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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • * The submitted text has not been previously published, nor has it been sent to another journal. To detect possible plagiarism, the submitted works will be analyzed with the Turnitin anti-plagiarism tool, before being sent for review.
    *Authors who use artificial intelligence tools confirm that they have read and followed the rules for using Artificial Intelligence included in the Instructions for Authors.
    *All authors have followed these instructions and have an ORCID-ID that includes and publicly displays, at least, the "Affiliation" data.
    *The file is in Microsoft Word format.
    *A final list of references is included with links to the sources as far as possible, preferably to the DOI.
    *The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the guidelines for authors.
    *In the case of funding for the research that led to this work, the authors must indicate, on the first page of the article, the funding agency(ies) and the code(s) of the project(s) within which the research was carried out.
    *The authors declare that they are free of any personal or commercial association that could constitute a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article, as well as having respected the ethical principles of research.
    *The authors have read and agree to their obligations contemplated in the Journal's Statement of Good Practices.

Author Guidelines

Instructions for publication: use the template provided by clicking here.

Carthaginensia does not charge authors for publication or processing of articles.

Authors interested in publishing in Carthaginensia should submit original contributions, submit an article in the format provided and upload it with all the data. The “subtitle” section will be used to upload the title in English.

Carthaginensia uses the Turnitin system for plagiarism detection. If plagiarism is detected, the article will be rejected.

In production, Carthaginensia will remove references to the author. There are three types of collaborations that are accepted:

 

Scientific research article with critical support (6,000-9,000 words).

A document that presents, in detail, the original results of research projects. The structure generally used contains four important sections: introduction, methodology, results and conclusions.

Notes and commentaries (2,000-5,000 words).

Research articles of lesser length that express opinions, experiences, personal analysis, etc.

Papers (2,500-5,000 words).

Submission of written documents that are not the result of original research.

 


Carthaginensia adheres to the best practices in Gender Equality, so it is required that all the article identifies the authors mentioned with their full name. Likewise, the use of inclusive language is recommended, without contravening the spelling rules in force in the language of the article.

CSIC Guidelines for the use of inclusive language: https://www.icmm.csic.es/img/guiaicmm_cursolenguajeinclusivo.pdf

For publication, the article must be relevant and unpublished. The article must have the following characteristics:

 


Word or similar format (a model is provided for the elaboration of the article).
Length: between 6,000 and 9,000 words.
Font: Times New Roman, size 12.
Spacing: single
Margin: 3 cm on all sides.

 


The title of the article should be presented, in Spanish and English, followed by the author's name, affiliation (faculty, university or institution) together with ORCID and/or ResearchID, and contact e-mail, an abstract (100 to 150 words) and a maximum of five keywords, in Spanish and English. The use of capital letters should be avoided, being restricted to acronyms or abbreviations that require it. In footnotes and bibliography, authors' names should be written in small caps.

Very important: The bibliography should be placed at the end of the article in alphabetical order, with a maximum of 25 references and no more than 3 of the author's own. Each reference should be separated from the next by a blank space by a line break, as shown in the image below. The citation system will follow the CHICAGO-DEUSTO system, with a choice between the Notes and bibliography system or the Author-Date system, although the latter is recommended as it leaves the text cleaner (http://www.deusto-publicaciones.es/deusto/pdfs/otraspub/otraspub07.pdf).

Copyright: the author who sends his/her article to Carthaginensia agrees to authorize only its publication in Carthaginensia. Authors are responsible for the opinions expressed in their works and for the copyright of the same. However, for the purpose of subsequent publication or reproduction of works published in this journal, the author must request permission from the journal, as well as explicitly mention that such works were originally published in Carthaginensia.

Plagiarism detection: those who wish to publish in Carthaginensia commit themselves to the total originality of their texts and to avoid any element that could be considered plagiarism, from literal plagiarism, mosaic, uncited paraphrasing or uncited quotation marks. The journal has means for the detection of plagiarism that will be applied prior to submission for peer review. In case of plagiarism, the article will be rejected at this stage and the decision will be communicated to the author.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Authors who use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the writing of a manuscript must be transparent and declare how they were used and in which parts of the text: the production of images; the collection and analysis of data; the transformation of other formats into text (e.g.: diagrams, tables, images, audios, videos); the execution of analysis and generation of results; the extraction of descriptors or vocabulary from the text that appear as keywords in the article; the systematization of criteria, or in other aspects. Under no circumstances will it be used as assistance in writing or for the drafting of the text of the article.

Likewise, they will provide the statements or instructions given to the tool used (prompts) to obtain its results, as well as the criteria followed to validate the information generated by AI and the actions to reduce bias, misinformation, plagiarism or bad practices during the use of AI. If they have used images produced by AI, they must indicate whether the input images respect intellectual property and have authorization to make derivative works or apply a transformative use. They must also report whether they have prepared tables or figures; have synthesized arguments; have contrasted differences or similarities between the evidence found and the results found; have established explanatory mechanisms for the findings; or have complemented the elaboration of the discussion.

They must also explicitly indicate the language model (LLM), the version used and the date(s) of use. They will cite authorship and year according to APA (2020).
E.g. declaration of use of AI: “AI was used to assist the process of argumentation and preparation of this manuscript. [Model name, version and date] was used and its use was mediated by humans.”
They will use the following structure for the reference:
Algorithm issuer. (year). Model name (version, day, month) [Language model]. https://...
E.g. OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (version May 21) [Language model]. https://chat.openai.com/auth/login
The text will mention: Authorship (year), or (Authorship, year)
Warning: Once the manuscript has been written, it cannot be uploaded (either totally or partially) to an AI application to complement the review process, since its content could potentially become part of the training data. Confidential information would be shared - the manuscript would no longer be original - and the author's intellectual property rights would be violated.
Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including those parts produced by an artificial intelligence tool.

Copyright Notice

The works published in this journal are subject to the following conditions:

1. Carthaginensia retains the copyright of the published works, and favors and allows the reuse of the same under the license of use indicated in the following point.

2. The works are published in the electronic edition of the journal under a Creative Commons By License (CC By) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/. They may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly exhibited, provided that: i) authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher and URL of the work) are cited; ii) they are not used for commercial purposes; iii) the existence and specifications of this license of use are mentioned.