Submissions

Author Guidelines

The journal Política y sociedad (POSO) is a continue periodicity publication of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which covers the whole of the Social Sciences and selects its articles following strict criteria of quality, novelty, and relevance. Each issue is divided in a monograph section and a miscellaneous section.

1. Submission of manuscripts
Manuscripts must be sent using the online application available on the journal webpage (http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO). The author must register online and then proceed to send the manuscript.

All manuscripts must be anonymized before being submitted. The specific label //anonymized// must replace all quotes, acknowledgements, references, and other allusions that would directly or indirectly make it possible to identify the author. Any manuscripts submitted without fulfilling this formality will be rejected and will not proceed to the review process. When the manuscript is being submitted, these references of authorship, funding, etc., can be indicated on the webpage; the main author will be responsible for the correct presentation of the metadata that correspond to the manuscript submitted. If the submission is approved for publication, a non-anonymized version must be submitted for publication.

The submission of a manuscript assumes the knowledge and acceptance of these instructions by the author(s).

While the manuscript is in the process of being reviewed by POLÍTICA Y SOCIEDAD, the author(s) will not submit the manuscript to other journals for review.

The articles must be unpublished in any of the accepted languages (Spanish and English) and the author must duly inform the journal if this is not the case. It will be the author’s responsibility to inform the journal regarding the situation of the author’s rights. The author will be responsible for the publication of any article that violates these rights.

The sender will be the interlocutor for all communications related to the proposal that the Secretariat of POLÍTICA Y SOCIEDAD may emit using the OJS platform set up by the journal. This person will be responsible, in the case of more than one author, for contacting her or his colleagues and for facilitating any necessary information about them in the online application, as well as for possible conflicts regarding the authorship of the manuscript. Any change in the author acting as interlocutor must be expressly requested.

2. Languages of original manuscripts
POLÍTICA Y SOCIEDAD accepts articles in Spanish and in English and publishes its issues in both languages. If a version is sent in English, the linguistic quality of the manuscript must be ensured. Independently of the original language in which the manuscript is sent, the Board of Editors will determine the final language of publication and can ask the author(s) to provide a translation.

3. Types of original articles accepted
- Articles (both in the monograph section and in the miscellaneous section): original research articles, either theoretical or empirical. The minimum length of these articles is 8,000 words and the maximum length is 10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliographic references.

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- Reviews: brief essays that analyze a new publication that is of academic interest to the subject of the journal. The maximum length is 2,000 words. Reviews should include the bibliographic references cited, although these references should be reduced to a minimum.

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4. Author’s rights
At the time an article is accepted for publication, the author will transfer to POLÍTICA Y SOCIEDAD exclusive rights to the reproduction, distribution, and sale of his or her manuscript for exploitation in all the countries of the world in the format of a paper journal, as well as in any other magnetic, optical, and digital medium.

Rights of communication, public dissemination, and licenses for reproduction and exploitation by any means of dissemination and storage of POLÍTICA Y SOCIEDAD are those that are stipulated by the Complutense Publication Services of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

5. Dishonest practices: plagiarism and scientific fraud
To the effects of the stipulations of the Law of Intellectual Property regarding actions and procedures that can be initiated against anyone who infringes intellectual property rights, the publication of an article that violates these rights will be the responsibility of the author(s), who will be responsible for any conflicts occurring regarding author’s rights. The main conflicts that can occur are due to committing plagiarism and scientific fraud. Plagiarism is defined as:

a. Presenting the work of others as one’s own
b. Adopting words or ideas belonging to other authors without due acknowledgement
c. Failing to use quotation marks for a literal quote
d. Giving incorrect information about the true source of a quote
e. Paraphrasing a source without mentioning the source
f.  Abusive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned

The practices that constitute scientific fraud are the following:

a. Fabrication, falsification, or omission of data and plagiarism
b. Duplicate publication
c. Conflicts of authorship and intellectual exploitation

6. Format
Articles and reviews will be present in text (doc, docx, rtf, odt) format, in Times New Roman 12 font, 1 ½ spaced, unjustified text with no indentation for paragraphs.

Footnotes must be numbered and must not be placed at the end of the text. To facilitate reading, notes should be kept to a minimum and not used as a way to provide complete bibliographic citations. The sections or divisions of the text must be numbered and the titles must be in lower case letters, bold print, and Times New Roman 12 font.

- Tables and graphs
All tables and graphs must be in black and White. They must be numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals after the word “table” or “graph” (depending on the case). They must have a concise title that reflects their contents and the source must be cited below, even if they are prepared by the author, in which case the phrase “prepared by the author” will be employed. Tables and graphs must be inserted in the corresponding places in the text. They must also be sent in a separate folder in the format of the original version of the program used (Photoshop, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Excel, etc.).

Images must be inserted into the text and also be sent separately, as tif or jpeg files. They must have a 300 pixel/inch resolution, with a minimum width of 10 cm.

- Order of authors
The order of authors on the original manuscript sent will be scrupulously respected. Regarding the format for the names, the following is recommended:

a. Name + Surname
b. If there are two first names, we recommend using Name + Initial of Middle Name + Surname.
c. For two last names, Name + (initial of second name) + First surname + Second surname.

- Title
Articles and reviews must have the title in Spanish and English. We recommend that the title be no longer than 15 words; it must be clearly informative and faithfully reflect the content of the article. It should avoid using empty words and will include, insofar as possible, descriptors taken from thesaurses of the discipline. The use of abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and formulas should also be avoided.

- Abstract
Articles will be preceded by a short abstract, in Spanish and in English. The Spanish version must be limited to between 175 and 250 words (15 lines). It should be strictly informative and should always follow the objecive-methods- results-conclusions model. No information that does not appear in the text of the article should be included. Words and expressions with little meaning, periphrases, and excessively long sentences should be avoided.

- Key words
A maximum of 10 descriptors or keywords, in Spanish and in English, should be included. For standardization purposes, these keywords will be taken form standardized thesauruses and vocabularies, for example, from CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Thesaurus and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBBS) Thesaurus.

- Table of contents
A table of contents of all of the sections in which the article is divided will be included.

- Acknowledgements 
If acknowledgements are included, they must come after the table of contents. They must not exceed 250 words in extension.

- Bibliographic references
Bibliographic references must appear in the body of the text, never in footnotes. For references in the text, the Harvard author-year system must be used (author, year: page).:

(Dahl, 1989: 323)

In references of documents with two authors, the last names will be united by “and”:

(Newton and Norris, 2000: 25)

(Telles and Ortiz, 2011)

If the work is by three or more authors, the first author will be referenced, followed by et al.:

(Amador et al., 1989)

If several works of an author or a group of authors  published in the same year are referenced, a, b, c, etc., should be added after the year.

(Franzen, 2012b)

When the works of several authors are referenced, the references should be separated by a semi-colon (;):

(Bourdieu, 2001; Harvey, 2013)

When the last name of the author referenced is part of the text, the year of the work referenced must always be indicated in parentheses:

Como afirma Goldthorpe (2010)…

Each of the bibliographic references must correspond to a reference in the final bibliography.

Self-referencing should be avoided and its use restricted only to indispensable cases.

- Notes
Notes should be used only exceptionally and they must be footnotes. They will contain only additional text, never complete bibliographic references.

-Bibliography
The bibliography will be placed at the end of the article. It will only contain references cited in the text. It is absolutely forbidden to include additional references. The authors must be listed in alphabetical order. The norms to be followed in bibliographic references at the end of the text are the following:

Authors
In the case of multiple authors, the authors will be separated by a coma, except for the last one who shall be separated by “and.” After the second author, the name should be written in direct order: name (only the initial), surname. If the work has several authors who are not specified, “Various” should be used.

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

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

b. When several works by the same author appear in the bibliography, they will be listed following strict chronological order, beginning with the oldest. The surname and name will have the same form in all the 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.

c. The year of publication should include a, b, c, etc. if there is more than one item by an author dated the same year (e.j.: 2008a, 2008b, etc.).

Rancière, J. (2006a): “Diez tesis sobre la política,” in Política, policía, democracia, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Lom, pp. 10-26.

Rancière, J. (2006b): “Política, identificación, subjetivación,” in Política, policía, democracia, Santiago de Chile, Ediciones Lom, pp. 48-66.

Following are examples of the most common document types:

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

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

- Parts of monographs
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.

- Papers and communications at conferences
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 dissertations
Galais, C. (2008): ¿Socialización o contexto? La implicación política subjetiva de los españoles (1985-2006), Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Universidat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

- Webpages
Green, M. C., J. A. Krosnick and 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 at: http://www.Clas.ufl.edu/users/kenwald(pos6757/spring02/tch62.pdf [Last consulted: September 21, 2010]

The works and articles referenced that have a DOI number should include it in the bibliographic reference.

E.g.: Surname(s), Initial of first name (Year): Title. http://dx.doi.org/xxxx

7. Achknowledgements
The author/s of the manuscript may include a section for acknowledgements. This will be a section that will be placed before the bibliographic reference section, and titled Acknowledgements. The funding received and the reference of the research project funded can be included here. If this section is included, it will be included in the final version of the text, in order to preserve the anonymity of the manuscript throughout the review process.

Any article that does not fulfill the format, presentation, content and illustration requirements will be returned to the author.

As part of the submission process, the authors must check that their submission fulfills all of the following elements, and verify that they are aware that manuscripts that do not fulfill these indications will be returned without initiating the journal editorial review process.