Submissions

Author Guidelines

URBANO publishes a single section dedicated to Articles in its electronic and printed editions. For the submission of manuscripts, authors must consider the following formal and content standards:

1. Format, length, and presentation.

Manuscripts must be sent in Word format in Spanish or English and weigh a maximum of 8 MB. The Arial Narrow font 11 must be used, and the maximum length of the text will be 5,000 words, including bibliographic references, without appendices. The manuscript must be written in a scientific article format, using the following structure: introduction, theoretical framework, methodology, results, discussions, and conclusions. The following article template should be followed.

2. Authorship

Any reference to the authors should be deleted from the manuscript. This information must be included in the digital platform's (OJS) metadata, along with each author's ORCID, at the time of submission. The maximum number of authors is four. Once the editorial process has started, inclusions, except for justified exceptions, will not be accepted. The submission must include the Proof of Authorship signed by all the authors, where the NISO CRediT international standard is used.

3. First page

The first page of the manuscript should include the title in Spanish and English (maximum 120 characters with spaces) identifying the country of study, an abstract in Spanish and English (150-300 words), and five keywords (chosen from the Table of Subjects for Architecture of Vitruvius or, in the case of terms coming from other disciplines, from the UNESCO Thesaurus). The abstract should frame the problem, synthesize the objectives of the work, the methodology used, and the most relevant results and conclusions, emphasizing the original contributions.

4. Sections and subsections

There will be three levels of hierarchy. The first level, in capital letters and with Roman correlative numbering, must comprise the following sections: Introduction, Theoretical Framework, Case Study, Methodology, Results, Discussions, Conclusions, and Bibliographic References. The second level, without numbering and in bold, can give a more specific title to the previous sections or be divided into sections. In bold italics, the third level can be used to identify subsections.

5. Quotes in the text

The manuscript must acknowledge the intellectual property of others and reference the ideas of others by using citations in the format (author, year). The et al. format is used (author et al., year) from three authors and above. For literal quotations of texts by other authors, when they are less than 40 words, they must be presented in quotation marks, and the page must be cited (author, year: page). All quotations over 40 words should be in a separate block with a 1 cm indent, quoting the page. Authors should monitor endogamy in bibliographic references and will limit self-citations to 3.

6. Figures

The photographs, graphs, maps, or other graphic information provided will be called figures. All figures must be numbered and referenced in the text to relate them to the ideas contained therein (Figure 1). Its number, figure caption, and source must be included under the figure. The figures can be included in the text at low resolution, but they must be attached as separate JPG image files at the time of submission with a resolution of 1200 px on the short side and 300 dpi. The images must be of high graphic quality and included as figures. Urbano reserves the right not to publish images not meeting this requirement. There is a maximum limit of 10 figures per article. Plans should not include degree lines, and their text should be reduced as much as possible.

7. Tables

The tables must be numbered and referenced in the text (Table 1), extending information to the ideas presented. They must have the following format in Word, and it is recommended that they be included in the text unless they make it difficult to read. In that case, they can be in a separate Word document. They will The tables must be numbered and referenced in the text (Table 1), extending information to the ideas presented. They must have the following format in Word, and it is recommended that they be included in the text unless they make it difficult to read. In that case, they can be in a separate Word document. They will NOT be accepted in image format.

8. Bibliographical references

Bibliographic references must be submitted following the APA rules. The list should include, exclusively and in its entirety, the bibliographic references cited in the text or the sources of the graphic content (if applicable). They should be arranged alphabetically, with each author's name in chronological order from oldest to most recent. The surnames should be written in capital letters, followed by the authors' names. There must be a minimum of 20 references, of which one-third must be from publications no older than 5 years. The articles must include the DOI if they have one.