Norms for authors
Please read these instructions carefully and follow them strictly to ensure that the publication of your article is as efficient as possible. The editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that do not follow these instructions.
All material required for publication in Economía y Política must be submitted through the online system using the "Submit an Article" link available on our website. Submitted works must be original, not previously published in any other language, and must not be under review for publication in any other Chilean or foreign journal. If the article is accepted, it cannot subsequently be published in another serial publication. If articles include figures, tables, or previously published materials that fall outside scientific citation standards, permission for intellectual property use must be obtained prior to submission to the journal.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Articles may have a length between 8,000 and 12,000 words. This includes the entirety of the article: article title, author(s), abstract in Spanish and English, keywords in Spanish and English, author note(s), acknowledgment notes, general notes, body text, and bibliography used. Articles must be clearly written in Spanish or English and must be submitted in electronic format on letter-sized paper with margins of 25mm at the top and bottom and 31mm at the sides, in Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 line spacing, both in body text and in notes and citations.
Authors must submit a single file with the complete manuscript (first page, abstract, keywords, text, figures). This facilitates the editorial process and saves time for the reviewers. This should be applied to both the original version and any subsequent resubmission. All illustrations, figures, and tables must be placed in the appropriate places in the text where they should appear. Use short file names when saving your document for submission and avoid special characters, symbols, punctuation, and others that may interfere with reading the file.
The journal uses an in-text reference system with bibliography at the end. Minimize footnotes in your text. If any are essential, use Word's automatic note system, place the note indication after the punctuation, and use the same reference standards in them. Avoid using underlining, italics, bold, or quotation marks to emphasize your phrases. Italics should only be applied to publication titles or for expressions in foreign languages; bold only for section titles; double quotation marks only for textual citations in the body of the text; single quotation marks only to highlight certain concepts; underlining is not applied in any situation. Do not indent any paragraph, except for textual citations of more than 40 words as indicated below.
Before submitting your article for review, remove from the body of the text any indication that may signal a connection to the authorship of the text, of the author(s). Economía y Política employs an anonymous peer review system (two evaluators per article). Any reference to the author(s) that appears in the text will cause the article to be eliminated from the review process. In the exceptional case of self-citation, the author(s) should refer to themselves as '(Author 1 Year)', '(Author 2 Year)', etc., and not include themselves in the bibliography.
FIRST PAGE
The first page of the article should contain its title and, centered below it, the name(s) of the author(s) with their first name and a single surname (artificially compound names such as 'Raúl Rojas-Artiagoitía' or similar will not be accepted). Additionally, a header of less than 40 characters should be provided.
Only the contact details of the main author(s) will be indicated. A footnote with an asterisk (*) should indicate the Center or Department to which they belong, University, and their institutional email. After this, general acknowledgments or funding associated with the research of the article can be written.
Below the author(s), an abstract in Spanish of no more than 300 words must be included. The abstract must be comprehensible to readers before having read the article. There, any reference or citation should be avoided. It is vitally important that the abstract reflects the central problem and conclusions of the article. It may also indicate the type of research methodology used if applicable. The abstract in English must be a translation of the Spanish abstract. Five keywords are also requested, in Spanish and English, that reflect the content of the article. Remember that these keywords are the identifiers of your article; it depends on them that it can be found in related research topics.
REFERENCE
Economía y Política uses a system of references included in the text and the bibliography at the end. In the text, each reference must be indicated with its author and year, and must include the page number quoted if it is a textual quote.
Citations within the text equal to or less than 40 words must be enclosed in double quotes and end with (Author Year: Page). For example: (Smith 2013: 235); if the quote uses two pages: (Smith 2013: 235-6). If the author’s name is written in the text, only year and page number are required in parentheses. For example: “As stated by A. Smith (2013: 235-6) ...”. In these cases, any punctuation goes after the reference. Likewise, when the authors are named in the text, indicate the first time their initial and their last name; then use only their last name.
When quotations are greater than 40 words, they must be without quotation marks with an internal margin of 10mm (in addition to the margins of the page), both on the left and right sides. These passages should not be underlined or italicized. The final point is after the textual quotation is concluded. After this the reference is entered in the form (Author Year: Page), as in the previous case. After the reference, there is no punctuation.
Use the following indications for specific situations:
- Separate publications by the same author with commas. E.g. (Marx 2001, 2003, 2010).
- Separate different authors in the same reference with commas. E.g. (Smith 2013, Marx 2010, Hobsbawm 2010).
- Distinguish works of the same author or file and of the same year with correlative letters.
E.g. (Hobsbawm 2011a, 2011b). Pay attention to how (Hobsbawm 2011, 2011a, 2011b) is incorrect. If the work cited does not have a year, substitute a year for s/f. If you cite more than one work by the same author or cite the same yearly file source, add correlative letters in square brackets. E.g. (AHA s / f [a], s / f [b]).
- In case of more than one author use text reference as follows: (Smith, Marx and Hobsbawm 2013). Do not use &.
- For cases of more than three authors use the following form: (Adorno et al. 2013), and include all authors in bibliography.
- Do not use any type indications op. cit., Ibid., Idem, etc. Each reference must be indicated in its respective modality.
- Never use p. pp. for displaying pages. These are reserved for the review section in the reference to a single book.
- When you indicate the pages both in the references within the text and in the bibliography at the end, delete the digits of the ten that repeat. E.g. (Vargas 2012: 423-5). Pay attention that the form (Vargas 2012: 423-425) is incorrect. To indicate the source files, use full numbering. E.g. (AHA 1817: 271-275). Pay attention that the form (AHA 1817: 271-5) is incorrect.
- Organize the bibliography in alphabetical order by surname. Authors with more than one reference must be sorted by year, with the earliest publication (or s/ f when it exists) in the first place. In these cases, repeat the authors name. Do not use hyphens.
