GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

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1 GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS Content 1. Characteristics of the articles 1.1 Type of collaborations 1.2 Language 1.3 Sections a) Research articles b) Book reviews 1.4 Extension 2. Policy of originality of submitted works 3. Copyrights 4. Arbitration policy 5. Use of the OJS editorial management system 6. Elements to identify submitted works 6.1 Title 6.2 Author(s) full name(s) of the author(s) 6.3 Abstract 6.4 Key words 6.5 Date 6.6 Cover page 7. Manuscript preparation 7.1 Orthography and punctuation 7.2 Text structure 7.3 Titles 7.4 Typography 7.5 Capitalization 7.6 Format 7.7 Illustrations and tables 7.8 Initials 7.9 Acronyms 7.10 Use of numbers 7.11 Use of italics 8. Quotations and bibliography 8.1 Quotations 8.2 Bibliography a) Books b) Book chapters c) Articles in periodic publications d) Working paper/working document e) Electronic documents f) Theses g) Lectures, conferences, memoirs 9. Book reviews 10. Manuscript submissions 11. Final note 12. After publication

2 Presentation Economía, Sociedad y Territorio (EST) is a journal open to all disciplines related to the social sciences, specifically about regions and cities specifically, as well as to diverse approaches and methodologies; however, this does not suppose any responsibility as for the content of the articles. Economía, Sociedad y Territorio (EST) is a journal of international interest, specialized in publishing high-quality articles, from original research works in social and environmental sciences with territorial reference, particularly in urban, metropolitan and regional dimensions. EST publishes works derived from original scientific research works, which show empirical evidence to support the essential argumentations. Editorial standards The original manuscripts submitted for publications undergo an editorial process that takes place in a number of stages. Because of this, it is necessary for the submitted works to follow certain regulations in order to appear in their final and full versions, for no changes will be admitted once the peer-reviewing and production process begins. 1. Characteristics of the articles 1.1 Nature of collaborations. Works delivered to EST for their publication shall be primarily academic; due to the nature of the journal, no journalistic articles or general comments on any topic will be accepted. 1.2 Language. The articles may be submitted and published in Spanish, English or Portuguese; however, in views of reaching a broader public, we invite authors to write and publish in the English language. 1.3 Sections. Collaborations framed in the following sections: a. Research articles b. Books reviews Extension: The articles must be from 20 to 25 pages in length for the case of investigation (including tables, notes and bibliography) and from 5 to 10 pages for book reviews.

3 2. Policy of originality of submitted works Once it has been stipulated that an article meets the requirements of the journal, the Statement of originality of the submitted paper will be signed. This Statement is available at the Journal s website. Said statement shall be returned (either scanned or by fax) so that the originality of the published material is guaranteed, thus maintaining the standards of the Journal. 3. Copyrights The main author must sign a Letter of copyright waiving (available at the Journal s website). In the knowledge that the main author has the consent of the rest of the authors, if there were. Said letter states that the author(s) waive(s) their rights to EST to disseminate their material in the Journal as well as on magnetic and photographic media. In this sense, the author(s) retain(s) their moral rights as established by the law. Thereby, the authors can use the material contained in their article in other works or books published by them, on condition that they list EST as the original source of the texts. It is responsibility of the author to obtain the written authorization for every material part of their article and which is protected by copyrights. If for any reason the author(s) fail(s) to deliver the aforementioned contract duly signed, the article will be rejected. 4. Arbitration policy After receiving Statement of originality of the submitted paper, two referees will be appointed both alien to the author s institution ; said referees will be in charge of suggesting changes, accepting or rejecting the publication of each article. 4.1 The appointed referees will determine in an anonymous manner: a. To publish if minor corrections are to be applied; b. To condition of the article once in-depth corrections are made; c. To reject the article. 4.2 For an article to be accepted for publication, it shall receive at least two positive dictums. In the case that an article receives a positive dictum and a negative one, it will be sent to a third referee, who will define the arbitration.

4 4.3 The results from the academic dictum will be unappealable in all and every case. 4.4 The papers will be resent for revision by the referees who ask to do so up to three times, reaching such a limit, the article will be rejected. 4.5 A thirty-day deadline will be allowed for the author to make the indicated corrections. 4.6 Each issue will comprise the articles, which at the time of editorial closing, have successfully undergone the dictum process; they will be assigned a number in the strict order in which they were released by the referees for their publication. 5. Use of OJS editorial management system The journal, Economía, Sociedad y Territorio, uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) version to track both the dictum process and editorial production in general. This is an opensource software to manage peer-reviewed academic journals; this system was created by the Public Project Knowledge of Simon Fraser, British Columbia and Standford Universities. 6. Elements to identify works The submitted manuscript must include the following information both in the original language of the paper and in English: 6.1 Title of the paper: It shall be thirteen words in length at most, clearly stating the content. Subtitles are accepted and convenient to clarify and broaden the content of the submitted works. 6.2 Full name(s) of the author(s); immediately after the name of the author, as a footnote the institution the author belongs to as well as an electronic address (only in the original language). This footnote call shall be made with an asterisk. If all the authors belong to the same institution, the asterisk will be at the end of the last author. In the case that the authors belong to different institutions an asterisk shall be included after the name of each author. In this space the names will be in ALL CAPS and SMALL CAPS, last names joined by a dash (e.g., García-Márquez). 6.3 An abstract of no more than 100 words, with concise information on the content: main results, method and reached conclusions. It must not contain tables, numbers, references or mathematical expressions.

