Sections
The journal is composed of the following sections:
Articles: these are original texts of empirical research and/or conceptual theoretical discussion with a maximum length of 9,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, name and institutional affiliation, curricular reference, tables, graphs, notes and bibliography.
Research Notes: these are original works that will give a more succinct account of an empirical research with a maximum length of 5,000 words, including abstracts, keywords, institutional name and affiliation, curricular reference, tables, graphs, notes and bibliography.
Bibliographic Review: this is a detailed review of published advances on a current research topic. A maximum of 100 bibliographical references may be included. The maximum length (including references) is 5,000 words.
Bibliographic essays: these consist of original texts of conceptual theoretical discussion that must take as a reference two or more publications on the same subject. They have a maximum length of 5,000 words, including name and institutional affiliation, curricular reference, notes and bibliography.
Debates: this is a section made up of between two and three original texts on a topic or author of relevance and interest in some problem area of the social sciences. Each of the texts will be between 5,000 (minimum) and 9,000 (maximum) words in length, including name and institutional affiliation, curricular reference, notes and bibliography. These texts will include an introduction by the coordinator of the debate of between 2,000 (minimum) and 5,000 (maximum) words. The Editorial Board may commission a topic/author to be the subject of the debate and designate a debate coordinator.
Reviews: these are original texts that provide a critical commentary on books published in the last three years at the most and have a maximum length of 2,500 words, including only name and institutional affiliation. These reviews may also include reports, surveys or monographic publications of particular relevance and topicality.