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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 text is double-spaced (1.15); 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate places, rather than at the end.
  • It is submitted along with the signed Assignment of Rights and Declaration of Originality by all authors (add download link)
  • Along with the article text file, a document with the author's or authors' information must be attached
  • The article text, the document with the author's or authors' information, and the assignment of rights and declaration of originality must be submitted through the OJS platform and by email to: revistaestudiossociales@uam.edu.ni
  • All authors cited must be included in the references according to the APA Citation and Reference Manual, 7th ed. References must be current (approximately 40% from the last 4 or 5 years). All consulted sources with a DOI code must be related in the corresponding reference, or if the reference is an electronic resource, the retrieval link must be provided. The author is responsible for ensuring that the links to electronic resources are not broken.
  • The submission has not been previously published nor has it been submitted to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • Whenever possible, URLs for the references are provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The Scientific Journal of Social Studies (RCES) of the Faculty of Legal Sciences, Humanities, and International Relations of the American University is a biannual publication that collects the results of research work by national and foreign professors and jurists that are of interest to the academic community. The RCES aims to disseminate scientific information resulting from research in the fields of law, education, and international relations.

In the spirit of openness that animates it, the Journal welcomes unpublished essays and articles. In terms of ideology or orientation, the only requirement is that they be scientifically founded and represent a contribution to the debate that it seeks to foster.

In order to encourage and promote the collaboration of teachers, teacher-researchers, students, professionals, and institutions that are linked to investigative practice by area of knowledge and to stimulate the editing process of the journal of this Alma Mater, the following guidelines are proposed that must be considered by contributors:

Open Access Policy

The RCES has a policy committed to open access to information (Open Access) and the exchange of knowledge. Its publications are protected and shared under the terms of the Creative Commons license with Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike attributes. This means that whoever accesses the publication will not pay for it and is obliged to cite the author and/or authors of said article, likewise, they are obliged to declare the same license for their product (article, essay, or other work).

Themes and work that can be published

The RCES publishes original and unpublished research papers related to the dogmatic specialties of law, education, and international relations. Those interested in publishing their work can submit to the Journal:

Scientific articles: written presentations of the results of original research and experiments carried out by scientists or academics in a specific field of knowledge. These articles are the main way to communicate new discoveries, advances, theories, or analyses in the scientific and academic community.

Essays: These are studies on contingent social matters, whose main objective is the reasoned exposition on a subject of study. They must have a critical apparatus that supports the author's analysis.

Preliminary review

The Editorial Committee evaluates each contribution to determine its relevance to the Journal's theme and conducts a preliminary assessment of the quality of the text and compliance with editorial criteria. Manuscripts that do not meet the minimum criteria are returned to the authors within a period not exceeding one month from receipt.

Peer Review Process

The evaluation system used by this journal is external, confidential, and double-blind. All articles and essays received undergo an external peer review process; the referees are those individuals that the Editorial Committee considers most appropriate based on their professional profile, academic merits, and trajectory.

The referees evaluate in a format the scientific relevance, the originality of the work, the quality of the text and argumentation, the methodological rigor, the use of original and updated sources. Referees are asked to complete their evaluations within a maximum period of one month, and evaluations are not requested contemporaneously. Therefore, the Editorial Committee's and peers' evaluation process may take a minimum of two months. Once the evaluation result is known, the author is presented with the observations sent by the evaluators (if any).

If the material requires adjustments for publication, the author must take care of making them within a maximum period of 15 business days and resend via the journal's email (revistacienciassociales@uam.edu.ni); if the manuscript is not sent with the requested modifications within the established time, it will be understood that the author does not wish to continue with the publication process. After the referees' observations have been addressed, if they are pertinent to the author, the Editorial Committee issues its final opinion. Once it has been verified that the adjustments to the manuscript have been made, the document is sent and goes through the approval, editing, layout, and layout phase corresponding to the issue.

Articles can be rejected at any stage of the editorial process if serious problems with style, writing, and grammar are detected, if they do not adhere to the citation standards set by the journal, and unequivocally, if plagiarism is detected.

Common standards for all works

The works must be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, with medium spacing (1.15), with anterior and posterior spacing of 0 points. The paper size in which the work is presented must be letter (21.59 x 27.94 cms.) and its margins must have the following measurements: top and bottom: 2.5 cms and left and right: 2.5 cms. All paragraphs written in the work must be continuous (without separations). This same requirement is required for the bibliography, laws, and cited judgments.

The works must be written in the Spanish language. The electronic support must be in the default file format for Word Office (.docx extension or equivalent). The author must ensure that the work is completely anonymized.

The authors will complete a brief professional profile in the "Metadata" section indicating their academic and professional profile, as well as their main lines of research. Additionally, along with the writing, another document with specific information about the authors must be submitted, in addition to the article or essay. Therefore, the content cannot contain data that allows the identification of its authors, institutional affiliation, and other aspects; these are related in the attached document, as explained below:

- Full names of the authors.

- Each author will have only one institutional affiliation (maximum 2 in strictly necessary cases).

- The related affiliation for each author must contain: academic background, department, institution, city, country, email.

- For the corresponding author, the following must be related: academic background, department, institution, address, city, country, email, contact phone number (mobile). It will also be included as an additional file when submitting. It is essential to indicate the authors' affiliation in the metadata of the submission, as well as the ORCID. Other authors will not be added after the acceptance of works that are not listed from the beginning of the evaluation process.

Once accepted for publication, if the work has been carried out with financial support (scholarships, projects.), this must be indicated on the first page, in a footnote in the title.

The editorial committee will carry out an initial review of the work, and if it meets the basic conditions, the double-blind review process will be initiated. Works that do not meet these basic conditions or do not adhere to the editorial policy will not proceed to the review phase.

Likewise, the assignment of rights and declaration of originality signed by all the authors must be submitted along with the writing (essay or article) and the authors' data page, according to the format provided on the journal's website.

Format and style rules for essays and articles

For articles, a minimum length of 8,000 words and a maximum length of 12,000 words including footnotes, author bibliography (According to APA Standards, 7th ed.), and appendices, if any.

For essays, a minimum length of 5,000 words and a maximum length of 8,000 words including footnotes, author bibliography (According to APA Standards, 7th ed.), and appendices, if any.

Citation Standards

In the journals of the American University, the preferred style for making citations and lists of author references will be according to the APA Standards (American Psychological Association) 7th edition.

References or citations are an important and indispensable element in all academic writing, by which the exhaustive search for information on the studied topic is demonstrated. Furthermore, it recognizes the sources of information that have fed us back.

Citations correspond to the ideas taken from other sources of information in a text, with the correct attribution of authorship credits.

Essays

It is a prose writing, generally brief, which has an expository-argumentative and critical character; it is a means that allows the author to demonstrate their hypothesis or their position regarding the subject in question, which is sought to be approved or refuted through propositions in an argumentative line. The proposed essays must contain the following structure: Abstract, keywords, introduction, development (subtopics), conclusion, and references.

Essays must contain an abstract and keywords in the same way as scientific articles. In the body or development structure of the essay, the Roman numeral system should be used for the title name and the Arabic for the subtitle and second-order subtitle (example: I.; 1.; 1.1.; 2; 2.1; 2.1.1.). Titles will be in bold and the first letter capitalized; subtitles will be in italics and the first letter capitalized, and if there are second-order subtitles, they will be without italics and without bold, which allows hierarchical differentiation between them. Headings are aligned to the left and separated from the preceding and following paragraph by an additional space to the one being used. The bibliographic resources cited in the essay must be included in the references according to the APA Citation and Reference Manual, 7th ed. References must be current (approximately 40% from the last 4 or 5 years). All consulted sources with a DOI code must be related in the corresponding reference, or if the reference is an electronic resource, the retrieval link must be provided. The author is responsible for ensuring that the links to electronic resources are not broken.

It is suggested to consult the essay template provided at the following link: Download Essay Template.

Scientific articles

Document type aimed at clearly and precisely disseminating the results of research, in a regular extension (fifteen thousand words including footnotes, bibliography, and appendices, if any) this type of writing must contain the following structure:

The title: It must be clear and concise enough to show the basic content of the topic and its key limitations (maximum of 14 to 16 words).

Authors: authors and co-authors (maximum of 4 people). According to the role played in said research.

Abstract: The abstract seeks to quickly recognize the fundamental content of the article, in the most precise manner (succinct and concrete 150-250 characters maximum), to define the convenience of its reading. Therefore, the abstract must contain all the material of the article from the introduction, the body of the article, a reference to the method used, its main arguments, and conclusions. In Spanish and English.

Keywords: the author must specify 3 to 6 words, or short phrases, known as keywords. In Spanish and English.

Introduction: it is advisable to quickly present several essential elements to focus the reader on the state of the discussion on the topic and the contribution that the article makes in this regard. In this section, the typology of the research and methodology that essentially corresponds to a detailed response to the question of what they did to find the answer to their research questions? The methodology is the foundation of a scientific article, this must be clear and complete. The materials used are mentioned succinctly. It must be included in the introduction.

Development: includes results and discussion (development divided into numbered sections according to editorial standards). It focuses on presenting key findings. The discussion aims to explain the results of your research. In some articles, there may be a small conclusion after the discussion. In the body or development structure of the article, the Roman numeral system should be used for the title name and the Arabic for the subtitle and second-order subtitle (example: I.; 1.; 1.1.; 2; 2.1; 2.1.1.). Titles will be in bold and the first letter capitalized; subtitles will be in italics and the first letter capitalized, and if there are second-order subtitles, they will be without italics and without bold, which allows hierarchical differentiation between them. Headings are aligned to the left and separated from the preceding and following paragraph by an additional space to the one being used.

Conclusions: The most significant conclusions and the practical importance of the study should be reflected. The simplest way to present the conclusions is by listing them consecutively, although you can choose to briefly recap the article's content, mentioning briefly its purpose, the main methods, the most outstanding data, and the most important contribution of the research, and avoid repeating the content of the abstract literally.

References: All bibliographic resources used in the article. All cited authors must be included in the references according to the APA Citation and Reference Manual, 7th ed. References must be current (approximately 40% from the last 4 or 5 years). All consulted sources with a DOI code must be related in the corresponding reference, or if the reference is an electronic resource, the retrieval link must be provided. The author is responsible for ensuring that the links to electronic resources are not broken.

Tables, appendices, illustrations (optional): with their titles, epigraphs, and properly numbered. They appear at the end of the article content and before the References, only those mentioned in the text. They are identified with Arabic numbers and consecutively: Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, etc. Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc.

It is suggested to consult the research article template provided at the following link: Download Scientific Article Template

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