ISSN 0328-0101
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Instructions to authors

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

The call for articles, research advances and books reviews is permanently opened. Once accepted, authors will be informed in which number their articles, research advances or book reviews are going to be published, following the approval date order criterion. Each year the first number closes in April, to be published in June and the second number closes in October, to be published in December. 
To publish a Dossier or Special Issue, a proposal has to be submitted to the Director. The Dossier/Special Issue Coordinator must define the theme proposed, why it is important to publish it and a list of the contributors that have agreed to participate. If the proposal is approved by the Director, after consulting the Editorial Board, the articles, written at the request of the Dossier/Special Issue Coordinator, will undergo a blind peer review by two external reviewers, following the journal publishing norms. 
Articles, research advances and book’s reviews proposed for publication must be original, unpublished and must not be submitted simultaneously to other journals. Authors must make a statement about its originality when submitting their manuscripts. 
Texts can be presented in Spanish or Portuguese.
Articles and research advances may have a maximum of four (4) authors.
The Editorial Board proposes also translations, documents and interviews. }

Articles and Research Advances Evaluation Process

The articles and research advances evaluation is conducted according to the following procedures:

1. The Director and the Editorial Board control the aspects related to both the fulfilment of the formal requirements for the articles and research advances and their adequacy to the journal objectives. If the article or the research advance comply with both requirements, the Director records the Date of Reception and send it to two selected external reviewers. The reviewers are relevant scholars that work in relation to the topic of the article they will evaluate following the double-blind principle (the evaluator does not know the author and the author(s) do(es) not know evaluator). If the article or research advance do not meet the formal requirements, it is returned to the author to amend and resubmit it. This second communication will be registered as the Text Reception Date. If the text does not meet the objectives of the journal, the author will be informed of the decision justification.

2. In the evaluation of the articles and research advances, the two external reviewers analyze the following aspects included in the Journal Guide previously supplied: significance (originality of the work and relevance in regards to the journal’s issues), presentation (conceptual clarity), literature review (knowledge and citation of other relevant research on the topic), evidence (articulation between methodology, data and analysis, relevance and sufficiency of the data in regards to the conclusions), reasoning (logic soundness, arguments, inference and interpretations) and theory (adequacy, solvency in use and appropriation). Referee verdict includes fourth possibilities:
a) article or research advance approved for publication without modifications;
b) article or research advance approved but minor modifications needed for publication;
c) article or research advance approved but major modifications needed for eventual publication,
d) article or research advance rejected.

3. If the two external reviewers approve the article or research advance, the Director informs the author whether she/he have to modify the text or not. Authors must send the modified version within 60 days. Once the deadline is met and the article or research advance is not resubmitted, it will be considered as unsubmitted. If the modifications made are not accepted, the author can withdrawal the article or research advance from the journal. Once the author sends the modified text; the Director forwards the new version to the same two reviewers (this date is recorded as ‘Submission with Modifications’). If reviewers approve the new version, the Director register the corresponding Acceptance Date and communicate the decision to the author. Once notified, the author must send the authorization of rights cession. If the article or research advance is rejected, the Director communicates the verdict to the author. In all cases, the author has access to the pronouncement of the reviewers. When an article or research advance is approved by one reviewer to be published (with or without changes) and is rejected by the other one, the Director would ask for another review before taking the final decision and will follow its result.

4. The response time to the authors regarding the acceptance or rejection of their work d it will be neither less than 45 days nor more than 60 days. In any case, the complete process will not take more than three months between receiving and communicating the verdict of the external reviewers.

5. Translations, interviews and book reviews are under the supervision of the Editorial Board.

Ethical aspects and conflicts of interest

We assume that people who publish at Delito y Sociedad. Revista de Ciencias Sociales are familiar with and adhere to either the CONICET document: Guidelines for ethical behaviour in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Resolution No. 2857, December 11, 2006) and the document Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (Committee on Publications Ethics: COPE).

Plagiarism and scientific fraud detection policy

The publication of a work that violates intellectual property rights will be the responsibility of the authors, who will be accountable for the conflicts that may be generated for reasons of copyright. The most critical conflicts can be caused by plagiarism. Plagiarism implies:

• Present the work of others as their own. 

• Adopt words or ideas of other authors without due recognition.

• Do not use quotation marks or another distinctive format in a direct quote.

• Give incorrect information about the source of a quote.

• Paraphrasing without mentioning the source.

• Abusive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned.

The following practices constitute scientific fraud

• Manufacture, falsification or omission of data and plagiarism.

• Duplicate publication.

• Authorship conflicts.

For plagiarism detection, the software Plagius (plagius.com.es) is used. This control stage is in charge of the Editorial Board and the Director.

