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Manuscript presentation
Papers must conform to our publication style guidelines in order to facilitate the editing of the texts received by the Journal. The manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the platform RECyT (Spanish Repository for Science and Technology), Dynamis section. RECyT is based on the open source solution Open Journal Systems (OJS): http://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/Dynamis. Authors using the platform for the first time, must register at: http://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/Dynamis/user/registerJournal
The title of the headings of the different sections should be in lower case and bold and the subheadings in lower case and italics. They should be correctly numbered, following the sequence: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc. It is recommended not to exceed 8,500 words or 56,000 characters (with spaces), including notes. Papers should include an Abstract of around 300 words and five key words, written in the original language of the paper and in English. Authors should provide their ORCID code.
Dynamis only publishes original articles that have not been published or accepted by another publication and are not under review elsewhere.
Originals should have a maximum length of 8,500 words or 56,000
characters (with spaces), including notes. The first page (title page) should give the title, authors,
affiliation of each author and e-mail address of the contact
person. The article title should not exceed 120 characters (with
spaces). The manuscript should include: summary (with numbered
sections), abstract (around 300 words), and five key words with
their respective translations into English.
The origin or funding of the research should be declared in an
unnumbered footnote indicated with an asterisk in the title of the
Introduction section.
Acknowledgements should be made in a separate section at the end
of the article.
As a general rule, the texts submitted to Dynamis should be
linguistically correct and concisely written using non-discriminatory
language. The typographic and style criteria below should be
followed to facilitate the publishing process.
- Typography
- Page
Originals should be printed on one side of A4
pages (210 x 297 mm) and numbered (1, 2, 3...) in the upper
right corner
- Margins
The top margin should be 4 cm and bottom and
side margins 3 cm.
- Typeface and font
As a general criterion, only one typeface and
one font size should be used, e.g., 12-point Times New Roman.
Boldface and underlining should not be used in the main body
of the text. The use of italics is permitted for words in a
language different from that of the text, for special emphasis,
or for book and journal titles cited in the text. If other
typographic fonts are needed for mathematical signs or texts
in other alphabets (e.g., Greek), their position should be
indicated on one of the printed originals to avoid omissions
in subsequent conversions.
- Paragraph
As a general rule, the first line of the
paragraph should be indented, serving to indicate a new
paragraph. Therefore, it is not necessary to leave blank lines
between paragraphs. The first line of each subtitled section (including
the first line of the text) should not be indented.
The remaining lines should be justified (aligned to left and
right margins) and separated with an interlinear space of
1.5.
- Titles and subtitles
Numbering and boldface and italic are used to clarify the text
structure (subdivisions and hierarchies), as shown in the
example below. Titles and subtitles do not have full stops and
only the first letter is in uppercase (except for proper names).
Underlining and small capitals should also be avoided.
Article title
1. Section title
1.1. Subsection title
1.1.1. Título de subdivisión primera
- Direct quotes
Direct quotes longer than two lines should be
written in a separate indented paragraph. Shorter quotes
should be included in the paragraph using inverted commas (see
below).
If the selected text corresponds to a fragment of a phrase,
the initial letter should be kept in lowercase; if it is a
complete phrase, it should start with a capital letter and
double indentation.
References to specific passages in a paper should give the
page(s) on which it appears in parentheses at the end of the
reference.
- Footnotes
Notes should serve to clarify aspects of the
text, demonstrate what is stated or present the sources; they
should not constitute a parallel discourse to the text or
provide an exhaustive bibliographic account.
Notes should be numbered according to the sequence of their
appearance. The number that identifies them should be in
superscript format within the text body after the closing of
any inverted commas and before any comma, semicolon or full
stop that ends the phrase.
If MS WORD is used, its options for notes (footnotes or
endnotes) can be used. If another programme is used, notes
should appear after the text in a final section that is
clearly identified or submitted in a separate file.
In the journal they will be printed as footnotes.
- Bibliographic references and citation systems
References should appear in footnotes, following
ANSI/NISO Z39.29-2005 standard for bibliographic references.
Some typical examples adapted to Dynamis style are shown below.
The guidelines can be read in full at
http://www.niso.org/kst/reports/standards/
The first citation of a document includes the full reference.
The full first name of authors should be given in order to
ensure gender visibility. Subsequent citations of the same
reference only include the surname(s) of authors, the footnote
number of the first citation and the first and last page(s) of
the citation (e.g.,: Porter, n. 3, p. 639-650). If an author
is cited more than once in the same footnote, the year of
publication is also included.
Consequently, the conventions Op. cit., Ibidem or Cfr. should
not be used.
For documents with multiple authors, up to three names are
given. If there are more than three authors, the names of the
first three ones or only the first one are written, followed
by et al.
