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Instructions to authors

 

Scope and policy

 

Peer evaluation process

In the case of Circe, all the collaborations we receive are accepted and sent for evaluation, under the sole requirement that the work be unpublished and original. Before doing so, the Editorial Board determines whether it is appropriate to the thematic and methodological interests of our publication and warns the author if they have not complied with our standards or the writing does not adapt to the characteristics that give identity to our publication. That is, the first instance is an internal evaluation by the Editorial Board, whose members know the identity of the author. The second step is the external evaluation through the double-blind referee mechanism, in which a specialist in the subject – external to the publishing institution – who does not know the identity of the author acts as the evaluator. The Directorate, the Co-Director and the Editorial Board decide whether the article should be sent to one, two or three evaluators. The Editorial Board evaluates the entire process and makes the decision – unappealable – that it considers pertinent. Absolutely all evaluations are made known to the author who sent the collaboration.

In the referral form you must respond to the following instructions:

1. Formal and stylistic aspects of the article

(Quality of writing, formal presentation, organization of content, appropriate summary)

2. Adaptation of the work to the usual categories of the publication

(Normally the partial and final results of an investigation framed in the university academic system are published)

3. Coherence between the objectives set and their achievement

(Includes an opinion on the methodology, sources and bibliography used)

4. Contribution to the specific research area

(It must be an original and effective contribution to the discipline)

5. Recommendation regarding the publication of the work:

a) Accept it without substantive changes

b) Accept it conditionally, reviewing the points suggested in 6

c) Reject it, but offer the author the opportunity to re-evaluate it if he revises the work according to the guidelines suggested in 6

d) Reject it for the reasons stipulated in 7

6. Criticisms and suggestions

(It is completed only if you have selected the alternatives boc in point 5)

7. Reasons for rejection

(it is completed only if you have selected the alternative in point 5)

The period between receipt of the article and the completion of the external evaluation process ranges between 30 (thirty) and 90 (ninety) days. In general, between 6 (six) and 12 (twelve) months pass from the reception of a work to its publication.

Before sending the corresponding issue to the technical editor, the Editorial Secretary checks that all the formal details have been met and the contributions fully comply with the Journal's Standards.

The manuscripts in the Reviews section are evaluated by the Editorial Committee, which will decide in which issue the articles will be published - that have met all the requirements -, which will be notified to the author.

If the interested party requires it, a certificate may be issued when their article or review has been approved for publication.

Ethics and good editorial practices

Circe, Classics and Moderns adheres to the COPE ( Committee of Publication Ethics )  Guidelines on Good Practices for Publications proposed in its Core Practices ( https://publicationethics.org/core-practices ). For this reason, it guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process and adheres to the commitment of not publishing any work that has a component of plagiarism, self-plagiarism or fraud.

To detect plagiarism, the journal uses the iThenticate software from the Crossref service, Similarity Check (http://publicationethics.org/files/Spanish%20%281%29.pdf).

The magazine will act in the cases specified below:

  • Total or partial plagiarism, or self-plagiarism . The magazine will not publish the article.

  • Complaint for plagiarism or violation of ethical standards . The magazine will follow the following steps: 1) communicate the complaint received to the author, 2) allow the author to comply with his or her right of defense.

Both the complaint and the author's defense will be evaluated by the publishing institution, which will decide in favor or against the author. When the decision is against the author, the magazine spaces will remove the published article. 

Interoperability Protocol

Circe, of classics and moderns,  has interoperability protocols:  https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/index/ oai  in base URL for the  OAI Archive .

Item Processing Fees

Circe, classics and moderns  does not charge any fee to the authors for the processing, evaluation, editing or publication of the articles.

 

 

Form and preparation of manuscripts

 

Rules for authors

Download in PDF format: Rules for collaborators

1. The editorial board accepts the submission of articles on classical Greco-Latin antiquity and classical tradition in any of the official languages ​​of the FIEC: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, English and German. Translations of short classical texts, with a critical apparatus, from a language of Greek or Latin origin and that do not have a published version in Spanish, are also accepted.

2. The editorial committee determines whether it is appropriate to the thematic and methodological interests of the publication and manages the external evaluation accordingly. The refereeing method used is “double blind peer review ”: the anonymity of both the author and the evaluators is maintained.

3. Articles must be original and unpublished works. A “second corrected version” of the presentation presented at a conference is not accepted. The article is sent as an attachment to the following email addresses circedeclasicosymodernos@gmail.com and alessomarta@gmail.com.

 4. Extension of contributions:

- Articles: up to 60,000 characters with spaces (including notes and bibliography).

- Original translations: up to 60,000 characters with spaces (including notes).

