Submissions

Author Guidelines

All manuscripts must be submitted anonymously: all citations, acknowledgments, references and other data that could directly or indirectly allow the identification of the author must be removed. Articles and essays signed by a maximum of five authors will be accepted, whereas collective authors will not be accepted.

Manuscripts must be strictly original and unpublished in any language, and the author is responsible to inform the journal if these criteria are not met. Articles should not be under simultaneous consideration by other journals or editorial boards at the time of submission as well as during the peer-review process.

Authors from any institution or country can publish in Sur y Tiempo.

Types of manuscripts

Sur y Tiempo publishes three types of writings: articles, essays and reviews.

Articles: Texts that systematically communicate the results of research work with primary and/or secondary sources and/or data obtained through scientific methods.

Essays: Texts in which the authors communicate reflections based on disciplinary reasoning on topics related to historiography and/or social sciences, supporting their arguments with references or sources.

Reviews: Texts that describe, comment and/or criticize recently published books (no older than three years) related to historiography or social sciences (of interest to history.)

Languages

Manuscripts written in Spanish, Portuguese and English will be accepted.

Original Submissions Length

- Articles and essays should have a minimum length of 4,000 words and a maximum length of 10,000 words, including notes and bibliographical references.

- Reviews: 2,500 words maximum.

Unethical Practices: Plagiarism and Scientific Misconduct

Submissions will be rejected if they incur in practices such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism and scientific misconduct. This may occur at any time during the publication process and even after the article has been published (withdrawn from the journal.) Plagiarism is understood as:

1. Presenting someone else's work as one's own.
2. Adopting words or ideas from other authors without due acknowledgment.
3. Not using quotation marks in a literal quotation.
4. Giving incorrect information about the true source of a quotation.
5. Paraphrasing a source without mentioning the original source.
6. Abusive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned.

Practices constituting scientific misconduct are as follows:

1. Fabrication, falsification or omission of data and plagiarism.
2. Duplicate publication.
3. Authorship conflicts.

Sur y Tiempo uses the Ouriginal tool for plagiarism detection.

Formatting

Articles and reviews should be sent as a Word document in 12-point Times New Roman font, 1.5 spacing, justified text, normal margins (2.5 cm top and bottom and 3 cm right and left), with indentation at the beginning of the paragraph and no space between paragraphs.

Sections of the text should be numbered and titled in lower case and bold.

Citations of more than four lines should be in a separate paragraph with an indentation of two centimeters on both sides.

- Tables, graphics, and images.

All tables and graphics should be numbered with correlative Arabic numerals after the word “table” or “graphic” (as appropriate.) They must have a concise title that reflects its content and the source must be cited as a footnote, even if they are of own elaboration, in which case it will be written: “own elaboration”. They must be sent embedded in the corresponding place within the text.

Figures and images should be included in the Word file and also sent as separate files in the submission platform. Images should be sent in JPG or TIFF format with a resolution of no less than 300 dpi.

- Signature

The order in which the authors appear in the original manuscript must be strictly respected. Regarding the form of the signatures, the following is recommended:

1. First name + Last name
2. For two names, it is recommended to use the signature: Name + Middle Initial + Last Name
3. For two last names: First Name + (Middle Initial) + First Last Name + Second Last Name.

- Title

Articles should have the title in Spanish or Portuguese and in English.

- Abstract

Articles should be preceded by an abstract in Spanish and English (between 150 and 200 words each.) 

- Keywords

Four or five key words to be included, in Spanish and English.

Bibliographic References (Harvard Style)

The bibliographical references will appear within the text, but never as footnotes. The author-date system will be used for in-text citations (author, year: page):

(Dahl, 1989: 323)

Sources with two authors are cited with their first last name and joined with “&”:

(Newton & Norris, 2000)

Sources with three or more authors can be cited using the first last name of the first author followed by et al.:

(Amador et al., 1989)

If multiple works of the same author(s) published in the same year are cited; a, b, c, should be added after the year of publication:

(Franzen, 2012b)

When different works of various authors are cited in the same sentence, the references should be separated with semi-colon (;)

(Bourdieu, 2001; Harvey, 2013)

When the last name of a cited author appears as part of the text, the publication year of the cited reference should always appear in parenthesis:

As Goldthorpe (2010) argues…

Each in-text reference should correspond to a full reference in the bibliography at the end of the main text.

Self-citation should be avoided or restricted unless necessary.

- Notes

Note use has to be exceptional, placed at the bottom of the page, and only contain additional text. In no case should they include complete bibliographical references.

- Sources and documents

References to documents and other types of sources will be footnoted and their structure should be left to the author's discretion, ensuring clarity and completeness of the information, and avoiding unnecessary repetition. For example:

(1) Confidential Document No.44, Letter from Raúl Bazán to Foreign Minister Ismael Huerta Díaz, New York, December 25, 1973, United Nations Reserved and Secret Officials Folder [hereinafter UNSRO] No.4163, Archivo General Histórico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile [hereinafter AGH], p.1.

(2) Confidential Document No.13, Letter from Raúl Bazán to Raúl Huerta Díaz, New York, April 16, 1974, ORSNU N°1640, AGH, p.1.

References to documentary sources will not be listed at the end of the text.

