Editorial Policy

Articles, interviews and reviews will be received in Spanish and English. Articles, interviews, and reviews submitted to the journal’s call for papers must not be published (redundant publication) or simultaneously under evaluation (multiple publication) by any other publication or medium in print or electronic format.  

Papers will only be received throught the site for online manuscript submission  and review in OJS: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/perifrasis/login.

Timeline and Editorial Process

Once the articles or interviews are received, the editorial team will evaluate their basic compliance with the editorial requirements. The editorial team will send for double-blind, external peer review only those papers in which are evident the quality of the manuscript, the contribution to the field, the importance of the topic, the originality, clarity and care in writing, and the bibliographic relevance.

Editor will determine, based on the result of the peer review, whether an article will be published or not. Therefore, the editor is free to request a third review if it is necessary.

Editor decide which articles can be published in future issues. He also reserves the right to decide on copyediting when it deems it necessary.

Results of the review will be announced through a letter of acceptance, acceptance with changes, or rejection, which will be sent to the authors  by e-mail system of OJS. Authors should check their OJS profiles on the date scheduled for the review announce in order to see the result.

 If an article or interview is accepted and changes are requested, the author will have two weeks to work  on them.

Once  these  changes  are reviewed,  the  author will be informed about  the final approval and publishing  dates. 

Papers Accepted for Publication

Once a paper is accepted for publication, the author must sign a consent form to Universidad de los Andes authorizing the publication for both the printed and the digital version of the journal. In this authorization, the author must specify the article authorship and that all the intellectual property rights of third parties are respected.

Authors should perform a final reading of their article prior to publication and indicate errors if found.

If the author  would like to include  the article or interview in a different  publication, he or she must  wait at least six months  from the  publication date  of Perífrasis to do so. The author  must request written  authorization from the editorial board and the journal editor, and declare Perífrasis as the original publication.

Papers Presentation Parameters

Articles and interviews length must be between  5000 and 8000 words, including footnotes, abstracts, keywords and the list of works cited. Charts,  tables, and images are also part  of an article’s length; in order to use them, the author  must make sure all copyright issues have been cleared.

Abstracts must clear  the thesis, methodology and conclusions of the article. The keywords must adress the author, discipline, period, and regions. Do not use phrases.The Unesco Thesaurus can serve as a guide (http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/es/).

On its first page, the articles and interviews must include an abstract in English, Spanish and Portuguese no longer than 150 words, and eight keywords.

In order to ensure impartiality in the evaluation, the author’s name must not appear in any of the paper’s pages or in the file name. Contact of the author (name, adress, email) as well as institutional affiliation must be cleared in the OJS author's profile.

Once a paper is accepted,  the author  must  send by e-mail his or her updated CV (degrees, current position, institutional affiliation, a list of all publications  in books and journals for the last three years), and the research project from which the article derives.

Review length  must  not exceed  4 pages, and reviews must  comply  with  the  same editorial  requirements as articles. Moreover,  reviewed  texts  must  not exceed four years of antiquity  in relation with the issue’s projected  date of publication.

Perífrasis bases its editing  style  on  the  eighth  edition  of the  MLA  Handbook  for Writers of Research Papers and  all articles  must  comply  with  the  previous  rules and the Times New Roman  12-point font, double-spaced, with  one-inch  margins format.