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Boletín del Museo del Prado

Submission and Style Guidelines

Manuscripts must be sent by e-mail to: boletin@museodelprado.es

Submissions

The Boletín publishes articles in Spanish and also in English, Italian, French and German with Spanish translations.

Texts can be submitted throughout the year and must be previously unpublished and original works. They must not have been submitted, even partially, for consideration by any other publication, either in Spanish or in any foreign language.

Articles that do not adhere to the Instructions set out here will be returned to their author for amendment.

The Boletín del Museo del Prado declines any responsibility for possible conflicts arising from the authorship of articles published in it.

The use of inclusive language is required in scholarly articles. This type of language recognises diversity, shows respect for all people, takes differences into account and promotes equal opportunities. Articles should refrain from making assumptions about readers' beliefs or affiliations and will avoid any claims of superiority based on race, sex, culture or other characteristics. Unbiased language should be used, employing terms that avoid stereotypes. As a broader reference, the Boletín del Museo del Prado recommends that authors consult the guide to a non-sexist use of language by the UCM (PDF file)

Types of Texts

Articles of between 1,000 and 8,000 words (including footnotes and bibliography), with approximately 2 to 10 images.

Submission of the manuscript must include the following material in separate, correctly titled files in the following order:

  • Doc. 1 [Name: 1_Summarised title + YEAR OF PRESENTATION (e.g.: 1_New attribution Greco2022)]: Text in a double-spaced Word document (Times New Roman 12), with numbered pages, footnotes at the bottom of each page and the bibliography at the end. The document must be headed solely by the title in the original language and in English. In order to guarantee the author’s anonymity and the blind peer review process, his/her name (or any reference that allows him/her to be identified) must not appear anywhere else in this document or in its meta-data.
    Articles must adhere to the indications set out in the Style sheet of the Boletín del Museo del Prado (PDF file) .
    The bibliography must only include publications that are cited in the footnotes. They must be organised alphabetically and adhere to the indications set out in the Style sheet.
  • Doc. 2 [Name: 2_ Summarised title + YEAR OF PRESENTATION]: The same text as Doc. 1 in PDF format. The summary and key words in the original language and in English must be added at the top of the text, and the illustrations with their captions at the end of the text after the bibliography.
  • Doc. 3 [Name: 3_CV+Surname+YEAR OF PRESENTATION (e.g.: 3_CV Galan2022)]: Information about the author: title of the work, author or authors’ name(s), e-mail, telephone number, institutional affiliation, a short curriculum (80-100 words maximum), the ORCID identifier ( https://orcid.org/ ) if available, and the date of submission to the journal. The author’s e-mail address and curriculum will be published along with the article. To guarantee the author’s anonymity and the blind peer review process, his/her name (or any reference that allows him/her to be identified) must not appear anywhere else (in the text, the footnotes or the summary).
  • Doc. 4 [Name: 4_ SUMMARY+ Summarised title + YEAR OF PRESENTATION (e.g.: 4_SUMMARY New attribution Greco2022)]: Summary (80-120 palabras) and key words (approx. 3 to 6) in the language of the article and in English.
  • Doc. 5 [Name: 5_ CAPTIONS+ Summarised title + YEAR OF PRESENTATION (e.g.: 4_CAPTIONS New attribution Greco2022)]: Word document with a list of illustrative images with their captions, which must adhere to the indications set out in the Style sheet (PDF file) and be correctly numbered.
  • Doc. 6 [5_ BIBLIOGRAPHY+ Summarised title + YEAR OF PRESENTATION]: Bibliography: this should use the Author - Year system (based on the Harvard system). It must only include publications cited in the footnotes.
  • If the article includes appendices or transcriptions of documents, these documents must be named consecutively: Doc. 7 [7_APPENDIX/TRANSCRIPTION+ Summarised title + YEAR OF PRESENTATION (e.g.: 5_APPENDIX/TRANSCRIPTION New attribution Greco2022)]
  • If the article is based on the publication and transcription of unpublished documents, the source of the said documents must be specified and, whenever possible, photocopies provided of the originals of sufficient quality to facilitate the editing process.
  • Low resolution images in jpg or tiff format, correctly numbered and identified following the order of the list of illustrations (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3...).
  • The Declaration of authorship (PDF file) form, duly filled out and signed by the author(s).

The procedure for submitting must comply with the indications in the Style sheet of the Boletín (PDF file) .

Images

The number of illustrations - between approximately 2 and 10 - should reflect the length and requirements of the text.

The Editorial Team may change the number of illustrations should it consider that to be necessary.

The Museo del Prado will be responsible for obtaining the images in high resolution and their reproduction rights. Authors must provide the illustrations (of which the maximum number is specified above) in low-resolution digital format and duly identified. They must be numbered in relation to the text, indicating in it where they should be located in the following manner: (Fig. 1). With regard to the list of illustrations and the footnotes, authors should adhere to the indications in the Style sheet of the Boletín del Museo del Prado.

Review process and publication

  • The Editorial Board will acknowledge receipt of the manuscript within one month of its submission.
  • Articles that require significant editing will not be accepted, including drafts, summaries, unfinished articles and research, or unfinished diagrams, tables and appendices.
  • Initial assessment: the Editorial Team - the Editor in Chief and Editorial Secretary - may reject submitted texts without external review if they are considered not to meet the requirements of quality, content and the journal’s academic aims or the presentation and format previously specified in the Style sheet.
  • Double blind peer review: the assessment method employed is the double blind one, in which both author and reviewers are anonymous. Articles will be submitted for the opinion of two subject specialists. If these opinions differ, the opinion of a third specialist will be requested. Following the assessment the Editorial Team will decide whether or not to publish the article and in which issue of the Boletín del Museo del Prado it will be included. The author will be notified of their decision in a time frame of approximately nine months.
  • The list of double blind reviewers who have worked with the Boletín will be published every five years.

Corrections of proofs

  • The editor will send authors their text in Word format with the editor’s comments, queries and corrections. Authors must resolve these issues within the specified time frame.
  • Authors will be sent their article in laid-out format for correcting, which should be limited to typographical errors. Significant changes or corrections that alter the layout or the style of the article or text are not permitted at this stage. Authors must return their corrections within the specified time frame.
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