Submissions

Author Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR PUBLISHING ORIGINAL WORK

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Asclepio invites original submissions in the fields of history of medicine and history of science. Any submitted work must be unpublished and cannot have been approved for publication in other journals. Asclepio publishes two issues per year. An issue features a number of articles and book reviews; it may also include a monographic dossier and an essay review.

Asclepio considers submissions written in Spanish and other languages of the Spanish state, as well as manuscripts written in English, French, Portuguese and Italian.

Asclepio is an Open Access journal.

Articles

Asclepio invites submissions in the form of articles. The manuscripts will be subjected to a double review process. First, any submitted work will be reviewed by the Editorial Board. If this first evaluation is positive, the manuscript will be sent for double peer review. Asclepio also uses an antiplagiarism software. The journal will communicate the outcome of this double review process within 6 months of submission.

Dossiers

Asclepio publishes monographic dossiers on topics relevant to the fields of history of medicine and history of science. Dossiers must first be approved by the Editorial Board. Applications for a dossier must include the following: (1) information, including a brief CV, on the dossier coordinator(s); (2) a proposal outlining the aims of the dossier and its relevance to the field, its methodological approach and a brief state of the art discussion on the topic; and (3) a list of the articles that would make the dossier, including a brief abstract for each article.

Dossiers may include a minimum of 4 articles and a maximum of 8, and they must adhere to the editorial guidelines of the journal. Each article will be subjected to double peer review.

Instructions for the submission of manuscripts (articles and dossiers)

1. Wordcount: 8.500 words maximum, including titles, abstracts, keywords, authors’ information, image captions, endnotes and bibliography.
2. Title. Please provide a Engish translation of the title if the main language of the publication is not English.
3. Authors. Please provide the following information: full name, institutional affiliation, country, email address and ORCID number. An "Authorship contribution statement" according to the CRediT taxonomy will also be included for each author. Information on the CRediT taxonomy can be found here.
4. Abstract. Please provide a brief abstract (150 words), and include a translation in English.
5. Keywords. Please include 5 keywords, and include a translation in English.
6. Figures, tables, graphs. Please submit them as independent, clearly identified and numbered files. Titles and captions will be clearly located and identified in the main text. Please use TIFF or JPEG formats, with a minimum resolution of 300 ppp. All artwork shall be submitted in a single ZIP or RAR compressed file.
7. Reproduction rights. Authors are responsible for securing reproduction permission for their figures or texts, and for covering the costs if necessary.
8. Formulae and equations. Please include them within the edited text and number them.

The journal recommends the use of non-sexist language in all texts submitted for publication. Likewise, in the summary of the article, it should be mentioned whether the source data of the research is gender-sensitive, in order to facilitate the identification of possible differences.

Authors of research involving the participation of population (both children, youth or adults) should consider the relevance of incorporating sex or gender as a variable of analysis in the research design and establishing whether it has had an influence on the results obtained.

Authorship contribution statement

This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy for identifying authorship contributions based on the assignment of
specific roles to research articles. For more information see "Submissions/Authorship identification". This information should be incorporated in the full version of the manuscript (Microsoft Word file, LibreOffice, or a compatible format), under an "Authorship contribution statement" heading, located just before the "Declaration of competing interests", in the following format (see downloadable Microsoft Word template):

Authorship contribution statement
Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.
Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing.

Declaration of competing interests

CSIC's Good Practice Code, in its Section 2.6, includes a statement for the declaration of existing competing interests. In case of NON-existence, the following text should be in added before the bibliography: "The authors of this article declare that they have no financial, professional or personal conflicts of interest that could have inappropriately influenced this work."

Book Reviews
The Review Editors are Ricardo Campos (History of medicine; ricardo.campos@cchs.csic.es) and Juan Pimentel (History of science; juan.pimentel@cchs.csic.es).

Books for review may be sent to Ricardo Campos and Juan Pimentel to this address:

Instituto de Historia, CSIC, C/ Albasanz 26-28, 28037 Madrid, Spain.

Sending a copy does not guarantee the commission and publication of a review.

Book reviews will have an extension of ca. 1000-2000 words. The review may include a brief bibliography if necessary. Reviews may be written in Spanish or English.

