About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Anuario Lope de Vega is a peer-review yearly electronic journal published by Prolope, a research group founded by Alberto Blecua at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Prolope has uninterruptedly received public funds since its inception in 1989. The journal will consider for publication original scholarly pieces on textual, literary or cultural issues that may contribute to the knowledge of the works and the age of Lope de Vega. The journal publishes articles in Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Anuario is supported by an editorial board and an advisory board. It may include the following sections:

  1. Articles
  2. Book reviews
  3. Notes
  4. Texts

Peer Review Process

Anuario Lope de Vega follows a double-blind evaluation system. Once an article is submitted, it is sent to two external referees, selected by the journal editors according to the paper topic. Within four weeks the referees send their reports back suggesting to publish the article without revision, publish the article with minor revisions, publish the article with major revisions and a second evaluation, or not publish the article. The evaluations are sent to the author, who sends back a corrected version, when necessary, within three weeks. In case of an important discrepancy between the two evaluations, a third report will be sought. In case of minor discrepancies, or when a second evaluation is recommended, the editors will consult the editorial board and will make a decision. The jounal guarantees both the authors’ and the referees’ confidentiality. For ethical aspects and the rights and duties of the parties involved in the publication process, see the journal's Best Practice section.

Publication Frequency

Anuario Lope de Vega. Texto, literatura, cultura is a digital journal published yearly. Articles accepted throughout the year will be published as a volume in January.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate free access to its contents under the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Users are permitted to read, download, distribute, print, search, partially reproduce, or link to the texts without prior permission from the publisher or the author.

This is an open access journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.

Deposit

Authors are allowed to deposit the published version of the article. See Open Policy Finder.

Statement on publication ethics and misconduct

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is fully committed to promoting ethical conduct in the publication of its science journals, based on the principles laid down by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org).

To achieve this, the UAB considers it essential for all parties involved in the publishing process for its science journals – editors, reviewers, and authors – to know and accept the terms of the above code, as summarised below.

Publishers
Publishers should undertake to do the following: 
• clearly establish the relationship between publishers, editors and other parties through a contract; 
• promote editorial independence; 
• respect privacy; 
• protect intellectual property; 
• maintain the integrity of published content; 
• publish content punctually. 

Editors

• Decisions on publishing papers. After consulting the editorial board, journal editors decide whether or not to publish the papers submitted to their department, basing their decision on the reports made by two external reviewers and, in the case of significant disagreement between these, a third reviewer. They should apply the same criteria for accepting or rejecting all papers in accordance with their originality, importance and clarity. Editors must have systems in place for editorial decisions to be appealed against before the editorial board. They must also give full, up-to-date guidelines on authors' responsibilities and on the characteristics of papers sent to the journal.
• Non-discrimination. When examining submitted papers, editors should not take into account the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship or political views.
• Confidentiality. Editors and other journal employees should not reveal information about the papers received to anyone other than the authors themselves and the reviewers. They should ensure that throughout the process the anonymity of reviewers and authors is maintained at all times.
• Conflicts of interest and disclosure. Editors should not use results from papers submitted to them for their own research work without express permission from the author.
• Recognition of error. Editors should publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
• Quality. Editors should elicit the opinions of authors, reviewers and the editorial board in order to improve the editorial process.


Authors
• Authorship of the text. Papers submitted should be signed by the author and by anyone else who has played a significant role in planning, organising, conducting or processing the research that the paper is reporting on. In cases of co-authorship, the author submitting the text should state explicitly that it contains the names of all the authors, and that these have given their approval to the final version of the paper, for publication in a UAB journal.
• Responsibility. Authors take full responsibility for the content of their manuscript.
• Plagiarism and originality. Authors should be prepared to declare that the paper submitted to the journal is original in each and all of its parts and that all sources used are correctly cited in it.
• Access and conservation of data. At the editors' request, authors should clarify the sources or the data on which the research is based. These data should be kept for a reasonable time after publication, and may be disclosed if necessary.
• Multiple or repeated publication and conflicts of interest. Authors should not publish papers that present the same content in more than one journal at the same time.
• Conflicts of interest and disclosure. Authors should be prepared to declare that there is no conflict of interest that could affect the results of the research or the interpretations offered. They should also state sources of funding for the research, where applicable, and the name of the project their paper reports on.
• Errors in published papers. Authors who discover an important error or inaccuracy in a published paper should inform the journal editors and provide any information needed to make the necessary corrections.

