Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research (IHE-EHR) is the journal of the Spanish Economic History Association (AEHE). It publishes original, unpublished, high-quality research in Economic History, Business History, and the History of Economic Thought.
The journal is available at https://iheehr.es/. The journal’s contact email address is ihe@aehe.es. For book reviews, please contact resenas.revistaihe@gmail.com.
Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research considers only original manuscripts that have not been previously published.
Manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish or English and will generally be published in the language in which they are received. However, the journal offers authors the option of translating an accepted manuscript from Spanish into English or vice versa. In such cases, authors are responsible for arranging the translation and must comply with the deadline established by the editorial team.
Original contributions covering any historical period are welcome. Particular consideration will be given to manuscripts that introduce valuable new documentary sources and/or methodological contributions. Research notes are also accepted.
Manuscripts must be submitted in Word format to ihe@aehe.es. The journal acknowledges receipt within a maximum of seven days. Following consideration of the reviewers’ reports, the editorial team communicates its decision to the authors within five months of submission. Acceptance for publication is conditional upon the incorporation of any revisions deemed necessary by the editorial team in light of the reports received.
Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research (IHE-EHR) also publishes special issues. Those wishing to propose a special issue should submit the following documents to ihe@aehe.es:
The proposal may include a reasonable number of prospective contributions, but closed proposals will not be accepted.
The editorial team will evaluate the proposal and make a decision. If accepted, a member of the editorial team will join the special issue as the “IHE-EHR Editor”.
A Call for Papers (CfP) will be issued to select additional contributions. All manuscripts, including those initially included in the proposal, will undergo peer review in accordance with IHE-EHR’s standard procedures. Upon publication, the special issue must include a brief overview of the state of the field as its introduction.
The journal operates a double-anonymous peer review process, in which neither the authors’ nor the reviewers’ identities are disclosed. The process consists of the following stages:
This preliminary assessment is conducted by the editorial team. The handling editor seeks the assistance of at least one other member of the team. At this stage, the editors determine whether the manuscript meets the requirements for external review and, where appropriate, select the external reviewers to whom it will be sent. Authors may suggest the names of two experts who are not members of the editorial team and whom they consider suitable to review their manuscript. However, the editorial team retains full discretion over the selection of reviewers.
All manuscripts receiving a positive internal assessment are sent to at least two external reviewers. Reviewers are required to submit detailed reports identifying the manuscript’s main contributions and any substantive or formal shortcomings.
Once the review process has been completed, the handling editor or co-editor sends the reviewers’ reports to the authors, together with the editorial team’s decision. The possible decisions are acceptance, acceptance subject to minor revisions, acceptance subject to major revisions, or rejection.
Where acceptance is conditional upon revisions, the editorial decision letter will include recommendations for preparing a revised version and specify the deadline for submitting the required changes. Final acceptance will depend on the extent to which the authors have satisfactorily addressed the reviewers’ recommendations.
The editorial team, upon the Editor’s proposal, approves the contents of each issue of Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research.
The final issue of each year includes a list of the journal’s external reviewers, acknowledging their contributions.
Each year, Investigaciones de Historia Económica / Economic History Research publishes statistics on the number of manuscripts received, reviewed, and rejected, as well as the rejection rate for reviewed manuscripts.
The use of gender-inclusive language is recommended whenever possible. Authors may consult the guidelines developed by the United Nations: https://www.un.org/es/gender-inclusive-language/guidelines.shtml.
a) For papers and research notes
Authors must ensure that manuscripts submitted to IHE-EHR for consideration comply with the journal’s editorial guidelines. Manuscripts must be submitted in Word format by email to ihe@aehe.es.
Manuscripts must not exceed 12,000 words, including footnotes, tables, figures, maps, appendices, and references. They must be double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, with numbered pages and no headers. Acknowledgements and references to research grants, projects, agreements, or similar sources of funding, where applicable, should be included in the final version of the manuscript, once it has been accepted.
The manuscript must be preceded by a title page containing the title in both Spanish and English, the author’s or authors’ names, academic affiliations, professional addresses, contact telephone numbers, and email addresses. This must be followed by an abstract in both Spanish and English, each not exceeding 150 words. Authors must also provide a maximum of four keywords and four Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification codes.
Bibliographic citations must be included in the text, indicating the authors’ surnames, year of publication, and page numbers where necessary. The Harvard referencing style (https://www.mendeley.com/guides/harvard-citation-guide) must be followed, subject to the specifications outlined below.
