Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submissions must strictly adhere to the following guidelines. Those that do not comply with the editorial recommendations will be returned for adjustment before being considered for review by the Editorial Committee.

The Journal sections relate directly to the main areas of the School of Government, Politics and International Relations: politics, economics and society; international relations; parliamentarianism, public policy, smart cities and digital government and environmental management.

Submissions are received through the Open Journal System, which can be accessed via this portal. Submissions must meet all the requirements specified by the system.

Articles are accepted in both Spanish and English, with translation subject to the discretion of the Editorial Committee.

Editing and publication of the accepted article

The Journal reserves the right to make minor modifications to the article before publication, which will not alter the content or central ideas of the text. These modifications pertain to formal aspects, such as spelling corrections, clarification of wording, or any other style-related aspects.

Accepted articles will be edited and sent to the corresponding author to address any questions or clarify any doubts the editor may have, approve the corrections, and give final approval. If the author does not satisfactorily respond to the editor's queries within 48 hours of communication, the Journal reserves the right to either not publish the work or to publish it with the adjustments made.

General instructions

Manuscripts (articles and theses) must be submitted in Microsoft Word format in two versions: one complete, which should include the authors' information, primary current affiliation, and a brief reference about their academic background and area of expertise not exceeding 50 words; and another anonymized version, without any author information, for the evaluation process.

Files in PDF format will not be accepted. Images included in the article should be sent as attachments with the highest possible resolution (in JPG, GIF, or TIFF format). They should also be embedded in the text with their corresponding identification (figure, number, title, source, etc.). Tables or graphs should be embedded in the text and also attached separately in the submission. Format: Arial 10, in grayscale. The digital files for images, graphs, and tables should be named according to their corresponding number in the text.

Fragments, phrases, or words transcribed in a foreign language must be italicized. Exceptions include geographic names, names of entities, organizations, institutions, corporations, as well as names of agreements, pacts, or treaties, etc.

The article must comply with the following characteristics:

Format

* Original in Microsoft Word, A4 size, with normal margins and double-spaced throughout the entire document, with no extra spaces before or after paragraphs.

Fonts

* Titles and Subtitles (all levels): Times New Roman, bold, 12-point size, double-spaced. Numbering style: sequential in Arabic numerals (do not use Roman numerals).

* Main Text: Times New Roman, 12-point size, double-spaced. Bold is only allowed for titles and subtitles.

* Footnotes: Times New Roman, 10-point size, single-spaced. Superscript consecutive Arabic numerals are used for references, placed after punctuation marks when applicable, e.g., ³

* Block quotes of 40 words or more (set in a separate paragraph): Times New Roman, 10-point size, double-spaced, 1.5-inch indentation for the entire paragraph.

Research Articles

Manuscripts must be original and unpublished works that have not been partially or fully published in print or electronic format, nor submitted for review to any other medium.

They should include the title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and 3 keywords, all provided in both Spanish and English.

Length: 8000 words (including abstract, keywords, bibliography, etc.).

Studies, Presentations, and Situational Analyses

Manuscripts derived from research project results, presentations at conferences or symposia, and situational analysis works with scientific backing will be accepted.   

They should include the title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and 3 keywords, all provided in both Spanish and English.

Length: between 4500 and 8000 words (including abstract, keywords, bibliography, charts, tables, etc.).

Theses

Undergraduate and postgraduate theses that have received the highest grade awarded by an evaluation committee and have been recommended for publication will be accepted.

They should include the title, an abstract of no more than 200 words, and 3 keywords, all provided in both Spanish and English.

Length: 6000 words (including abstract, keywords, bibliography, etc.).

Book Reviews

Book reviews of recently published works related to the themes covered by the Journal will be accepted. They must include the bibliographic details of the book being reviewed: author(s), year of publication, title of the book, city of publication, publisher, and total number of pages.

Length: 3000 words (including abstract, keywords, bibliography, etc.).

Authorship roles notice

At the end of each article, must be included the type of responsibility each author has had in preparing the work. To do so, it must be used the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). This taxonomy aims to provide credit to all roles involved in a research process and to ensure that these roles are visualized and acknowledged during the communication of results. The definition of fourteen categories also allows these authorship roles to be identified as objects of retrieval, making them suitable for classification and subsequent reuse within other research processes.

All roles can be found at: http://vocabularios.caicyt.gov.ar/credit/en/

Examples

* One author

               The author declares having performed all authorship roles in this article.

* Two ore more authors

               López, J: investigation, methodology; Suárez, M.: data curation, writing, original draft; Gómez, A.: investigation,
               visualization, writing, review & editing; García, D.: writing, review & editing.

               All authors contributed to the conception of the idea, study design, the research process, data collection,
               analysis, and interpretation, and the writing of the article.

Conflict of interest notice

At the end of the work, it must be stated that the author has no conflict of interest.