Reviewers
• Peer review. A system of double-blind review is to be adopted, which helps editors and the editorial board to make decisions on manuscripts submitted and at the same time gives authors an opportunity to improve their work.
• Meeting lead times. Having agreed to review a paper, reviewers should respect the lead times established. If unable to do so, they should give sufficient notice of this to the editors.
• Confidentiality. Papers under review are considered to be confidential documents, so the reviewers should not discuss them with third parties without the permission of the editors.
• Objectivity. Reviews should be carried out objectively. Reviewers should express their opinions on manuscripts appropriately and justify their conclusions.
• Bibliographic references. Reviewers should provide exact bibliographic data on works of importance in the paper's subject area that the author may have omitted. Reviewers should also inform editors about any similarities detected between the text under review and other works.
• Conflicts of interest and disclosure. Any restricted information obtained in the review process is considered confidential and may not be used for personal ends. If carrying out a review entails a conflict of interest for reviewers because they have collaborated or competed with the authors or the authors' institutions, these reviewers should decline the review proposal.

Plagiarism, Fraud and Retractation

Authors must ensure that the data and results published in their work are original and have not been copied, fabricated, distorted, or manipulated. Plagiarism in any form, self-plagiarism, multiple or redundant publication, as well as the fabrication or manipulation of data constitute serious ethical violations and are considered scientific fraud.
When an author discovers a serious error in their work, they must notify the journal's editors as soon as possible so that their work can be modified, withdrawn, retracted, or a correction or errata can be published.
If the potential error is detected by the Editorial Team, authors will be required to demonstrate that their work is correct.

Regulations on the use of Artificial Intelligence

Anuario Lope de Vega adheres to the following principles for regulating the use of generative artificial intelligence throughout the entire article submission and evaluation process.

  • AI tools may not be listed as authors at any level in the articles published in Anuario Lope de Vega. Texto, literatura, cultura.
  • Authors must declare in the article the tasks for which AI tools have been used.
  • AI may not be used to generate content ex novo under any circumstances. Authors are responsible to certify that the text submitted to the journal is completely original and has not been taken from any other source, including any type of AI tool.
  • The journal's reviewers agree not to use any type of AI during the manuscript review process, as this could jeopardize the authors' intellectual property.

Anuario Lope de Vega ultimately adheres to current legislation, the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and any other guidance the UAB deems necessary regarding the use of generative artificial intelligence in academic and scientific literature.

Publication Fees

Since the publication costs for Anuario Lope de Vega are covered by the editing university internal budgets, authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge (APC) and no waivers are offered.

Archiving

To ensure the preservation of all content, daily backups are made.
In addition, all content is archived in PKP-PN (LOCKSS) and in the UAB institutional repository, which has its own preservation policy.

Interoperability Protocol

The content published in this journal is also available through the OAI-PHM 2.0 protocol (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
You can consult the available formats at the following link.

The path for harvesters is: https://revistes.uab.cat/anuariolopedevega/oai

The metadata for the content of this journal is offered under a CC0 license.

Property Registry

Anuario Lope de Vega. Texto, literatura, cultura is the exclusive property of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), pursuant to Spanish intellectual and industrial property law.
Any use of the masthead (name, graphic design, logo, and associated identifying elements) is prohibited without the express authorization of the UAB.

Accessibility

The journal's structure and aesthetics (hereinafter "theme") are a variation of the default OJS theme for version 3.3.
This variation was implemented by the UAB Publishing Service and introduces changes that comply with WCAG accessibility standards, so the same audit results performed on the default OJS 3.3 theme apply to it.

Journal History

The journal Anuario Lope de Vega was founded by Alberto Blecua at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona as a product of the research group Prolope. The first issue appeared in 1995, and since 2012 it is published exclusively in electronic format. The Anuario publishes articles about Lope de Vega, particularly about textual, literary and cultural issues. We wish to contribute to renew the critical scholarship about Lope, and we hope to offer the scientific community new avenues of research in addition to more traditional ones. Anuario Lope de Vega invites scholars to submit original papers which, having Lope as a starting point, examine the literature and the culture of the early modern period, and more specifically:

- The life, work and reception of Lope de Vega

- The history of Spanish and European classical theater

- The theory and practice of literary genres in the early modern period

- The history of the reading book, the history of the book

- Textual criticism and editing practices

- Rhetoric, poetics, literary quarrels

- The visual arts

- Lope and history

- Lope on stage: yesterday and today

- Past and present of Lope’s canon

- Author profiles and the literary field

- Literary relations, sociability and networking

Communication with authors

Communication with authors (acknowledgement of receipt, notification of acceptance, queries, etc.) will be carried out exclusively through the journal's OJS system. For any other queries, please direct them to the following e-mail address: anuario.lopedevega@uab.cat