Complete Information About Magnificat Cultura I Literatura Medievals

Complete information about Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals

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Bibliographical identification:

Title: Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals Abbreviation: Magnificat CLM. ISSN: xxxx- xxxx Other identifications: Every article within Magnificat CLM has its DOI identifier. Frequency of publication: Annual. First publication year: 2014.

Editorial and academic boards:

Publisher: Universitat de València http://www.uv.es Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 10 46010 Valencia (Spain). UV Tel: (+34) 963 86 41 00

Editorial Board: Rosanna Cantavella, Barry Taylor, Rafael Beltran Llavador and Josep Izquierdo.

Editor: Rosanna Cantavella Chiva Departament de Filologia Catalana Universitat de València Valencia (Spain) [email protected] http://www.uv.es/cantave

Editorial secretary: Jose Gil Izquierdo IES Marxadella, Torrent Valencia (Spain) [email protected]

Advisors: --Barry Taylor British Library London (United Kingdom) [email protected] http://tinyurl.com/pox44bw

--Rafael Beltran Llavador Departament de Filologia Espanyola Universitat de València

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Addresses of Magnificat CLM:

URL: http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/MCLM/ Email: [email protected]

Postal address: Magnificat CLM, Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de València, Av. Blasco Ibáñez 32, 46010 Valencia (Spain) Tel. (+34) 963 86 42 55. Fax. (+34) 963 86 96 44.

Manuscripts will not be submitted by email, but by logging on to OJS platform (http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/MCLM/) after registering (http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/MCLM/user/register), so that the application is duly recorded.

Academic board

• Rafael Alemany Ferrer (Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat d’Alacant, Alacant, Spain) • Carlos Alvar Ezquerra (Unité d’Espagnol, Université de Genève, Genève, Suisse) • Annamaria Annicchiarico (Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italia) • Lola Badia Pàmies (Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) • Vicenç Beltran Pepió (Dipartimento di Studi Europei Americani e Interculturali, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italia) • Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study University of London, London, United Kingdom) • Germà Colón Domènech (emeritus, Romanisches Seminar, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland) • Jane Connolly (Department of Languages, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fl., United States) • Roger Friedlein (Romanisches Seminar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland) • Fabio Zinelli (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France)

Technical Team

Composition and layout: Josep Izquierdo ([email protected]) Graphics: Dídac Ballester ([email protected], http://www.ibanmasdidac.com).

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Editor: - Selection Procedure: The journal’s editor is appointed by the Director of the Publications Service of the Universitat de València, having been elected by the editorial board, and with the approval of a majority of the academic board.

- Duties: The journal’s editor is its main academic manager: s/he channels proposed articles to the editorial board for a first review (formats and language quality), and to potential peer-reviewers for a second (academic quality and contents). In the choice of reviewers, the editor can seek the advice of the members of the academic board.

Editorial board: - Composition: The editorial board consists of three people: the director, secretary and an advisor. A small editorial board has been preferred in order to give the journal greater flexibility and functionality.

- Selection: Members are proposed and selected by the same procedure as the editor.

- Proportion: the editorial board will have at least a 33% presence of members external to the publishing institution (Universitat de València).

- Functions: Board members support the editor in her/his functions. The editorial board monitors the progress of submitted works (receipt and processing, including the first assessment of the quality of language and formats), and establishes guidelines on the contents and style of the journal.

Academic board: - Composition: The academic board consists of a number of members that can be variable, but will average ten to eleven.

- Selection: New board members are appointed by the academic advice editor, with the approval of the rest of the academic board.

- Proportion: The presence of members of the publisher (Universitat de València) in the academic board should not exceed 10%.

- Features: The academic board, besides endorsing the journal’s commitment to the highest standards, advises on editorial policy, and endeavours to spread awareness of the journal in all professional forums. The editor may also seek its members’ advice on the choice of peer-reviewers.

Statistical reports on the publishing process

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- Proportion of manuscripts received and accepted :

. Total of works received. . Works received according to subject. . Works received according to place of origin.

. Total of works accepted. . Works accepted by topic. . Works accepted by place of origin.

. Works rejected in the first review by reason of format and language quality. . Reasons for rejection in the first review. . Works rejected in the first review by subject matter. . Works rejected in the first review by place of origin.

. Total of works published. . Works published by topic. . Works published by place of origin.

. Total of pages published. . Pages published by topic.

- Statistics on average time between submission of the manuscript, its acceptance and its publication.

Subject to peer-reviewers complying with the deadline, authors should receive an answer on the acceptance or rejection of their manuscript in a period not exceeding 60 days.

. Average time between receipt of article and publication. . Average time between receipt of article and rejection or initial (provisional) acceptance. . Average time between article definitive acceptance and publication. . Average time spent by peer-reviewers in the evaluation report.

In all cases the figures will indicate days (not weeks or months), and average and standard deviation will be given.

If Magnificat CLM should expand in the future to include more than its present one section, then these statistics will also be presented by sections.

- Statistics on the peer-reviewing process

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. Number of reviewers Number of works 1 30 (%)

2 60 (%)

3 10 (%)

4 1 (%)

. Number of projects evaluated per reviewer.

Reproduction rights and subscriptions

Copyright: All documents in OJS are free and owned by their authors, and therefore any reproduction, commercialization, public communication or modification of all or part requires their express written consent, by licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ).

To submit their manuscript to Magnificat CLM, authors must accept this type of copyright.

Subscriptions: Via RSS alerts. Price: This is a free-of-charge journal in open format (golden way).

Diffusion

As an Open Journal Systems journal, Magnificat CLM will have global diffusion, and will appear from its first issue in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Moreover, the editorial board is committed to advancing the knowledge of the journal by requesting inclusion in all possible indexes and databases (see Indexing).

Authors who publish with Magnificat CLM will take on promotion of their articles through their repositories (green way), and through social networks of researchers: at least in Google Scholar ( http://scholar.google. com), Mendeley.com (http://www.mendeley.com/) and Academia.edu (http://www.academia.edu/). How to register in Google Scholar: http://tinyurl.com/pcnuzox.

The journal will also keep a blog in which information about new issues will appear, and comments from readers will be collected. This blog will be linked to the journal’s presence on Twitter, where

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Indexing

Magnificat CLM meets all indexing requirements available to a journal start-up: all except those related to compliance with publication frequency – with which it aims to comply – and its articles’ impact measurement, both impossible for a new journal.

Latindex: 35 out of 36. CNEAI: 11 out of 14. ANECA: 17 out of 22. ISOC-CSIC: 12 out of 13. ARCE: 11.5 out of 14. CARHUS +: 4 out of 6. DICE: 4 out of 9.

In detail:

(Points not yet achieved are in parenthesis.)

--Catálogo Latindex de revistas electrónicas: 35 out of 36 All but 25 (periodicity compliance).

