Submissions

Format requirements

• Originals should be sent in Word files, in the following format:
  • font Times New Roman, size 12 pt
  • justified alignment
  • 1.5 pt spacing
  • non-indented paragraphs
  • pages numbered sequentially
  • footnotes in automatic numeration.

Length

• It is recommended that articles do not exceed 10 000 words.

Title, abstract and keywords

• The title should be clear and concise. Use of a subtitle is optional.
• The abstract, with a maximum of 100 words, must be submitted in Portuguese and in English.
• Each article should have between four and six keywords, in Portuguese and in English.

Authorship

• Articles must be submitted without any indication of the authors’ identity (in a “blinded” version), and accompanied by a separate document with the name of the author, institutional affiliation, current institutional address and e-mail contact, and a brief biographical note (maximum of 200 words).
• Authors must ensure that articles submitted are anonymized, excluding information that may directly or indirectly identify the authorship, such as:
  • authors' data (names, institutional affiliations, emails, ORCID iD, etc.)
  • information regarding funding, R&D projects, support, acknowledgements, etc.
  • explicit self-references should be avoided. Authors citing their own prior work should discuss it in the third person, either in the text or in the footnotes.
•  Document metadata provides information on a file's properties, such as authorship, change dates, comments, revisions, etc. Metadata must therefore be removed from the document properties.

Languages of publication and style

• Articles can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Italian.
• Current spelling rules and appropriate style guidelines for each language must be followed.
• First names and surnames of European origin cited in the body of the text must have updated spelling.
• The type of quotation marks recommended (angled, curved or straight) will vary according to the language the text is written in. For Portuguese texts the AHAM generally recommend the use of straight angled or French quotation marks («»), and curved or English (“”) for quotations within quotations.
• Section headings/subheadings in the text must be written in bold.
• The use of italics is restricted to foreign expressions, and for emphasis in citations.
• If an article contains words in other alphabets or with diacritical marks, the author must provide the respective software upon submission of the text.

Bibliographical references

• All references should abide by the Autor-Date System of the Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition).
• References should be indicated in the body of the text (e.g. Smith 2019, 34).
• The entire list of sources and bibliography used throughout the text should figure at the end of the articles. It should be arranged in alphabetical order according to the authors’ last names. 
• URLs and DOIs for online references must be provided.

Citations

• Citations of documents or texts of up to three lines are included in the body of the text, in quotation marks.
• Citations that consist of more than three lines should be placed in a separate paragraph, size 11, left indentation of 1.25 cm, single spaced, without quotation marks.
• Words or terms introduced in the body of citations must be indicated by square brackets - [ ].
• Omissions of excerpts of citations are indicated by suspension points between square brackets - [...].
• Citations in any language other than those accepted by the AHAM (Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Italian) must be original, with a translation into the language of the text provided in a footnote.

Transcription of manuscripts

• Strict respect for the spelling of the manuscript texts is accepted, their modernization, or also, an intermediary way, as long as the norms of transliteration are specified by the authors.

Footnotes

• Identified in Hindu-Arabic numerals, footnotes must be written in size 10 and single-spaced.

Illustrations

• Photographs, drawings, tables, graphs, maps should be submitted in jpg. or tiff files.
• A minimum resolution of 300 dpi’s is required. The journal is printed in greyscale.
• A separate file with the list of all the illustrations (images, tables, etc.) sequentially numbered, with captions and sources/ credits, and indication of their exact placement in the text.
• Callouts for each figure (e.g. “(fig. 1)”) should appear in the text. The place where the illustration is to be inserted must be indicated. Please use the figures captions below as a model:

  [INSERT FIGURE 1 HERE] 
  
  1 Gaspar de San Agustín, Conquistas de las Islas Philipinas: La temporal por las armas del Señor Don Phelipe Segundo el Prudente; y la espiritual por los religiosos del Orden de Nuestro Padre San Agustín – Fundación y progressos de su Provincia del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús (Madrid, 1698, Imprenta de Manuel Ruiz de Murga). Url: http://bibliotecadigital.aecid.es/bibliodig/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=6730. Public domain. Source: Biblioteca Digital AECID.

• If created in Word, tables and graphs should be embedded in the manuscript. Each table and graph should have a title below. Tables and graphs should be considered illustrations and numbered as such (e.g. “(fig. 3)” instead of “(table 1)”).

Copyrights regarding illustrations

• It is exclusively the authors’ responsibility to ensure that images have legal authorization to be reproduced according to their copyright status, and authors must assume any expenses incurred.
• Documentation proving the authorisations for the use of the images must be submitted.