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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

The journal will not have correctors of style. The original ones that do not fulfill the following guidelines will be returned directly to his authors.

1. Presentation of the text
· Articles can be submitted in Spanish and English. Every work will be published in the original language
· The text must appear in format DOC (Microsoft Word) or RTF.
· Typography: Courier New, body 10 for title and text, and 8 for the notes.
· Text to space and a half for an single face and DlN-A4 paper size.
· The body of the text will appear with a bleeding of 0,5 points in the first line of the paragraphs, included the notes. This bleeding will be realized only by the specific option of the menu, never by space-bar or key of tabulation.

2. Extension of the text
· 4000-5000 words and fifteen images maximum.

3. Headings
· Title: capital letters, aligned to the left side.
· Name of the author: under the title, small letter. Name and surnames.
· University or center of work: under the name of the author and identical form and source.

4. It will have to be included before the text of the work
· Title in English.
· Keywords in Spanish and English: five.
· An abstract in Spanish and English: 100 words each one.

5. It will have to be included after the text of the work
· Adress of the author, e-mail, telephone of contact and a brief curriculum of 150 words that includes, in any case, the center of work to which the author belongs, cargo, principal publications and line of investigation.
· In the case of multiple authors, include a brief resumeof 150 words for each of the authors.

6. Notes
· The notes will appear at the end of text numbered correlativly.
· The calls to notes in the text will be realized in superindex, with the specific option of the program Microsoft Word.

7. Bibliographical Appointments
· They will be included in the notes following the criteriaset by The Chicago Manual of Style (system Author-Data).
· This manual is available online at this web page.
· References will not be accepted that are not containedin the notes.

8. Images
· They will have to be indexed inside the text of the following form: (Fig. 01).
· The files will have to go numbered of the following form: Fig. 01.
· It will have to appear in JPG format, with a minimal size of 10x15 and 300 ppp and to have good contrast.
· At the end of the text a relation of the figures will be inserted with the corresponding feet of photo.
· The feet of photo will contain the following information: author, work, location and chronology.
· Is a responsibility of the author to assure the permission of reproduction of the images or to mention the source.

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Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea exposes the guidelines on good practices in scientific publication, as a framework for the development and implementation of its own policies and ethics system in the publication. The editors select the reviewers under guidelines of impartiality and professionalism, in order to ensure fair evaluations. Publishers assure authors that the appropriate reviewers are selected for reviews of their work, and readers can trust the peer review process.

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Editors protect and put in place the necessary measures so that each one’s work can be developed with the utmost confidentiality and not in contact, in any case until the work has been published.