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Those authors who have publications with this journal, agree with the following terms:
a. Authors will retain its copyright and will ensure the rights of first publication of its work to the journal, which will be at the same time subject to the Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Internacional.(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) , allowing third parties to share the work as long as the author and the first publication on this journal is indicated.
b. Authors may elect other non-exclusive license agreements of the distribution of the published work (for example: locate it on an institutional telematics file or publish it on an monographic volume) as long as the first publication on this journal is indicated,
c. Authors are allowed and suggested to disseminate its work through the internet (for example: in institutional telematics files or in their website) before and during the submission process, which could produce interesting exchanges and increase the references of the published work. (see The effect of open Access)
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GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
1. Every article that does not gathers the formal requirements detailed on this “Guidelines for Authors” will be returned for its adjustment and review.
2. Articles in Spanish or English will be accepted.
In ALL cases the number of authors may NOT exceed three.
3. Articles should be submitted online at http://www.revistas.unlp.edu.ar/economica
For guidance send an email to economica@econo.unlp.edu.ar
4. Articles must not contain any personal data, if so there will be returned for corrections.
5. Articles must contain:
Introduction. Presents the backgrounds and the objective of the research. Raises the central theme.
Development. For the “scientific articles”, the formulation of the problem and the bibliographic review; the methodology and the empirical results must be included. In the “Essays” is very important to be clear about the argumentative aspects.
Conclusions. Main aspects of the article, recommendations and limitations should be highlighted, but this must not represent a summary of it. Additionally future investigations lines are propound.
Bibliographic References will be presented at the end of the article according to the APA style.
Annexes.
6. Tables and Figures. In the article all tables and figures must be inserted as an image and mentioned before being submitted, making reference as Table 1, Table 2, Figure 1, etc. Each one of these categories must be numbered (according to the appearance in the text), titled and sourced at the top.
If tables and figures are copied or reproduced from other sources, it must be added the number of reference page. Tables and Figures should be designed, if possible, in gray scale, black white or with sober colors.
7. Equations. Equations must only be done with the equations editor. Each one of the equations should be numbered in order of appearance.
8. Footnotes: Only explanatory information should be displayed, each footnote will have a consecutive numbering. The font it will be Times New Roman, size 10.
9. References. In the article it will be use the system Author-Date. If more than one work is referred on the article the cited authors will be in alphabetical order, always under the Author-Date style. All the quoted references must be relevant to the article theme. The excess of references makes difficult the reading and the correct comprehension of the article.
10. Textual references. It’s the original quoted material from another source. A short citation (with less than 40 words) will be written between double quotes. Citations with more than 40 words must be placed in a separate block, without quotes and with a 0.5cm margin.
In each case, always must be added the Author, Date and the specific source of the quoted text in the references list.
The citations must be accurate, this means, that modifications can´t be done, even if there are spelling mistakes. The format must not be in Italic or Underlined, only when the author wants to emphasized it could be added the Italic format and then the text must be between square brackets. The page number should only be added in the Textual References cases (Includes Tables and Figures as well).
11. The revision of ethical regulations is a necessary process, as a result of the permanent ethical reflection, therefore the publications that are about to be sent off must fulfill the ethical guidelines and the statement of good practices.
12. Submission and Peer Review
Manuscripts may be returned to authors for review if they do not gather all submission requirements detailed on this “Guideline for Authors”. In turn, prior to assigning an evaluator, the executive committee of the journal will determine if the article is suitable to begin the evaluation process. (A previous reading is made, collecting basic aspects about the article). In response to this, the article can take its course or be rejected before being reviewed by an external evaluator.
The designated Arbitrators may be people with appropriate experience in the subject, not related to the publishing institution. It is common to select an editor to oversee each submitted article, being able to select a second referee if necessary. The evaluation process will be anonymous for authors and editors, and it will also be supported by the evaluation guide of the magazine.
The possible results of the review are: 1) Publishable 2) Review Required 3) Not Publishable
When the paper requires a new revision (Review Required) authors are asked to modify their manuscript according to comments/suggestions from the assigned referee. Therefore, authors must submit a new version for consideration. The evaluators are responsible for the final decision.
After final checking, acceptance is confirmed and authors will be informed in which number the paper will be published. The responsible publishers will be responsible for the syntax process and formal aspects. The Institutional Communication Unit of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of La Plata is in charge of drawing up the papers into PDF documents in order to publish them on the website of the journal http://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/economica
13. Estimated time for the publishing and evaluation process
The estimated time for the evaluation process is between 3 and 6 months, since usually there are needed at least 1 or 2 evaluation rounds before the proposal is SUITABLE for publication. Both the reviewer and the author will have a 30 days long interval to do their work (this interval is estimated, since it depends on each author and reviewer for each proposal).
Once the article is SUITABLE to be published, the editorial process (copyediting, translating, layout and galley) requires about one to two months.
