Instructions for Authors

EDITORIAL FUNCTION

The PAIGH publishes seven quarterly journals, printed and distributed from Mexico. These are: Revista Cartográfica, Revista Geográfica, Revista de Historia de América, Folklore Americano, Boletín de Antropología Americana, Revista de Arqueología Americana and Revista Geofísica.

The General Secretariat and the Chief of Editorial Services invite all professionals in the four interest areas of the PAIGH: cartography, geography history, and geophysics, to submit research findings to be published in our periodic journals.

Guidelines for submission of articles

Guidelines for the submission of works for publication are as follows:

1. The maximum length of text is 50 pages, with 10 pages of notes. Articles may be written in any of the following four languages: Spanish, English, French, or Portuguese. In articles written in English, French, and Portuguese, word separation should be avoided wherever possible.
2. The articles must be word-processed in a PC compatible program, double-spaced on one side of paper, leaving a margin of at least 2.5 cm on all four sides.
3. The typefaces to be used are: regular for main text, italic or underlined for all book and journal titles, and foreign words. Uppercase should be used minimally.
4. The work should include the complete name of the author(s) as well as complete locational information: (private and work address, telephone, fax, e-mail). These data must be included on the first page, two lines below the title of the article.
5. Works should be submitted with a printed copy (white paper - letter size 8.5 x 11 in.), and two clean copies, without changes or other marks on them. Authors should also send their contributions on floppy disks (sizes 3.5, Zip disk 100 MB or CD rom).
6. Works may also be submitted electronically as attachments but the above copies should also be sent.
   

ABSTRACT

All articles submitted should include an abstract that should be placed five spaces below the data on the author(s) on the first page. Abstracts should run from a minimum of 60 to a maximum of 110 words. If the article is written in English, French or Portuguese, the author must include an abstract in the original languages and one in Spanish as well.

- Revista Cartográfica (abstract in Spanish and English)
- Revista Geográfica (abstract in Spanish and English)
- Revista de Historia de América (abstract in Spanish and English)
- Revista de Arqueología Americana (abstract in all four languages)
- Revista Geofísica (abstract in Spanish and English)

PAGES

These should be numbered continuously in the lower right margin. Page one (1) should contain: title of article, author(s) data and abstracts.

CITATIONS

These should be clearly differentiated from the general text, either in smaller type, between quotation marks, or with wider indentation.

NOTES

These should be numbered consecutively throughout the text making sure that all are correctly identified in the text.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS

These should include the general details of the publications cited in the article in the following ordered manner:

• If there are various citations of the same author, they should be ordered by year, listing the oldest first
• If there are various citations of the same author, they should be ordered by year, listing the oldest first
• Citations in the text should by preference be in parenthesis (Author, year), ensuring that they coincide with the bibliography.
• Unless the editor of the journal indicates otherwise, the following style should be followed:

  — Author (surname first comma and given name(s), "Name of article", Title of Journal, vol., no., pp., city, year.

  — Author (ditto), Title of Book, city, publisher, pp. year

ILLUSTRATIONS

Must be originals (photos, graphics, drawings, maps, etc), each numbered and with a caption and an explanation of their exact placement in the text. Illustrations may take the following forms:

• Photos: Must be of high quality. It's suggested that only the most significant ones be included. Preference is for black and white positives or negatives.
• Graphs and figures. Hand-drawn figures must be on plain white paper.

  For digitized images (generated via programs such as: Excel, Power Point, PhotoShop, Photo Paint, etc), in order to maintain the best resolution and processing should be saved as TIFF images (*.tif) without compressing more than 300pts. Avoid using the JPG format.

  To obtain an optimal reproduction of scanned images the following is recommended:

1. Save the image with the highest resolution possible.
2. If the image is very small and an enlargement must be made, in the Tools menus of the scanner select Dimensions; next, if the image is shown as 100% in scale, increase that to 200% and safe. In the case of a very large image then 50% should be selected to reduce its size by half.
3. Save all as TIFF (*.tif) without any compression.

   Articles should be sent to the corresponding Editorial Committee: