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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 or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • Where possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text is single-spaced; 11 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and biliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.
  • If submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Anonymous Review should be followed.

Author Guidelines

IMPORTANT: To submit an article and/or book review you must REGISTER AND CREATE AN AUTHOR ACCOUNT. Then you must LOGIN.

Very Important: You must complete all the personal information requested, both in Spanish and in English; especially, the institutional or personal address, brief biography, full name (not acronyms) of the institution to which you belong. In addition, please indicate your ORCID registration (if you have one). You can include it later by editing your personal data.

To complete the online submission form, you must enter all the requested metadata, i.e., title, abstract, keywords and others. You must do this in the original language of the text and in English (or Spanish, if you have written it in English) and strictly according to the guidelines below.

Papers that do not comply with the basic standard and guidelines of the journal will be rejected immediately.

 

GENERAL FORMAT

Perfiles Económicos Journal publishes original articles and book reviews in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

- ARTICLES - Manuscript preparation

Papers submitted for double-blind review (without name, institutional affiliation, or other references to the author) must strictly conform to the formal requirements indicated below. Those who do not comply with the above will be returned and will not follow the process.

The full text of the article must be submitted in both .docx and PDF file formats.

Structure

The structure and order of the work must be rigorously respected:

Title in original language (if it is English, it must be translated into Spanish)
Abstract in the original language (if it is English, it should be translated into Spanish).
Key words in original language (if English, you must translate it into Spanish). At least 5 that are not included in the title
Title in English.
Abstract in English.
Keywords in English (Keywords). At least 5 that are not included in the title.
Introduction.
Development of the work (sections and subsections).
Conclusion.
Bibliographic references.

Extension

The text should not exceed 10,000 words, including an abstract, footnotes and references.
The abstract should be no longer than 300 words.

Images

If the work has images, they must also be attached in a separate high quality JPG file. If the images are not sharp enough, the editors reserve the right not to include them in the edit. The author must include the corresponding permission if the image is not free or of his property

Metadata cleaning

The author must do the metadata cleaning of the file, in order to guarantee the blind review.


Typography and others

The full text must be exclusively in Times New Roman font, size 11 points and single spacing. You should not assign any other size to the title, subtitles or sections.

The different sections or subsections (headings, subheadings) of the text will be numbered and in bold, without special indentation.

No bold or underlining will be used inside the text.

Footnotes with Times New Roman font, size 8, single-spaced.

Do not indent the beginning of the paragraphs or give special margins to the text.

Important: Spanish titles and subtitles should only start with a capital letter in the first letter of the first word. You should not start each word with a capital letter, except for proper names. Also, do not use capital letters for the entire title. In English, you can capitalize the words in the title but follow the rule for English titles.

 

Bibliographic references

Bibliographic references will appear at the end of the document under the heading "Bibliographic references" and organized in alphabetical order. In the case of several books or articles by the same author, it should be written repeating the surname. The texts of the same author will be ordered according to the year of publication.

IMPORTANT: The style standard of the journal is the Author-Date System.

VERY IMPORTANT: Of the references of your work, you must indicate the DOI record of all articles, books, reviews, etc., that have it; or in its absence, indicate the complete URLs, for example: https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2014iss4

Only those publications that have been used and that are expressly cited in the work will be included.


Citations within the text (Author-Date System)

When the quotation is less than 40 words long, it is written in a paragraph of the text ("in-text citations"), between quotes and without italics. All bibliographical data in parentheses, according to Author-Date style.

If the quotation is longer than 40 words, the text is written in a different paragraph block, without quotes, on a separate line, with indentation on the left. At the end of the quotation, the point is placed before the data in parentheses.


The volume of quotations should not exceed 10% of the total text.


Footnotes and Endnote [IMPORTANT]

Notes and text calls will be placed at the bottom of the page and numbered successively.

The total number and length of footnotes should be kept to a minimum: each footnote should not exceed two lines and the total number of footnotes in the article should not exceed 10.

Bibliographic references and citations should not be included in the footnotes.

FOOTNOTES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE.


Tables, graphs, figures and charts

The tables or charts will be presented in included in the body of the text. They must be accompanied by their corresponding title and legend and numbered consecutively, in Times New Roman font and 10 point size.

The figures or graphics will be presented in PNG or JPEG files in high quality.