1. Explicit editorial board 2. Academic content 3. Continuous generation of content 4. Identification of authors 5. Sponsor /publisher 6. Explicit editor 7. Explicit journal’s URL 8. Explicit journal’s address 9. Navigation and functionality 10. Explicit periodicity 11. Access to content 12. Access history content 13. Bibliographical identification (on first page of article) 14. Members of the editorial board 15. Institutional affiliation of the members of the editorial board 16. Affiliation of authors 17. Information about receipt and acceptance of articles 18. ISSN 19. Definition of the journal’s contents 20. Refereeing systems 21. External reviewers 22. External authors 23. Editorial board’s openness 24. Information services (25. Periodicity compliance) 26. Original content 27. Instructions to authors

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- CNEAI 11 out of 14 All but 20-21 (included in databases) and 9 (periodicity compliance).

1. Existence of editorial and academic boards 2. Identification of board members 3. Detailed instructions to authors 4. Abstract 5. Bilingual abstract 6. Peer-review system 7. Information on the editorial process 8. Declares periodicity (9. Meets periodicity) 10. External reviewers 11. Anonymity in external review 12. Reasoned communication of editorial decision 13. Institutional openness of academic board 14. Academic board’s percentage of internationality 15. Institutional openness of editorial board 16. Original research 17. Institutional openness of authors respect to the editorial board 18. Institutional openness of authors respect to the sponsoring institution 19. Publication of percentage of acceptance of manuscripts (20. Included in WoS / JCR / or ERIH) (21. Included in specialized databases) ooooooo

- ANECA: 17 out of 22 All but 9 (periodicity compliance) and 19-22 (not yet included in indexes and databases).

1. Existence of editorial and academic boards 2. Identification of board members 3. Detailed instructions to authors 4. Abstract

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- ISOC - Base de revistas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 12 out of 13 All except 1 (at least one year old).

(1. Journal at least one year old) 2. Editorial board or editorial committee 3. Editor’s full name 4. Exhaustive identification of authors 5. Affiliation of authors 6. Explicit sponsoring institution 7. Editorial board’s postal or email address 8. Place of publication 9. ISSN 10. Abstract or table of contents 11. Identification data on the journal’s cover 12. Article abstract 13. At least 40 % of the content must be of academic interest ooooooo

- ARCE - FECYT: 11.5 out of 14 All but 11-12 (inclusion in databases), 12 (citation impact) and 6 (periodicity compliance).

1. Identification of members of the editorial and academic board 2. Editorial board’s openness: at least 33% will not belong to the sponsoring institution 3. Detailed instructions for authors

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CARHUS+ 3,5 out of 6 All except 1 (citation impact), 6 (inclusion in indexes) and 3 (periodicity compliance).

Subject classification within CARHUS+: Philology, linguistics and sociolinguistics; medieval history.

(1. Citation impact ICDS figure) 2. External reviewers and percentage of rejected articles 3. Journal’s standard format: English abstract, standard bibliographical references, among others (and periodicity compliance) 4. Institutional and geographic diversity of the journal’s authors 5. Indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ (6. Inclusion in A&H Citation Index) ooooooo

DICE

4 out of 9: all except 2-3 and 7-8 (presence in databases).

1. Reviewers external to editorial board and sponsoring institution (2. Presence in databases) (3. Database dissemination) 4. External openness to authors 5. Internationality of contributions: at least one foreign author per issue 6. More than 25 Latindex criteria (7. ANEP – FECYT category) (8. ERIH category)

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Ethical principles in research

The current economic insignificance of the humanities in the social scene makes the appearance of ethical conflicts between the objectivity of researchers and economic interests of its sponsors less likely than in other areas, as sponsors are usually public, non-profit institutions. However, the editorial board states its requirement of the authors’ academic independence from the interests (economic, political or other) of their sponsors.

Ethical principles in publication

- Academic fraud :

There is academic fraud when a publication is not true in whole or in part, and is the product of deception. Ways of academic fraud: making up results out of fabricated data; falsifying data; deliberately omitting facts or data, and plagiarism. There is plagiarism when an author introduces results, ideas, or data created by others as his/her own. Also, when a text is copied without appearing within quotation marks or without indication of source. Also when this preexistent text appears as the author’s own with a few words changed, or in paraphrase, and lacks acknowledgement of the significant assistance of others.

Measures to be taken : Magnificat CLM warns that this practice will not be tolerated. If detected in the editorial process, publication will be immediately rejected, and the journal will reprimand the author, reminding him/her that this is a very serious criminal practice. If the way of academic fraud is plagiarism, the paper will be sent immediately to the real author, so that the latter can undertake appropriate legal action.

If the journal detects academic fraud once the work has been published, it will add within the article a statement in which the author’s fraud will be denounced in full. This statement will also appear on the journal’s website under ‘Announcements’; and also, following the ICMJE recommendations, in a statement visible at the bottom of the following issue’s table of contents (including the bibliographical reference to the said article), in which the statement text added to the article will be reproduced, containing the following sections:

A title beginning with the word “Statement” and including the reason. For example: “Statement: falsifying of data”. Then the fraud committed will be specified in full.

In the event of a severe fraud, Magnificat CLM holds the right to denounce it to the academic and the judicial authorities.

- Duplicate Publication

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The following are not considered duplicate publications, and therefore may be published in Magnificat CLM without conflict: (a) a work developed out of an oral conference paper (but not if the paper has already been published); (b) the translation or adaptation of an article first published in another language (but in this case the editor of the first version’s written agreement must be produced). However, in both cases the author must declare the circumstance when submitting his/her work to Magnificat CLM, and this fact must also appear within the text, for example in a footnote.

To prevent duplicate publication, the journal requires the author’s declaration of originality, as well as a statement that it is not being sent simultaneously elsewhere, when s/he submits her/his work. An attempt at redundant publication without notification will be looked upon severely by the journal, which will take measures identical to those set out in the case of academic fraud, whether the case is discovered in the editorial process, or when the article is already published. In the latter case, the journal will make a statement of redundant publication in its pages (identical in all respects to that indicated for cases of academic fraud, and appearing in all the same places, but with the title “Statement: duplicate publication”) with or without the author’s consent.

- Authorship

In the event of multiple signatures of an article, it must be specified who can be considered the author or co-author of a work: s/he must be able to publicly take responsibility for the content of an article; able to point out how and why remarks have been made, and how conclusions have been drawn from results; able to defend her/his work against possible criticism. S/he can only do so if s/he has participated in the study’s design, observation, and interpretation of findings, and in the article’s writing. In cases of multiple signatures, Magnificat CLM may ask authors to specify what has been each one’s contribution. In authorship issues, Magnificat CLM follows the ICMJE guidelines.

Limit to the number of co-authors: As multiple co-authorship is not common in most areas of the humanities, the journal considers this limit will only need apply very occasionally. Therefore, a limit to the number of co-authors is not established, always bearing in mind the previous section’s guidelines for justified authorship.

However, the Table of Contents will only show the first four at most.

Order of authors : In cases of joint authorship, the journal will respect the order of signature decided by the authors, following the ICMJE guidelines, whether alphabetical, hierarchical, etc. In this respect, the journal

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- Conflicts of interest

In this section, Magnificat CLM again follows ICMJE standards, which state that there will be a conflict of interest when any of the agents involved in the publication process have financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence his or her actions, especially their ability to judge, no matter if this inappropriate bias has existed or not. Here financial relationships with industry are mainly understood, but also reasons such as personal relationships, academic rivalries or intellectual passion.