The final reference list must include only works cited in the manuscript and distinguish between archival sources and other references, such as books and journal articles. Sources consulted (archives, newspaper collections, companies, etc.) must be listed in a separate section before the bibliography. All other references (books, articles, working papers, etc.) must appear in a separate section, arranged alphabetically by the surname of the first author and following the Harvard referencing style.
Examples of citations and references:
IN-TEXT CITATIONS
Bibliographic citations must include the authors’ surnames, year of publication, and page numbers where necessary.
Example: As Planas (2025) argues…
Alternatively, when the author’s name is not mentioned directly in the sentence: (Planas, 2025, p. 4).
When citing several works by the same author published in different years, the years must be separated by a semicolon.
Example: (Hamilton, 1974; 1975).
When citing several works by the same author published in the same year, a lowercase letter must be added to the year to distinguish the references in the final reference list.
Example: (García, 2019a; 2019b).
For works with two or three authors, the surnames of the last two authors must be joined by “y” in Spanish or “and” in English.
Example: (Álvarez and Ramos-Palencia, 2018).
For works with more than three authors, only the first author’s surname should be given, followed by “et al.”
Example: Bonhoure et al., 2024, p. 83.
When citing works by different authors, references must be arranged chronologically, from oldest to most recent, with each citation separated by a semicolon, including the last two.
Example: (Borderías et al., 2011, p. 77; 2012; Pérez-Fuentes, 2013, p. 171; Campos Luque, 2014, pp. 197–198; Borderías and Ferrer-Alòs, 2015).
For works without an identified author, the title of the work (or an abbreviated version if the title is particularly long) must be followed by the year of publication in parentheses.
Example: (Title of the Work, Year).
REFERENCE LIST
When several works by the same author are cited, they must be arranged chronologically, from earliest to most recent.
Works by the same author or authors published in the same year must be distinguished by adding a lowercase letter after the year.
JOURNAL ARTICLE – ONE AUTHOR
Surname, First name. YYYY. Title. Journal XX(ZZ): PP–PP. DOI: https://doi.org/…
Example:
Planas, Jordi. 2025. Cooperativismo, movilización campesina y dinámica política en un área neurálgica de la lucha rabassaire (1919-1924). Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research 25(1): 87-109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33231/j.ihe.2025.01.04
JOURNAL ARTICLE – TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
Surname, First name; Surname, First name. YYYY. Title. Journal XX(ZZ): PP–PP. DOI: https://doi.org/…
Example:
Faísca, Carlos Manuel; Freire, Dulce. 2025. Not all wheats are the same: selection and improvement of wheat in Portugal since early modern times (16th to 20th centuries). Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research 25(1): 59-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33231/j.ihe.2025.01.03
BOOK – ONE AUTHOR
Surname, First name. YYYY. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro. 2024. A millenial view of Spain’s development. Essays in economic history. Cham: Springer.
BOOK – TWO OR MORE AUTHORS
Surname, First name; Surname, First name. YYYY. Title. Place of publication: Publisher.
Example:
Garrido-González, Luis; Castro-Valdivia, Mariano. 2023. España (1923-2023): un siglo de economía. Madrid: Marcial Pons.
BOOK CHAPTER
Surname, First name. YYYY. Chapter title. In First name Surname of editor(s) (ed./eds.), Book title. Place of publication: Publisher, PP–PP.
Example:
Bértola, Luis. 2020. Productive and regional development policies in Latin America since 1890. In Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat; Marc Badia-Miró; Henry Willebald (eds), Time and Space: Latin American regional development in historical perspective. Cham: Springer, 41-64.
WORK WITHOUT AN IDENTIFIED AUTHOR
Title of the Work. Year. Place of publication: Publisher/Organisation.
* Works without an identified author must be arranged alphabetically by title, disregarding the initial article.
Footnotes must be numbered consecutively, with superscript references, and placed at the bottom of the page. They must be single-spaced and use 10-point font. Footnote numbers must appear before punctuation marks. Footnotes must not contain tables.
References relating directly to the main text should appear in the text rather than in footnotes, unless the footnote provides additional explanations or clarifications.
Direct quotations should be avoided. Where exceptionally included, they must be brief, indented from the left margin, single-spaced, and any additions by the author must appear in square brackets. Authors are requested to place longer quotations in footnotes.
Charts must be numbered consecutively and referred to as figures (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). All figures must include a caption placed below the chart or map. Sources must always appear below the caption.
Charts must be inserted into the manuscript in their original, editable format rather than as images. In all cases, they must be provided in a format that can be modified during the journal’s production process. Maps must also be numbered consecutively (Map 1, Map 2, etc.) and inserted as images.
Tables must be numbered consecutively (Table 1, Table 2, etc.). Authors are encouraged to create tables using the table function in Word, never as images. The table number must appear on one line, followed by the table title on the next line, then the table itself, and finally the sources below the table. Where a table has been compiled from several sources or data provided by other authors, all sources must be acknowledged.
Authors must submit the data underlying tables and charts in an editable Excel file.
In accordance with the journal’s Good Editorial Practices on Gender Equality, authors are requested to indicate, where relevant, whether the original research data take sex into account, in order to allow the identification of potential differences.
b) For Research Notes
A Research Note is a concise contribution intended to communicate research-related or academic developments that do not fit the format of a full research article. These may include a review of the state of the art in an emerging research field, a bibliographic essay on a relevant topic, a new theory, preliminary studies opening up a new interdisciplinary field, or a synthesis of an academic debate, among others.
This section is designed to present the latest developments across all areas of economic history and related interdisciplinary fields.
Research Notes must follow the same formatting guidelines as research articles and are limited to 3,000 words.
c) For book reviews
The Book Reviews section aims to disseminate and critically assess recent publications in economic history, both nationally and internationally.
Books selected for review and the authors of the reviews are chosen directly by the editorial team. Nevertheless, publishers and authors are encouraged to submit proposals concerning books published within the previous year that may be of interest to IHE-EHR readers. The editorial team retains final responsibility for deciding which reviews will be published.
Book reviews must not exceed 1,200 words. Although their content is flexible, we recommend that reviews include a summary of the book’s main contents (topic, organisation, structure, principal themes, etc.) and an assessment of its main contributions and limitations in relation to the relevant field of research.
Regarding formatting, the first line must provide the book’s bibliographic details in bold: the author’s full name, book title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN.
The reviewer’s name and academic affiliation must appear at the end of the review.
We recommend using the third person and avoiding direct quotations from the book.
Review proposals should be sent to resenas.revistaihe@gmail.com, and books should be sent to:
Begoña Candela Martínez
Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Universidad de Alicante
Ctra. San Vicente del Raspeig s/n
Statement on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Authors must declare, at the time of submission, whether they have used generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in preparing their manuscript.
These tools may be used for support purposes, but never as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise, and judgement, and only under the supervision and control of the authors.
Authors bear sole responsibility for the content of their work. This entails:
– Verifying the accuracy and impartiality of all AI-generated material, including sources, as references generated by these tools may be incorrect or fabricated.
– Reviewing and adapting AI-generated material to ensure that the manuscript reflects the authors’ own analysis, interpretation, and ideas.
– Ensuring the originality of AI-generated images and providing appropriate attribution where necessary.
– Respecting data privacy, intellectual property, and other rights by reviewing the terms of use of the tools employed.
AI tools cannot be listed as authors or co-authors, since authorship entails responsibilities that can only be assumed by human beings.
How to declare the use of generative AI: A brief section entitled “Declaration on the Use of Generative AI in Manuscript Preparation” must be included before the reference list, containing the following statement:
During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [NAME OF TOOL] for [PURPOSE]. Following its use, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content and assume(s) full responsibility for the published text. This declaration will appear in the published article. No declaration is required for basic grammar, spelling, or reference-checking tools, or for assistive technologies related to accessibility. If no tools requiring disclosure have been used, this section need not be included.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
Plagiarism and scientific fraud
Authors are responsible for any publication that infringes intellectual property rights and must assume responsibility for any disputes arising from copyright issues. The most serious infringements include plagiarism and scientific misconduct.
Plagiarism includes:
– Presenting someone else’s work as one’s own.
– Using the words or ideas of other authors without proper acknowledgement.
– Failing to use quotation marks or another distinctive format when reproducing a direct quotation.
– Providing incorrect information about the actual source of a quotation.
– Paraphrasing a source without acknowledging it.
– Excessive paraphrasing, even when the source is acknowledged.
Practices constituting scientific misconduct include:
– Fabrication, falsification or omission of data, and plagiarism.
– Duplicate publication.
– Authorship disputes.
