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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Has been used the template available at this link.
  • The article has summarized in Spanish and Portuguese on one side and English on the other, and the extent of each of these summaries is less than 200 words.
  • The citations are in the following format (APA 7th edition):
    • Ferrand, A. (2002). "Las comunidades locales como estructuras meso", REDES. Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, 3 (4). Retrieved [14-06-09]. doi: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/redes.23

Author Guidelines

  1. Papers submitted to Redes. Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales must be unpublished scientific papers in Spanish or Portuguese and not under evaluation for publication in any other Journal. No theoretical or methodological reviews will be accepted except if they are submitted as such to the “Reviews” section.
  2. Submission of an article for publication implies acceptance of its free distribution in Redes, Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Social, and its inclusion in as many catalogues and databases as necessary to contribute to its dissemination.
  3. Please read the information for authors on how to submit a paper. Papers should only be submitted via the journal website. You must be registered as an author, log in with your username and password, and start a new submission. If you are not registered, please follow this link.
  4. Item must be submitted in Word format, using predesigned template which is available in this layout, without the name of the authors, explicit references to the institutions they represent or financing institutions or acknowledgments, and properly anonymized by removing the corresponding metadata within Microsoft Word options.
  5. The title, abstract and keywords will be presented in Spanish / Portuguese and English. The abstract should not exceed 200 words in one paragraph and no indication of sections, trying as far as possible remaining in the first page of the article. It must be followed by 3-6 key words that adequately describe the content of the article.
  6. The names, affiliation, email and biographical summary must be entered properly in the Metadata, during remission of the article, as the authors wish to appear in the final version of the article.
  7. Charts, graphs, tables and maps will accompany the text in the desired location, in line with the text and numbered consecutively. The titles will go below the image or table in Verdana 8 format, 1.5 line spacing, 6 points after paragraph.
  8. Images, graphs and maps should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, to ensure its adequate visualization. The format of the images will be JPG, JPEG or TIF.
  9. References will in APA format (7th Edition):
    • Grosetti, M. (2014). ¿De dónde vienen las relaciones sociales? Un estudio de las redes personales en el área de Toulouse (Francia). Redes. Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales, 25 (1), 1-18. doi:https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/redes.496
  10. The DOI of each reference must be indicated if it is available, including articles published in Redes. For this purpose, it is recommended to consult the website https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery.
  11. In the "Collaborating organizations" section of the metadata, the authors will specify the funding sources for the article submitted for review. They will also provide information on each of the authors' specific contributions in the article submitted for review.
  12. REDES Journal promotes the use of inclusive language in scientific publications. For them we recommend the application of the recommendations in this sense published in the Guide for the non-sexist use of language of the UAB.
  13. The data published in the articles should, whenever possible, disaggregate the results by sex to make visible the differences or similarities by this concept.

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    2. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.
    3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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