Submissions guidelines

Submissions guidelines

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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Instructions to Contributors

1. The Brazilian Journal of Political Economy publishes articles or papers, small papers, review articles, notes, and comments, as well as documents that are in accordance with its Editorial Policies. The Journal does not commission papers, and only publishes papers that are within its field of interest. If they are accepted in this first examination, they shall be peer reviewed and, once approved, shall be published basically according to the order of approval.

2. The papers should contain reasonably original economic reasoning and a proper reference to the literature on the subject. Papers that fail to mention the Brazilian and Latin-American authors who have relevantly discussed the subject shall not be accepted. Papers with complex mathematical models resulting from the use of the hypothetical-deductive method are of no interest to the Journal.

3. The Journal publishes original papers, in Portuguese or, preferably, in English. The submission of a paper to the Journal should imply that it has not been previously published and is not being considered for another publication. The submitted papers will be sent to reviewers.

4. Articles will only be submitted to reviewers as long as they meet the requirements listed here and address the subject specified in the Editorial Declaration. In the case the publication is approved conditioned to changes, the author(s) should revise the paper using the tool ‘track changes’.

5. Papers should not exceed 52,000 characters with spaces, including references, tables, graphs and footnotes. The title should be short. Papers should include an abstract with no more than 100 words, keywords, JEL classification, and a lead-in to the article of 20 words at most. Review articles consist of a reasonably complete and updated bibliographic review of a certain subject, and may have up to 62,000 characters, spaces included. Small papers should not exceed 10 pages, should be brief, and include a theoretical model. Both are particularly welcome and shall have priority in the publication. Critical analyses of articles published in the Journal are accepted, and the author of the commented paper shall be entitled to a reply in the same issue; both the comment and the reply shall not exceed 15,000 characters.

6. Tables should be in Word format, small (just the essential figures) and limited in number. Line graphs or pie charts, also in limited number, must be sent in editable Excel files. If the graphic is an image, it must have a good resolution of at least 240 Dpi up to 300 Dpi and saved in JPG. They must be pasted in the file or sent in a separate folder. All equations and formulas must be compiled using the equation tool of the Word program or the MathThpe program, and the EPS file must be sent. The Journal's Office shall not accept articles that do not comply with those requirements.

7. Econometric articles,limited to 52,000 characters with spaces, must contain the details of the method used, the econometric tables and the data used in the analyses; It must also inform the version of the software, and the routines used. The details of the calculations should be sufficient to allow replication by other researchers.

8. Cited articles can be identified in the text or in a footnote. When the cited text is not the text of the original edition, the date of the original text must appear in the text of the article; This date must be repeated in the reference, in parentheses, followed by the date of the edition used, in parentheses. When sentences are quoted, the page should always be indicated.

9. Citations and references of journal articles should always indicate the volume, number, and number of the initial and final pages of the article. Bibliographies will not be accepted. At the end of the article, the reference should be limited to the articles cited and should follow the following format:

Marx, Karl (1867 [1968]) O Capital – Livro I. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira.
Rangel, Ignácio M. (1981) “A história da dualidade brasileira”, Revista de Economia Política, 1(4): 5-34.

10. The Journal does not charge for submissions. The submission of a paper implies its authorization for publication in the Journal. No copyrights shall be paid.

Submissions:
Manuscripts according to the Instruction for Contributors, in Word format, shall be submitted through the SciELO system, at https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/index.php/journal/login.

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