The authors, reviewers and editorial staff should follow ICMJE guidelines when declaring potential conflicts of interest.

The journal asks authors to declare possible conflicts of interest when submitting their article. They are also asked to declare, should they deem it necessary, what reviewers they would prefer to be excluded from their article out of conflict of interest. The same statement is expected of potential reviewers, if they think that to evaluate a particular text would cause a conflict of interest.

If the conflict of interest is detected after publication, the journal will follow identical statement steps to those indicated in the case of academic fraud, which will appear in all the same parts, but with the title “Statement: declaration of conflict of interest”). An additional note by the author acknowledging the case and apologizing may also be admitted.

- Confidentiality

Manuscripts submitted to Magnificat CLM should be treated with absolute confidentiality, as is required of a serious academic journal at all phases of the publishing process, both in the reviewing and in the publishing stages. For this reason, too, our choice is a double-blind peer-review system.

Evaluating manuscripts: policy and criteria

- Criteria for acceptance of manuscripts

Manuscripts submitted to Magnificat CLM should represent a significant advancement of knowledge, and fulfill these basic criteria for all research articles:

Originality and novelty of results, relevance (the article must be useful and advance knowledge in its area), methodological quality resulting in reliability and academic validity, and good presentation: clear and precise writing, logical consistency and good material presentation.

Editorial priority: As Magnificat CLM does not include monographic issues, its editorial priority is chronological:

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- Selection of reviewers

Magnificat CLM keeps a bank of reviewers external to the journal’s editorial board, with their nominal and institutional identification, email address and areas of specialization, number of reviews that have been requested of each one, number of reviews delivered by each one, quality of reviews, and meeting of deadlines in delivering their reports.

This bank of reviewers is created out of suggestions by the editorial and academic boards, other reviewers, and the authors themselves.

When submitting their manuscripts, authors can suggest names of potential reviewers, or indicate which experts should not participate in their paper’s review owing to rivalries or other conflicts of interest (see above under “conflict of interest”).

- Reviewers’ responsibilities and functions

Reviewers are specialists in the various fields covered by the journal, helping the editorial board judge the quality of papers submitted for publication. Their function is to help to keep the journal’s high standards assisting authors with constructive criticism.

Consequently, these are their responsibilities and guidelines:

Competence: the reviewer must be qualified to judge the article assigned to him/her. If s/he does not think her/himself suited to this task, s/he should not accept it, or decline as soon as possible and, if requested by the journal, suggest a substitute. Reviews should be serious; comments, specific; criticism should be accompanied by concrete suggestions for alternatives.

Confidentiality: the reviewer must refrain from commenting on the work s/he is judging with anybody, as well as from taking advantage of its ideas or data until the text is released, as in the process the text is the private property of the author. If the reviewer should need to consult with another expert on a particular point, s/he should first get permission to do so from the journal’s editor.

Impartiality and honesty: it is the reviewer’s duty to review the manuscript avoiding any prejudice. For this reason, the reviewer must let the journal know if there is any conflict of interest (see above under “Conflicts of interest”) that may bias his/her opinion of the reviewed manuscript, and must self-exclude him/herself when s/he thinks his/her objectivity might be affected.

Diligence: the reviewer must comply with the deadline set by the journal. If s/he cannot comply with it, s/he must notify the editor immediately, in order to negotiate a short extension or to be replaced by another reviewer.

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When an issue is published, the journal will inform reviewers and authors who have collaborated in it. Thus reviewers will be able to see if the reviewed article has finally been published, as well as the author’s identity.

- Exchange of reviewers’ reports

The journal will only show the report of one reviewer to another (always anonymously) in the event of marked conflict. Otherwise, given the level of specificity of the questions asked in the review questionnaire, there is no need to make the work of the reviewers public.

- Recognition of the work of reviewers

The journal will only show to a reviewer the review of another (always anonymously) in the event of overt conflict. Otherwise, and bearing in mind the reviewing form’s specific questions, there is no need to show a reviewer’s work.

- Crediting the reviewers’ task

The journal will credit the meritorious work of its reviewers in two ways: on the one hand, it will certify the reviewer’s task when s/he needs it in order to comply with the Research Reference Framework or its equivalent (sexennia, accreditations, etc.). On the other hand, it will publish on its web in the future a list of its reviewers. However, and because otherwise the confidentiality principle would be compromised, this list will only appear once the journal has published at least thirty-five articles.

- Assessment of reviewers’ quality

As stated above in the section “Selection of reviewers”, within the journal’s bank of external reviewers, every reviewer’s record registers the result of monitoring his/her work: number of reviews delivered, quality of reviews, and ability to meet deadlines. This material serves as assessment of every reviewer’s work.

- Complaints or claims of authors

Authors’ rights will presuppose compliance with the rules of Magnificat CLM. If an author feels the need to make a complaint, s/he should direct it to [email protected]. The editorial board will then study whether there is a legal basis for this complaint within the journal’s rules, and will respond to the author as soon as possible: either indicating that there is no case for complaint under the rules, or otherwise by communicating which steps will be taken by the board in order to solve the conflict.

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Integrity, responsibility and communication

- Editorial freedom and integrity

Magnificat CLM complies with the principle of editorial freedom and integrity. The editorial board will oppose any external attempt to compromise its editorial policy or content. The editor will have complete authority and responsibility for the journal’s content. Magnificat CLM is published by the Universitat de València, an institution that has a long tradition of commitment to academic freedom. Regarding editorial freedom against the rights and obligations of the sponsoring organization, Magnificat CLM follows the ICMJE recommendations.

- Disclaimer about authors’ statements

Magnificat CLM is not responsible for opinions included in articles published in its pages, which are the sole responsibility of their authors.

- Copyright

Magnificat CLM is a publication committed to the promotion of open knowledge. To avoid any obstacle to the spreading of their work, authors are the owners of their articles, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.

- Relationship with the media

As a scholarly journal, Magnificat CLM does not foresee a close relationship with the mass media. Even so, it must be able to anticipate the potential distortions which lay writers might cause in the occasional spreading of content published by the journal. To this end, Magnificat CLM intends to keep a blog and to have a presence in the social network Twitter, so as to inform the general public of each new issue and make any clarifications, as well as to receive comments and suggestions.

- Advertising

Magnificat CLM does not include advertisements.

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A journal should assess itself periodically, in different ways. Each year, Magnificat CLM’s editorial board will hold a physical or virtual meeting, in which it will assess the overall quality of its evaluation criteria, forms, and web protocols, evaluation reports, works published and the quality of reviewers. In light of the data and opinions collected from various agents (readers, reviewers, authors, editorial board and academic board), it will consider the possibility of improvements in the journal’s various aspects.

- Feedback from readers

Opinions of readers will be collected continuously through Magnificat CLM’s presence in social networks and its blog. Through these platforms, views on originality, significance, novelty, timeliness and methodological quality of Magnificat CLM’s articles will be collected, and considered at the editorial board’s annual self-assessment.

- Editorial board’s opinion

Members of the editorial board also undertake a continuous process of evaluation by different agents: they collect readers’ opinions, interact with authors, collecting their opinions too in the process; they assess the reviewers’ work on receipt, as well as the work of the academic board, which will advise on the journal’s editorial policy. All these elements, as mentioned, are considered in the journal’s annual self-assessment, and where appropriate lead to changes.

- Reviewers’ opinion

The journal asks every reviewer for opinions and suggestions for improvement within its evaluation form (see question 15 of the evaluation form to be completed by the reviewers), every time they file a report. These opinions are evaluated, and where appropriate incorporated, within the annual self- assessment meeting.

- Authors’ opinion

Once an issue is been published, Magnificat CLM will take a brief survey from its authors, for them to give their opinions on these aspects of the editorial process: criteria for assessment of manuscripts, timeline for reviews, reviewing protocols and their quality.

Publication languages

Magnificat CLM will accept articles in Catalan, Spanish, English, French and Italian. It may also publish articles in other languages, provided that there are competent reviewers able to evaluate them, and that the authors agree to cover the editing costs.

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Submission of manuscripts Procedures for evaluation and acceptance of manuscripts Evaluation Form to be completed by the reviewers After Academic Review Proof-reading Publication and post-publication Offprints

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Submission of manuscripts

Researchers who wish to submit a manuscript for publication in Magnificat CLM, should do so through OJS platform. Firstly, they will register as an author at http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/MCLM/user/register. Then they can upload their manuscript.

If the article has several authors, every one of them must register as author and accept the conditions, and then each and every one must upload the same document. Magnificat CLM will only correspond with the first signatory of the article, who will act as their representative in correspondence with the journal. This collective uploading by the coauthors will be understood as a statement that all signatories have directly contributed to the intellectual content of the work, assume responsibility for it, approve it, and agree that their name be included among the authors.

When uploading, OJS platform will ask for the author ‘s acceptance of the following statements:

• Originality: the author states that the content of the article has not been published, and does not appear in another work about to be published; the article does not result in duplicate publication (which essentially repeats the same information whether presented in the same way or not, see “Ethical principles in research and publication”. The signatory is the sole person responsible for the manuscript’s content and declares that the text is not the product of plagiarism either in whole or in part, and does not violate copyright laws or other authors’ copyrights. • No simultaneous submission to other publications: the author states that his/her manuscript is only sent to Magnificat CLM, and not simultaneously elsewhere, thus not wasting the journal’s time and resources. • File: the author states that the file is sent in .odt, .doc or .docx. • Format: the author states that the text is single-spaced, in a 12-point font, uses italics and not underlining (except for URLs), and that all illustrations, figures and tables appear within the text where they belong, and not at the end. • Style: the author states that the text meets the requirements and bibliographical style specified in the style sheet, which can be found in the appropriate menu tab, including addition within Works Cited of publications' DOI or URL. • Anonymity for reviewing: the author states that the document contains no identifying marks. • ORCID: the author states that s/he is registered in ORCID, and signs the article with the

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Procedures for reviewing and acceptance of manuscripts

General process: Once the manuscript is received, the platform sends the author an automatic email confirming its receipt and registration by the journal’s editorial board. From there, the paper goes through an editorial review and a subsequent academic review.

Terms: The author will receive the automatic receipt message. If after a fortnight s/he has not been notified otherwise, the author will assume that the manuscript has passed the first review and has been sent for academic review. Within a maximum period of 90 days from this point the author will be informed of the outcome of the academic review.

First review or editorial review:

The editorial overview is the first step in the reviewing process. A rejection at this stage will be notified to the author within a maximum period of twenty-one days. If the article does not conform to the journal’s range of themes, or does not meet the formal and linguistic standards required, then it is rejected. If case of acceptance, it will be sent to the second review, or academic review. The first editorial review will adhere to the following questionnaire:

. Does the article fulfill the conditions of delivery required (among them, for example, the author ‘s previous register in ORCID, Academia.edu and Mendeley.com)? Please check the author’s presence in social networks of researchers. . Is the manuscript’s material presentation correct? Does it comply with Magnificat CLM’s presentation instructions? . Is the manuscript’s linguistic presentation correct? Does it show carelessness in writing, grammatical errors or spelling mistakes?

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Second review or academic review :

The second revision is the process of academic arbitration through double-blind peer-reviewing system, by at least two reviewers external to the editorial board; a third reviewer will be occasionally used, for example if there are substantial discrepancies between the reports of the first two.

The editor, in consultation with the editorial board and possible advice from members of the academic board, chooses the reviewers, who are completely external to the editorial board and to the publisher, the Universitat de València.

Reviewers are asked to accept this task on the basis of the title, keywords and abstract of the article for review. They also have access to the reviewing instructions, and to the evaluation form.

Only after they have accepted will the reviewers have access to the full article.

Deadline:

Reviewers have thirty-five days to submit their report.

Database of reviewers:

Reviewers who have collaborated with Magnificat CLM are registered in an internal, confidential database by the journal and receive, when requested, a certification for their work, for REF purposes, sexennials, accreditations, etc. Out of this database, a list of the journals’ reviewers will be published, as demanded by the quality indexes for learned journals. In order to respect reviewers’ anonymity, which would otherwise be compromised in a journal that, because of its particular format, will publish few articles per issue, this list will only appear once the journal has published at least thirty-five articles.

Result of the Academic Review :

. If both reports are negative, the article is rejected. . If one is negative and the other report suggests major changes, the article is also rejected. . If one report is negative and the other positive or suggests only minor changes, the editorial board has recourse to the arbitration of a third reviewer under the same conditions. . If both reports are positive without suggested changes, the article proceeds to publication in the next available issue. . If one or both reports suggest minor changes, these are reported to the author, who has thirty-five days to modify and return the article; the article then proceeds to publication. . If both reports suggest major changes, these are reported to the author, who can either withdraw the article, or make the changes in 60 days and resubmit it. This new version will be evaluated again

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Summary of the Magnificat CLM academic arbitration system:

Use of external reviewers. Double-blind review system. All Magnificat CLM articles are subject to review. The external reviewers are chosen by the director in consultation with members the editorial board with the advice of members of the academic board. The number of reviewers will be two. In case of marked discrepancies, a third party will be brought in. The journal sets the reviewers a deadline of thirty-five days for submission of their reports.

Instructions for Reviewers :

The review process is conducted via Open Journal Systems tools. The reviewer is invited by email to make an original assessment within a maximum of thirty-five days from acceptance. This email supplies the title, keywords and abstract. If the reviewer accepts the task, s/he simply clicks on the link of acceptance. This will automatically take him/her to the text for evaluation, which must always be treated with the utmost confidentiality. If the reviewer knows of any reason which would produce a conflict of interest if s/he were to take on the review, s/he is obliged to decline it.

Through the OJS platform, the reviewer will be given the evaluation form; this will be completed and delivered by the same route by following the link. The evaluation will address specific aspects of content, academic quality, methodology and style, following, with certain adjustments, the model of the evaluation form of the prestigious Anuario de Estudios Medievales, as reproduced below.

