Anuario Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos ISSN Impreso: 2215-2806 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2873

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Editorial guidelines

Editorial guidelines

Types of publication

The Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos receives three types of articles:

  • Research articles. These are original articles that result from research processes and/or contain an analytical or theoretical reflection being the product of research. The manuscripts should be a maximum of 10.000 words (including footnotes, bibliography, abstract, tables and figure captions). All articles will be submitted to peer evaluation using a “double blind” method.
  • These are manuscripts that offer a brief state of the art about one or several concepts of great importance for political analysis and that stimulate academic debate. These documents should be a maximum of 4.000 words (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography, abstract, tables and figure captions). The Editorial Council reserves the right to send these contributions to external review prior to its publication.
  • Book reviews. These manuscripts offer a literary analysis of a book of academic interest. Reviews should be a maximum of 3.000 words (including footnotes, bibliography, tables, and figure captions). These documents will not be submitted to peer-review but will be evaluated by the Editorial team.

Regularly, the journal Will publish some research articles in thematic sections, organized by the Editorial team with the objective of grouping research results that allow for a thorough exploration of significative knowledge areas.

Areas of interest

Areas of interest of the Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos are:

  • Political culture and public opinion
  • Political theory
  • Democracy and human rights
  • State and public policy
  • Political ecology, nature, and power
  • International politics, international political economy, and global studies

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At the very least, authors should deliver two files:

  1. Text of the article. This is the file that includes the research article, book review or keyword article. This document should include: a) title (in Spanish and English), b) abstract (in Spanish and English), c) keywords (in Spanish and English), d) manuscript text (including bibliography and footnotes), e) figures and their respective captions and descriptions and f) whichever table is needed for the article (including their titles and captions).
  2. Presentation letter. Besides the manuscript, authors are to present a separate file that includes: a) the title of the article, b) identity and contact information of the author(s), c) information on the word count of the manuscript, d) declaration of interest (see section VIII of our Editorial Guidelines), e) declaration of originality (section IX), f) information about funding of the article (section XII) and g) curriculum of the author(s). The presentation letter should be signed by the author(s).

Additional considerations:

  • The manuscript should be reviewed to avoid any writing mistakes.
  • All references mentioned in the bibliography should be cited in the text and viceversa.
  • Use permits should be included regarding property rights of third parties.
  • All style considerations established in our Editorial Guidelines should be followed.

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How to send my article?

All interactions regarding articles happens through the Open Journal System platform (OJS). To use this platform, the author should register, by accessing this link. The platform guarantees that all files are received by the personnel of this journal.

The Anuario only receives files in .DOC, .DOCX and .ODT formats. If your article has graphics, tables and/or illustrations and figures, these should be provided both within the manuscript and as an external file. Illustrations should be send in .JPG format and have a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

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Article structure

There are no prescribed guidelines for research articles received by this journal. However, authors should include an appropriate discussion of relevant literature for the article, offer a detailed description of the methodology used to obtain research results, an extended discussion of these results and their respective interpretations. Conclusions should be more than a reiteration of the research findings and offer a discussion of the main contributions of research to the wider debate.

To allow these objectives, the article should be divided in clearly defined and numerated sections. All subsections must include a small subtitle which should be highlighted. All subtitles should appear afterwards.

Language

This journal receives articles written in Spanish or English. However, combinations of both languages are not allowed. Articles must be well-written and without grammatical orthographic errors.

Title, abstract and keywords

All articles should include a concise abstract of no more than 250 words, immediately after the title of the article. The abstract should offer a brief description of the main objective, results, and conclusions, as well as the research methodology used. The abstract should be capable of standing alone. Bibliographic references should be avoided in the abstract whenever possible.

All articles should include a list of five keywords, immediately after the abstract.

The title, abstract and keywords should be written in Spanish and English, irrelevant of the language used to write the rest of the manuscript.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used responsibly. These should be numbered consecutively throughout the article. Manuscripts should not use endnotes.

Formatting

  • The alignment title of the article should be centered and be written using Times New Roman size 14. It should be immediately followed by a space and then the title in Spanish, following the same format.
  • Following the title in English, a space should be left, followed by the word “Abstract” and then the text offering a summary of the article, using a justified text alignment.
  • Afterwards, a space should be left and then the word “Keywords” should be written using bold text and a justified text alignment. These words are separated by commas and written in lower caps, except in case of proper names.
  • Use the same format to include the Spanish summary and keywords.
  • The text of the article should be written in Times New Roman, size 12. Use a simple line spacing and a 10-point paragraph spacing. The article should use a justified text alignment. Do not include margins of any kind.
  • Section titling is done using bold font and caps. Please leave a 1-line space between section titles and the previous paragraph.
  • Subsection titles are written in bold fonts and with caps only in the first letter, except in case of proper nouns.
  • The use of acronyms is permitted, after referencing beforehand using parenthesis.
  • The use of italics is permitted only in the following cases: a) to indicate words written in a different language and b) to highlight words and sentences in the text for argumentative purposes.
  • Footnotes should appear using a justified text alignment and in Times New Roman, size 10.

