ISSN 0122-8803
printed version
ISSN 2322-6889
online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Declaration of ethics and best practice publication
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

Historia Caribe is a journal specialized in historical subjects, whose goal is the publication of unpublished articles in Spanish, English, Portuguese and French that are the outcome or progress of original research or historiographical balances, as well as academic reflections related to the historical studies, which contribute to regional, national and international historical knowledge.

SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION OF ARTICLES

This process begins with a review by the Editorial Committee, who verifies if the writing meets the basic requirements set forth, as well as the historical character of the historiographical work and its relevance. Then, these will be subject to evaluating by two anonymous referees that will be specialists in the area in both national and international level under the double-blind peer review to ensure the quality of future published work. The evaluation will be developed for a period of not more than a month and it will take into account the following criteria: quality or academic level, investigative rigor, originality, importance and relevance of the topic, contribution to historical knowledge, domain of the historical literature, argumentative clarity and quality of the drafting.

When there is no unanimity between the two anonymous referees or divergent views arise, the article will be referred to a third reviewer under the same modality, who will be responsible to settle the dispute through a new evaluation on the article, within a term no more than 20 days. The results of the evaluation may be one of the following: the article should be accepted, the article should be accepted with the suggested modifications and the article should not be accepted.

The comments made to the article by the Editorial Committee or the reviewers must be taken into account by the author, who should perform the requested adjustments. These modifications and corrections should be made by the author in a term no more than 10 calendar days. The outcome of the revision will be communicated to the author within a maximum period of 3 months from the date of submission of the article.

EDITING

The Editorial Committee is provided with the last word on the publication of articles and the number in which they will be published. On this basis, the authors will be informed the number and the approximate dates of publication. During this process, minor corrections of style that the journal considers can be made.

The authors must keep a constant contact with the journal via email. They should be ready to provide information of the research that supports the article and certify that the writing is their authorship, and it respects the intellectual property rights of third parties. In addition, authors authorize the use of intellectual property rights and the use of the property rights of author (print and electronic reproduction, publication in databases, information systems, adaptation and distribution) to Universidad del Atlántico, Programa de Historia, Revista Historia Caribe. The journal has a Creative Common Atribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, which allows to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, also adapt, mash-up, transform and create from the material for any purpose, even commercially. For any use the journal Historia Caribe must be cited.

Historia Caribe Journal considers that it is the duty of every scientific journal to ensure the dissemination and the transfer of knowledge, always trying to guarantee the rigor and scientific quality, for this reason it adopts the Code of Conduct established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Identification, Institutional Affiliation and Originality

Historia Caribe is a biannual publication from the Research Group Históricas en Educación e Identidad Nacional, that belongs to the History Program of the Human Sciences Faculty at Universidad del Atlántico, which is an institution that supports the journal financially, and is located at Biblioteca Central, Bloque G, sala 303G (Ciudadela Universitaria, Km. 7 Antigua Vía a Puerto Colombia, Barranquilla-Colombia). The journal can be found at the following URL http://investigaciones.uniatlantico.edu.co/revistas/index.php/Historia_Caribe/index and you can contact by emailing historiacaribe@mail.uniatlantico.edu.co and also by calling 57 5 3197222, 57 5 3197010 ext. 1251.

The journal’s team is formed by: a director, an editor, an editorial assistant and a student assistant. Along with this team, there is an editorial committee and an international scientific team. These teams and their members are responsible to ensure the journal’s high standards, as well as the quality and relevance of its content.

Originality and unpublished are conditio sine qua non that articles sent to Historia Caribe Journal must comply with, which means that the same articles cannot be presented simultaneously to other journals. In the event that an article would later be included in another publication, the information about the original publication on Historia Caribe must be clearly stated with prior authorization from the Historia Caribe Editor. Likewise, when Historia Caribe considers a prior published article for its own publication, it should have the previous approval of the editors in charge of it.

Director and Editor’s Responsibilities and Duties

The Director of Historia Caribe Journal is in charge of the communication among all the journal´s teams and the committees that constitute it in order to determine the policies that will allow the journal positioning and acknowledgment. Also, he is responsible for all the publishing processes to fully meet the standards, and he will be responsible for publishing adjustments, clarifications, corrections, justifications and answers when needed. Besides that, he is in charge of all administrative and institutional processes.

The Editor of Historia Caribe is responsible for the process of all manuscripts that are submitted to the journal, maintaining the required confidentiality during the whole process of revision and arbitration, until the publication or rejection of the article. This one will be the communication bridge between the authors, the referees and the editorial team. Besides that, he will be in charge of answering any request that can be made to the journal and/or any clarifications and corrections as needed.

He will also be in charge of the dissemination and distribution of published issues to contributors, reviewers and organizations that have an exchange with the journal, and to the repositories; as well as the national and international indexing systems, including shipping to active subscribers.

