Ensayos de Economía

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

The journal, Ensayos de Economía, from the Faculty of Human and Economic Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín,) requests individuals interested in publishing papers in the journal to carefully read its editorial policy and to take into account the following guidelines:

Norms for Manuscript Submission

Regarding the type of manuscripts that may be submitted to the journal. Publishable papers must be of the following types:

Paper on scientific and technological research: document that presents, in a detailed fashion, original results of finished research projects. It is generally structured in four separated blocks: introduction, methodology, results, and conclusions.

Analysis paper: document that presents the results of a finished research project, citing the original sources, from an analytical, interpretative, or critical perspective held by the author on a specific subject.

Review paper: document presented as the result of a finished research project, in which results of published or unpublished research on economic science are analyzed and systematized with the aim of showing advances and development trends in a given area. This type of paper presents a meticulous literature review with at least 50 references.

Short paper: short document that presents original preliminary or partial results of a scientific research project that usually requires prompt distribution.

Case report: document that presents the results of a study on a particular situation with the aim of portraying the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific case. It includes a systematic and commented literature review of analogous cases.

Subject review: document that results from a critical literature review on a particular subject.

Editorial: document written by the editor, a member of the editorial committee or a guest researcher on diverse orientations in the thematic domain of the journal.

Translation: translations of classical or current texts, or transcriptions of historical documents of particular interest in the publishing domain of the journal.

Analysis document not derived from research

Book Review

Authors must submit the manuscripts through the journal’s platform https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ede/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions and to the following email address: ensayos_med@unal.edu.co. In a separate file, authors must provide:

• Name of the author(s) as it (they) should appear in the published paper
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/register
• Institutional affiliation: current position, university (country, city), research group.
• Google Scholar Citation Profile
• Latest academic degree: program, university (country, city).
• Origin of the paper: indicate if the paper is the result of research or a thesis, among
others, and whether it was financed. If the paper was financed, include the name of
the sponsoring or financing institution, mode of financing, code, period and state of the
paper –partial or final result.
• Publications during the past two years.

• In the effort to ensure ethical practices in research, the journal Ensayos de Economía requests authors to inform whether their research involved experiments with human beings or treatment with vulnerable populations. If so, the authors must report it and declare that they have the informed consent and permissions to carry out the research. If necessary, the journal may request such documentation from the authors.

Authors agree to carry out all modifications suggested by the reviewers and by the journal’s editorial team, submitting the modified version no later than 15 weekdays after being notified about the review and the necessary adjustments.

The paper must be written in Word format, 12pt Arial font, single line spacing.

Papers must be between 7,000 and 10,000 words long.

The paper’s title must be concise and summarize the work’s content. An English version of the title must be included.

The paper must contain an abstract (150 words maximum) both in Spanish and English.

Four or five codes from the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification system (available at: http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.php) must be included.

Headings: First level Arial 14 bold-faced, left-justified spacing before and after the title. Second level Arial 14 light, spacing before and after. Third level Arial 12, spacing before and after. Fourth level Arial 12 italic, colon and text right after.

Figures, tables and images must have a short and descriptive label. They must be numbered independently (Table 1, Table 2, etc.; Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.) and the source of the information must be indicated below (or say “elaborated by the author” if that is the case). Additionally, abbreviations and symbols must be explained below the figure/table/image. All figures, tables and images included must be referenced in the text.

All figures, tables and images must be listed and numbered at the end of the document. Large figures or images must be attached in jpg or tiff format of 300dpi and 240 pixels. The author’s submission of the corresponding authorization to publish the images must be verified. It is advised to send images in black and white or in grayscale.

It is required to include indications within the text at the desired location of figures, tables and images. They should be placed in brackets, in the following manner:

                                    [Insert Table 1 here]

These resources must be used moderately. They must be clear, legible, and relevant to the arguments presented in the paper.

Equations must be consecutively numbered using brackets ([1], [2], [3], etc.). Mathematical symbols must be clear and legible. Subscripts and superscripts must be appropriately positioned.

Footnotes must be employed for definitions and clarifications, or to refer the reader to other works of interest or to authors who deal to a greater extent with the subjects that, for any reason, the author cannot fully develop. Footnotes must not be used to cite works employed as supporting material while writing the paper.

In-text bibliographical references must use the author-date system, with parentheses, right after the citation: author’s last name, year of publishing, page (Wicksell, 1947, p. 97).

Bibliographical references must be organized at the end of the document in alphabetical order by last name using the APA system. They must be limited to works effectively used and referenced in the text. The detailed instructions to organize the bibliographical references are the following:

References

The list of references contains the complete information about the sources cited in the text. It allows readers to identify and locate sources in order to verify or complement the information.

In the list of references, authors only include the sources effectively used in the text. Thus, the list of references includes works that support a specific paper. In contrast, a bibliography includes works that served as support while writing the paper or that are useful for a later reading, and it may contain descriptive notes. For citations and references included in the paper, the Ensayos de Economía journal uses the sixth edition of the American Psychological Association (APA) citation norms. All information and required punctuation details (comma, period, colon, parenthesis, etc.) must be taken into account.

All authors cited in the text must coincide with the list of references at the end of the document. An author that was not cited in the text must never be referenced and vice versa. The list of references is organized in alphabetical order using French indentation. Arabic numbers —not Roman— must be used to indicate numbers or volumes of a given publication.

Below are examples that illustrate the differences between in-text (T) citation and citation in the list of references (R).

