Editorial Policy

The Revista de Estudios Sociales (rev. estud.soc.) is a diamond open access journal*, which adheres to international standards of quality, positioning, periodicity and availability online. Created in 1998 and funded by the School of Social Sciences of Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), it has the objective to contribute to the dissemination of the research, analyses and opinions that the national and international academic community elaborates. As a social sciences journal, it publishes the results of investigations, reflections on relevant topics, theoretical revisions and reviews, which contribute to pertinent debates about sociological, historical, anthropological, cultural and gender study subjects, as well as articles on political science, philosophy, psychology and education. Is a quarterly publication (January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December) that comes out at the beginning of each of these periods.  All of its digital contents are of open access through its website. 

The journal publishes unpublished articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese. In exceptional cases, it includes translations of articles which have previously been published in languages other than those specified above, when their relevance to the discussions and problems it deals with are acknowledged. All of the published articles have a DOI identification number, which facilitates the drafting of bibliographical references, the search for articles on the web and the cross-referencing of citations among different repositories. The DOI should be cited by the authors who use the contents of Revista de Estudios Sociales.

The journal counts on an Editorial Team and an Editorial Council. The Editorial Team is responsible for the operational procedures of the journal, decisions about the contents to be published, proposing themes for monographic issues, meeting quality standards, indexing procedures and the dissemination of the Revista de Estudios Sociales’s contents. The Editorial Team is also responsible for choosing and inviting the academics who make up the Editorial Council and periodically overseeing the turnover of some of its members, taking into account the time they have served on the Council, the bodies of knowledge which should be strengthened, the inclusion of new institutions and their participation in assessing the journal.

The Editorial Council proposes guidelines for defining the editorial policies of Revista de Estudios Sociales, establishes the themes for the dossier, oversees its compliance with national and international quality standards, holds debates about the sections which house the contents of the journal and proposes ways of circulating, disseminating and indexing the publication.

The Revista de Estudios Sociales uses the license Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0).  

The copyright holder is the author. The publishing rights belong to the Universidad de los Andes.

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* Diamond open access consists in publishing open access content and the authors do not pay any fees to submit or publish in the journal.

Norms for Authors 

Reception and Evaluation of Articles

• The journal only receives articles when the calls for papers are open. The reception dates may be found on the web site of the journal.
• The articles should be sent to the platform for the management of contents through the link found on the website of the journal, and, in exceptional cases, by e-mail. 
• The texts sent to the journal may not be simultaneously under evaluation by another publication.
• Taking into account the amount of articles which the journal receives for each call for papers, it does not publish another article by a previously published author until a period of two years has passed.
• When an article arrives, its receipt is immediately acknowledged and the Editorial Team begins to determine whether it meets its basic requirements (norms for citations and formal presentation), as well as its relevance for a scientific publication (objectives, theoretical framework, methodology, conclusions and bibliographies). When it does not meet that standard, it will be rejected.
• The articles which pass the review by the Editorial Team are scrutinized by a tool for detecting plagiarism. When whole or partial plagiarism is detected, the text will not be sent to peer review and the authors will be notified of the reason for the rejection.
• The articles which pass the evaluation of the Editorial Team will be subjected to an arbitration procedure headed by two reviewers, at least one of whom should have an international affiliation. When a negative evaluation arrives, the Editorial Team can take the decision to stop the evaluation process and reject the manuscript. 
• The peer reviewers are chosen on the basis of their academic career, knowledge and publications on the theme to be evaluated.
• During the evaluation, the names of both the authors and the reviewers will remain anonymous.
• The journal will inform the authors of the results of the evaluation within a maximum term of six months. If it is longer, the Editorial Team will inform the authors.
• When the final version of the text is received, it is the Editorial Team which reviews the changes which have been made. If it sees that the author has not included the changes asked for, it may decide to not publish the article.
• The Editorial Team is responsible for the final decision to publish or reject an article, and the body which notifies the author of the decision by means of a written opinion.

Editorial Procedure

• The articles which receive the best evaluations are reviewed by the Editorial Team and remitted to the authors so that they may undertake the indicated changes, within a previously agreed on time limit.
• The texts which are approved within the framework of a thematic call for papers are published in the issue dedicated to that dossier. In the case of articles where there is a Varied Topic call for papers, the Editorial Team defines the issue in which it is published.
• During the process of editing and the correction of style, the authors are consulted in order to resolve existing concerns. The Editorial Team reserves the right to make minor changes of style.
• The Journal has procedures for diagraming the issue, in accordance with the design and layout pertaining to each publication.
• In the process of evaluation and editing, the medium of communication with the authors is the platform for the management of contents, and in particular cases, e-mails.
• The authors and/or title-holders of the accepted articles will authorize the use of the author’s property rights (reproduction, public communication, transformation and distribution) by means of a written consent to the inclusion of their article in a given number of the Journal (in both the digital and printed version), addressed to the Social Sciences Faculty of the Universidad de los Andes.
• In the case of other contents, their use in the digital and printed version is also authorized by a written consent of the author about the author’s property rights.
• When someone wants to republish an article from the Journal in another written or digital publication, an authorization is asked of the author and the Revista de Estudios Sociales. The full data of the original publication should be included in the republication of the article. 

Parameters for the presentation of articles

When articles are submitted for consideration, it is indispensable that they fulfill the following parameters established by the Revista de Estudios Sociales:

• They should be written in Word format, Times New Roman size 12 font, 1½ spacing, paginated, on letter size pages with 2.5 cm margins. Footnotes should be in Times New Roman size 10 Font, single-spaced.
• They should be between 7,000 and 10,000 words long, including abstracts and keywords, bibliography and footnotes, etc.
• The article title and abstract must appear in Spanish or the language the article is written in, and in English, and include the following information: title, author, abstract (subdived into the following sections: objective/context, methodology, conclusions, originality) and key words. Abstracts must not include references or abbreviations. The length of the section covered by “title, author and abstract” should be 250-300 words.
• There should be a list of four to six key words that identify the article, which should also be presented in English and in Spanish. The keywords should reflect the content of the document, and that is why it is necessary that they indicate the exact topics of the article, showing the areas of knowledge in which they arise and the main concepts involved. 
• They should be written in academic language accessible to reading publics from different disciplines.
• The author’s data should be included in a separate file: academic degrees, institutional affiliation, research group or lines of research (if applicable), two latest publications, and email address.
• The same file should include information regarding the origin of the article. If it is based on the results of research, indicate the project that it is part of and the name of the financing institution.
• When the contents used have a DOI identification number, it should be included in the list of references.

Editing rules

• The first time an acronym or abbreviation is used, it should be written in capital letters and placed in parenthesis after the complete form; the acronym or abbreviation is used alone on subsequent occasions.
• Quotations that are more than four lines long should be placed in the format for long quotations, single-spaced, in type size 11, with reduced margins.
• The Revista de Estudios Socialesuses the Author-Date Referencesformat, as outlined in the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style for presenting quotations and references included in the article. The necessary details of punctuation (comma, period, colon, parenthesis, etc.) and the required information should be taken into account. The bibliographical list should include the references that have been cited within the text (in a one-to-one relation), enumerated and in alphabetical order. It is indispensable to include the complete names of the authors and/or editors in each one of the references.

The following examples are presented to show the differences between the brief parenthetical form of citation to be used within the text (T), and the full form of citation to be used in the bibliography (B).

Book by a single author:

T: (Abello 2003)

B: Abello, Ignacio. 2003. Violencias y culturas. Bogota: Universidad de los Andes; Alfaomega Colombiana.

Book by two or three authors:

T: (Drennan, Herrera and Uribe 1989, 27)

B: Drennan, Robert, Luisa Fernanda Herrera y Carlos Alberto Uribe. 1989. Cacicazgos prehispánicos del Valle de la Plata. El contexto medioambiental de la ocupación humana. Tomo 1. Bogotá: Pittsburg University; Universidad de los Andes.

Book by four or more authors:

T: (Laumann et al. 1994)

B: Laumann, Edward, John Gagnon, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels. 1994. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Book chapter:

T: (Saldarriaga 2004, 32-33)

B: Saldarriaga, Lina María. 2004. “Aprendizaje cooperativo”. In Competencias ciudadanas: de los estándares al aula. Una propuesta integral para todas las áreas académicas, edited by Enrique Chaux, Juanita Lleras y Ana María Velásquez, 102-135. Bogotá: Ministerio de Educación Nacional; Universidad de los Andes.

Introduction, preface o presentation:

T: (Sanders 2014, 15)

B: Sanders, James. 2014. Introduction / preface / presentation to The Vanguard of the Atlantic World: Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in NineteenthCentury Latin America, 1-12. Durham: Duke University Press.

Magazine article (print or online):

T: (Aguilar 2008, 27)

B: Gutiérrez Rivera, Lirio. 2008. “Assimilation or Cultural Difference? Palestinian Immigrants in Honduras”. Revista de Estudios Sociales 48: 57-68. https://doi.org/10.7440/res48.2014.05

When the reference to an article in a journal includes a volume and issue number, it will be cited in the following way:

Last name, First name. Title of article. Name of journal, volume (No.): page numbers.

Example:

Guttman, Allen. 2003. “Sport, Politics and the Engaged Historian”. Journal of Contemporary History 38 (3): 363-375.

Press article (with author and without it):

T: (Martin 2002)

B: Martin, Steve. 2002. “Sports-interview Shocker”. New Yorker, 6 May, 30, http://www.cabrini.edu/Library/documents/ChicagoStyleGuide.pdf

T: (“Aprenda usted a vivir” 1966)

B: “Aprenda usted a vivir: nuestro enemigo cada día”. 1966. El Correo, 22 January, 12.

Book review:

T: (Duque 2008)

B: Duque, Juliana. 2008. Review of Alimentación, género y pobreza en los Andes ecuatorianos, by Mary Weismantel. Revista de Estudios Sociales 29: 177-178.

Thesis or dissertation:

T: (Amundin 1991, 22-29)

B: Amundin, Mats. 1991. “Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena.” PhD diss., Stockholm University, Sweden.

Paper presented at a meeting or conference:

T: (Doyle 2002)

B: Doyle, Brian. 2002. “Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59.” Paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature. The University of Chicago, United States. 

Online documents:

T: (Sabo 2000)

B: Sabo, Don. 2000. "Comprender la salud de los hombres: un enfoque relacional y sensible al género". Organización Panamericana de la Salud, accessed July 18, 2018, www.bvs-psi.org.br

Movie:

T: (Almodóvar 2019)

B: Almodóvar, Pedro, dir. 1988. Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios. Spain: El Deseo.

Internet Video:

T: (NBC News 2017)

B: NBC News. 2017. “President Obama Saying Goodbye With Farewell Address To Nation From Chicago | NBC Nightly News.” YouTube Video, 02:14, January 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah7WGJ793e4

Facebook post and similars:

T: (American University Library 2016)

B: American University Library. 2016. "One week left to apply for your chance to win $1,000!". March 11. https://www.facebook.com/AULibrary/posts/10153431856787157 

Note: Ibid, ibidem or op. cit. should not be used in these cases.

• Articles that include archival sourcesshould present the references in footnotes, numbered, so as to facilitate the reader’s identification of and access to the documents in the corresponding archive. It is necessary to indicate: Initials of the archive, Section, Fondo, vol./leg./t., f. or ff. (place, date, and other relevant data). The complete name of the archive is cited the first time, followed by the abbreviation written in capital letters and placed in parenthesis. The abbreviation is used alone on subsequent occasions. All primary references should be grouped together in a separate section of the bibliographical list at the end of the text.
• In the initial version which is uploaded onto the administrator of contents, the images must be in low resolution. When the publication of the article is approved, those images should be sent in a jpg or tiff 300 dpi format and in 240 pixels at high resolution. The charts, tables, images and graphics should be numbered at the end of the document. In addition, they should be submitted as an attachment of a separate archive. The authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish the images, delivering said permission to RES, and making sure that the images are delivered in the conditions of quality required for the layout of the magazine. The Journal does not commit itself to publishing items that do not meet the conditions of quality requested.
• It is necessary to indicate the exact place where each chart/table/image/graph is to be inserted into the text. This instruction should be presented in brackets, in the following way: 

[Insert Chart 1 here] 

• Only a moderate number of these resources should be included and they should always be clear, legible and relevant for the argumentation of the article. 
  
  

Parameters for the presentation of reviews

• The reviews are not associated with the issues of the Journal, do not bear a DOI and are found in the “Book Reviews” section of the website.
• Reviews should be sent to the e-mail of the Journal: res@uniandes.edu.co
• They should be written in Word format, in Times New Roman font, type size 12, with 1½ spacing, paginated, on letter size paper with 2.5 cm margins.
• They should come to a total of between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length.
• They should include the complete data for the text reviewed (author, title, date, city, publisher and total number of pages).
• They should also include the author’s data: academic degrees, current place of work or study, research group and email address.
• Reviews are expected not only to give an account of the content of the book, but to incorporate a critical and analytical perspective as well.

Instructions for submitting proposals for special issues

Revista de Estudios Sociales receives proposals for special issues all year round. Proposals must include the following:

• They must be sent to the e-mail res@uniandes.edu.co
• They should be written in Word format, in Times New Roman font, type size 12, with 1.5 spacing, paginated, on letter size paper with 2.5 cm margins.
• The must include:
  • Title
  • General objective
  • Keywords
  • Proposal's origin
  • Theoretical framework
  • Main topics
  • Bibliography
  • Special issue's relevance
  • Proposal's coordinators' information (academic background, current institution, latest publications and e-mail address)