Preservation policy

“Periodic Publication System” (“Sistema de Publicaciones Periódicas” - SPP) information is preserved in different digital supports daily and weekly. Supports use to store copies are hard disks and magnetic tapes.
Store copies in hard disks. Two hard disks are used.  They are configured with a RAID 1 scheme. Additionally, another copy is store in a remote server placed in a different location than the SPP principal server. This copy is made every 12 hours, without any compression or encryption.
For magnetic tapes, there are two schemes: daily and weekly store copies.
Daily guard copy on magnetic tapes: each 24 hours is made a total SPP guard copy. For this process, there are 18 different magnetic tapes in a rotary scheme. It is used one magnetic tape each day, and it is overwritten the magnetic tape with the oldest guard copy. It gives a guard copy of up to 25 days.
Weekly guard copy on magnetic tapes: every week (on Saturdays) it is made another total guard copy in magnetic tape. For this copy there are 10 magnetic tapes with a rotary scheme. Every new guard copy is made over the magnetic tape which has the older copy, what gives a backup of up to 64 days.
Files in magnetic tapes are stored in “zip” format, compressed by the system of guard copy administration. In the case of an eventual failure of reading/writing the magnetic tapes, there are two reader-recorders hardware that can be exchanged. The daily and weekly’s guard copy’s magnetic tapes are saved into a container (strongbox) fire retardant.
Data base guard copy: it is applied a daily guard copy (dump) of system data base and of engine’s data base’s full, with the ability of recover up to five previous minutes to the failure. In addition, data base server is replicated in two nodes, both with RAID 1.

Shipping Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission meets all of the elements shown below. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

• The petition has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation provided in Comments to the Editor).

• The file sent is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

• Web addresses have been added for references where possible.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

Rules for writing articles and research advances

I. Article Length
Up to a maximum of twelve thousand words (including bibliography).
Research Advances: up to a maximum of ten thousand words (including bibliography)

II. Header

1. Article title: centered and bold (in Spanish and English).

2. Name of the author, university and/or institution to which he belongs, country and email.

3. Summary of up to two hundred words (in Spanish and English): justified and simple spacing. Source: Times New Roman 10. The summary should be a short text that will describe the topic of the work, the methodology used and its conclusions. It should not include bibliographical citations.

4. Keywords (in Spanish and English): up to five, separated by slashes (/). Source: Times New Roman 10.

III. Body of text
Source:  Times New Roman 12. Line spacing: simple. Justified.
Margins:  top and bottom: 2.5 cm; right and left: 3 cm.
Bleeding:  none.
Italics:  the following will be written in italics:
-Titles and subtitles of books, magazines, newspapers, films.
-Titles of works of art, names of ships, planes and trains.
-Bibliographic terms in Latin and not very frequent Latin phrases and phrases .
-Foreign language terms that do not have widespread use in Spanish: such as software, standard.
Quotation marks:  textual quotations of up to 40 words will be written between double Latin quotation marks (« »). English double quotation marks (“ ”) will be used for the same purpose when the word or words in question are in a sentence or paragraph between Latin quotation marks.
Outside the body of the text, do not number pages, or add images, dates, logos or any type of design.

IV. Citations, bibliographic references and notes The APA ( American Psychological Association ) 2018 standards, sixth edition
are followed : https://www.um.es/documents/378246/2964900/Normas+APA+Sexta+Edici%C3%B3n.pdf /27f8511d-95b6-4096-8d3e-f8492f61c6dc It is essential to adjust the text format to the template available online.

Rules for writing book comments

The same rules are followed as for writing articles, only with the following format:
1. Information about the reviewed book: About: Title of the book , name and surname of the author. (without abbreviation). Place of publication: Publisher, Year.
2. Name of the author, university and/or institution to which he or she belongs, country and email.

Two types of reviews will be accepted:
a) Standard review: the review cannot exceed 2000 words.
b) Review-essay: based on a recently published book, other books by the same author can be included, preferably not very distant in time, but the pivot of the work must continue to be the book that constitutes the novelty. . This type of review involves a more comprehensive and interpretive work. It may not exceed 4000 words.

Authorship statement

In the event that the article sent to the journal has more than one author or has required the participation of other collaborators, the work must include, at the end, a declaration of the roles of authorship and participation. The taxonomy of academic collaboration networks (CRediT) lists the different collaboration roles such as data curation, conceptualization, writing (review and editing) or supervision, among others ( https://hdlab.space/taxonomia ). This taxonomy has the objective of providing credit to all the roles involved in a research process and guaranteeing that they are visualized and recognized during the communication of the results.

When there are no collaborative roles beyond authorship and the authors have shared the writing of the work, it may be declared: “X. and Y. jointly contributed to the writing of this article.”

Supporting research data

Authors who send articles to the journal must ensure the availability and preservation of the data used in them, in accordance with Law No. 26,899 on Digital Repositories. If the article is accepted, it is recommended that the data generated be deposited in one of the research data repositories (such as SciELO Data), prior to publication, so that the complete citation of the deposited data can be included in the article. The citation of the deposited data set must appear in the bibliographic references section of the resulting publication. Citing the data set allows authorship to be recognized and facilitates its location, validation and reuse, facilitates the metrics and impact of the data and favors the transparency of scientific research. Each data set and subset of data must be cited independently with its own DOI or similar.

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