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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

I. Manuscript specificatios

A. The text should be between 15 and 35 pages long, including tables, figures, maps, the reference list, and appendices, if any. The format is Microsoft Word or LaTeX, pages in letter size (8 x 11 in.), with two inch margins on all sides, 1.5 spacing, and 12 point Times New Roman font. All pages, except the first, should be numbered in the upper right corner.

B. The title should appear at the top left of the first page beginning in upper case letter. It should be brief and specific and have a length of no more than 13 words. The recommended formats are: declarative titles, which states the main findings (e.g. “The subsidy increases the number of home acquisitions by low-income households”); descriptive titles, which describes the subject of the paper but do not disclose the main conclusions (e.g. “The consequences of inflation on bussiness creation in Venezuela”); or the interrogative title, which introduces the subject in the form of a question (e.g. “Could unemployment increase  following an immigration wave?”).  Avoid if possible adding a subtitle following a colon (e.g. “Innovation: is it created or adopted?”) unless it is a brief one that describes the specific name of the method employed (e.g. “Power outages in Barranquilla: a study using text mining”).  We also discourage the use of acronyms so that readers not familiarized with them can understand the title.  Irony, puns and humor should also be avoided.

C. Below the name of the authors there should be a call, stemming from a lower case letter superscript (e.g. Péreza), to the author institutional affiliation and place of residence.

 D. A footnote on the first page should indicate the e-mail address of the corresponding author, as well as any acknowledgements (external funding, peer contributions).

 E. Below the authors’ names, an abstract of no more than 150 words should be included. The abstract will briefly inform the purpose of the research, the methodology used, and the main findings. Following the abstract, at least three key words and three Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classifications should be added.

F. Section titles should be written on the left margin in boldface, 12 point Times New Roman font. Sections should be numbered successively in upper case Roman numerals (I, II, III, IV, etc). If there are any further subsections of the manuscript, they should be numbered A, B, C, etc, and then 1, 2, 3, etc. If possible, the manuscript should have no more than three types of subdivisions (I, A, 1).

II. Tables, figures and equations

A. Tables or figures, if any, should be submitted in Excel format, in separate pages at the end of the manuscript, in black (no colors), and indicating where they should be inserted in the text. Maps should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi. All tables, figures and maps should be enumerated successively in Arabic numerals (Table 1, Table 2, etc; Graph 1, Graph 2, etc; Map 1, Map 2, etc.). The source should be cited as a footnote to the table, figure or map. Figures and maps should be print ready. Authors should provide the source files of tables, figures and maps, should they have to be edited again.

B. Equations and mathematical formulas should appear in separate lines from the preceding paragraph and should be identified with successive Arabic numerals written in parentheses on the right margin of the page.

C. Decimals should be separated by commas; thousands, by periods. Examples: 3,1416; “per 100.000 people”…

D. Monetary values should be preceded by the name of the currency. Examples: USD $5.000, COP $2’000.000

III. Footnotes and references

A. Footnotes should be used sparingly and only to clarify or expand some idea or concept that does not fit well in the text. References to works cited in the reference list must always be inserted in parenthesis in the text and should include the author’s last name, followed by the year of publication and, if it is a direct quote, the page number. For example: (Lopez, 1990); (Perez and Gonzalez, 1979, pp. 234-35); (Acemoglu, et al., 2004, p. 89).

B. At the end of the manuscript, a list of references should be included. This is a list of books, articles and other materials consulted or cited in the text.

  • References should be listed in alphabetical order by the authors’ last name, except newspaper or magazine articles with no author, which should be listed according to the name of the publication.
  • The name(s) of author(s) should include the complete first and last names.
  • Following the name(s) of author(s), the date of publication should appear in parenthesis.
  • The titles of books, periodical publications and newspapers should be written in italics, but not in boldface or within quotation marks.
  • The titles of articles should be written in regular font within quotation marks and not in boldface.
  • Internet sources must include the date of their retrieval.

Examples:

Books:

Diamond, Jared (1998) Guns, Germs, and Steel, New York: Norton.

Bates, Robert H. (1999), Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Papers:

Cutler, David, Edward Glaeser y Jesse Shapiro (2003), “Why Have Americans Become More Obese”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, No. 3.

Acemoglu, Daron, Camilo García-Jimeno, and James A. Robinson (2012), “Find- ing El Dorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia”, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 40, No. 4.

Unauthored newspaper or magazine  article:

The New York Times (2012), “China’s Banking Leaders Seek to Calm Concerns Over Loan Quality”, p. 3A, november 12.

Theses or dissertations:

Butcher, James Jeffrey (2018), A Study of Identity Issues that Affect Clergy Leadership on LGTBQ Inclusion, Doctoral Thesis, Armidale: University of New England.

 

IV. Submission

Manuscripts submitted for publication in Economía & Región should attend the procedure pointed out at the journal digital website at OJS, located at this url:

https://revistas.utb.edu.co/index.php/economiayregion/about/submissions

Further comments or doubts related to the submission of manuscripts can be addressed to:

Economía & Región

E mail: economiayregion@utb.edu.co

 

 

 

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