About the Journal
Focus and Scope
“Historias fingidas” is an online peer review journal promoted by Mambrino Project of the University of Verona and publishes research works on Spanish chivalric fiction conceived as a privileged observation point for the study of the European novel of the Ancien Régime.
Set on the edge of the research fields of medievalism and modernity studies, the chivalric fiction of the sixteenth century develops in a situation of strong disparity between national literatures, which confront and chase each other, between verse and prose, in the vast territory marked by the hegemony of the Habsburg empire, where the boundaries between modern states are still unstable.
The role of the libros de caballerías in this context has not yet been adequately defined. If in the past some deep rooted prejudices have contributed to the removal of these books from the manuals of literature history, in more recent times the disciplinary fences hinder the dialogue that should, rather, lead to a clearer overview.
The question may be renewed with a different look, at the same time specialized and poen to wide horizons, without geographical and linguistic borders (the chivalric fiction as an European and Spanish-American phenomenon) and without preconceived critical barriers between genres and disciplines; following the paths dictated by texts, letting them talk ...
Peer Review Process
Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double blind peer review. The two anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of specific expertise from a wide international circle of specialists. The editorial board will send a reply to the author in 12 weeks from the date of receipt.
Publication Frequency
"Historias Fingidas" is an annual journal. Each new issue closes in December.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 BY-NC License.
International Scientific Committee
María del Rosario Aguilar Perdomo (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Carlos Alvar (Université de Genève)
Nieves Baranda (UNED)
Rafael Beltrán (Universidad de Valencia)
Juan Manuel Cacho Blecua (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Axayácatl Campos García Rojas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Pedro Cátedra (Universidad de Salamanca)
Luzdivina Cuesta Torre (Universidad de León)
Alberto Del Río (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Claudia Demattè (Università degli Studi di Trento)
Giuseppe Di Stefano (Università degli Studi di Pisa)
Folke Gernert (Universität Trier)
Emma Herrán Alonso (Université de Savoie)
† Víctor Infantes (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
José Manuel Lucía Megías (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
María del Carmen Marín Pina (Universidad de Zaragoza)
José Julio Martín Romero (Universidad de Jaén)
Rafael Ramos Nogales (Universitat de Girona)
Elisabetta Sarmati (Università "La Sapienza" Roma)
Barry Taylor (British Library)
Aurelio Vargas Díaz Toledo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Code of conduct
The following code of conduct is inspired and based on the COPE Code of Conduct: http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf.
Historias Fingidas is a peer-review journal and follows the model of conduct mentioned above during the whole editorial process for the publication of scientific articles. All figures involved in the editorial process – authors, editors, reviewers and external editors – are acquainted with the ethical standards required and conform to them.
Duties of the Editorial Board and of the International Scientific Commitee
The Editorial Board adopts every reasonable measure to ensure the high quality of each material published in Historias Fingidas.
The Editorial Board has the duty to act if there is the suspect of misconducts or in the cases in which an abuse from the authors has been detected. This duty is extended to published and not yet published documents.
The Editorial Board and the International Scientific Committee state that articles are accepted or declined for the publication on the basis of the relevance of the subject and its originality. Editors are guided in this evaluation by two external peer-reviewers highly qualified on that matter.
The Editorial Board grants an appropriate selection of the peer-reviewers. The Editorial Board, furthermore, will make any effort to ensure that the review process will be equal, impartial and quickly as possible. The description of the editorial process is constantly descripted and updated, so the Editorial Board will be willing to justify any clear deviation from the process outlined.
The Editorial Board and the International Scientific Committee will evaluate each manuscript basing their evaluation on the intellectual content of articles, regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship or politics of the authors.
The decision of the Editorial Board complies with legal provisions on defamation, copyright violation and plagiarism. The journal provides guidelines for authors to ensure the accuracy, completeness and transparency of contributions submitted, even in technical editing and the usage of specific guidelines and control lists.
The Editorial Board follows a protocol which ensures the confidentiality of materials sent to the journal during the evaluation process. The confidentiality of personal information, research and professional information of authors is maintained during the whole review process.
The Editorial Board will adopt every reasonable measure to certify that articles to be published in open access format and freely available to everyone. The permanent identification by a DOI will ensure the constant monitoring and preservation of articles in the long-term.
Duties of Authors
Authors are responsible for the articles they submit: therefore, they have the duty to ensure the originality of their works and be conscious about the consequences of misconduct. Authors always have to declare their sources and give details about citations of other publications that shaped their work.
Authors, in relation to article submission, are invited to submit “raw data” for editorial review, and must preserve that data for a reasonable timespan to ensure the access to that data.
Authors are invited to follow the authors’ guidelines posted on http://historiasfingidas.dlls.univr.it/index.php/hf/about/submissions#authorGuidelines, granting in that way the accuracy, completeness and transparency of articles, including technical and editorial standards.
Duties of Reviewers
To reviewers are given all important instructions about their tasks and the necessity of manage submitted materials in a confidential way.
Reviewers are required to communicate any potential conflict of interest before accepting to examine submitted materials.
Reviewers are invited to discuss the originality of any contribution and be alert to redundant publications or plagiarism.
Reviewers must warn the Editorial Board in any matter of intellectual property and plagiarism, or prevent any potential violation of intellectual property statute.
Reviewers are supposed to help in the identification of relevant publications that are not cited by authors.
The editorial policies and the code of conduct of the journal will be periodically revised, especially for new recommendations coming from the COPE Consortium.
Indexing and abstracting
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Publication Fees
This journal does not charge authors any submission or article processing charges