Submission guidelines

Submitting of Special Issue Proposals:

As the best example of the open and participatory nature of our project, we intend to leave a door open for the reception of special issue proposals with the sole purpose of offering a direct sample of the current interests and lines of research in the study of military history.

We ask authors to submit a 500-600-word summary detailing their proposed special issues, the debates in which they are situated, why they should be deemed relevant and necessary and what kind of contribution they aim to make with them, among other ideas. All special issues must consist of a minimum of four articles and a maximum of seven, dealing with the same problem or topic. Innovative contributions from the point of view of interpretation, sources, and methodology while at the same time meeting the guidelines that reflect the spirit of this journal (see Aims and Scope) will receive special preference and consideration. Finally, it will also be required to include a list with the names of all prearranged contributors and provisional article titles in the special issue proposals, though we also accept mixed formulas combining the launch of an open call for papers with a series of commissioned articles to complete the special issues. The participation of women, the plurality of experts from a variety of research centres and universities, as well as the international vocation of the special issues, will be especially valued in relation to the contributors' respective affiliation centres.

It is equally necessary to include a 200-word summary specifying the objectives of each article, together with the sources and the methodology employed. There exists the possibility to additionally include, among other contents, the translation of an article in a foreign language that may be of interest. This would be entirely under the responsibility of the special issue editor or editing team; always, of course, with a view to ensuring overall coherence. All articles must apply the style and publication rules that appear on our website (see points 3-11).

However, the approval of a special issue submission does not imply in any case the automatic acceptance of all articles contained in it. Each article will be subject to the review system currently in force in the journal (see point 2). In their definitive conception, all special issues must begin with a methodological-conceptual introduction that serves as justification and situates each one within the framework of a given debate, and be no longer than 3,500 words or shorter than 2,500.

From 2022 onwards, a new criterion will be implemented with respect to deadlines for the publication of submitted special issues, especially in order to ensure the viability and continuity of our project in the event of any eventuality. In this sense, the RUHM team will not arrange any specific publication date with the editors of collective special issues. Special issues will be published only when each individual article has successfully undergone external evaluation. To this end, the special issue's authors will have had to insert the changes and corrections and then resubmit their articles, and the editors will have already sent us the introductory text.

Submitting Articles:

1. The authors agree to submit original, unpublished articles not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The articles must be strictly related to war studies and the military world, from ancient times to the present day, and framed within one or more of its broad palette of fields of work (society, culture, gender, politics, archaeology, technology, strategy, anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, etc.).

The accepted languages for the publication of articles and reviews are preferably Spanish, English and Portuguese, although contributions in Italian may exceptionally be accepted. Citations from sources or bibliography in other languages must be translated into each article's main language, except in very exceptional and justified cases.

 

2. RUHM implements a double-blind review system to evaluate submitted articles, so that the identity of both authors and reviewers remains hidden from both parties. Submitted articles will be initially evaluated by the editorial team, and only those conforming to scientific standards and the objectives, profile and guidelines set out for the RUHM project (see Aims and Scope) will be sent for external evaluation.

Articles suitable for publication must make a novel contribution from a factual or interpretative perspective. On that note, the editors reserve the right to reject not only any articles that may not meet the required standards or conform to the purposes and objectives of the RUHM, but also those that may not meet the criteria of linguistic correctness (punctuation, syntax, grammar, stylistic adequacy, lexical richness, etc.). Likewise, the editorial team will verify the compliance with the basic parameters of academic rigor concerning the use and citation of sources.

 

3. Authors must submit throguh the website a copy of their work as a Word file at 1.15 spacing, with a maximum of 9,000 words (including notes and graphic material) and never less than 7,500. However, the editorial team reserves the right to exceptionally publish texts that may not reach or exceed these limits. Text font must be Times New Roman 12, each paragraph starting with an indentation of 1.25 cm. Citations will be enclosed in «» quotation marks, whereas foreign words will be rendered in italics. Citations longer than two lines must be inserted as a separate paragraph with no quotation marks, decreasing side margins by 1 cm on either side. Footnotes may be added in the Times New Roman 10 font.