 6. The general style of the article as well as the notes and bibliography must follow the following guidelines:

- Program in which the file is saved: Microsoft Word for Windows.

- Font type and size: Times New Roman 12 (text), Times New Roman 10 (notes), Times New Roman 11 (bibliography).

- Bibliographic comments will preferably be made in the notes using quotation marks if it is a textual quote and the author's last name, year and page in parentheses. If the quote is in a language other than the text ( ie English, French, Latin) it is italicized. The authors' surnames are in capital letters.

Example

- At the end of the article, the bibliography must be included, divided into 1) Editions and translations and 2) Bibliography cited in alphabetical order of authors and in chronological order when several works by the same author are cited. Surname/s in verses, the city of edition in the original language, state the date of the first edition. Examples:

Example 1

Example 2

 - References to ancient authors must be in the following form:

                                                 Homer, Odyssey 12. 236

                                                 Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3. 24-34

        (if possible, without abbreviating; cite the edition used in the bibliography)

- Textual quotes must be enclosed in quotation marks. If they exceed two lines, they will appear without quotes in a separate paragraph with an indentation (2 cm), single spacing.

- Notes must be in the footer, with single spacing.

- In italics: titles of works ( Aeneid ), Latin and foreign words or quotations and unusual technical terms.

- Usual abbreviations: 5th century BC / Cfr. / fr. 13 / 134 ff. / Gen 2. 13

- For Greek terms, Unicode (ἤθος) size 11 will be used. Avoid extensive citations.

- Do not include underlines or numbers in subtitles.

- Neither underlines nor bold letters should be used in the body of the work. If it is necessary to emphasize a word, it will be done in single quotes.

6. The title of the work in Spanish and English and summary and abstract (in Spanish and English) must also appear in a single paragraph of no more than 100 words each and five key words in Spanish and English.

7. The author's personal data, institutional membership, title of one or two publications and address for postal correspondence must be entered in a separate file, in the same way that abbreviated curricula appear in the Collaborators section .

8. The acceptance of the works will arise from the external evaluation (double-anonymity system) of a member of the international refereeing committee. When approving the articles, the committee's specialists will take into account the formal and stylistic aspects, the coherence between the stated objectives and their achievement, the seriousness of the bibliography and editions consulted and the contribution to the specific research area. If possible, we will try to send the work to two specialists and one of them may not be a member of the committee. If one rejects it and another accepts it, it will be sent to a third evaluator. The opinion is specified through evaluation tables in ad hoc forms . The authors will always receive the evaluators' reports in full.

9. If the article is accepted with modifications, the author must take into account the observations and if he maintains his position in a certain aspect, it must be suitably substantiated and accepted by the referee. Once the corrected article has been sent, the editorial committee will decide its final acceptance after sending it to the evaluator who recommended the changes.    

10. Circe is published semiannually in its electronic version. There is usually a waiting period for the publication of articles of two to five months. The date of its reception, evaluation and acceptance will appear on each article.

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 submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).

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

  • Wherever possible, URLs are provided for references.

  • The text has single spacing; 12 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.

  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines , which appear in About the journal.

Articles

Circe publishes original and unpublished articles or essays, subject to double-blind external evaluation, whose length does not exceed 45,000 (forty-five thousand) characters with spaces, including notes and bibliography. The admission of an article is determined by its external evaluation, carried out by a member of the international refereeing committee or by a specialist convened ad hoc . This modality leaves the work open to scrutiny and, therefore, to any annotations or suggestions from the referee, which must be followed to complete the acceptance process. An adequate arbitration will take into account the formal and stylistic aspects, the coherence between the stated objectives and their achievement, the seriousness of the editions of classic texts consulted and the secondary bibliography and, above all, the contribution to the specific research area.

Reviews

Critical reviews must be original and unpublished and of books published in the last three years. Its length must not exceed 8000 (eight thousand) characters with spaces. They should not include notes, documentary references or bibliography. These compendiums and book reviews are generally made on texts that Circe receives in exchange; Only on rare occasions do we accept a comment that comes from outside the editorial team or from someone to whom we have expressly requested it. In this way we avoid publishing merely descriptive reports: in general we try to ensure that these types of notes or short articles make a truly critical contribution, that is, they go beyond a mention of the elements that make up the recently published book and offer a true opinion and evaluation of the content.

Translations

For some years now, Circe has incorporated the publication of translations of short classical texts, from a language of Greek or Latin origin, that do not have a version published in Spanish. These collaborations must come under the responsibility of an author and also a reviewer and undergo the same treatment as an article, that is, they receive an evaluation in which the anonymity of both the authors and the evaluators is maintained. The extension is the same as we established above for the articles.

 

 

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