Authors’ Responsibilities

All collecting manuscripts proposed to Historia Caribe Journal should be submitted electronically at: historiacaribe@mail.uniatlantico and historiacaribe95@gmail.com, or through the magazine´s Open Journal System platform to the following address http://investigaciones.uniatlantico.edu.co/revistas/index.php/Historia_Caribe/index. Only manuscripts conforming to the journal’s guidelines, which are in the printed as well as in the digital version of the journal, will be taken into consideration.

Although the editorial committee approves the articles for publishing, taking into account the evaluation carried out by anonymous peers based on the criteria of academic quality and writing, originality, contributions, current bibliography, clarity, importance and pertinence of the topic, authors are responsible of ideas expressed on them as well as the ethical standards of the article.

Once the author presents his/her article for consideration, it is assumed that it is of his/her own authorship and that the intellectual property rights of third parties are being respected, an aspect that will be explicitly stated once it has completed the process of evaluation. It is the responsibility of the authors to make sure they have all of the permissions to use, disseminate and publish charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, photographs, etc, and he/she assumes any requirements about them.

The authors acknowledge that their articles will be submitted initially to the considerations of the Editorial Committee, who will decide to give them commission to anonymous peer reviewers for revision. They will send their arbitration to the Editor, who will inform authors about modifications and observations arisen from this process. These changes need to be fully taken into account and must be carried out in the time the Editor establishes. He will inform the approval of the changes made. When the manuscripts submitted to the journal are not accepted for publication, the editor will send a written notification to the author explaining the reasons why it will not be published in the journal.

In any part of the evaluation and editing process, the Editor may consult the author, who must be attentive to any requirement, which will be made by email and in the stipulated deadlines for the response. The Editorial Committee, previous presentation by the Editor, will have the last word on the publication of articles, reviews, and essays; and the issue number in which they will be published. That date will be provided when the author conveys all of the requested documentation within the specified periods. The journal reserves the right to make minor corrections of style.

The texts to be published must have the authors’ permissions by the signing of a "Document of authorization for use of intellectual property rights". The use of the author’s property rights (reproduction, public communication, transformation and distribution) to Universidad del Atlántico, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Programa de Historia, Historia Caribe Journal (printed and electronic version). In this way it is also confirmed that the text is of authors’ own authorship and that the intellectual property rights of third parties are being respected. Authors may use the final version of their article, under a license BY SA.

Commitments and responsibility of peers/evaluators

They contribute in an objective manner to the arbitration process and evaluation of the articles, always seeking to improve the scientific quality of these and of the Historia Caribe journal. In addition, maintaining anonymity from the moment that authors are contacted until after the publication, not supplying any information by any means about the same.

The evaluation of articles shall be carried out in accordance with the following criteria: academic quality, drafting, originality, contributions, updated bibliography, clarity, importance and relevance of the topic, which is found in the respective format and that will be sent by the publisher to the evaluators to make their collaboration. They will respect the times indicated by the Editor for the evaluation process and they will not exceed the time limits. If any extension is needed, this one should not exceed 15 calendar days. This process should not be greater than six months.

This task will be carried out with due dedication and according to established criteria, formulating the suggestions and modifications to the author, noting significant references that have not been included in the work, always looking for quality scientific and the fulfilment of these criteria.

Peers/ Evaluators will inform the Editor any possible conflict of interest with the article that they have been assigned, either by academic, financial, institutional affairs or collaborations between the arbitrator and the authors, to assign another evaluator. In addition, they will indicate when there is suspicion of plagiarism or closely substantially resembles to another product of research published or not, to take the procedures in each of these cases by the Editorial Committee.

Anti-ethical Behaviors

Compared to any action that may be considered contrary to this statement, shall be taken into account as regulated by the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE in the document: http://publicationethics.org/files/all_flowcharts_spanish_0.pdf (Accessed February 07 2014) and the ways to proceed against duplication, plagiarism, redundancy, fabricated data, changes of authorship, anonymous authors and other matters defined by the COPE.

SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Articles must be original and unpublished. They should not have more than 11,000 words, maximum 25 pages and a minimum of 20, including footnotes and reference pages, and a half spacing, letter-size paper. The reviews must consist of maximum three pages. Font should be 11-point Times New Roman (footnotes page 10 points) with all margins 3 cm and pages should be numbered sequentially.

In addition, articles should also contain an abstract and key words in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. This abstract must be analytical in which the objectives of the article, its content and its results are presented. The abstract should not exceed 100 words and a list of key words, no more than 6.

Author’s personal information must be sent in an attached Word document and it must include name, institutional affiliation, address, telephone number, e-mail address, name of the article, credentials, current job, organizations to be attributed, finished studies and/or in progress and recent publications.

Articles, reviews, as well as biographical essays should be sent to the journal’s Editing Department through the website http://www.uniatlantico.edu.co in the Revistas y publicaciones link (platform Open Journal System), through the link: http://goo.gl/yHDUC and/or via email historiacaribe@mail.uniatlantico.edu.co; historiacaribe95@gmail.com

All original manuscripts accepted for publication in the Historia Caribe journal do not give the right to remuneration. The authors will receive 2 free copies of the journal and they can use the final version of the article at any repository, web site or printing.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR EDITING:

1. The subdivisions in the body of the text (chapters and subchapters, etc.) must be numbered in Arabic numerals, except for the introduction and the conclusion that go unnumbered.
2. The terms in Latin and the foreign words must be italicized.
3. The first time an abbreviation is used, this must be in parenthesis after the complete word and then the following times the abbreviation will be only used.
4. The quotations longer than four lines must be presented in block format, enclosed in quotation marks, single-spaced, font size 11 and intended.
5. There must be a space between each of the paragraphs: these will go without indentation.
6. Charts, graphics, illustrations, photographs and maps should have a reference and be explained within the text. Also, these must have a title, be numbered sequentially and have their footnotes and source(s). They must be located right after the paragraph where they are mentioned. The images must be provided in a digital format (jpg or tiff 300 dpi and 240 pixels). Contributors are responsible for obtaining and providing permission to reproduce any photographs when needed.
7. The footnotes must be in Arabic numerals.
8. The bibliography must appear at the end of the article, written in 11-point Times New Roman, single-spaced and with a hanging indent. It will be organized by primary and secondary sources, including in the first ones the following parts: file, periodical publications, books. In the bibliography, the complete references must be presented in alphabetical order of each cited work used throughout the article, not including the titles that are not referenced to in the footnotes.
9. Bibliographic references as well as the documentary ones must be written as footnotes using Arabic numerals and superscript, in consecutive order. These references must be presented according to the following citation guides, where (N) stands for footnotes and (B) for bibliography:

Book

Single author book:

N- Name Last name(s), Full Title (City, Publisher, Year), 45.
B - Last name(s), Name. Full Title. City: Publisher, year.

Two authors book:

N- Name Last name(s) and Name and Last name(s) Full Title (City: Publisher, year), 45-90.
B- Last name(s), Name and Name Last name(s). Full Title. City: Publisher, year.

Four or more Authors:

N- Name Last name(s) et al., Full Title (City: Publisher, year), 45-90
B- Last name(s), Name, Name Last name(s), Name Last name(s) and Name Last name(s) Full Title. City: Publisher, year.

Article in Book

N- Name Last name(s), “Article Title”, in full Title, eds. Name Last name(s) and Name Last Name(s) (City: Publisher, year), 45.50
B- Last name(s), Name. “Article Title”. In full Title, edited by Name Last name(s) and Name and Last Name(s). City: Publisher, year, 45-90.

Article in Journal:

N- Name Last Name(s), “Article Title”, journal Title Vol. No (year): 45.
B- Last name(s), Name. “Article Title”. journal Title Vol. No (year): 45-90.

Press Article:

N- Name Last name(s), “article Title”. Newspaper Title, City, day and month, year, 45.
B- Last name(s), Name. “ article Title”, Newspaper Title, City, day and month, year.

Thesis:

N- Name Last name(s), “thesis Title” (thesis undergraduate/Masters/Doctorate/ in, University, year), 45-50-90.
B- Last name(s), Name. “thesis Title”. Thesis undergraduate/Master/Doctorate in, University, year),

Archive sources:

N- “Item Title (if possessed)” (place and date, if applied), in Acronym of the file, section, Box, vol./leg./t., f. or ff. The first time, the full name of the file and the abbreviations in parenthesis must be cited
B- Full name and the file (Acronym), City-Country. Section(s), Collection (Archives)(s)

Interviews:

Interview to Last Name(s), Name, City, date (day/month /year)

Publications on the Internet:

N- Name Last Name(s) Name Last Name (s), eds, Full Title (City: Publisher, year), http://press-pubsuchicago.edu/founders (date of consultation).
B-Last name(s), Name, and name Last name(s), eds. Full tile. City: Publisher, year. http://press-pubsuchicago.edu/founders.

Important notice:

After the first citation, the procedure is as follows: Name Last Name, two or three words of the title, 45-90.  Ibid, ibidem, cfr., op., cit. are not used.

Author’s personal information must be sent in an attached Word document and it must include name, institutional affiliation, address, telephone number, e-mail address, name of the article, credentials, current job, organizations to be attributed, finished studies and/or in progress and recent publications.

Articles, reviews, as well as biographical essays should be sent to the journal’s Editing Department through the website http://www.uniatlantico.edu.co in the Revistas y publicaciones link (platform Open Journal System), through the link: http://goo.gl/yHDUC and/or via email historiacaribe@mail.uniatlantico.edu.co; historiacaribe95@gmail.com