Figures and tables

  • Figure and table titles should be presented using a center alignment and in bold font.
  • All internal data on figures and graphs should use Times New Roman, size 9.
  • The content of the tables should have no line spacing and using a left alignment.
  • The line stating the source of the figure or table should be placed after, using Times New Roman, size 10.

References

Beginning with its 12th issue (published throughout 2021), this journal will use Chicago Deusto, author-date as its reference system. We recommend using the brief guide that is included in section V.7 of our Editorial Guidelines, which is available at this link.

Declaration of interest

All authors should disclose their financial or personal relationships with third parties and organizations that may inappropriately influence the results of the work presented for consideration in this journal. Examples of conflicts of interest include employment, consultant work, stock options, honoraria, paid expert testimony, joint patent application and/or scholarship funds. Authors must disclose their conflicts of interest through a declaration in the Presentation letter. If there is no conflicts of interest to declare, then the author must write: “Declaration of interest: none” in the Presentation letter. The declaration will be published if the article would be accepted.

Declaration of originality

Articles put under consideration of this journal must be unpublished (except in case of abstracts, conference papers and theses or graduation projects) and not subject to publication in other academic journals. In the Presentation Letter, authors must declare that the submission of the article has been approved by all authors involved in its elaboration. If the article is accepted for publication, it must declare that it will not be published in other academic journal using the same characteristics or language. Originality will be verified using Turnitin.

Financing of the proposal

The proposal must identify the institution that offered the financial funding for developing the underlying research and preparing the article. The sponsoring entities role must be described in relation to the parts of the research: study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, writing of the article and the decision for submitting to this journal. If the article was developed without external funding, this must also be declared. In all cases this information should be included in the Presentation Letter.

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Evaluation and publication process

  1. The author send his or her proposal to Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos. Reception of the proposal does not imply a guarantee of publication.
  2. The proposal is subject to preliminary evaluation by the Director. This evaluation will focus on: a) academic pertinence of the article, b) compliance with the documentation requirements, c) compliance with inclusive language policies defined in section X of our Editorial Guidelines and d) compliance with our originality and plagiarism check.
  3. Based on the results of the preliminary evaluation, the Direct will accept or reject the proposal for further consideration. In both cases, the Director will inform the Editorial Council of his or her determination.
  4. Proposals that fail the preliminary evaluation may be corrected and re-sent within five working days of receiving the determination. If errors persist in a second submission, the proposal will be rejected and will not be eligible for additional submissions.
  5. The proposals that pass the preliminary evaluation will be sent to external peer-review, using a double-blind methodology.
  6. The author will be notified by writing of the result of the evaluation. Peer-reviewers may only offer one of the following criteria: a) accepted without modifications, b) accepted with modification and c) not accepted.
  7. If the article is approved with modifications by the peer reviewers, the author will be required to send a new version of the proposal alongside a document including the changes made to the original. This will be done within a span of 20 working days. Compliance with the evaluations will be verified by the Editorial Council.
  8. In case that peer-reviewers offer non-conclusive or contradictory recommendations, the Editorial Council will evaluate the article and decide whether it: a) asks the author to make the necessary changes, b) rejects the article or c) ask for a third evaluation with an external peer-reviewer to break the tie. If the majority of peer-reviewers considers the article accepted with modifications, the author will be required to follow the procedure described in point 7 of this list.
  9. Peer-review evaluations will be considered by the Editorial Council, which will make the final decision.
  10. The determination of not accepting an article after peer review inhibits the author to re-send the article to the journal, except there are substantial modifications that allow considering it as a completely new manuscript.
  11. Proposals that have been approved by the Editorial Council will be subjected to proof-style corrections. In this stage, authors will be required to answer all questions and comments made by the editors of this journal.
  12. Having concluded the proof corrections stage, the article will go through the publishing stage. After a final consultation with the author, the article will be published on line.

Peer review

This journal evaluates each research article proposal through a peer review process using a “double blind” method. All research article proposals will be initially reviewed by the Director to determine their correspondence to with the themes of the magazine. Afterwards, proposals will be sent to a minimum of two external and independent reviewers to evaluate the scientific quality of the proposal. There would be a maximum of two review rounds. Lastly, the Editorial Council is responsible of the final decision to accept or reject the publication of the articles.

The Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos uses a double-blind review process, meaning that the identity of the authors is concealed from the peer-reviewers and vice versa. To facilitate this process, authors should remove all information that could be use for their identification from the text of their articles. This includes all references to previous publications. The references will be corrected if the articles is accepted for publication.

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