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Instructions to authors

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

SECTION POLICIES

PRESENTATION

This section is for the internal use of the editorial team of MACE, responsible for the editorial processing of the submitted articles. It contains a current list of the authorities of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and the members of the editorial team are also listed. It also includes the table of contents, in Spanish and in English, and a section of presentation or introduction in the case of thematic volumes.

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ARTICLES

Articles compose the main section of MACE and undergo peer review using the double blind system; for more details on the evaluation process please consult the section Peer review process on this same page. Manuscripts submitted to MACE should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal or have been published elsewhere. The submitted articles must be unpublished and original, resulting from a scientific investigation based on primary sources. The manuscript is not to exceed 25 pages -line spacing 1,5, A4, font Arial 12, upper and lower margins 2,5 cm, left and right margins 3 cm- and titles shiold not exceed 15 words.

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COMMENTS

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BOOK REVIEWS

Submitted reviews are to be critical reviews of books thematically consonant with the profile of MACE that have been published during the two years previous to the publication of the issue and volume in question. MACE publishes reviews written by specialists and also encourages the participation of young researchers in this section. The book review must contain a complete bibliographic reference to the reviewed book in the document header and must not exceed 3 pages -line spacing 1,5, A4, font Arial 12, upper and lower margins 2,5 cm, left and right margins 3 cm. At the end, the review author's name and institutional belonging will be stated.

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PEER REVIEW PROCESS

The evaluation process consists of various stages and uses the double blind system, which requires that neither authors nor peer reviewers know each others’ identities.

First, any submitted manuscript is object to a preliminary evaluation by the Editorial Committee in charge of determining whether the article fulfils the thematic and formal requirements that the present instructions clarify. The author will be required to sign an originality and copyright statement. Once the paper is admitted, the responsible editor will send it to two external consulting peers who will decide whether the manuscript is a) accepted without modifications, b) accepted with minor modifications, c) accepted with substantial modifications, or d) rejected. In case of discrepancy of the opinions expressed by the two peer evaluators, the manuscript will be sent to a third external consultant to resolve the acceptance or rejection of the publication. The results of the process of academic evaluation are, in any case, unappealable.

Finally, after the author is provided with a deadline in order to incorporate the suggested modifications and only then, after verification that the requested modifications have been introduced, the Editorial Committee of MACE will issue the acceptance to the author or the authors with the consignment of corresponding certification.

CODE OF CONDUCT AND GOOD PRACTICE

Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria. does not have Article Processing Charges (APC) for neither authors nor readers and does not charge for the submission of articles either. The journal publishes original articles that have not been published elsewhere previously and are not under consideration for other publications either, completely or partially. To this effect, authors are required to sign and send in a statement pledging originality and good practice regarding their academic publications.

The journal subscribes to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines regarding the code of conduct and good practice that scientific publications must adhere to, specifically the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. The journal protects its scientific quality by adhering to this code and, at the same time, these measures will also satisfy the readers and authors’ demands regarding quality standards.

The code applies to all parties involved in the process of managing and publishing the results of scientific research; namely, the Editorial Team, authors and peer reviewers. The papers that don’t follow the code’s ethical norms will be discarded. The basic requirements of a scientific paper are: correct interpretations of the results, critical revision of intelectual content and final approval of the version to be published; publication ethics apply to all these stages.

Within this code of conduct, the editors maintain fluent, respectful and discreet contact with the authors and peer reviewers throughout the entire editorial process, acting as mediators between both parties. They commit to keeping both parties anonymous throughout the entire process of revision and to avoid any conflict of interest between them.

Any text sent to Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria. will be evaluated solely regarding its intellectual content, with no regard to the ethnic or national identity of their authors, their gender, their sexual orientation, their religious beliefs, or their political positioning. To this effect, those evaluations that impose their personal position on the quality of an article will be discarded. Authors and peer evaluators are asked to declare any conflict of interest they might have; and these cases shall be taken into consideration.

Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria. requires peer reviewers to possess a doctoral title (or equivalent merits), awarded by national and/or international universities that form part of recognized scientific research institutions, and to have experience in the field and topic they are to evaluate in. They must complete evaluation within the time frame that the Editorial Team has established; this evaluation must be blind and confidential. The evaluation report the peer reviewers send in should be based on the evaluation form provided by the journal, which takes into account: the fulfillment of the objectives the author has expressed, the originality and relevance of the contribution to the discipline, the declaration of the methodological framework used, the pertinence of the sources and bibliography, the correct use of graphic and illustrative elements, and the coherence of the title, the abstract and the conclusions with the rest of the article.

The manuscripts are revised by Editorial Assistents in order to detect plagiarism and self-plagiarism -redundant publication-, for which special tools are used that are available on-line for free. The assigned editor will do the same and, during the double blind review process the peer reviewers also express their opinion regarding possible plagiarism. It is considered plagiarism if authorship is omitted or not cited sufficiently, and/or if minimal changes are made to a third party’s work and presented as one’s own. Self-plagiarism occurrs when the appearance of an article or manuscript is changed and it is presented as a different one, or if such changes are not declared. In case of a detection of plagiarism or self-plagiarism, the manuscript will be rejected and the related evidence will be remitted to the author.

ETHICAL NORMS FOR EDITORS, REVIEWERS AND AUTHORS

It is the editors’ responsibility: 1) to manage their tasks in a balanced, objective and fair manner, without discriminating the authors for their gender, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs or their ethnic background; 2) to adopt immediate and reasonable measures in case of ethical complaints or declarations of conflicts of interest, and 3) to concede to all authors the right to defend themselves in case of any accusations or complaints.

It is the reviewers’ responsibility: 1) to contribute to the decision-making process and to help improve the manuscript’s quality through an objective review within the established time frame; 2) to maintain confidentiality regarding the information obtained during the review process, and to abstain from retaining or copying the manuscript; 3) to alert the editor in case they suspect plagiarism or auto-plagiarism, and 4) to be conscious and inform the editors of any possible conflict of interest, and to abstain from participating in the review process if necessary.

It is the authors’ responsibility: 1) to maintain an precise register of all information related to the manuscript in question; 2) to confirm and ensure that the manuscript is not being considered nor has been accepted for publication by any other scientific journal, and 3) to facilitate the editor a copy of any manuscript or articles that might share notorious similarities with the manuscript in question.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Conflict of interest occurs when people involved in the publication or peer reviewing processes (that is: authors, reviewers or editors) share a relationship or fall under circumstances that might influence their judgement, may these be personal, academic, professional or ideological, specifically regarding ethnic and/or gender issues. Therefore, Memoria Americana. Cuadernos de Etnohistoria tries to prevent that possible conflicts undermine the advancing of scientific knowledge.

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 manuscript has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor) and is an original work.

• Manuscripts sent for eventual publication to MACE must be submitted on computer support in a Windows-compatible word processor.

• All contributions must adhere to the following format: They must be written with 1 and 1/2 line spacing in all sections, on numbered A4 size sheets. The font must be Arial, size 12 and the bottom and top margins of 2.5 cm and left and right margins of 3 cm.

• The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors, which can be found in About the journal.

• If you are submitting your manuscript to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you need to be sure to follow the instructions in Ensuring a blind review.

• Remember that you must download, complete, sign and attach the Originality and Transfer of Rights Commitment to your submission.

Order of sections:

1) Title in Spanish (or Portuguese) and in English, in lowercase, centered, without underlining, up to fifteen (15) words.

2) Author/s, in right alignment, with a footnote (*) indicating place of work and/or institutional or academic belonging, country and e-mail address.

3) Abstract of the article in no more than one hundred fifty (150) words in Spanish (or Portuguese) and in English. Key words in Spanish (or Portuguese) and in English, no more than four (4).

