About the Journal
Palabra y Razón is an academic journal that that offers a space of critical reflection and dissemination of original research by authors both nationals and internationals on philosophy, theology and religious sciences. In addition, the journal is interested in contributing to an interdisciplinary between the declared research lines with education, social sciences, and humanities. The person responsible for a dossier proposal will be in charge of the call for papers, collection of articles and search for reviewers. All proposals must be made through the Official Dossier Proposal Form.
The journal has four main sections: Research Article, Book Review or Translation, Contribution, and Dossier. All manuscripts to be submitted for any of these sections must be subject to the Author Guidelines. The details of each section are as follows:
Research Article: It must have a minimum of 8,000 and a maximum of 10,000 words –included in that footnotes and the reference list at the end of the article; Letter size paper with margins in Normal Template; Font type Garamond size 12; 1.5 line spacing and justify text.
Book Review or Translation: A minimum of 3,000 words and a maximum of 6,000 words including footnotes and the reference list at the end of the manuscript; Letter size paper with margins in Normal Template; Font type Garamond size 12; 1.5 line spacing and justify text.
Contribution: The acceptance or rejection of the manuscripts submitted to this section is subject to the exclusive decision of the journal’s Editorial Board without necessarily ruling out an additional double-blind external review. Fundamentally, this section seeks the inclusion of texts in formats other than research articles. Although these may have a different length from that required for a normal article, it is expected that they do not exceed the maximum length of 10,000 words, letter size sheet with margins in Normal Template, Garamond font size 12, 1.5 spacing (space and a half). It also includes, with preference, manuscripts closer to the writing of the essay. However, texts that are coherent with the research lines declared by the journal are also welcome, such as interviews; advances of master's or doctoral theses; texts presented at conferences, seminars or colloquiums; and responses and/or critical comments to some of the manuscripts published in the previous issue. Manuscripts published as contributions are NOT included in the texts subject to the journal's indexing. This is exclusively for research articles.
Dossier: For a particular issue, the Editorial Board may freely call for an open contribution of articles about a single theme that complies with the research lines declared by the journal. Although the length requested for the articles may vary in each call, it can never exceed 10,000 words or contain less than 4,000 words. The journal is open to receive dossier proposals submitted by an external person to the Faculty of Religious and Philosophical Sciences of the Catholic University of Maule. The Editorial Board will be in charge of receiving and evaluating the proposal for either its acceptance or its rejection. Whoever submits the dossier proposal will be responsible for calling and collecting the articles.
Acceptance: There is no need to make further corrections or modifications to the manuscript and, therefore, it will be published as the author has originally submitted it. However, this decision is hardly ever made for a submission. For a manuscript to be considered approved for publication, it must obtain at least two positive reviews (that is, two recommendations for approval). A single negative evaluation of one of the reviews is enough to reject the manuscript definitely.
Acceptance with corrections: The author must compulsorily make corrections and modifications to the manuscript according to the comments and suggestions made by either the referees or the Editorial Board. The manuscript must begin a new round of evaluations once the author has delivered a new submission including the required corrections. If either the referees or the Editorial Board are not satisfied with new submission, the manuscript can be finally rejected. Nonetheless, if the author disagrees with some corrections or suggestions made by any of the referees, he or she will be able to write a letter in which disagreements and arguments can be clearly presented. The Editorial Board is the only in charge of delivering a resolution of the case.
WARNING: Every modification to the manuscript made by the author in virtue of the corrections and comments of the referees must include a new submission with the Word Track Changes activated.
Rejection: The evaluation process is ended, and the Editorial Board has decided that the manuscript will not be published. This resolution is fully grounded in the referee reviews. The author cannot appeal to change this final resolution.
The journal is a biannual publication issues will be published in July and December of each year. Its enumeration corresponds to the year, so that each issue is composed of two volumes whose numbering is successive.
At least once a year, the journal calls for a publication in the Research Articles section and its respective deadline. However, for all sections (including Dossier, if appropriate), the journal accepts manuscripts throughout the year that will be published in the upcoming issue after the date of acceptance.
All received manuscripts will be sent to qualified reviewers under the double-blind arbitration policy that will have a period of two to three months to send the commented results of the evaluations. Therefore, manuscripts should be submitted without explicit or implicit references from the author. It is important that the authors respect this request to avoid any indication of authorship that would invalidate the double-blind arbitration process. For this part, the Director and Associate Editor have the right to include formal modifications to the articles approved for publication.
Manuscripts submitted both for evaluation to other journals and those that do not comply with the format requested by Palabra y Razón will be rejected. The criteria that encourage the evaluation of the manuscript for publication are those of originality and contribution in the research field, conceptual and argumentative rigor, correct use of language, adequate formal presentation, management of original sources, and the current use of the bibliography.
Once the Editorial Committee has received the manuscript, it must evaluate within ten business days by simple majority its relevance to the journal guidelines. The decision is final. In the case that the manuscript is rejected, the Director-Editor in Chief will communicate the decision to the author within ten business days.
If the manuscript is taken as relevant, the Director-Editor in Chief must forward it to the Associate Editor who will then send it to the two blind-peer referees indicated by the Editorial Board. These will determine whether the article is considered as either accepted, accepted with corrections, or rejected. The evaluation period cannot exceed forty business days. The Associate Editor will communicate the referees’ verdict to the author within ten business days.
In the event that there are observations to be submitted by the author, he/she will have a period of thirty business days to correct the manuscript and forward it. If necessary, more time may be allowed, but if the allowed time exceeds the closing date of the volume, the collaboration will be published in the next volume closest to the submission of the corrected manuscript.
If applicable, the author must make a statement about the possible interest conflicts indicating either scholarships by funding agencies or the participation of any kind of funding institution.
Interest conflict must be stated at the time of the manuscript submission. If an unstated interest conflict is detected, the journal will make contact with the author to request a clarification. If the clarification does not satisfy the Editorial Board, the manuscript’s evaluation process will be canceled.
Finally, if there is an interest conflict with some already published research, the manuscript will be withdrawn as soon as possible and making public the reasons of the decision. Additionally, the Editorial Board will make contact with the institution involved.to inform the situation.
Palabra y Razón is a free non-profit publication. In this respect, it does not stablish any charge to the authors for evaluating, publishing, or disseminating their academic productions.
The ethic statements of this journal are based on texts from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)and must be assumed by all parties involved in the act of publication (the author(s), the editor(s), the reviewer(s), and the journal’s director).
Types of accepted manuscrips
The journal has four main sections: Research Article, Book Review or Translation, Contribution, and Dossier. All manuscripts to be submitted for any of these sections must be subject to the Author Guidelines. The details of each section are as follows:
Research Article: It must have a minimum of 8,000 and a maximum of 10,000 words –included in that footnotes and the reference list at the end of the article; Letter size paper with margins in Normal Template; Font type Garamond size 12; 1.5 line spacing and justify text.
Book Review or Translation: A minimum of 3,000 words and a maximum of 6,000 words including footnotes and the reference list at the end of the manuscript; Letter size paper with margins in Normal Template; Font type Garamond size 12; 1.5 line spacing and justify text.
Contribution: The acceptance or rejection of the manuscripts submitted to this section is subject to the exclusive decision of the journal’s Editorial Board without necessarily ruling out an additional double-blind external review. Fundamentally, this section seeks the inclusion of texts in formats other than research articles. Although these may have a different length from that required for a normal article, it is expected that they do not exceed the maximum length of 10,000 words, letter size sheet with margins in Normal Template, Garamond font size 12, 1.5 spacing (space and a half). It also includes, with preference, manuscripts closer to the writing of the essay. However, texts that are coherent with the research lines declared by the journal are also welcome, such as interviews; advances of master's or doctoral theses; texts presented at conferences, seminars or colloquiums; and responses and/or critical comments to some of the manuscripts published in the previous issue. Manuscripts published as contributions are NOT included in the texts subject to the journal's indexing. This is exclusively for research articles.
Dossier: For a particular issue, the Editorial Board may freely call for an open contribution of articles about a single theme that complies with the research lines declared by the journal. Although the length requested for the articles may vary in each call, it can never exceed 10,000 words or contain less than 4,000 words. The journal is open to receive dossier proposals submitted by an external person to the Faculty of Religious and Philosophical Sciences of the Catholic University of Maule. The Editorial Board will be in charge of receiving and evaluating the proposal for either its acceptance or its rejection. Whoever submits the dossier proposal will be responsible for calling and collecting the articles.
Possible final decisions for a manuscript
Acceptance: There is no need to make further corrections or modifications to the manuscript and, therefore, it will be published as the author has originally submitted it. However, this decision is hardly ever made for a submission. For a manuscript to be considered approved for publication, it must obtain at least two positive reviews (that is, two recommendations for approval). A single negative evaluation of one of the reviews is enough to reject the manuscript definitely.
Acceptance with corrections: The author must compulsorily make corrections and modifications to the manuscript according to the comments and suggestions made by either the referees or the Editorial Board. The manuscript must begin a new round of evaluations once the author has delivered a new submission including the required corrections. If either the referees or the Editorial Board are not satisfied with new submission, the manuscript can be finally rejected. Nonetheless, if the author disagrees with some corrections or suggestions made by any of the referees, he or she will be able to write a letter in which disagreements and arguments can be clearly presented. The Editorial Board is the only in charge of delivering a resolution of the case.
WARNING: Every modification to the manuscript made by the author in virtue of the corrections and comments of the referees must include a new submission with the Word Track Changes activated.
Rejection: The evaluation process is ended, and the Editorial Board has decided that the manuscript will not be published. This resolution is fully grounded in the referee reviews. The author cannot appeal to change this final resolution.
Periodicity
The journal is a biannual publication issues will be published in July and December of each year. Its enumeration corresponds to the year, so that each issue is composed of two volumes whose numbering is successive.
At least once a year, the journal calls for a publication in the Research Articles section and its respective deadline. However, for all sections (including Dossier, if appropriate), the journal accepts manuscripts throughout the year that will be published in the upcoming issue after the date of acceptance.
