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 request has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The file sent is in Microsoft Word format
Web addresses have been added for references where possible.
The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the AuthorGuidelines, which can be found in About the journal.
If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you need to ensure that the instructions in Asegurando de una revisión a ciegas have been followed.
Author Guidelines
Profile of the authors
Profile oriented preferably to the social sciences.
It is essential to have your Globally Recognized Standardized Identifier (ORCID).
Articles may not be written by more than three authors.
A work by the same author or authors will be published once a year.
The registration must not omit the institution of affiliation, lines of research and a brief curricular profile.
Reviews
The reviews must be original (not translations), correspond to the themes of Encrucijada, Revista Electrónica del Centro de Estudios en Administración Pública. Reviews are not subject to an arbitration process, but will be reviewed to ensure they comply with the guidelines described.
From 5 to 10 pages long.
Margin of 3 centimeters per side.
Arial font, number 12.
Line spacing 1.5 lines.
Space between paragraphs: 12 pt. previous and 12 pt. later.
Justified text alignment.
Reference sources and modern type critical apparatus (Harvard)
Italic is used instead of underlining (except for URLs), all illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in the place that corresponds to them and not at the end of the whole.
In the case of graphs and tables, all must be titled, numbered in progressive order, centered and have their source, citation type Harvad, letter Arial 11.
Articles
15 to 25 pages of extension (without including bibliography). Consideration may be given to accepting articles exceeding this limit under certain exceptional circumstances, especially if the topic addressed requires more detailed treatment or if the complexity of the content justifies greater length.
Include in the first page a bstract and keywords.
As a research article, the first introductory section should include objective(s) and methodology, and at the author's discretion, research question and hypothesis.
Marge of 3 centimeters per side.
Type of letter Arial, number 12.
Inlineline 1.5.
Space between paragraphs 12 points previous and 12 points later.
Alignment of justified text.
Reference sources and critical apparatus (Harvard style).
Example 1, printed book.
In text: (Easton, 2006:48)
In Information Sources:
Easton, David (2006), Outline for political analysis, Buenos Aires: Amorrortu Editores.
Example 2, e-book.
In text: (Guardian, 2010:76)
In Information Sources:
Guardián Sandoval, Rodrigo (2010), "Long march of Open Government: Theory, measurement and future", Mexico: National Institute of Public Administration, available at: http://www.inap.mx/portal/images/pdf/book/long_marcha.pdf. (consultation date: November 24, 2016)
Example 3, Article.
In text: (Sandoval, 2015:207)
In Information Sources:
Sandoval Almazán, Rodrigo (2015), “Open government and transparency: building a conceptual framework”, in Revista Convergencia, number 68, May-August, Mexico: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico.
Example 4, Article by two authors.
In text: (Ramírez and Dassen, 2014:100)
In Information Sources:
Ramírez Alujas, Álvaro and Nicolás Dassen (2014), Winds of Change. The advancement of open government policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Inter-American Development Bank.
Example 5, Book Chapter.
In text: (Cejudo, 2015:107)
In Information Sources:
Cejudo Montes, Guillermo (2015), “Open Government in Mexico: label, principle or practice” in Pereznieto, Bojórquez José Antonio and Issa Luna Pla (Coords.), Open Government and the social value of Public Information, Mexico: Institute Tabasqueño of Transparency and Access to Public Information/ National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Italic is used instead of underlining (except for URLs), all illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in the place that corresponds to them and not at the end of the whole.
In the case of graphs and tables, all must be titled, numbered in progressive order, centered and have their source, citation type Harvad, letter Arial 11.
