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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 Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is doble-spaced; uses a 12-point of Arial font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); all illustrations and images will be loaded as additional files; and the tables (in editable format) are placed in the appropriate places in the text, instead of at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The document is anonymised (i.e., it must not contain any mark that identifies the author), except in the case that it is a "Dossier Proposal". In case the Article (either individually or as part of a Dossier), the Research Note or the Book Review does not respect this criterion, the document will be returned to the author for correction.
  • The submmition contains a supplementary document loaded as a “página principal/ cover letter” that contains the title of the document in Spanish or Portuguese and in English; the full name of the authors; the abstract in Spanish or Portuguese; the abstract in English, key words in Spanish or Portuguese and in English; and the institutional dependence of each of the authors. On this main page you can add the acknowledgments and sources of financing in a footnote.

Author Guidelines

Document submittal

Documents shall be submitted following these guidelines:

  1. A Cover Letter including the document’s title in Spanish or Portuguese and English; the authors’ full names; a Spanish or Portuguese abstract; an English abstract; keywords in Spanish or Portuguese and in English; and the institution each author belongs to. This page can also include a footnote with acknowledgements and funding sources.
  2. A document with the main body of the article, which can be submitted in Spanish or Portuguese (to be decided by the authors). This document includes the article itself, with all tables (created in Word, in an editable format, embedded in the proper place) and the bibliography section (embedded according to the guidelines detailed below). The document must be anonymized (that is, it shall have no information which makes it possible to identify an author). If this last requirement is not met, the document will be returned to the author to be revised.
  3. All charts and figures used in the document must be attached as supplementary files. If these are based on spreadsheets, the relevant files must be included in order for charts and figures to be editable. Revista Redes commits not to disclose the microdata included in these files.
  4. All images (photos) must be uploaded in supplementary 300dpi files.
  5. Finally, the upload platform will require for the bibliography section to be uploaded separately (authors are recommended to copy and paste the main document’s bibliography section).

General

Documents shall be prepared for A4 pages with the following page margins: left, 3 cm; right, 2 cm; top, 2 cm; bottom, 2 cm.

Arial font should be used, with the following sizes based on the type of text:

Heading: Arial bold, size 18

Subheading 1: Arial bold, size 16

Subheading 2: Arial bold, size 14

Main body: Arial, size 12

Footnotes: Arial, size 10

Line spacing: Double

The text —including footnotes— must be aligned to the left and use double line spacing. The first paragraph of the article shall not be indented. In the rest of the main body, the first line of each paragraph must have a 1 cm indent.

All illustrations and images shall be uploaded in the web page system as additional files (respecting the original format), while tables (in Word-style editable format) shall be placed in the proper place in the text (and not at the end).

If charts and figures are based on spreadsheets, the relevant files must be included in order for charts and figures to be editable.

When transcribing quotations, if the quoted text is shorter than four lines, it must be included between double inverted commas in the body of the text.

Quotations over four lines long shall be placed with a 1 cm margin to the left (Format, Paragraph, Indent, Left, 1 cm), using Arial font size 10, without quotation marks. Square brackets and three ellipsis dots shall be used (“[...]”). Square brackets shall also be used for additions aimed at making the quotation easier to understand. At the end, the quotation reference is included using Harvard referencing. For instance: (Fernández, 2000: 44).

The first paragraph of each section, and all paragraphs starting immediately after a block quote, figure, table, image, etc., shall not be indented.

Bibliographical references must be included in the main body using the abbreviated format of Harvard referencing. Extended references are included in alphabetical order at the end of the document. 

Bibliography guidelines

Books:

Author’s surname, Initial. (year), Title (in italics), Place, Publisher.

Example:

Auyero, J. (1999), Caja de herramientas. El lugar de la cultura en la sociología norteamericana, Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.

Should there be more than one author, the following format is used: Author’s surname, Initial., Initial. Author’s surname and Initial. Author’s surname, (Year), Title (in italics), Place, Publisher.

Example:

Bijker, W.; T. Pinch and T. Hughes (eds.) (1987), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Cambridge and London, The MIT Press.

 

Articles from magazines or serial publications:

Author’s surname, Initial. (year), “Title” (between inverted commas), Magazine or publication name (in italics), Volume, (Issue number), pp.

Example:

Labarca, M. (2005), “La filosofía de la química en la filosofía de la ciencia contemporánea”, REDES, 11, (21), pp. 155-171.

Note: If the article’s title is in a foreign language, only the first initial of the title shall be capitalized, following Spanish practice.

Should there be more than one author, the following format is used: Author’s surname, Initial. and Initial. Author’s surname, (Year), “Title” (between inverted commas), Magazine or publication name (in italics), Volume, (Issue number), pp.