4) The submitted text, with primary subtitles in left alignment, in lowercase and bolded, no underlining; secondary subtitles in left alignment, in lowercase and italic. Extension, 25 pages approximately. 

Each subtitle must be separated from the previous text and the one following it with double spacing. Indents at the beginning of a paragraph are not allowed. The right margin may be formatted in the justified alignment, but words must not be separated in syllables. Bar spacing must only be used to separate words. In order to tabulate, use the corresponding key. The keys "Enter", "Intro" or "Return" must only be used at the end of a paragraph, when utilizing a full stop. Underlining is not used. Words in Latin or in foreign languages are written in italic, or phrases the author feels the need to stress. In any case, it is advised to not overuse this resource nor others, such quotation marks or bolding.

Any graphics, tables, images and maps are not to be included in the text, but in each case the location in the text must be indicated. They are to be uploaded to the editorial portal, numbered, following the order in which they appear in the text, with their titles and/or epigraphs in a separate document. The images and maps should be in the format .jpg or .tif in 300 dpi and count with an incorporated scale. They also should be cited in the text, and not exceed the box measures of the publication (12 x 23,50 cm).

Any graphics, tables, images and maps included in the text should be the author's own work; although other sources can be included as long as the author counts with explicit authorization for reproduction, or adequate licenses such as Creative Commons. If none of these two options apply, an appropriate written authorization from the material's author is necessary so that the material can be included in this publication.

MACE follows the Harvard-APA style for bibliographical citations. Examples within the text: (Rodríguez, 1980) or (Rodríguez, 1980, 1983) or (Rodríguez, 1980a y 1980b) or “as Rodríguez (1980) explains, etc.”.

(https://instituciones.sld.cu/cpicmmtz/files/2013/09/El-estilo-del-Harvard-APA.pdf

Up until two authors can be cited; in the case of more than two authors, the first author is named and followed by et al. In the bibliographical listing the names of all authors are listed.

Citations with pages, figures or tables: (Rodríguez, 1980: 13), (Rodríguez, 1980: figura 3), (Rodríguez, 1980: tabla 2), etc.

Textual citations up until three lines are included in the text, between quotation marks, with the corresponding reference (Author, year: page). Textual citations that are longer than three lines are written in indented paragraphs on the left using tabulation, and are separated from the rest of the text with double line spacing before and after, and in this case quotation marks are not used. The textual citation is followed by the reference (Author, year: pages). Footnotes are not to be used for this kind of bibliographical reference.

If the textual citation stems from unpublished documentary source, the references are to be made in a footnote on the bottom of the page. Examples:

Archivo Histórico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (en adelante AHPBA). Juzgados de Paz, Leg. 39-1-1, doc.385, f.2.

Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia (en adelante ABNB). Correspondencia Audiencia de Charcas 940, Carta del Gobernador Felipe de Albornoz al Rey. Salta, 17/3/1634.

We suggest the use of the following annotation for this kind of references (Spanish): Legajo: Leg.; Expediente: Exp.; Documento: doc.; folio o foja/s: f. ó fs.

The original orthography and composition of the cited documents should be preserved. However, it is recommended to indicate in case any aspect of the document has been modernized for the transcribed citations in the articles.

The footnotes at the bottom of the pages should be written with the corresponding command in the text editor used by the author. They should not appear at the end of the text document nor is it necessary to create a document apart for them.

5) Acknowledgements

6) Cited documentary sources. Unpublished sources referenced in the text are to be indicated here. Examples:

Archivo y Biblioteca Nacionales de Bolivia (ABNB), Escrituras Públicas, Leg. 7, 8 y 9. La Plata, 1562-1569. Revisita al pueblo de Jesús de Machaca.

Archivo General de la Nación, Sala XIII, Leg. 17-10-4, 1620.

7) Cited bibliography. All the cited references in the text and in the footnotes must appear in the bibliographical list and vice versa.

