Submissions

Author Guidelines

Quaestiones disputatae - Topics in Debate is a biannual, serialised publication of the Humanities Department at the Santo Tomas University in Tunja, Colombia, which seeks to contribute to the spread and development of scientific knowledge in the field of humanities and social sciences. It publishes original papers of research, reflection and review of national and international researchers and academics, whose topics are confined to the field of Philosophy, Theology, Sociology, Anthropology, Education and other related subjects.

2. Evaluation Process

a) Reception. Upon receipt of a paper, the publisher will inform the writer of the evaluation process the text will need to go through. Please note that the submission of an article does not generate any cost, nor does its receipt guarantee its publication.

b) Peer Review. In a second stage, the article is to be submitted to evaluation by an expert on the specific subject of the contribution. The evaluation will take place under a "double-blind" approach, ie, neither the writer nor the arbitrator will know the identity of the other role involved in the process. The referee will consider aspects for evaluation such as the interest to the reader, the structure and content of the written form and originality of the text, whilst also giving some specific recommendations.

The evaluating peer will have the power to assess the item as 1) publishable; 2) publishable with modifications, to be stated in the evaluation form; 3) not publishable. In the event that the item is evaluated as option 1), the article be submited to the editing process. If the item is valued with option 2) the writer will be told immediately of any corrections which must be made within no more than 15 days. Finally, if the item is declared as not publishable (option 3), the writer will be informed of the corresponding arguments supporting the decision of the evaluating peer. It should be noted that the writer may appeal the decision of the evaluator by means of a formal letter, setting forth the reasons for the appeal. This letter will be presented to the editorial committee who will determine whether to appoint a second evaluator. A second evaluating peer may also be appointed in the event that the first peer not meet the three week evaluation deadline.

c) Approval. Once the verdict of the evaluation has been issued and advised, and the writer has made the necessary adjustments, the Editorial Committee will review that these have been carried out satisfactorily. If the result of the process is successful, the article will enter the stage of copyediting, layout and printing. During this last phase, the writer is entitled to see the result of the copyediting to validate that it has not resulted in any alteration to the meaning of the text.

3. General criteria for the classification of papers

a) Scientific and technological research. Document presents, in detail, the original results of completed research projects.

b) Reflection article. Document that presents finished research results from an analytical perspective, interpretative or critical of the author, on a specific subject, resorting to original sources.

c) Review article. Document result of a finished research where research results, whether published or unpublished, are analysed, systematised and integrated, about a field of science or technology, in order to account for the progress made and the development trends. It is characterised by presenting a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 references.

4. Form and preparation of manuscripts.

a)  Articles may be in Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. They must be original, with a length ranging from12 to 25 pages in A4 format(paper size 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm, 8 1/2" x 11"), Arial 12 font, 1½ spaces and 3 cm margins.

b) The name of the authors, their institutional affiliation, highest academic degree obtained, corporate email, project name, research status, the research group to which they belong and the type of article should be stated in a note or footnote.

c)  The body of the article must contain the following features:

- Title (up to 15 words), optional subtitle and name (s) author (s).

- Analytical Summary: no less than 100, not exceeding 200 words.

- Keywords:  between a minimum of 4 and a maximum 7 must be registered, supported by a specific thesaurus (http://databases.unesco.org/thessp/).

- Abstract: This will be the translation of the summary into English, which the author must ensure retains the original meaning.

- Keywords: The words assigned in Spanish must match the corresponding words in English

- Introduction.

- Methodology (mandatory for research articles).

- Research procedure.

- Results (mandatory for research articles).

- Conclusions.

d) Images: photographs, illustrations and graphics should be sent in separate files in the main text and be identified as "figure" and listed in order of use in the text. The quality of the illustrations in the publication is dependent on the quality of the file sent by the author. Each illustration must have a caption to account for its origin.

Note: Images must be submitted in jpg or tif formats. A good resolution at he moment of capture is recommended.

e) When the article involves naming someone in the demonstration of surveys results, interviews, etc., the proper authorization must be obtained beforehand for the utilization of said names.

f) Bibliography and reference citations (within or at the end of the text): the use of the sixth edition APA (American Psychological Association) system  is suggested.

Here are some basic rules most commonly used in the production of scientific papers according to APA standards sixth edition.

Word for word citation:

• In the event that the contents of a word for word citation covers five lines or less than forty words, it is to be enclosed in double quotation marks to differentiate it from the rest of the text:

Regarding this issue, it should be recalled that for some authors, there is at least one unique feature of the symbols and states of mind: "In a first approximation, symbols and mental states both have representational content, and there is nothing else that has it" (Fodor, 1994, p. 13). Obviously, to finish clarifying the point, it is necessary to explain exactly what the relevant representational content is.

• The quotations that have six lines or more than forty words should be written in a smaller font size than that used in the text, indented without quotation marks. In this case, at the end of the citation, a full stop is placed before the parenthetical reference (No full stop is placed after closing the brackets):

Among the fundamental ideas of structural linguistics, there is the notion of standard features. This concept, originally formulated by Eugenio Coseriu, can occur in many different ways. See, for example, the following definition:

As abstraction, the standard meets characteristic facts of a particular language corresponding to the same functional space. These facts group, for example, regular phonetic variants of all Hispanic field organized according to language requirements, as fricativización of / bdg / in intervocalic contexts. But equally also it encompass es the dialectal, historical, social, stylistic, generational phenomena corresponding to the different modes of the system, which materialise in the different dimensions of manifestation of the languages. (Caravedo, 1989, pp. 12-13)

As can be seen in this definition, the standard requires the existence of the social dimension of language. However, Coseriu also provides for the possibility of a single standard.

Paraphrased quote:

• The author's name and the date of the work are to be included in brackets within the sentence.

• The Bible and the Koran, and references to personal communications can be cited in the text, but not to be included in the reference list.

• If the sentence includes the author's name, only the date should be written in parentheses:

Viadero (2007) reports that an analysis of more than two hundred studies shows the correlation between teaching social skills and improving school performance.

• If the author is not included in the sentence, the surname and date should be written in brackets:

An analysis of more than two hundred studies shows the correlation between teaching social skills and improving school performance (Viadero, 2007).

• If the paper has more than two authors cited, the first time it should be cited with all the surnames. In subsequent mentions, only the first author is to be written, followed by the phrase et al:

The term emotional intelligence was first used in 1990 by Salovey and Mayer. (Alvarez Manilla, Valdés Krieg & Curiel de Valdés, 2006). As for school performance, Manilla Alvarez et al (2006) found that emotional intelligence does not affect it.

• If there are more than six authors, et al is used from the first mention.

Other cases:

• Corporate author. In this case, the name of the organization is placed in brackets instead of a person’s name. The first time the full name is cited, the acronym being indicated in brackets; from then onwards, only the acronym is to be cited:

The United Nations Organization (UN, 2004) ... the UN (2004) states that ...

• Anonymous. When the author is anonymous, the first words of the paper’s title and the year of publication should be cited. If the text is from an article, book chapter or web page, title words should be written in double quotes:

The defense of children is highlighted (“Annual report,” 2013)

• Citation of a citation. This is used when the author has access to a source of information by a different author. For example, when reading a book by Stephen Hawking and this cites an opinion or statement quoted Roger Penrose:

Penrose (as cited by Hawking, 2010) thinks that mathematics (…)

Note: It is recommended to use such citations as little as possible whilst there is access to the original material, seeking to quote directly from the author.

• Citation from a publication with no date. If the year or date of publication is not indicated, the inclusion of the acronym “n.d.” is necessary:

Pulido (n.d) states that the specific knowledge of the task guarantees a good solution.

• Direct quote material without paging. When not found the page number in the text, it can be included in the quote the paragraph number where the fragment is to be used accompanied by the abbreviation is "para."

A new "framework for considering nature" is suggested (Basu & Jones, 2007, para. 4).

However, if the document contains headers and the paragraph or page number is not visible, the heading, as well as the paragraph number that corresponds to the quotation fragment used, may be included:

Therefore, it is stated that “in collectivist cultures, rules exert a decisive influence on judgments” (D 'Agenello, 2006 Discussion section, para.1)

• Citation of two or more papers in the same brackets. To include authors of several works within a parenthesis, the authors should be ordered alphabetically according to the order they appear in the reference list; the semicolon is used to separate the citations:

self-image studies reflect the frequent occurrence of colectivist adjectives to describe someone (Esqueda & Escalante, 2000; Montero, 1984; Shu & Diener, 1988)

• Quote of several works of an author with the same date of publication. To cite several texts that share the author and publication date references, they should be arranged alphabetically by title text. Given the above, the citations the year of publication should be accompanied by the letters a, b, c, etc. in the same order they are in the references.

Rojas (1984a) argues that culture includes the various representations of beliefs, norms, habits and lifestyles.

• Notes. When paragraphs explain or expand on what is written in the text, these must be marked with an index (¹) at the bottom of the page.

References: a list of references includes only sources that support research and were used during preparation of the paper. The APA style requires references.

Note: All authors cited in the body of a text or work must match the list of references at the end, ie, an author who has not been cited in the text should never be referenced and vice versa.

General considerations:

• Alphabetically by the first letter of reference.

• Works by the same author are arranged chronologically.

• Each reference is formatted in French paragraph (hanging indent) and double-spaced.

Books:

• Book with author.

Crick, F. (1994). The scientific search for the soul. Madrid, Spain: Debate.

• Book with editor.

Ortiz Castillo, A. M. (Ed.). (2000). Educational administration: Techniques, strategies and management practices. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rican Publications.

• E-Book

Online: De Jesus Dominguez, J. (1887). The administrative autonomy in Puerto Rico. Recovered from http://memory.loc.gov/

DOI: Montero, M. & Sonn, C. C. (Eds.). (2009). Psychology of Liberation: Theory and applications. doi: 10.1007 / 978-0-387-85784-8

• Chapter in a book: a chapter of a book is to be referenced when the book has an editor, ie: the book contains chapters written by different authors.

Caponi, G. (2007). Against Lamarck’s Adaptationist reading. In Rosas L, A. (Ed.), Philosophy, Darwinism and evolution (pp. 3-17). Bogotá, Colombia: National University of Colombia.

Newspaper publications:

• Scientific articles (Journal):

White-Estupiñan, A. E. (2015). The image of the witch in the Colombian novel the Eskimo and the Butterfly. quaest.disput, 8 (17), 12-29

• Articles with DOI:

Bezuidenhout, A. (2006). Consciousness and Language (review). Language, 82 (4), Number 930 934. doi: 10.1353 / lan.2006.0184

• Items Online:

Mota de Cabrera, C. (2006). The role of writing in the curriculum of teaching and learning English as a second language (ESL / EFL): A historical perspective. Pedagogical Action, 15 (1), 56-63. Recovered from http: //www.saber. ula.ve/accionpe/

Otras publicaciones:

• Newspaper:

Manrique Grisales, J. (November 14, 2010). The beast that swallowed Armero. El Espectador, pp. 16-17.

• Journal article (Magazine):

Newman, V. (November, 2010). Information: En la urna de cristal? Semana (15), p. 10.

• Reports:

Ministry of Social Protection. (1994). Scientific report of cases of yellow fever in the Meta department. Recovered from http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co/

• Symposia and conferences:

Manrique, D., & Aponte, L. (June 2011). Evolution in study and conceptualization of consciousness. H. Castillo (Chair), Psychoanalysis in Latin America. Symposium carried out in the XXXIII Latin American Congress of Psychology, Medellin, Colombia.

• Theses y degrees:

Aponte, L, and Cardona, C. (2009). Environmental education and evaluation of population density for the conservation of condors reintroduced in the Los Nevados National Park and its buffer zone (undergraduate thesis). University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia.

 

4. How to send the articles.

Contributions should be sent to email: quaestionesdisputatae@ustatunja.edu.co or uploaded to the page of the magazine in OJS (http://revistas.ustatunja.edu.co/index.php/qdisputatae). Please note that the texts sent must be unpublished (and therefore not to be disclosed in electronic publications or web sites such as Scribd, Academy or other similar means of electronic dissemination) and can not be simultaneously subjected to evaluation in other magazines during the arbitration process in Quaestiones Disputatae - Temas en Debate

5. Ethical considerations.

Quaestiones disputatae - Temas en debate, adheres to the "Code of Conduct and Good Practice Guide for editors of scientific journals" (http://publicationethics.org/files/Code%20of%20Conduct_2.pdf) and the provisions of the Statutory Habeas Data Law 1266 2008 for handling personal information in databases.

Some of the considerations for authors, editor and peer reviewers are outlined below:

For authors:

- The works that the authors submit should not be sent simultaneously to other journals, as this compromises the originality of the articles and publication rights.

- It is considered unacceptable to reproduce texts from other authors without clearly indicating their origin.

- It is considered unacceptable to incorporate fully or partially own texts that have already been published without clearly indicating where they were originally published.

- The authors commit themselves to the tasks arising from the arbitration process and the publication, such as reviewing and incorporating the corrections suggested by the assessment, responding to comments and questions which may be the result of publishing the document (copyediting and adequacy to the editorial guidelines); the author is also responsible of carrying out said work within the agreed deadlines between the author and the editor.

For the Editor:

It is necessary the Editor strive to

- meet the needs of authors and readers related to the editing, evaluation and dissemination of the magazine.

- To constantly improve the processes of the magazine.

- Abide by the necessary processes to ensure the quality of the material published.

- Be an advocate for the defense of freedom of expression

- Always be willing to issue corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.

For evaluating peers:

The evaluating peers must

- commit to evaluating only items for which they have sufficient expertise required to issue an appropriate and objective judgment, doing so within a reasonable time and meeting the deadlines.

- Respect the confidentiality required by his role as an evaluating peer and not disclose details of the article or review during or after the evaluation, including those related to the magazine.

- Declare all potential conflicts of interest they may have with the article or research involved, as well as those that may affect the impartiality of its assessment.

- Be objective and constructive in their comments, annotations avoiding hostile or prejudiced comments that may affect the impartiality of its assessment.