Author Guidelines

Guerra Colonial is a biannual digital journal that publishes articles and research papers on all areas of the history of colonialism from a military perspective, given the importance of the military component in the different phases of colonisation and subsequent decolonisation, although texts related to the colonial world that are approached from other disciplines such as politics, sociology, philosophy, etc. may also be included.

Format
Articles should be between 6000 and 9000 words in length (including graphs, notes, tables, maps and bibliography). Texts should be written in Calibri font size 12 (notes in size 10), spacing 1.5, indentation on the first line 1.25 cm and margins of 2.5 cm.

Presentation of papers
Each original will be preceded by a heading with postal and e-mail addresses, telephone number and affiliation centre if applicable.

Abstracts of the article will be included in Spanish and English (100 words maximum each), accompanied by five key words and keywords, also in both languages.
The official languages of the journal will be Spanish and English.

The originals must be unpublished and may not be under simultaneous consideration by other journals for publication.

If divisional headings are necessary, they must be written in bold and unnumbered, leaving double spacing from the previous and following paragraphs. In the case of sub-headings, these should be unbolded, unnumbered and in italics.

Evaluation and selection

Guerra Colonial establishes a double-blind peer review process. Authors and reviewers are anonymous throughout the process. Although there are some external reviewers who collaborate with the journal on a regular basis, their identity is concealed. The evaluation process begins with the manuscript being sent to the editorial team by electronic means in pdf or word format. Once received, the text is filtered to eliminate any type of identity of the author and is sent to two specialists for evaluation, who can be either external collaborating evaluators or experts contacted for this purpose. Together with the text, a model report is provided, which the evaluator must duly complete and return to the editorial office within an estimated time. With a favourable report in both cases, publication will take place within one year. With an unfavourable report, the article is returned to the author for corrections or discarded for publication.

Guerra Colonial reserves the right to decide whether or not to publish the article, after external evaluation by two specialists (peer review). The final decision will be communicated to the author and, if it is not positive, the material will be destroyed.

Style criteria
References will be included in the text following the HARVARD citation system. By way of example, some of the most common uses are cited:

In the text, if the author is not directly cited in the text, the author's surname or surnames, the year of edition and the page or pages cited are included in brackets. If the author is quoted directly in the text, only the year and pages are included within the brackets. E.g. "(Del Boca, 2000: 15)" or "according to Angelo Del Boca (2000:15)". If the book has been used to present an idea or you wish to refer to it in a generic way, instead of making a textual citation, you should write the author's surname and the year of edition, without the need to indicate the page number. E.g. "(Del Boca, 2000)".

However, it is also possible to make footnotes duly indicated with a number. E.g. "according to Del Boca's approach", the footnote being in size 10.

At the end of the article there must be a bibliographical list which will follow the following criteria:

• It shall be in alphabetical order.
• Works by the same author shall be listed in chronological order.
• If more than one work published in the same year by the same author is mentioned, a lower case letter will indicate the order, also valid for the text ("2000a", "2000b", "2000c", etc.).

References at the end of the text shall be in accordance with the following criteria:

• Single-author book: Surname/s, First name, Title of the book. Place, publisher, year, page/s.
• Book by several authors (up to three): Surname/s, First name; Surname/s, First name and Surname/s, First name, Title of the book. Place, publisher, year, page/s.
• Book by several authors (more than three): Surname/s, First name et al., Title of the book. Place, publisher, year, page/s.
• Volume: Surname/s, First name, Title of the book. Volume: Title of the volume. Place, [publisher,] year, page(s).
• Book chapter: Surname/s, First name, "Title of the chapter", in [First name Surname/s (ed.)], Title of the book. Place, publisher, year, page/s.
• Edition of a collective work: Surname/s, First name (ed.), Title of the book. Place, publisher, year, page/s.
• Institutional edition: Organisation, Title of the book. Place, publisher, year, page/s.
• Journal article: Surname(s), First name, "Title", Name of the journal, volume, page(s).
• Press: Name of newspaper, day month year, [page/s].
• Document: FILE, Section, Series, Box or file number, Date. "Title of the document, page/s.

Authors' names will always be in lower case, except in the case of initials. E.g. Del Boca, A., The ethiopian war (1936-1941). Chicago, University, 1969 in the final reference and (Del Boca) in the text.

Abbreviations id., ibid., op. cit. and other Latin abbreviations should only be capitalised if they appear at the beginning of the note; they should be written in normal text, without italics and should never be underlined. Titles of books and journals, as well as words in a language other than that of the text, should be written in italics.

In references, p. or pp. should not be written before page numbers, which should follow the comma.

If acronyms are used, they should be used without full stops and the first time they appear in the text they should be named in full by adding in brackets ( hereinafter...) e.g. The United Nations Organisation (hereinafter UN), the remaining times being used: UN.

Low quotation marks (" ") should be used instead of high inverted commas (" ").

Dates should not use abbreviations or syncopated forms (e.g.: 15-Dec-1960). Both in the text and in the footnotes they should be written in full (15 December 1960).