- In cases where the argument requires an original year of publication, do so as follows: (Marx 2010 [1963]).
- Titles of books, magazines and newspapers must be in italics and indicate year. Do not use abbreviations. Only files are abbreviated.
- Titles of book chapters, articles or web pages should go in plain text (not in italics). They should not be enclosed in single or double quotation marks.
- Titles of book chapters, articles or websites in Spanish, French or Portuguese should be capitalized only in the first word; in English, in all words except articles or conjunctions; in German, in the first word and in nouns.
The format for the various bibliographic reference types is as follows:
Book References
Last Name, First Name. Year. Title of the book. City of publication: Editorial.
Examples:
Hegel, G.W.F. 1991. Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Marx, K. y Engels, F. 2008. The Manifesto of the Communist Party. London: Pluto Press.
Smith, A. 2007. The Wealth of Nations. Hampshire: Harriman House Ltd.
Luhmann, N. 1997a. Die neuzeitliche Wissenschaften und die Phänomenologie. Wien: Picus Verlag.
Luhmann, N. 1997b. Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
Chapters of books
Last Name, First Name. Year. Title of book chapter (pages in book). Editor last name, Editor first name (ed. Or comp.), Book title. City of publication: Editorial.
Examples:
Bilbao, F. 1995. Iniciativa de la América (53-66). En Zea, L. (comp.), Fuentes de la cultura latinoamericana. México DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Wetz, F.J. 1998. Die Begriffe Zufall und Kontingenz (27-47). En Graevenitz, G. y Marquard, O. (eds.), Kontingenz. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
Internet articles
Last Name, First Name. Year. Article name. Journal name volume (number), page numbers.
Examples:
Askeland, G.A. y Bradley, G. 2007. Linking Critical Reflection and Qualitative Research on a Social Work Programme in Africa. International Social Work 50(5), 671-85.
Dowd, K. 2009. Moral Hazard and the Financial Crisis. Cato Journal 29(1), 141-66.
McKinnon, K. 2007. Post development, Professionalism, and the Politics of Participation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4), 772-85.
Internet articles
Last Name, First Name. Year. Name of the material. Available at: URL [month, day, year of access to material].
Examples:
Greenspan, A. 2010. Testimony of Alan Greenspan. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Available at: http://fcic.law.stanford.edu/hearings/testimony/ subprime-lending-and-securitization-and-enterprises [February 3, 2012].
FFIEC 2009. Community Reinvestment Act. Background & Purpose. Available at: http://www.ffiec.gov/cra/history.htm [April 21,2013].
Regular online publications with and without author
With author: Last name, Initial of first name. Year. Article title. Title of publication [Online, month of publication]. Available at: URL [month, day, year of access to material].
No author: Title of the publication. Year. Title of article [Online, month of publication]. Available at: URL [month, day, year of access to material].
Examples:
Habermas, J. 2012. Wir brauchen Europa! Die Zeit [Online, October 8]. Available at: http://www.zeit.de/2010/21/Europa-Habermas [April 21, 2013].
Batty, D. 2002. How the Other Half Lives. The Guardian [Online, August 9]. Available at: http//society.guardian.co.uk/socialcarestaff/ story/0,1141,771997,00.html [August 9, 2002].
The Economist 2013. Beyer Gets the Boot [Online, April 18]. Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2013/04/education-chile [April 19, 2013].
Thesis and working papers
Thesis: Last name, Initial of first name. Year. Thesis title. Thesis (degree), University.
Working documents: Last name, Initial of first name. Year. Title of the working document. Number, Institution publishing document.
Examples:
Lomné, G. 2003. Le lis et la grenade. Mise en scène et mutation imaginaire de la souveraineté à Quito et Santafé de Bogotá (1789-1830). Thesis (PhD), Université de Marne-la-Vallée.
Repetto, A. 2013. Vulnerabilidad y oportunidades: Los jóvenes inactivos de Chile. Working Paper 031, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
Files
Sources named: File Acronym Year (Full name of file, City). Name of the document, exact date. Section, Background, Tome / Volume / File. For the latter indications, abbreviated as follows: T. (Tome), Vol (Volume), Leg. (File).
Sources without year: Acronym of archive s/f (Full name of file, City). Name of the document. Section, Background, Tome / Volume / File. For the latter indications, abbreviated as follows: T. (Tome), Vol (Volume), Leg. (File).
Examples:
AGN 1815 (Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá). Miguel Palatino a Morillo, December 9, 1815. Archivo Section Annex, Fondo Guerra y Marina, T. 132.
AGN s/f (Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá). Archivo Section, Fondo Historia, Annex, T. 13.
RAH s/f[a] (Real Academia de Historia, Madrid). Copiador de las sentencias dictadas por el Consejo de Guerra Permanente. Pablo Morillo Collection, Leg. 9/7710.
Printed newspapers
With author: Last name, Initial of first name. Year. Article title. Title of periodical, N°, month, day, year, page or pages.
No author: Title of publication. Year. Article title. Title of periodical, N°, month, day, year, page or pages.
Examples:
Henríquez C. 1812. Prospecto. La Aurora de Chile, February 12, 1812, 1.
El Zurriago 1927. Bustos. El Zurriago, N° 1, December 16, 1827, 3-4.
El Mercurio 2014. Debate en la Cámara. El Mercurio, October 21, 2014, A3.
SHIPPING OF ITEMS
As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission complies with all of the following. Articles that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to authors.
The submission has not been previously published nor has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the editor’s comments).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
Text has 1,5 line spacing; 12 points of font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places of text, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Guidelines of the Author, which appear in About the Journal.
The names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated therein and will not be provided to third parties or for their use for other purposes.
