Ideas y Valores

Author Guidelines

SCOPE AND EDITORIAL POLICIES

General frame:

Ideas y Valoresisa four-monthly publication (April, August and December) of the Department of Philosophy of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, founded in 1951, which welcomes national and international contributions. Throughout its more than sixty years of existence, the journal's objective has been to provide a space for the publication and dissemination of philosophical work carried out in Colombia. However, Ideas y Valores has always been in close contact with the philosophical work carried out in Latin America and the world. It currently publishes articles and reviews on all philosophical areas in Spanish, Portuguese and, occasionally, English. The journal also receives translations to Spanish of texts which have lost their copyrights or whose copyrights have been bought by or given to the translator and, by extension, to Ideas y Valores.

The journal also designs and publishes supplements on specific authors or topics whenever there are special academic events or at the request of the academic community (these supplements do not interfere with the journal's regular publishing schedule).

Due to the journal's open access policy, we won't ask you any kinf of financial compensation.

Note:

a. The authors' opinions are their own and exclusive responsibility and, therefore, they do not represent Ideas y Valores' or the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s position regarding any topic.

b. The acceptance of advertisements does not imply Ideas y Valores’ or the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s approval or endorsement of the advertised products or services.

FORM AND PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Style

The document may not exceed 25 letter-size pages, in 12-point font, 1.5 spacing (approximately 11,000 words). The file must be in .doc or .rtf format. The document should include the title of the article, the name of the author, institutional affiliation, e-mail (preferably the institutional e-mail), street address, an abstract (in the original language and in Spanish, neither of which should exceed 150 words), and a maximum of five keywords in both the original language and in Spanish. To try to no interrupt unnecessarily the reading, footnotes should be limited to the minimum: if the comment is essential, it should be included in the text; otherwise, it would be best to do without it. Bibliographical references should be included in the body of the article, following the MLA citation system (Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed.). The final list of Works Cited should also follow MLA guidelines. For further information regarding use of the MLA system, click here.

Writing and Legibilityof the Manuscript

Ideas y Valores accepts unpublished research articles which must be carefully prepared by their authors for the journal. In order to foster communication and strengthen our academic communities, we publish texts in Spanish and Portuguese; however, we also publish texts in English, when the authors are not Spanish or Portuguese speakers. It is important for authors to pay special attention to paragraph and sentence construction, taking semantic, syntactical, and orthographic aspects into account, as well as to the argumentative structure of the text, in order to ensure an adequate presentation of the problem and readability for both peer reviewers and the future readers.

By publishing an article, authors generally seek to generate a dialogue with the potential readers that make up the academic communities in the specific area of study. The effectiveness of such dialogue relies on the coherence, scope, and soundness of the argument set forth. Therefore, we encourage contributors to generate interesting, suggestive, and critical dialogues that either trigger or revisit debates that are of interest to contemporary readers.

Contributions submitted to Ideas y Valoresare evaluated through anonymous peer review. The result of the review is communicated within a time period no greater than ninety days. Accepted contributions are published in the order in which they were received, except in the case of supplements.

SENDING OF MANUSCRIPTS

The file(s) should be sent to the following e-mails: revideva_fchbog@unal.edu.co. or ideasyvalores@gmail.com. Contributions must be unpublished (which means that they cannot have appeared neither in electronic publications or on websites such as Scribd, Academia, or other existing electronic means of publication and dissemination, nor in institutional repositories, congress' memories or records or related media). Any articles sent for evaluation by Ideas y Valores should not be simultaneously submitted for consideration to other journals.

Please bear in mind that you must have a user account in order to send articles through our web page. If you have not yet created an account and you wish to send an article, you must select the author role; if you already created an account with a different role, add the author role in order to send the article. If you have trouble logging in or creating a user account, please contact us.

Once the document is sent to our email address (ideasyvalores@gmail.com) or uploaded onto our website, the author(s) will be informed of the time period for publication (which depends on the journal's schedule, which is established according to the order of approval of the articles). Once an affirmative response is received, the article is sent to evaluation throughout the week after its reception.

GUIDELINE FOR REVIEWS

Book reviews may be of three types: a) descriptive reviews, which inform the future reader about the contents of the book and some of its characteristics; b) analytical reviews, which examine the contents of the book in order to point out its scope and delimitations; and c) critical reviews, which involve a genuine engagement with the book, highlighting its achievements, discussing its theses, and, perhaps, proposing alternative theses. Documents may not exceed 15 letter-size pages, in 12-point font, 1.5 spacing (approximately 7000 words). Files must be in.doc or .rtf format. The document should provide the relevant information regarding the reviewed book, including publisher and number of pages, the name of the reviewer, institutional affiliation, e-mail, and street address. In order to submit your review through the web page, click here, or you may write to us at: revideva_fchbog@unal.edu.co or ideasyvalores@gmail.com.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. For Authors

Please read carefully the following considerations before submitting your manuscript to Ideas y Valores:

1.1 Exclusivity of Submission

Articles submitted to Ideas y Valores should not be simultaneously submitted for consideration to other journals, since this compromises the originality of the articles and the rights regarding their publication. Any previous version of the article that has been uploaded onto the web so it can be read and commented on by other academic peers should be withdrawn at the moment the article is submitted to the journal.

1.2 Plagiarism and Self-plagiarism

It is unacceptable to partially or totally reproduce or paraphrasetexts by other authors,without adequate citation of the source. Likewise, it is also unacceptable to partially or totally reproduceone's own texts that have already been published elsewhere, without explicitly including the complete information regarding said publication.

1.3 Diligence

The authors are responsible for carrying out any tasks deriving from the peer review and publication process, such as:

a) Revising the text and including the corrections suggested by the peer reviewer.

b) Responding to the observations and questions which arose during the editing process (copy editing, proofreading, and adaptation to journal guidelines).

These tasks must be carried out within the time periods agreed upon by the author and the journal.

ESTIMATED PUBLICATION TIME:

The evaluation for each article takes approximately 90 days. In case it is approved for publication, it may be scheduled in our January, May or September 2024 issue, due to the volume of articles that our journal receives.