GENERAL GUIDE TO AUTHORS

1. Submission of papers

Contributors must submit a file attached to an email in MS Word for Windows. An abstract of the article in English (no longer than 10 lines) as well as four key words must also be sent.

All the articles will include the full name of the authors and their institutional affiliation (university, institute, …). The authors will send a brief CV that will include their academic degree, postal and electronic address and telephone number.

2. Address for papers and books for review

Papers should be sent through ojs system or by email to the Assistant Editor of the CCO, Prof. Dr. Lourdes Bonhome-Pulido, e-mail: l42bopul@uco.es

Books for review must be sent to the following address: Prof. Juan P. Monferrer- Sala. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Córdoba. Plaza Cardenal Salazar, 3 ― 14071 Córdoba

3. Proof reading

In due time the authors will be sent only one set of proofs; these should be corrected and returned within 15 days of receipt.

EDITORIAL PROCESS

1. Articles reception.

Reception of the articles will be acknowledged by e-mail in the briefest period possible. In this phase a first editorial assessment will take place in which we shall evaluate: a) adequacy to the thematic content and interest of the paper in relation to the editorial criteria of the Journal, and b) fulfilment of the formal format requisites demanded by the publishing ruling. Reception of the paper does not guarantee its acceptance. In this first stage and before to enter a second phase (peer reviewing), we will communicate to the author if the article has been accepted, rejected or need some corrections.

2. Peer review.

Papers will be sent confidentially and anonymously to be analysed by two experts who are neither members of the journal editing body nor part of the editorial council. They may belong to the Assessing Committee, as long as they do not belong to the journal Editorial Board. They will deliver a report concerning the convenience of the article’s publication, which will be taken into consideration by the Editorial Board secretariat. Announcement of the publication of the paper, or if not revision recommendations will be communicated to the author. If the evaluating experts disagree, the paper shall be sent to a third evaluator. A revised paper may be considered for publication conditionally to the inclusion of changes. It must be corrected and returned to the authors of the Journal at the most within a month, whether the changes demanded be mayor or minor. If it were necessary, the new version will again be sent to the external evaluators; this process will continue until the paper merits a definitive acceptance from the Journal. The authors will receive a notification concerning the evaluation reports from the evaluators so that they may (if necessary) perform some corrections. If the paper were printable but demanded small changes, these will be performed by a drafting committee in contact with the author; but may also be returned to the author for him to change those details that the drafting committee might consider necessary.

3. Reviewers.

The Journal uses specialised reviewers to contrast methodological procedures used in papers. The choice of reviewers depends on the journal editors, who take into account their academic and scientific merits, and their professional experience, including both national and international specialists. As we have mentioned previously, members of the Assessing Committee may figure amongst the reviewers as long as they are neither part of the of the editing entity nor of the Editorial Board.

4. Acceptations and refusals.

The decision of acceptance or refusal of the papers on part of the editors of the Journal will take into account at least two circumstances. Excluding criteria and favouring criteria.

Criteria excluding admission of papers include:

a. Not being included under the scientific topics cultivated by the Journal.

b. Not using the proposed citation system in the way indicated.

c. Not sending the paper in the required format.

Criteria favouring admission and evaluated by reviewing experts include:

a. Papers must conform to the objectives of the section in which they are offered.

b. Papers must be original, or at least offer an qualitative analysis proffering valuable information.

c. Novelty, freshness and advances in the themes due in this publication.

d. In all cases coherence in the methodology and logic in the work submitted will be demanded.

e. A good formal presentation will be required, that is, good writing and text organisation: logical coherence and presentation.

FORMAL FEATURES OF PAPERS

1. Length

The papers should not be over 40 pages, using 11 Times New Roman and regular margins.

2. Quotation of books, editions and periodical articles

The quotations of books and/or articles, always in footnote, will follow the norms of the following examples. Italics should only be used for the title of books and pe- riodicals or, if necessary, for a word or the title of a work included in the cited book. When quoting a book which has been translated the name of the translator must appear. A book with no publication place specified must be cited as s.l. (= sine loco) and with no date as s.d. (= sine data).

* Examples of quotations:

a) Book: David THOMAS, Anti-Christian polemics in early Islam. Abū ‘Īsā al-Warrāq’s “Against the Trinity”. Edited and translated by D. Thomas, col. «University of Cambridge Oriental Publications» 45 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 9-30.

b) Translated book: Moshe GIL, A History of Palestine, 634-1099. Translated from the Hebrew by Ethel Broido (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 430-489.

c) Collective book: Serge RUZER, “Reflections of Genesis 1-2 in the Old Syriac Gospels”, in Judith FRISHMAN & Lucas VAN ROMPAY (ed.), The Book of Genesis in Jewish and Oriental Christian Interpretation. A Collection of Essays, col. «Traditio Exe- getica Graeca» 5 (Louvain: Peeters, 1997), pp. 91-102, espec. 95-99.

d) Journal article: Joshua BLAU, “Some Observations on a Middle Arabic Egyptian text in Coptic Characters”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 1 (1979), pp. 215-262, espec. 216-218.

Encyclopaedia article: René AIGRAIN, “Arabie”, in DHGE 3 (1914) 1158-1339, espec. 1260-1292: X. Les Arabes chrétiens et Mahomet.