If the reviewer has not submitted the report by the stated time, the OJS platform will send an automatic reminder. If after a week the reviewer has not submitted the report or justified the delay, it is understood that he/she has decided to decline the work, and the editorial board will contact a replacement.

Abstention: The reviewer may also at any time within the thirty-five days, withdraw via email to [email protected], specifying the reasons for his/her resignation.

Reviewers must remember at all times that confidentiality is essential to the review process.

Magnificat CLM offers its reviewers, when so requested by email to [email protected], a certification for their work when s/he needs it in order to comply with the Research Reference Framework or its equivalent (sexennials, accreditations, etc.).

The communication system of journal reviewers is always via the web, through specific tool within the OJS platform.

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Magnificat Medieval Literature and Culture Universitat de València Departament de Filologia Catalana Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32 tel. + 34 96 386 42 55 [email protected] http://ojs.uv.es/mclm

Title of article : Date of submission : Name of reviewer: Email: Details of institutional affiliation (department and / or institution to which you belong, address and telephone number) :

1. Does the article’s title clearly reflect its purpose? 2. How do you evaluate the originality and academic contribution made by the article? 3. Is the organization of the article correct, and the exposition clear? 4. Are the objectives, hypotheses, methodology and conclusions of the study clear and consistent? 5. Are the interpretations and conclusions justified by the data provided? 6. If there are tables and other illustrations are they necessary and correctly designed? 7. Are the references adequate or are they missing fundamental work done in the area or the subject of the article? In this case, mention a few. 8. If it is a discussion of the state of the art, a literature review or dissemination of a given topic, how would you evaluate its rigour, depth and timeliness and its interest for the journal? 9. How would you evaluate the formal aspects of the work: writing style, notes and quotations translated by the author, organization of text, abstract. .. ? 10. Do you think that the length of the work is appropriate ? 11. The work is acceptable for publication in Magnificat CLM: a) without changes. b) with minor, secondary modifications. c) if restructured after profound modifications. d) should be rejected. 12. Additional comments and specific suggestions (use the space you deem necessary). 13. Do you wish to suggest other possible external reviewers to whom, in your opinion, this article could be sent in case of third arbitration? Please supply an email address if possible. 14. In the future, when the journal has published at least thirty-five articles, do you have any objection to our publishing your name on a list of external evaluators who have collaborated with Magnificat CLM, without, of course, reference to any particular article? 15. Would you suggest any improvement in the method of assessment of manuscripts (standards, protocols, assessment tools) used by Magnificat CLM?

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After Academic Review

Decisions regarding manuscripts submitted will be made by the editorial board, according to the results of the initial review and, of the second, if it has been undertaken. The results of these evaluations will be forwarded to the author within seven days from the end of receipt of reviews, which will be recorded in OJS. The direction will send to the author, also via OJS, a clear summary of the reports on his/her manuscript, and requested changes, if any.

If changes have been suggested, the author can indicate via the same route, the OJS platform, that he/she accepts them or prefers to withdraw. If agreed, a new version will be sent to OJS incorporating the changes and identifying them clearly (within a maximum of thirty-five days if the changes are minor, or sixty days if the changes are greater). If necessary, rejected changes will also be clearly indicated, with justification.

Notification of the final decision:

In the letter to the author in which the journal's final decision is communicated, it will also be indicated in which number the article will be published, and when the author will receive proofs for correction.

The final decision of rejection of a manuscript is final.

The journal does not return manuscripts.

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Proof-reading

The author will receive a set of proofs in electronic form, to be marked up by hand. Once the corrections have been made, s/he will scan her/his revised proofs and load the resulting pdf on Magnificat CLM OJS platform by clicking on the corresponding link.

The author will correct in the proofs misprints and grammatical errors, but will not introduce amendments affecting content.

System of proof-correction symbols:

Magnificat CLM suggests the use of the system of symbols recommended by ISO 5776, but also

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Deadline:

The author will have twenty-one days to correct and return text.

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Publication and post-publication

As Magnificat CLM is an annual publication, the period between the final acceptance of a manuscript and its publication will be at least half a year. Once publication has begun, the editorial board's aim is to include this information in the journal’s statistics as mentioned in the “Statistical reports on the editorial process”.

Post-publication review:

The editorial board, which will have made several revisions to all the texts in a volume throughout the publication process, will also conduct a post-publication review, in order to detect and correct any significant errata. Readers or authors who detects errors of importance may communicate them to mclm@uv.

The correction of errors post-publication will be made in two ways: (a) by adding them in an unpaged appendix to the end of the pdf article (b) immediately announcing this correction in the “Notes” section of the journal OJS platform, without waiting for the next issue. This information will also appear in the same section in the next issue.

The list of errata will clearly identify the error, its place in the text, and the correct version.

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Offprints

In an electronic journal such as Magnificat CLM, the paper offprints of old are replaced by pdf e- prints. The authors, who will be notified when the issue is released, can download their articles direct from the journal, as can readers.

Authors must agree, when they submit their manuscript to the journal, to disseminate the e-print in the repository of their institution and social networks of researchers (Google Scholar, Mendeley.com, Academia.edu). Tutorial on Google Scholar: http://tinyurl.com/pt9fouk [ ESP ].

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1) Evaluation Policy

Magnificat CLM aspires to the highest academic excellence.

The review process of articles will be made anonymously through the double-blind system, ensuring mutual anonymity of reviewers and authors.

Articles will be subject to a preliminary review by the editorial board that will check whether the article meets the thematic and formal criteria laid down in the rules of publication. If so, the item will be submitted to a double-blind peer review, by at least two specialists in the subject area of the article.

Reviewers will: 1. Approve the publication of the article in the version as submitted. 2. Request significant changes in the article (which will prompt a second review by the same evaluators or by others). 3. Indicate its suitability for publication after making minor changes. 4. Reject article in the case of a doubly negative assessment. In case of marked divergence between the assessments of two reviewers, the text will be sent to a third reviewer, whose assessment, added to the previous two, decides for or against publication.

The peer-reviewers will be completely external to the editorial board and the publisher, the Universitat de València.

The evaluation form can be seen here.

This is the abbreviated version of the assessment policy. The full version can be seen in the section “Editorial process”.

2) Evaluation Guidelines

The review process is made with Open Journal Systems tools. The reviewer is invited by email to make an original assessment within a maximum of thirty-five days from acceptance. This email will show title, keywords and abstract.

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Abstention: The reviewer may also at any time within the thirty-five days, withdraw via email to [email protected], specifying the reasons for his/her resignation.

Reviewers must remember at all times that confidentiality is essential to the review process.

Magnificat CLM offers its reviewers, when requested by email to [email protected], a certification for their work when s/he needed in order to comply with the Research Reference Framework or its equivalent (sexennia, accreditations, etc.).

Communication with reviewers is always via the web, using the specific tool within the OJS platform.

