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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Authors will send their contributions in the APA bibliographic reference system.

Author Guidelines

Realidad, revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades publishes essays, notes and reviews in Spanish related to the different disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities.

Articles published by Realidad may be subsequently disseminated in any medium, as long as the original publication data is indicated.

The publication of originals is governed by the following rules:

Submission of articles, notes and reviews

The works will be sent in Word format as attachments of electronic mail to the following address: realidad.director@uca.edu.sv
Or to the postal address:
Ricardo Roque Baldovinos
Director of Realidad: revista de ciencias sociales y humanidades
Postal Section (01) 168
San Salvador
El Salvador

 

1. Presentation of essays

a. The essay must be original, unpublished and of high academic quality.

b. The essay must be preceded by two summaries of between 100 and 150 words each: the first will be written in Spanish and the second in English. You must also have at least 6 keywords in those two languages.

c. The name of the author or authors will be recorded after the title of the same. Next, the name of the university or affiliation institution will be included.

d. Words in a language other than that of the text will appear in italics; Likewise, this type of letter will be used to highlight some key word, and when this happens in a textual fragment in italics, it will proceed in the opposite way, i.e., highlighting the key word in normal characters.

e. The figures, illustrations and tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals and with a foot indicating their content; They will be included preferably in the Word document. If not, they will be attached in separate files.

f. The minimum extension for the trials is 35,000 characters and the maximum extension is 75,000. For notes and reviews, the maximum length is 25,000 characters. In the character count, notes are included and exclude blank spaces.

 

1.1 Type and size of letter

The originals will be presented with full justification in Arial font 11 points for the text, the bibliography, the citations and the abstracts or abstracts. The Arial 10 points font is required for notes, overwritten numbers, tables and figures.

a) Sections and subsections

The titles of the sections will be presented in bold, numbered with Arabic numerals, and separated by two lines of the previous text and by a line of the following text. As for the titles of the subsections, they will be written in bold and will be numbered again (eg, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3), and must be separated by a line both of the preceding text and of the subsequent text. The following levels, which should be avoided as much as possible, will also be numbered with Arabic numerals and will be written in a common text (eg, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.1.1., 1.1.1.2.).

b) Bibliographic references

The authors will send their collaborations in the APA bibliographic reference system.

2. Presentation of comments and bibliographic reviews.

Both the comments and the recensions will be governed by the same requirements regarding the type and size of the letter. The minimum length of the comments is 5,000 characters and the maximum length is 25,000. The comments do not require a summary. Book reviews will be headed by the book's technical data sheet (Author or authors, Book title, City, Year, number of pages, ISBN number). They will have a maximum of 12,000 characters. At the end of the review, the name of the author or author of the review and the name of the university or institution of origin will be included.

3. Publication criteria

All submissions will be arbitrated by peers in double blind system. No correspondence will be filed for unsolicited work.

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