Guidelines for authors
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As part of the submission process, authors are required to ensure their submission meets all of the criteria listed below. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to authors.
1. The document must be a scientific article within the Economics and Administrative Sciences and related sciences in Spanish and English. The authors' and their institutions' information should not be included in the Word file (included on the cover page) to facilitate anonymous peer review. This information will be added during the final editing process.
2.The article format must meet the following requirements:
2a. It must be submitted in Word, using 12-point Times New Roman font with 1.5 line spacing, justified paragraphs; all margins at 2.5 centimeters; and pagination below the bottom of the page.
2b. The article must be 15 to 20 pages long, including graphs and charts without references. The text must not be written using any template.
2c. Charts, graphs, images, and figures must be numbered and have a title at the top in 10-point Times New Roman and a font at the bottom. Format with single line spacing, 0 before and 6 after paragraphs, and a hanging indent of 0.51, and in editable format.
2d. Section headings will be at three levels: Level 1: Centered heading in bold, capitalized, numbered. Level 2: Left-aligned heading in bold, with upper and lower case, and numbered. Level 3: Italicized heading, with upper and lower case.
2e. Citations and references should follow the style proposed in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th Edition (download here). Whenever possible, the DOI is provided in the references section.
3. The body of the document must include:
3a) Title in Spanish and English. If the article is written in Spanish, it must contain the title in Spanish in Times Roman 14 pt, centered and bold. The title in English must be in Times Roman 12 pt, centered and bold. If it is written in English, the format is the opposite.
3b) Abstract in Spanish and English in Times New Roman 11 pt, with the word "Abstract" in bold and centered. It must contain no more than 200 words.
3c) Keywords and corresponding JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) codes in Spanish and English (no more than 5). Keywords in Spanish and English must be in Times New Roman 11 pt, bold, and centered. JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) codes must be included in English and Spanish on the first page.
3d) Introduction or presentation of the article.
3e) Theoretical, conceptual, or reference development of the research / Literature review.
3f) Methodology / Methodological design of the research.
3g) Results of the research.
3h) Discussion or argumentation of the results.
31) Conclusions and social, business, or governmental implications (scope of work).
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