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Instructions to authors

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

SECTION POLICY

The journal contains five sections and is open to contributions throughout the year.

• The Articles section considers for publication original and unpublished works of research on Argentine and Latin American history.

• The Notes and Debates section publishes essays that consider relevant historiographical discussions.

• The Dossiers section considers for publication sets of 2 to 5 works with a common theme, related to the objectives of the Boletín, under a corresponding title, and with an introduction.

• The Reviews section offers reviews of recently published books that stand out for their contributions to Argentine and Latin American history.

• The Tributes section includes notes and essays on prominent figures in Argentine and American history, and appears occasionally in the publication.

EVALUATION AND ARBITRATION POLICY

The Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” publishes original and unpublished works by Argentine and foreign authors, preferably in Spanish.

Once the work has been received, the Boletín acknowledges receipt, a necessary condition to start the evaluation process, which, in all its instances, can last up to six months.

In the first instance, an internal evaluation is carried out by the Editorial Committee that evaluates the thematic relevance, adherence to editorial standards and quality of all submitted manuscripts.

In the second instance, the works of the sections Articles, Notes and Debates, and Dossier that have passed the internal evaluation are submitted to arbitration by at least two experts in the specialty external to the publishing institution, under a regime of double anonymity (the authors do not know the identity of the evaluator, and the evaluators do not know the identity of the authors). In the event of a discrepancy between these two arbitrations, the Editorial Committee may request a third external evaluation.

The evaluation form involves six aspects to be evaluated:

- originality;

- theoretical foundation and state of the matter;

- internal coherence;

- style and writing;

- empirical proof; and

- methodology.

Based on the result of the evaluation, authors may be asked to make changes to their work. The acceptance of these by the Editorial Committee and/or the referees will be a necessary condition for publication. The authors must provide a written justification in the cases in which they decide not to take into account the suggested modifications. Once this process is concluded, the Editorial Committee has the final decision whether to accept its publication.

Three options are available for the final decision:

1. accepted for publication (may include minor changes);

2. accepted for publication once the indicated changes have been made;

3. rejected for the above reasons.

The rejection rate of the 2020-2021 biennium was 40%, being 27.3% for not reaching minimum quality parameters, and 12.7% for not falling within the theme of the Boletín or for having previously published parts. Authors are advised to carefully read manuscripts before submitting them, both to verify compliance with the rules and to correct possible errors or errata.

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism detection policy

When the Editorial Committee considers that a submission is of interest to the journal, two tools are used to control the originality of the manuscripts received (PlagScan and PaperRater).

Plagiarism is understood as:

• Submitting the work of others as their own.

• Adopting words or ideas of other authors without due recognition.

• Not using quotation marks or other distinctive format in a verbatim quotation.

• Giving incorrect information about the true source of a quote.

• The paraphrasing of a source without mentioning the source.

• Abusive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned.

Self-plagiarism means:

• Changing the appearance of a work and present it as if it was a different one.

• Omitting the indication that the work is being recycled.

If plagiarism is detected in any of the instances, the evaluation process is interrupted, and the contribution is rejected. The author will be notified of the reason for the rejection.

ETHICAL STANDARDS AND GOOD PRACTICES

The Boletín follows ethical principles that govern the international arena throughout its editorial process. It adheres in this sense to the principles provided for in COPE (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines).

Editor’s Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of the works the journal publishes.

• Guarantee freedom of expression.

• Commit to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, or apologies when necessary.

• Ensure that published papers are peer-reviewed, and the double-blind review process is fair, impartial and timely.

• Ensure a system that guarantees that works submitted for review maintain anonymity.

• Ensure the integrity of intellectual property by adopting tools to detect plagiarism.

• Guarantee and declare a system to manage a possible conflict of interest between the parties involved in the editorial process (authors, reviewers, editors, etc.).

CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

The editorial team of the journal understands by conflict of interest to the divergence between the scientific/academic work and the personal interests of any of the parties that work in the editorial process (authors, editors, external evaluators). These conflicts can be of a different nature: a) Economic: when the participants in the editorial process expect to receive a monetary consideration for their work. To do this, they must declare in writing that they will not receive any monetary compensation from the journal. b) Personal/Labor: when there is a personal or labor link. In this regard, the editorial team must select evaluators or ensure that they do not have any relationship with the evaluated. Regarding external evaluators, in case they identify an eventual author in the double-blind review process, they must notify the Editorial Committee. c) Academics: when possible biases arise in the evaluation process due to ideological or methodological positions of external peers. For this reason, authors have the possibility to mention names of potential evaluators who should not take part in the editorial process.

PROCESSING FEE POLICY

The Boletín does not, under any circumstances, charge the authors of works for their processing or publication, either as a referee, proofreading or editing tasks.

On the other hand, the authors will not receive any type of monetary compensation from the journal.

General guidelines

The Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” publishes original and unpublished works by Argentine and foreign authors, preferably in Spanish. The call is permanent.

The manuscripts received, at the time of their presentation to the Boletín, must not be proposed for publication in another journal, for which the authors must sign a commitment of originality.

The Editorial Committee decides on the relevance or interest of the materials received for eventual inclusion in the Boletín.

The works considered publishable are submitted to external arbitration, from which authors may be requested to introduce modifications to their works. The acceptance of the modifications by the Editorial Committee and/or the referees will be a necessary condition for publication. The authors must provide a written justification in the cases in which they decide not to take into account the suggested modifications. 

The opinions expressed in the works that are published are the sole responsibility of their authors and in no way commit the Boletín or its editors. Each author is entirely responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions for the reproduction of text, illustrations or maps whose rights do not belong to him. By the mere fact of agreeing to submit a work to the Editorial Committee to consider its inclusion in the Boletín, it is understood that its author is the owner of the corresponding rights, and that he assigns them to the Boletín in case his work is published.

Likewise, the Boletín adheres to the Guidelines for Ethical Behavior in the Social Sciences and Humanities of CONICET (res. 2857/2006, http://convocatorias.conicet.gov.ar/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/RD-20061211-2857.pdf) and to the guidelines given by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, http://publicationethics.org/).

At the moment in which the author is informed that his work will be published, he may also be requested a non-exclusive rights transfer. The Editorial Committee may authorize the transfer of these rights for reproduction by other means, for which it will be necessary to submit an express request to it.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The work has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in “Comments to the editor”), for which a note of responsibility for original contents must be signed.

• All the graphic material used has the proper authorization of reproduction and publication.

• The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic conditions included in Guidelines for authors, in About the journal.

• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

• Web addresses have been added for references where possible.

• The text has simple line spacing; the font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all the illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in the place that corresponds to them and not at the end of the work.

Papers must comply with the following submission rules:

1. Submission

- Manuscripts must be sent exclusively from the Boletín website. If the authors are already registered, they can log in from:  http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/login.

If they are not registered, the authors can do so at the following link: http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/boletin/user/register.

If you have any questions about sending work, send an email to boletinravignani@gmail.com

- Once the submission has been made, the authors will receive an acknowledgment of receipt from the editorial team of the Boletín, through which the evaluation process will be formally started, which will not exceed six months.

- When submitting a manuscript for evaluation, the authors declare that it is an unpublished and original work, not previously published under any means (whether digital or graphic).

- The authors must also declare that they know the editorial policy of the Boletín and its copyright rules and commit not to send the article for evaluation to another journal until they have received the results of the Editorial Committee.

- The Boletín uses two anti-plagiarism tools (PlagScan and PaperRater) to control the originality of the manuscripts received. If plagiarism is detected (in whole or in part), the author will be informed of the interruption of the evaluation process.

2. Presentation

2.1. Type and extent

The length of the works for the Articles section will not exceed 30 pages (approximately 80,000 characters with spaces, including notes, tables, graphics and others); for those in the Notes and Debates section, 15 pages (40,000 characters with spaces), and for the Reviews sections, 3 pages (8,000 characters with spaces).

Manuscripts by Argentine and Latin American authors must be written in Spanish.

2.2. Page format and configuration

- Articles will be headed by a title (in Spanish and English).

- To ensure anonymity, do not include authors' names or institutional affiliations in the manuscript file. A separate file must accompany the works including authors' personal data (name, address, telephone number and email address which may be published) and professional data (University, institution of belonging, without using acronyms, and ORCID), as well as the name of the article sent.

