The rules of editing will follow this citation criteria:

Bibliographic references should be fully written on the first time cited in footnotes: 

a) For books: name of author or editor (or initials), surname, title in italics, city, publisher, (if possible, full name, not abbreviations), year, edition number (if it’s not the first one), volume number. 
Examples: 

• Ramón Hernández Martín, Capítulos Provinciales de la Provincia Dominicana de España. Desde 1241 hasta 1595, Salamanca, Editorial San Esteban, 2015, vol. 1.
• Bernardo Fueyo Suárez, Liturgia y culto en San Esteban de Salamanca, Salamanca, Editorial San Esteban, 2012.

• Angelus Waltz, Compendium historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum, Roma, Pontificium Athenaeum Angelicum, 1948.

b) For articles included in books (monographs, collective works...): name of the author (or initials), surname, title between angle quotes, title of the book, editor, city, publisher, year, edition number (if it’s not the first one), volume (if there is), pages.
Example: 

• Alfonso Esponera Cerdán, «El Proceso de Canonización de San Vicente Ferrer († 1419)», en Fra trionfi e sconfitte: La “Politica della Santità” dell'Ordine dei Predicatori, dirs. Viliam Stefan Dóci - Gianni Festa, Roma, Angelicum University Press, 2021, pp. 83-105.

c) For articles published in journals: name of the author (or initials), surname, title between angle quotes, titles of the journal in italics (if possible, full name without abbreviations), journal volume (in Roman Numerals) or number (Arabic), in case of multiple fascicles it has to be numbered with colon, year of publishing in brackets, pages.
Example: 

• Carmen Manso Porto, «Los cartularios medievales de Santo Domingo de Santiago», Archivo Dominicano, IX (1988), pp. 55-70.
  d) For reviews: name of the author or publisher, surname, title in italics, city, publisher, publisher (if possible, with full name, not abbreviations), year, edition number (if it's not the first one), volume, pages.

Example: 

• Denise Zaru, Art and Observance in Renaissance Venice, The Dominicans and their Artists (1391- ca. 1545), Roma, Viella, 2014, pp. 376.

e) Citation of archival documents: full name of the archive with abbreviation in brackets, serial number, manuscript, folio.

Example:

• Archivum Generale Ordinis Praedicatorum (AGOP) IV.209a, f. 1r.

The following references of already cited works should be shortened, in a coherent way and avoiding misunderstandings. 

Example:

• Bernardo Fueyo Suárez, Liturgia y culto en San Esteban, p. 112.
• Carmen Manso Porto, «Los cartularios medievales», p. 65.
• AGOP IV.209a, f. 3v.

1. All bibliography should be confirmed in the end of the article, following the same guidelines that have been explained before, excepting the surname,that has to appear in the first place.
2. Bibliography should be ordered alphabetically.
3. All references with an electronic publication must include the DOI number at the end of the entry in the general bibliography.
4. If there is more than one bibliographical entry, it should be ordered in chronological order (from old to new).
5. Oeuvres of an author should be ordered alphabetically if there is no year difference.
6. Under no circumstance it is possible to include works that were not explicitly cited. It is not a general bibliography, but a “cited bibliography”.

Abridging
Abbreviations in Spanish are chosen:

• Cfr., in regular, not cf. italics; “See” rather than vid.; etc.
• page-pages: p.-pp.
• volum-volums: vol.-vols. 
• editor-editors: ed.-eds. 
• translation/translator-translators: trans.
• coordinator-coordinators: coord.-coords.
• director-directors: dir.-dirs.
• note-notes: n.-nn.
• number-numbers: no.-nos.
• following-followings: s.-ss.
• verse-verses: v.-vv.
• sheet-sheets: f.-ff. 

With the final purpose of standardize criteria, we recommend to use the following style to cite sheets: f. 1r, ff. 1ra-2vb, without superscripts.

Quotation marks system

When citing, angle quotes should be used («»). When citing a text within other text, English quotation marks should be used (“ ”). If a third text has to be cited inside the second text, this should be between simple quotation marks (‘ ’). So:

• General quotation marks: « ».
• Quotation marks within general cites: “ ‘ ’ ”.
  Examples:
  «Las dos ediciones que siguen, que traen invariablemente el “corregida y ‘aumentada’”, son cada vez menos confiables».
• For indicating changes of meaning or other uses: ‘ ’.

Footnotes
Superscripts should be after punctuation, quotation marks and brackets.
Example:

Para mayor complicación —y aquí entramos en el segundo orden de problemas—¹ ya desde hace tiempo se conoce la fuente directa en la que se inspiró el tercer volumen del Lumen Domus del convento dominicano de Barcelona,² escrito hacia 1730 (y dedicado en gran manera al Maestro de la Orden fray Tomás Ripoll).³

Other format guidelines

• Ellipsis should not have any separation space after the preceding word. 

• If the ellipsis is indicating an editorial elimination, therefore it should have a separation space previously and after ( … ).
  Example:
  Deus, refúgium nostrum et virtus, adésto piis Ecclésiæ tuæ précibus ... Per Christum Dóminum nostrum.

• Normally, it is not recommended to use bold and italic.

Biblical notes
Bible references should be based on the model of Jerusalem Bible. Examples: Lc 15, 2 or Is 3, 4-5.