Books in Print

Books with one author
T: (Sarmiento, 1998, pp. 52-78)
R: Last name, A. A. (Year). Title. City: Publisher.
Example: Sarmiento, E. (1998). Alternativas a la encrucijada neoliberal. Mercado, narcotráfico y descentralización. Bogotá: Ecoe Ediciones.

Book with two or more authors

T: (Brand & Prada, 2003, p.78)
R: Last name, A. A., & Last name, B. B. (Year). Title. City: Publisher.
Example: Brand, P., & Prada, F. (2003). La invención de futuros urbanos. Medellín: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Book with editor
T: (Last name, year, p.)
R: Last name, A. A. (Ed.). (Year). Title. City: Publisher.

Electronic book
T: (Last name, year)
R: Last name, A. A. (Year). Title. Recovered from http://www.xxxxxx.xxx

Electronic book with DOI:
T: (Last name, year)
R: Last name, A. A. (Year). Title. DOI: xx.xxxxxxxx

Reprint or updated edition
T: (Marx & Engels, 1971 [1848], p. 42)
R: Last name, A. A. (most recent publishing year). Title. City: Publisher, (Original work published in XXXX).
Example: Marx, K. & Engels, F. (1971). El Manifiesto del Partido Comunista. Pekín: Ediciones en Lenguas Extranjeras, (Original work published in 1848).

Book Chapters
A chapter of a book is referenced when there is an editor and the book is composed of chapters written by different authors.
T: (Herrera & Lozano, 2005, pp. 140-165)
R: Last name, A. A., & Last name, B. B. (Year). Title of chapter or entry. In A. A. Last name (ed.), Title of book (pp. xx-xx). City: Publisher.
Example: Herrera, J. P., & Lozano, F. (2005). Juegos No-Cooperativos con Información Simétrica. In S. Monsalve & J. Arévalo (ed.), Un Curso de Teoría de Juegos Clásica (pp. 139-179). Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Scientific Papers

Paper with DOI
T: (Bezuidenhout, 2006)
R: Last name, A. A., Last name, B. B, & Last name, C. C. (year). Title of paper. Name of magazine, volume (number), pp-pp. doi: xx.xxxxxxx
Example: Bezuidenhout, A. (2006). Consciousness and Language (review). Language, 82(4), 930-934. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2006.0184

Paper without DOI
T: (Antonelli, 2007)
R: Last name, A. A., Last name, B. B, & Last name, C. C. (year). Title of paper. Name of magazine, volume(number), pp-pp.
Example: Antonelli, E. (2007). Fundamentos de la Oferta Agregada ¿Existen posibilidades para la política macroeconómica? Ensayos de Economía, 17(30), 10-49.

Online article
T: (Representaciones sobre el gobierno en niños, niñas y adolescentes de Bucaramanga,
2012, p. 5)
R: Last name, A. A. (Year). Title of paper. Name of magazine, volume(number), pp-pp. Retrieved of http:/ /www.xxxxxx.xxx

Variations according to author

One author: as indicated above.
Two to seven authors: List all authors using commas. Use “&” instead of “and.”
Eight or more authors: List the first six authors, then use ellipsis and list the last author.
Anonymous author: place the full title of the article in the place of the author.
Example: Representaciones sobre el gobierno en niños, niñas y adolescentes de Bucaramanga. (2012). Revista latinoamericana de ciencias sociales, niñez y juventud, 10(2), 4-9

Newspaper

In print with authorLast name A. A. (Date).
Title of the article. Title of the newspaper, pp-pp.

In print without author
Title of the article. (Date). Title of the newspaper, pp-pp.

Online
Last name, A. A. (Date). Title of the article. Title of the newspaper. Retrieved from http:/ /www.xxxxxx.xxx
Example: Bonet, E. (2011, september 30). Miles de personas oran en la plaza Tahrir de El Cairo. El Tiempo. Retrieved from http://www.eltiempo.com/

Other Text Types

Corporate authors or government reports
T: (Name of the corporation [acronym], year)
R: Name of the organization. (year). Title of the report (Number of the publication). Retrieved from http:/ /www.xxxxxx.xxx

Symposia and conferences
Last name, A. A., & Last name, B. B. (Date). Title of the talk. In A. Last name of the congress president (Presidency), Title of the symposium or congress. Symposium or conference presented at Name of the organization, Place.
Example: Manrique, D., & Aponte, L. (2011, June). Evolución en el estudio y conceptualización de la consciencia. In H. Castillo (Presidency), El psicoanálisis en Latinoamérica. Symposium presented
at XXXIII Congreso Iberoamericano de Psicología, Medellín, Colombia.

Thesis
Last name, A. A., & Last name, B. B. (year). Title of the thesis (undergraduate, master or doctoral thesis). Name of the institution, Place.

Online Thesis
Last name, A. A., & Last name, B. B. (year). Title of the thesis (undergraduate, master or doctoral thesis). Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxx.xxx

Websites
Last name, A. A. (Date). Name of the website. Place of publishing: Publisher. Retrieved from http://www.xxxxxx.xxx

Film/movie
Last name of the producer, A. A. (producer) & Last name of the director, A. (director). (release year). Title of the motion picture [motion picture]. Country of Origin: Studio.

Blog
Last name, A. (Date). Post title [Blog post]. Retrieved from http:/ /www.xxxxxx.xxx

Photograph
[Photograph by Name and Last Name of photographer]. (Place, year). Name of collection. Location.

Note: op. cit., ibid. o ibidem should not be used in any case.