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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Indications and recommendations for papers

Recommendations for authors

The submitted articles must be unedited and have not been previously submitted to any other publication.
- The articles must clearly state the title and subtitle (if applicable), as well as the name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliations and email address. A copy of the author's resume or CV must be included.

- The text must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words in English or Spanish. It is recommended that the abstract include the purpose of the study or research, the basic procedures used, the most important results and the principal conclusions.

- The author should present and identify 3-6 keywords for the test in English or Spanish.Rules
Rules for the Presentation of Texts

The text can include quotations, footnotes, tables, legends and bibliographical references. It should be digitally presented, clear and clean, in Arial 12 pt font, double-spaced on letter-sized paper, 21,5 x 28 cm. Left and right margins should be 2,5 cm, top and bottom margins should be 3 cm. Articles should have a minimum of 15 and maximum of 25 pages; reviews should be maximum 7 pages long. All pages must be numbered consecutively. No other formatting than the one mentioned here is allowed.

Tables and Figures

All graphic material must be referenced in the text, either directly or in parenthesis. It must be presented separately from the text and be numbered consecutively (Figure 11, Map1, Image 1, etc.).
It must include the source and the title. It must be presented in a graphic program (such as Photo Editor, Photo Impact, PhotoShop, Corel, etc.) and not in Word. If any authorizations/copyrights for
images are required, the author of the article must obtain those.

Titles and Subtitles
The title of the document should synthesize the principal idea and avoid words that are not carrying a useful purpose, extend its length or confuse the reader. The title should be brief. Subtitles should indicate principal subdivisions of the text and should orient the reader about the topics that the text covers. There should be no more than three hierarchies of subtitles, which should precisely represent the organization of the document.

TITLE
First Subtitle
First subheading related to subtitle
Footnotes and Quotes

Notes (footnotes) should always be located at the bottom of the page.

They serve to comment, complement or deepen important information from the text. They should not be bibliographical notes, unless they refer to quotes from newspapers, magazines or judgments – such as from the Constitutional Court or State Counsel, among others. Textual quotes of more than three lines or others that need to stand out should be presented in a separate paragraph. Quotes within the text should be placed in Latin quotation marks (« and »; alt+174 and alt+175).

Bibliography and Bibliographical References

Bibliographical quotes should be referenced within the text and must include the author's last name, the year, and – if necessary – the page number(s), as follows: (Rodríguez, 1978: 424-427); for two authors, use the following: (López y Arango, 1970: 33); for multiple authors, use: (López y Arango, 1970: 33); for more than two works of the same author in the same year, use: (Díaz, 1998a, 1998b): for works of several authors of different years in the same quote, use: : (Rodríguez, 1978; López y Arango, 1970:33; Uribe et al., 1997). A detailed bibliography or bibliographical references must be included at the end of each work. It must be presented in strict alphabetical order, with ful first and last names. Using continuous capital letters is only permitted for abbreviations and acronyms. This journal follows the APA rules for publications, not for institutional works

Internet articles based on a written source:

If your are referencing an online article that you think has changed from its original version (for example, the format is changed from the printed version or page numbers are not referenced) or that includes additional data or commentary, you must include the date you have retrieved the document and the corresponding URL.