Author Guidelines

The journal Historia & Guerra publishes research articles, essays, reviews, and dissertation abstracts in Spanish according to the RAE rules. It also welcomes contributions in Portuguese and English to facilitate dialogue between different academic traditions and thus update war studies. In terms of temporal scope, it focuses on wars and conflicts that have shaped the contemporary world from the "long 19th century" to the present. 

Authors must check that submissions comply with the rules detailed in this section. In case of non-compliance, contributions will be returned. By submitting a paper, authors guarantee the originality of their work and that it has not been previously published or is not under evaluation in another publication.

In the first instance, article proposals are evaluated by the direction board and the editorial team to ensure compliance with the formal guidelines, their relevance in terms of the thematic lines contemplated in the journal, their originality, and their academic quality. The editorial committee reserves the right to reject them if they do not meet these conditions. If the proposals are considered acceptable, they will be sent for external evaluation by two evaluators from outside Historia & Guerra. The assessment is based on the double-blind system, which preserves the identity of the author and evaluators to increase the process's transparency. In the event of conflicting opinions, the opinion of a third evaluator will be sought. The peer reviewers will be asked to issue their views no later than 30 days after receiving the manuscript so that the total evaluation process will take no longer than six months. To ensure the heterogeneity of contributions, articles by the same author will be separated by two years.

Articles will be submitted through the journal's online platform in MS Word or similar in the format indicated in the template that can be downloaded here. To ensure anonymity, the author must verify that the file of his/her article does not contain personal information; he/she should not refer in the first person to their own cited works.

Dossier proposals must be submitted in advance to historiayguerra@gehigue.ar. They must indicate the title of the dossier and its base (up to 6,000 words, including footnotes), the names of the coordinators and authors, and the titles and abstracts of the articles it comprises. The dossiers will consist of an introduction by the coordinator(s), which may not exceed 3,000 words (including footnotes), and between 3 and 5 articles. Acceptance of the dossier by the editorial committee does not imply approval of the articles in the dossier, which will be subject to the same evaluation system applied to articles in general. Once the editorial committee has accepted the dossier proposals, the authors will proceed to send them through the journal's platform.

Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of between 100 and 150 words and five keywords in Spanish and English. They should be between 7,000 and 9,000 words in length (including charts and footnotes). In addition, a mini-biography of the author of up to 100 words should be attached in a separate file, indicating: maximum title attained and granting institution, institutional affiliation (name of the institution and country), e-mail, ORCID code, area of research, and main publications. Mentions of projects in which the research reflected in the article is part of, events in which it was presented and/or institutional or personal acknowledgements should also be included in this document. 

Essays offer a reflection on a historiographical topic without necessarily resorting to the analysis of primary sources. They are between 6,000 and 8,000 words long (including charts and footnotes). Authors must send them to historiayguerra@gehigue.ar. The journal's editorial committee evaluates them.

In the case of reviews, this e-mail address should be consulted to ensure that the book to be reviewed is in line with the thematic lines addressed in the journal and that another author is not reviewing it. The books reviewed must have been published in the last three years. Once the editorial committee has accepted the review proposals, the authors will proceed to submit them through the journal's platform. Their length is up to 2,000 words (including footnotes). They will be titled with the complete reference of the work in the following format and will include the name, institutional affiliation, and e-mail of the reviewer:

Beevor, A. (2012). La Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pasado y Presente, 1195 pp.

On the other hand, the journal also receives abstracts of MA or PhD dissertations approved in the last three years. The abstracts must indicate in the header the full name of the student, the title of the thesis, the postgraduate program in which it was developed, and the names of the supervisor and the jury. Abstracts should be up to 2,000 words and must be sent to historiayguerra@gehigue.ar. 

Abstracts and additional information required are not counted towards the contributions' word limit.

Declaration of authorship: for articles with more than one author, the specific contribution of each author must be stated using the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), available at: http://hdlab.space/taxonomia/?q=CRediTEsta taxonomy aims to specify and give credit to all the roles involved in a research process and ensure that these are visualised and acknowledged during the communication of results. In this way, the work of all actors involved in a research project is credited and not only results but also processes are made visible. It must be added to the mini-biography added to the article, together with the personal data, institutional affiliation, email and ORCID of each author.

The journal follows the general guidelines of the APA citation system, with bibliographical references in the body of the text. Footnotes will only be used to complement or amplify relevant information and cite archival materials and press sources. The number of the footnote callout will be indicated in superscript after the punctuation mark. The following examples of citations and references may be considered:

Books:
      Individually authored (or coordinated):

• Halperín Donghi, T. (1972). Revolución y guerra: formación de una elite dirigente en la Argentina criolla. Siglo XXI.

      Two or three authors (or coordinators):

• Horne, J. y Kramer, A. (2001). German atrocities, 1914: a history of denial. Yale University Press.

      Four or more authors (or coordinators):

• Verpoest et al. (dir.). (2020). Revival after the Great War: rebuild, remember, repair, reform. Leuven University Press

Book chapters:

• Purseigle, P. (2020). Catastrophe and Reconstruction in Western Europe: The Urban Aftermath of the First World War in L. Verpoest et al. (dir.), Revival after the Great War: rebuild, remember, repair, reform (pp. 37-54). Leuven University Press.

Journal articles:

• González Calleja, E. (2008). La cultura de guerra como propuesta historiográfica: una reflexión general desde el contemporaneísmo español. Historia Social. 61, 69-87.
• Calandra, B. (2011). La Ford Foundation y la ‘Guerra Fría Cultural’ en América Latina: (1959-1973). Americanía. Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos. 1, 8-25. https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/americania/article/view/313

• Hazley, B. y McDaid, A. (2021). War & Conflict in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Experience, Memory, and Representation. Journal of War & Culture Studies. 14(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2021.1873552

Press articles:

      With author:

• Mariani, M. (30 de septiembre de 1938). Hitler consigue hábilmente destruir el pacto franco-ruso. Crítica.

      Without author:

• El pacto germano-soviético. (22 de agosto de 1939). La Nación.

Theses:

• Montenegro, S. (2002). La Guerra Civil española y la política argentina [Tesis doctoral inédita]. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Research Data or Datasets

• First and Last name of the author, "Title of the dataset" [Type of resource]. Repository. (Year). DOI o URL.

To cite other documents and/or media, consult the APA Style Guide 7th edition. 

At the end of the article, a section entitled "Bibliographical references" will list the books and articles cited (not archival materials or hemerographic primary sources) in alphabetical order and according to the APA system.  

Pictures, charts, graphs, or maps:

Articles may include images, tables, graphs, or maps, which shall be sent as separate files in .jpg, .tiff, or vector format, with a resolution of 300 pp, with the name under which they will appear in the text (Map 1, Table 1, as appropriate). In the article, the place where these resources are to be inserted shall be indicated centred as follows, with the following information:

[Map 1]
Image title
Source:

Authors must have the appropriate rights to reproduce such materials unless they are in the public domain or are produced in-house. These circumstances should be made clear when submitting the work.