期刊简介(About the journal)投稿须知(Instructions to Authors) About the journal The CEPAL Review was founded in 1976 and is published three times a year by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, which has its headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The Review, however, has full editorial independence and follows the usual academic procedures and criteria, including the review of articles by independent external referees. The Review is distributed to universities, research institutes and other international organizations, as well as to individual subscribers, and is also consulted extensively on the Internet.
The purpose of the Review is to contribute to the discussion of socio-economic development issues in the region by offering analytical and policy approaches and articles by economists and other social scientists working both within and outside the United Nations. Accordingly, the editorial board of the Review extends its readers an open invitation to submit for publication articles analysing various aspects of economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The opinions expressed in the signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization. The designations employed and the way in which data are presented do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the secretariat concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
A subscription to the CEPAL Review in Spanish costs US$ 30 for one year (three issues) and US$ 50 for two years. A subscription to the English version costs US$ 35 or US$ 60, respectively. The price of a single issue in either Spanish or English is US$ 15, including postage and handling.
A subscription form can be found in the Review, just before the section "Recent ECLAC publications", and on the ECLAC web site (www.eclac.org).
The complete text of the Review can also be downloaded free of charge from the above web site.
Requests for authorization to reproduce this work in whole or in part should be sent to the Secretary of the Publications Board. Member States and their governmental institutions may reproduce this work without prior authorization, but are requested to mention the source and to inform the United Nations of such reproduction. In all cases, the United Nations remains the owner of the copyright and should be identified as such in reproductions with the expression "?United Nations 2004" (or other year as appropriate).
Instructions to Authors
Guidelines for contributors to the CEPAL Review
In order to facilitate the submission, consideration and publication of articles, the editorial board of the CEPAL Review has prepared the following information and suggestions to serve as a guide for future contributors.
The submission of an article implies an undertaking by the author not to submit it simultaneously to other publications. The copyright to all articles published in the Review shall be owned by the United Nations.
All articles will be submitted to external referees.
Papers should be submitted in the original language (English, French, Portuguese or Spanish). They will be translated into the appropriate language by the relevant ECLAC services.
Each article must be accompanied by a summary, no more than 150 words in length, giving a brief description of its subject matter and main conclusions. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words, including the summary, notes and bibliography. Shorter papers will also be considered.
Articles should be sent either by e-mail (to revistacepal.org) or by regular mail, on CD or diskette, to: CEPAL Review, Casilla 179-D, Santiago, Chile. They should not be submitted in PDF format.
Style guide:
Titles should not be excessively long.
Footnotes
It is recommended that footnotes be kept to a minimum.
It is recommended that footnotes not be used to cite bibliographical references; such references should preferably be incorporated into the text.
Footnotes should be numbered consecutively using superscript Arabic numerals.
Tables and figures
It is recommended that tables and figures be kept to a minimum, avoiding any redundancy with the text.
Tables, figures and other elements should be inserted at the end of the text in the format in which they were designed; they should not be inserted as "pictures". Figures in Excel should include the corresponding worksheets.
The location of tables and figures in the body of the article should be indicated in the appropriate place as follows:
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Tables and figures should include an explicit and complete reference to their sources.
Tables should indicate the period covered at the end of the title, and should indicate the units in which the data are expressed in a subtitle (in italics and between brackets).
The symbols referred to in the "Explanatory notes" which appear on the page preceding the table of contents should be taken into account in the preparation of tables and figures.
Footnotes to tables and figures should be ordered consecutively using superscript lower-case letters.
Figures should be prepared bearing in mind that they will be printed in black and white.
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acronyms and abbreviations should not be used unless absolutely necessary, in which case the full name should be written out the first time it occurs in the article.
Bibliography
Bibliographical references should be directly related to the content of the article and should not be excessively long.
At the end of the article, under the title "Bibliography", all the necessary information should be included accurately and in alphabetical order by author: name of author(s), year of publication, full name of article (if any) and publication (including any subtitle), city of publication, publisher and, in the case of a periodical, month of publication.
The editorial board of the Review reserves the right to make any necessary editorial changes in the articles, including their titles.
Authors will receive a one-year courtesy subscription to the Review, plus 30 offprints of their article in Spanish and 30 in English, at the time of publication in each language.
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