 

4. Headings intended to articulate and organise each article must appear in the same font and size as the body text, in bold and not numbered, avoiding subheadings whenever possible (if necessary, they may appear in italics and marked in alphabetical order: a), b), c), etc.).

 

5. A 300-400-word summary of the article's content in Spanish must also be included. The English summary must be equally between 300-400 words long, detailing the origin of the article, in which academic debates it is set, what it contributes to them, the ideas, thesis and fundamental conclusions contained in it, how the latter are supported and the sources consulted. Our goal here is to make Spanish articles more accessible to the non-Spanish speaking public and research community, promoting historiographic transfers on an international level and increasing the interest of non-Spanish speaking authors and publishers in the academic publications in Spanish. Five keywords must also be included, both in Spanish and English. The same applies to article titles, which must stand out in both languages above the body text. Finally, note that abstracts, titles, headings and key concepts will not count toward the final word count.

 

6. Each article must be introduced by a page detailing the author's name and surname, university or affiliation centre (it does not have to be a university: it may be a research centre, an archive or a secondary school) and e-mail, which, from that point forward, will serve as the main communication channel between the article's author and the RUHM team.

 

7. At the end of each article, the authors will provide a succinct biography no longer than 150 words containing their academic background, current professional situation and research work on a separate page which will not count toward the total word count.

 

8. Tables, graphs and images of adequate quality inserted in the text must be clearly numbered and identified (Table 1, Graph 1, Image 1) including source of origin and a explanatory caption.

 

9. The number of images included will be at the discretion of the RUHM team. In any case, submitted files including both text and images should not exceed 2 MB. In the event that the graphic component of a given article presents special relevance, the RUHM team will determine the extent to which this number may be increased.

 

10. Superscript numbers corresponding to bibliographic citations, which will in all cases be placed at the foot of the page, must be inserted after the punctuation marks to ensure the formal coherence of contents. A bibliographic appendix with all references in alphabetical order must also be added at the end of each article, which will be included in the article's metadata on our website. This appendix will not count toward the word limit for the article. In order to assemble the list of bibliographic references, the following standards must be followed.

 

11. All bibliographic references will follow this sequence:

Books

-By an author: Alan KRAMER: Dynamics of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.

-By two or three authors: Robert GERWARTH and John HORNE (eds.): War in Peace. Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.

[If they are coordinators, in any of the suggested cases, please insert the abbreviation coords.]

-By four or more authors: Miguel Ángel DEL ARCO et al. (eds.): No sólo miedo. Actitudes políticas y opinión popular bajo la dictadura franquista (1936-1977), Granada, Comares, 2014.

-Book chapters: “La violencia en la Italia fascista: un instrumento de transformación política (1919-1945)”, in Javier RODRIGO (ed.), Políticas de la violencia. Europa: siglo XX, Zaragoza, PUZ, 2014, pp. 81-116.

 

Journal Articles

-If the journal is numbered in volumes and numbers: Philip DWYER: “War Stories: French Veteran Narratives and the 'Experience of War' in the Nineteenth Century”, European History Quarterly, 41:4 (2011), pp. 561-585.

-If the journal is numbered only in numbers: Ángel ALCALDE FERNÁNDEZ: “La «gesta heroica» de Belchite: construcción y pervivencia de un mito bélico franquista (1937-2007)”, Ayer, 80 (2010), pp. 193-214.

 

Citations Appearing Multiple Times

If a work is cited several times, it will be referenced using the abbreviated form op. cit. [Alan KRAMER: op. cit., p.154.] If multiple works by the same author are cited, the first mention will appear in complete form and the following ones will be abbreviated [Alan KRAMER: Dynamics of Destruction…, p. 21.; or, for articles, Philip DWYER: “War Stories…”, p. 563.] Consecutive citations will be inserted using Ibidem. If several works by the same author are cited in the same note: Xosé Manoel NÚÑEZ SEIXAS: Imperios de muerte. La guerra germano-soviética, 1941-1945, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2007; and id.: ¡Fuera el invasor! Nacionalismo y movilización bélica durante la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939), Madrid, Marcial Pons Historia, 2006.

