Envíos

Lista de comprobación para la preparación de envíos

Como parte del proceso de envío, los autores/as están obligados a comprobar que su envío cumpla todos los elementos que se muestran a continuación. Se devolverán a los autores/as aquellos envíos que no cumplan estas directrices.

• 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).
• All articles submitted to the Journal of Public Administration must be unpublished.
• Articles are published in English and Spanish.
• Articles must be double-spaced, on letter-size paper (8 ½" X 11") and with 1" margins.
• The author's name will appear only on a separate page of the text. The author's name will appear only on a separate page of the text. It will also indicate the author's institutional affiliation.
• The entire content of the article must be in black and white.
• Authors should send their article to revista.adpu@upr.edu, with attention to Editor of the Journal of Public Administration.
• Articles will have a maximum of 11,000 words (approximately 32 pages) with double spacing, including notes and bibliography.
• Articles must be preceded by an abstract in Spanish and one in English of no more than 250 words. At the end of each abstract, authors will insert three or four keywords or phrases that describe the content of the article. It will include the keywords in English and Spanish.
• Authors should submit with their article a two or three sentence bio-bibliographic abstract indicating their current professional position and institutional affiliation and their most recent publications.
• Titles of articles should not be longer than eight words.
• Notes should be brief (usually no more than three sentences) and limited to marginal clarifications of the text; they should not be used for bibliographic references. Notes should appear at the end of the article, before the references, under the title "Notes" and be numbered consecutively throughout the text.
• All works cited in the text should appear in the list of references and vice versa.
• Tables and graphs essential for a better understanding of the article should not be included in the text, but at the end of it (according to APA format). Each illustration should appear on a separate page and have its own number and descriptive title. The author should indicate his approximate location in the text with a phrase such as "insert Table 1 here".
• Limit illustrations (maps, charts, tables and graphs) to those strictly necessary. They should include their respective fonts and be in black and white (grayscale mode), without frames or shading, in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) or JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) format and 300 dip (dot per inch / dots per inch) resolution. Also, the letters must have a minimum size of 7 dots high, the images must not be sent in layers and the dimensions must conform to the format of the Journal.
• Due to editorial policy, the journal reserves the right to publish too wide illustrations. No photos are accepted.
• Typography tests will be available for three days prior to publication. Authors may review and correct the proofs if they wish, but may not make changes to the content of the article.
• References to other authors throughout the text will be made using the APA format. They should mention the surname, date of publication and page of the citation.
• The complete bibliographic records of all the cited works should appear at the end of the article under the heading "References", according to the APA format.
• 70% of the cited references must be recent (last five years), except historical works.