Author Guidelines
RULES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
Latinoamérica is a peer-reviewed biannual magazine edited by the Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. Works considered for publication should be the result of an investigation and should constitute a relevant contribution to the knowledge in the journal’s fields of interest.
General characteristics of the articles:
1. They must be written in Spanish, Portuguese, English or French.
2. Manuscripts will be uploaded to the OJS in a Microsoft Word file (.doc or .docx) double spaced, Arial font 12 points. A copy must also be sent to the journal’s e-mail: rlatino@unam.mx
3. The length of the article will go from 20 to 30 pages, including sources, graphics, tables and illustrations (1,625 characters per page, 25 lines, 65 characters per line including spaces).
4. The title of the article must be in Spanish and English, and preferably no longer than 8 words (about 60 characters).
5. Authors will provide an abstract of the article in Spanish and English (150 words maximum) in which the objectives of the work, hypothesis, methodology, contributions or conclusions are highlighted. Next to it, they will provide a list of keywords, not more than six.
6. All graphic material must be sent separately. Images must be sent in 300 dpi.
7. The publishing coordination assumes the right to style edit or to make the editorial changes that it considers necessary to improve the work, including the title. The corrected version will be sent to the author for approval.
Bibliographical references
1. Bibliographical references of monographs or books should be included as a footnote and they will be quoted completely the first time they appear with the following elements in this order: author (first and last name), title and subtitle (in italics), translator, annotator, prolog writer, etc., number of volumes, edition (when it is not the first), city of publication, publishing house, year of publication, number of pages, illustrations, maps, graphics, etc., collection. All these elements must be separated by commas.
Electronic references should include the following elements: name of the article or the book followed by a period and the word “In” plus the web page information (date of consultation: dd/mm/yy).
When an article that belongs to a collective book is quoted, it should follow this order: author (first and last name), title of the chapter between inverted commas, the preposition “in”, name of the editor or editors or coordinators, the abbreviation between square brackets [ed.], [coords.], title of the book in italics, city, publishing house, year, pages of the chapter.
Examples:
- Marc Augé, Oblivion, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
- Roxana Chirinos, “Conversación con LikaMutal.” In http://agenciaperu.com/cultural/portada/cvr3/mutal.html (date fo consultation: 20 May 2011).
- Bartolomé de las Casas, Historia de las Indias, ed. A. Millares Carlo and preliminary study by Lewis Hanke, Mexico, FCE, 1981.
- Bartolomé de las Casas, Apología contra Ginés de Sepúlveda, trans. and ed. Angel Losada, Madrid, Editora Nacional, 1975.
- Analía Reale and Alejandra Vitale [eds.], La argumentación, Buenos Aires, Ars, 1995.
- Carlos Iván Degregori, “Heridas abiertas, derechos esquivos: reflexiones sobre la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación,” Raynal Belay, Jorge Bracamonte and Carlos Iván Degregori [eds.], Memorias en conflicto: aspectos de la violencia política contemporánea, Lima, IEP/IFEA, 2004, pp. 75-85.
2. Articles of academic journals will be registered as follows: author, title of the article (between inverted commas) followed by preposition “in”, title of the publication (in italics), period, tome (t.), volume (vol.) or year, number (num.), place of publication, date of publication, pages where the article is located. All these elements must be separated by commas.
Examples:
- Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les lieux de mémoire,” in Representations, num. 26, spring, 1989, pp. 7-25.
- Greg Grandin and Thomas Miller, “Editor’s Introduction,” in Radical History Review, vol. XX, num. 97, 2007, pp. 1-10.
3. Archive documents should be referenced in this manner: character or type of document, author and addressee, origin and destiny, date, archive, branch, bundle, volume or box. All these elements must be separated by commas.
4. Registration of theses will be done as follows: author, title and subtitle (in italics), place, year, number of pages, between brackets, degree, school and university. All these elements must be separated by commas.
5. Book and newspaper reference information must be complete in the first quote, and from the second one the author and title will appear abbreviated, or if it is the case:
- op. cit., after the author’s last name when the book has been quoted before, and there are no other references of other books by the same author in the article.
- ibid., to indicate that the book was quoted in the previous note (but in this case a different page is being quoted).
- loc. cit., when the book was quoted in the previous note and the citation comes from the same book and the same page.
6. Complete bibliography will be located at the end of the article and will follow an alphabetical order. The order of the elements will be the same as that mentioned for footnotes.
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BOOK REVIEWS
The book reviews must be between four and eight pages long (1624 characters: 25 lines, 65 strokes per line).
It is advised that the books reviewed deal with the Latin American reality as seen from the perspective of philosophy, history, literature and the social sciences. The reviewed works must be recent (published within the last two years).
CV SUMMARY OF THE AUTHORS
In order to include relevant information in the publication about its contributors, it is recommended that –in addition to the author’s information required by the Open Journal System– the authors send to the journal’s email (rlatino@unam.mx) the following information: address, phone number, email address, academic degree, institution, awards and distinctions, recent publications, the last three citations that other authors have made of their work (books and articles), and research areas. This information should be between six and eight lines long (65 strokes per line).
