Submissions

Author Guidelines

Publishing rules

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Submission preparation checklist

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

• The article has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal.
• The text complies with the bibliographic and stylistic requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors.
• When submitting a manuscript, make sure that your text does not contain data or metadata (file properties) with your identity.
• Need help uploading the document? Problems with the platform? If you have any questions or problems, please contact revistaec@upo.es
• Additional files. If you need to add additional documents during submission, please contact the journal management. In the case of audiovisual material, reproduction rights will be requested.

Guidelines for authors

Persons submitting papers for possible publication in the Revista de Economía Crítica must first check that the text submitted scrupulously complies with the following guidelines:

• Papers submitted must be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English.
• Four types of papers will be accepted:
  a) Articles: these will be original, complete and developed theoretical or empirical papers. They may belong to a thematic issue, in which case this must be specified when sending the document.
  b) Debates: preferably short contributions aimed at stimulating debate on socio-economic issues. They will be sent in the same way as ‘articles’. They will be evaluated by the Editorial Team.
  c) Classical works: a classic article by a relevant economist will be published, together with a commentary. They will be submitted in the same way as the articles and will be evaluated by the Editorial Team.
  d) Book Reviews on heterodox economic thought. Between 1,000 and 2,000 words. They should be submitted in the same way as ‘articles’. At the beginning of each review should be indicated, by way of title, the surnames and names of the authors of the book, title of the work, publisher, place and year of publication and number of pages. They will be evaluated by the editorial team.
• Manuscripts submitted must be unpublished and cannot be submitted for consideration by other journals while they are in the process of being evaluated by Revista de Economía Crítica. Exceptionally, and for reasons of scientific interest and/or dissemination of particularly notable contributions, the editorial team may decide to publish and/or translate a text that has already been published, as in the case of the Classical works section.
• The document is uploaded in step 2 of the submission. Papers should be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or Word Perfect format via the journal's website. No other means of submission will be accepted and no correspondence will be entered into on originals not submitted via the portal or in other formats.
• The maximum length of the text is 9,000 words, including references, annexes, footnotes and title, and excluding abstracts, keywords, graphs and tables.
• The format of the text must respect the following rules:
  Type and font size: Arial Nº 11.
  Text should be double-spaced, except footnotes, and justified.
  Notes should be numbered consecutively at the foot of the corresponding page and not at the end of the text and should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals (in Arial size 11 and single-spaced). It is recommended that their use be kept to a minimum and that this use should be explanatory and never a bibliographical citation. Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the page. Pages should be numbered at the bottom, starting from the page of the abstract, beginning with the number 1 (the cover page with the author's details will not be numbered). Sections or sections of the text should be numbered and titled in lower case and bold.
  Avoid multiple carriage returns between paragraphs as well as between the titles of the different parts of an article and the following or preceding paragraph.
  Mathematical formulae should be numbered when the author considers it appropriate, using Arabic numerals, in square brackets to the right of the formulae.
  If a word or phrase is to be highlighted, it should be in italics, not in bold. Likewise, if a term is expressed in English or another language other than Spanish, it should be in italics.
• The tables, graphs, charts and maps included must be integrated into the text, duly ordered. All should be numbered with Arabic numerals and correlative numbering. Number and title at the top, in bold. Font at the bottom, source text in italics. Explicit reference should be made to them in the text. Graphics must also be sent separately in RTF or EXCEL format. The graphs must be accompanied by the files containing the basic data. These graphics can be included in the submission as supplementary files accompanying the anonymised manuscript.
• Authors are allowed and encouraged to deposit supplementary material in open access institutional/thematic repositories.
  If you need to add additional documents during submission, please contact the journal management. In the case of audiovisual material, reproduction rights will be requested.
• Bibliographical references will be included in the text. The Chicago citation format (author - date) should be followed, with the full name of the authors in the final list of bibliographical references.
• In step 3 of the submission, the title, an optional subtitle, an abstract in Spanish and English, and a maximum of five key words representative of the content of the article, also in Spanish and English, must be added. These data must also appear at the beginning of the anonymous article itself. The abstracts in both languages, plus the keywords, should not exceed 500 words. The structured abstract will clearly and concisely state: objectives (mandatory), methodology (mandatory), main results and conclusions of the work (mandatory), limitations and implications of the research (optional), practical implications (optional), social implications (optional), originality and contribution (mandatory).
• Also in step 3 of the submission, the metadata must be filled in on the platform including all authors, using the ‘Add collaborator’ button for articles with more than one author. It is essential that all authors are added at this point. The inclusion of new authors after the first submission will not be accepted.
• Contribution of authorship: In the case of co-authorship, the level of contribution in each of the phases of both the research and the writing of the contribution must be indicated. It is recommended to follow the CRediT taxonomy.
• For each author, the following should also be added: Institutional affiliation: university or centre, department or unit, city and country. E-mail address. All correspondence should be sent to this e-mail address. In the case of multiple-authored articles, the person who will maintain correspondence with the journal must be specified by ticking the box ‘main contact for editorial correspondence’. ORCID ID: If an ORCID number is not available, authors are encouraged to register at http://orcid.org/ to obtain one. Short biographical note (maximum 150 words) specifying the highest degrees obtained (and by which university), current position and main lines of research. The Revista de Economía Crítica may publish this biographical note as a complement to the information in the articles.
• The text of the articles must be sent anonymised: all quotations, acknowledgements, references and other allusions that could directly or indirectly allow the identification of the author must be removed (under the label *anonymised*). In the list of references, anonymised articles should not include any additional information such as the title or name of the journal, only the word *anonymised*, so that, when searching for the surnames of all authors with the search tool, no results are returned. The file properties must be blank.
• Funding: declare the funding received for your research by indicating the funding agency, programme and grant code.

The journal's gender policy recommends including a gender perspective in all published research, both in the research design and in the writing of articles, where relevant. It also recommends the use of inclusive and non-sexist language in its articles. In this regard, the use of inclusive terms, e.g., person instead of man or woman, is preferable. The full names of researchers must be included in the bibliography. With regard to the wording of the contribution, it is advisable to consult the following Guide for a non-sexist use of the CSIC language.

Rules of the selection and publication process

The Revista de Economía Crítica publishes academic works of theoretical and empirical research on Political Economy from critical, radical and heterodox approaches. Articles by economists and other social scientists on Marxist, post-Keynesian, institutional, ecological, feminist, political economy, political ecology, critical development studies, international economic policy, etc. are published. Texts with multidisciplinary and international approaches are especially welcome.

Errors in format and presentation, non-compliance with the journal's rules or incorrect spelling and syntax may be grounds for rejection of the paper without evaluation.

The evaluation will be peer-reviewed by the ‘double blind’ method. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to strict scientific quality criteria.
Once a text has been received and meets all the formal requirements, it will be acknowledged and the evaluation process will begin.
In a first phase, the Editorial Team will carry out a general review of the quality and thematic adequacy of the work, and may reject directly without external evaluation those works whose quality is ostensibly low or which do not make any contribution to the thematic areas of the journal. For this first review, the Editorial Team may request the assistance, if deemed necessary, of the members of the Editorial Board or the International Advisory Board. Proposals for debates, classical works and book reviews may be accepted after passing this preliminary filtering phase without the need for external evaluation.

Articles that pass this first filter are assigned to an editor and will be sent to two external evaluators, specialists in the subject or line of research in question. In the event that the evaluations are discrepant, or for any other reason, the Editorial Team may send the text to a third evaluator.
In the light of the evaluators' reports, the Editorial Team may take one of the following decisions, which will be communicated to the author:

• Publishable after revision. In this case, publication will be conditional upon the author making all the changes required by the editorial team. The deadline for making such changes will be one month, and a brief report must be attached explaining the changes introduced and how they meet the requirements of the Editorial Team. The proposed changes may include the conversion of an article proposal into a research note/bibliographic note, or vice versa.
• Not publishable, but with the possibility of rewriting and resubmission. In this case, the resubmission of a new version will not imply any guarantee of publication, but the evaluation process will start again from the beginning.
• Not publishable.

In the event that a paper is accepted for publication, the author must check the proofs within a maximum period of two weeks.
The articles will be subjected to a computerised plagiarism check and plagiarism detection system.

The Revista de Economía Crítica will publish annually the list of all persons who have made anonymous evaluations, as well as the statistics of accepted, reviewed and rejected articles, and the average length of time between the receipt of an article and the communication of the final decision to its author.
The Revista de Economía Crítica may publicise the following scientific malpractices, if they have been identified: plagiarism, falsification or invention of data, individual appropriation of collective authorship and duplicate publication.

SUBMISSION PREPARATION CHECKLIST

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

• The submission has not been previously published or previously submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the editor).
• The submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
• Tables, graphs, illustrations or photographs are inserted in the Word document in the appropriate place. Also, graphs in editable format (Excel) must be submitted as supplementary files.
• Whenever possible, the DOI or URL of the bibliographical references have been provided.
• The text is double-spaced, the font size is 11 point and the typeface is Arial.
• The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors.
• If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you must ensure that the instructions in Securing a blind review have been followed.