About the Journal
Montalbán Journal
Focus and scope
Montalbán Journal is a research and dissemination magazine in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is the oldest magazine of the Andrés Bello Catholic University, and is aimed at specialists, academics, students, and the general public interested in historical topics.
It is a platform for disseminating knowledge derived from the findings presented in various research projects conducted both within our Alma Mater and at other universities, research centers, and institutes mainly across the country, Latin America and Europe.
Montalbán is a peer-reviewed, indexed scientific publication that follows a double-blind review process. It is published biannually and is open access.
It is fully digitized and can be accessed through the following link: https://revistasenlinea.
Receive and publish frequencies.
The journal is published twice a year, i.e., it is a biannual publication (January-June and July-December). The submission guidelines can be found in “Guidelines for authors” in the Submissions section. Articles are accepted on a rolling basis.
Open access policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public promotes a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The articles published in MONTALBÁN Historical Research Journal are open access and may be shared, adapted, and redistributed freely, provided that the author is credited and the materials are not used for commercial purposes.
The articles in MONTALBÁN Historical Research Journal are governed by the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA License. This license aligns with the journal’s objectives, which are to promote the dissemination of knowledge from Historical Research.
Publication fees and costs
Montalbán, Historical Research Journal, does not charge authors any fees for submission or publication in the journal.
Plagiarism Check
To ensure the academic integrity of the publication,Montalbán Journal uses the PlagScan application, which allows for the review of documents by detecting similarities, incorrect citations, or possible plagiarism. Every document received by the editorial committee is subjected to a similarity detection process to prevent plagiarism. After this, it moves to a selection phase and then to a peer review process.
Montalbán Journal adheres to the international standards established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the UCAB research ethics code. This is done to ensure transparency both in the publication of contributions and in the procedures for resolving associated conflicts.
Consult the COPE guidelines on plagiarism at the following link:
https://publicationethics.org/search?query=plagio%20&f%5B0%5D=type%3Aguidance
Judgment process
In the first phase, the Editorial Committee will select articles that correspond to the thematic areas covered by the journal and that meet the essential academic requirements of a scientific article. In the second phase, the contributions will be subjected to review by two specialists in the relevant field.
Once the Editorial Committee has determined that the submission meets all the established submission requirements, the peer review process will begin.
The peer review process is conducted by external personnel outside the university. In the event of conflicting reviews, the Editorial Board will make the final decision.
Manuscripts submitted for publication in the articles section will undergo a double-blind peer review. Contributions to this section must be free of any information that could identify the author. Therefore, the author’s name and affiliation should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. References to the author’s previous work should be made in the third person.
The peer review evaluation process will take a minimum of one month and a maximum of three months. During this process, the anonymity of both authors and peer reviewers will be ensured. The peer reviewers will be academics with national or international recognition in the subject area of the manuscript. The journal uses reviewers external to the institution to guarantee the integrity of the review process.
Writings submitted for publication in the communications, essays, and reviews sections will undergo a single-blind peer review process. The Editorial Committee may provide substantive and formal recommendations to enhance the quality of the work.
Once the evaluations have been issued, the decision report will be sent to the authors; they will have no more than three weeks to submit the final version of the article with the necessary corrections. The Editorial Committee will compare the final version with the reviews and inform the authors in which issue of the journal their work will be published. Without exception, accepted contributions will undergo style correction based on the linguistic standards of the Spanish language, and their publication will depend on the availability of space in each issue. At all stages, the decision is final and unappealable.
Authors interested in submitting their contributions can consult the author guidelines available at the following link:
https://revistasenlinea.saber.ucab.edu.ve/index.php/revistamontalban/information/authors
The authors are responsible for making the changes requested and for considering the suggestions made by the reviewers and the Editorial Committee of the journal.
Digital preservation policies
The journal uses digital preservation methods to permanently secure the intellectual content of electronic documents, maintaining their integrity, authenticity, inalterability, originality, reliability, and accessibility. To this end, the system is backed up every six months to maintain the integrity of the stored data. We also have an external hard drive where the journal's information is backed up at the same frequency as mentioned above.
Montalbán, Historical Research Journal, uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), which provides the PKP-PN tool (PKP-Preservation Network); for this journal, the respective plugin is active.
A backup of the published issues of the journal is maintained in an online repository (Drive).
Use of interoperability protocols
The journal incorporates the OAI-PMH interoperability protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), which allows its content to be harvested by other distribution systems. The metadata format used is Dublin Core.
https://revistasenlinea.saber.ucab.edu.ve/index.php/revistamontalban/oai
Policies on the Use of Artificial Intelligence
In line with COPE guidelines, transparency in publications is fundamental. The use of generative AI/LLM tools to write any part of an article, including the abstract, keywords, or literature review, is not permitted.
The reporting of results and the presentation of statistical data using a generative AI/LLM tool is not permitted.
The submission and publication of images created by artificial intelligence tools or large-scale generative models is not permitted.
For more information: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/authorship-and-ai-tools
User interactivity services
Montalbán journal maintains contact with its users and readers through the social network X, whose address is:
https://x.com/investigaucab?s=
Self-archiving policies
Contributions to Montalbán magazine should be submitted exclusively through the Open Journal System platform.
Sponsors
Institute of Historical Research
Faculty of Humanities and Education
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
