About the Journal

Policies

Focus and scope

Arqueología y Territorio Medieval is a scientific journal dedicated to the archaeology of medieval societies, between the Vth and XVth centuries as well as their prolongations in later times.
Articles may be submitted to any section of the journal. To begin with, the length of the text and the documents accompanying it are unrestricted. However, following reports from the Editorial Production Team, the Editorial Board may propose certain limits or reductions in specific cases.
The official languages of the magazine are Spanish and English, although texts in French, Italian and Portuguese can also be accepted, as well as essays in other languages from the Spanish state in exceptional cases.
The magazine policy will essentially be guided by the ethical compromise with the scientific investigation.
Aceptance: All originals are reviewed by the Editorial Committee, who reserves the right to return originals that do not come with the scope of the journal or do not comply with the rules for publication. The texts that passed this first analysis be submitted for external and anonymous peer review by well-known specialists in the subject. Contributions and suggestions will be sent back to the authors, so they can take them into account for the final version. The article will be reviewed for a second time if needed. Authors that do not agree with these corrections and suggestions, they must justify it properly or are free to withdraw their originals.

Section policies

It is structured around fixed sections dedicated to research, book reviews, miscellanea and in memoriam. These last pieces may be commissioned by any of the administrators of the journal. Occasionally monographic sections will be included.

Research

The magazine is focused on research of medieval archaeology, including: a) pieces of basic research from excavations, prospections, analysis, etc.; b) interpretative studies; c) studies of synthesis.

The papers will be originals and unpublished, distinguishing the data and original theories from those already published by the corresponding citations. The authors will adapt to the rules of the ethical compromise of the magazine and will accept subjecting their work to a process of anonymous peer review. Articles can be removed from the evaluation process by any author who disagrees with the decisions or for any other reasons.

Monographic

Authors or scientific entities can propose the publication of various texts related among them by its topic (prepared by different authors), minutes of relevant seminars, etc. that may result scientifically interesting for its joint publication. The publication shall be approved by the journal´s board of direction or by a member of the editorial commission, but in any case, the texts will have to comply with the journal´s quality conditions and submit individually to the journal´s evaluation system.

Book reviews

Any researcher can submit reviews of books that they consider of interest. The publication of these reviews will be subject to evaluation according to the quality criteria. The editorial board will be in charge of these evaluations. The reviews will have a heading with the following information: title of the book in capital letters; name and surname of the author or authors or in the case of collective authorship the name of the editors or coordinator; place of publication, publisher, date of publication and number of pages. The name and the institution of the person reviewing will be at the end of the text. Miscellanea

This section will include information about findings; conferences, news of interest, etc. They will be selected for publication by the editorial office. In Memoriam

This section includes recensions and profiles about deceased specialists in medieval archaeology. A text with a maximum of 3500 characters will be considered a recension. If the text exceeds this number of characters it will be considered a profile and it can be subject to evaluation by peers, especially if it analyzes overall scientific activity and present ideological or interpretative opinions.

Miscellanea

This section will include information about findings; conferences, news of interest, etc. They will be selected for publication by the editorial office.

In Memoriam

Peer review process

Reception, evaluation and approval.

The Editorial Production Team will review the wording to verify that the publishing rules have been followed. If they are not met, the texts are returned to the authors so they can redo them.
The Editorial Production Team will send the received text to the members of Editorial Board who can submit their own evaluation of the text, including a recommendation of non-acceptance. If these negative reports represented at least 50% of the members of the Editorial Board that have issued their opinion the article will be considered rejected and it will be communicated to the author. Otherwise, the topic will be considered suitable for the magazine pending the consideration of the external reviewers. The reports issued by the members of the editorial board can be attached to the file and sent to the author so their observations can be taken into consideration, maintaining the anonymity of the authors.
The members of the Editorial Board will suggest the names of the reviewers taking into account the content of the text and the reviewers knowledge of it.
Among the proposed reviewers the Editorial Production Team will appoint at least two, taking into consideration objective criteria: the concurrence of the Editorial Board members in suggested reviewers, geographical distance from the persons to be evaluated, that the proposed reviewer has not participated in recent reviews for the magazine, etc. As well as the knowledge of the possible existence of personal conflicts.
The Editorial Production Team will send the text to the specialist for its scientific revision. Peer reviewers are sent a model form to standardise review parameters as far as possible. They will judge the convenience of its publication and if necessary, will give their recommendations and indications for the text to be clarified or improved. The “double blind rule” will be followed, therefore the reviewers will not be informed of the name of the author and the author will not be informed of who is reviewing the text. The Redaction Committee will delete as best as it can all information which may leave the author and reviewers open to identification. The review will recommend a) approval the text without revisions; b) approval it with minor revisions; c) approve it with major and significant revisions; d) reject the publication.
In case of insuperable discrepancies between both reviewers, the Editorial Production Team will be allowed to ask for a new analysis to another of the proposed reviewers. This person will not be informed about the circumstances.
If all the reports are positive, or all negative, acceptance or rejection of the paper for publication will be communicated to the author, justifying in the latter case the reasons for the rejection.
In cases b and c, the author will be instructed to make changes. The Editorial Production Team will send to the author either the reviewers’ reports, deleting the data that could identify them, or the information contained in the evaluations, especially the parts referred to the recommendations to improve the text. The publication of the paper in this case can be subordinated to the implementation of the changes in the original text according to the indications of the reviewers.In the b) case, once the author has submitted the corrections, it will be the Editorial Production Team who will check that the changes have been implemented. In case c), the text will be sent to the reviewers once again to ensure that the changes have been made, or for judgment of the authors reasons for not taking the reviewers’ comments into consideration. The reviewer will submit a new report.
Once the work has been approved, the Editorial Production Team will inform the author. They will also be able to make a technical evaluation communicating the deficiencies which must be amended before continuing with the edition process.
The magazine will update the roster of reviewers every three years with the ones that have taken part in the evaluation of the received text in the past five years.

Publication frequency

Arqueología y Territorio Medieval is an annual publication which is published in the last trimester of the year. The received articles will be published in the order of arrival once the edition process has been completed. The edition process implies the admission by the editorial council, the revision by anonymous peers and the final acceptance, for this reason the order of arrival doesn´t mean necessary the approval order. The publication of an article will be subject to the economic and space availability of the journal. The articles that due to these reasons couldn´t be published would be published in the next edition of the journal.

In order to improve its visibility and dissemination, AyTM magazine will publish online the electronic edition of the definitive versions of the accepted papers, before being assigned and included in a definitive volume of the journal. Access to these articles will be available in the "IN EDITION" section of this website

Open access policy

This magazine grants open access to its contents, based on the principle that offering free access to research leads to a better global exchange of knowledge

Archiving

PKP Preservation Network (PN)

Ethical commitment

From the Publisher

The publishing process will follow ethical and scientific principles.
Clearly state the publisher, editors and subsidies
Articles already published, translations of articles already published or plagiarism will not be admissible.
None of the data included in the submitted works shall have been copied, fabricated, manipulated or distorte
The magazine will not receive money for the publication of the articles and it will not pay the authors to publish them.
In the texts, it must be reported whether the source data of the investigation considers the gender, when relevant, to allow the identification of possible differences.

Editorial responsibilities

Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject or accept an article, in accordance with the editorial policy
Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles received
Editors should take care that the reviewers have no conflict of interest with respect to authors
Editors preserve anonymity of reviewers
Editors only accept a paper when reasonably certain and documented
During the editorial process, editors facilitate the correction and improvement of articles
When errors or fraudulences are found in the published articles, editors promote the publication of corrections and retractions
The decision to publish will be based on the conclusion of outside reviewers, using the “double blind rule”. The reviewer´s suggestions will be sent to the authors so, if needed, they can proceed with the requested modifications.

From the Editorial Board

The Editorial Board will ensure the correct observance of editorial ethics.
The opinions of the members of board will not necessarily coincide with the opinions expressed in the published articles, which are the exclusive responsibility of the authors.
The Editorial Board will analyze all the contributions and will have the authority to reject an article without evaluating it if considers that it does not comply with the specifications or does not conform to the scope of the journal publications.
The members of the editorial board will propose the specialist who shall carry out the review.

From the Authors.

Authors will accept subjecting their work to a process of anonymous peer review.
The papers must be original and unpublished. At the moment of sending the article, the authors must include a declaration specifically confirming that the article has not been presented for evaluation and publication in other magazines simultaneously or previously and that it has not been submitted for broadcast in other media (web pages, electronic book, etc.)
The data and original theories will be clearly distinguished from those already published by the corresponding citations.
Tables, data, photographs, etc. previously published will be properly cited and permissions for their reproduction in any support must be provided.
As pointed out in the “editorial policy”, it is required that the authors inform if the source data of the investigation considers the gender, when relevant, to allow the identification of possible differences.
Every person signing the paper must have participated in its writing and revision and must agree with the publication. The authorship criteria should be respected without excluding anyone responsible for the work. The magazine declines any responsibility in the possible authorship conflicts originated by the noncompliance of its rules.
The authors commit to report to the heads of the magazine any error detected in the article before or after the publication and to provide if necessary the correction of the errors. If the errors are detected after the publication, the magazine will publish the corrections, clarifications and apologies when necessary.
Articles can be removed from the evaluation process by any author who disagrees with the decisions, or for any other reasons.
Source of the research’s funding of the work to be published. The funding agency(ies) and the project code(s) within which the research that led to the publication took place must be listed. These data must be referenced in the article by the author(s) and included in the metadata that the journal keeps stored.

From the reviewers.

Reviewers should not know the identity of the author or authors of the article
Reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the subject of the article
The reviewers will handle the article as confidential.
The revision will be objective and constructive and always acknowledging the previous point, the neutrality requirement must be considered an absolute priority.
The reviewers accept the compromise to suggest interesting and original bibliography.
The reviewers accept the compromise to orient the author regarding new works still not published with developing lines of research that might affect the text.

Disclaimer

The opinions expressed in articles published in Arqueología y Territorio Medieval are the sole responsibility of their respective authors.

Inclusive Language

The journal Arqueología y Territorio Medieval embraces the objective assumed by the United Nations to "express itself orally and in writing without discriminating against a particular sex, social gender or gender identity and without perpetuating gender stereotypes" (https: // www. un.org/es/gender-inclusive-language/index.shtml). This objective must be considered in parallel with "other discursive or pragmatic postulates, such as those of equivalence, adequacy, convenience, aesthetics and, especially, the principle of economy", and the appropriate use of the linguistic norm.

Citations and references

The style used in the journal is detailed in SEND/Guidelines to the authors. Details below PDF version also available for download.

Received and published articles

	Received	Published
AyTM 20	10	7
AyTM 21	12	9
AyTM 22	8	5
AyTM 23	9	8
AyTM 24	13	10
AyTM 25	13	10
AyTM 26	13	10
AyTM 27	19	15
AyTM 28	15	11

Historical panel of reviewers 22 (2015) to 27 (2020)

Karen Alvaro; Félix Arnold; Almudena Ariza; Ferrán Arasa Gil; C. Ayllet; Agustín Azkárate; Rafael Azuar; Alessandra Bagnera; Isidro Bango; Belén Bengoechea; Rebeca Blanco; Susana Calvo; Cristina Camacho; Victor Cañabate; Álvaro Carvajal; Mª Teresa Casal; José Mª Civantos; Jaume Coll; Ana Contadini; Claire Déléry; Ahmed Ettahiri; Carolina Domenech; Sergio Escribano; Isabel-Cristina Fernandes; Margarita Fernández Mier; Isabel Ferreira; Juan Gallardo; Blanca Gamo; Guillermo García Contreras; Javier García Iñáñez; Juan Antonio García Granados; Alberto García Porras; Alejandro García Sanjuan; Milagros Guardia Pons; Enric Guinot; Pedro Gurriarán; Luis Gutiérrez; Amancio Isla; Ana Labarta; Josep-Vicent Lerma; Alberto León; Jorge Lirola; Rafael López Guzmán; Purificación Marinetto; Ramón Martí; Emilio Martín Gutiérrez; Joan Menchón de Bés; Mª Paz de Miguel Ibañez; Jesús Molero García; José Mª Monsalvo Antón; Irene Montilla Torres; Francisco J. Moreno Martín; Marta Moreno; Bartolomé Mora Serrano; Jordi Nadal; Mercedes Navarro Pérez; Joan Negre; Lauro Olmo; Santiago Palacios Ontalva; Jean Passini; Josefina Pérez Arantegui; José M.Puerta Vilchez; López Quiroga; J. Antonio Quirós; Francisco Reyes; Agustí Ribera Gomes; Elena Salinas; José Carlos Sánchez Pardo;Alberto Sánchez Vizcaino; Marta Sancho Planas; Julia Sarabia Bautista; Sergi Selma; Philippe Senac; José L. Serrano Peña; José L. Solaun Boustinza; Ángela Suarez; Miguel Angel Tabales; Catarina Tente; Jacques Thiriot; Antonio Torremocha Silva; Dª Alexandra Uscatescu; Isabel del Val Valdivieso; Belén Vázquez Navajas; Isabel Vázquez Soriano; Alfonso Vigil Escalera; Rosa Walker.