Editorial Guidelines

The Anthropology and Sociology Journal VIRAJES, is a scientific biannual publication attached to and supported for its publication by the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, and the Research and Graduate Studies Vice rector’s Office at Universidad de Caldas. It is addressed to researchers, professionals and undergraduate and graduate students interested in analyzing social and human issues, such as Anthropology, Sociology, History, Philosophy, Art, among other sciences. It is proposed as a space for socializing original articles resulting from research projects, reflection articles, and review and case reports on the issues mentioned above.

The Journal is published in physical form and has an online version on the Web site of Universidad de Caldas.

Peer review process

Each of the articles received is subject to a process of review and selection. In a first step the originality and relevance of the article is evaluated by the Editorial Committee, then it is subject to a double-blind type evaluation by an arbitrator who will deem on the article scientific quality, structure, justification, font management and conceptual rigor. During the months following the sending of the text, the author will be notified of the result of the evaluation process.

Conflict of interests

The journal expects authors to declare any commercial association that may represent a conflict of interest in connection with the article submitted.

Copyright Transmission

The "Declaration of Commitment of Authors" format shall be forwarded along with the article respectively signed by each of the authors. 

The judgments and opinions expressed in the articles and communications published in the Journal are the authors´ and not necessarily of the Editorial Committee.

The author interested in publishing should have a level of professional training in any field of scientific knowledge addressed by the Journal. Also the author should submit articles for consideration by the Editorial Committee with the following instructions:

1. Send the article to the journal e-mail:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The article must meet one of the categories proposed by Publindex for scientific papers (for further information see ethical policies of the journal). The type of article must be indicated in the subject section of the e-mail.
   
2. The article must be submitted in Word format. Similarly it should include: title, author and contact address (email and postal address). It is essential to indicate which author will be responsible for receiving and sending correspondence or otherwise it will be assumed that the first author will take over that function. The text must be typed and double-spaced, 12-point Arial font. Core data of the author or authors, should be specified inside the article which must include: professional education, institutional affiliation, city, state or province, country and email (institutional), and ORCID (http://orcid.org/). 
   
3. The Article reference must be accompanied by the curriculum vitae of each of the authors (see format) and the copyright release form signed by all authors (see format).
   
4. Write the article with a maximum length of 25 sheets (letter size sheets or quartos) in Spanish, English, Portuguese or French  which must be preceded by a brief analytic abstract (objectives, methodology, results and conclusions) of the work in Spanish and English, not exceeding 150 words. Immediately after this abstract, four to six key words must be included to identify the main issues under discussion.
   
5. Write the reviews and book reviews with a maximum of 10 sheets (letter size sheets or quartos), which must be preceded by the names, surnames and profession of the person making the review or book review, as well as complete bibliographical data (author’s name and surname, full title of the book, edition number, place of publication, publisher, year of publication).
   
6. Provide unpublished articles. If it is a translated article, the sources and origin of the original text as well as the respective permits for publication should be indicated clearly.
   
7. Send graphs, maps and photographs to a 266 dpi resolution in jpg or gif format. Next to the tables the article annexes must be attached indicating the place where they will be inserted in the text. All these resources should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and indicate clearly the corresponding source(s). Only horizontal lines should be used in the tables according to APA format sixth edition.
   
8. Cite bibliographical sources, less than 40 words within the text as follows: (author, year, and page). Example: (Muñoz, 1996, p. 30). Citations that have more than 40 words are written aside from the text, indented, unquoted and without using italics. At the end of the citation the period must be placed before the data -remember that for citations less than 40 words the period goes after.
   
9. Footnotes, numbered sequentially, will be used only for clarification, comments, and discussions by the author and should go in the corresponding page, in order to facilitate the reader following of the text.
   
10. References are made based on APA norms, Sixth Edition. Remember that all must have hanging indentation. So:

Book:

Lasr name, Author’s name initials. (Year).  Title of the book. Publication place: Publishing house. 

Sabine,G.(1998).Historia de la teoría política. Ciudad de México, México:Fondode CulturaEconómica.

Book with an Editor:

Last Name, Author’s name initials (Ed). (Year). Title. City, Country: Publishing house. 

Wilber, K. (Ed.). (1997). El paradigma holográfico. Barcelona, España: Editorial Kairós.

Book Chapter: 

Last name, Author’s name initials.(Year).Chapter Title. Initials of the editor or Publisher name. Last name. (Ed) or (Comp), Title of the book (pp. xx-xx). Place of Publication: Publishing house.    

Garrison, C., Schoenbach, V. and Kaplan, B. (1985). Depressive symptoms in early adolescence. En A. Dean (Ed.), Depression in multidisciplinary perspective (pp. 60-82). New York, USA: Brunner/Mazel.

Journal article:

Last name, Author’s name initials.(Year). Article Title. Name of Journal, volume (number), pp-pp.

Sandoval, M.L. (2006). Teoría sociológica, conflicto y terrorismo. Revista de Antropología y Sociología: VIRAJES, 8 (8), 49-101.

Article with DOI:

Last name, Author’s name initials.(Year). Article title. Name of Journal, volume (number), pp-pp. doi: xx.xxxxxxx.

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

Newspaper Article:

Last name, Author’s name initials(Year). Article title. Name of Newspaper pp-pp.

Martínez, L. (8 de diciembre de 2002). Cuando el trópico llegó a Estocolmo. El Tiempo,2-2.

Graduate or Undergraduate Thesis:

Last name, Author’s name initials(Year). Title of Thesis (Undergraduate, Master’s or Doctoral Thesis). Name of Institution, place.

Alamos, F. (1992). Maltrato infantil en la familia: tratamiento y prevención (Tesis de pregrado). Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile,Chile.

Online:

Last name, Author’s name initials(Year).  Title of Article. Taken from  (URL).

Biglan, A. and Smolkowski, K. (2002). The role of the community psychologist in the 21st century. Recuperado de http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/pre0050002a.html.

11. For more information contact:

César Moreno Baptista.

Anthropology and Sociology Journal VIRAJES

E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Anthropology and Sociology Department, Law and Social Sciences Faculty

Carrera 23 No. 58-65, Sede Palogrande, Manizales. Telephone: 8862720,

ext. 22108.