Submissions

Author Guidelines

Journal profile

Al-Andalus Magreb publishes only original articles on topics concerning the Arabic language and Arabism in al-Andalus and the Maghreb, not only in the past but also in the present. It is also open to topics from other parts of the Arab world and those that are mainly North African, even if they have a tangential relationship with the Arabic language, without rejecting topics of near-eastern Arabism. The content must be original, unpublished and not being considered for publication by another publisher.

Originals can be presented in Spanish, French, English, Arabic, Italian, Catalan and Portuguese.

The journal is published annually.

Submissions

After following the registration procedure, you must be logged in to make an online submission or to check the status of recent submissions. If you already have an account with the journal, please go directly to Login. Please include all the requested data, clearly specifying your ORCID.

Once logged in with their passwords, authors will find in their submission box an option for a “New submission”. Please carefully follow the instructions and incorporate all the information requested in the metadata (title, abstract, keywords, references, etc.), specifying names and surnames and all the information requested (affiliation, ORCID, etc.) for all participating authors.

Articles must be submitted computer written (preferably in Word) and also in PDF. If there are photos or sheets, they must be numbered in a separate file in JPG format. Works must be submitted omitting any type of reference to the identity of the author in the text, notes included.

The submission must include the following files:

1. Author details: title of the article, name and surname, telephone, email, academic situation, name of the institution to which it belongs and date of submission of the work. Authors must indicate their ORCID code along with their affiliation data. Those who lack this personal identifier can register for free at http://orcid.org to complete this information. An article signed by several authors must include the ORCID of each and every one of them.

2. Declaration of Authorship Form: completed and signed by all those who appear as authors of the text. In the event that the article is signed by several authors, they must inform the journal of the criteria chosen to decide the order of signature, as well as the specific contribution of each of them. Compliance with this requirement is mandatory for the article to be accepted.

          The form can be downloaded directly from the following link:

          Declaration of Authorship Form 

3. Text: in Word format for Latin text, respecting the following parameters: Times New Roman font, size 12 for the main text (exact line spacing 14 points) and size 10 for notes and captions (exact line spacing 12 points), 2.5 cm margins, justified and separated between paragraphs. Pages will not be numbered. Italics will be used to highlight words or sentences with special interest; the use of bold type will be limited to large sections and underlining will be avoided. For Arabic text: Traditional Arabic font, size 16 for main text (exact line spacing 18 points) and size 13 for footnotes and captions (exact line spacing 15 points), 2.5 cm side margins, justified and separated between paragraphs. Pages will not be numbered. And also in PDF. 

Review process

Every article will undergo a two-stage review. In the first stage, the members of the Editorial Board of the journal will select those works in line with the profile of the journal that meet the required criteria and minimum quality standards. The criteria that must be met which will be assessed in this first review will be the following:

1. The submitted manuscript ties in with the thematic line of the journal.
2. The manuscript contains new elements with regards to previously published works, meets minimum quality standards, and does not exceed the maximum number of characters specified for the section to which it is directed.
3. Authors have included, at least, the following metadata: name, surname, affiliation, e-mail address and ORCID code of all authors, and the abstract of the article.
4. The manuscript has been prepared using the template and follows the required layout guidelines.
5. The manuscript passes the plagiarism and anti-plagiarism test that will be performed with a tool especially designed for this purpose. Those works with texts with a high level of correspondence with articles already on the Internet will be rejected straightaway.

Only those submissions succeeding in this preliminary review will proceed to the second stage, the peer review process.

In this second stage, the works will undergo a peer review process, performed by two anonymous referees (double-blind), who may or may not belong to the advisory board of the journal. Within an estimated period of one month, which may change depending on the availability of the referees, each one of them will issue a justified report on the advisability or not of publishing the article. In the event of disagreement, a third referee will be convened. Finally, the editor will draw up a report summarizing the views of the reviewers and concluding with one of the following decisions:

a)“Accept submission”, meaning the manuscript would be included in the edition line, therefore being published as submitted.

b) “Revisions required”, meaning the article would be publishable with minor changes, to which the authors must respond within one month.

c) “Resubmit for review”, meaning the authors must introduce substantial changes to the manuscript before it can be re-evaluated by the same external referees responsible for the first round. In this case, the authors must send the new version within a period not exceeding one month; otherwise the manuscript will be added to the history of rejected articles.

d) “Decline submission”.

In cases b) and c), authors must send the new version of the text, highlighting in red the changes introduced with respect to the previous version, in response to the referees' comments and suggestions. In the event of not accepting any of the recommendations made, this option must be justified in due time.

Dates of receipt and approval will be indicated in each published article.

It is estimated that the average time for the evaluation of articles, from submission to publication, is between four and six months.

Instructions for proposing a monographic section

1. The proposal of a monographic section for the journal Al-Andalus Magreb should be sent to the journal's management by e-mail to acabo@us.es and should contain the following information:

• Title of the monograph.
• Description of the objectives and justification of the proposed topic (maximum 700 words).
• Abbreviated CV (maximum 300 words) of the person responsible for coordinating the monograph.
• Author, title and brief summary of each of the papers planned (maximum 300 words).

