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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 submitted article has been neither previously published nor sent to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the “Comments to the editor” section).
  • The file was sent in Microsoft Word format, not including the name(s) of the article’s author(s) in it.
  • Web links or doi have been added for reference purposes, where possible.
  • The text is in Times New Roman, 12 point font, and 1.5 line spacing and uses italics instead of underlining (except URL addresses), and all charts, graphs, and tables are included in their corresponding positions within the text body rather than being included at the end of the article.
  • The article intended for submission to the journal complies with the rules for authors/es outlined in the “About the journal” section
  • The submission has not been previously published or submitted to another journal. An explanation is provided in the comments to the editor.
  • The article you wish to submit to the journal complies with the rules for authors presented in the “Submissions” section.
  • The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements. References are within the text and citation standards (it is the author’s responsibility to verify and complement bibliographic references and ensure the proper use of the works used for the development of the article).
  • Websites and DOI identifiers were added to ensure the digital location of the resource.
  • The authors state that the article is unpublished and original.
  • The authors include in the article a statement of potential conflicts of interest that may invalidate the publication because of financial, sponsorship, institutional, or authorship relationships.
  • The authors guarantee the integrity of the data, accuracy of the analyses, and veracity of the sources cited.
  • Informed consent forms and publication authorizations must be included for research works involving human populations, communities, minors, or patients. Authors shall bear the sole responsibility of failure to comply with these standards, and they have the duty to defend the journal in the event of a claim made by a third party regarding the aforementioned authorization.
  • The authors declare in the article the availability of data, codes, and research materials within the framework defined by the journal in the ethics policy and according to the limitations that originate in the researc
  • The article provides appropriate citations for data, codes, and materials according to the instructions to the authors, including the DOI identifier.
  • The authors attach the letter of submission duly signed by each of the authors who participated in the preparation of the article; this document is a necessary requirement for publication.
  • The authors accept the treatment of their data for notification purposes in the editorial process, indexing processes of the journal in national and international systems, and sending information of institutional interest. We invite you to consult the data treatment policy of Universidad del Rosario.
  • The authors accept the treatment of their data for notification purposes in the editorial process, indexing processes of the journal in national and international systems, and sending information of institutional interest. We invite you to consult the data treatment policy of Universidad del Rosario. https://revistas.urosario.edu.co/public/site/docs/publication-authorization.pdf

Author Guidelines

Rules for Authors 

Desafíos journal published articles must be original and unpublished, reflection papers, and reviews articles related to research conducted on Political Science and International Relations among the academic and professional community.

The submitted document must fall into any of the following categories[1]:

  • Research article: a document presenting the original results of research projects in detail. The commonly used structure consists of four relevant sections: Introduction, Methodology, Results, and Conclusions.
  • Review article: a document arising from research, which analyzes, systematizes, and integrates the results of published or unpublished research, to provide an overview of advancement and development trends.
  • Reflection paper: a document presenting research results from an analytical, interpretative, or critical perspective regarding a specific topic and using original sources.
  • Book review. Document that assesses and analyzes emerging publications in the field of knowledge of the journal (political science, international relations, political philosophy, political sociology, political economy), whether journals or books. The main purpose of the book review is not the mere provision of a summary but a critical analysis of the content. Meaning that the author of the book review is to assess the contribution to scientific knowledge in a field or specific topic of Social Sciences. Locating the book in this context and critically analyzing the contribution and its value for the progress in the specific field is a key element of a book review published in Desafíos.

[1]Classification provided by the “General Guidelines for Updating Colombian Scientific and Technological Serials,” Colciencias, 2002.

Formal requirements:

• Articles shall be submitted unpublished and originally be written in Spanish, English or French, with a word count ranging between 8,000 and 12,000, in Word format, Times New Roman font, size 12, and 1.5 space.

• Articles shall be submitted with a summary of no more than 200 words and three to five assigned keywords. The submissions shall also contain a corresponding abstract and keywords in English. (If the article is presented in English or Portuguese, abstract and keywords shall additionally be provided in Spanish).

• All graphs or tables shall be accompanied by a title or a brief description regarding the content and mention the complete source (if the source originates from the Internet, the uniform resource locator (URL) shall also be included). All illustrations, figures and tables shall be located within the text in the adequate position and not at the end of the document.

• Articles shall mention institutional affiliation of the author, authors or co-authors in accordance in the first sheet, in a footnote, according the following scheme: author's name, title, institution, agency, institution, department, city, country, email. It is important to mention the person who has made a substantial contribution to the document in the footnote; it is inappropriate to recognize as authors directors of institutions and department heads who only marginally participated in the elaboration of the document.

• A short resume of the author (authors and / or co-authors) shall be provided along with the article. The resume shall outline obtained degrees (doctorates, masters and undergraduate) from different universities, relevant work experience, academic experience, and reference the work published in indexed academic journals from the last two years.

• The book reviews shall refer to books and journals published not earlier than two years prior to the submission. Book reviews shall be written in either Spanish or English and not extend a maximum length of 2,000 words.

• All bibliographical references shall be in-text citations, appear in the parentheses  inside the text area and be abbreviated according to the standards of the American Psychological Association (APA):

Book:

Arendt, H. (1951). The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt Brace.

Book chapter:

Parker, C. G. (2012). Religión, cultura y política en América Latina: nuevos enfoques. In C. G. Parker (Ed.), Religión, política y cultura en América Latina: nuevas miradas (pp. 13-73). Santiago de Chile: Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Journal article:

Launay, S. (2012). Démocratie représentative et démocratie participative. Remarques pour une comparaison de la Colombie et du Venezuela contemporains. Desafíos, 24(1), 155-173.

Electronic source:

Uribe Escobar, J. D. (2006). Evolución de la educación en Colombia durante el siglo xx. Retrieved on February 4, 2014 from http://www.banrep.gov.co/documentos/publicaciones/revista_bco_ notas/2006/febrero.pdf.

All accepted article shall be subject to the scrutiny of the Editorial Board, to the peer-review and to formal modifications required to adapt the text to the publishing norms.

For any further concerns please contact: revistadesafios.urosario@gmail.com

Authorship Statement – CRediT taxonomy

To strengthen the scientific integrity of research published by the journal, the CRediT taxonomy, established by CASRAI, will be adopted as of the second half of 2021. The article will include the description of the contributing roles of the authors who sign the publication. The level of contribution and type will be defined in accordance with the 14 contributor roles (https://casrai.org/credit/ ), with the possibility for a single author to simultaneously take on some of the following roles:

  1. Conceptualization
  2. Data curation
  3. Formal analysis – statistical techniques and data analysis
  4. Funding acquisition
  5. Investigation – research process
  6. Methodology – design and development
  7. Project administration – management and coordination
  8. Resources – supplying study materials
  9. Software – programming, design, and implementation
  10. Supervision and leadership role in planning
  11. Validation – verification
  12. Visualization – data presentation 
  13. Writing – original draft
  14. Writing – review & editing

Copyright Notice

Authors invest the journal with the right to publish their work for the first time, just as under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows third parties to share their work by acknowledging its authorship and the original publication in this journal.

When authors wish to submit the manuscript to another journal, the corresponding permissions from Universidad del Rosario need to be requested. In addition, if journals desire to publish articles that have already been included in other dissemination media, they must request the relevant permissions from the copyright owners.