Submission guidelines

Submission guidelines

Arte y Ciudad. Research Journal publishes articles and bibliographic reviews on art history and theory, visual arts, architecture, urban planning, communication and cultural studies, with special attention to contemporary art in all its manifestations and from any methodological approach. The journal is published twice a year (April and October).

Originality. Articles must be original and unpublished, and must not be under review elsewhere for the six months following their submission.

Length and format. Articles must not exceed 60,000 characters (including graphics, notes and bibliography), written in DIN A4 format, with top and bottom margins of 2.5 cm and left and right margins of 3 cm, in Times New Roman 12-point with 1.5 line spacing. A maximum of ten images per article is accepted.

Bibliographic reviews are not subject to blind peer review and must not exceed 9,000 characters, following the same format as articles.

Submission. Articles and reviews are submitted through this OJS site after author registration, with Word format for the text, anonymised PDF for peer review, and TIFF or JPG for images (with sufficient resolution for reproduction).

Languages. The journal publishes articles in Spanish and English. Articles in English must include a Spanish abstract and keywords; articles in Spanish must include an English abstract and keywords.

Article structure. Each article must include: title (in both languages), author's full name, institutional affiliation and ORCID identifier (strongly recommended), an abstract of no more than 250 words (in both languages), and four to six keywords (in both languages).

Peer review. Originals are subject to external double-blind peer review by specialists in the field. The Editorial Board, also consulting the Advisory Board on the relevance, interest and structure of the contents, decides whether to publish the article and notifies authors of the decisions taken.

Authorship declaration. Along with the article, a duly completed and signed authorship declaration and best-practices statement must be submitted.

Citations and references. Follow the journal's style — consult recent issues for examples, or contact the editorial office at arteyciudad@ccinf.ucm.es for the detailed style guide.

For the full Spanish version of these guidelines, with detailed formatting rules for footnotes, citations, figure captions and bibliography, please see the Spanish version of this page.