Submissions

Submission of original articles:
Only original and unpublished articles, which have not been published or are not in the process of publication in other journals, will be accepted. In this sense, Drassana, the journal of the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, is against fraudulent academic practices such as plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Authors are obliged to accept the declaration of originality in OJS, according to which the articles submitted are original texts and have not been previously published (except as a pre-print, working paper or as a communication at a congress), that citations to other works will be correctly referenced, respecting the intellectual property rights of third parties, and that the articles have not been sent to any other journal for publication during the evaluation process. Finally, the authors grant the rights for publication in open access, under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 licence.
The articles, collaborations or coordination of the dossier will not be remunerated. Authors will provide their personal data (e-mail, affiliation, brief CV - 10 lines maximum -, ORCID code - Open Researcher and Contributor ID - although, if they do not have one, it can be obtained free of charge on the website https://orcid.org/ on the journal's OJS platform and they will send their articles through the journal. They will receive an acknowledgement of receipt notification. The Editorial Board reserves the right not to publish those papers that do not reach a sufficient level of scientific quality or that show serious methodological flaws.
To submit a formal proposal for a central monographic dossier, it should be sent electronically to gonzalezsin@mmb.cat or garciade@mmb.cat. It must include a brief justification of the subject (500 words maximum) and a table of contents of between four and six articles with a brief summary of their content and a brief curriculum vitae of the persons proposed to write the articles that make up the dossier. It will be valued that the first article frames the subject with the presentation of the theoretical framework, the state of the question and the most significant debates. The person who coordinates the dossier will be responsible for maintaining direct communication between the journal and the authors. He/she will also be responsible for ensuring that, in the preparation of the articles, the formal rules of the journal are respected, the maximum length of the text and the delivery of the images with their corresponding rights. The person coordinating the dossier will submit the articles through the journal's platform to be sent for review. If half plus one of the articles are rejected after evaluation, the dossier will be rejected as a whole, although the possibility will be offered of publishing the positively evaluated articles individually in the Research section.

Along with sending the anonymized manuscript, tauthors must attach a Declaration of Authorship in the Comments to the Editor. In this declaration, the authors must inform about the criteria chosen to decide the order of signature of the article, as well as the specific contribution of each of the authors to the article. The Declaration must be signed by each and every one of the authors.

Extension and format:
Articles can be sent in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice (.odt), RTF or WordPerfect format. The length of the text will be between 8000 and 10 000 words. The typographical style will be Times New Roman, size 12 for the text and size 10 for the notes. The spacing should be double-spaced. Each article will include the title of the article, the abstract and the keywords in at least three languages (English, Spanish and Catalan), or four if the original language of the article is different from these three. The abstract will consist of a maximum of 150 words each, organised in a single paragraph, without line breaks. Four or five key words must be included. Pages should be numbered on the bottom right-hand side. Proper names of vessels should be in italics (e.g., steamer Ciudad de Barcelona). Abbreviations should be avoided; dots should be deleted in figures (e.g., year 1992).
Notes and references:
Notes or calls will be made with a number (superscript) placed before the corresponding punctuation mark. Notes should be numbered consecutively, at the end of the text. Bibliographies and other references should also appear at the end of the text. The Chicago citation style should be used. https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html, in the sample citations mode.
Under the heading "Bibliography" the sources are arranged alphabetically by the authors' surnames in a single list.
The Chicago style recommends the complete bibliography, which includes all works that have been cited (both in the text and in the notes) and particularly relevant works that, although not cited in the document, have been consulted. Titles by the same author are also arranged alphabetically. Likewise, if the references have DOIs, their inclusion at the end of the same is mandatory.

Supplementary material:
Authors may attach as much supplementary material as they wish. As long as it is not part of the article itself. In this sense, raw data, tables, graphs, unedited images, links to video or audio files, etc. can be attached.
Such supplementary material can be sent as databases (Access, LibreOffice Base...), statistical packages (SPSS...), spreadsheets (Excel, LibreOffice Calc...) or any other format deemed appropriate depending on the nature of the supplementary material.
If the article is finally published, the supplementary material received will be published as a galley proof of the article, under the same DOI.
Authors can upload this material at the time of submission or when the article is accepted for publication. However, the Editorial Board reserves the right to request such material at any stage of the editorial process in order to clarify or determine the validity of the article and to identify possible malpractice.
It is imperative that these guidelines are followed before considering any item for evaluation.
The journal is exempt from any responsibility for the contents of the contributions that are sent.
Other recommendations:
Graphics and images should be submitted electronically in jpeg format, with a resolution of about 300 pp. Graphics and photographs must be accompanied by the citation of origin and a brief caption. They must also be expressly cited in the text and placed in the space available next to the paragraph where they are mentioned. If permissions are required, they are the responsibility of the person signing the article.

Instructions for submitting an article you wish to propose for publication in the journal:
Log in to the website with the username and password generated when registering, edit your profile and in the Tasks tab tick the option author, and in the public tab, in the Biographical summary box, enter a brief curriculum vitae of 10 lines maximum. Save your changes to your profile.
Then go to the home page of the website, click on Submit an article on the right hand side (below the search window), check that the article meets the checklist requirements and the formatting requirements.
Click on Make a new submission in the left-hand band (it is in the grey strip under Home/Submissions). This opens the submission window, which has five tabs. Follow the order of the screens:
1- Home: Indicate the language of the text, the section of the journal to which you are sending the article (choose from the drop-down menu); accept the submission requirements; make any comments you consider relevant for the editors; in Submit as tick the author option; tick if you agree with the copyright marked by the journal and your consent to the storage of the data. Save and continue.
2- Upload submission: Here you have to upload the submission files. Select the file type from the drop-down list of article components: select article text (this file must not contain the authors' data). The submission of the text of the article must include the tables, graphs and images necessary for its comprehension at low resolution, and placed in the appropriate place, it is the document that is sent for review. Both tables, graphs and images must be referenced in the text (see table 1 / as shown in image 1 / ....).
Then, you can upload the rest of the attached files, graphics, images, with better resolution. This upload can also be done later, when the article enters the production phase. Save and continue.
3- Enter the metadata in at least three languages (English, Spanish and Catalan), or four if the original language of the article is one other than these three. Once you click on one of the windows, other windows will open below for the other languages. You can confirm the text entry for each of the boxes by checking that the world ball in the top right-hand corner of each box has changed from pink to green. First enter the title, if the title has a prefix (article, preposition...) enter it in prefix, in title enter the title without the prefix. Next, there is another box to include the subtitle if there is one. Below this is the box in which you should enter the abstract.

Continue to the List of contributors. All the authors of the article must be added; to add them, click on Add a contributor. Enter the first and last name, contact (email), country, affiliation (institution/company) and ORCID code - Open Researcher and Contributor ID.
Then add the keywords separated by semicolons, also for the three lenguages (English, Spanish and Catalan), or four if the original language of the article is one other than these three. Continue and save.
4- Confirmation: here you can review the process and check the data entered. You can go back to adjust the information you need. Once you have checked, click on Finish submission. A confirmation window opens: Accept carries out the sending, Cancel returns to the confirmation.
5- Next steps: you are informed that the item has been shipped and that you will receive a confirmation email. The options Review submission, Create a new submission or Return to desktop appear.
If you need help during the submission process, please contact the journal.
You will receive a confirmation that your submission has been received.