Peer review system

Peer review system

The Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española submits all papers received for publication to a double-blind peer review system. The sections of the journal that do not undergo peer review are expressly indicated (https://rhle.es/index.php/revista/secciones).

The secretariat will acknowledge receipt to the authors of the papers received. Before submitting it to peer review, the editors may reject those articles that it considers do not fit the content of the journal, do not meet the formal and content standards, or do not comply with the ethical principles of the journal.

All articles that pass this first review will be submitted for external review by the double-blind peer review system, in which at least two reviewers proposed by the Editorial Board and/or the Scientific Advisory Board will participate.

The reviewers play a fundamental role in guaranteeing the scientific quality of the articles published in the journal. They assist the Editorial Board of the journal in the publication of its contents and contribute to the improvement of the published works.

• The evaluators will be researchers who are specialists in their respective areas of research. They will receive an email inviting them to indicate whether they wish to carry out the evaluation and, if so, a second email with the deadlines and instructions.
• The Board of Directors will take special care to maintain the anonymity of both the author and the reviewers. It will also ensure that reviewers and authors do not belong to the same institution and will ensure the confidentiality of the work submitted for review as well as of the reports prepared by the reviewers.
• The reviewers must consider the work to be evaluated as a confidential document and undertake not to disseminate it either directly or indirectly. Under no circumstances may they use, for themselves or for the interest of third parties, the contents, ideas, arguments, and conclusions of the reviewed text as long as it is not published.
• The Editorial Board shall ensure that reviews are fair, respectful, relevant, objective, and impartial.
• The Editorial Board will give precise instructions to reviewers to detect plagiarism, duplication of articles or any violation of the journal's code of ethics.
• RHLE will publish, with the prior express authorization of the reviewers, the list of reviewers who have collaborated in previous issues.
• Authors will be sent anonymized evaluations of their work and will be informed of the acceptance, possible proposed modifications, or definitive rejection of their work. Authors will have the right to submit objections to the results of the evaluations.
• Each article published in the RHLE will include an express mention of the dates on which it was received and approved.
• The Editorial Board will be responsible, in the light of the reviewers' reports, for deciding whether to publish, reject the article or send it to a third reviewer.
• The Editorial Board will resort to a third or fourth reviewer in the following cases:

            o When one of the evaluations is positive and the other negative.

            o When the Editorial Board deems it appropriate.