Guidelines for contributors to the CEPAL Review

In order to facilitate the submission, consideration and publication of articles, the editorial board of the CEPAL Review has prepared the following information and suggestions to serve as a guide for future contributors.

The submission of an article implies an undertaking by the author not to submit it simultaneously to other publications. The copyright to all articles published in the Review shall be owned by the United Nations.

Each article will be reviewed by the editorial board, which may decide to submit it to external referees.

Papers should be submitted in the original language (English, French, Portuguese or Spanish). They will be translated into the appropriate language by the relevant ECLAC services.

Each article must be accompanied by a summary, no more than 150 words in length, giving a brief description of its subject matter and main conclusions.

Each article must also carry three jel (Journal of Economic Literature) classification codes. The JEL Classification Codes Guide is available online at www.aeaweb.org/ jel/jel_class_system.php.

Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words, including the summary, notes and bibliography. Shorter papers will also be considered.

Articles should be sent by e-mail to revista@cepal.org in Word format. Papers in pdf format will not be accepted.

Style guide:

Titles should not be excessively long.

Footnotes

It is recommended that footnotes be kept to a minimum.

It is recommended that footnotes not be used to cite bibliographical references; such references should preferably be incorporated into the text. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively using superscript Arabic numerals.

Tables, figures and equations

It is recommended that tables and figures be kept to a minimum, avoiding any redundancy with the text.

Equations should be written using the Office equation editor “MathType”; they should not be inserted as “pictures”.

Tables, figures and other elements should be inserted at the end of the text in the format in which they were designed; they should not be inserted as “pictures”. Figures in Excel should include the corresponding worksheets.

The location of tables and figures in the body of the article should be indicated in the appropriate place as follows:

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Insert table 1

Tables and figures should include an explicit and complete reference to their sources.

Tables should indicate the period covered at the end of the title, and should indicate the units in which the data are expressed in a subtitle (in italics and between brackets).

The symbols referred to in the “Explanatory notes” which appear on the page preceding the table of contents should be taken into account in the preparation of tables and figures.

Footnotes to tables and figures should be ordered consecutively using superscript lower-case letters. Figures should be prepared bearing in mind that they will be printed in black and white.

Acronyms and abbreviations

Acronyms and abbreviations should not be used unless absolutely necessary, in which case the full name should be written out the first time it occurs in the article.

Bibliography

Bibliographical references should be directly related to the content of the article and should not be excessively long.

At the end of the article, under the title “Bibliography”, all the necessary information should be included accurately and in alphabetical order by author: name of author(s), year of publication, full name of article (if any) and publication (including any subtitle), city of publication, publisher and, in the case of a periodical, month of publication.

The editorial board of the Review reserves the right to make any necessary editorial changes in the articles, including their titles.

Authors will receive a one-year courtesy subscription to the Review, plus 30 offprints of their article in Spanish and 30 in English, at the time of publication in each language.