Bibliography

It will be included at the end of the article and will only contain references that have been cited in the main text. Authors will be ordered alphabetically by their last names. Authors are requested not to use reference managers (e.g., Zotero.) Referencing style must adhere to the following guidelines:

1. Last name(s), N.

In the event of multiple authors, the authors’ names should be separated by commas, except for the last co-author who will be added with an “&”. From the second author onwards, the name should be written in direct order: first name (only the initial), last name. If the work has various unspecified authors, use VV. AA.

Sageman, M. & B. Hoffman (2008): “Does Osama still call the shots? Debating the containment of al Qaeda’s leadership”, Foreign Affairs, 87 (4), pp. 163-166.

VV.AA. (2003): Introducción a la economía y administración de empresas, Madrid, Ediciones Pirámide.

2. When various works of the same author appear in the references, these are to be ordered chronologically, beginning from the oldest one. The last name and first name should always appear the same in all references.

Navarro, C. J. (2000): “El sesgo participativo. Introducción a la teoría empírica de la democracia participativa”, Papers, 61, pp. 11-37.

Navarro, C. J. (2002): Democracia asociativa y oportunismo político, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch.

3. The year of publication must include a, b, c, etc. if the reference list includes more than one work of the same author or authors published in the same year (e.g.: 2008a, 2008b, etc.).

Rancière, J. (2006a): “Diez tesis sobre la política”, in Política, policía, democracia, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Lom.

Rancière, J. (2006b): “Política, identificación, subjetivación”, in Política, policía, democracia, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Lom.

- Journal Articles

Enders, W. & T. Sandler (1993): “The effectiveness of antiterrorism policies: a vector-autoregression-intervention analysis”, American Political Science Review, 87(4), pp. 829-844.

- Books

Dahl, R. A. (1999): La democracia. Una guía para los ciudadanos. Madrid, Taurus.

- Book chapter

Wildavsky, A. (1989): “A cultural theory of leadership”, in B. D. Jones, ed., Leadership and politics: new perspectives in Political Science. Lawrence, Kansas University Press, pp. 163-164.

- Conference and Seminar papers

Boundi Boundi, M. (2008): “Marruecos: estructuras sociales y tendencias de consumo en una sociedad en transición”, in Sociedad, consumo y sostenibilidad. Actas del XIII Congreso Nacional de Sociología en Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Asociación Castellano-Manchega de Sociología.

- Unpublished thesis

Galais, C. (2008): ¿Socialización o contexto? La implicación política subjetiva de los españoles (1985-2006). Unpublished doctoral thesis, Universidat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

- Website references

Green, M. C., J. A. Krosnick & A. L. Holbrook (2001): The survey response process in telephone and face-to-face surveys. Differences in respondent satisficing and social desirability response bias. Available on:

http://www.Clas.ufl.edu/users/kenwald(pos6757/spring02/tch62.pdf [Consultation: September 21, 2010]

Authorship Declaration

Authors of an article are requested to make an authorship declaration describing the tasks that each of the authors performed in the complete preparation of the article and to include it at the end of the manuscript. We recommend, for this purpose, to be guided by the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) statement and the following taxonomy:

Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Validation: Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/ reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

Formal análisis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tolos.

Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.

Writing - Original Draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing - Review & Editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre-or postpublication stages.

Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/ data presentation.

Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Project administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Funding acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

About Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In line with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE,) and the article A new policy on the use of artificial intelligence tools for manuscripts submitted to CMAJ, by Matthew B. Stanbrook, Meredith Weinhold, Diane Kelsall (CMAJ, Jul 2023, 195 (28)) the use of Artificial Intelligence requires regulation. Stanbrook, Meredith Weinhold, Diane Kelsall (CMAJ, Jul 2023, 195 (28)), the use of Artificial Intelligence requires regulation. Thus, authors publishing in Sur y Tiempo –and our reviewers– must follow the following criteria:

- Authors must disclose any use of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies (e.g., large language models, chatbots, image creators) in any aspect of the creation of the manuscript when submitting an article.

- Authors must describe the nature of such use both in the “Comments to the Editor” and in the manuscript itself.

- Artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies must not be listed as an author or co-author of a manuscript.

- Artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies must not be cited as a reference, other primary source, or as an author of a reference.

- Human authors are responsible for any submitted material that includes the use of AI-assisted technologies, including its correctness, completeness, and accuracy.

- Authors must be able to assert that there is no plagiarism in the article, including text and images produced by AI-assisted technologies, and must ensure proper attribution of all material, including full citations when appliable.

- Peer reviewers should not upload manuscripts in software or other AI technologies in which confidentiality cannot be guaranteed.

Even if AI-assisted technologies are used in a manner that can ensure manuscript confidentiality, reviewers who choose to use such technologies to facilitate their review must disclose their use and nature to Sur y Tiempo and are responsible for ensuring that any AI-generated information and incorporated contents into evaluations are correct, complete, and unbiased. (Taken from https://www.fundacionfemeba.org.ar/blog/farmacologia-7/post/comite-internacional-de-editores-de-revistas-medicas-uso-de-inteligencia-artificial-en-las-publicaciones-cientificas-51357.)

Data Use and Reproducibility

Authors are encouraged to promote data exchange and reproducibility. In no case should this violate previous confidentiality agreements and protection of the identity of the research subjects. It should be noted that, in the review process, data may be requested by both the editorial committee as well as the reviewers. It is also possible to use cross-references to associate the article with the data set, which can be deposited by the authors in the platform they deem convenient.