Submissions

Author Guidelines

Editorial norms

1. Submission and presentation of proposals

Proposals should be submitted through the OMP (Open Monograph Press) editorial management platform, available at Submissions.

Submitted proposals should be organised in four independent files, with the following elements:

• Author name, academic affiliation, ORCID ID, email and phone number
• Text (cf. 2.)
• Image file (cf. 6.)
• Image captions (see 6.)

2. Presentation of the text

2.1. For The Historian’s Roots line

The proposal for publication must include:

• Identification of the palaeographic standards used in documentary transcription.

Summary of the sources to be published, in the following format:

Year, month, day, Place. Description (c. 50 words)

Depending on the specificity of the sources to be published, the inclusion of the following is also suggested:

• Introduction/Preliminary study
• Bibliography
• Notes (critical-analytic)
• Indexes (onomastic, geographic, and others considered pertinent)

2.2. For the line The Historian’s Craft

Studies will be published in the following languages: Portuguese (European variant), English, French, Spanish and Italian.

The proposal for publication must include:

• Title (in the language in which the text is written and in English. If the original is in English, a version in Portuguese should be provided)
• Abstract (up to 150 words, in the language in which the text is written and in English. If the original is in English, a version in Portuguese should be provided)
• Keywords (3 to 5, in the two languages used in the title and abstract)
• Text
• Notes
• Final bibliography
  
  

3. Text formatting

The text should be provided in Microsoft Word format, in a file with the following characteristics:

• Page size: A4
• Alignment: Justified
• Font: Arial

Body text: size 12, space and a half

Long quotations (longer than three lines): size 11, space and a half

Footnotes: size 10, single spaced

4. Final bibliography

The adopted standard is NP 405. For any doubts, see https://www.uc.pt/fcdef/documentosbiblioteca/Bibliotecadigital/NP

The following abbreviations may be used: et al., ed., eds., coord., coord., transl., org., intr., pref., posf., vol.

4.1. Books

SURNAME, Name (year) - Title of the work. Place of edition: Publisher. vol.

Ex. BARROS, Henrique Gama (1885-1922) - História da administração pública em Portugal nos séculos XII a XV. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional. 4 vol.

4.2. Book chapters and publications in conference proceedings

SURNAME, Name (year) – Title of chapter. In Title of the work. Place of edition: Publisher. vol.

Ex. COELHO, Maria Helena da Cruz (1997) - As finanças. In História da Universidade em Portugal. Lisboa - Coimbra: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Universidade de Coimbra. vol. I, tomo I, pp. 39-67.

4.3. Articles in periodicals

SURNAME, Name (year) – Title of article. In Title of the work, vol. no. (months), pp.

Ex. HESPANHA, António Manuel (2005) - O direito administrativo como emergência de um governo activo (c. 1880-c. 1910). Revista de História das Ideias. vol. 26, pp. 119-160.

4.4. Manuscript sources

Archive, Collection, Book / Vol., fl.

Ex. Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo – Ministério do Reino, Livro 234, fl. 23.

4.5. Print sources

Title (year of publication). Name of publisher (ed.). Place of publication: Publisher.

Ex. Livro Verde da Universidade de Coimbra (1992). M. T. Veloso (ed.). Coimbra: Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra.

4.6. Online references

This is intended solely for referencing works, chapters or articles that have only been published in digital formats (e-books, online articles, etc.). Any other publications, even if available online, should be referenced according to the previous rules.

SURNAME, Name (year) - Title of the e-book [online]. Place of publication: Publisher. [accessed on 00.00.0000] Available at www.

5. Citations, bibliographical references and footnotes

Bibliographical and archival references should be inserted in the body of the text in abbreviated form. References will appear before punctuation marks.

Ex. (Hespanha, 2005: 18), (ANTT, Min. Reino, L. 234: fl. 23).

Quotations will be set between curved inverted commas (“”).

The following abbreviations may be used: id, ib, cit, cf, v., apud.

The author must ensure that all references cited throughout the text are included in the final bibliography.

Footnotes are allowed.

6. Images

All images (photographs, graphs, maps, drawings, etc.) should be submitted as standalone files (and not inserted in the body of the text), in JPEG, PNG or TIFF format, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpis.

Images should be numbered and referenced throughout the text in bold and in brackets [Fig. 1]. This indication signals images to be added to the work, and is eliminated in its final version.

The captions of all the images that appear in the text should be presented in a separate file, with the following elements:

• Author, title, date, location. Photographic credits.

The author is responsible for obtaining the necessary authorisations for the publication of images covered by copyright.

7. Proofreading

If the proposal is accepted, the author will then be informed of any observations made during the review process, and may be asked to reformulate the original text for publishing. After any proposed changes are introduced in the text, the first proofs will be sent to the author for review.

8. Copyright Statement

The authors retain copyright over the work, and grant the CHSC the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License which allows it to be shared with an acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this Collection.

9. Privacy Policy

Any names and addresses provided will be used exclusively for the services provided by this Collection, and will not be made available for any other purposes or to third parties.