Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Papers for publication in Arbor. Ciencia, pensamiento y cultura, must comply with the rules contained in the following sections. Those submissions that do not meet the requirements specified below will be rejected.

Only original works that have not been previously published and which have not been sent to other journals will be accepted.

The Journal's Editorial Policy

Arbor is a transdisciplinary journal that publishes original research (articles, essays or documents) and reviews on aspects of knowledge that help to think about and understand the world in its complexity and in dialogue with the present. Thought, science and culture, conceived at Arbor as hybrid and interconnected areas, are the three large fields that define its content.

Format of the Journal
Arbor is published in open access on CSIC’s platform for electronic journals in PDF, HTML, and XML formats and made available to readers without restriction, immediately after the publication online.

Types of Contributions

Original articles. Original work should have a maximum length of 8,500 words including titles, abstracts, keywords, author names, affiliations, tables and bibliographic references. The first page of the work must contain: title and complete information on authorship (first and last names, place of work, ORCID and e-mail address of each author). It will necessarily include: a summary (about 300 words) and up to five keywords, with their respective translations into English. They should follow the presentation format available in the downloadable template.

Monographic Issue Proposals. The publication of monographic topics requires the submission of a proposal that will be evaluated by the Editorial Board. This proposal should include a brief introduction (maximum 850 words) justifying the interest of the monograph and full details of authorship, titles and abstracts of the contributions (maximum 250 words).

The monograph should include an introduction and a minimum of five original articles and a maximum of eight. Their length and style should conform to the standards included in the downloadable template. Those who coordinate the monograph will be able to sign the introduction, having a maximum of 8,500 words, but may not also sign any of the other articles in the dossier. The dossier must guarantee the diversity of geographical origin and the authors’ disciplinary dedication, gender parity and heterogeneity of affiliation.

All contributions to the monograph should be submitted to the journal as original articles, indicating in the comments section the title of the monograph of which they form part.

The Editorial Board will be able to make an open call for papers when appropriate.

Reviews of monographs and collective volumes. The heading of the review will include the editorial information of the book or monograph (title, author, place of publication, publisher, year published and ISBN). The recommended length can range from a minimum of 600 to a maximum of 1,200 words. The reviews must be signed at the end of the text with full name, surname and e-mail address.

Review Essays. Arbor understands a review essay to be a critical bibliographic review, having interest for the scope of the journal. This review should include at least two monographs and be an update of the topic addressed in the reviewed works such that their contributions can be added to a general theoretical and historiographical debate. The length of the review essay should range from a minimum of 2,500 to a maximum of 5,000 words. The format of citations and any accompanying notes must conform to the Guidelines for Presentation of Originals.

Materials. Essays on other resources (tangibles, audio-visuals, sound and graphics) that build knowledge and have rarely been the object of study. The recommended length may range from a minimum of 1,200 to a maximum of 3,500 words. They may be accompanied by links to digital documents.

Debate. Closed discussion among three or four people regarding a text which enters into dialogue with the subject addressed in the monographic.

Periodicity

Arbor publishes two issues a year in July and December.

REVIEW POLICY

The submission of originals to any section of the journal does not automatically commit its acceptance.

All texts received are initially evaluated by the editorial committee, which assesses whether the content conforms to the editorial line of the journal, whether the work meets the criteria expressed for each section and whether it follows the rules for submission of originals.

If the editors consider the work as suitable, this will be reviewed in a second stage by external evaluators, through the system of double-blind peer review. The Editorial Board, in view of the reports of the external evaluators, will decide on whether or not the work could be published. If the need for changes is deemed, suggestions will be sent to the authors to introduce the appropriate modifications.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

All papers must follow the presentation format available in the downloadable template available HERE.

Submission Format

The authors must upload their paper following the instructions, in Word or LibreOffice format, subjected to the following rules:

1. Title. Papers must be titled in Spanish and English, in explicit and precise terms clearly reflecting their content.
2. Authors. The title is to be followed by the author or authors’ names, institution or place of work, country and a valid e-mail address for the corresponding author.

   IMPORTANT: authors must include a valid ORCID identifier along with the authors’ filiation. If they are not already registered, authors can register free for ORCID, through https://orcid.org/register.

   This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification". This information should be incorporated into the document, under the heading "Authorship contribution statement", located just before References (see i) section).

