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.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The content of the article —including citations, footnotes, tables, figure legends and bibliographical references— must be typed, clearly, in Arial font, 12 points, double spaced, on letter size sheets —21.5 x 28 cm—with 2.5 cm left and right margins and 3 cm top and bottom. Articles must have a minimum of 6,000 and a maximum of 7,500 words—. Review articles can be up to 9,000 words. All pages must be numbered in consecutive order.
Author Guidelines
Reception of proposals
Each issue of Universitas Humanística contains a thematic dossier (Sections: Horizontes, Controversia and Otras Voces), which is defined by the editorial board, endorsed by the scientific committee and organized in collaboration with guest editors. These thematic dossiers have specific timelines for the receipt and evaluation of initial proposals and the subsequent full papers.
The journal releases periodic calls for papers for the Espacio abierto, a section that receives papers addressing topics not included in the dossier. These calls have specific timelines that coincide with the timelines of the dossier. The information about open calls is available in the ‘News’ section of our website.
Once paper proposals have been evaluated and accepted by the editorial team of each special issue, the manuscripts should be submitted for evaluation at the two email addresses of the journal (universitas.humanistica1@ gmail.com and u.humanistica@javeriana.edu.co). Initially the editorial team will review the formal criteria of the papers to endure that they are consistent with the standards of the journal. Only after the manuscripts are adjusted to the criteria of the journal they start the peer review process.
Evaluation criteria
Universitas Humanísitca uses a blind peer review process working with the collaboration of researchers specialized in the topics addressed by each paper.
Formal criteria
Each paper should meet the following formal criteria:
The authors must classify the paper as a scientific paper, an essay derived from research or a review article. The classification must be justified and the authors should provide information regarding funding of the research.
The submitted papers must be original and must not have publishing commitments to any other publication.
To submit a paper authors shall do it through an e-mail to the following addresses: universitas.humanistica1@gmail.com and u.humanistica@javeriana.edu.co . Papers shall be submitted in Doc, .Txt, or .Odt text format, with all the necessary material for evaluation and publication.
The article must contain an abstract with no more than 150 words.
Authors must identify 3 to 6 keywords.
The text (which includes bibliographic citation, footnotes, tables, figures, legends and references) must be typed in Arial 12, double-spaced, on letter-size sheet -21.5 x 28 cm - left/right margins of 2.5 cm and top/bottom of 3 cm. Articles must be minimum 15 pages and maximum 20 pages (approximately 6000 to 7500 words). Review articles might extend until 9000 words.
On other formal aspects
Tables, figures and diagrams
All graphic material must be named in the text, directly or in brackets. It must be presented separately from the text, specifying the source and the title and be numbered consecutively (i.e.: Figure 1, Map 1, Table 1, etc.). The graphic material shall be presented only in TIF format with a resolution of at least 300ppi. Is responsibility of the author to obtain any authorization required for the publication of the graphic material.
Titles and subtitles
The document title should summarize the main idea of the paper. It should avoid the use of language with no useful purpose and that might lead to the confusion of the reader. The title should be brief. The subtitles should indicate the main divisions and guide the reader to the topics dealt within the text. There must be no more than three hierarchies of subtitles, which reflect accurately the order of the document.
Footnotes and quotations
The notes must always be in a footnote format. They are meant to comment, complement or deepen important information within the text. Notes are not used for bibliographic purposes, unless they contain quotations from newspapers, magazines or judgments (such as the Constitutional Court, the State Council, etc.). Quotations over three lines are highlighted in a separate paragraph and left aligned. Those included within the text should be within quotation marks and using the citation model: (author, year).
The bibliographic citations should be incorporated into the text following the APA style criteria.
Bibliography
References should be included at the end of all papers and presented in strict alphabetical order. They must follow the APA style criteria.
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