Mandatory deposit of supporting data

National authors should be aware that, due to Law 26899 “Creation of Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories, Own or Shared,” if their research results published in the article have been funded or co-funded with public funds, they are required to publish their work and primary data in institutional repositories, whether their own or shared. The citation of the deposited dataset must appear in the bibliography section of the article.

Citations and References

Manuscripts must adhere to the citation and reference style of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition. It is recommended to consult the APA 7th Edition Guide.

Explanatory notes should be placed as footnotes, not at the end of the document. Their length should not exceed a five clarifying lines and should not include lengthy excerpts (unless absolutely necessary).

The following examples should be followed:

Quotes

References to authors must be embedded in the text and footnote: (Bianchi, 2005).

If two authors are cited, both last names are included: (Marcus & Perry, 1985).

If the quote refers to three or more authors, the first last name is written, followed by the term "et al.":
 (Álvarez et al., 2015).

Exact quotes of up to 40 words are written between inverted commas and without using italics:

            Therefore, advisory opinions play a critical role in the development of international human right law principles since,
            as mentioned by Buergenthal (1985), “they seem to adapt better to the articulation of general legal principles
            than contentious cases” (p. 18).

Exact quotes of more than 40 words must be in a different paragraph with a 1.5 indentation and without inverted commas or italics.

            After assuming the right not to apply anti-constitutional laws, the Supreme Court adopted such a moderate position
            that it did not reject any law for over half a century. This happened in 1857, in another famous case: 
            Dred Scott v. Sanford. (Bidegain, 1994, p. 127)

If any exact quote taken from a digital work does not have the page number identified, the paragraph number must be identified:

            Notice that a government might  –in a procedural law, which may be passed by simple majority –
            group all the judges that may be disturbing ans assign them to a secondary chamber, and
            assign more favorable judges to a  more central chamber with more participation possibilities. (Arballo, 2014, par. 9)           

Exact quotes in foreign languages must be between inverted commas and without italics.

Authors are recommended to avoid self-references, i.e., citing themselves in the article body.

Bibliography

Authors will be listed in alphabetical order and in chronological order when different works by the same author are quoted. Should there be more than one wok by the same author with the same date, they must be identified by adding a lower case letter, such as: (2006a), (2006b).

Should there be works without a specified date, the following must be included: (n.d.).

Should there be two or more works by the same author without a specified date, the following must be included: (n.d.-a), (n.d.-b).

The following style is recommended:

* Printed book

            Last Name, N. (year) Work Title. Publishing Company.
            Powe, L. A. (2021). The Supreme Court and the American Elite (2^a ed.). University Press of Kansas.

* Online book

            Last Name, N. and Last Name, N. (year). Book Title. Publishing Company. https://doi.org
            Last Name, N. and Last Name, N. (year). Book Title. Publishing Company. https://www.url.com
            Bork, R. H. (1996). The End of Democracy? Our Judicial Oligarchy. First Things. https://perma.cc/WN2S-MD93

* Book with editor, coordinator, director

            Last Name, N. (Publ.) (year). Work Title. Publishing Company
            Goldstein, J., Kahler, M., Keohane, R. O. y Slaughter, A. M. (Eds.). (2001). Legalization and World Politics. MIT Press.

            Last Name, N. and Last Name, N. (Coords.) (year). Work Title. Publishing Company
            Laveaga, G. (Coord.). (2018). Rostros y Personajes de las Ciencias Penales. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias
            Penales (México).

* Book chapter

            Last Name, N. (year) Chapter or Entry Title In Last Name, N. (Publ.), Book title (Chapter beginning-end pages).
            Publishing Company.
            Habermas, J. (1988). Law as medium and law as institution. En Teubner, G. (Ed.), Dilemmas of Law in
            the Welfare State (pp. 203-220). Walter De Gruyter.

            Last Name, N. (year). Chapter or Entry Title In Last Name, N. (Publ.), Book title (xx publisher, Vol. xx, chapter beginning-end pages). Publishing Company.
            Smith, J. C. (1964). Muerte. En Lerner, B. (Ed.), Enciclopedia Jurídica Omeba (Tomo XIX, pp. 932-936).
            Editorial Bibliográfica Argentina Omeba.

 * Article in journal

            Last Name, N. (year). Article Title. Journal Name, Volume(number), page numbers xx-xx.
            Bianchi, A. B. (2020). El hábeas corpus federal en los Estados Unidos. Su principal diferencia de fondo con
            nuestro sistema. Revista Jurídica Austral, 1(1), 91-168.

            Last Name, N. (year). Article title. Journal Name, Volume(number), page numbers xx-xx.
            https://doi.org
            Bianchi, A. B. (2020). El hábeas corpus federal en los Estados Unidos. Su principal diferencia de fondo con
            nuestro sistema. Revista Jurídica Austral, 1(1), 91-168. https://doi.org/10.26422/RJA.2020.0101.bia

            Last Name, N. (year). Article Title. Journal Name, Volume(number), page numbers xx-xx.
            https://www.url.com
            Bianchi, A. B. (2020). El hábeas corpus federal en los Estados Unidos. Su principal diferencia de fondo con
            nuestro sistema. Revista Jurídica Austral, 1(1), 91-168. https://ojs.austral.edu.ar/index.php/juridicaaustral/article/view/336

* Works by unidentified authors

            Work Title. (year). Source.
            Derechos de propiedad intelectual en la era de la Inteligencia Artificial: Retos y oportunidades en la economía
            digital. (2023). Prometheo CDA. https://prometheo.pe/derechos-de-propiedad-intelectual-en-la-era-de-la-
            inteligencia-artificial-retos-y-oportunidades-en-la-economia-digital/

* Newspaper Article

            Last Name, N. (day, month, year). Article Title. Newspaper Name, page number.
            Ruiz Robledo, A. (1 de septiembre de 2020). El parlamentarismo difuminado. El País, p. 7.

            Last Name, N. (day, month, year). Article Title. Newspaper Name. https://www.url.com
            Ruiz Robledo, A. (1 de septiembre de 2020). El parlamentarismo difuminado. El País.
            https://elpais.com/opinion/2020-08-31/el-parlamentarismo-difuminado.html
            

* Newspaper article by unidentified author

            Article title. (day, month, year). Newspaper Name, page number.
            Javier Milei will be Argentina’s first libertarian president. (23 de noviembre de 2023). The Economist, p. 8.

            Article title. (day, month, year). Newspaper Name. https://www.url.com
            Javier Milei will be Argentina’s first libertarian president. (23 de noviembre de 2023). The Economist. 
            https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/11/23/javier-milei-will-be-argentinas-first-libertarian-president

* Dictionaries or encyclopedias

            Author or Editor’s Last Name, N. (Publisher, when he/she is the editor). (Year). Dictionary or Encyclopedia Name 
            (xx publisher, Vol. xx). Publishing Company.
            Real Academia Española. (2024). Diccionario de la lengua española (24ª ed.). https://dle.rae.es

*Thesis and doctoral thesis

            Last Name, N. (year). Thesis Title (Graduate, Master’s or Doctoral Thesis). Name of the institution, City.
            Tejeda Barbarito, E. (2022). La legitimidad del control de constitucionalidad en un sistema democrático de gobierno en el
            pensamiento de Jeremy Waldron y Roland Dworkin (Tesis doctoral). Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Austral,
            Buenos Aires.

            Last Name, N. (year). Thesis Title (Graduate, Master’s or Doctoral Thesis). Name of the institution, City.
            https://www.url.com
            Tejeda Barbarito, E. (2022). La legitimidad del control de constitucionalidad en un sistema democrático de gobierno en el
            pensamiento de Jeremy Waldron y Roland Dworkin (Tesis doctoral). Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Austral,
            Buenos Aires. https://riu.austral.edu.ar/handle/123456789/1873

* Reference to websites

            Last Name, N. (year). Article title. Website Name. https://www.url.com
            Moran, B. y Vézina, B. (10 de agosto de 2020). Can machines write like Jane Austen? Creative Commons.
            https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/can-machines-write-like-jane-austen/

            Website or Institution Name. (year). Article title. https://www.url.com
            Contractscounsel.com. (2024). Data Licensing Agreements. https://www.contractscounsel.com/t/us/data-license-
            agreement#:~:text=Data%20licensing%20agreements%20are%20typically,same%20database%20for%20different
            %20reasons

* Undated references to websites

            Last Name, N. (n.d.) Article title. Website Name. https://www.url.com
            Rouse, M. (s.f.). Digitization. TechTarget. https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/digitization

            Website or Institution Name. (n.d.). Article title. https://www.url.com
            Office québécois de la langue française. (s.f.). Données brutes. https://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ficheOqlf.
            aspx?Id_Fiche=8874359

* Presentations and lectures

            Last Name, N. (year). Presentation or Lecture Title. Name of the Seminar or Symposium where the presentation of lecture took place.
            City, Country, Date.
            Nolazco, V. (2024). Diez propuestas de modificación al régimen jurídico de la Ley 26.122. Ponencia del XIV Encuentro
            de Jóvenes Profesores de Derecho Constitucional, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina,
            7 de junio de 2024.

 *Institution reports

            Full institution name. (year). Report title. Publishing Company.
            Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo. (2019). Informe Sobre Desarrollo Humano 2019: Más allá del
            ingreso, más allá de los promedios, más allá del presente - Desigualdades del desarrollo humano en el siglo XXI.
            Organización de las Naciones Unidas.

            Full institution name. (year). Report title. https://www.url.com.
            Comisión Europea. (2017). Communication on Building a European Data Economy. https://digital-
            strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/communication-building-european-data-economy

* Supporting research data

            Last Name, N. (year). Title of research data [data set]. Repository´s URL or DOI
            Cool, H. E. M. y Bell, M. (2011). Excavations at St Peter’s Church, Barton-upon-Humber [data set].
            https://doi.org/10.5284/1000389