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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The articles published in Economic Development-Journal of Social Sciences are in English and Spanish. Any translations of articles into these languages is the responsibility of the author.

Tables and figures must be submitted in separate files from the main text. They should be properly numbered and titled with clear indication of the units used and the corresponding sources. Authors are encouraged to avoid unnecessary complexity in their design.

Any clarification regarding the manuscript (such as prior presentation, collaborators, acknowledgments, etc.) should be indicated with a single asterisk in the title and reference in a footnote. Likewise, institutional affiliation should be included in a footnote using a double asterisk referenced form the author’s name, along with the author’s email address.

Economic Development. Journal of Social Sciences does not charge authors any fees for editorial or publication tasks (commonly referred to as APCs- Article Processing Charges).

Citations and References

Economic Development. Journal of Social Sciences follows APA style guidelines for the formatting of in-text citations and references.

For in-text citations, the author-date system should be used, indicating the author, year, and specific page number of the cited material.

Example

“an unscheduled stop in Brazil to address the issue and decided that the regulation would not apply to Mercosur countries” (Bermúdez, 1999, p. 94).

If citing multiple authors, they should be included within the same set of parentheses.

Example

“(...) confirms that, in the regions for which we have information, the situation deteriorated significantly between June and August 2002” (Hintze et al., 2003, pp. 61–69; Lacoste, 2003, p. 9).

If a quotation exceeds four lines, it should be presented in a separate paragraph, indented 1.5 cm, in 11-point font size, and without quotation marks. Furthermore, if the quoted text does not coincide with the beginning of a sentence, this should be indicated using parentheses and ellipsis “(...)”; likewise, if portions of the quoted text are omitted.

All works cited must be listed in a bibliography at the end of the article, organized alphabetically, following the guidelines outlined below.

Printed Books

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title: Subtitle. City: Publisher.

Examples:

Hacyan, S. (2004). Physics and Metaphysics in Space and Time. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Butler, J., Laclau, E., & Žižek, S. (2003). Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Electronic Books

The phrase "Retrieved from..." followed by the repository URL or DOI number (if available) should be included.

Examples:

Alexandru, M., & Lazaroiu, S. (2003). Who is the next victim? Vulnerability of young Romanian women to trafficking in human beings. Bucharest: IOM. Retrieved from http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Who_Next_Victim.pdf

Smith, L. T. (1999). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples. London/New York: Zed Books. DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12032

Book Chapters in Edited Volumes

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the chapter. Subtitle. In First initial. Last name (Ed./Comp.), Title of the book. Subtitle (pp. page range). City: Publisher.

Examples:

Ravera, R. (2003). Exposición de Rubén Ravera sobre aspectos relativos a la moneda de las redes de trueque. In S. Hintze (Ed.), Trueque y economía solidaria (pp. 145–159). Buenos Aires: UNDP/UNGS/Prometeo Libros.

The same guidelines used for digital books apply to digital book chapters.

Example:

Camarero, H., & Mangiantini, M. (2019). ¿Qué hacer con el Cordobazo? Las izquierdas: antes, durante y después de mayo de 1969. In M. Gordillo (Comp.), 1969. A cincuenta años. Repensando el ciclo de protestas (pp. 89–122). Buenos Aires/Córdoba: CLACSO. Retrieved from http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/se/20191204035716/Repensando-el-ciclo-de-protestas.pdf

Journal Articles

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), page range.

Example:

Etchemendy, S. (2001). Construir coaliciones reformistas: la política de compensaciones en el camino argentino hacia la liberalización económica. Desarrollo Económico. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 40(160), 675–706.

If the journal is available in digital format, provide the online location (consultation date is not required):

Examples:

Perrone, L., Wright, E. O., & Griffin, L. J. (1984). Positional power, strikes and wages. American Sociological Review, 49(3), 412–426. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.2307/2095284

Chaux, E. (2008). Retroalimentar y crecer. Altablero, 44. Retrieved from http://www.mineducacion.gov.co/1621/article-162349.html

Newspaper Articles (With or Without Author)

Last name, First initial. (Day Month Year). Title of the article. Publication Name, page(s) of the print version / Retrieved from URL.

Example:

Crettaz, J. (June 7, 2009). Casi 300 ruralistas quieren ser legisladores provinciales o ediles. La Nación, p. 14.

If no author is known, reference as:

Example:

Aprenda usted a vivir: Nuestro enemigo cada día (January 22, 1966). El Correo, p. 12.

Unpublished Theses

Last name, First initial. (Year). Title of the thesis (Unpublished master’s/doctoral thesis). University, City, Country.

Example:

Fontana, J. (1987). Political Decision Making by a Military Corporation: Argentina 1976–1983 (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States.

Conference Papers

Last name, First initial. (Year, Month). Title of the paper. Paper presented at Name of the event, City, Country.

Example:

Rojas, C., & Vera, N. (2013, August). ABMS (Automatic BLAST for Massive Sequencing). Paper presented at the 2nd Colombian Congress of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics CCBCOL, Antioquia, Colombia.

Interviews

The citation format depends on the nature of the interview.

If the interview is published, cite it following the corresponding format for published materials.

Example:

Rorty, R. (2005). Después de la filosofía, la democracia. Interview with G. Borradori. In E. Mendieta (Ed.), Richard Rorty. Cuidar la libertad. Madrid: Trotta.

If the interview is unpublished and conducted by the author of the manuscript, and if the interviewee agrees to be identified, it should be cited as a personal communication (in-text only; not included in the final reference list, as it is not retrievable).

Example (In-text only):

(M. Garcés Maya, personal communication, March 24, 2012).

Web Pages

Title of the page (Year). Website name. Retrieved from…

Example:

Objetivos del Milenio (2013). Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo en Colombia. Retrieved from http://www.co.undp.org/content/colombia/es/home/mdgoverview/

Reports

Name of the organization. (Year). Title of the report (Publication number). Retrieved from URL.

Example:

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos. (Year). Encuesta permanente de hogares (2nd quarter 2001). Retrieved from www.indec.gob.ar

Laws and Decrees

Law No. full number and official title (if applicable). Title of the official publication in which it appears, City, Country, full date.

Example:

Law No. 18,525. Diario Oficial de la República de Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 30, 1986.

Copyright Notice

Manuscript acceptance by the Journal implies the simultaneous non-submission to any other journal or publishing house, and the non-exclusive transmission of the author´s patrimonial rights in favor of the editor, who allows the post-print version use, under the Licencia Creative Commnos Atribución-NoComercial-Compartir Obras Derivadas Igual 4.0 Internacional (CC-BY-NC.SA 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es). Articles can be shared, copied, distributed, modified, altered, transformed into a derivative work, executed and publicly communicated, provided a) the authors and the original publication (Journal, Publisher and URL) are mentioned, b) they are not used for commercial purposes, c) the same terms of the license are maintained.

It is hereby stated that the mentioned manuscript has not been published and that it is not being printed in any other national or foreign journal.

The authors hereby accept the necessary modifications, suggested by the reviewers, in order to adapt the manuscript to the style and publication rules of this Journal.

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