If the place of publication is unknown, the publisher or the publication year must be indicated, respectively, with the abbreviations s.l., s.n. and s.a.; if a city, publisher or publication year may be attributed to a given work, they will appear in brackets. The number of editions, translation and other data will appear abbreviated and in brackets after the publication year.

 

Newspaper Articles

Francisco MELGAR: “España, Italia y Alemania”, Boletín de campaña de los requetés, February 27, 1937, p. 3.

 

Doctoral or Master's Thesis

Roland CLARK: European Fascists and Local Activists: Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael (1922-1938), Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2012.

 

Websites

-Online Journal Articles: Pedro RÚJULA: "Journalisme militaire pendant la première guerre carliste: le Boletín del Real Ejército de Aragón, Valencia y Murcia", El Argonauta español, 10 (2013), http://argonauta.revues.org/1819 [last consulted on 02-16-2015].

-Webpages: https://seminariofascismo.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/entrevista-con-ferran-gallego-historiador-del-fascismo-europeo-y-el-ciclo-revolucionario-de-la-primera-mitad-del-siglo-xx/ [last consulted on 02-16-2015].

 

Submitting Reviews:

12. Book reviews must be between 1,500-2,500 words. They will specify author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date, number of pages and ISBN, and include the reviewer's full name at the end. Reviewers must equally provide a title with which to head their own texts. The text format will be the same as with articles: Times New Roman 12 and 1.15 spacing, as well as the citation system, in case the reviewer needs to reference any external works.

Reviewed books must have been published within the last 5 years.

 

Submitting Bibliographic Essays and States of the Art:

13. In order to promote the academic debate, we leave the door open for the reception of individual bibliographic essays and states of the art, without it being necessarily a regular section in the journal. They may be written by one or more authors, even from seminars and research groups, and will analyse at least four works published within the last ten years. This section is intended to voice individual and collective positions -in case of research groups or multiple authors- in specific historiographic problems or debates.

Should the need and the opportunity arise, we would provide space for replies to any of the bibliographic essays or states of the art, conforming to the aforementioned format rules and regulations. In this sense, a fundamental requirement for publication will be internal coherence and the relationships between the selected works, as well as the debates and consensus generated by the resulting dialogue within the text. Thus, bibliographic essays must focus on a chronological arc or episode with a sense of its own, a specific thematic or conceptual axis, or relevant historiographic and methodological questions concerning war studies and military history.

All texts must have titles in Spanish and English. A footnote indicating the works under analysis will be inserted at the end of the frontpage. Immediately after, a brief 100-word summary -both in Spanish and English- will be included, reflecting each author's motivations to compose their bibliographic essays, the academic debates addressed in them and the main theses proposed.

In other words: a brief map or sketch of sorts, providing a bird's eye view of the state of the art and current academic debates, or rather a critical analysis showing the latest contributions to the field and some possible perspectives when looking to the future.

Bibliographic essays must be between 4,500-5,500 words, adhering at all times to the style rules implemented throughout the journal: Times New Roman 12, 1.15 spacing and the above-mentioned referencing system in case authors wish to make any references. The editorial team reserves the right to exceptionally publish texts that may not reach or exceed these limits.

 

14. RUHM team reserves the right to correct any isolated typographical errors and stylistic faults in a final revision process, as long as this does not affect the meaning of the texts. In case of major alterations, however, the author's approval will invariably be sought.

 

15. RUHM editors reserve the right to publish submitted articles in the two years following the completion of the evaluation process.

 

Article submissions and additional texts must be sent thorugh our website. For special issue proposals and other inquiries, authors can write to the following email address: secretaria@ruhm.es