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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

 

 

Contributions for the Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública (RMOP) must have the form and presentation of articles, and comply with the following requirements:

1. Maximal extension of 20 to 25 pages, letter size, one side, space between lines 1.5, Times New Roman font, 12 points. In the total of pages must be included: title in Spanish, summary and keywords, title in English, abstract and keywords, bibliography, tables, and frames.

2. Include an introduction explaining the methodology and development of the study, as well as the results and conclusions of the study.

3. At the beginning, the article should present the title of the article, a summary of its content of no more than 200 words, as well as a series of 6 keywords or descriptors of the article to be published; all this in Spanish and English.

The abstract should include each of the important concepts of the article and its correlations, as well as the main conclusions. The name of the article and the subheadings, subsections, subincises, or, where appropriate, the chapter number, must be definitive. It is recommended to take into account the following structure for the summary:

1. Objective
2. Design / methodology / approach with which the study was carried out
3. Results
4. Study Limitations / Implications
5. Originality / value
6. Findings / conclusions

The editorial team will synthesize that summary containing a greater number of words than the requested one.

4. The following general order is recommended for the organization of the article:

1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results
4. Conclusions

5. The notes and references will be made as footnotes, according to the following order: a. Books: Name (s) of author (s), Last name (s), title in Italics, editorial (comma), place of publication (comma), year of publication (comma), pages consulted preceded by the abbreviation p. or pp (period).

Example:

Javier Bernabé Fraguas, Periodismo preventivo. Otra manera de informar sobre las crisis y los conflictos internacionales, Los Libros de la Catarata, Madrid, 2007, pp. 37-47.

b. Reviews or periodicals: Author's name (s), Last name (s), title of the article in quotation marks (comma), name of the review or newspaper in uppercase and lowercase letters and Italics, vol. and/or publication number (comma), editor or publisher (comma), place of edition (comma), year of publication (comma) and page (s) consulted preceded by the abbreviation p. or pp. (period).

Example:

Johan Galtung and Mari Holmboe, "The Structure of Foreign News," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 2, no. 1, SAGE, Oslo, 1965, pp. 64-91.

6. The references will be included at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically and observing the following order:

a. Books: Author's last name (comma), Name (comma), title in Italics, editorial (comma), place of publication (comma), year of publication (period).

Example:

Bernabé Fraguas, Javier, Preventive journalism. Another way of reporting on crises and international conflicts, Los Libros de la Catarata, Madrid, 2007.

b. Reviews or journals: Author's last name (comma), Name (s) (comma), title of the article in quotation marks (comma), name of the magazine or newspaper in uppercase and lowercase letters and Italics and/or publication number (comma), editor or publisher (comma), place of edition (comma), year of edition (comma), page (s) consulted preceded by the abbreviation p. or pp. (point).

Example:

Galtung Johan and Mari Holmboe, "The Structure of Foreign News," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 2, núm. 1, SAGE, Oslo, 1965, pp. 64-91.

7. Original and copy in Spanish, with frames, tables, maps, photographs and statistics, will be submitted, always in grayscale, all of which will be presented in full, clear and with their respective reference (source); that is to say, the source of the same will be registered at the foot of each one of them. In addition, the author must indicate, with the respective call, the precise place in which he wants them to appear in the edited version. The graphs must be accompanied by the original table from which they were created.

8. Works should be submitted in .doc (Word) format.

9. In a separate file, a curriculum summary ––with a maximum of 300 words–– of the author will be included, and will contain academic degrees, institution where he works, research line (s) he/she develops, electronic address, nationality, city of origin, RFC (Registro Federal de Contribuyentes) or its equivalent in the country of origin of the author or authors of the article, and legal address.

10. Articles will be submitted to a "peer review" examination, which will be made by specialists through the site revistas.unam.mx, hosted on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform: http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/. In order to do so, the title page (s) of the author (s) will be omitted on the cover of the works, which will take care of their anonymity during the judgment process. Also, in each collaboration a separate sheet will be added separately with the author (s) name (s), job title, address and telephone number. The specialists who will act as reviewers will preferably be outside the institution that publishes the RMOP, that is, outside the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). The expert reviewers can't belong to the same institution to which the author (s) of the article belongs.

11. The opinion specialists, after having read and analyzed the article, will complete and develop, in the form of an opinion, the following aspects to be evaluated:

a) Thematic relevance and originality.
b) Discussion of the subject and contribution to the progress of the discipline.
c) Consistency and structure of the exposure of objectives.
d) Orientation of the line of argumentation (or of the empirical evidence towards the foundation of the essential approaches).
e) Evaluation of the use and updating of sources.
f) Correspondence of the methodology with the objectives of the research and/or theoretical reflection.
g) Other observations not included in the previous sections

12. The results of the "peer review " examination process may be as follows:

a) If both scores are positive (Publicable-Publicable), the article will be publishable, as long as it also complies with the guidelines of the RMOP.

b) If both opinions prove to be (Publicable condicionado a cambios y sugerencias del dictamen), that is, Publicable subject to changes and suggestions of the opinion, the author (s) should attend to all the suggestions of the opinion. Subsequently, the article will be sent to collation, preferably with the two specialists who gave it, so that they can analyze and verify if the author or authors complied with the request in the opinion.

c) If both opinions are negative (No publicable-No publicable), that is Not publishable-Not publishable, or the article is ruled as Fuera de la línea editorial de la revista, in English, Out of the editorial line of the journal, the article can not be published in it and will be considered rejected.

d) Sometimes an article receives a positive and a negative opinion, so that any of the following situations may occur:

• The article could be considered as No publicable en su estado actual. Reenviar para una nueva dictaminación, that is, Not publishable in its current state. Forward to a new opinion, so that the opinion will be sent to the author or authors in order that, based on the suggestions of the evaluators, modify the article and the article is submitted to a new process of opinion.

• If the opinions received imply very different points of view, the article will be sent to a third evaluator, who will help define, with his/her evaluation, the final decision of the decision process.

Once the opinions are received, the analysis of cases where there are contrasts or differences between one reviwer (judge) and another (or others), the coordinator of the number, together with two or three members of the Consejo Editorial who are supporting the process of opinion will be given to the task of analyzing the arguments received to choose the final decision and to decide whether or not to publish said article.

The evaluation process lasts approximately 15 working days after receipt of the article. In the event that it needs to undergo a new evaluation, it will have to be considered 7 working days more after a new specialist agrees to participate in this stage of the assessment process.

After the author (s) submits their article with the modifications that the reviewers requested, another 7 working days will be considered for the article's comparison.

In the event that the Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública does not receive the second version of an article with the necessary modifications to be sent to the collation (if the opinion was Publicable condicionado a cambios y sugerencias del dictamen), that is, Publicable subject to changes and suggestions of the opinion, or to a new examination process (if the opinion was No publicable en su estado actual. Reenviar para una nueva dictaminación), in English, Not publishable in its current state. Forward to a new opinion, it will be considered as rejected.

13. The Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública will occasionally admit a proposal for a review of some truly important book for analysis and reflection on public opinion. It will also be subject to a judgment process before at least one specialist. If necessary, the decision on the pertinence of its publication will fall on the Consejo Editorial. The aspects to be evaluated are:

a) Contents of the review.
b) Quality of the review.
c) Clarity and logical consistency.
d) Writing (cohesion and coherence).
e) Comments. RMOP format for the dictamination of a book review

14. The editorial team reserves the right to make style correction and editorial changes that it deems relevant to improve the work.

15. Works submitted to the Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública must be unpublished and the author (s) agrees not to submit them simultaneously to the consideration of other publications. Originals will not be returned.

The RMOP reviews, with the help of software, the articles it receives. This, in addition to helping it verify and verify the origin and authenticity of the content, allows it to corroborate that the information presented includes all its sources and is well cited. In case of any inconsistency or lack of information, the author will be sent a PDF that the tool provides with the results so that it can resolve said lack. If there is a possible plagiarism of information, the RMOP will proceed in accordance with the provisions of the Código de ética (Code of Ethics) of the RMOP.

16. The RMOP does not charge for any of the academic-publishing tasks that it carries out or are carried out through it. Neither the opinion nor the correction of style nor the publication of articles or any other content carries any cost to the author (s).

17. The receipt of the articles does not imply the obligation to be published in a number of the Revista Mexicana de Opinion Pública. The decision will be exclusively of its Consejo Editorial.

18. The authors grant their permission for the article to be disseminated by means deemed appropriate, whether printed, electronic or otherwise. The authors will have to sign a letter with the Declaración de originalidad (Declaration of originality) and a contract of Cesión de derechos (Assignment of rights) that can be downloaded on the page of the journal in OJS: http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/about/editorialPolicies#custom-7, and that should send to the following email: rmop@politicas.unam.mx.

19. For its part, the RMOP authorizes its collaborators to offer a copy of their published research in their personal web sites or in any open access repository, as long as the Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública is specifically mentioned as the original source, citing the year and number of the respective sample and also adding the link to the website where this editorial body can be consulted in toto open and free.

20. Proposals should be sent through the RMOP website http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/. If you do not have a username and password for this site, the author (or author responsible for sending an article written in co-authorship) must follow the following instructions, from point 1; otherwise, you can start from point 2.

1. Log in to http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/user/register to create a username and password.
2. Log in to OJS.
3. Click "CLICK HERE", which is located under Start a New Submission, which consists of five steps:

1) Start

- Select the "Articles" section (unless you want to send another type of work).
- In Submission Language, "Spanish" must be chosen.
- In the Submission Checklist, select all the boxes that correspond to each of the six requirements required to send a job. (Be sure to do this only after you have fully complied with all.)
- Click Save and continue.

2) Upload submission

Upload the manuscript file of your article. To do this, carry out the following actions:

- On this page, click Browse (or "Select file"); a file selection window will open before you to locate it on the hard drive of your computer.
- Locate the file you want to submit and select it.
- Click on "Open" on the Choose File window, and the file name will appear on this page.
- Click on "Upload" on this page: the file will be uploaded from the computer to the journalīs web site and renames it according to the journal's rules (all this in order to preserve anonymity during the rendering process).
- Once the article has been uploaded, click Save and continue at the bottom of this page.

3) Enter Metadata

- Verify that your data is correct in Authors.
- In Title and Abstract, enter the requested data. It is important that you complete these fields; otherwise, the system will not let you advance.
- In Indexing, type the keywords in your article.
- In References, transcribe the bibliography of your article according to the specifications of this Instructive for collaborators.
- Click Save and continue.

4) Uploading supplementary files

In case the article has an additional file (with images, tables, spreadsheets, frames programs or other materials that accompany the article), you must select and upload it. Already uploaded, or in case the article did not have a file with a complementary file, click Save and continue.

5) Confirmation

Click Finish Submission. At the end of the submission, you will receive an email confirming the receipt of your item.

In case you have any doubts regarding any content of the Instructive or the process of sending your article, you can write to the Mtra. Alma Iglesias González, director of the Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública, or to Claudia Ramírez Cisneros, publisher responsible at the RMOP to rmop@politicas.unam.mx with a copy to a revmexicanadeopinionpublica@gmail.com; call to the following telephone numbers 56229470 exts. 84227, 84221 y 84220, or go to the offices of the Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Edificio de Investigación y Educación continua (H), fourth floor, Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 04510.

 

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