Author(s) who submits a work for possible publication in methaodos.social science journal must previously verify that the text to be sent conforms scrupulously to the following norms:
1. Proposals should be written in Spanish, English or Portuguese.
2. Three types of works will be accepted:
- Articles: they will be original theoretical or empirical research work, complete and developed.
- Research notes: these will consist in a set of brief texts to discuss an article, book or work of special interest to the Social Sciences.
- Book reviews: they will be brief texts that critically discuss and report about a book or monography recently published in the field of Social Sciences.
3. Manuscripts should be sent in Microsoft Word format (.doc /. docx) through the journal’s website. The journal will not accept texts sent in any other method of submission or format, and will not maintain correspondence about them.
4. Non-textual elements (tables, charts, maps, graphs, illustrations, etc.) that contains the work should apperar inserted in the corresponding place in the text. Moreover, they should be delivered separately, as an additional file, editable graphics in OpenOffice Calc (ods) format or Microsoft Excel (xls) and maps, illustrations or images in jpeg or tif at 300 ppp. All of them will be numbered and entitled, specifying its source in a footnote, and there should be an explicit reference of them in the text. It is recommended to limit the maximum number of these non-textual elements to 6.
5. All submitted material must be original and cannot be simultaneously under consideration in any other journal while they are being considered in methaodos.social science journal. Exceptionally, and for reasons of scientific interest and/or diffusion of outstanding contributions, the Editorial Board of methaodos.social science journal may decide to publish and/or translate an already published work.
6. Articles, research notes and book reviews will be preceded by a cover sheet, in which authors should specify the following information:
- Title, in Spanish or Portuguese and English.
- Name of the author(s). To facilitate the inclusion of articles and quotes in scientific databases, it is strongly recommended to consult the «Proposal for a manual to help Spanish researchers for the standardization of the names of authors and institutions in scientific publications».
- Institutional affiliation: university or center, department or unit, city and country.
- Institutional email. All correspondence will be sent to this electronic address. In the case of multiple authorship articles, the person who is going to maintain correspondence with the journal should be specified.
- Brief bibliographical note (between 80 and 100 words) that should specify the highest academic degree obtained (and at which university), the current position, and the main lines of research. methaodos.social science journal may publish this bibliographical note as a complement to the article’s information.
- Authors must indicate the criteria chosen to decide the order of signature and specify the specific contribution made by each of them in the proposed article, research note or book review following the CRediT taxonomy.
- The author must indicate, if any, the funding agencies and the codes of the projects within the framework of which the research that led to the publication has been developed.
- Acknowledgments (if applicable).
- Conflict of interest: if there is a conflict of interest, you must declare it at the time of submitting the article, so that the editor can decide how to proceed.
- Declaration of data availability: in case you want to indicate to the reader the place where the research data associated with an article is available and under what conditions they can be accessed.
7. The text of the articles and research notes will be preceded by an abstract of 200 words (which should explain in a concise and clear way the aims, methodology, main results and conclusions of the work) and 5 keywords in alphabetical order (not included in the title, and which should be internationally accepted terms in the social scientific disciplines and/or usual terms for bibliometric classification). If the text is written in Spanish or Portuguese, it will include the abstract and the keywords in English. In addition to this, after the keywords, a summary of the contents should be incorporated to relate all sections that make up the document.
8. The text of articles should be sent in an anonymized version: author(s) should supress (under the name *anonymized*) any quotes, acknowledgements, references and allusions that may allow to identify them directly or indirectly. The Editorial Board of methaodos.social science journal will ensure that the texts meet this condition.If the article is accepted for publication, the author(s) will then send a non-anonymized version, in case it differs from the one already sent.
9. Articles will have an extension of between 8,500-10,000 words, including title, abstract, keywords, footnotes, graphs, tables and references. Only exceptionally this limit might be exceeded if methaodos.social science journal considers that reasonable reasons of special scientific interest of the work justifies it.
10. Research notes will consist of texts with a maximum length of between 4,500-6,000 words..
11. Book reviews should be no longer than 2,000 words, and they will begin by specifying the following information about the reviewed book: author(s), title, city of publication, publisher, year of publication, and number of pages. A summary of a maximum of 100 words, name and surname, institutional affiliation and email address of the author of the review must also be included.
12. Exceptionally, the Editorial Board may agree to activate the Trends section to disseminate content of special social relevance and public interest in the form of shorts papers, technical reports or essays.
13. Articles and Research notes preferably will follow the structure IMR&D (introduction, methods, results and discussion), followed by the bibliographical references. Variations of this formula will be accepted, as long as its meaning is respected.
14. The text format should observe the following rules:
- Font type and size: Times New Roman 12 point size, double spacing, left and right margins of 1,2 inches (3 cm) and the top and bottom of 1 inch (2,5 cm).
- The text must not be indented, neither justified.
- The text and footnotes will be single spaced, also without justification.
- Footnotes should be numbered consecutively and situated at the bottom of the corresponding page, not at the end of the text. It is strongly recommended to limit its use as much as posible, and to use them for meaningful and explanatory purposes, not for bibliographical reference.
- Pages should be numbered at the bottom, starting on the page where the abstract is, from number 1 (the cover sheet with the information about the author(s) should not be numbered).
- Sections of the text should be numbered and entitled in small letters and bold.
15. The citations must respect the APA norms seventh edition, which can be consulted widely in the following links in Spanish, English y Portuguese:
- Citations should appear in the main text. The use of footnotes only for bibliographical reference should be avoided. In any case, it is recommended to limit the maximum number of footnotes for this purpose to 5.
- Citations should be bracketed, including author’s surname, year, and the page or pages quoted, e.g.: (Jackson, 2019, p. 20).
- If there are two works by the same author in the same year, they will be distinguished with small letters after the year, e.g.: (Jackson, 2019a, p. 101).
- When the authors are two, the citation will include their surnames joint by «and»: (Bowles and Gintis, 2005); when the authors are more than two, the citation will only include the author’s surname followed by «et al.» (Bowles et al., 2005) although the reference in the final bibliography may include all authors.
- Literal quotations should be in inverted commas and followed by the corresponding citation within brackets. This citation should include necessarily the pages quoted. If literal quations excede from four lines, the will be transcribed separately from the main text, without inverted commas, with bigger indentation and smaller font size.
16. The complete list of bibliographical references will be placed at the end of the text, under the heading «Bibliographical references». References will be written accordind to the following rules and always in hanging indent:
- Bibilographical references will only include those works quoted in the text, and all the works quoted should be referenced in the final list.
- The order should be alphabetical by the authors' surname. In case of several references by the same author, they should be ordered chronologically by year. The references of an author alone should be listed in the first place; then the works compilated by that author, and finally, co-authored works.
- The format of the references should respect the following rules:
Books: Author's last name, initial (s) of the author's name, year in parentheses, title in italics and publisher, according to the following examples:
King, G., Keohane, R. O., y Verba, S. (1994). Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton University Press.
Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2ª ed.). American Psychological Association.
Touraine, A. (1973). La sociedad postindustrial. Ariel.
Yotopoulos, P. A., y Romano, D. Eds. (2007). The Asymmetries of Globalization. Routledge.
If the author would like to point out the special issue or the book series in which the quoted volume is included, it will appear between brackets after the publisher.
Book chapters: Last name of the author, initial (s) of the author, year in parentheses, title of the chapter, "In", author of the book, title of the book in italics, pages and publisher. For example:
Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. En M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, y J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (pp. 115-129). Routledge.
Journal’s articles: Last name of the author, initial (s) of the author's first name, year in parentheses, article title, journal title in italics, volume in italics, number in parentheses and pages, according to the following examples:
Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., y Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207-217.
Tomlinson, J. (1996). Cultural globalization: placing and displacing the West”. The European Journal of Development Research, 8(2): 22-35.
When the articles have DOI, they should include it at the end of the reference. See the following example:
Ward, P. R. (2020). A sociology of the Covid-19 pandemic: A commentary and research agenda for sociologists. Journal of Sociology, 56(4), 726-735. https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783320939682
To find the DOI´s you can use the following tool: http://search.crossref.org/references
Electronic publications without DOI:
Author’s surname, initials of the author’s name, year between brackets, title of the article, electronic publication’s name in italics; if there, volume in italics, number between brackets, date of access and the URL for retrieving data, e.g.:
Stein, M. B., y Taylor, C. T. (2019). Approach to treating social anxiety disorder in adults. UpToDate. Recuperado el 13 de septiembre de 2019, de: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/approach-to-treating-social-anxiety-disorder-in-adults
If the author(s) want to include a translation of a foreign work which is being quoted, it should be used the following format:
Freund, J. (1968). The Sociology of Max Weber. Random House Inc. [Sociología de Max Weber ]. Península, 1986.
When the author(s) is quoting the edition of a work, and want to include the year of the original edition, it will be as follows:
Weber, M. (1995). Biografía de Max Weber. FCE. (Original work published 1926).
17. Bibliography will not exceed forty (40) references rigorously adapted to the indicated format. They must be current references, especially from the last five years, and be composed mainly of articles in high-impact national and international scientific journals. The maximum limit of self-citations is set at three (3).
18. methaodos.social science journal recommends that the authors use inclusive language.
19. methaodos.social science journal recommends the deposit of research data in prestigious and open access repositories, which meet the FAIR criteria (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). For this, the data deposit will be recorded in the article and a description of these must be made, the name of the chosen repository, the address where they can be obtained, and its license for use and distribution. This information must appear at the end of the article, immediately after the bibliographic list, under the heading "Data Availability". Likewise, it should be reported whether the data of origin of the research take into account the variable sex, in order to allow the identification of possible differences.
