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The petition has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the editor).

The file sent is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.

Web addresses have been added for references where possible.

The text has simple line spacing; the font size is 12 points; italics is used instead of underlining (except URLs); and all the illustrations, figures and tables are inside the text in the right place and not at the end of the whole.

The paper complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guidelines for authors, which can be found in About the journal.

If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you need to make sure that the instructions in Ensuring a blind review have been followed.

Guidelines for authors

REHMLAC+ receives papers in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Italian. The papers send to REHMLAC+ should be original, unpublished, not having been sent to another journal and indicate:

  • The title in dual language, original and English or English and Spanish (Times New Roman font, size 20).
  • The full name of the author, with details of academic quality and professional affiliation, ORCID and e-mail.
  • Titles are written in Times New Roman font 16 and subtitles in Times New Roman font, size 14. Titles should not be indented, and subtitles should be 1.25 cm indented from the left. Titles and subtitles must not be bold or numbered.
  • Any paper must contain abstracts of up to 100 words and a list of five key words in two languages (English and original). It should appear in Times New Roman font, size 10 and single space.
  • For the structure of the paper it is recommended to follow the structure of an introduction, body, and a conclusion.
  • The papers must be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, line spacing at 1.00, indented 1.25 cm from the left in the first line of each paragraph, with extension .txt, .docx or .rtf. The margins of the document must be 3cm, above, below, right and left.
  • The papers may include tables, graphs and illustrations. Their use requires the author to indicate the source or sources of information used for each. The quality of the images must be 300 dpi at least, in .jpg, .png or .gif, will accept a maximum of six.
  • It is recommended that papers do not exceed 25 pages, including graphics, tables, notes, bibliography and appendices.
  • The textual citations that do not exceed three lines are put in a paragraph itself between quotes high or Saxon (" ") and normal font, not bold or italic. If the textual citation exceeds three lines it must be in a separate paragraph, with normal font, without quotations, italics or boldface, with 1.25 cm spacing from the left on all paragraph lines, indented, single spaced, and Times New Roman font, size 12.
  • Bibliography and style footnotes page (see examples below) will be determined by the latest version of The Chicago Manual Style Citation 16va edition “Notes and Bibliography”, http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and are included before the punctuation mark.
  • The textual citation, in the case of various languages, will be included in its original language, if it is not used in the body of paper it may be placed in the footnotes.
  • The primary sources and printed primary sources should follow to the format of the journal.

Examples of The Chicago Manual Style Citation

Thesis

Footnotes pages

Roberto Armando Valdés Valle, “Masones, Liberales y Ultramontanos salvadoreños: Debate político y constitucional en algunas publicaciones impresas, durante la etapa final del proceso de secularización del Estado salvadoreño (1885-1886)” (PhD Thesis, José Simeón Cañas Central American University, 2010), 35-42.

Bibliography

Valdés Valle, Roberto Armando. “Masones, Liberales y Ultramontanos salvadoreños: Debate político y constitucional en algunas publicaciones impresas, durante la etapa final del proceso de secularización del Estado salvadoreño (1885-1886)”. PhD Thesis, José Simeón Cañas Central American University, 2010.

Compilation of papers (Congress, Symposium, Seminar)

Footnotes pages

Miguel Guzmán-Stein, “Base de datos para la historia de la masonería en Costa Rica en el siglo XIX”, in La Masonería en Madrid y en España del siglo XVIII al XXI, coord. José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli (Zaragoza: CEHME, 2004), vol. II, 1388-1389.

Bibliography

Guzmán-Stein, Miguel. “Base de datos para la historia de la masonería en Costa Rica en el siglo XIX”. In La Masonería en Madrid y en España del siglo XVIII al XXI. Coordinated by José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli. Zaragoza: CEHME, 2004.

Presentation (congress, symposium, seminar)

Footnotes pages

Janet Iglesias Cruz and Javiher Gutiérrez Forte, “Las elecciones de 1908: los masones y sus logias en la política de los primeros años de la República Cubana” (Paper presented in 200 años de Iberoamérica (1810-2010). Congreso Internacional, Santiago de Compostela, September 15-18, 2010), 225-235, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/529278/filename/AT4_Gutierrez-Iglesias.pdf

Bibliography

Iglesias Cruz, Janet and Javiher Gutiérrez Forte. “Las elecciones de 1908: los masones y sus logias en la política de los primeros años de la República Cubana”. Paper presented in 200 años de Iberoamérica (1810-2010). Congreso Internacional, Santiago de Compostela, September 15-18, 2010). https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/file/index/docid/529278/filename/AT4_Gutierrez-Iglesias.pdf

Book-one author

Footnotes pages

Ricardo Martínez Esquivel, Masones y masonería en la Costa Rica de los albores de la Modernidad (1865-1899) (San Jose: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017), 8-11.

Bibliography

Martínez Esquivel, Ricardo. Masones y masonería en la Costa Rica de los albores de la Modernidad (1865-1899). San Jose: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2017.

Book- several authors

Footnotes pages

José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli and Susana Cuartero, Bibliografía de la Masonería (Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2004), 135-142.

Bibliography

Ferrer Benimeli, José Antonio and Susana Cuartero. Bibliografía de la Masonería. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2004.

Book Chapter

Footnotes pages

José Ricardo Chaves, “Misterios de la modernidad. Apuntes sobre espiritismo y teosofía en Costa Rica”, in Subjetividades esotéricas. Estudios sobre masonería, espiritismo y teosofía en Costa Rica, eds. Francisco Rodríguez Cascante and Ricardo Martínez Esquivel (Puntarenas: ESP-UCR, 2019), 1-23.

Bibliography

Chaves, José Ricardo. “Misterios de la modernidad. Apuntes sobre espiritismo y teosofía en Costa Rica”. In Subjetividades esotéricas. Estudios sobre masonería, espiritismo y teosofía en Costa Rica. Edited by Francisco Rodríguez Cascante and Ricardo Martínez Esquivel. Puntarenas: ESP-UCR, 2019.

Journal paper (no volume)

Footnotes pages

Gilberto Loaiza Cano, “Hombres de sociedades (Masonería y sociabilidad político-intelectual en Colombia e Hispanoamérica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX)”, Revista Historia y Espacio 17 (2001): 93-131.

Bibliography

Loaiza Cano, Gilberto. “Hombres de sociedades (Masonería y sociabilidad político-intelectual en Colombia e Hispanoamérica durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX)”. Revista Historia y Espacio 17 (2001): 93-131.

Journal paper (with volume)

Footnotes pages

Daniel Lahoud, “La Masonería en Venezuela y Nueva Granada (Colombia) en los primeros años del Siglo XIX”, Tierra Firme XXIV, no. 96 (2006): 621-632.

Bibliography

Lahoud, Daniel. “La Masonería en Venezuela y Nueva Granada (Colombia) en los primeros años del Siglo XIX”. Tierra Firme XXIV, no. 96 (2006): 621-632.

Electronic Journal paper

Footnotes pages

Felipe Santiago del Solar, “Secreto y Sociedades Secretas en la crisis del Antiguo Régimen. Reflexiones para una historia interconectada con el mundo hispánico”, REHMLAC 3, no. 2 (December 2011-April 2012): 132-156, http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rehmlac/article/view/6578/6269

Bibliography

Del Solar Guajardo, Felipe Santiago. “Secreto y Sociedades Secretas en la crisis del Antiguo Régimen. Reflexiones para una historia interconectada con el mundo hispánico”. REHMLAC 3, no. 2 (December 2011-April 2012): 132-156. http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rehmlac/article/view/6578/6269

Journal paper (with doi)

Footnotes pages

Ricardo Martínez Esquivel, “Global History and Freemasonry: 300 years of Modernity, Sociability and Imperialism”, REHMLAC+ 9, no. 2 (December 2017-April 2018): 1-18, https://doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v9i2.31496

Bibliography

Martínez Esquivel, Ricardo. “Global History and Freemasonry: 300 years of Modernity, Sociability and Imperialism”. REHMLAC+ 9, no. 2 (December 2017-April 2018): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v9i2.31496

Newspaper article, no autor

Footnotes pages

La República, “Gran fiesta masónica”, August 28, 1884, 1.

