Information For Authors

The topic of the article and review must be related to the theme of PORTES, Mexican Journal of Studies on the Pacific Basin.

Article Requirements:

  • The article must be based on original, unpublished research.
  • The article must be meet the quality of its purpose, and not have been submitted to another publication.
  • The article should possess intrinsic clarity, coherence in writing, respect grammatical and syntactic norms.
  • The results should logically follow from the developed arguments.
  • Publication proposals must adhere to high standards.
  • Data falsification, plagiarism, including the double publication of one’s own work without appropriate references, are not accepted practices by this journal.

Format and structure of the proposal

Extension and presentation

  • The maximum length for articles is 30 pages and a minimum of 15
  • The maximum length for reviews is 4 pages.
  • The text must be double-spaced, in Times New Roman font size 12, and without hyphens at the end of the line.
  • All pages must be numbered.

Titles and subtitles

  • The title should be in uppercase and lowercase, in Spanish and English, centered; 
  • The title should give a clear idea of the content of the work
  • Subtitles will be presented in the same way and aligned to the left.
  • Do not label headings and subheadings with numbers or letters; their hierarchy should adhere to the APA (7th Edition) system.

Article structure

The article must be contain:

  • A abstract in Spanish and English of no more than one page.
  • Three to six keywords (in Spanish and English)
  • Introduction, development and conclusions
  • The introduction should justify the nature and relevance of the porposal and, if applicable, the hypothesis that will support the structure of the text.
  • It also also include notes, bibliographies, charts, tables, graphs, photographs, drawings, diagrams, flowcharts, maps and plans, where necessary.
  • If necessary, footnotes should only be explanatory or clarifying, not bibliographical.

Reviews structure

For reviews, they must include the complete bibliographic record of the work to be reviewed (title, author, year, publisher, country), and if possible, attach the cover image in JPG format.

Cites and references

The cites and/or references must be in APA(7th Edition) System

Graphic and support material 

Presentation of tables and figures

  • Tables and graphs must be self-explanatory, without the need to refer to the text.
  • All should be created with Microsoft Excel and inserted into Microsoft Word using the program’s features
  • Tables, charts, and graphs should be submitted in a separate file, ordered, numbered, and with the indication of the page where they should be placed.
  • Below each table, chart, or graph, a source note should always be included.
  • Tables should be submitted in the in  DOCX or XLSX format in which they were created .
  • Figures shoulb be submited in the program in wich they were created, XLSX by example.

Formula and ecuations

formulas and equations should be created with Microsoft Word using the program’s features.

Illustrations (Pictures, draws, maps, etc.)

  • All photographs, drawings, diagrams, flowcharts, maps, and plans, the file format should be tif or jpg.
  • In all cases, the minimum acceptable resolution is 300 dots per inch (dpi).
  • Below each illustration, include its corresponding explanatory caption and a source note.
  • The file names should refer to their content and have a numerical order

Proceso editorial

All proposals received will be reviewed by the Editorial Coordination team.

At this stage of the process, they may be rejected without peer review if they are deemed unrelated to the journal's subject matter or quality standards.

Proposals that pass this first stage will undergo a similarity analysis in Turnitin, for which the highest similarity to be considered will be 20 percent. Once these two stages have been passed, only the articles will then be sent for review.

Review process

  • All articles undergo a double-blind review process.
  • The review process have a duration of 15 days.
  • Durint this process the journal maintaining the anonymity of reviewers and authors
  • Reviewers will be specialists in the subject matter.
  • If a third review is necessary, it will proceed accordingly.

Review result

Each work will receive a review result in one of the following three evaluations:

  • Publishable without substantial changes
  • Publishable with revision by the author
  • Not publishable

Correction and final approval

  • If the result is “Publishable with revision by the author” the author must address the review comments within no more than 15 days.
  • El autor deberá enviar dos archivos: uno con la versión final y otro en el cual se indiquen los cambios realizados.
  • The author must send two files: one containing the final version and another indicating the changes made.
  • The journal will return the corrected work to the reviewers for final approval.
  • The publication within no more than 2 months.

Notes

  • In all peer-reviewed and published texts in the journal, the dates of receipt and approval will be indicated.
  • The Editorial Committee of the journal reserves the right to make editorial changes it deems appropriate.
  • The author retains the rights to the article or review and must therefore send a letter of authorization for its publication.

Files must be submited

  • Proposal text of the article (anonymous, if its posible) or review.
  • Contats data for each authors.
    • Full name.
    • Academic degree.
    • Institution of affiliation.
    • ORCID number
    • Contact information: emails, phone numbers (optional).
  • Support materiasl (Tables, Figures, Illustrations).
  • Letter of originality
  • Letter of autorization to publish

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