A note may be added that includes acknowledgments and details from funding agencies or institutions.

- After the title, you must incorporate an abstract in Spanish and English, of no more than 200 words, followed by 3 to 5 keywords in both languages.

- The text shall be written in an Word for Windows file version 97-2003 or superior, Times New Roman font, size 12; it must also be written in 1.5 line-spacing, in page size Letter or A4, with margins of 2.5 cm, and first-line indentation of 1.25 cm.

- The title of the work should be centered, in Cambria font, size 16, in bold, in single space.

- First-level subtitles must be in Times New Roman font, size 13.5 and in bold, single space, left-aligned, without full stop.

The second level titles must follow the same font type, size 12, in bold, in single space, aligned to the left, without full stop.

The third level titles will follow the same criterion of font type and size, but they shall be written in italics and not in bold, in single space, aligned to the left, without full stop.

- Tables and graphics should be numbered correlatively in Arabic (e.g. TABLE 1; FIGURE 1). The next line will correspond to the title, in Times New Roman font, size 12, in bold. All this will be centered. For example:

Below the chart will be included in Times New Roman, size 10, additional sources and clarifications.

- The presentation of the maps and images will follow the same format as the tables and graphics.

- The resolution of digital image files may not be less than 300 dpi.

- The footnotes of the work will be included at the bottom of the page, numbered correlatively in arabic.

The numerical reference of the note included in the main text, if it is at the end of a sentence, goes after the period. If it is within the text, a space will be left between it and the next word. In the footnotes, a space shall be left between the numerical reference and the actual text of the footnote.

2.3. Style Guide

- The names of foreign cities and organizations that have a translation into Spanish must appear in this language; expressions in languages other than Spanish shall be written in italics.

- Expressions indicating decades shall be written as follows: “the 1980s”; “the eighties”. It will be written “The period 1930-1937” and not “1930-37”.

- Hyphens (–text–) are always medium size.

- Numbers, whether they are included in the text or in charts and graphics, must have a period to indicate thousands, tens of thousands, etc. Except for the years, which will be written without a period.

Example:

Numbers: 12.500; 13.400.

Years: 1683; 1785.

- The dates will always be in letters. Example: 08/07/1936 will be written as August 7, 1936 (7 de agosto de 1936).

3. Bibliography and Sources

- The bibliography, to which the citations made in the footnotes or in the text will refer, must be indicated at the end of the work. It will include articles, chapters, official memoirs and published books (or in press), brochures, conference papers, unpublished thesis and mimeographed works. This section will not include journals, periodicals or unpublished documents existing in documentary repositories or archives.

- Citations will follow the format established in the APA (American Psychological Association) standards. Citations of works in the body of the text shall be indicated in parentheses with the author's surname, the year of publication and the corresponding pages.

- It is advisable to reserve the footnotes for cases of additional clarification or recommendation of an extensive bibliography. In the latter case, the name of the author will be given, and in parentheses the year of publication and the pages, if applicable.

See the examples cited below:

- The bibliography, to which the citations made in the footnotes or in the text will refer, must be indicated at the end of the work. It will include articles, chapters, official memoirs and published books (or in press), brochures, conference papers, unpublished thesis and mimeographed works. This section will not include journals, periodicals or unpublished documents existing in documentary repositories or archives.

- Citations will follow the format established in the APA (American Psychological Association) standards. Citations of works in the body of the text shall be indicated in parentheses with the author's surname, the year of publication and the corresponding pages.

- It is advisable to reserve the footnotes for cases of additional clarification or recommendation of an extensive bibliography. In the latter case, the name of the author will be given, and in parentheses the year of publication and the pages, if applicable.

See the examples cited below:

3.1. Book by a single author

In footnotes: Di Stefano (2004: 235).

In the body of the text: (Di Stefano, 2004: 235).

In the list of bibliography and references: Di Stefano, R. (2004). El púlpito y la plaza. Clero, sociedad y política de la monarquía católica a la república rosistas. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, pp. 235-272.

3.2. Book by two or more authors

In footnotes: Hora and Losada (2016: 35-39; 47).

In the body of the text: (Hora and Losada, 2016: 35-39; 47).