 

Example of references

Bibliographic references must be inserted in the text, indicating in parentheses only the author's last name, year of publication and the page(s). Example:

Mazzucato (2019, 44) or (Mazzucato 2019, 44), as appropriate.

Deaton (2015, 31-45) or (Deaton 2015, 31-45).

If it is more than one work in the same quotation:

Mazzucato(2014; 2019) or (Mazzucato 2019; 2014), as appropriate.

If the author has more than one publication per year, they are differentiated with lowercase letters according to their order of appearance. Example:

Mazzucato (2019a; 2019b) or (Mazzucato 2019a; 2019b)

Mazzucato (2019b) or (Mazzucato 2019b, 34)

When the cited book has more than one author:

Two authors: Acemoglu and Robinson (2019, 44 ) or (Acemoglu and Robinson 2019, 44)

Three or more authors: Freeman et al. (2010) or (Freeman et al. 2010)

The bibliography should come at the end of the article in alphabetical order, repeating the surnames when it is the case of several books by the same author and followed by the year of publication that corresponds to the bibliographic reference indicated in the article. Texts by the same author should be ordered according to their order of appearance. Examples:

Books and authors:

Surname(s), First name(s) (year). Book title. Place: Publisher.

One author:

Stiglitz, Joseph (2020). Progressive Capitalism. Spain: Taurus

Two authors:

Bértola, Luis, Ocampo, José (2013). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica

Book with editor(s) or coordinator(s). Example:

Cárdenas, E., J. Ocampo, and r. Thorp (eds.) (2003). Industrialization and the State in Latin America: the Black Legend of the Postwar Period. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Chapters in Books. Example:

Last name(s), First name(s) (year). Title of the chapter. In Name Surname (ed.), Title book, pages. Place: Publisher.
One author:

Marichal, C. (1999). Obstacles to the development of capital markets in 19th century Mexico. In Stephen Haber (ed.), Cómo se rezagó la América Latina, pp. 145-175.

Two authors:

Engerman, S., Sokoloff, K. (1999). Different Factors, Institutions, and Growth Paths in New World Economies. A View from U.S. Economic Historians. In Stephen Haber (ed.), Cómo se rezagó la América Latina, pp. 305-357. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Magazine Articles. Examples:

Last name(s), first name(s) (year). Title of the article. Magazine name, Volume(s): pages. doi.

One author:

Mazzucato, M. (2018), Mission Oriented Innovation Policy: Challenges and Opportunities, Industrial and Corporate Change, 27 (5): 803-815, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dty034

Two authors:

Kattel, R. and Mazzucato, M. (2018). "Mission-oriented innovation policy and dynamic capabilities in the public sector", Industrial and Corporate Change, 27 (5): 787-801, https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dty032

Internet references. Example:

Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo. (2017). Economic Globalization and National Development: Evolution and Some Current Challenges. Estudios internacionales (Santiago), 49(spe), 89-112. [online]. 2017, Available at: <https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-37692017000300089&lng=es&nrm=iso>. ISSN 0719-3769. http://dx.doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2017.47534. [cited 2018-01-09].

 

 

- BOOK REVIEWS -

The EPR will publish reviews of recently published books or collections (of the current year) that are directly related to the thematic focus of the journal. The books may have been written in the different languages accepted by the journal.

The review should show the level of academic importance of the book, its actuality and how it can be useful to researchers or professionals in the area.


Format

The author can choose the structure he considers most appropriate for the review (commentary by chapter, by thematic block, etc.). The header should include the book and author data (according to the Author-Date style standard). The name and affiliation data of the reviewing author should appear on the last page of the review. Its maximum length will be 5 pages in letter size, in Times New Roman 11 font and simple or single spacing.

Copyright Notice

Those authors who have publications with this journal accept the following terms:

1.- Authors will retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es which allows third parties to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Attribution: credit must be given appropriately, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. It may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in such a way as to suggest that the use is supported by the licensor.
  • Non-Commercial: No use of the material may be made for commercial purposes.
  • No Derivatives: Any remix, transformation or creation from the material, the modified material may not be distributed.
  • No Additional Restrictions: No legal terms or technological measures may be applied that legally restrict others from making any use permitted by the license.


2.- Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional telematic archive or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.


3.- Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The Open Access Effect).

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