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Anyone interested in publishing in Letras Verdes must submit their original work by registering in the following platform:
Articles must be original, unpublished and not being simultaneously sent or approved by other journals. Articles are accepted in Spanish and Portuguese. The Editorial Council reserves the right to decide on publishing the works, as well as the number and section in which they will appear.
General presentation of articles
The length of articles varies depending on the section of the journal it is being sent to, according to the following table:
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Dossier:
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Maximum 8,000 words; minimum 5,000 words
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Current issues:
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Maximum 3,000 words; minimum 2,500 words
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Essay:
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Maximum 8,000 words; minimum 5,000 words
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Articles must be presented in font Times New Roman, size 12, spacing of 1.5, with margins of 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 cm, and A4 format. The length of articles includes the abstract, the body of the article, footnotes and references.
Footnotes will go at the end of the page in font Times New Roman, size 10, and single spaced.
In the case of acronyms, the entire meaning must be written the first time it appears. For example, “in Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO...".
Tables, graphs and maps should be put in the place where you want it to appear. They must have a title, a sequential number, the source, and they must always be mentioned in the text. Limit the number of tables, graphs and maps to 4-5 per article.
Avoid if possible the use of vignettes.
Use quotation marks to highlight words or phrases. Use italics for words or phrases in other languages.
Letras Verdes reserved the right to make format corrections as well as editorial changes it might consider to improve the work, always notifying its author/s.
Articles that comply with these norms will be declared as “received” and the author/s will be notified; otherwise they will be returned. Once officially received, articles are placed for consideration by the Editorial Council and independent evaluators. The evaluation mechanism is explained in the following section.
Instructions for the adoption of key words or descriptors
The key words have to be five to seven, separated by a semicolon (;) and in alphabetical order. We recommend that the authors are supported by the 'Thesaurus' of Unesco.
Quote basic structure in text body.
In author-year system, reference in text normally appears between parentheses and contains only the first two elements that are recorded in references list: author and publication year, without punctuation between them. In addition, you can add number page or other localization element, after a comma. In no case use op. cit., ibid, ibídem.
Example:
(Leff 1994)
(Leff 1994, 91)
Entries from list of references with same author or authors and same year.
Works from same responsible (regardless who is author, editor, compilator or translator) and same year should be differentiated with edition of a, b, c, etc., those that are ordered alphabetically by title. Quotes in text consign to author and year with letter.
Example:
Leff, Enrique. 1994a. Ecología y capital: racionalidad ambiental, democracia participativa y desarrollo sustentable. México: Siglo XXI.
Leff, Enrique. 1994b. Ecología y capitalismo. México: Editorial Siglo XXI.
(Leff 1994a, 113)
(Leff 1994b, 100)
Chronologic order to repeated names in a references list.
When author, translator, editor or compilator is repeated in several consecutive entries, name (or names) is replaced by a line after first occurrence. Don’t write punctuation sign that habitually follows to omitted point (here, point) after line. Entries are ordered chronologically by publication year in ascending order, not literate by tittle. Works without date (marked as s.f.) or works from press go after dated works.
Example:
Shiva, Vandana. 2016. The violence of the green revolution: Third world agriculture, ecology, and politics. Estados Unidos: University Press of Kentucky.
___ 2000. Stolen harvest: The hijacking of the global food supply. Estados Unidos: Zed Books.
___ 1988. Staying alive: Women, ecology and development. Estados Unidos: Zed Books.
Book with unique author or editor.
Example:
Martínez Alier, Joan. 1994. De la economía ecológica al ecologismo popular. Barcelona: Icaria Editorial.
(Martínez Alier 1994, 99-100)
Book with two or three authors.
In case of books with two authors, first name is invested in references list:
Example:
Martínez Alier, Joan, y Jordi Roca Jusmet. 2015. Economía ecológica y política ambiental. México, D.F.: Fondo de Cultura económica.
(Martínez Alier y Roca Jusmet 2015, 25)
Book with three authors.
Example:
Hornborg, Alf, John Robert Mc Neill y Joan Martínez Alier. 2007. Rethinking environmental history: world-system history and global environmental change. Reino Unido: Rowman Altamira.
(Hornborg, Mc Neill y Martínez Alier 2007)
Book with four authors or more.
If book has four or more authors, it includes all of them at references entrain (bibliography). Order and punctuation are the same that books with two or three authors case. However, in text the last author name is given, followed by et al.
Example:
(Lago et al. 2008, 118-19)
Book published electronically.
