Historia

ISSN 0018-2311 (print)

ISSN 2365-3108 (online)

Founded: 1950

Publication frequency: quarterly

Size: 17 x 24 cm

Annual number of pages: ca. 512

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Review section: No

Validation: double blind peer review

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Please send manuscript submissions to the editor-in-chief as of 2027. Submissions must be original articles (no translations) which must not be previously published. During the review process, manuscripts may not be submitted elsewhere. A manuscript submitted to the journal must be ready for publication, the editors do not accept partial or draft versions. We recommend a length of 8,000 to 12,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography). In initial submissions, the citation rules of the journal do not have to be strictly followed. Please pay attention to the anonymization of your text so that your identity as author cannot be ascertained directly or indirectly (e.g. by acknowledgments and self-references in footnotes).

All submissions are subjected to double blind peer review. The review process can result in acceptance, the recommendation of revisions or rejection of the manuscript. The author is informed of the decision by email. The editors attempt to reach a decision within 3 months of the submission of the manuscript.

If a manuscript is accepted, the editors request a file with the final version. The final version includes names and acknowledgments. Also, please follow the guidelines of the publisher provided below.

There are no fees for submitting and publishing an article in the journal.

• In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

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Additional editorial information and citation guidelines

Abbreviated references in the footnotes

• Bibliographical references given in the footnotes follow the author year-system (Harvard).
• For Spanish authors, please always indicate all given surnames:
  “Murillo Redondo 2013, 43”
  not “Murillo 2013, 43”
• If you are citing a work with more than two authors, set “et al.”:
  “Murillo Redondo et al. 2009–2010.
• Ancient authors are abbreviated by the standards of TLL (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) and TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) or if you don’t have access to the TLG: Brill’s New Pauly
  eg. Plin. nat. 18.4.17
  not Plin. NH 18.4.17
• Arabic and other medieval authors are cited in the shortest variant possible:
  al-Rāzī, Ajbār mulūk Al-Andalus (ed. Menéndez Pidal and Soledad de Andrés 1975)
  

Bibliography

• The bibliography is organized alphabetically according to author surname.
• More than one work of the same author are sorted by publication date, starting with the latest publication.
• First names are not abbreviated. Last name prepositions, articles and filiation components – i.e. “von”, “de”, “al-”, “Ibn” – are generally not considered for the alphabetical order, although there can be exceptions (e.g. Italian names, see Barbara Del Giovane).
• If more than one work of the same author is cited, add a, b, c to the publication date: e.g. Meier 1999a; 1999b.
• For French or Spanish contributions, the specifications listed here apply with the following exceptions: Place names appear in the language of your text; “in:” is replaced by “dans:/en:”—“and” is replaced by “et” or “y.”.
• Don’t use “pp.”/S. to indicate pages.

Monographs and edited volumes

• Last Name, First Name (Year), Title. Subtitle, edition (if applicable), city.
  Arce, Javier (2009), El último siglo de la España romana (284–409), 2nd ed., Madrid.
  Bourdieu, Pierre (1984 [orig. 1979]), Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice, New York.
  Panzram, Sabine and Laurent Brassous, eds. (2025), ¿Ciudades invisibles? Paisajes urbanos de la Antigüedad tardía (siglos III–VIII), Madrid.
  Walbank, Frank W. (1979), A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. 1: Commentary on Books I–VI, Oxford.
  van Wees, Hans (1992), Status Warriors. War, Violence and Society in Homer and History, Leiden.

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