Information For Authors

Please read this guideline carefully when preparing your manuscript to avoid unnecessary delays in processing your submission.

Avisos de Viena is an Open Access journal. It adheres to the CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons licensing guidelines for copyrighted material.

Manuscripts must be original work not previously published and not submitted for consideration to another journal. We may consider translations of published articles under suitable license terms if they are relevant to our readers, explicitly stating their condition.

We do not charge publication fees.

Submissions should be made electronically through this website. Please email the editors first, as technical issues prevent self-registration. We will promptly provide you with one.

We encourage submitting short articles of about 6000 words with new ideas to develop, work in progress, or reflections. Nonetheless, we will happily accept longer and shorter texts if they interest our readers. We accept English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish manuscripts. We consider submissions in other Romance languages if the topic deserves it, but it may take significantly longer.

The manuscript will undergo an editorial review and open peer review. If there is a disagreement, a third external reviewer will decide.

Structure

Title page

The title page should contain the information below in the given order:

  • Title

  • Full author name(s)

  • Affiliation(s)

  • Corresponding author’s email address

Abstract

Please include an Abstract of no more than 250 words summarising the article with a clear heading ‘Abstract’ to make it easily identifiable from the start of the main text.

Acknowledgements (optional)
Any acknowledgements must be included in the first note to the title.

References
Any citation style is acceptable if used consistently throughout the text and provides sufficient bibliographical information. Please provide a complete list of references, as they are required for indexing purposes. If you give the full reference in a footnote, offer it as metadata or attach it.

Language & Text

Spelling and Usage
Please consistently follow an accepted standard for academic texts in the language of your submission.

Font
Underlined text should be avoided whenever possible.

Bold or italicised text to emphasise a point is permitted, although it should be restricted to minimal occurrences.

Quotation marks
In Spanish, the order guillemets → double quotes → single quotes (« ” ’ ) is preferred. However, we also accept double-quoted texts. Quotes in other languages should not be italicised.

Quotations of four or more lines must be placed into a separate paragraph with additional indentation.

Figures & Tables

Figures
The author must have the legal rights to publish the figure. It should be in high resolution and accompanied by a concise descriptive caption. During the edition, it may be moved to fit the typesetting requirements. The source of the image should be included, along with any relevant copyright information and a statement of authorisation (if needed).

Tables
Tables must be created using a word processor's table function, not tabbed text.