• Section Policies

• Peer review process

• Frequency of publication

• Open access policy

• Archive

• Ethical principles

• Anti-plagiarism policy

• Monographs and special issues

Section policies

Editorial

Describes the content of the magazine by interweaving all the topics that appear in each issue. Written by the editorial team, responsible for the coordination of the issue or invited person.

Open submission

Indexed

Peer review

Rerearch articles

Unpublished research papers on architectural theory and culture. In the anonymous, external, peer review, the evaluation will focus on the interest of the article, its contribution to the knowledge of the subject, the novelties provided, the correct relationships established, the critical judgment developed, the bibliographical references used and the correct writing.

Open submission

Indexed

Peer review

Architecture reviews

The magazine will include articles analyzing news, projects, novelties, competitions and cultural events related to architecture.

Open submission

Indexed

Peer review

Book reviews

The journal will collect comments on publications by non-authors.

Open submission

Indexed

Peer review

Peer review process

All papers submitted will be analyzed by external reviewers, according to strict criteria of scientific quality, and the Editorial Board will make the final decision in view of the reviewers' reports.

The originals will be reviewed by the system known as "double blind", maintaining the anonymity of the author and the reviewers. The papers will be sent to at least two external reviewers whose suggestions will be forwarded to the authors so that, if necessary, they can make the pertinent modifications. The Editorial Board will analyze all contributions and, taking into account the external evaluations, will decide their approval or rejection, as well as the volume and number in which the accepted articles will be published. Efforts will be made to inform the author of the acceptance or rejection of his/her contribution within a maximum period of five months, starting from the moment he/she is informed of the acceptance of the manuscript for external evaluation.

In view of the evaluators' reports, the Editorial Board may make one of the following decisions, which will be communicated to the author:

• Accepted as is (or with slight modifications).
• Accepted after revision. Publication is subject to the author's completion of all changes required by the reviewers. The deadline to make such changes will be one month.
• Rejected.

Publication frequency

VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación will be published every six months.

Originals should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) or open format, through the journal's website. No other means of submission will be accepted, nor will correspondence be maintained on originals not sent through the portal or in other formats.

Open Access Policy

VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación guarantees open access to all published content, with the aim of promoting free research and global knowledge exchange.

The journal VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación is free from the moment of publication of each issue and its contents are distributed under the license "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0" (CC-BY-NC-SA), complying with the definition of open access of the Budapest Declaration in favor of open access.

Archive

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, allowing those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

Lockss (Lots OF Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Open Source tool that acts as an open system for persistent access and preservation of digital content on the Web. It is a platform in which digital content, especially digital journal content, is collected and preserved in many caches in libraries around the world, with the prior permission of publishers.

Based on the concept of "distributed application", Lockss makes it possible to create system caches in publications or collections distributed to several Web servers, allowing constant communication between them to compare multiple copies of the same content and maintain their integrity. In the event of failure of the original server, for whatever reason, the same content can be provisioned from local caches. Of course, Lockss software and participation in its network are free, both for publishers who want to preserve their content and for libraries that want to maintain it.

Ethical principles

VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación endorses the ethical standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

The editors undertake to maintain anonymity throughout the process, for which they are ultimately responsible, avoiding any kind of conflict of interest.

The reviewers will be professionals competent in the subject they are proposed to evaluate. They will have previously registered in the journal's platform, indicating the specific field of their research. Once accepted, they will carry out an objective and constructive review that will focus on the interest of the article, its contribution to the subject, the novelties provided, etc., indicating recommendations for possible improvement, if any. The reviewers undertake to respect the time limits and to follow the guidelines of VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación. The preparation time for a review report is approximately one month.

Authors agree to submit original work, acknowledging the authorship of the sources used in the study and committing to include in the article all those researchers who participated in the research.

• Good practices guide.

Antiplagiarism policy

VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of the published works. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden and texts with fraudulent content will be rejected or deleted as soon as possible. By accepting the terms and agreements expressed in the journal, the authors guarantee that the texts submitted are original and do not infringe copyright.

In the case of shared authorship, there must be full consensus of all authors and their express declaration that the work has not been previously presented or published in another media.

Monographic and extraordinary issues

The editorial board of VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación accepts for evaluation proposals for monographic and extraordinary issues focused on topics specific to the field of architecture.

Researchers interested in coordinating one of these issues should send their proposal to the editor of the journal.