Submissions

Author Guidelines

Required documents for submissions

Complete manuscript in a single PDF file

• If the manuscript includes illustrations, these should be included where appropriate.
• For collective works, the table of contents must include the titles of the contributions with the names of the authors and their institutions.
• The application of CVZ standards is not necessary at this stage.

Scientific position and rationale
This document (download model here) must present:

• Personal and professional details of the author or scientific editor (including ORCID, email and cell phone number)
• Description of the complete manuscript:
• total number of characters (preliminaries, text, footnotes and postliminaries, including spaces)
• number and type of illustrations (figures, graphs, maps or plates)
• number of contributions for a collective work and percentage by language
• Interest of the project
• issues raised
• originality, contribution to knowledge
• current competition
• target audience

All publishing projects are subject to prior internal evaluation by the Editorial Board. If this evaluation is favorable, the author/scientific editor must send his/her anonymized manuscript for external review within three months. If any adjustments are required prior to this assessment, they must be taken into account within three to six months, depending on the case.

Manuscript submission for scientific review

The author/scientific editor will provide the complete anonymized manuscript in a single Word or PDF file, including illustrations. Application of Casa de Velázquez standards is not necessary at this stage.

Double-blind scientific review is carried out by peers selected by the Editorial Board, on the basis of their field of research (period and theme concerned) and their status. Authors and experts remain anonymous.

On receipt of the expert reports, drawn up within a minimum period of four to six weeks, a summary is sent to the author/scientific editor who, in the event of a favorable opinion, is invited to submit within a maximum period of six months his/her final manuscript, taking into account the modifications proposed by the experts and the characteristics of the publication. In the event of disagreement, he/she is asked to justify his/her position.

If the expert opinions do not converge, a third expert is called in.

In the event of unfavorable assessments, the manuscript will be rejected and the author/scientific editor will be informed.

Submission of the final dossier for publication

The application of Casa de Velázquez standards is mandatory at this stage.

A complete dossier includes the text and, where applicable, illustrations (files and permissions), as well as :

• 1 Excel file with the names and contact details of the scientific author(s)/editor(s) and contributor(s) (institution, e-mail address, cell phone number).
• 1 book description
• 1 suggested cover illustration (reproduction authorization provided by the publisher).

This complete dossier is submitted to the Directors of Studies for assessment, to ensure that the experts' recommendations have been followed, and to the Publications Department to check that the standards have been correctly applied. If this is not the case, we will request that the manuscript be brought into line.

The order of processing of the final manuscript, revised after expert review and conforming to editorial standards, is determined by the date of receipt.