- Acknowledgements
As indicated above, acknowledgements to
institutions and citations of projects or grants should be
included in footnotes, before note 1, indicated by an asterisk
[e.g., at the end of the title of the Introduction (*)] and
not as note 1. Other types of acknowledgements and
intellectual debts should be included as an unnumbered
subsection at the end of the paper with the heading
Acknowledgements.
- Tables, graphs, maps and figures
They should be numbered according to their order
of appearance and identified in the text.
The title is centred and in boldface above tables. An
accompanying legend at the foot of the table should specify
the source of data. In general, vertical lines should not be
used in tables.
Graphs, maps and figures should be in JPG or TIFF format with
a quality of at least 300 megapixels. Numbering, legends and
sources are placed below them. Graphs and charts are published
in black and white. Maps and figures should be submitted in a
separate file.
- Orthography
- Generic orthographic signs
- Quotation marks
General indications: «French» quotation marks are used
in Dynamis, using Alt 174 (on number pad) to open and Alt
175 to close (they do not appear on the keyboard). "English"
quotation marks are only used for quotations appearing in a
text that is already within quotation marks, e.g. «To feed
the "brothers of Jesus Christ, the needy poor", attendants
provided the standard Byzantine fare of bread, wine and
dried or fresh cooked vegetables dressed with olive oil».
- Hyphens
Two types of hyphens are used. The small hyphen (-) found on
the keyboard is used to unite two words, to indicate
opposition or contrast, and for ranges of numbers or dates
(1999-2001). The long hyphen (—), obtained by pressing Alt +
Ctrl, is used in dialogues and can also have the function of
brackets.
2.1.3. Upper case
Upper case letters are not systematically used for the
titles of books, chapters or articles (except for "of",
"in", "the", etc.).
- Upper case
Upper case letters are not systematically used for the
titles of books, chapters or articles (except for "of",
"in", "the", etc.).
- Brackets ( ) and square brackets [ ]
Brackets are used to isolate an observation distinct
from the object of discourse, to interpose dates or to give
the full wording of abbreviations or acronyms. Within a
direct quote, brackets around an ellipsis (...) indicate the
omission of a phrase.
Square brackets are generally reserved for use by the
Editor, e.g., for insertion of editorial comments or text
not in the original. Within a direct quote, square brackets
are used to indicate the absence of a complete paragraph[...].
- Orthographic punctuation marks
- Comma (,), stop (.), semicolon (;) and colon (:)
These marks are always followed by a blank space. See
above for their relationship with superscript footnote
numbers..
- Exclamation and question marks (! ?) and ellipses
(...)
When a phrase ends in an exclamation or question mark
or an ellipsis, a full stop should not be added. Within a
direct quote, the replacement of a whole paragraph with an
ellipsis is marked with square brackets [...] and the
replacement of a phrase with normal brackets (-). These
should not be placed at the beginning or end of a direct
quote.
- Stroke (slash) (/)
No space should be left between the stroke and
adjoining characters except when used to mark a line change
in verses.
- Abbreviations and symbols
If the use of abbreviations are essential in the body of the
text (the word in full is always preferable), they should be
explained in the text or in the footnotes on their first
appearance. Common abbreviations should always be followed by a
full stop, but those that correspond to scientific or technical
symbols should not be followed by full stop or used in plural
form (e.g., N, He, km and $, for North, helium, kilometres and
dollars, respectively).
Some common abbreviations in our setting are:
editor/s: ed./eds.
compiler/s: comp./comps.
director/s: dir./dirs.
page/s: p.
folio/s: f.
document/s: doc.
- Acronyms and initials
Acronyms do not contain full stops or spaces and are
written in uppercase (UN, OAS). Some acronyms that have become
common names are written in lowercase (e.g., laser).
Acronyms are treated as proper names.
Initials have a full stop after each letter.
Except for widely accepted and well-known acronyms, these should
be written in full in the text or footnotes on their first
appearance.
- Numbers and dates
In the body of the text, single-digit numbers are
written as words, using numbers from two digits onwards.
Nonetheless, round numbers can be written in words (ten thousand
pesetas) or in mixed form (10 thousand pesetas) to avoid groups
of zeros (10,000 pesetas). If an amount is given as an
approximation, it should be written in words (e.g., around
fifteen years).
Dates are written according to the corresponding norm in the
language used (e.g., UK English: 11 July 1988). Years are
written in numbers (1980), and decades in words, e.g., "the
eighties" or "the decade of the eighties".
Guidelines for REVIEWS and ESSAY-REVIEWS
Reviews should avoid the use of quotes and footnotes. They begin
with the reference to the book under review as a heading, e.g.,
Varios Autores, eds. La experiencia de enfermar en
perspectiva histórica. Actas XIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española
de Historia de la Medicina. Granada: Universidad de
Granada; 2008. ISBN 978-84-338-4858-1.
In the case of essay-reviews, a title is required for the text,
and footnotes and quotes can be used.
They should conform to the remaining publication guidelines on
manuscript presentation, typography and style. |
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