If book is available in more than one format, quote worked version. In books consulted online you must add URL.
Electronic book obtained from a library or bookstore.
Many books edited electronically can have printed equivalent. But given the possibility of differences, we advise to indicate format in which it was consulted.
Acosta, Alberto y Esperanza Martínez. 2014. Desarrollo, postcrecimiento y Buen Vivir. Debates e interrogantes. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala. http://rosalux.org.ec/attachments/article/830/Desarrollo,%20postcrecimiento.pdf.
Chapter of a book.
Example:
Machado Aráoz, Horacio. 2009. “Minería transnacional, conflictos socioterritoriales y nuevas dinámicas expropiatorias: El caso de Minera Alumbrera”. En Minería trasnacional, narrativas del desarrollo y resistencias sociales, editado por Maristella Svampa y Mirta Antonelli, 205-227. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblio.
Scientific magazine articles.
Elements that must be included in entry are: author or authors complete name, publication date, article tittle and subtitle, periodic publication name, information about tome, number, date; indication about page when necessary, include URL or DOI when available.
Example:
Ferraro, Rosana, Laura Zulaica y Héctor Echechuri. 2013. “Perspectivas de abordaje y caracterización del periurbano de Mar del Plata, Argentina”. Letras Verdes. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Socioambientales 13: 19-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17141/letrasverdes.13.2013.926.
Articles in newspapers and magazines in references list.
Example:
Sorgato, Valeria. 2017. “Muestras de agua de los ríos del país ponen en alerta sobre la contaminación”. El Comercio, 19 de marzo. http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/muestras-laboratorio-rios-alerta-contaminacion.html.
Article without signature taken from newspapers or magazines in internet.
Example:
El Comercio. 2017. “Los Achuar cuentan con una canoa solar”. 9 de marzo de 2017. http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/achuar-canoa-sola-tapiatpia-movilidad.html.
Electronic documents in web page.
Example:
Delgado, Martha. 2014. “Diario en bici, la ciudad en Bicicleta”, acceso el 11 de abril de 2014, http://diarioenbici.com/el-mas-grande-y-peor-sistema-de-bici-publica.
Paper presented at a seminar, conference and other.
Example:
Ferraro, Rosana y Laura Zulaica. 2007. “Sectorización del sistema periurbano de Mar del Plata, siguiendo criterios ambientales”. Ponencia presentada en el Congreso Internacional sobre Desarrollo, Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales: sostenibilidad a múltiples niveles y escalas, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 11-13 de julio.
Thesis, dissertations.
Example:
Castillo, Ángela. 2013. “Agricultura Urbana en Quito: Agrupar una iniciativa local que aporta a la construcción de una ciudad sustentable”. Tesis de Maestría en Desarrollo Territorial Rural, FLACSO Sede Ecuador.
Legal norms.
Legal norms are quoted indicating next elements: type of norm, number and date beginning with year, separated from the number by a slash, followed, without intermediate spaces, by day and month between commas, norm used complete name and it appears in original publication; publication place and date.
When quoting most common for each area can be included, in first mention, either in the text body or note, abbreviation that will be mentioned in next quotes.
Examples:
Ley Orgánica 8/ 1980, de 22 de septiembre, de Financiación de las Comunidades Autónomas (BOE núm.236 de 1 de octubre de 1980), a partir de ahora LOFCA.
Unpublished interviews and personal communications.
Example:
Real or fictional name (either identifying element relevant to interview context, for instance: position/occupation/residence), day, month and year. Interview doesn’t have to be in bibliography. With its text entry is enough.
(Luisa González, Barrio La Ronda, Ecuador, october 2 2017).
Tables.
They are also called charts. At the bottom of the table, the source (Source:) appears first and then any other note. Every table should be mentioned in the text, in parentheses, in the paragraph where it has been analyzed, for example (table 1).
Table 1. xxx
Source: Martínez Alier (1994).
*Regarding acronyms, the first time they appear their full meaning should be written and the acronym in parentheses. Only the acronym should be used for futher mentions in the text.
Policy against academic plagiarism
The journal uses the software Turnitin, as an anti-plagiarism system. The process of analysis is developed at a quantitative and qualitative level. The percentage of similarity for our journal will be as follows:
- 1 to 7% Minor coincidences, plagiarism is omitted and work is reviewed.
- 7 to 15% Qualitative verification is suggested, work is returned to write to changes.
- 16% or more, it is consider plagiarism.
