Trabajos y comunicaciones. Segunda Época is a biannual scientific journal of the History Department of the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. It publishes original and unpublished articles, reviews and news about archives and sources in Spanish and Portuguese on issues related to history, as well as other disciplines related to it, always maintaining a pluralistic and inclusive approach to historiographic approaches.
The acceptance of the manuscript by the journal implies the non-exclusive cession of the patrimonial rights of the authors in favor of the editor, who allows the reuse, after its edition in paper (postprint), under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . You may share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and create from the material another work), provided that: a) you cite the original authorship and source of your publication (journal, publisher and URL of the work); b) they are not used for commercial purposes; c) the same terms of the license are maintained.
The assignment of non-exclusive rights also implies the authorization by the authors for the work to be deposited in the institutional repository Memoria Académica and disseminated through the databases that the publisher considers suitable for indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the publication and its authors.
In the same way, Trabajos y comunicaciones allows and encourages authors to deposit their contributions in other institutional and thematic repositories, with the certainty that culture and knowledge is a good of all and for all.
- Presentation of the manuscript
Trabajos y comunicaciones accepts unpublished works in Spanish and Portuguese. All manuscripts must be prepared with any word processor. The page size will be A4 (29.7 x21 cm), vertically, with 2.5 cm between the left, right, top and bottom margins. The font needs to be Garamond, size 12, and the text be spaced 1.5. Pages will not be numbered. The maximum number of pages allowed for a manuscript varies according to the type of contribution, as follows:
Articles and History Teaching: up to 25 pages.
Balances and Communications: up to 10 pages.
Reviews and Teachers and historians: up to 4 pages.
Only one document will be delivered in which cover, anonymous cover, summaries, key words and text must begin in the left margin, without centering. Use only regular letters, avoiding block capitals, bold or italic letters, text underlining, etc., with the exception of the forms allowed for highlighting (see 8.g.).
- Cover
a. Title in the language of the text: should be representative of the content, if possible no more than 10 words. If necessary, a subtitle of similar length can be added.
b. Translated title: if the title indicated in 2.a is in Spanish or Portuguese, an English translation will be added.
c. Full name(s) of the author(s).
d. Affiliation of each of the authors, indicating with a sub-index which author corresponds to a certain affiliation. In addition, a bibliographic notice of each of them of no more than six lines should be included.
e. Name of the author to whom the correspondence should be addressed, as well as his postal and electronic address.
- Anonymous Cover
a. Title and subtitle in the language of the text, same as indicated in 2.a.
b.Title and subtitle translated, equal to that indicated in 2.b.
This cover will be the only one sent to the evaluators, therefore the authors, their affiliation and address will be omitted.
- Summary and keywords
a. On a separate page, a 100-word summary will be written in the language of the text. For original research articles, research notes and case studies, the abstract must indicate the objective, methodology, results and conclusions, duly summarized. For essays, review articles or state of the art, the main aspects dealt with in the text will be included in the abstract.
b. No more than five keywords will be added in the language of the text.
- Abstract and translated keywords
a. If the abstract mentioned in 4.a is in Spanish or Portuguese, an English translation will be added.
b. If the keywords mentioned in 4.b are in Spanish or Portuguese, an English translation of all of them will be added.
- Text
a. Footnotes: must be automatically identified with a superscript number without using parentheses and after the orthographic sign. Footnotes should not be used for bibliographic citations only.
b. Textual quotations: textual quotations should be included in quotation marks and should not be abused. If the three lines are exceeded, they should be written in a separate paragraph with a left and right indentation of approximately 1.25 cm.
c. Bibliographic quotations in the text: the author's surname or the institutional author's acronym should be indicated in parentheses, followed by a comma and the year of publication. For example (Mannino, 2005), (AAHE, 2006).
If there are between two and five authors, the surnames will be separated with the conjunction & (González & Campanario, 2007; González, Pérez, Rodríguez & Salomoni, 2009). For six or more authors the first followed by et al. will be indicated (Golubic et al., 2008).
When two or more papers are cited, they are separated by semicolons (Kaplan, 2008; Neuberger and Counsell, 2002; Buela Casal et al., 2006). When the author and the year coincide, it will be distinguished with a letter (Zeng and Zummer, 2009a,b). If the author's surname is mentioned as part of the text, it is not repeated within the parenthesis of the bibliographic citation, for example "According to Foskett (1996) ...". (According to Guía para citas y referencias Ediciones de la FaHCE)
- Bibliographical references
For the drafting of references, Papers and Communications accepts the guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA) (see Guía para citas y referencias Ediciones de la FaHCE).
- Other elements in the text
Tables: They shall be numbered consecutively and with Arabic numerals. They need to be referred to from the text (Table 1, Table 2, etc.). Each table should have its own title at the top. In each column, the column title also needs to be indicated.
Figures: All illustrations (photographs, diagrams, graphs, drawings, etc.) shall be designated by the term figure and shall be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. The title and legend should be included in the text. The figures must be presented in JPG image files at 96 dpi and 700 px.
Acknowledgements: it is not obligatory. If necessary, they should be included at the end of the text, before the bibliographic references and should be brief. Authors are responsible for requesting the necessary permissions to mention the names of persons or organizations that, in their opinion, deserve thanks.
Abbreviations: Abbreviations will be clarified the first time they are used in the text, for example: United Nations (UN). After this clarification, only the abbreviation will be used. It is recommended not to abuse them.
Units of measure: the units of the metric system will be used. Units should be indicated by the symbols accepted by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (http://www.bipm.org/en/bipm/), e.g. cm, m, h, g, kg (centimeter, meter, hour, gram, kilogram). Note that they are symbols and not abbreviations, so they do not end in a dot.
Numbers: every three digits the dot will be used as a separator (2.284, 13.527). The comma will be used to indicate the decimal numbers (17,2 or 3.543,8). It is recommended to indicate only one decimal (35.7 and not 37.68).
Highlighting: Except for the cases indicated in this paragraph, highlighting (block capitals, underlining, bold, italics, etc.) will not be accepted. The only cases allowed are the following:
Section titles (Introduction, Methodology, Results and discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, Bibliographic references, or others): bold.
Section titles: regular letter.
Term defined in the text, neologism or term in a foreign language: italics.
- Submission of the manuscript
Only one document will be sent that will include text, tables, and figures. For example: Pérez_2010.doc
If necessary, the editors will contact the author(s) to request the figures, tables or images separately.
The submission must be made exclusively by registering as author on this platform and uploading the article in doc, docx or rtf as indicated in the steps to follow the system. If you have technical problems to send the article, please contact: publicaciones@fahce.unlp.edu.ar.