Submissions

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors 

The reception of manuscripts does not imply their publication; for this purpose, they must undergo the entire editorial evaluation process. The editorial team will notify the authors throughout each step of the process of reception, revision and eventual publication. 

Articles submitted to Estudios must comply with the following guidelines: 

1. Submissions must be original and unpublished. They cannot be published in repositories, websites or blogs. They cannot be simultaneously submitted to another journal. 
2. It is necessary that all proposed works incorporate a humanistic approach and focus. 
3. Estudios Journal receives manuscript submissions in Spanish and English. 
4. Articles can be received by two means: by sending an e-mail to the journal's e-mail address revistaestudios.eeg@ucr.ac.cr together with the Letter of Authorization of Copyright (CAP), or through the Journal Portal of the University of Costa Rica. To do so, you must register as an author at the following address: https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/user/register 
5. All manuscripts must be accompanied by the Letter of Authorization of Copyright (CADA). The submission of this letter is a mandatory requirement for the submission of manuscripts to the Estudios journal. 
6. The information of all authors must be complete and with their respective signatures (can be signed digitally or handwritten and scanned). If you send your submission through the Journal Portal, the CADA will be requested in step 4 or sent as an attachment via e-mail. If the article has several authors, it will be considered a collective work. Therefore, only one person should be designated to be responsible for dealing with queries and comments from Estudios and, if the article is published, to receive correspondence from the reviewers. 
7. Individuals or research teams that submit two or more papers, and that one of them has been published in a regular or special issue of the journal, may only publish their second paper after the due review process with a minimum distance of two issues (special or regular) from the first published paper. 

FORMAL ASPECTS 

• Articles should be submitted in editable Word or Open Office format with a maximum length of twelve thousand five hundred words.  
• The use of margins must be the default: top and bottom 2.5 cm. Left and right 3 cm. The font to be used is Times New Roman 12 with 1.5 spacing. 
• The title of the paper should contain less than 15 words and synthesize the main idea of the manuscript. In addition, it should explicitly mention the humanistic approach that it incorporates. 
• All manuscripts should contain title, abstract, and keywords in Spanish and English. These elements should be placed first in the language in which the original manuscript is submitted and then in the second language. 
• The information of the authors should be placed after and aligned to the right. For each author, the full name, institutional affiliation, city and country of affiliation, e-mail and ORCID should be stated. 
• Each author should send a second document without authorship marks. That is, a version of the paper in which any reference to the identity of the author(s) is omitted to ensure the double-blind review process. 
• The abstract/abstract should be a single paragraph, clear, succinct, and explanatory of the work. It should state, in less than 150 words, the objective of the work, methodological proposal, the approach and/or humanistic approach used, the sources used for the analysis, theoretical approach and the main conclusions of the research. 
• The keywords must be five in both Spanish and English and separated by semicolons. They must be standardized in a thesaurus (a specialized list that allows the semantic organization of concepts for web searches). The recommended thesaurus is the UNESCO Thesaurus, which specializes in areas of the humanities and culture. 
• Section titles should be indicated without indentation and highlighted in bold. Section subtitles should be indented, bold and italicized. Third-level subtitles should be indented, bold and italicized, as suggested below: 

Section titles (first level)   

Section subtitle (second level)  

Subtitle (third level) 

• The graphic elements should be identified accordingly with the names of figure (image, graph or map) and table (table). In addition, the following aspects should be considered: 

• Each figure must contain a title below the image with the name "figure" capitalized and accompanied by Arabic numerals, for example: Figure 1. 

• The source should be indicated after the title in APA format. 

• All graphic elements must be mentioned within the body of the text, with lowercase letters and the corresponding number. It can be done as part of the sentence or in parentheses, for example: (figure 1). 

• Graphic elements (images, tables, graphs) must be inserted in the text of the article. 

• Without exception, each image, picture, map or graphic element that is included in the paper must be sent as an independent attachment in the order in which they appear in the text. 

• In the case of images, they must have a quality of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). 

• If the images do not belong to the author of the manuscript, this should be noted in the CAP in the section on consent for the use of images with the signature of the person who owns the rights to the images. 

• Footnotes should be included at the bottom of the page, preferably no longer than 10 lines. 

