Communication types

Revista Encrucijada Americana receives and publishes three types of unpublished communications: Scientific articles; Essays; News and references, written in the official languages of the magazine: Spanish, English, Portuguese.

Scientific articles are understood to be those coming from research projects and calls for review (generally associated with the initial part of research papers) and written under the IMRC modality: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Conclusions (IMRaD, in English)

The Essays correspond to free but well-founded expositions and reflections, not subject to the IMRyD modality, although attached to the formality of academic communication.

News and references include notices of past or future events and book reviews

 

Preparation rules

Scientific articles must have a maximum length of 20 single-spaced letter-size pages. Essays must have a maximum length of 10 single-spaced letter-size pages, and News and bibliographic references: 3 single-spaced letter-size pages

Margins: 3 centimeters on its 4 sides

Source: Times New Roman 12; footer: Times New Roman: 10

Scientific articles and Essays must be accompanied by:

• An abstract of no more than 200 words in both the original language and English.
• Five keywords in both the original language and English.
• In a separate file, the name of the author (s) must be reported, indicating who is the main author and who or who are secondary. For each of them, a brief CV must be added in which their institutional membership, country of origin, academic training, specialization, relevant publications, ORCID Identity or equivalent and email address must be included. Finally, the following sentence should be pasted: "This shipment is indeed unpublished, not previously published nor delivered in parallel to another magazine."

Proposals must be sent in Microsoft Word to the email: encrucijada@uahurtado.cl

 

Bibliographic references

Bibliographic references should follow the guidelines stipulated by the American Psychological Association (APA). Help at http://guiastematicas.bibliotecas.uc.cl/normasapa They will be placed at the end of the text. References must follow the alphabetical order of the authors' last name. If there are two or more references by the same author, they will be sorted by ascending date of publication.

• Books: Last name, First name initials (year of publication). Title, (edition number, if not the first). Plaza: Editorial. Example: Chesneaux, J. (1976). East Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2nd Edition. Spain: New Clio.
• Book chapters: Surname, initials of the name (year of publication). "Chapter title". In initials of the name and surname of the main person in charge of the book, Title of the book, place, publisher, pages that the chapter occupies. Example: Motta Veiga, P. (2009). Brazil's Trade Policy: Moving away from old paradigms? In L. Brainardy L. Martínez-Díaz (eds.), Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil's Changing Role in the Global Economy., Washington DC, The Brooking Institutions Press, pp. 108-122.
• Electronic book: Last name, First name initials (year of publication). Retrieved from URL.
• Articles in printed magazines: Last name, First name initials (year of publication). "Article title". Title of the serial publication, vol. [volume], no. [number], pp. [pages]. Example: Hopkin, J. (2001). “Bringing the members back in? Democratizing candidate selection in Britain and Spain ”. Party Politics, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 81-96.
• Articles in electronic journals: Surname, initials of the name (year of publication). "Article title". Title of the serial publication, vol. [volume], no. [number], pp. [pages]. Retrieved in URL.

Footnotes: Footnotes should only be used to provide additional information. Source: Garamond 10, justified alignment.

In-text citations: citations must follow the guidelines stipulated by the aforementioned APA.

All the references cited in the text must be present in the Bibliographic References. Avoid citation in abstract. Unpublished results and personal communications should not be on the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citing a reference as "in press" implies that the article has been accepted for publication.