3. Abstract. Articles must include an abstract in two languages, Spanish and English (300 words maximum for each language), clearly indicating objectives, approach and conclusions.
4. Keywords. A maximum of 5 key words should be included, in Spanish and English.
5. Text body. Drafting and language. The writing should be clear, concise and inclusive. Texts may be written in any of the official languages of Spain and in English. Typeface. Only the roman styled font style may be used. The use of italics is restricted to the following cases: language other than that of the text, emphasis by the writer and mention in the text of book titles, songs, magazines, etc. Bold type and underlining may not be used. If another typeface is to be used for mathematical signs or text in other alphabets (e.g. Greek), the places where these signs have been used must be indicated in the text to avoid omissions in subsequent versions and proofs. Use of inverted commas. In general, low inverted commas should only be used to indicate a textual quotation or a coined concept of known authorship, accompanied by its corresponding reference, which should include the page number. High inverted commas should only be used when it is necessary to include quotation marks within a textual quotation that is already enclosed in inverted commas.
6. Footnotes. Footnotes will be accepted, but they should be the minimum necessary and never include bibliography.
7. Tables, figures and photographs. Manuscripts should include only tables, figures and photographs that are actually useful, clear and representative. They are to be numbered consecutively as they appear in the text; all of them will have an explanatory title at the top and a caption at the bottom, indicating the source. If they are not produced by the author, the source must always be indicated.

   Tables, figures, graphics and photographs shall be embedded in the text at their approximate position. Supplementary files, in JPEG or TIFF format, should be sent in a single compressed ZIP or RAR file. Photographs and figures shall have a minimum resolution of 300 pixels for publication.

8. Mathematical formulas and equations. Formulas and equations must be included directly in the Word or LibreOffice file, and never as imported images.
9. Authorship contribution statement

   Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.

   Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing.

10. References. References follow the APA format with the modification of including the full first name instead of the initial letter. Citations that appear in the body of the text should be included in the References section and vice versa.

    In the body of the text they must comply with the following format:

    - single authorship (Schiebinger, 1989, p. 89).

    - multiple authorship: in the case of two signatures, the surnames should be separated by "and" (Latour and Wolgart, 1979); in the case of three, the surnames should be separated by a comma, except for the last two, separated only by "and" (Pycior, Slack and Abrir-Am, 1996); and for four or more signatures, use et al. (Cruces et al., 2004).

    If several citations are mentioned together, they should be arranged in chronological order and separated by semicolons (Dunlap, 1991; Greene, 2008; Endersby, 2009). When references are of the same authorship, publication dates should be separated by commas and "and", when appropriate (Creager, 2002, 2007 and 2013).

    All references cited should always be included at the end of the paper, ordered alphabetically by the last name of the first author. When the reference is an article with DOI (Digital Object Identifier), it should always be indicated at the end of the article.

    Articles in journals:

    General rule: Surname(s), Name (year of edition). Title of the article. Name of the journal, volume(number), initial page-final page, DOI:

    Where the article cited has a DOI (digital object identifier), that information must always be included at the end of the listing. The existence of DOIs can be checked and the reference, if any, retrieved at the following link (individual and group searches are accommodated):

    http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery.

    Books:

    General rule: Surname(s), Name (year of edition). Title of the book. City of edition: Publisher. DOI:

    Book chapter:

    General rule: Surname(s), Name (year of edition). Chapter title. In Name Surname(s) (ed.), Title of book (pp. xx-xx). City of publication: Publisher. DOI

    Congress/Workshop/Conference/papers:

    General rule: Surname, Name (year, day and month). Contribution title. In Name Surname(s) (ed.), Title of book (pp. xx-xx). City of publication: Publisher. DOI:

    Press articles:

    General rule: Surname(s), Name (date). Title of the article. Name of the newspaper, pp. xx, xx.

    The date should be written as follows: day in number followed by the month and year: (24 February de 2014).

    PhD. or Master’s thesis or dissertation:

    General rule: Surname(s), Name (year). Title (Unpublished PhD. Thesis). University, City. Available at: URL

    Reviews:

    General rule: Surname(s), Name (year of publication). Title of the review [Review of Title of the work reviewed, Name and Surname(s) of the author(s) of the work reviewed. Place of publication: Publisher. Year of edition. ISBN]. Name of the journal, volume (number): page xx-xx.

To cite electronic references and Internet materials, consult the APA guide available at:
https://normas-apa.org/

Include the date viewed only when the content may change. Cite the link using the http:// format and verify that it works. Include other relevant search information (such as authors/organization, year and title).

Supplementary Files Preparation

Before you begin the submission, you should have the following files, in addition to the two versions of the article text (original and anonymised):

• Copyright Transfer Statement
• Compressed file with article images
• Reproduction contracts

These complementary files will be uploaded as different article components.

PROOFS AND COPIES FOR THE AUTHORS

Proofs will be sent to authors as PDF files for review and return within three days. No modifications to the original text will be admitted in the correction of proofs.

Once final publication is made, the main author will be notified.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Arbor. Ciencia, pensamiento, y cultura

- How to send an original manuscript to Arbor. Ciencia, pensamiento, y cultura

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Arbor. Ciencia, pensamiento, y cultura

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Arbor. Ciencia, pensamiento, y cultura

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF