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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).
  • All articles submitted to the Journal of Public Administration must be unpublished.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.

Author Guidelines

The Journal of Public Administration continually accepts contributions of an academic and practical nature for future editions. Theoretical and empirical contributions - research papers, critical analysis papers, technical articles - original, unpublished and not under consideration for publication elsewhere - will be considered.

Articles should use a rigorous analytical approach and be understandable to an international audience. Evaluative judgements will indicate the perspective from which they are formulated and the factual basis on which they are based. Authors take full responsibility for the accuracy of the data they provide in their biographical reviews, including those relating to double filiation.

The time between receipt of the article and the response of the Editorial Board is one to three months. The diligence of arbitrators in examining an article and submitting their comments is beyond our control. The journal's commitment is to expedite this process and to forward the arbitrators' comments to the author as soon as they are received.

The estimated time between the receipt of articles and their publication is five months; however, this will depend on the diligence of the arbitrators in sending their comments and rulings, as well as on the authors in responding to them and forwarding their articles. The evaluation and management of articles will be conducted in electronic format.

Please refer to the following "checklist for preparing submissions" to the journal. Strict compliance with this list may speed up the time between receipt and consideration of articles, as it will prevent articles from having to be returned to authors for failure to comply.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission meets all of the elements shown below. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

 

Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice:

Authors assign their intellectual property rights (copyright) to the Journal of Public Administration, once the article is accepted for publication.  As a RAP policy, the author will not receive payment for published articles.

Once published, the author may have a digital version of the article for the exclusive use and publication of his/her personal page, making reference to the RAP. In case of wishing to publish in other media, the author must have the prior authorization of the RAP Editorial Board.

This authorization is granted so that the Journal of Public Administration may disseminate to the academic and scientific community, both locally and internationally, all works submitted and catalogued as publishable.  By granting copyright to RAP, authors agree to the educational use policy set forth in Section 107, Title 17, of the U.S. Code. 

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