5 6.4 Key words: a list of between three and five key words for bibliographic indexation. 6.5 Date: each article will include the reception, re-submitting and approval dates of the submitted paper. 6.6 Cover page: the entries to identify the author must appear in a separate front page with the following information: a. Full name b. Highest academic degree (discipline or field and institution) and any ongoing studies, if applicable c. Center, department or institution which the author(s) is ascribed to d. Any other distinguished professional activity or function e. Current research line(s) f. Full bibliographic reference of the latest 3 or 4 publications (including page numbers) g. Institutional postal address h. Telephone or fax i. Electronic mail address Said biodata shall be written by the author(s) following the example below: Ryszard Edward Rózga-Luter. A doctor in Economic Sciences from the University of Warsaw, Poland; currently, he is a researcher-professor of the Department of Theory and Analysis, Division of Sciences and Arts for Design in the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Xochimilco Unit, and professor in the Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level II. His current research line is economic-regional development. Among his most recent publications distinguishable are: local and regional dimension of the processes of technological innovation, in G. Dutrenit (coord.), Sistemas regionales de innovación: un espacio para el desarrollo de las Pymes. El caso de la industria de maquinados industriales, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco-Textual, Mexico-Montevideo, pp (2009); Current state of research on the territorial conditions of innovation in Mexico in Leonel Corona and José Molero (coords.), Los retos de la innovación en

6 México y España. Política, universidad y empresa ante la sociedad del conocimiento, Akal, Madrid, pp (2009); in co-authorship, Historia de la industrialización en el Estado de México ( ), vi tome of Historia General del Estado de México, El Colegio Mexiquense-Gobierno del Estado de México, Toluca (2010); Técnicas para el análisis regional. Desarrollo y aplicaciones, Trillas, México (2009). Telephone: (722) , ext address: est@cmq.edu.mx. 7. Manuscript preparation: style guide 7.1 Orthography and punctuation: Author(s) must bear in mind the broad range of readers the journal is addressed to. Manuscripts must be written in a clear, simple and well-structured manner, paying attention to proper orthography and punctuation. 7.2 Text structure: The minimal structure of the work will include an introduction that clearly reflects the background of the work, its development and conclusions. 7.3 Titles: titles and subtitles must be differenced from one another; to do so, the use of the decimal system is recommended. NB: The Introduction and Conclusions will not be numbered. 7.4 Typography: Papers must have a 1.5 interlining, in Courier, Arial or Times at 11 points, with no syllabification. Manuscripts are to be submitted in RTF text format without control of changes. 7.5 Capital letter use: The text shall be written in capitals and smalls and with diacritical marks. 7.6 Format: In the case of using Microsoft Word, works shall have no format whatsoever: no indentations, no paragraph spacing, no style sheet, special characters or other commands than those related to divisions and subdivisions of the paper. 7.7 Ilustration and tables: tables, as well as graphs, figures and diagrams must be included both in the text and in separate pages, grouped at the end of the document indicating in the texts where they are to be inserted. They will have to be stored in an updated version of Word or Excel (graphs and tables); they will not be received in another program or previous versions. Tables will be numbered in the Arabic system (e.g., Table 1, 2, 3 etc.), and maps,

7 planes, figures, plates and photographs in the Roman system (e.g., Figure I, II, III). As for figures, they will be presented in JPG format at 300 dpi at least. a. Each table, graph, figure or diagram must have a title at the beginning and at the end the complete source, which will be reported in the bibliography section. b. Tables and graphs will be those strictly necessary and must be selfexplanatory (without resorting to the text to understand them), they must not include abbreviations, they must indicate units and contain the corresponding notes and the complete sources. 7.8 Initials: The complete equivalence of all the initials used in the text must be given at least the first time. Initials are always written in small caps, e.g.: ONU, INEGI, PRI, PAN, PRD, etc. 7.9 Acronyms: in the case of acronyms, only the first letter will be capital: Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (Sedesol), Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Capufe (Caminos y Puentes Federales), etc Use of numbers: numbers from zero to nine will be written in words, from 10 in numbers (e.g., 10 municipalities, three localities ). If figures are referred to, they are separated by commas (100,000 inhabitants; 54,515 MXN ). Avoid the use of, for instance: 100 thousand Use of italics: if the author wants to highlight a phrase or term, and this is written in inverted commas, it must be changed to italics and remove the inverted comas to differentiate a textual quotation, which will be in inverted commas (quotation marks) and with their respective reference: Vine a Comala porque me dijeron (Rulfo, 1987: 23) Numbering: it is necessary to number the pages. 8. Quotations and bibliography The normalization of quotations and bibliographic references is one of the elements of the utmost importance in scientific dissemination as on it depends the generation of citation bibliometric indicators. Because of this the journal EST privileges collaborations with quotations and bibliographic references normalized by means of a reference management application (Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote...).

8 8.1 Quotations: Harvard notation will be used for references in the text; this is to say, surname of the author, year and page in brackets: e.g., (Alcántara, 1995: 28). 8.2 Bibliography: bibliography must be international. It will not extend unnecessarily only that cited in the text and will contain (in this order): full name of the author (if there are two last names, write them separated by a dash), edition year (in brackets), title of the article (in inverted commas) and title of book or journal (italics), editorial, number, city and total pages, if it is the case of an integrated text. Examples: a. Books Rodríguez, Victoria (1999), La descentralización en México. De la reforma municipal a Solidaridad y el nuevo federalismo, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México. INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) (1997), El maíz en el Estado de México, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática, México. b. Books chapters Vargas, Sergio and Eric Mollard (2005), Contradicción entre las expectativas ambientales de los agricultores y la defensa de sus intereses en la cuenca Lerma- Chapala, in Sergio Vargas and Eric Mollard (eds.), Problemas socioambientales y experiencias organizativas en las cuencas de México, Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, México, pp c. Articles in periodic publications Caire, Georgina (2005), Conflicto por el agua en la cuenca Lerma-Chapala, , Región y Sociedad, XVII (34), El Colegio de Sonora, Hermosillo, pp

9 Zúñiga, Juan Antonio (2010), Para el servicio de la deuda pública 105% más recursos que el gasto para seguridad, La Jornada, November 25 th, UNAM, Mexico, p. 20. d. Working paper Quah, Danny (1999), Ideas determining convergence clubs, Working Paper, Economic Department, London School of Economics, London. Cabrero-Mendoza, Enrique (1993), Las políticas descentralizadoras en el ámbito internacional. Análisis de tendencias y obstáculos en diversos países, working paper num. 19, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico. e. Electronic documents Mollinga, Peter (2008), Water, politics and development: Framing a political sociology of water resources management, Water Alternatives, 1 (1), pp < September 26 th, OECD (ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT) (2002), Propuesta de norma práctica para encuestas de investigación y desarrollo experimental, OECD, Paris, < p1>, March 4 th, f. Theses Galilea, Patricia (2002), Preferencias declaradas en la valoración del nivel de ruido en un contexto de elección residencial, Master degree thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile.

10 Romero, Javier (2005), Determinación de los factores que definen la noción de calidad de servicio en el transporte urbano: el caso del corredor Lerdo de Tejada en la ciudad de Toluca, Master degree thesis, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico. g. Lectures, conferences, memoires Delgado Wise, Raúl and Humberto Márquez (2006), The Mexico-Unites Status Migratory System: Dilemmas of Regional Integration, Development, and Emigration, lecture presented at Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South, July 10 th -13 th, Bellagio, Italy. Delgado Wise, Raúl and Humberto Márquez (2005), Migración, políticas públicas y desarrollo. Reflexiones en torno al caso de México, lecture presented at Problemas y Desafíos de la Migración y el Desarrollo en América Seminar, Red Internacional de Migración y Desarrollo, April 7 th -9 th, Cuernavaca. 9. Book reviews Reviews must be of between 5 and 10 pages in extension. They will refer to currently valid works of the interest of social sciences. For this sort of collaborations it is suggested to place the author with their basic biographic data; not only focus on the book, but also on the topic dealt with, to circumscribe it, identify the purpose of the author, what it is intended to demonstrate, contributions, to determine the sources, use, methodology, organization of results, and structure of the book. Reviews of books published in Spanish and English are accepted, however, in either case, the reviewed books must be recent in publication, being one year of publication at the most. The following data on the reviewed work must be included: title, author, year, editorial, city, total pages and ISBN number. As shown in the following example: Harnik, Peter (2010), Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, Island Press, Washington, 184 pp., ISBN: 13:

11 10. Manuscript submission The articles will be sent via to this 11. Final note The articles which do not comply with these guidelines will not be accepted. EST reserves the right to make any editorial amendments deemed necessary. 12. After publication Each author and referee will receive two issues of the publication.