Submissions

Author Guidelines

   Those interested in submitting a paper for it to be published in the journal shall bear in mind the following conditions:

A. ARTICLE SUBMISSION AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS 

1. Article is submitted through the Open Journal System of the Semestre Económico Journal

2. The document needs to follow these recommendations:

• Must be written on Microsoft Word, Arial font, size 12, line spacing 1.5
• Each sheet must be numbered at the bottom right hand side corner.
• Article shall be no longer than 8.000 words.

3. The article must include the following parts:

• Preliminary information: Article title, authors, abstract, key words, JEL classification and content.
• Article development: introduction, development and conclusion
• Bibliography, attachments

4. All sections of the article must be numbered using Arabic numbers, including subtitles. Titles must be in uppercase with bold font and subtitles must be in lowercase with bold font.

B. INTRODUCTORY ITEMS

1. The article´s title shall not exceed 14 words and must mention the paper´s objective

2. It must include a footnote explaining the origin of the title (the reasoning behind the paper and it´s title) and type of article (research, reflection, debate or bibliographical reviews). If the article is research based a footnote containing the following information shall be included.

• Research group and COLCIENCIAS classification level in case that the article has been classified in Colombia; if not, it can be compared with the entity in charge of promoting science and technology policies at the country where the paper is originally from. 
• Name of the research project from where the article comes from.
• Entities that finance the project.
• Period of execution

3. A footnote must be included for each author including the following information

• Under graduate degree(s), institution, city and country
• Post graduate degree(s), institution, city, country
• Position, institution, city, country
• Participation in research groups
• Address, postal code and telephone
• Institutional e-mail

The information included on this footnote must come as in the following example.

Economist, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Master in Economic Development, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, España. Ph.D on International Studies, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bogotá, Colombia. Professor and researcher , School of Economics,  Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. Address: Calle 29 #57-15, oficina 106. e-mail: bmacias@uniandes.edu.co.

 

4. The paper´s abstract shall not exceed 120 words. The following structure is recommended:

• Paper´s objective: The purpose seeked by the authors with the paper.
• Method: Method used for arguing and achieving the proposed objective.
• Main results or conclusions.

5. The article must contain key words (maximum five); these shall provide a clear visibility of the article´s content in search engines and databases. Libraries and magazine indexes use these words for classifying papers; by doing so you guarantee that when someone makes a search, he or she can access the paper.

6. Key words must be classified according to the codes found at the Journal of Economic Literature classification also known as ¨JEL Codes¨. For searching the codes you can access the following link: http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/jel_class_system.html.

7. The paper´s content is included after the JEL classification and it shall not contain subtitles, only main titles including introduction, conclusion and bibliography. The content must be organized in a continuous paragraph, such as in the following example:

Introduction; 1. What is an industry?; 2, industry background; 3. The knowledge era…... Bibliography.

 

 C. HOW TO QUOTE

1. Quotes can by direct or indirect. Direct quotes are used whenever using an author´s concepts or opinions literally. Indirect quotes are used whenever an author´s idea is being used but expressed in the words of the one who is writing the paper. For any of these two types of quotes, the name of the author always comes first, for example: in this respect Velez (2005, p. 18) argues that….

2. Any of these two types of quotes as well as footnotes need to use the following format: Author´s last name (year, page). The following recommendations also need to be taken in consideration.

• Use p for indicating a page
• Whenever 4 or more authors appear as authors in a paper the word et al. must be used.
• The year and page included within the parenthesis must be separated in the following way: Vélez (2001, p. 107)
• The page number must be included only when using direct or literal quotes.
• Avoid using the ¨&¨ symbol to connect the name of the authors, instead use ¨and¨.
• All textual quotes must follow a specific format. When a quote is textual and those not exceed 5 lines, it must be included within the same paragraph (indicating previously the author and page), between quotes and in italics, for example: 
•  

According to Portes (2004, p.11) ¨The most important conceptual distinction is generated between formal, informal and illegal activities, given that each one of them has distinctive characteristics that differentiate them. Sociologists recognize that legal and illegal, as well as normal and abnormal acts are categories that have been socially defined and can change.

• When a textual quote exceeds 5 lines, it must be centered in a separate paragraph, in arial size 10, no italics nor between quotes. The page number must be also specified from where the quote was taken from. 

In such way, Portes (2004, p.7) argues that: 

The informal economy phenomenon is misleadingly simple and extraordinarily complex, trivial in its daily manifestations and able to change the economic or political order of nations. People face informality every single day in activities as simple as buying a watch or a cheap book from a street seller or when hiring a handyman for fixing something at home in exchange of a cash payment or when hiring a immigrant maid for house cleaning when the owners are not home.

 

D. FOOTNOTES AND OTHER TOPICS

1. The footnotes must be typed in Times New Roman, size 10 and single spaced, justified and indented aligning the text at the right side of the number and not underneath it. Besides this, whenever a page has more than one footnote, they must be divided by a space. The footnotes must be numbered with continuous numbers except for footnotes that include authors’ names, these must be done with asterisks.

2. Footnotes must be used for making definitions, clarifying concepts or forwarding the reader to other papers or authors that discuss some of the topics discussed in the text in greater depth and might be in the reader´s interest. Footnotes shall not be used for quoting other papers that have been used as support material during the paper´s development.

3. Quotation marks shall only be used for direct or short literal quotes. If a word or phrase is going to be highlighted, bold font must be used.

4. The concept of time is relative, that is why it is very important for the reader to have the right idea about the moment in time that the authors make reference to. Because of this the authors should avoid expressions or phrases such as: ¨during the last decades¨, ¨during the last years¨, ¨recently¨, ¨last year¨ in between others. The recommendation is that when making reference to a certain period of time it should be specified explicitly: During 2015 or during the decade of 1990……

5. Whenever an acronym is going to be defined, the recommendation is to include the full name and afterwards enter the acronym in parenthesis, such as the following example.

According to the National Statistics Administrative Department (DANE), the indicators of……..

Once you´ve defined the acronym, the use of the full name is no longer needed.

 

 E.  TABLES, GRAPHS AND EQUATIONS

1. The responsibility of the statistical information included in the boxes and graphs is the author´s.

2. When using boxes and graphs, the following elements need to be taken into consideration.

• Titles cannot be in bold font, typed in lower case and aligned towards the left.
• They must be numbered in continuous form.
• The source must be included in the bottom part, aligned towards the left with font size 10.
• Boxes and tables must contain frames.
• In the sources, quotes must be done the same way that for the rest of the article, using the Last name (year, page) format.
• Whenever images are used it is recommended for them to be legible.
• Comas separate decimals and dots thousands.

3.Whenever equations are presented, they must be numbered in continuous form and indicated at the right side margin of the sheet between brackets.                                                                                                                

4. Whenever an instrument such as surveys, interviews or workshops is used, an attachment must be included including the format or guide of that particular instrument.

 

F.      BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

1. Organize the bibliography according to the following orientations:

• Use Last name, name (year) format.
• Name and last name of an author must be separated by a coma.
• When a paper includes more than three authors, a semicolon must separate them: except for the last two, which are separated by ¨and¨.
• For serial publications, use Vol. and No. not parenthesis.
• Use hyperlinks on the title whenever the publication can be found on-line, for example:

            Porter, M. y Kramer, Michael (2011).  Creating Shared Value. How to reinvent capitalism–and unleash a wave of innovation and growth. En: Harvard Business Review, Vol. 3, No. 15, January – February, p. 12-47.

 

• All bibliographical references must include page number.

            Total number of book pages: 365p.

             Magazine page range: p. 23 – 36

• Use p. only to indicate the page number
• Use In: in serial publications and book chapters.
• Whenever the author is an institutional author, an acronym must be defined and the following structure must be used:

            DANE- National Statistics Administration Department   (2009). Poverty line in Colombia and Latin America: inequality and transition. Working paper No. 56, p 12-56

• Do not use italic for references
• Do not use quotation marks for highlighting
• Do not use the ¨& ¨ symbol.
• All references must have 5 point bold font after the second line.

2.  All bibliographical references at the end of the text must be presented in the following format, even bearing in mind the punctuation. 

• Magazines: Last name of author, name (year). Article´s title. In: name of magazine, volume (Vol.) and number (N.°), period, paging of full article.  

           Valderrama, José and Daválos-Díaz, Guillermina (2009). Labor satisfaction factors in family doctors belonging to IMSS. In: Investigación Clinica Magazine. Vol 61, No. 2, march – April p. 119-126. Doi: XX.XXXXX/RevVolNoArt

 

• If the magazine is available on line, it must include a link for the article and a hyperlink for the title. 

           Porter, M. y Kramer, Michael (2011). Creating Shared Value. How to reinvent capitalism –and unleash a wave of innovation and growth. En: Harvard Business Review, Vol.3, No. 4, January – February, p. 18-47. Doi: XX.XXXXX/RevVolNoArt

 

• Books: Last name of author, name (year). Book title, city of edition: editorial, number of pages.

           Saz, Salvador (1999). Apprising external negative effects of              a transportation infrastructure: noise and landscape              alteration. Valencia, Spain: Oveja negra, 40p.

 

• Thesis: Last name of the author, name (year). Thesis title. Title that the student choose. Name of program, institution or university, country, number of pages.

           Arias, Guillermo (2015). Internationalization of Colombian                 companies. Ph.D on Economics study thesis, Economics                   Ph.D., Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, 140p.

 

• News papers and non academic magazines: Name of the publication or author (year). Title of article or column, section, country, number of pages.

            El tiempo (2012). Origins of the Colombian industry,                        Colombia, 2p.

 

• Laws, sentences and decrees: Author institution (year). Law number. Title or number of the law, number of pages.  

           CRC- Colombian Congress (1994). Law 115 de February 8,               1994. By which the general education law is issued, 50p.

 

• Interviews: Last name of interviewed, name (year). Position of job, Company or institution he or she works for. City, day, month, year the interview was held.

           Cárdenas, Mauricio (2015). Full time teacher, Universidad de             Antioquia. Medellín, August 23, 2015.