Author Guidelines

Aims and Scope

Medievalista is an electronic biannual journal (January and July). It publishes original research from all disciplinary areas, in the form of articles, reviews, historiographical balance sheets, news and overviews of recent academic researches, as long as they refer to medieval times. It is focused on innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, capable of crossing different realities and perspectives.

Medievalista embraces an editorial policy whereby issues will usually comprise articles on a variety of subjects, along with publication of thematic dossiers and monaghraphic issues. Texts in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German and from all disciplines on any medieval topic are welcome.

Medievalista is an open access journal, available free of charge, which does not remunerate nor charge for submission or processing of articles.

Following an initial determination by the Editors of the appropriateness of a submission for publication in the Medievalista articles are presented for double- blind peer review, with acceptance for publication being contingent on the obtaining of two positive peer evaluations. In case of doubt, a third review should be asked by the Editors. Other contributions are subject to the Editors’ approval.

All articles and other contributions accepted for publication will be made freely available online and will be downloadable as PDF files.

Copyright, Submission and Style-specifications

1. Copyright and Open Access Policy:

The Editors expect that all texts submitted for publication in Medievalista will be original, unpublished works and that any other circumstances will be duly indicated and reported to the Editors who will decide accordingly. The Editors will assume that authors bestow to Medievalista the right to first publish the papers and to reproduce and disseminate them in HTML, PDF and in open access repositories, platforms and directories.

Medievalista likewise assumes that Authors have the right to deposit, without any embargo, all versions of their work in thematic or institutional repositories, including the submitted version, the article in the form accepted by the journal and the published article.

Medievalista uses the Creative Commons CC BY licence since no. 32, July 1, 2022. Until no. 31, published on January 1, 2022, the licence adopted was the Creative Commons CC BY-NC, as stated in the articles published on that date.

It is an open access publication the contents of which is made available free of charge to authors, readers and institutions. Medievalista does not charge for submission or processing of articles. Authors and readers are authorized to read, download, distribute, print or refer to articles in any circumstances without the prior permission of the publisher or the author, provided that acknowledgment of authorship and place of publication are made clear.

It is the sole responsibility of authors to obtain permission for the reproduction of images or of any other copyrighted material.

Medievalista assumes that the authors, or co-authors, are fully responsible for the articles published and for all its different phases, from research to final writing and editing Whenever this rule is not observed, Medievalist will ask authors to specify their contributor roles, according to the categories adopted by Scielo and available at these links: https://www.pubin.pt/apoio/credit-taxonomia-para-contribuicao-de- authors/?seq_no=2 (Portuguese); https://casrai.org/credit/(English).

2. Rules for Submission of Articles:

Texts should be submitted electronically at Medievalista’s website in plataform OJS:

https://medievalista.iem.fcsh.unl.pt .

All submissions are subject to an initial determination by the Editors and the Editorial Board as to suitability for publication according to the objectives, specifications and thematic concerns of the journal. Once authors have been notified of the results of the initial determination, the consideration for publication proceeds in conformity with the categorization of the texts. Accordingly, articles are presented for anonymous scientific evaluation by specialist reviewers. The Editors and the Editorial Board examine all other contributions in order to ensure compliance with the editorial criteria of the journal.

Medievalista reserves the right occasionally to publish texts considered by the Editors to be of elevated interest for Medieval Studies (in the Destaque or Varia rubrics), without submitting them to the double-blind peer review process.

The Editors undertake to inform authors of the conditions of publication as soon as possible, however, due to the time required for completion of the evaluation process including peer review, notification of acceptance, or conditional acceptance or proposals for amendment and other decisions relating to manuscripts can take up to 6 months.

For further informations:   medievalista@fcsh.unl.pt