Example:

Georghiou, L. and D. Roessner, (2000), “Evaluating technology programs: tools and methods”, Research Policy, 29, (4-5), pp. 657-678.

 Book chapters:

Author’s surname, Initial. (Year), “Title” (between inverted commas), in Author’s surname, Initial. (comp., ed. or eds.), Title (in italics), Place, Publisher, Year, p (or pp.).

Example:

Casanova, J. (1999), “Religiones públicas y privadas”, in Auyero, J. (comp.), Caja de herramientas. El lugar de la cultura en la sociología norteamericana, Buenos Aires, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, pp. 115-162.

Should there be more than one author:

Example:

Law, J. (1987), “Technology and Heterogeneus Engineers: The Case of Portuguese Expansion”, in Bijker, W.; T. Pinch and T. Hughes (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Cambridge and London, The MIT Press, pp. 111-134.

 Technical reports:

Author’s surname, Initial (Year), Title (in italics), Technical report (description), Place, Publisher or Institution issuing the report.

Example:

Bernat, G. (2016), Innovación en la industria manufacturera en la posconvertibilidad. La necesidad de complementar políticas industriales, Technical report N°6, Buenos Aires, CIECTI.

 

Acronyms

Acronyms shall be used without periods and in small caps.

Use of inverted commas

Inverted commas shall be used for titles of chapters, titles of articles and parts of book. Quotations in the main body, as long as they are shorter than four lines, shall be written between double inverted commas. The second quotation level (quotations-in-quotations) is written between single inverted commas (French quotation marks are not to be used).

Style for notes and footnotes

When notes include a bibliographical reference (and not a comment or addition to the text), they shall be part of the text, following the Harvard referencing system (author, date: pages). Example: (Auyero, 1999: 25)

Footnote references in the text shall be written with a superscripted number, which shall always appear after punctuation (which include brackets or closing dashes), should there be punctuation marks near, and using a font size two points lower than that of the relevant text.

Footnotes shall be written in a block with a font size two points lower than that of the main body, and without a line separating it from the text. Said line will only be used when the note continues in the page following that with the relevant reference.

Author’s notes are included as a footnote with continuous numbering (using the relevant command and restarting from 1 in each chapter). Translator’s notes, if any, are included as footnotes (using the relevant command) with an asterisk. The relevant indication must be included after the final period (“[A/N]” or “[T/N]”).

Should notes include bibliographical references to works in foreign languages, references to the Spanish edition shall be added between square brackets, using the bibliography guidelines, only after the first time they are mentioned.

Complying with these guidelines makes the edition process easier and shortens the time needed to process the articles. Submissions which fail to comply with all of these guidelines shall not be reviewed.

Articles

Articles are original productions which represent a contribution to the general field of studies of science, technology and society. They are expected to meet high standards of academic quality, putting forward critical-theoretical analysis, based on empirical observation, and theoretical-methodological debates aimed at enriching the field of science, technology and society studies.

Articles can have a maximum length of 12,000 words. All articles are subject to the review process described in the scientific review policy.

Dossier

Dossiers are special sections of Revista REDES devoted to a particular topic. Each dossier is in charge of different editors, who define the thematic (relevance and scope) criteria and monitor the selection and review processes.

The authors of the articles included in a dossier can be selected through an open process or by invitation. The first modality implies the publication of a request in the web page of Revista REDES, and enables any scholar to put forward an article for a particular dossier. The invitation approach is carried out by the dossier’s editors, who invite the authors to submit their articles.

All the articles which comprise the dossier must meet the general criteria for articles, and are subject to a double-blind review by two external reviewers: one of them is chosen by the dossier’s editors, while the other is defined by the Revista REDES’ Board of Directors.

The dossier’s editors have the responsibility of preparing and introduction. Should one of the editors express interest in including an article of his or her own to the dossier, said article shall be reviewed by two external reviewers chosen by the Board of Directors, so as to preserve the integrity of the double-blind approach.

The Board of Directors will make regular requests for proposals for the dossier, which shall be evaluated by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors, moreover, reserves the right to invite editors based on their knowledge of the subject, on the circumstantial or structural relevance of an issue, or for editorial reasons of Revista REDES.

Research notes

Research notes are documents of up to 8,000 words, aimed at disclosing the progress of current research processes. Unlike articles, they have a descriptive rather than analytical nature, and make it possible to publish research outcomes, systematizations of unpublished primary sources, rich bibliographical discussions, wide-range empirical surveys and systematizations; etc.

Research notes are reviewed in terms of relevance and quality, following the criteria put forward in the scientific review policy.

Reports

Reports are documents of up to 5,000 words aimed at analyzing recently-published books in the broad field of studies of science, technology and society.

They are reviewed based on the double-blind review process of relevance and quality.

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