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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The request has not been previously published, or presented to another journal (or an explanation has been given in Comments to the editor).
  • The text fulfills the bibliographic and stylistic requirements indicated in Norms for authors.
  • The manuscript has been proofread by a native speaker in the language of submission.
  • If you are applying to a section of the journal which is reviewed by pairs, you should make sure that the instructions in Guaranteeing a blind review are followed.
  • If the paper contains any kind of material whose reproduction requires for permission, please indicate this circumstance (using Comments to the editor). Authors are responsible for respecting intellectual property when they reproduce materials as part of their works and must send the corresponding permissions to the journal.
    The editor, in any case, is free of any responsibility resulting from the author’s eventual violation of intellectual property rights.
  • The corresponding author ensures that the author list is correct in the online submission form.

Author Guidelines

The Revista Galega de Economía by the Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais (Faculty of Economic and Business Administration) from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela is a scientific magazine, which publishes original papers related to the fields of economy and business.
It targets the national and international scientific and university community, as well as all those working in eco-nomics, and business.
It is published twice a year –one issue in June and another in December- although special issue/s may be published throughout the year.
All submissions must be original, unpublished and they cannot be in the process of being considered or committed to publication by any other editorial platform.
We accept papers in Galician, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. The digital version of the journal can be found in at least Galician and Spanish.

PAPER EDITORIAL PROCEDURE 

Once papers are approved for publication, and depending on the language in which the paper is written, please note:

  • Papers submitted in English/Portuguese: authors may be requested to send a Spanish or Galician version.
  • Articles in any language may be rejected at every stage before the article is uploaded to the journal website if the linguistic quality is not considered to be up to standard.

PRESENTATION FORMAT FOR PAPERS

Files should be sent in Microsoft Word using the template file:

https://revistas.usc.gal/documentos/Plantilla_artigo_ingles.docx

1) Maximum length: 8,000 words, excluding annexes and bibliography.

2) First page:

– Title of the paper.

– Abstract: 150 words maximum

- 3-5 keywords.

- JEL codes.

3) Tables, figures, pictures or maps must be numbered in consecutive order with Arabic characters in the text after the paragraph of its first citation. They shall contain a brief and self-explanatory headline, its source and, when necessary, notes.

4) Bibliographical quotations and references should follow the referencing styles used by the American Psychological Association (APA), 6th edition. It is also recommended that manuscripts follow APA-guidelines. Punctuation and order must follow the examples below:

- JOURNAL PAPERS:

Tödtling, F., Skokan, K., Höglinger, C., Rumpel, P., e Grillitsch, M. (2013). Innovation and knowledge sourcing of modern sectors in old industrial regions: Comparing software firms in Moravia-Silesia and Upper Austria. European Urban and Regional Studies, 20(2), 188-205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776411428498

– BOOKS:

Edler, J., Georghiou, L., Uyarra, E., e Yeow, J. (2015). The meaning and limitations of public procurement for inno-vation: A supplier's experience. En C. Edquist, N. Vonortas, J.M. Zabala-Iturriagagotia e J. Edler (Eds.), Public procurement for innovation (pp. 35-64). Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar.

– BOOK CHAPTERS:

Cepilovs, A. (2014). Public procurement for innovation in small states. The case of Latvia. En F. Decarolis e M. Frey (Eds.), Public procurement’s place in the world. The charge towards sustainability and innovation (pp. 93-130). Houndmills, England: Palgrave/Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.springer.com/jp/book/9781137430632

– COMMUNICATIONS:

Campón, A., Baptista, H., e Hérnandez, J. M. (2009). El marketing relacional en el sector turístico. El caso del turismo rural: un enfoque teórico. En F. J. Cossío Silva (Coord.), Administrando en entornos inciertos: XXIII Congreso Anual AEDEM. Sevilla, 3-5 de junio de 2009. Madrid: ESIC. Retrieved from https://idus.us.es/xmlui/handle/11441/77758

– WORKING PAPERS:

Belloni, A., Morgan D., e Paris V. (2016). Pharmaceutical expenditure and policies: Past trends and future challenges. OECD Health Working Papers, 87. Paris, France: OECD. https://doi.org/10.1787/5jm0q1f4cdq7-en

 – LEGISLATION: 

Ley 6/1998, de 13 de abril, sobre régimen del suelo y valoraciones. Boletín Oficial del Estado, Nº. 89, de 14 de abril de 1998, pp. 12296-12304. Madrid: Jefatura del Estado. Retrieved from https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1998-8788 

ADDITIONAL SECTIONS AND ITS FEATURES 

Depending on the space available and on other publishing resources, the Revista Galega de Economía may also publish texts as additional sections, subject to the following criteria and requirements:

- SHORT NOTES: Texts concerning specific details of a research in process.

Format: 4,000 words maximum, using the template file

https://revistas.usc.gal/documentos/Plantilla_notasbreves_ingles.docx

Evaluation process: The evaluation process is the same as the one described for paper submissions, except that only one review is necessary.

- BOOK REVIEW: Reviews about editorial news published one or two years before on issues related to economy, and business and management administration and social sciences.

Format: 1,500 words maximum, using the template file

https://revistas.usc.gal/documentos/Plantilla_recension_ingles.docx

Evaluation process: The piece will be reviewed by one of the members of the editorial board (henceforth, EB) or an expert on the field designated by the EB, who will decide whether or not the text will be published.

PHD THESIS SUMMARIES on Economics or Business Management and Administration read in the previous two years in any of the universities in Galicia.

Format: 400 words maximum, using this template file

https://revistas.usc.gal/documentos/Plantilla_tese_doutoramento_ingles.docx

These are not reviewed.

CHANGES IN AUTHORSHIP
It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that the author list is correct  in the online submission form. Any changes to an author list, including the removal or addition of any authors, between initial submission and acceptance will require written agreement from all authors should the manuscript be considered for publication. New authors must also confirm that they fully comply with the journal's authorship requirements. Changes to authorship (addition or removal) will not be allowed once the manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Copyright Notice

From 2019 papers and articles published in this journal are subject to the following terms: 

1. The University of Santiago de Compostela retains the patrimonial rights (copyright) of articles published, and encourages and enables reuse of the same under the license specified in point 2.

2. Articles are published in the online edition of the journal under a License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). All papers can be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and publicly displayed, provided acknowledgment of authorship, the URL, and the journal are mentioned and that the materials are not used for commercial purposes.

3. All authors agree with the license used by the journal with the conditions of self-archiving and open access policy.

4. Authors are allowed to disseminate electronically (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their own websites) the published version of their manuscripts, as these favours circulation and early diffusion and thus possibly increases the citations and scope among the academic community (See The Effect of Open Access).

Before this year, when publishing in Revista Galega de Economía, the author cedes all the exploitation rights of his/her article to the University of Santiago de Compostela which, under the conditions and within the restrictions stated in the legislation on intellectual property, is the copyright holder. The fact of its holding the copyright grants the University of Santiago de Compostela  the exclusive right, worldwide, to:

  • publish the article’s final version in the journal, and distribute it and/or communicate it publicly, both in the journal itself and in other related media, in print format, digital format or any other format that can be created in the future;

  • translate or write abstracts of the article, and distribute them and/or communicate them publicly, and authorize a third party for the same right or transfer the same right to a third party;

  • deposit copies or references of the article in file-stores on line, both in platforms belonging to the University of Santiago de Compostela and in platforms belonging to a third party which has received the corresponding authorization by the University of Santiago de Compostela.