Submissions

Author Guidelines

1.- Introduction

erph is intended for researchers, professionals, institutions, public authorities and other members of the public interested in protection of historical heritage.

Each of the Journal’s sections (Concept, Management, Intervention, etc.) contemplate two types of papers: Studies and Experiences. The purpose of the Studies is the publication of unpublished results of scientific analysis and research of a general nature regarding any matter relating to heritage protection, preferably with a national or international dimension. The Experiences consist of publication of the original results of specific studies, projects or research relating to protection actions of interest.

These articles will be sent online in accordance with the author guidelines regarding the composition, length and format of manuscripts and the instructions for uploading of articles outlined in the tutorial for authors. Authors must be correctly registered and have a user name and password. In the event of any error, authors may contact the following email: redaccionerph@ugr.es.

Contributions submitted to erph must be unpublished and original and fit within one of the Journal’s thematic sections. They will undergo an initial evaluation by the Editorial Board, and where applicable they will subsequently be subject to an external double-blind peer review. To ensure blind peer review, the file must be submitted without any data or metadata that would allow identification of the author. Authorship, affiliation, email addresses and funding bodies of manuscripts must be listed separately on the OJS platform.

2.- Language, structure and length

Manuscripts will be accepted in Spanish, English, French and Italian. Manuscripts drafted in languages other than Spanish must necessarily include a summary or abstract in Spanish.

The length will depend on the type of manuscript submitted. Studies and Experiences will have a length of no more than 75,000 characters (around 20 pages including spaces) including notes and references. Reviews will have a length of no more than 5,000 characters (around two pages) and will follow the same formatting criteria as for Studies and Experiences. They must also include an image of the cover of the book reviewed. For all three types of publication, authors should refer to examples in the same section of issues already published to resolve any queries relating to formatting of texts.

In exceptional cases, the Editorial Board may accept works that do not adhere to these lengths if there are duly justified reasons for doing so.

The text of manuscripts submitted as Studies and Experiences must be structured as follows:

• Genre: Section of the Journal where the work will be published, specifying whether it is a study or an experience and highlighted in bold (e.g. Legislation_Studies). The Editorial Board may reassign the work to another section if deemed necessary due to its content.
• Title: In bold and lower case. It must be translated into English (or Spanish in the case of works written in another language).
• Abstract: This will have a length of around 150-250 words and will be submitted in Spanish and in English. It must outline the objectives, methodology and results of the research carried out in the article.
• Keywords: From 4 to 6, in Spanish and English, separated by commas.
• Authorship, acknowledgements and funding: Full name and affiliation of the author(s) and the research projects, financing sources and acknowledgements related to the articles must be expressly stated in the corresponding data field of the OJS platform. This information cannot be included in the manuscript, as this could compromise the anonymity of the work. It will be integrated into the final versions of the accepted articles.
• Text: see section 3. Although the structure of the main text may vary, it is essential that the articles presented as Studies clearly state their object of study, objectives, state of the art and justification and the research methodology, presented in an introductory section or in the initial sections. Articles submitted as Experiences should also address these matters, although the structure may be more flexible.
• Bibliography, citations and references: see section 5.

Along with these data, authors must provide a brief CV with a length of no more than 10 lines (Arial 10, justified, single-spaced, no indentation) in the corresponding place in OJS, briefly stating the most relevant aspects of their research lines, qualifications, publications or experience. The email addresses of all the authors and a recent photograph must be included.

Optionally, additional information may be added to articles in the form of an appendix. Such material will appear at the end of the article, numbered as Appendix 1, Appendix 2, etc.

3.- Format of the text, citations and references

The text must be uploaded in a Microsoft Office Word file (.doc / .docx) with simple line spacing, justified paragraphs and Arial 10 font for the main text and titles and Arial 8 for the footnotes, leaving a line between paragraphs and a full stop at the end of each paragraph and no indentation of any kind.

Titles will be numbered, in lower case and in bold with no full stop and no indentation and separated by one line above and below. Subtitles will be numbered, in lower case and with no full stop and no indentation and separated by one line above and below. e.g.:

1.- Title 1

1.1) Subtitle

2.- Title 2

2.1) Subtitle

Quotes included in the text may be placed inside quotation marks: “ ” or in italics. If they are more than two lines long they must be placed in a separate paragraph with line spacing of 1.25 lines.

Simple citations and references, i.e. without any comments, are incorporated in the text. For example (Lloréns, 1979: 30) refers to page 30 of the article by the author Lloréns published in 1979 and cited in the section “Bibliography and references”. If there is more than one work by the same author published in the same year existing in the bibliography, they must be differentiated using a letter next to the year: (Lloréns, 1979a: 30). Both surnames of authors will be used to avoid confusion in the event that two authors appear in the bibliography with the same name and first surname.

Publications already cited may be referred to in the next note using ‘Ibid’ or ‘Ibid: page number’ if it refers to a different page number of the same publication).

Footnotes, which will only be used where necessary to include additional text that reinforces or clarifies the arguments in the text, must appear marked in the text with automatic numbering in superscript. They will be written in Arial 8, with simple line spacing and justified. Any references included will have the same format as in the main text (Lloréns, 1979) or will be in accordance with the criteria established in section 5 (if the decision is made to include a complete reference). All publications cited in the text, in the footnotes and in text boxes and captions must also be included in the Bibliography at the end of the text.

4.- Figures, tables, graphs

erph strongly encourages that manuscripts be accompanied by images and figures to illustrate them, and the existence of such images and figures is highly appreciated.