Evaluation process
All received manuscripts will be sent to qualified reviewers under the double-blind arbitration policy that will have a period of two to three months to send the commented results of the evaluations. Therefore, manuscripts should be submitted without explicit or implicit references from the author. It is important that the authors respect this request to avoid any indication of authorship that would invalidate the double-blind arbitration process. For this part, the Director and Associate Editor have the right to include formal modifications to the articles approved for publication.
Manuscripts submitted both for evaluation to other journals and those that do not comply with the format requested by Palabra y Razón will be rejected. The criteria that encourage the evaluation of the manuscript for publication are those of originality and contribution in the research field, conceptual and argumentative rigor, correct use of language, adequate formal presentation, management of original sources, and the current use of the bibliography.
Estimated evaluation times
Once the Editorial Committee has received the manuscript, it must evaluate within ten business days by simple majority its relevance to the journal guidelines. The decision is final. In the case that the manuscript is rejected, the Director-Editor in Chief will communicate the decision to the author within ten business days.
If the manuscript is taken as relevant, the Director-Editor in Chief must forward it to the Associate Editor who will then send it to the two blind-peer referees indicated by the Editorial Board. These will determine whether the article is considered as either accepted, accepted with corrections, or rejected. The evaluation period cannot exceed forty business days. The Associate Editor will communicate the referees’ verdict to the author within ten business days.
In the event that there are observations to be submitted by the author, he/she will have a period of thirty business days to correct the manuscript and forward it. If necessary, more time may be allowed, but if the allowed time exceeds the closing date of the volume, the collaboration will be published in the next volume closest to the submission of the corrected manuscript.
Editorial Committee Functions
- Decide whether the contributions received conform to the journal’s editorial line.
- Propose and appoint new members if the scientific and evaluation committees.
- Establish editorial norms that will govern the publication of the contributions received.
- Propose regulations changes to the Faculty Council.
- In general, resolve the various issues that may arise in the evaluation process and the publication of the journal.
Associate Editor functions
- Disseminate the call for publication, as appropriate, at least once a year, indicating the corresponding publication date of the issue.
- Confirm the reception of the collaborations and send them to the referees during the evaluation process and publication of the journal.
- Contact the authors to inform them about the acceptance, observation or rejection of their contributions and about the referees’ suggested corrections.
- Correct the evidence of the articles submitted by the authors in accordance with the Editorial Rules established by the Editorial Board.
- Ensure the journal’s layout and design.
- Prepare the minutes that record the decisions taken by the Editorial Board in each meeting held.
- Prepare a record of all documentation concerning the authors’ contributions (database) and their evaluations.
- Convene the budget presentation by the printers for publishing each issue and propose to the Director-Editor in Chief, a choice in accordance with the budget granted.
Scientific Committee functions
- Provide scientific support and advice to the publication.
- Decide on issues regarding the scientific level of contributions received for publication.
- One of its members may be consulted to act as arbitrator in case of discrepancies regarding the contributions received that cannot be resolved by the Editorial Board.
- Eventually act as evaluators of the contributions received for publication.
License Terms
This journal is part of the policy of free access to the information contained, under a license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium.
Copyrights
Palabra y Razón assumes that each author owns the article copyrights. Upon receipt of the article, editors and reviewers are free to suggest partial modifications as long as they do not affect the original sense of the author's arguments in accordance with the evaluation processes and decision modalities stated by the journal.
After the acceptance of the article for publication, Palabra y Razón is free to reproduce its contents, both in print and/or digital form, for an indefinite period of time subject to the copyright it favors and allows its reuse under the Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, so that it may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly exhibited, under the following conditions:
- The authorship and original source of publication (journal name, number, year, pages, and DOI of the work) are duly cited.
- They are not used for commercial purposes.
- The same specifications of this license of use are used.
Open access policy
Palabra y Razón provides open access to all its content from the moment of its publication in electronic and/or printed format. This means that all content published by Palabra y Razón is freely available at no charge to the user or his or her institution. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requesting prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is based on the principle that offering to the public free access to academic material and research contributes to democratization and a greater global exchange of knowledge without commercial purposes.
Interest conflict
If applicable, the author must make a statement about the possible interest conflicts indicating either scholarships by funding agencies or the participation of any kind of funding institution.
Interest conflict must be stated at the time of the manuscript submission. If an unstated interest conflict is detected, the journal will make contact with the author to request a clarification. If the clarification does not satisfy the Editorial Board, the manuscript’s evaluation process will be canceled.
Finally, if there is an interest conflict with some already published research, the manuscript will be withdrawn as soon as possible and making public the reasons of the decision. Additionally, the Editorial Board will make contact with the institution involved.to inform the situation.
Manuscript processing charges
Palabra y Razón is a free non-profit publication. In this respect, it does not stablish any charge to the authors for evaluating, publishing, or disseminating their academic productions.
Transparency principles
The ethic statements of this journal are based on texts from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)and must be assumed by all parties involved in the act of publication (the author(s), the editor(s), the reviewer(s), and the journal’s director).