2. As a general policy, the journal will accept a minimum of three and a maximum of seven articles, depending on the length of the articles.
3. Once the positive evaluation of the monograph has been received, authors must upload their articles to the OJS platform.
4. The articles received for the monographic section will be subject to the same review and evaluation process as the journal Al-Andalus Magreb.

Publication guidelines

The first page must include the title (centered, in capital letters and bold), abstract and keywords (between five and seven words) in the language of the work. Abstracts will be between 150 to 300 words long, and must describe the aim of the research, the methodology used, the most outstanding results and the main conclusions.

IMPORTANT: The title, abstract and keywords must be submitted in English, Spanish and Arabic.

The work corpus will list its headings and sub-headings in bold lowercase letter:

1. Introduction (if there was) or Author and work, Historical Contexts, etc., 1.1, 1.2, etc.
2. (2.1, 2.2, etc, where applicable)
3. Conclusions
4. Works cited

Illustrations: they will be identified with Arabic numbers and their location must be indicated in the text, but they will not be included in it. Each image must be submitted in a separate file, in JPG format, with a minimum resolution of 300 pp. Graphics and drawings will be presented in vector files. All illustrations must have a caption, and each table an identifying title. Authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications or from another source (libraries, archives, etc.) and for correctly citing said source.

The length of the articles, including the notes, may not exceed 10,000 words except in exceptional cases and nor less then 8.000. If accompanied by non-textual elements (tables, graphics, plans, photographs, illustrations, etc.), these may not exceed the number of 15 elements, except for justified exceptions.

All Arabic transliteration systems are accepted, as long as the system used is indicated in the first note of the work.

Quotes: they will be made within the text in short format; If the quote requires more information than the concise brief format, it will be replaced by footnotes where it should only appear, in addition to the author's surname or surnames in lower case and the date in parentheses, the abbreviated title, volume and number of pages. Examples:

- In the text: ... as stated by Justel Calabozo (1987: 1) or (Justel Calabozo 1987: 1).

- In a footnote:

Book: Justel Calabozo (1987): El monje escurialense Juan de Cuenca, p. 1. o pp. 1-2.

Book chapter, article and other: Justel Calabozo (1981): «Los manuscritos árabes», p. 127. o pp. 127-128.

Works cited: All cited works will be included at the end of the article like one more section of the work. The list will be without separation between paragraphs, arranged in alphabetical order with surname/s in small caps, followed by names in lower case after a comma (years in parentheses): titles of books, journals, and minutes in italics, and titles of articles, communications or papers, between Spanish quotation marks (« »), City: Editorial, pp. In electronic references, DOI will be indicated whenever possible and, if not, the date when the source was accessed. Examples:

Monographs:

Justel Calabozo, Braulio (1987): El monje escurialense Juan de Cuenca: estudioso y cortesano, helenista y arabista, Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz.

Journal articles:

Justel Calabozo, Braulio (1981): «Los manuscritos árabes cedidos por Tubino a la Universidad de Sevilla», Awraq, nº 4, pp. 37-50.

Editions and translations:

Ibn Ŷulŷul (1955): Kitāb ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’, Fuat Sayyid (ed.), Le Caire: Publications de l’Institut Francais d’Archeologie Orientale du Caire.

Tuḥfat al-aḥbāb. Glossaire de la matière marocaine (1934): H.P.J. Renaud & Georges Colin (eds.), París: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner.

Minutes, book chapters and tributes:

Justel Calabozo, Braulio (1981): «Algunos posibles arabismos (arre-borrego-haza)», Actas de las «Jornadas de Cultura Árabe e Islámica», Madrid: IHAC, pp. 115-124.

Justel Calabozo, Braulio (1995): «El intercambio del saber: el intercambio bibliográfico entre el Oriente islámico y al-Andalus», Al-Andalus y el Mediterráneo, Granada: El Legado Andalusí-Lunwerg, pp. 131-140.

Justel Calabozo, Braulio (1990): «Hitos en la historia de los arabismos hasta el Glossaire de Engelmann-Dozy», Homenaje a D. Rafael Lapesa, Murcia: Universidad, pp. 126-155.

Documents available online:

The style of the corresponding document will be followed, adding [online], available at: URL, [consulted on dd/ mm/yyyy] at the end. If the document has a DOI, this will be indicated instead of the URL and the date consulted info will not be necessary.

To the author who writes his article in another language than his mother tongue, it is recommended that it be reviewed, before submitting it to the journal, by a person whose mother tongue is the language of the work.

Good editorial practices in gender and language

The journal Al-Andalus Magreb recommends that those who wish to publish work in it use non-sexist language, opting for inclusive linguistic formulas in their articles, as long as they do not modify the meaning of the expression.

In terms of language, we must not confuse grammatical gender (a category that applies only to words), gender as a sociocultural construct (roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that a given society and time attribute to each sex) and sex (biological differentiation in living beings). In this sense, we adhere to the United Nations goal of "expressing oneself orally and in writing without discriminating against a particular sex, social gender or gender identity and without perpetuating gender stereotypes" (https://www.un.org/es/gender-inclusive-language/index.shtml).

It is recommended that the authors, in those cases in which their work includes the sex variable, report on possible influences of this variable on the results and conclusions obtained.