The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. For general information, please visit the Publish With Us section of our website.

Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies incurs and their papers will not be published.

1. General guidelines

• Submissions in English are preferred; however papers in other languages may be considered at the discretion of the editors. Use a consistent form of English spelling (either US or UK); be sure to avoid inconsistencies in word forms ending in –ise/-ize, -ising/izing, etc.
• A typical article will not exceed 7,000 words. Papers that greatly exceed this will be critically reviewed with respect to length. Authors should include a word count with their manuscript.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of 200words are required for all papers submitted.
• Each paper should have 3-6 keywords.
• Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
• Please supply a short biographical note for each author.
• For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

2. Style guidelines

Journal Style Sheet

Reference Style Sheet

Preferred fonts

Contributors are requested to submit articles in Times New Roman 12pt, doublespaced throughout (including footnotes); manuscripts using Arabic diacriticals should be submitted, if possible, using Arial Unicode MS (if sent from a Windows OS) or Jaghbub Unicode font, available at http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/Jaghbub.html (if sent from a Mac OS).

Spelling

Use a consistent form of English spelling (either US or UK); be sure to avoid inconsistencies in word forms ending in –ise–/ize, –ising/–izing, etc. The journal prefers the use of the adjective “Andalusi” in relation to al-Andalus and “Andalusian” in relation to the region that has now come to be known as Andalusia.

Footnotes and biobliography

A bibliography section, providing complete bibliographical information in Chicago humanities style, must be provided. Use footnotes, providing the author's last name, a short form of the title, and the page or pages cited (omit “p.” and “pp.” before page numbers, and avoid use of “op. cit.”, “ibid.” and “idem.”). The short form of the title of a book is italicized; the short form of the title of an article is put in double quotation marks (use single quotation marks for enclosed quotations within quotations). Nouns and adjectives in English-language titles of books and journals are capitalized; those in other languages are not. Superscript footnote numbers in the text follow punctuation (except in the case of the em dash).

Dates and numbers

Set out dates as follows: 24 September 1266, on 24 September, on the 24th; 1265–66; 1260s (no apostrophe); the thirteenth century (not 13th century); thirteenth-century Portugal. Regnal dates should be clearly distinguished from dates of birth and/or death, and should be preceded by the abbreviation “r.”, e.g. Alfonso X of Castile-León (r. 1252–84). In the main text, numbers one to ninety-nine should be written out in words; higher numbers in numerals. In footnotes and bibliography, please use only the changed part of the second number for number spans (3–10, 71–2, 96–117, 100–4, 600–13, 1100–23, 107–8, 505–17, 1002–6, 321–5). But 10–17, 11–18, etc.

Quotations

Short quotations (up to about forty words in length) should be run on from the main text and given in double quotation marks. Longer quotations (more than about forty words of prose, or more than two lines of verse) should be broken off from the main text and presented without quotation marks. A longer quotation should close with a period (full stop) and any page reference should be placed after the period. All quotations must be translated into English. If necessary, words or phrases from the original language may be placed in square brackets after the translation. Longer passages from the original language may be placed in the notes.

Non-English names and terms

Terms in languages other than English should be italicized in the main text of the article, and should be followed by a translation or explanation in brackets after first use. In the bibliography, translations of titles in languages other than either English or a Romance language should be provided. Well-known nouns or terms in languages other than English that have a commonly accepted “anglicized” equivalent should take this accepted form: e.g. caliph, emir, Abbasids, Ummayads, Torah, mudejar, Mozarab. However, personal names that are commonly known to readers in their Romance form should usually take this form in preference to their English equivalent (e.g. Alfonso, Jaume). Personal names that have both a Latin form and a vernacular Romance form should ordinarily use the Romance form in the main text (e.g., Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, not Roderici Ximenii de Rada); footnotes should use an abbreviated form of the Latin name if the text is published under this name. The bibliography should provide the Romance form in square brackets after the Latin name.

Arabic and Hebrew transliteration

JMIS follows a modified Encyclopedia of Islam transliteration system, in accordance with the model of the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IJMES). Use diacritical marks and italics only for technical terms. The definite article “al-” should be lower case except when the first word of a sentence, a footnote, or a title.

3. Figures

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
• Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
• All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).
• Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

4. Colour

The Journal has no free colour pages within its annual page allowance. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree a financial contribution to colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.

5. Reproduction of copyright material

Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than fifty words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as ‘derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editors.

• Copyright permission letter template

6. Supplementary online material

Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.

• Information about supplementary online material

Manuscript Submission

JMIS, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432, USA.

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Exceptions are made for authors of Crown or US Government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties.  We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.

• Further details and FAQs on Taylor & Francis's policy on copyright and authors' rights

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