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.
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The text adheres to the stylistic and biographical requirements detailed in the Guidelines for authors
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The text has not been published previously and has not been evaluated by another journal
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INSTRUCTIOSN TO AUTHORS
General aspects:
The contributions must be submitted via the OJS platform http://revistas.umce.cl/index.php/contextos/index
Papers from the same author can be published in following two numbers (one year) in between.
A paper can have up to four (4) authors.
Authors must make any corrections that are suggested as a result of the peer reviewing process.
It is each author’s responsibility to ensure that their authorship is not recognised in the body of the paper (except in the information of the front page, as shown below).
Each paper sent to the journal must state the authors’ name underneath the title. At the footer, the following information is required:
- Full author or authors’ name
- Highest degree and the institution where it was obtained
- Institution in which they currently work: Department, Institute, Faculty, University.
- Origin of the article (project or initiative from which it originated)
- E-mail address
*See attachment: Model for front page
Editorial Norms
- Contextos will publish unprecedented contributions in Spanish, English and Portuguese, official languages of the publication.
- Length of the contributions:
a. Research papers, essays and articles must have a maximum of 8000 words or 25 pages, including diagrams, bibliography and notes. If the paper is related to an on-going or finished research project, this will be indicated, including name of the project and the institution which is funding it.
b. The reviews must not exceed 7 pages and must include a bibliography note (author, year of the publication, place of publication, publisher, number of pages, editor’s name, translator’s name, etc.) The reviewers’ name must be placed at the end and the institution from which they are from is to be included in parenthesis.
The reviews must be about works, whose editions are not older than 5 years.
c. Notes must have a maximum length of 15 pages and will consist of a critical analysis of the bibliographies, research progress, comments related to specific topics, etc.
- The contributions must be written using Word, font Cambria 14, for titles, and Cambria 12, for the body of the document. 1.5 line spacing, letter size sheets; top, bottom, left and right margins of 3.0 cm. They must be submitted in digital form via the Open Journal System Platform at http://revistas.umce.cl/index.php/contextos/about/submissions.
- The papers and notes will be presented with an abstract in their original language (Spanish, Portuguese or English), not exceeding 12 lines, and its corresponding translation into English or Spanish. The work’s title must be translated as well. Five (5) keywords must be included in Spanish, as well as in English, which will orientate the content of the text. The reviews are not required to have a summary or keywords.
- The titles of the contributions must not exceed 18 words, including connectors.
- The contribution may be divided into sections and subsections, if necessary, titled and enumerated with Arabic numerals and characters.
- The words or phrases wished to be emphasised, foreign words, and all the terms and expressions considered to be part of a meta-language must be written in italics. (E.g. Tugendhat states that the term identity has to different uses).
- If the meaning of a word is to be clarified, single quotation marks will be used (E.g. Etymologically, text means ’fabric ’)
- The contributions must include citations and bibliographical references in accordance with American Psychological Association (APA) or Modern Language Association (MLA)
Summary of APA norms version 6
Summary of MLA norms version 8
- The author must include bibliographical references in the item “quotes” of the subsection Metadata separated one form another with a space.
Guidelines for submission assessment:
*Preliminary Evaluation by the Editing Committee
. Guidelines for preliminary evaluation of papers
. Guidelines for preliminary evaluation of notes
. Guidelines for preliminary evaluation of reviews
* Guidelines for Peer Reviewers
*Model for paper’s front page
Should authors have any questions regarding the editorial norms, they may contact revistacontextos@umce.cl.
Any unforeseen situation, not taken into consideration by the present norms, will be handled by the Editors’ Committee.
Policies for open access journals
Authors who publish here accept the following terms: Authors will keep their copyright and will guarantee the journal the right to the first publication of their work, which will be subject to the Licence of Creative Commons acknowledgement, which allows for the use of this material only if the authorship is credited and the original source is acknowledged (the journal’s URL), and if it is not used with commercial ends and with any derivations of the original work.
Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements of distribution of the published version (e.g. to save it onto a digital institutional archive or publish it in a monographic volume) only if the initial publication of this journal is indicated.
It is permitted and recommended for authors to divulge their work on the Internet (e.g. institutional digital archives or webpage) before and during the submission process, which may lead to interesting exchanges and increase the citations of the publication. (See Open Access Effect).