A maximum of 10 figures and 10 tables or graphs will be accepted in both experiences and studies, with their position being indicated in the main text by way of a reference included between square brackets which will be duly numbered and highlighted in yellow to facilitate its location: [Figure 1], [Figure 2], [Table 1], etc.

All figures, illustrations (in JPG format), maps, graphs, tables, etc., must be of good quality and high resolution to allow their publication (800 x 600 pixels and minimum resolution of 72 dpi in the case of images). The documents must be uploaded duly numbered in accordance with the order of their location in the text and with a duly numbered caption in the corresponding place which briefly describes the image, source or illustration. They will be fully cited as follows:

_ If the images, links, tables, graphs, etc. are the property of the authors they will specify “Image/Photo/Table/Graph/… by the author”..

_ If the images are owned by a third party and they have their express consent to publish them they will specify “Author: xxx. With permission for its publication in erph”. If the images are from another publication, website, electronic document or similar, the source will be fully cited in the same manner as the citations in the bibliography and references at the end of the article (see section 5). Image captions will be in Arial 8, justified and with simple line spacing. In addition, an image of the cover of the article must be included, which will be accompanied by its corresponding caption with the requirements and characteristics mentioned above.

Links to videos and other audiovisual materials are also accepted as illustrations, the location of which must be indicated in the text in square brackets in the same manner as for figures, maps, tables, graphs, etc., providing the link readers require but without any underlining: [http://www.xxxx].

5.- Bibliography and references

The bibliography and references section will be located at the end of the main text. It will not be numbered and will be in Arial 10 format, justified, highlighted in bold and with simple line spacing, leaving a line between each reference and without any indentation. Scientific articles will include their DOI or, failing that, their URL. References are listed in alphabetical order according to the first surname of the author(s).

References to a monograph:

ASHWORTH, G. J. & TUNBRIDGE, J. E. (2000). Retrospect and prospect on the tourist-historic city. London: Elsevier, 2000.

GOMBRICH, E.H. 1992. Historia del Arte; Santos Torroella, Rafael (Spanish version), 15th ed. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.

LLORÉNS, V. (1979). Liberales y románticos. Valencia: Castalia.

References to a contribution in a monograph with various authors:

RAMÍREZ, J.A (1983). “La ciudad surrealista”. In: Antonio Bonet Correa ed., El Surrealismo. Madrid: Cátedra, pp. 73-84.

References to a periodical publication:

VILLAR MOVELLÁN, A. (1984). “Homónimos de Juan de Mesa”, Apotheca, n.  4, pp. 100-120.

ZEILER, X & THOMAS, S. (2021) “The relevance of researching video games and cultural heritage, International Journal of Heritage Studies” n. 27:3, pp. 265-267, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2020.1762705

UTRERO AGUDO, M. A. (2020). “La intervención de la DGEMN en las iglesias altomedievales de Portugal. Arqueología de la arquitectura y reconstrucción”, erph_ Revista Electrónica de Patrimonio Histórico, n. 27, pp. 84-105. https://doi.org/10.30827/e-rph.v0i27.17902

References to a conference:

BATICLE, J. (1978). “Les “amis norteños” de Goya en Andalousie. Ceán Bermúdez, Sebastián Martínez”, XXIII Congreso Internacional de Historia del Arte. España entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico. Granada, 1973. Granada: Universidad, Departamento de Historia del Arte, pp.10-20.

References to electronic documents and other digital publications:

Electronic documents are those which are in electronic format and are created, stored and published using computer systems. Although the ISO 690-2 standard specifies the elements to be included in bibliographic citations of electronic resources and establishes a mandatory ordering of reference elements, we recommend the following system and order: author(s); date of creation or update of the resource; title (in italics for monographs or complete works and with inverted commas for titles of articles or parts of a monograph or journal); subject of the message (for emails and messages to newsgroups); type of medium (this may be online, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, disk or diskette, etc. and must be enclosed in square brackets); details of the edition (optional); access (this must be enclosed in angle brackets < > and specifying the type of protocol used: HTTP, FTP, TELNET, GOPHER); and the consultation date (which must be included between square brackets):

MARTÍN GARCÍA, J.M (1999), “El ciclo de la Navidad en la pintura sevillana y granadina del Siglo de Oro”, Cuadernos de Arte e Iconografía, Revista Virtual de la Fundación Universitaria Española. Online: <http://fuesp.com/revistas/pag/cai154.html>. [Consulted on: 11.01.2007].

SANTACANA, J. (2012), “La didáctica del Patrimonio o el valor educativo del pasado”, Didáctica del Patrimoni Cultural. Online: <http://didcticadelpatrimonicultural.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/la-didactica-delpatrimonio-o-el-valor.html>. [Consulted on: 21.01.2014].

UNESCO (2008). Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention. At <https://whc.unesco.org/en/guidelines/> [Consulted on: 21.01.2014].

6.- Extended abstracts in English (optional)

In order to enhance their international impact, articles accepted for publication in erph may include an extended abstract in English of between 1,500 and 2,500 words. The extended abstract will be sent as complementary material at the same time the authors upload the corrected version of their articles to the Journal website (which is sent after the editors have sent the authors the external reviews and the list of changes to be made, if any). Extended abstracts in English may retain their original section structure and take whole paragraphs from the text of the article itself. It is recommended that authors have a good level of writing in English or send their manuscripts for translation by translators or native speakers.