The bibliographical list should be alphabetical, sorted by the first author’s last name. Two or more works by the same author should be in chronological order. Works from the same year should me distinguished by adding lowercase letters: a, b, c, etc.

The following order should be used: the author’s last name in lowercase, the first name’s initial if necessary, specify editor (ed.) or compiler (comp.) of the text, (year of publication) Title and subtitle in italic. Number of volume if necessary, number of edition (in case of not being the first edition). Place of publication, Editorial.

Note: after the year, there is no full stop and the titles of books or the names of the publications are to be in italic. The words “volume”, “tome” or “number” are not used, only the number of the volume, tome, etc. itself. The abbreviation “pp.” is not used either to indicate the pages. Instead, the pages can be indicated separated by hyphens.

If the author considers it important, they may cite the original publication date of the work in question in square brackets, especially in case of travel reports and/or memoirs. Example within the text: Lista ([1878] 1975), which should coincide with the form of citation in the bibliographical list.

Example of a bibliographical list:

Eidheim, H. (1976). “Cuando la identidad étnica es un estigma social” en Barth, F. (comp.), Los grupos étnicos y sus fronteras: 50-74. México, FCE.

Ottonello, M. y A. M. Lorandi (1987). 10.000 años de Historia Argentina. Introducción a la Arqueología y Etnología. Buenos Aires, Eudeba.

Presta, A. M. (1988). Una hacienda tarijeña en el siglo XVII: La Viña de “La Angostura”. Historia y Cultura 14: 35-50.

Presta, A. M. (1990). Hacienda y comunidad. Un estudio en la provincia de Pilaya y Paspaya, siglos XVI-XVII. Andes 1: 31-45.

Quevedo, R. (1979). “Ruy Díaz de Guzmán, el hombre y su tiempo” en Tres estudios sobre Ruy Díaz de Guzmán y su obra. Biblioteca Virtual del Paraguay. Disponible en Internet: http://bvp.org.py/biblio_htm/guzman/notas_biograficas.htm. Consultado el 4 de julio de 2014.

MACE requires the authors to concede the property of their author’s rights in order for their article or materials to be reproduced, published, edited, attached, communicated and transmitted publically in any form or medium. This includes distribution of the required number of copies, public communication in every one of its modalities, including availability to the public through electronic, visual or any other technological means by non-profit circulation, exclusively for scientific and cultural purposes.

Article 5 : Researchers, technologists, teachers, postdoctoral fellows and master's and doctoral students whose research activity is financed with public funds must deposit or expressly authorize the deposit of a copy of the final version of their published scientific-technological production. or accepted for publication and/or that has gone through an approval process by a competent authority or with jurisdiction in the matter, in the open access digital repositories of its institutions, within a period of no more than six (6) months from the date of publication. date of its official publication or approval. (http://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/220000-224999/223459/norma.htm)

Finally, MACE maintains its commitment to Open Access policies to scientific information, considering that both scientific publications and research financed with public funds must circulate on the Internet freely, free of charge and without restrictions.

Transfer of rights and commitment to originality 

To the Editorial Committee of  Memoria Americana, Cuadernos de Etnohistoria

I hereby declare that I am the author of the work titled (name of the article), it is original and my own and has not been published in any format or medium previously.

If accepted for publication in Memoria Americana, Cuadernos de Etnohistoria (number/year) I assign the editorial rights that correspond to me for the aforementioned article for publication in all the formats that the aforementioned magazine has.

If I would like to publish this article through another editor or in another place, I undertake to request the corresponding written permission from the Editorial Committee of  Memoria Americana, Cuadernos de Etnohistoria. If the Editorial Committee's response is affirmative, I commit to the following:

• specify place, publisher and date of the first publication of the article in the new publication

• perform this republication only after one calendar year has elapsed from the date of this notice of transfer of rights

SIGNATURE

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