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Evaluation Form to be completed by the reviewers

Magnificat Medieval Literature and Culture Universitat de València Departament de Filologia Catalana Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32 tel. + 34 96 386 42 55 [email protected] http://ojs.uv.es/mclm

Title of article : Date of submission : Name of reviewer: Email: Details of institutional affiliation (department and / or institution to which you belong, address and telephone number) :

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Name of the reviewer and date

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IDENTIFICATION, COVERAGE, CONTENT

Magnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals International journal published annually. Publisher: Universitat de València. Coverage: literature, linguistics and literary cultural issues in general, concerning the Crown of Aragon and Occitania (and other related areas such as Naples and Navarre), as well as global subjects for the Romance area, in the medieval and post-medieval era (up to 1600). The texts to be studied can be in Catalan, Occitan, Aragonese, Spanish and Latin, as well as in other languages, if relevant to the period and geographical areas mentioned.

Methodological studies will also be accepted, including digital humanities, on condition that they are of service to the medievalist.

This annual publication has been created with the intention of serving as a platform for works that exceed the conventional length of journal articles. Therefore Magnificat CLM will preferably publish long articles, but articles of medium length are not excluded.

Magnificat CLM is aimed at an audience of researchers and specialists in medieval studies, especially Romance philology, as well as of specialists in digital humanities. Magnificat CLM consists of a single section of articles; these are indexed. Magnificat CLM was conceived in 2012, and aims to publish its first volume in 2014.

In order to meet the conditions laid down by most indexers to prevent academic inbreeding, Magnificat CLM will not publish work by members of its publishing body, the Universitat de València.

PRESENTATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

FORM

Manuscripts will be sent exclusively in digital form through OJS platform. Previously, the applicant will have to register as an author (http://ojs.uv.es/index.php/MCLM/user/register) and accept the conditions for sending (see”Publishing Process”). Only one copy is submitted, in .odt (LibreOffice, OpenOffice) or .doc, .docx format (MS Word). This format is also to be used for tables (if any). Images (if any) should be submitted in .jpeg.

If the article has several authors, each and every one of them must register and accept the conditions and submit the same document.

The document name will take the following form: Surname of author (or first author, if more than one) space two words from the title. For example:

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FORMAT

Margins

The space margins (both top and bottom and left and right) will be the default standard in MS Word and LibreOffice.

Paragraphs

The beginning of the paragraph is marked with a single tab. New paragraph change will be marked with a single carriage return. Do not leave blank lines between paragraphs.

Length of lines

The length of lines is the default standard in MS Word and LibreOffice.

Letter-Spacing

The spacing is the default standard in MS Word and LibreOffice.

Line-Spacing

Use single space.

Pagination

Pagination will always be in arabic numerals, in consecutive order, beginning on the first page (cover page), in the upper right corner of the page.

CONTENT, STRUCTURE AND STYLE OF THE MANUSCRIPT

The manuscript should be divided into the following parts :

Title page; abstract and keywords; text; acknowledgments (if any); works cited; appendices or annexes.

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The first element will be the title, separated from the subtitle by a colon, lower case bold. The title should refer to the central theme of the work and be clearly informative to facilitate searches by topics. For the same reason, the title will avoid the use of abbreviations, symbols or formulae.

Translation of title

If the title is not in English, an English translation should be added below, in italics. Articles in English should repeat the title: this field should not be left blank.

Authors’ names

The next elements are the surname and first name of the authors. Authors will sign with their official form of name as registered in ORCID: Surname(s), first name (or initial, if recorded thus in ORCID). In the case of multiple authors, all of them are given, separated by semicolons, as in the example below:

Badia, Lola; Cabré, Miriam; Martí, Sadurní

The order of appearance of different authors (either alphabetical, hierarchical, etc.) will have been previously agreed among them, and this order will be respected in the publication.

Institution to which the authors belong

The name of the institution to which each author belongs will be given in the manuscript, untranslated, in italics.

Person responsible for correspondence

In the case of multiple authors, the first named is regarded as the spokesman for the group of authors, unless stated otherwise.

Phone number, postal address

Indicate the telephone number and address of the author or in the case of multiple authors person responsible for correspondence. (These data are only for the editing process and will not be published.)

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All authors will state their professional email (which will be published) and ORCID ID (ORCID iD), which they will receive on registering there.

Acknowledgment of grant or financial support for the work

The first page of the article will also acknowledge which grants or aid for projects (if any) have enabled the authors to perform the work published.

Followed by a page break.

Table of contents and keywords page

On the second page the second section will appear, presented in this order: abstract, keywords, abstract in English, English keywords and table of contents of the article.

Abstract

This section will be headed “RESUM” in capitals, justified and followed by a line return. Then, also justified, give the abstract of the work. (Articles in English which follow American norms will use the same norms in the abstract; articles in English which follow British norms will use the same norms in the abstract.) For those articles which contribute original research (as distinct from, for example, inventories or critical editions of texts) objectives, methodology, results and conclusions must be set out in the abstract. The abstract should not contain information that does not figure in the text of the article, and should use significant words representative of the content, to facilitate automated searches.

Abstracts must not exceed one thousand words.

In its first stage Magnificat CLM will publish only articles and not reviews or critical notes: there is therefore no need for instructions regarding abstracts of these.

Translation of the abstract

This section will be headed by the word “Abstract” in italics, justified and followed by a line return. Then, also justified, give the abstract of the work. Articles in English should repeat the abstract in English.

Keywords

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This section will be headed by “PARAULES CLAU” in capitals, justified and followed by a line return. Then, also justified, give the keywords in the language of the article, separated by semicolons.

Translation of keywords

This section will be headed by the word “Keywords” in italics, justified and followed by a line return. Then, also justified, give the keywords in English (for reasons of consistency, use British norms), separated by semicolons. Articles in English should repeat the keywords in English: this field should not be left blank.

Table of Contents

The keywords are followed by a table of contents which lists the sections of the article. The headings and subheadings must appear with the same method and arrangement (numbering system and format of sections) as used in the text.

Text

In its first stage Magnificat CLM publishes only a single section dedicated to articles, especially long or very long ones. The guidelines for the text of articles are:

Text structure

Articles should follow a clear and logical written order, starting with the justification of the work and its relation to previous works, followed by the explanation of the methods and techniques employed, and ending with the conclusions and results.

Extent of articles

The minimum length of an article in Magnificat CLM will be twenty-five (25) pages, double- spaced. The maximum length shall be one hundred (100) pages, double-spaced. This extension will include text, cover pages, list of references and appendices and illustrations, if any.

Sections and subsections

The divisions and subdivisions of the article must be presented thus:

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The headings and subheadings will be the same body as the text (12 pt.). The general headings will be lower case (except the initial capital), bold, justified, and the first paragraph will also be justified, without tabs. Sub-headings will be in italics, with tab, and the first paragraph will appear as a normal paragraph, with a single tab. Lower levels of headings all will be in romans: the third level, after two tabs, the fourth level, after three tabs.

Example:

1 Introduction 2 The Romance Standard 2.1 The Hispanic Standard 2.1.1 The Castilian Standard 2.1.2 The Aragonese Standard 2.1.3 The Catalan Standard 2.1.3.1 Eastern Catalan 2.1.3.2 Western Catalan

The headings and subheadings will be separated by two lines above and one line below. Lower levels of headings are separated by one line above and below.

Basic typographic symbols

Use high quotes, never low. Single quotes are used to indicate the meaning of words or passages, or for a quote within another quote. Italics are used for foreign words or phrases.

If a single word or pharse in a foreign language is used, it should be in italics. If more than a phrase is reproduced, it is treated as an quotation, in double quotes.

“The meaning of destral as ‘go-between’ in the Catalan Facet and in Old Occitan”.

“Quotes precede the punctuation mark”; footnotes follow punctuation.1

Units of measurement

Refer to units of measurement (if necessary) in accordance with International Standard ISO 1000.

Names and terminology

Use the standardized terminology for each discipline, ISO 01040 Domain themed vocabulary and

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Abbreviations and Acronyms

Initials or acronyms of legal entities (RABLB, UNESCO, TV3) are in capitals; bibliographical acronyms are in capitals in italic or roman as appropriate: DCVC (Diccionari català-valencià- balear), DECLC (Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana), but PL (Patrologia Latina: a series, not a title).

Acronyms which are not initialisms take an initial capital and following lower case letters: Termcat, Renfe.

Frequently Used Abbreviations vid. vide, ‘ see’, not veg. et al. et alii f., ff. folio, folios. Verso or recto are indicated by r, v, without space or point p. page, pages no., nos. number, numbers v., vv. verse, verses l., ll. line, lines vol., vols. volume, volumes ed. edition, always in the singular

Imprecise abbreviations should be avoided, such as op. cit., id., loc. cit. Use ibid. only when the same work of an author is cited more than once in the same paragraph.

Numbers

Amounts quoted in isolation, especially those under fifty, are written out in full: “The piece consists of fifty verses”, but “A summary of 51 words”. Duration of time (for example, a person’s age) is always written in full: “Ausiàs March died at the age of fifty-nine”.

Magnificat CLM prefers the use of arabic numerals and keeps use of roman numerals to a minimum (to facilitate internet searching). However there are cases where tradition makes such use unavoidable. When necessary, romans will usually be in capitals; in Romance languages, centuries will be in small capitals: “segle XIV”. For the numbering of leaves in a manuscript or the pagination of the preliminaries of a printed book the author can choose between small caps (ff. XXXIV-XLIII) or lower case (ff. xxxiv-xliii).

In references to a sequence of pages or verses or dates, reduce the second number to two digits, or the minimum difference: 390-420, 1994-99; vv. 12445-546.

Quotations

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To avoid plagiarism, all data and ideas of others should be duly cited. Quotations must be justified and relevant. Be objective in the selection of texts, avoiding tendentiousness.

Texts must be reproduced or paraphrased accurately, even if they contain errors or misprints. Mark these with “[sic]” (italics and square brackets).

If parts of the quotation are omitted, ensure meaning is not distorted. For omissions, use three points and space at the beginning or end of the quotation, and enclose three points in parentheses within the quotation.

Insertions should only be used for clarification and should be enclosed in square brackets.

Quotations should always be given in their original language.

Quotations of less than four lines should be included in the text, between high double inverted commas (“ “), before punctuation (“... chivalry”.). Longer quotations are given in a separate paragraph, inset, in 11 pt., without inverted commas.

Bibliographical citation in the text

To avoid unnecessary footnotes, indicate the author of a quotation in the main text, in parentheses, by author-year system (surname year).

If necessary, page or pages are indicated after the year, preceded by a comma and space:

(Riquer 1990, 43-49).

Volume numbers, always in arabic, are indicated thus:

(Riquer ed., 1975, 3, 949-52).

Critical editions are cited by editor not author:

(Wittlin et al. ed. 1986) not (Eiximenis 1986).

If the author’s name is given in the text, follow this with date and page in parentheses. On first mention, include the first name in the text:

… the chivalric novel, says Martí de Riquer (1990, 43). If Riquer’s method is applied (1990) … If you apply the criteria mentioned (Riquer, 1990) …

In case of two authors, give both surnames, linked with a hyphen. If there are more than two

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(Cabré-Torró 2010) (Wittlin et al. ed. 1986)

When an author has two or more entries from the same year, add a lower case letter in roman, in both the references and the citation.

Pujol 2010a; Pujol 2010b

When there are two or more authors with the same surname with publications of the same year, in this case (and only then), the citation will include the abbreviation of the first name of each author

(L. Cabré 2005) (M. Cabré 2005)

Notes

Use footnotes. Bibliographical references should go in the text (see above).

The footnote number, in superscript, follows punctuation. Footnotes to be in 10pt., single-spaced, with one cm indent. Footnote numbers should follow a syntactic unit (at the end of the sentence, if possible) and not be placed in the middle; not between subject and verb, or between noun and adjective.

If internal references are made, these should be done as simply as possible and should be scrupulously checked by the author at proof stage.

Acknowledgments

If the author considers it necessary to make acknowledgments, these should be placed at the end of the main text and precede the references section. Name, academic affiliation and the type of collaboration for which thanks are given should be specified.

References

These appear after the text of the article, after a page break, headed “Works Cited”, in bold. Between the heading and the first entry leave three line breaks.

Include items in this list without tab and with hanging indent. If more than one work by the same author are cited, these are be arranged chronologically, from earliest to most recent, and the author’s name is repeated in each entry. If an author’s form of name varies, these are reproduced, for example: “Riquer, Martí, 1990”, but “Riquer, Martín, ed., 1975”, “Torró, Jaume, 2012” but “Turró, Jaume, 2002”. Respect the form of name used by the author cited (in case of doubt, consult ORCID), which will determine whether the first name appears in full or abbreviated. The same criteria are used to specify one or more surnames:

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For a surname preceded by a preposition (de, di, von, van...) , follow the practice of the country of the author. Therefore, Italian surnames file under the preposition, while those of other nationalities place the surname before the preposition:

Riquer, Martí de, 1990 Di Girolamo, Costanzo, 1995

Likewise with prepositions with apostrophes:

D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 1919 Abadal i de Vinyals Ramon, d’, 1948

Multiple authors: the names of up to three authors should figure in the references, separated by semicolons, without “and”. If there are more than three, mention only the first three, followed by et al.:

Cabré, Lluís; Ferrer, Montserrat, 2012. Wittlin, Curt; Pacheco, Arseni; Webster, Jill et al., ed., 1986

The place of publication will always appear in the language of the title page.

Case: for simplificity, all titles, regardless of language, will be in lower case apart from the first word, and words which would be capitalized in normal prose:

“The ‘sirventes-ensenhamen’ of Guerau of Cabrera: a proposal for a new interpretation”. Note that single inverted commas are used within double inverted commas.

Numbers: the numbers (of journal, volume, etc.) are always expressed in arabic, with the exception of the distinction between volume and tome, if necessary. This does not affect titles, which should always be respected :

Actas del VIII congreso internacional de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval

Within each item in the list of works cited, the basic sign of separation of fields is the comma. Colons are used only between title and subtitle. Parentheses will be used only as a sign of clarification to indicate the first edition when a subsequent edition is cited, or to indicate the collection. (However, specification of the collection is only recommended when this is more familiar than the publisher.)

Journal articles: Author’s surname(s), first name, year, “Title of article: subtitle”, Journal number, initial page-end page.

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Books: Author’s surname(s), first name, year, Title, place of publication, publisher, number of volumes.

Riquer, Martí de, 1990, Aproximació al “Tirant lo Blanc”, Barcelona, Quaderns Crema.

A book title within a book title is enclosed in quotation marks, as in the example.

Book chapters: Author’s surname(s), first name, year, “Title of article: subtitle”, in Title of book, volume number (in arabic), first name, surname ed., place of publication, publisher, initial page-end page.

Asperti, Stefano, 1993, “La qüestió de les prosificacions en les cròniques medievals catalanes”, dins Actes del novè Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes, Alacant-Elx 1991, vol. 1, Rafael Alemany, Antoni Ferrando, Lluís B. Meseguer ed., Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 85-137.

Names of multiple editors are separated by commas, without “and”.

Book chapter in a collection by the same author: Author’s surname(s), first name, year, “Title of article: subtitle”, in his/her Book title, volume number (in arabic), Name Surname ed., place of publication, publisher, initial page-end page.

Badia, Lola, 1993, “Notes per a la interpretació del poema LXVIII, ‘No·m pren axí com al petit vailet’”, al seu Tradició i modernitat als segles XIV i XV: estudis de cultura literària i lectures d’Ausiàs March, València-Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat-IIFV, 235-42.

Edited books are entered under the editor, when this is shown on the title page, according to the pattern: Editor’s Surname(s), first name, ed., year, Author’s first name surname(s) Title, volume number (in arabic), place of publication, publisher, number of volumes (if the whole work is cited).

Riquer, Martín de, ed., 1975, Los trovadores, Barcelona, Planeta, 3 vols. Wittlin, Curt; Pacheco, Arseni; Webster, Jill et al., ed., 1986, Francesc Eiximenis Dotzè llibre del Crestià, vol. II-1, Girona, Col·legi Universitari de Girona-Diputació de Girona.

The joint publications are indicated with a hyphen as in the sample, and not a slash, which is reserved solely to indicate alternatives.

Roman numerals are used only to distinguish volume and tome, as in the last example above. The abbreviation “ed.” is always in the singular, as it refers to the edition not the editors(s).

Date of first or original edition: when an edition other than the first is used, or a translation of the original edition (which is not advisable), add to the end of the reference, before the full point, with abbreviation and parentheses: (1st ed. 1964).

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Lefèvre, Jean, 1864, Le livre de Mathéolus, Paris, 2 vols.

The name of the editor is not indicated if it does not figure on the title page or in the introduction.

Books where the collection needs to be specified. (These are special cases, however, as specification of the collection is only recommended when this is more familiar than the publisher.): Author’s surname(s), first name, year, Title, place of publication, publisher (collection, number).

Bonner, Antoni, ed., 1993, Ramon Llull Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis, Palma, Patronat Ramon Llull (Nova Edició de les Obres de Ramon Llull, 2).

Use the acronym for the collection when it is well known, for example: “(NEORL, 2)”.

Publications on websites

When an URL is over forty characters, abbreviate it using an automated abbreviation service such as http://tinyurl.com or http://ow.ly.

Blogs: Author’s surname(s), first name [if present; otherwise username], year, “Title” [if any], Name of blog or website, day-month-year dd-mm-yyyy if specified URL (checked dd-mm-yyyy).

Simsmss, 2013, “Pomponius Mela in manuscript and print”, The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 20-08-2013, http://tinyurl.com/my84sds (checked 23-08-2013).

Databases : Name of the database [if an abbreviated name, abbreviation first and then full name in parentheses] URL (checked dd-mm-yyyy):

BILICAME (Bibliografia de la Literatura Catalana Medieval), http://www.iifv.ua.es/bilicame/cat/ (checked 23-08-2013).

Tweet : Surname, name (@username on Twitter), 2013, “Text of the tweet”, hh:mm dd-mm-yyyy:

Kempf, Damien (@DamienKempf), 2013, “Browsing the LP makes you realise that Hieronymus Bosch’s delirious imagination was more ‘medieval’ than ‘modern’. pic.twitter.com/5iYmQj0UCy”, 08:07 12-09-2013.

If no real name is give, the tweet will file under the pseudonym, followed by the user name in parentheses.

After each bibliographical entry, add the publication’s DOI (Digital Object identifier), if any, in the

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If the publication has no DOI but can be found online, give URL after the full stop ending bibliographical entry (please remember to shorten it with http://tinyurl.com or http://ow.ly).

Martínez Romero, Tomàs, 1998, “Variacions sobre el tema 'Corella i els contemporanis valencians'”, Caplletra 24, 45-65. http://tinyurl.com/orec7kc

Tables

There is no limit to the number of tables that may be included, as long as they have relevance to the author’s argument.

Each table must be identified with a number, always in arabic numerals. This number is followed by a point and the title of the table (“1. Length of the works of Eiximenis”). The headings of the columns and rows will be in italics. If a legend is required (for example development of specific abbreviations in the table), this will be placed at the foot of the table after a blank line.

The tables will be single-spaced. If abbreviations are used in the tables, these are explained in a legend at the foot of the table.

If the table is not the author’s original, the bibliographical reference must be made in a legend at the foot of the table, always within the copyright limits.

Placing in the manuscript: If the manuscript includes tables, these will be placed at the point that the author considers most useful: either within the body of the text or as appendices after the references.

Illustrations

There is no limit to the number of illustrations that may be included, as long as they have relevance to the author’s argument.

Each illustration must be identified with a number, always in arabic numerals. This number is followed by a point and the title of the illustration: “1. Retaule de Pertegàs”.

If necessary, a caption can be added at the bottom: “Work of Jaume Huguet, 1470-80, National Art Museum of Catalonia.”

Source: Given the importance of copyright today, Magnificat CLM will only include illustrations which either are in Creative Commons, or are accompanied by an official certificate from the right- holding institution or individual, which specifies in detail their permission to reproduce in Magnificat CLM, being aware that this is a Creative Commons non-profit journal. In either case the

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Placing in the manuscript: If the manuscript includes illustrations, these will be placed at the point that the author considers most useful: either within the body of the text or as appendices after the references.

Appendices and Annexes

Articles in Magnificat CLM may be accompanied by appendices or annexes.

The appendix is a text by the author him/herself, added at the end of a work, and that serves as a continuation or extension. It serves to give more detailed information, expand explanations or methods, or present any information related to the main text, but not essential to its understanding.

The annexe contains one or several documentary pieces, usually unpublished or inaccessible sources, which serve as a complement to or confirmation of the body of the work.

Each annexe must be identified with a number, always in arabic numerals. This number is followed by a colon and the title of the annexe: “Appendix 1: Transcript of f. cxxvi of manuscript F”.

The following may constitute annexes and/or appendices: transcripts of documents not fundamental but complementary to the original topic, illustrations or tables, lists of data, glossaries, lists of symbols and abbreviations used in the original, methods of analysis etc.

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