Submissions
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).
- Articles have to be composed with a word-processor for PC in a “doc” or “opd” file extensions preferably.
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Articles should not exceed 15,000 words, including pictures, footnotes and bibliography. It should be double space and DIN A4 format.
- Illustrations are submited in separate files. They have high resolution grey scale or black-and-white, JPG, GIF, TIF or BMP format. I do not submit images embedded in text. Location of images or figures are clearly indicated in the text.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in « Ensuring a Blind Review» have been followed.
Copyright Notice
Copyright and responsibilities
The intellectual property of the articles belongs to the respective authors.
At the time of submitting the articles to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:
— Authors assign to the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, public communication (including communication through social networks) and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, in any form and medium, including digital platforms. The Publications Committee reserves the right to accept or refuse submitted articles and the right to make any editorial changes it deems appropriate. If the suggested changes are accepted by authors, they should re-submit the article with such changes.
— Authors answer to the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica for the authorship and originality of submitted articles. In other words, authors assure that submitted articles do not contain fragments of works by other authors or fragments of their own previously published works; that the content of articles is original, and that the copyright of third parties is not infringed upon. Authors accept this responsibility and undertake to hold harmless the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica for any loss or damage resulting from non-compliance with this obligation. Furthermore, they should include a statement in articles submitted to the journal regarding their responsibility for the content of the articles.
— Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles, and they should moreover ensure that images, videos, etc., have been created with the consent of the individuals appearing in them, and that material belonging to third parties is clearly identified and acknowledged as such within the text. Likewise, authors should provide the respective consents and authorisations to the Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica when submitting articles.
— The Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is exempt from any liability arising from the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors. In all cases, it undertakes to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies, if necessary.
— Unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, the contents published in the journal are subject to an Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs 3.0 Spain (by-nc-nd) license from Creative Commons, the full text of which may be consulted at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Therefore, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate articles as long as their authorship and publishing entity are acknowledged, and no commercial use is made of them nor derivative work produced from them.
— The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of published articles.
Privacy Statement
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) complies with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (Regulation 2016/679 of 27 April 2016). In accordance with this regulation, we state that, with the acceptance of the publication rules, authors authorise that their personal data (forenames and surnames, contact data and affiliation data) may be published in the respective volume of Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.
These data will be incorporated to a processing controlled by IEC for the purpose of managing this publication. The authors’ data will be used solely for managing the publication of Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica and they will not be transferred to third parties nor will transfers be made to third countries or to international organisations. Once Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica has been published, these data will be stored as part of the historical record of authors. Authors may exercise the rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction of processing and portability by addressing themselves in writing to Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Carrer del Carme, 47, 08001 Barcelona, Spain) or by sending an e-mail to the address dades.personals@iec.cat, in which the publication in question should be specified.
