The procedure for the reception, arbitration, approval, and publication of articles will go through the following stages: reception, editorial review, peer review, acceptance or refusal of texts, style correction, layout, publishing and delivery of copies.
Reception of articles
The articles will be received in an electronic text format at the e-mail account iuris@libertadores.edu.co or through the OJS application http://revistas.libertadores.edu.co/
The documents will be received in two due dates, first date (November- February), second date (May-August). However, the Journal could receive submissions any time of the year.
Articles must be registered according to due dates. A notice will be sent via e-mail.
First editorial review
The editorial committee, by means of the editor, will check the fulfillment of all the formal aspects established in the publication regulations for authors and the pertinence with the journal topic scope.
The original could be returned to the sender(s) if formal failure to comply with the regulations is observed, and will only be sent to revision and evaluation once informed changes are made by the author(s) via e-mail.
The editorial committee can also return an original if it does not adjust to the topic domain of the journal. This decision will be informed via e-mail.
Once accomplished all the formal aspects and previous to a favorable pertinence concept, the committee will check the document and send it to external evaluators.
External or peer review
Once accomplished the editorial review stage, articles are sent to external or peer evaluation.
The journal will use the Double Blind Review System, which guarantees the peer evaluators and authors’ anonymity, in order to avoid personal, ideological, gender or any other kind of interference along the evaluation process and scientific publication.
The journal counts on a national and international peer directory (peer review) pointing out to the topics contained in the journal.
The selection of external evaluation peers will be carried out taking into consideration their prove knowledge and academic production in specific areas.
The selection of evaluators for each article will be in the hands of the Editorial Committee, according to the content of each text. Articles will be submitted to two (2) external evaluators; in case of disagreement between them, a third evaluator might be consulted, as decided by the Editorial Committee.
External evaluators will be contacted for the submission of the document to be evaluated, once accepted the designation made by the Editorial Committee, previous manifestation of confidentiality and security. They will have 8 days for the submission of the evaluation with the pertaining recommendations.
External evaluation results will be sent to the Editor via e-mail, and he/she will be in charge of sending this information to the authors anonymously.
Approval or rejection of documents
Taking into account the evaluators’ reports, the Editor will contact the author(s) to inform the approval, approval with modifications or corrections or rejection of the article.
In the case of approved articles, authors will be informed via e-mail about the due dates.
If articles are accepted after previous revision, modification or corrections, the editor will send the evaluation and suggestions.
The author will have 8 days to send the article back with the modifications and/or corrections suggested by the evaluators through the editor. Otherwise, it will be understood that authors revoked their proposals.
Once received the texts, they will be sent back again to the evaluators or to the members of the Editorial Committee for 5 days in order for them to verify if changes were made in compliance with evaluators’ suggestions.
After verifying the corrections, evaluators will send their final consent and the editor will notify the authors.
If the document is rejected, the editor will send the author an e-mail pointing out the reasons.
Once accepted the document, el author(s) must submit a) the authorization format for publication and reproduction, b) the format for Property Rights transfer.
The ideas and opinions stated in the articles are the author’s responsibility and they do not necessarily reflect the editorial opinion.
The Editorial Committee reserves to itself the decision concerning the issue in which the article will be published, following editorial criteria that will be notified to the author(s).
Style correction and layout
Once approved, the articles will be subject to morpho-syntactic and style revision.
Having received the corrections, authors can make and suggest modifications and approve form changes.
When changes are made, the editor will submit, in PDF format, the last designed draft for revision. No structural changes are allowed in approved documents.