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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Articles

The ALP Journal encourages academic production in the discipline of Public Administration from multiple approaches and areas. The scientific journal Administrar lo Público has the following publication categories (For more details, do not forget to review the Publication Guidelines for Authors)

Refereed categories:

  • Original publications: This is the main form of scientific periodical publication. It includes original scientific reports, complete articles, case studies and preliminary notes that inform about: results obtained, description of methods, techniques and devices; and new ideas are presented. A document belongs to this category when it contributes to considerably expanding the knowledge or understanding of a problem and is written in such a way that a competent researcher can repeat the experiments, observations, calculations or theoretical reasoning of the author and judge their conclusions and the accuracy of their work. The minimum length is 9,000 words and the maximum is 10,000 words, including text, tables and references.
  • Systematization of interventions: this  article type processes academic reports in an articulated manner in order to present the main results of the basic or applied research program or project, using descriptive narrative to present the report in an abbreviated manner, relying on the methods, findings, conclusions and recommendations to continue investigating the matter. The minimum length is 4,500 words and the maximum is 5,000 words, including text, tables and references.
  • Research advances: reports from ongoing research projects are processed, presenting new, relevant information whose sense of opportunity can contribute to decision-making or facilitate processes and procedures. The minimum length is 2,800 words and the maximum is 3,000 words, including text, tables and references.

Non-refereed categories:

  • Systematization of teaching or social extension: this category exposes results of teaching or social extension projects, making visible information related to the results and impact generated by these projects in the intervened population. This visualization of the incidence and sense of opportunity in the intervened population is intended to document the activities that reinforce the University-Society relationship. The minimum length is 4,500 words and the maximum is 5,000 words, including text, tables and references.
  • Secondary publications: publication that is responsible for the preparation of summaries and indexing of primary publications, as well as the storage and retrieval of the information contained therein, such as a book review. The maximum length is 1,000 words, including text, tables and references.
  • Recapitulative studies: this is a production carried out on a specific topic, in which already published information is gathered, analyzed and discussed. The author must take into account all published works that have advanced the topic, or would have advanced it if they had been taken into consideration. The maximum length is 8,000 words, including text, tables and references.

Thematic areas

The Administrar lo Público journal is developed in the field of social and economic sciences, particularly in the disciplinary area of Public Administration, with emphasis on the following fields of specialty:
  • Access to public information,
  • Customs Administration and International Trade,
  • Public administration,
  • Administrative contracts and public procurement,
  • Internal control,
  • Open Government Data,
  • Diplomacy,
  • Evaluation of government programs,
  • Performance evaluation,
  • Public Finance and Budgets,
  • Public Management,
  • Governance,
  • Government,
  • Government and Public Policies,
  • Integrity,
  • Citizen participation,
  • Planning and prospective analysis,
  • Accountability,
  • Civil service and human talent management,
  • Public service,
  • Information and Communication Technologies for the Public Sector,
  • Transparency, and
  • Others related to the specialty. 

Process to Publish

The process to publish in ALP journal is as follows:
 
*Note. The reviewers do not know the name of the author, nor does the author know the names of the peer reviewers.
 
Fig. 1 - Process to Publish in ALP Journal
 
The use of the IMRYD Method (Introduction, Methods and Materials, Results and Discussion) is recommended for writing the article, as well as the use of APA Standards for referencing.
 
In general, the author must ensure that his or her article answers the following questions: What is the problem of the study? Why is this problem studied? How (method) and with what instruments (materials) is the problem studied? What is/are the finding(s) (results)? What contribution(s) or debate(s) to knowledge does it generate (discussion)?
 
The journal will have a minimum of 100 pages, published in letter size, for a width of 21.59 cm. by 27.94 cm. The publication of the main text will be done in color and in two columns.
 
CICAP reserves the right to accept or not the proposed work, which will be communicated via email or the corresponding platform.

Copyright Notice

Copyright and Licensing : The copyright policy is set out in the publishing guidelines and the copyright holder is named on all published articles. Likewise, content licensing information is clearly described on the website, and license terms are indicated in all published articles, both in HTML and PDF versions. It is allowed to publish with a Creative Commons license, in addition, the publication of accepted final versions and of articles published in repositories of the University of Costa Rica and related entities is permitted, and has the distinctive sign of Open Access to facilitate their identification and contribution to Open Science.

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