Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos guarantees that:

• All articles are original, non-previously published and that have been submitted to rigorous evaluation by academic peers with expert knowledge on the issues discussed.
• This academic journal will not accept publication of manuscripts that have been published in other means of academic publication, nor being evaluated by other journals.
• We will not publish articles about which there is prior knowledge of non-compliance with ethical or legal rules governing research. The journal is committed to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when the situation merits it.
• As a requisite for taking articles into consideration, this journal will demand authors to offer a letter guaranteeing the originality of the article, revealing potential conflicts of interests and explaining the origins of funding and if their research originated in a research project, thesis or previous articles. 
• The decision of our Editorial Council on whether or not to accept the publication of an article will be based on its importance, originality, clarity, validity and relevance. All decisions will be based on peer-review evaluations and we will not revert final decisions to approve articles, except in cases in which evident and manifest problems are present (e.g.: lack of clarity or disputes regarding the authorship of the material, plagiarism, inadequate ethical practices in the collection, processing and presentation of information, etc.). In this webpage and in our Editorial Guidelines, there is a detailed description of the publication process to guide authors. 
• The editorial team at Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos offers sufficient orientation to peer-revieiwers through its Instructions for Peer Reviewers section, including our expectations regarding the review and ethical guarantees regarding the handling of the manuscript.
• Anuario CIEP will safeguard the confidential management of manuscripts until their publication. It is expected that peer-reviewers guarantee the confidentiality of the manuscript and the handling of information contained there. Peer reviewers will inform the editorial team on the originality of the manuscript, as well as other ethical faults in the design and preparation of research.
• The journal evaluates the performance of its peer-reviewers and avoid the reiterated use of reviewers that produce bad quality reviews. 

The members of the Editorial Team – namely, Directors, Academic and Technical Editors and Editing Assistants – may not publish in this journal. Members of the Editorial Council and the Advisory Council can publish. In these cases, compliance with all ethical principles established here will be guaranteed. Final approval of articles sent by Council members will be based on peer-reviews. If the author is part of our Editorial Council, he or she will be separated from decisions regarding the publication of his or her article. 

This journal is part of the Center of Political Studies and Research (CIEP), however it has editorial freedom from this entity. All decisions made by the Editorial Team will safeguard the academic quality and intellectual contribution of the journal. The Editorial Council will meet at least every two months to give follow-up to internal and external affairs of the journal, offer final decisions on articles and any other published material, consider proposals for thematic issues and define actions to improve the journal in terms of academic quality, editorial innovation and publication efficiency. People integrating the Editorial and Advisory Councils will serve as promotors of the journal and will be constantly incentivizing the sending of proposals to this academic journal.