The review will include a heading featuring all the relevant information related to the book. Please use the following example as guidance:

Levitin, Dmitri. Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science: Histories of Philosophy in England, c. 1640-1700. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, XII + 670 pages [ISBN: 978-1-107-10588-1 (hardcover), 978-1-107-51374-7 (softcover)]

The review will also include the following information about its author: (1) Full name; (2) Institutional affiliation; (3) Email address; (4) "Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier" (ORCID) number.

Citation style

Textual quotations less than three lines long will be included within the main text, and marked by double quotation marks (“ “), followed by the relevant bibliographic reference in round brackets. Longer extracts will feature as separate, indented quotations, without double quotation marks, followed by the bibliographic reference in round brackets.

In-text bibliographic references will include the author’s surname, the year of publication and the page numbers, all within round brackets.

Example:

(López Piñero, 1987, p. 14).

In the case of works published by the same author in the same year, a sequence of letters (a, b, c, etc) will be used next to the year of publication.

Ejemplo:

Citation: (Peset, 1983a, p. 73).

Bibliography: Peset, José Luis (1983a), Ciencia y marginación. Sobre negros, locos y criminales, Barcelona, Crítica.

The use of ibidem, idem, op. cit. is not permitted.

The text may include footnotes. These footnotes are reserved for comments or clarifications to the text, and may include the necessary bibliographical references.

Bibliography

All the bibliographic references will be collated at the end of the text and arranged in alphabetical order by authors’ surnames. If several works by the same author are cited, each entry will feature the surname of this author. Authors’ full names will be written as in the examples provided below.

References to primary sources (including archival material, periodicals and other sources) will not be included in the bibliography. This information will be provided in the endnotes.

All the references included in the bibliography must have been cited in the text.

The bibliography must include the DOI number for those publications that have it.

Books: author’s surname, author’s first name, year of publication (in round brackets), book title (in italics), place of publication, publisher.

Example:

Peset, José Luis (1983), Ciencia y marginación. Sobre negros, locos y criminales, Barcelona, Crítica.

Book chapters: author’s surname, author’s first name, year of publication (in round brackets), “title of the chapter” (with quotation marks). In: editor’s surname, editor’s first name, (ed., coord.), title of the book (in italics), place of publication, publisher, first and last page number of the chapter.

Example:

Cueto, Marcos (2011), “Natural History, High-Altitude Physiology and Evolutionary Ideas in Peru”. In: Glick, Thomas; Puig-Samper, Miguel Ángel; Ruiz, Rosaura (eds.), The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 83-94.

Journal articles: author’s surname, author’s first name, year of publication (in round brackets), “title of the article” (with quotation marks), title of the journal (in italics), volume number (without vol.), (issue/part number) (in round brackets), first and last page of the article. DOI: DOI number.

Example:

Ausejo, Elena (2022), “Euclides en la práctica: un tratado sobre el fundamento y la construcción de pantómetras en el siglo XVII español”, Asclepio, 74 (2), pp. 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.2022.21.

Online publications / documents: author’s surname, author’s first name, year of publication (in round brackets), “title of the article” (with quotation marks), title of the journal (in italics), volume number (without vol.), (issue/part number) (in round brackets), first and last page of the article, [online], available at: URL address, [retrieved on dd/mm/yyyy].
Documents available online: are referenced according to the corresponding type of document adding [online] at the end, available at: URL, [retrieved on dd/mm/yyyy].

Example:

Maldonado Polo, José Luis. (2003), “Ciencia y política. Los botánicos Mariano Lagasca y Simón de Rojas Clemente en las Cortes del Trienio Liberal”, Hispania, 63 (215), pp. 1031-1056, [online], available at: http://hispania.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispania/article/view/212/215, [retrieved on 15/12/2011].

Revisions and proofs
Authors agree to revise their manuscripts and correct the final proofs within the timeline stipulated by the journal editors. Revisions and corrections will feature within the main document and will be clearly marked.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Asclepio

- How to send an original manuscript to Asclepio

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

How to register at Asclepio

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

How to send an original manuscript to Asclepio

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in another language, it will be introduced first this language and then in English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in both languages. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to the its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF