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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, nor is it under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • Web addresses have been added to the references where possible.
  • The text is single-spaced; the font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at their corresponding locations, not at the very end.
  • The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Authors Guidelines, which can be found in About the Journal.
  • If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you must ensure that the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

MONTALBÁN is the refereed and indexed publication of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and complies with the requirements established by REVENCYT, LATINDEX, MIAR, ROAD, and AURA. This journal is open to the areas of history, anthropology and ethnolinguistics related to Venezuela, Latin America and the Caribbean.

All article submissions must comply with the following guidelines:

1)        Articles must comply with each and every one of the rules indicated in this manuscript in order to be refereed. If any of them are not complied with, the article will be returned until it complies with the guidelines established herein.

2)        Papers should preferably be unpublished and no longer than thirty (30) pages including graphic material, photographs, maps, graphs, charts and notes.

3)      The articles in the MONTALBÁN journal are governed by the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA license. As open access content, they can be freely shared, adapted, and redistributed, provided that the author is credited and the material is not used for commercial purposes.

4)      The editorial office will acknowledge receipt of the originals within twenty (20) working days after receipt.

5)      The acceptance of each contribution will depend on the confidential evaluation of two anonymous According to this, the editorial staff will decide on the publication and will inform the authors within a period of no less than three months.

6)      Articles should be sent to the Open Journal System platform through the following link: https://revistasenlinea.saber.ucab.edu.ve/index.php/revistamontalban/about/submissions  in digital format (Microsoft Word) with the following characteristics:

a.       Complete data of the author, e-mail and the institution to which he/she

b.      Title: It should be short, explanatory and contain the essence of the This title should be provided both in the language in which the rest of the text is written and in English.

c.        Curricular synthesis: Its length should not exceed fifty (50) words.

d.        Abstract of the article: in Spanish and English with a length between one hundred (100) and one hundred and fifty (150)

e.      Key words: in Spanish and English with a maximum of five (5) words.

f.       General index: that corresponds sequentially with the structure of each and every one of the main and secondary headings present in the text (it is not necessary to paginate them).

g.       Bibliography: the sources consulted should be presented extensively at the end of the article.

7)       Regarding citations and bibliography, MONTALBAN has adhered to the Chicago style. If it is necessary to go deeper into the rules governing this style, we invite you to consult the following formative material:

  • https://www.colconectada.com/estilo-chicago-para-trabajos-escritos

In addition, it has established the following criteria:

a.      Each of the bibliographic references or citations should make mention of the source in a footnote, for example:

i.        Footnote:

-Rosario Besné, José Ramón Canedo y Beatriz Pérez de las Heras, La Unión Europea: historia, instituciones y sistema jurídico (Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2002), 133-134.

-Kent Portney, Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003)

-   Ibid., 162.

Bibliography:

- Rosario Besné, José Ramón Canedo y Beatriz Pérez de las Heras. La Unión Europea: historia, instituciones y sistema jurídico. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2002.

- Portney, Kent. Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2003.


- Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry Into the Origins of Cultural Change.
New York: Blackwell, 1989.

b.      All acronyms and references mentioned should be included in full at the end of the text, in alphabetical order, in the section entitled ACRONYMS AND REFERENCES which should appear at the end of the text.

i.          In the case of archives or libraries, the abbreviations should be placed first, followed by the references, for example:

            1.A.A.A.          Arquidiocesano de Caracas Archive

            2.B.P.M.A.   Pedro Manuel Arcaya Library

ii.       In the case of documentary, bibliographic or hemerographic or electronic sources, the following rules shall be observed, examples:

 1.Books:
                 a.
                         Footnote:
                           -Philip B. Kurlandand Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders’ Constitution
                            (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), http://press
                             pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/ (Consultado el 27-7-2021).
                        Bibliography:
                        -Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, eds. The Founders’ Constitution.
                            Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. http://press
                          pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/. Also available in printed version and CD-ROM.
2.Journal articles:
a.
      Footnote::
-Mark A. Hlatky et al., "Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy", Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (2002), http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/287/5/591.short. (Consultado el27 de marzo de 2021)
        Bibliography:
-Hlatky, Mark A., Derek Boothroyd, Eric Vittinghoff, Penny Sharp, and Mary A. Whooley. "Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy". Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (2002), http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/287/5/591.short. (Consultado el 27 de marzo de 2021)
 
8)      The editor reserves the right to correct or adjust the text, as long as it does not alter its content.
9)      Originals are not returned. 
10)    For any additional information, please contact the following e-mail addresses:
a. revista_montalban@ucab.edu.ve
b. msolhern@ucab.edu.ve
11)      Other papers: short papers such as: Communications, Reviews and Presentatios will also be accepted.
12)    Book Reviews must be submitted to the Open Journal System platform including the book cover.
13)      They should fill in the information required in the Forms for Authors available in the section
Instructions for authors of the MONTALBÁN JOURNAL.
It is important to note that the form must be signed by the author in order to be accepted.
14)      Any other situation not foreseen will be resolved by the editors as they deem appropriate to the interests of MONTALBÁN JOURNAL, with no right of appeal by the authors.
 
 
ARTICLES
Presentation generated by a specific research topic, where findings and results obtained with a clearly defined methodology and supported by a solid historiographical framework.
 
COMMUNICATIONS
Significant progress reports from ongoing or partially completed research.
 
ESSAY
A written prose genre in which the author establishes and defends a clear stance regarding a specific subject.
 
MISCELLANEOUS
Section for open information and diverse topics.
 
REVIEW
A brief written text of up to three pages in which the author provides a general analysis of a book published within the last three years. The purpose is to inform the public by presenting a reference to the book.
 
 

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  • Montalbán jounal recognizes the importance of copyright and under no circumstances seeks to request the transfer of such rights. For this reason, authors retain the economic rights to their documents.
  • The Montalbán Journal holds the exclusive right, license, and authorization to reproduce, distribute, and publish the author's work for the first time once it has been approved by the Editorial Board and undergone peer review. The author guarantees that the manuscript is original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.
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  • The author grants Revista Montalbán the authority to perform orthotypographic corrections and to format the work according to the style, guidelines, and standards set forth in the  Montalbán’s Journal  Author Guidelines.

Use of the PlagScan Platform for Detecting Potential Plagiarism

All manuscripts submitted for consideration in Montalbán Journal must properly reference all bibliographic sources used, including those for graphics, tables, illustrations, appendices, or any other components, clearly indicating the source when it belongs to a third party, following the guidelines outlined in Author Guidelines. By submitting the manuscript to the journal, authors must provide a written guarantee that the text has undergone an adequate review to prevent plagiarism.

Montalbán Journal considers plagiarism to be the improper appropriation of intellectual property and the unattributed textual copying of substantive work by another person. Therefore, all submitted manuscripts may be verified by the editor, who will subject them to semantic similarity analysis using the PlagScan antiplagiarism software.

ETHICS CODE

Declaration on Ethics and Good Practices for Publication in Montalbán, Journal of History

Montalbán, Journal of History, assumes a firm commitment to the scientific community to faithfully uphold proper practices intrinsic to a publication guided by ethical standards and quality criteria for published documents. The journal bases its practices on and refers to the Code of Conduct and Best Practices established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors of scientific journals.

Likewise, it is responsible for providing responses tailored to the needs of both readers and authors.

 

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