• Citations and references should be placed according to the APA Model 7th edition.

SECTIONS OF THE JOURNAL 

Articles 

This section groups the scientific-academic documents that meet the thematic lines of the journal. These manuscripts are submitted to the double-blind review system.   

The maximum length is twelve thousand five hundred (12 500) words.   

 It must include the title, abstract, keywords and references. For more specific requirements, please refer to the formal aspects in the guidelines for authors. 

Dossier 

This section publishes a set of articles of a scientific-academic nature that correspond to a particular thematic axis, which must be in line with the areas of interest of the journal.   

The dossiers will be proposed by a guest editor, who must send the written proposal to the journal's management in order to be taken into account as part of the publication calendar. The proposal for a thematic dossier must contain the following elements. 

• Name and affiliation of the responsible editor(s)  
• Thematic line of interest  
• Tentative title of the dossier  
• Preliminary index with the title of the articles and their respective authorships 

Once the proposal is assessed and approved, the editor of the dossier must comply with the following requirements: 

• A minimum of five (5) articles must be submitted to propose a thematic dossier. There is no maximum restriction on the number of articles.   
• The dossier must include, at least, 30% of international authorship articles.   

• All articles must comply with all the guidelines for authors.  
• All manuscripts must be submitted with their respective CADA. 

The guest editor will be in charge of gathering the articles, verifying that they comply with the requirements and submitting the papers to the journal within the deadline established with the Management for such purpose.   

The editorial team of Estudios will be in charge of the editorial process once the thematic dossier has been received. 

All articles in the thematic dossiers will be submitted to blind peer review, according to the standards of the journal.    

The beginning of the evaluation process conducted by the editorial team is subject to the complete submission and compliance with the publication guidelines of the Estudios journal. The acceptance of the documents does not guarantee their publication. 

Reviews 

In this section we publish critical and reflective comments on a recently published work related to humanities in general.   

Manuscripts submitted for this section do not require an abstract or keywords. 

The title of the review does not require a translation. It must follow the format of the bibliographic reference of the annotated work, as follows: 

Roberto Marín Guzmán. (2018). Local wars and international confrontations: the roads to the unification of Italy in the nineteenth century. University of Costa Rica Publishing House. (230 pp.). 

The maximum length of reviews is six thousand (6,000) words.  

The use of quotations is left to the decision of the review's author. In case of incorporating them, they must comply with the APA 7th edition style.   

Reviews are assessed by the management and editorial team. They are not subject to blind peer review. 

Biographies 

In this section we publish works that examine the history of a person or institution related to the humanistic field. These works gather and synthesize elements of historical value for the areas relevant to the journal.   

Manuscripts submitted for this section do not require an abstract or keywords.   

The maximum length of the biographies is five thousand (5,000) words. 

The use of quotations is left to the decision of the author. In case of incorporating them, they must comply with the APA 7th edition style.   

Biographies are evaluated by the management and editorial team. They are not subject to blind peer review. 

Lectures 

This section publishes recent lectures on topics relevant to the Estudios journal.   

The text submitted for this section does not require an abstract or keywords. The title of the lecture should be translated into English. The date and place where the lecture was given should be stated immediately after the title.   

The use of quotations is left to the decision of the lecturer. In case of incorporating them, they must comply with the APA 7th edition style.  

The lectures are assessed by the management and editorial team. They are not subject to blind peer review. 

Special numbers 

Special issues are extraordinary editions published by Estudios journal according to the number of articles that are submitted in a given publication year. These issues are additional to the regular six-monthly publications and do not have a fixed publication date. 

These publications gather, preferably, papers with a similar thematic line to the areas of interest of the journal. Special issues may be the result of specific academic activities such as congresses, colloquiums, commemorations, among others. In these cases, the special issues are organized by the interested parties and the journal's management prior to the academic activity in order to ensure compliance with the guidelines for authors and to supervise the preparation of manuscripts. 

Special issues may include academic articles, thematic dossiers, biographies, reviews and/or conferences.    

All manuscripts submitted for special issues must adhere to the guidelines for authors, as well as the indications for each section.   

Articles proposed for special issues will be subject to blind peer review.