Submission

ALHE only receives original and unpublished manuscripts that have not been published in any printed or electronic medium or that are being applied to other journals for evaluation.

Papers in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese languages ​​are accepted. To make a submission to ALHE’s OJS platform, you will first need to register a user account and log in. After that, when you login, you will be taken to your dashboard.

Authors are solely responsible for the content of the texts and for any litigation or claim related to intellectual property rights, so they must exonerate the editors of the Journal from any possible controversy.

For the publication of an article, it is a condition that the authors cede to ALHE the rights of electronic reproduction as well as those of diffusion.

Evaluation

The arbitration of the proposed articles is carried out by specialized anonymous pairs. Once the article has been registered on the portal by the author, it is assessed by two experts on the subject of the text. These specialists will determine the relevance of their publication. The evaluators are suggested by the members of the Advisory Council and the Editorial Committee.

In the event of a discrepancy between the evaluations, the text is sent to a third referee whose decision defines the final opinion. The Advisory Council and the Editorial Committee are in charge of ensuring a fair and impartial evaluation, thus avoiding lax or biased opinions.

During the evaluation process, the identities of the authors and the evaluators are not disclosed.

The editor will inform the author of the results of the opinions with the comments, suggestions and observations of the evaluators within a maximum period of twelve weeks from the date of receipt of the original. The result of the evaluation is final in all cases.

In all cases the evaluations are final. When the articles are rejected because the topic does not correspond with the editorial lines of the Journal, no double-blind pairs evaluation will be carried out.

Edition guidelines

Collaborations and complementary files (images, tables and graphics will be sent in editable electronic format (.xls, .xlsx, .psd, .ai, .cdr, .tiff, and .eps) through the online platform.

Manuscript submitted must have a minimum length of 7 500 words or 45 000 characters with spaces, and a maximum of 11 000 words or 70 000 characters with spaces, including notes, tables, figures and references, which is equivalent to approximately 20 pages minimum and 35 pages maximum.

In the case of book reviews, the minimum length should be 2 500 words or 14 000 characters with spaces, and the maximum of 3 500 words or 22 000 characters with spaces, which is approximately equivalent to a minimum of six pages and a maximum of nine.

The text must be sent in the following format:

• Times New Roman typography
• 12 points
• 1.5 line spacing
• Continuous pagination
• Each paragraph will be indented in the first line, except after the titles or subtitles

In the text, the citations and their corresponding references must be indicated, as well as the mention of the tables, graphs and maps that are included, the latter must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order that they appear in the text.

The minimum elements and the order of the structure of the articles should be the following:

• Title in the original language and its equivalent in English, the recommended length is two lines. It is suggested to avoid rhetorical or metaphorical phrases.
• Full name of the author and co-authors.
• ORCID ID of the author and co-authors.
• Affiliation and institutional email of the author and co-authors.
• If there is one, the sponsorship, scholarship or institutional support is included as a note, after the author's name. It is not numbered, nor is it cited in the text.
• A structured abstract in the original language with a maximum of 150 words or 800 characters with spaces, the abstract must contain the objective, methodology and conclusions.
• The equivalent of the abstract in English. In case the article is in English language, it must be sent in Spanish.
• Four or five keywords in the original language of the article and in English. It is suggested to consult the OECD Macrothesaurus Chapter Headings
• JEL classification of the article. The author can check Sistema de Clasificación JEL.
• Introduction thematic, methodological and historiographical debate on the subject.
• Development. This must clearly indicate each of the sections.
• Conclusions.
• List of references.

Citation system

The citation will be made within the text according to the APA system, 7th edition.

The list of references will be made at the end of the text and the regulations for citation and bibliographic references will be according to the APA 6th criterion edition.

The number of citations will be the necessary for the development of the article. Entries in references that are not cited in the body of the text will not be accepted.

The book reviews will not contain references; in any reading is recommended within the same review, the author and the corresponding year or work will be mentioned, for example: “The following books by Estado y desarrollo económico: México 1920-2006 (2007) and Sobre la desigualdad en México (2010)”.