Style Guidelines
Submission Guidelines
- For the articles received to begin the evaluation process in Procesos de Mercado. Revista Europea de Economía Política, they must comply with all publication guidelines described below. If they do not, they will be returned to the authors for the correction of errors.
- The works must be in Spanish or English language. Make sure your paper is written in standard scientific Spanish, or English appropriate for your discipline. You must use the Microsoft Word template in English (if your paper is written in English) or Spanish (if your paper is written in Spanish), carefully following the format, to submit your manuscript.
- Manuscripts can be uploaded as a single document (containing the main text, tables, and figures) in the journal's website www.procesosdemercado.com or sent to the email address huertadesoto@dimasoft.es
- The content of the article must be original, must not have been published or be submitted to any publication process in any other national or foreign journal, nor be it part of an author or collective book. The papers will be duly submitted to an antiplagiarism control system.
- This journal operates under a double-blind peer-review model (the initial publication decision will be made within a maximum period of 90 days). The editor will initially assess all contributions for suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable will be sent to a minimum of two independent expert referees to assess the paper's scientific quality. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the articles. The Editor's decision is final. Articles written by members of the journal’s editorial board will be sent to referees not affiliated with the author or his institution. They will be carefully monitored to ensure no peer review bias. This journal follows the essential practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/).
- Manuscript categories and requirements:
- Articles:
Description: Comprehensive reports of quality current research within the area of social sciences in line with the thought and tradition of the Austrian School of Economics. All qualitative research articles, particularly individual case studies, cannot be purely descriptive and must contribute to discussions beyond the case.
Word limit: 10,000 words maximum, including tables, graphs, and bibliographical references. On the first page, the articles will include:
- The title of the work in both Spanish and English if the article is written in Spanish, only in English if the paper is written in the English language.
- The name of the author or authors.
- A summary of the work of 150 words maximum in both Spanish and English.
- A list of keywords (at least two and no more than five) in both Spanish and English.
- The references of the classification of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) (at least two and no more than five) in both Spanish and English.
- Academic or professional affiliation in the language in which the paper is written.
- Notes:
Description: The notes are comprehensive reviews of the literature in specific research areas of the social sciences in line with the thought and tradition of the Austrian School of Economics. We only accept descriptive notes with systematic methods. The note should help in the understanding of gaps or new conceptual analysis.
Word limit: 8,000 words maximum, including tables, graphs, and bibliographical references. On the first page, the articles will include:
- The title of the work in both Spanish and English if the note is written in Spanish, only in English if the paper is written in the English language.
- The name of the author or authors.
- Academic or professional affiliation in the language in which the paper is written.
iii. Book reviews:
Description: Book reviews are critical evaluations of the content of a book in the areas of social sciences in line with the thought and tradition of the Austrian School of Economics.
Word limit: 4,000 words maximum, including tables, graphs, and bibliographical references.
- The content of the work must start on a new page. The different sections in which the article is structured will be numbered consecutively (1, 2, 3...), with point 1 being the introductory section. The subsections included within each section will be numbered with two or three digits (e.g., 2.3, 2.3.1).
- Authors may use italics for emphasis or when defining a term, but not bold. Journal and book titles should always be written in italics, for example, Procesos de Mercado. Revista Europea de Economía Política. There is no need to highlight or use italics for foreign words, including Greek or Latin terms, such as, i.e., e.g., etc., et al., vs., ca., cf., in vivo, ex vivo, in situ, ex in situ, in vitro, in utero, ad hoc, in silico, ab initio, vice versa and via.
- The tables and graphs included in the article can be presented either in colour or in black and white, numbered consecutively and in original, including their title and source.
- Bibliographic citations that appear in the text (either in the main body or as footnotes) must indicate the author's last name and the year of publication (in parentheses). For example (Mises, 1940). Additionally, the page number shall also be included in the footnotes (pp. xx-yy). Example: (Mises, 1940, p. 479), (Mises, 1940, pp. 479-482), (Mises, 1949a, b), (Mises & Hayek, 1935, p. 200), or (Mises et al., 1949).
- Footnotes must be numbered in the manuscript. The symbols *, †, etc. shall not be used.
- The bibliography used will go at the end of the article under the heading REFERENCES, ordered alphabetically by authors and under the following format:
Article:
- Hayek, F.A. (1945). “The use of knowledge in society”. American Economic Review, 35(4), 519-530.
- Espinosa, V. I., Wang, W. H., & Zhu, H. (2020). “Israel Kirzner on dynamic efficiency and economic development”. Procesos de Mercado, 17(2), 283-310.
Book:
- Huerta de Soto, J. (2006). Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles. Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Chapter of the book:
- Hayek, F. A. (1935 [1995]). Edwin Cannan. In B. Caldwell (Ed.), The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 9: Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence (pp. 64–73). Indianapolis: Liberty Fund.
Unpublished Works:
- Author 1, A.B. & Author 2, C. (year). Title of the unpublished work. Name of the journal year, a phrase indicating the publication stage (submitted; accepted; in press).
Unpublished Personal Writing:
- Author 1, A.B. (University, City, State, Country), & Author 2, C. (Institute, City, State, Country). (year). Title of the writing. Personal communication.
Presentation at a Conference:
- Author 1, A.B., Author 2, C.D., & Author 3, E.F. (year). Title of presentation. In Name of the Conference, Place of the Conference, Country, Date of the Conference (Day Month Year).
Thesis:
- Author 1, A.B. Thesis title. Thesis level, degree-granting university, university location, completion date.
Website:
- Freedom and Development. (2022). The Impact of the Tax Reform on Investment and the Risk for Fiscal Discipline. Available online: https://lyd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TP-1551-REFORMA-TRIBUTARIA.pdf (accessed August 12, 2022).
- In the case of translated articles or books that are cited in accordance with the translation, the year that follows the author’s name must be the date of the original edition, and the year of the translated version is to be included in the penultimate position, immediately preceding the reference to the page numbers.
- Guillemets («») shall be used for quotations and double English quotation marks (“”) for subquotations within the main quotation, i.e., «[...] "[...]"».
- The appendices will go at the end of the article after the bibliographic references.
- Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc., should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
- Once the manuscript is received, the Editor will decide on its initial admissibility to submit it for peer review within a period not exceeding 90 days from its receipt. This resolution may be conditioned to modifying the original text following the evaluators' reports and the Editor's final decision.
- Authors whose papers are definitively accepted will receive, via email, a file in PDF format with a set of collated tests in which they can only make minimal formal corrections (errata).
Template for Article Submission