Bibliography

La República. “Gran fiesta masónica”. August 28, 1884.

Newspaper article with author

Footnotes pages

Martín Jiménez G., “La Masonería”, La Prensa Libre, July 31, 1891, 8.

Bibliography

Jiménez G., Martín. “La Masonería”. La Prensa Libre, July 32, 1891.

Newspaper article from an electronic database

Footnotes pages

Sayali Baca, “La masonería y sus personajes”, El Nuevo Diario, May 21, 2009, http://impreso.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2009/05/21/suplemento/misteriosyenigmas/10789

Bibliography

Baca, Sayali. “La masonería y sus personajes”. El Nuevo Diario, May 21, 2009. http://impreso.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2009/05/21/suplemento/misteriosyenigmas/10789

Additional Criteria

In the System of Chicago Style Citation Latin phrases (op. cit., Id.; Idem.; Ibid., Ibid., Loc. Cit., Art. Cit.), are not used because they may refer to a note placed many pages before, which can be confusing and sometimes difficult for the reader to find. In lieu thereof, for subsequent footnotes from the same source, it includes only the last name, a shortened version of the title of the source and the page (s) consulted (s).

For example, a subsequent note:

Dominique Soucy, Masonería y nación (1811-1902). Redes masónicas y políticas en la construcción identitaria cubana (Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Ediciones Idea, 2006), 15. 

It would be:

Soucy, Masonería y nación, 37-54.

Some titles of the sources will be short enough so that the subsequent footnotes do not need abbreviations.

For example, a subsequent note:

José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli, La masonería (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2001), 49-51.

It would be:

Ferrer Benimeli, La masonería, 123.

The square brackets ([]) are used in the footnotes to indicate a translation of a passage from a source written in a language different than the language in which it was originally written. In these cases, it must add [my translation] at the end of the reference, just before the end point. Square brackets are also used in the footnotes to indicate who emphasizes a phrase or a word. Also, quotes or Saxon (“”) in the part of the footnote can be used to be emphasize, as long as the footnote before the end point is inserted [emphasis added]. This warns the reader that emphasis was added onto the quotation. 

References to publications in Spanish only use uppercase in the first letter of the title. All the words in the titles of publications in English are capitalized except for prepositions, articles, and coordinating conjunctions.

Submission Preparation Checklist

Todos los envíos deben cumplir con los siguientes requisitos.

  • La petición no ha sido publicada previamente, ni se ha presentado a otra revista (o se ha proporcionado una explicación en Comentarios al editor).
  • El fichero enviado está en formato OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, o WordPerfect.
  • Se han añadido direcciones web para las referencias donde ha sido posible.
  • El texto tiene interlineado simple; el tamaño de fuente es 12 puntos; se usa cursiva en vez de subrayado (exceptuando las direcciones URL); y todas las ilustraciones, figuras y tablas están dentro del texto en el sitio que les corresponde y no al final del todo.
  • El texto cumple con los requisitos bibliográficos y de estilo indicados en las <a href="/index.php/REHMLAC/about/submissions#authorGuidelines">Normas para autoras/es</a>, que se pueden encontrar en Acerca de la revista.
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Presentation

Written by the editorial team of the journal, but when special issues are published, if applicable, by guest editor.

Profiles

Section dedicated to people who made important contributions to academic studies on Freemasonry or related.

Articles (refereed)

Original and unpublished academic research.

Interviews on new PhD thesis research

Interview written by the editorial team of the journal with the aim of publicizing new research on the subject at the academic level.

Interviews

It must be about the theoretical-methodological advances focused on Freemasonry as an object of study.

Reviews of academic activities

On academic activities dedicated to the Masonic, Theosophical, Spiritualist or Esoteric studies.

Reviews of publications

From books, journals or their special issues dedicated to study of Freemasonry, from Letters, Philosophy, Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities in general.

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