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PEER-REVIEW PROCESS
All manuscripts are submitted to double-blind peer review. The tasks of the reviewers include assessing the novelty and scientific significance of the work, the validity of the source base, the reliability of the research results, the historiographic essay, the style of the presentation, the correspondence of the title of the work and the abstract to its content. Reviewers submit proposals and critical recommendations at the discretion of the author.
Articles are reviewed by members of the editorial board, leading experts on the specific subject of the article (including foreign scientists). The deadline for providing feedback by the reviewer is 6 weeks. Based on the results of the consideration of the manuscript, the reviewer expresses his reasonable opinion: 1. Publish the article in the form it was submitted; 2. Publish the article with minor changes by the author; 3. Publish the article under the condition of serious reelaboration of the manuscript by the author in compliance with detailed criticism and recommendations; 3. Reject the article with the explanation of the reasons for such a verdict.
The editorial board acquaints the author with the text of the review and, if necessary, offers to improve the article. The author has the opportunity, in case of disagreement of the author with the comments, to send a reasoned answer, on the basis of which the editorial board decides on publication, or sends for additional peer review.
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Articles are accepted for consideration for publication when the following norms are complied with and if full information about the author is available.
GUIDANCE FOR THE PREPARATION OF ARTICLES
Articles are accepted in the following languages: Russian, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The full size of the artlicle must not be less than 40 thousand and not more than 60 thousand symbols.
The manuscript should contain the title of the article, the abstract (in Russian or Spanish or Portuguese, and English, 200-250 words), keywords (5-8) in all the languages, the information about the author (in Russian or Spanish or Portuguese, and English), the list of bibliography at the end of the article. The abstract should contain a statement of the problem and brief conclusions of the author.
The references are given as automatic footnotes at the bottom of the page.
Examples:
Books:
Name of author, year of publication, page
In footnotes:
Palacios, 2004. P. 101.
Miguel Antonio Caro y la cultura, 2002. P. 201
In the bibliography:
Palacios M. La clase más ruidosa y otros ensayos sobre política e historia. Bogotá: Norma, 2004.
Miguel Antonio Caro y la Cultura de su época. / Sierra Mejía R. (ed.) Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2002.
Journal articles:
In footnotes:
Jeifets V., Jeifets L., 2014. P. 71.
In the bibliography:
Jeifets V., Jeifets L. La Internacional Comunista y la izquierda argentina primeros encuentros y desencuentros. // Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda. año III, n° 5, septiembre 2014. Buenos Aires, P. 71-92.
Works in Russian:
In footnotes:
Гонионский, 1973. С. 12.
In the bibliography:
Гонионский С.А. Колумбия. Историко-этнографические очерки. М.: Наука, 1973. Gonionskiy S.A. Kolumbia. Istoriko-etnografitcheskie otcherki. Moskva: Nauka, 1973 [Colombia, Historical-ethnografical essays].
If the same authors have several works in the same years of publication, the particular work should be indicated with a letter:
Illades, 2018, a. P. 22.
Illades, 2018, b. P. 33.
In the bibliography:
Illades C. El futuro es nuestro. Historia de la izquierda en México. México: Océano, 2018, a.
Illades C. El marxismo en México. Una historia intelectual. México: Taurus ed., 2018, b.
Newspapers, archives, unpublished documents are cited only in footnotes:
Cartas políticas de Julián Páez. Bogotá: Impr. Medardo Rivas, 1896.
La Nación. Buenos Aires. 10 de noviembre, 2010.