Editorial Structure
Editorial Structure
Director
The Editor of Guerra Colonial will be responsible for ensuring the proper functioning and fulfilment of the duties of the Editorial Board, reviewers and authors.
He/she will be responsible for the proper development of the journal and the maintenance of the editorial line, as well as ensuring that the periodicity of the journal is complied with.
Editorial Board
The Editorial Board of Guerra Colonial is responsible for analysing and deciding on the publication of articles submitted to the journal, accepting or rejecting them, always bearing in mind the editorial line of the journal and the guidelines issued by its Editorial Board.
The Editorial Board will ensure the impartiality and objectivity of the evaluations, avoiding any potential conflict of interest that may arise. It will preserve the anonymity of the evaluators, except with their express consent.
As a result of its own assessment and the reports submitted by the reviewers, the Editorial Board will decide on the acceptance, rejection or need for revision of the article by the author prior to publication, and will inform the authors of its decision, stating the reasons for it.
The final decision on acceptance or rejection will not be taken until the author has received a new version of the article in question, and after it has been subjected to a new evaluation process.
Scientific Council
The Scientific Board shall ensure that the scientific character of the Journal is maintained and that good practice is followed. Its members will promote the journal within the academic and editorial world. They will also evaluate the editorial line and will assist the Editorial Board or the Editor in questions as a consultative body.
Evaluators
The Editorial Board takes into consideration, when accepting or rejecting an article, the reports and evaluations prepared by the evaluators appointed for this purpose.
Such evaluation will be anonymous, blind and there will be more than one evaluator for each paper. Members of the journal's Editorial Board or Scientific Board, external experts from the academic and business world, as well as members of the academic world will act as peers.
Whoever is appointed as evaluator of an article must carry out the review in an objective manner, expressing their conclusions and points of view with arguments that support the evaluative judgements made and the considerations made, avoiding personal and subjective appraisals.
The evaluator must maintain the confidentiality of the information to which he/she has access in his/her work, as well as inform the Editorial Board of Guerra Colonial of any possible conflict of interest that could affect the impartiality in the exercise of the task entrusted to him/her.
Authors
An author is considered to be anyone who carries out direct research and writing work and submits a text for publication. Authors may only submit articles for review that are unpublished and are not pending publication or review in any other journal.
Authors are responsible for their work, which must be carried out in an ethical and responsible manner. They must present their work honestly, refraining from manipulating or omitting to cite the work of others, as well as from citing work that they have not read. They must also ensure that they have obtained any necessary permissions for the reproduction of content obtained from other sources.
In collective works, all authors must have made significant contributions to the content of the collective work. Authors are responsible for the validity of the data used in their work and on which they base their conclusions.
They must inform the Editorial Board of the existence of any conflict of interest in which they may find themselves during the publication process. They also undertake to communicate, as soon as they become aware of their existence, any error they may have identified in the published work and to collaborate with the Editorial Board of Guerra Colonial in the actions that are subsequently implemented to correct or warn of the error.
Texts submitted to Guerra Colonial must be original and must not have been published elsewhere or be in the process of being published. To guarantee the originality of the articles and the author's rights, the author must sign an authorship document.