Book by two authors - In the list of bibliography and references: Hora, R. and Losada L. (2016). Una familia de la elite argentina. Los Senillosa, 1810-1930. Buenos Aires: Prometeo.

Book by three or more authors - In the list of bibliography and references: Gelman, J., Llopis, E. and Marichal, C. (Coords.) (2014). Iberoamérica y España antes de las independencias, 1700-1820. Crecimiento, reformas y crisis. México: El Colegio de México.

3.3. Book chapter

In footnotes: Mazziotti (2002: 23).

In the body of the text: (Mazziotti, 2002: 23).

In the list of bibliography and references: Mazziotti, N. (2002). La televisión en Argentina. In G. Orozco (Ed.), Historias de la televisión en América Latina (pp. 23-63). Madrid: Gedisa.

3.4. Single-author article

In footnotes: Tognetti (2015).

In the body of the text: (Tognetti, 2015).

In the list of bibliography and references: Tognetti, L. (2015). Cambios en la circulación de la tierra en un espacio de la región pampeana argentina durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”, 43(2), pp. 131-167.

For articles by more than one author, the format established in the previous section will be followed, with the title of the article in normal format and the title of the journal in italics.

3.5. Newspapers

Last name, N. (article publication date). Headline of the article in the newspaper. Name of the newspaper in italics. URL, if it has an online version.

Example: Carreño, L. (February 9, 2020). ). La disputa gremial por los aranceles a las prendas de vestir. El espectador. https://www.elespectador.com/economia/la-disputa-gremial-por-los-aranceles-las-prendas-de-vestir-articulo-903768

If information about the author is not available, substitute the title and continue with the rest of the information: Title. (Date). Source.

If the newspaper article does not have a volume, number, and/or page numbers (for example, because it is from an online newspaper), omit the missing elements of the reference.

3.6. Reports and official documents published

In the text and footnotes: like the previous ones.

In the list of bibliography and references: Argentina. Policía de Buenos Aires (1909). Memoria de la Policía de Buenos Aires, 1906-1909. Buenos Aires: Imprenta de la Policía de la Capital.

3.7. Online articles

In the text and footnotes: like the previous ones.

In the list of bibliography and references, the corresponding link will be added, with the date of access and, if any, the DOI: Basualdo, V. (2006). Complicidad patronal-militar en la última dictadura argentina: Los casos de Acindar, Astarsa, Dálmine, Siderca, Ford, Ledesma y Mercedes Benz. Revista Engranajes (Federación de Trabajadores de la Industria y Afines), núm. 5 (edición especial). (Consultado en línea en www.riehr.com.ar, 5/8/2010).

3.8. Papers presented at congresses or scientific meetings

In the text and footnotes: like the previous ones.

In the list of bibliography and references: Bovi, M. y Conti, V. (2016) Los orígenes del Ferrocarril Central Norte Argentino al Oriente boliviano. Entretelones de la línea férrea. Lecture presented in the XXV de Historia Económica, 21-23 de septiembre, Asociación Argentina de Historia Económica / Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Salta.

In case the conference proceedings have been published, the editor and the corresponding pagination will be added.

3.9. Unpublished thesis

In the text and footnotes: like the previous ones.

In the list of bibliography and references: Paz, G. L. (1999) Province and Nation in Northern Argentina. Peasants, Elites, and the State, Jujuy, 1780-1880. Ph. D. Dissertation, Atlanta, Emory University.

3.10. Archival documents

If archival documents are cited, the name of the repository where they are located in must be included in the first mention, followed by the city, and the phrase “hereinafter called...” completing it with the corresponding acronyms, which will be used in all subsequent mentions of that file (e.g.: Archivo General de la Nación {hereinafter, AGN}).

The citations of documents will be made according to the classification of each file, always in descending order according to container and with the corresponding acronym at the end, if it exists.

Example:

In the text, first mention: Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires (hereinafter called AGN), Sala IX, Colonia, Gobierno, Tribunales Administrativos, Legajo 13, expediente 389 (IX-23-6-1).

In the following mentions: AGN, Sala IX, Colonia, Gobierno, Tribunales Administrativos, Legajo 13, expediente 389 (IX-23-6-1).

In the list of bibliography and references: AGN: Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires.

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