ISSN 0120-2596
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

The Lecturas de Economía journal is a key source for economists in higher education, business, government service and the financial sector, and for those who want to keep abreast in current thinking (theory and applications) in economics and in the most recent scientific developments. Therefore, it should be constantly consulted by graduate and undergraduate students, teachers and all the scientific community that wishes to have an updated economical knowledge.

This journal contains theoretical and applied economical papers that are, generally, a research product. The papers are evaluated by specialized economists in the field to which the paper belongs. Also, the editorial and scientific committees determine if the articles are promising for future publications. Therefore, submitted papers should make a contribution to economics, be technically well-crafted and be of interest to economists at large. No paper will be rejected solely on the grounds of being too technical, too applied, or for the ideology that it belongs to. Nevertheless, to assist the general reader, we do require authors to make a great effort to motivate their work and to communicate their contribution in a clear manner.

1) Lecturas de Economía publishes only high quality, well-written and well-argued articles that are significant for the discipline. It is recommended to the authors to write with the greatest possible rigor, using good spelling, making homogenous and clear paragraphs. Please, avoid redundancies in the text and repeating abbreviations constantly; these do not replace the word's meaning and make the readers get tired and lose incentives to read your text.

2) Submitting a paper to Lecturas de Economía requires that the author does not submit it simultaneously neither partially nor completely to another journal. It also has to fulfill the proposed norms by our journal in order to be taken into account.

3) Paper should not exceed 8,000 words.

4) When the article is written by different authors, one of them should be appointed to intercede with the journal during the evaluation and editorial review process.

5) All the articles must have a page in which appears the title, name of the author(s), the institution to which they belong, their email and the quantity of words that the paper has but it must be independent from the whole paper, therefore, it should begin (the article) with the title but the name of the authors should not appear in this page or in the interior of the paper. We also require an abstract (120 or fewer words) and some key words (between three and five) that allow an easy identification of the texts general idea and that appear in the Journal of Economic Literature –JEL–. Paper must be written at double space and presented on letter paper. They should include: 1) Contents Table (as it appears in published papers in Lecturas de Economía, i.e. –Introduction. –I. Literature Review. –II. Econometric Model. –III. Results. –Conclusions. –Annexes. –Bibliography.), 2) Introduction, 3) Theory and Methodology, 4) Conclusions (structured in paragraphs), 5) Annexes (if necessary) and 6) Bibliography. Statistical information should be named as Table or Graph and must be referenced in the paper.

6) The papers are evaluated by anonymous referees. So, authors should not be identified anywhere in the paper. This includes links to data sets or appendices that are posted on the individual Web pages of the author(s). All acknowledgements must be removed.

7) The author(s) is responsible for the statistical information contained in graphs or tables. Primary sources, mathematical procedures and complete demonstrations must to be annexed for the referees to examine. The sources of graphs and tables have to be accurate and precise showing the exact precedence of the information, that is, you have to mention the journal, magazine or newspaper from which you took the data and not simply say, as source, the institution that elaborates the data. Equations must to be numbered in parenthesis and be placed on the right; all variables will be set in italics, matrices will be set in bold.

8) References have to be presented in the following format:

• Books: Surname, Name, year, Book's Title, Subtitle –if it has–, city, quoted pages.
• Articles: Surname, Name, year, "Papers Title", Journal's Title, volume, number, quoted pages. Subtitle –if it has–, city, quoted pages.
• Electronical information: Surname, Name, year, "Title", [type of document –internet paper, data base on the internet], name of the section from which the information was extracted, publication date –last update–, electronical address, access route –if necessary–, access date.

The author must provide, at least the first time, the complete equivalence of abbreviations or acronyms used in the text, in the bibliography, tables or graphs.

9) Once the paper is approved, the author(s) must hand over property rights to the journal. Final approval is subject to this requirement.

The journal, with consent of the author or authors, will make the publishing changes that are necessary to give the article the greater clarity, precision and coherence as possible.

The journal will send the author a diagramed reading proof of the paper on PDF. The author must send it back within a week with all the proper corrections (if any). After that period no modifications to the paper will be accepted.

10) The authors, when they are less than three, will receive each two journals but when they are three or more they will receive one each. Besides, they will receive five printed copies of the paper and an electronically version of it on PDF.

11) Lecturas de Economía will contact the authors as soon as it has the evaluation results from the different referees in order to explain the following steps to publish in our journal.

Manuscripts should be sent to:
Centro de Investigaciones Económicas (CIE).
Office 13-120
Universidad de Antioquia.
Ciudad Universitaria.
Apartado 1226. Medellín, Colombia.
Or by Email to: lecturas@udea.edu.co