Author guidelines

POLICIES:

1. Authors, co-authors and free participation

1.1. Free Submission

Anyone interested may submit contributions to the journal, regardless of any affiliation with the publishing entity or the journal itself. Submission and publication, if accepted, are entirely free of charge and do not require any fee payment.

1.2. Number of Authors

The number of authors listed for a manuscript should reflect the customary standards of the relevant academic discipline. However, the Journal considers that more than three authors must be especially well justified. Likewise, it is deemed poor practice to include as authors individuals who did not participate in the research or whose involvement was merely nominal, such as supervisors or advisors of research projects.

1.3. Authorship Order

By default, in cases of co-authorship, the order of authorship shall be that indicated by the authors in the author identification document, which must be uploaded to the platform along with the article manuscript. However, the leading positions should be assigned to those who played the principal role in drafting the text.

According to the Journal’s criteria, holding an academic title or rank, or relying on alphabetical order, is not considered an appropriate basis for determining authorship order. Instead, it should reflect the actual work performed. If the work was carried out under equal workload conditions and a criterion such as alphabetical order is chosen, it is advisable to state the reason in the task distribution section.

1.4. Specification of Task Distribution and Individual Contribution

In cases of co-authorship, it is recommended to specify and justify the part of the work or the division of responsibilities undertaken by each author. The author identification document includes a section for this purpose, which will be published if the article is accepted.

1.5. Recommended Guidelines

In all cases, it is recommended to follow the authorship attribution guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

2. Original and unpublished contributions

All the works must be original and unpublished. Writings that have been published in magazines or books will not be accepted. However, the articles and notes based on communications or papers will be susceptible of publication in the journal, provided that after being presented in Congresses they have been duly adapted and reference made that they come from a previous communication or communication.

3. Evaluation process and estimated publication time

Contributions will be submitted to an anonymous and external peer review according to the policy established for each section. (Review Section policies and get more information on external evaluation).

The complete process takes 9 months, and consists of a pre-review phase (2 month), evaluation (4 months), layout (1 month) and publication. However, this timing can be shortened or extended depending on the overlap of the submission with the publication dates of the last number (at the beginning of each semester).The estimated publication of the paper would be 9 months after the submission.

4. Temporary limitation for second and successive contributions

Authors who have published in the Journal must wait three years from the date of publication before sending another contribution. The Editorial Team may make exceptions, especially in the case of guest articles or those published in the Doctrine and Focus section.

5. Recommendations and Gender Perspective

The use of inclusive and non-sexist language is recommended in scientific articles.

In research where it is possible and relevant, it is suggested to incorporate the sex/gender variable into the research design, methodological approach, results, discussion, limitations, and conclusions.

6. Acknowledgments and Funding Reference

Authors may include acknowledgments as well as references to the projects or funding under which the work was carried out. In such cases, this information must be included in the author identification document submitted alongside the article, since it cannot initially appear in the contribution file in order to preserve the anonymity of the peer review process. The author identification template contains a designated space for this purpose.

At the time of submission, authors must also provide this information when prompted by the submission form, so that it can be incorporated into the metadata of their contribution.

If the article is accepted, this information will be published alongside the initial details of the article. It is recommended to cite the project name, its code, the funding call or equivalent, and the funding entity.

7. Acceptance of policies

The submission of contributions to the SPANISH JOURNAL OF TRANSPARENCY entails acceptance of these rules. The Editorial Board will ensure the quality of the same and reserves the right to reject contributions, to classify them in the section that best corresponds to their content, and to make changes in the articles considered appropriate for better understanding. The publication in the magazine supposes the cession by gratuitous title of any right that could correspond.

8. Documents to be submitted, formats and supplementary files

8.1. Documents to be submitted

Two files must be uploaded via the journal’s website:

a) Author identification details

All required information must be provided: author details, task distribution and contribution in the case of co-authorship, reference to projects (if applicable), etc.

This must be completed using the template available for download at the following LINK.

Please upload this document in .DOCX format or equivalent.

b) Anonymized article/contribution

This document must follow the author guidelines. It must be completed using the template available for download at the following LINK.

No personal data of any kind should be included in the document to ensure anonymous peer review.

Please upload this document in .DOCX format or equivalent.

8.2. Supplementary files

During the submission process, authors may upload supplementary files in addition to the mandatory ones (author identification details and anonymized manuscript) if they consider them relevant for the evaluation of their work.

These files must be in commonly used formats for databases and spreadsheets (.XLS, .SAV, etc.), text documents (.DOC, .DOCX, etc.), or images and graphic materials (.JPG, video formats, etc.). Equivalent formats from open-source software are also accepted. Under no circumstances will self-executing files (e.g., .EXE) or any files that may compromise platform security be accepted.

Please be judicious when adding supplementary files. There is no set size limit. However, if you wish to include files larger than 5 MB, you must submit a Word document containing a link that allows the file to be downloaded from any file-sharing platform.

Please note that at any stage of the process, the journal may request the data source in order to carry out the necessary verifications.

9. Submission

Collaborations must be sent through the journal platform, which requires registration at the following link: : REGISTER. If you are already registered, access to DASHBOARD.

STYLE GUIDELINES

Minimum contents and structuring:

The texts will include at the beginning the TITLE, SUMMARY, KEYWORDS and at the end the BIBLIOGRAPHY used.

- TITLE (will be presented in Spanish and English).

- ABSTRACT: 50 to 150 words (will be presented in Spanish and English).

- KEY WORDS: separated by commas, a maximum of five (will be presented in Spanish and English).

- SUMMARY: with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3 ...)

TYPOGRAPHY, EPIGRAPHS, PARAGRAPHS AND OTHER ELEMENTS

TYPOGRAPHY: Raleway (if not Times New Roman 11 (for footnotes in size 9)

EPÍGRAFES AND SUBEPÍGRAFES. With the following levels:

First level(capital letters and bold): 1, 2, 3, etc.
Second level(in lowercase and bold): 1.1., 1.2., Etc. , 2.1., 2.2. etc.
Third level(in lowercase and italics): 1.1.1., 1.1.2., Etc. or a. b. c. ...

PARAGRAPHS: without indentation, simple line spacing. Paragraphs of less than three lines will be avoided.

UTILIZATION OF BULLETS: The use of bulleted enumerations should be limited to the maximum.

TABLES AND GRAPHICS: the tables and graphs that are included must include a title and they must explain or mention their main content in the body of the article, avoiding that their presence lacks connection with the part of the article in which they appear.

Bibliographical citations and references:

CITATION: system is applied (author, year and page).

They will follow the model that appears below:

- According to Martínez Andrés (2016: 15)

- According to some authors (Martínez Andrés, 2016: 15)

Complete references will not be included in footnotes, but in the final bibliography section.

The presence of URLs in footnotes should be limited as much as possible. Long URLs and those that are likely to become obsolete in a short time will be discarded. Any URL must be preceded by the comment or reference to the document to which they link.

Self-citations are not allowed to exceed 10% of the bibliography used.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES. The Harvard system is applied, although the names are not included in capital letters and the year is not included in parentheses.

The references of works cited will be included EXCLUSIVELY. It is not allowed to include additional bibliography not cited throughout the text.
The list of works cited will be presented at the end of the text in the BIBLIOGRAPHY section, avoiding the inclusion of full footnotes throughout the text.
Only works of authors are included. Bibliography means the works of authors in books and journalss. Everything that is not considered bibliography, such as reports and institutional studies, regulations, etc. can go as footnotes, but not in the bibliography section.
The list of works cited will be presented in alphabetical order of surname and as the second criterion per year of publication. If a work by the same author and year coincides, a letter a, b c ... will be included successively (eg 2004a, 2004b, 2004c, ...).

The following is a description of the model to be used to record bibliographic references:

Books

SURNAME, INITIAL. YEAR. TITLE. PLACE: EDITORIAL.

COTINO HUESO, L. 2003. Teoría y realidad de la transparencia pública en Europa. Madrid: INAP.

Articles of Journals

SURNAME, INITIAL. YEAR. "TITLE OF ARTICLE", NAME OF THE JOURNAL, NUMBER OR VOLUME: FIRST PAGE-FINAL PAGE.

DELGADO MORALES, F. 2015. “De qué hablamos cuando hablamos de transparencia”, Revista Española de Transparencia, 1:24-30.

Book chapters

SURNAME, INITIAL. YEAR. "TITLE OF THE ARTICLE", in AUTHOR / IS COORDINATOR OR EDITORS, NAME OF THE BOOK. CITY: EDITORIAL, FIRST PAGE-FINAL PAGE OF THE CHAPTER.

RUBIO NUÑEZ, R. y GONZALO ROZAS, M.A. 2020. 2020. “Presencialidad y excepcionalidad en el Parlamento en tiempos de pandemia global”, en RENIU VILAMALA, J.M. y MESEGUER SÁNCHEZ, J.V. (Dirs.), ¿Política confinada? Nuevas tecnologías y toma de decisiones en un contexto de pandemia. Cizur Menor: Aranzadi-Thomson, pp. 73-94.

Additional indications

Some indications about the names of the authors in the bibliographical references:

The given names are abbreviated.
First and second surnames will be expressed in Spanish and Latin authors whenever possible.
If there are two authors, the surnames will be combined with a "AND". Example: Rodríguez-Arana Muñoz, J. and Sendín García, M.A. 2014. Transparency, access to information and Good Government. Granada: Comares.
The use of the expression VV.AA. will be avoided. In its place the nominative relation of authors in the indicated format will be used.
When there are more than three authors, the Latin expression et al.

Some indications about the expression of the year of publication:

Parenthesis is not used.
The year is separated from the title by a dot.

Some indications about the title of the cited work:

If it's from the book, it should be in italics.
If it is an article or a chapter of a book, it must be enclosed in quotation marks.
If it is the title of the Journal, it must be in italics.

Some indications about the place and editorial: