Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. SENDING ORIGINALS

• Format: Microsoft Word or Libreoffice.
• Submission method: By email to the address revsegsoc@laborum.es or through the submission platform on the journal's website http://revista.laborum.es. It is advisable that the author or authors register with the journal. To do this, you only have to enter the following internet address: revista.laborum.es and in the upper right margin there are the windows to register (follow the indications). You only have to do it once and from that moment you can send us your collaborations and follow their course (registration, referral to evaluators, acceptance, date of publication, etc.)

The file must be identified with the surnames of the author of the work and the identification of the section of the journal in which it is to be published. Said identification of the document will be anonymized after the end of its double-blind peer review system.

Sections open for publication

ED (Doctrinal Studies);

EDJ (Studies of Judicial Doctrine);

EDC (Comparative Law and Foreign Law on Social Security and related matters);

ES (Economics and Sociology of Social Security and the Social State);

REC (Recensions)

For example: ORTIZ CASTILLO-ED

2. DATA AND STRUCTURE OF THE SUBMITTED WORK

Three files will be sent as follows:

• First file: Document with the identification of the author or authors. It is a different file from the work that will have the following content: – Identification of the author (name and surname of each author); ORCID, academic and/or professional data, as well as the institution in which they perform their duties. The name, postal address, telephone and email of the author responsible for the correspondence about the article will be provided.
• Second file. Responsible declaration of the author that the article is original and that it has not been previously published in any type of support (whether on paper or digital). In the case of co-authorship, the criteria chosen to decide the order of signature and the specific contribution of each of the authors to the work must be indicated, if applicable, recognizing all the material authors of the paper, without being able to grant fictitious authorship. Here you can download the model declaration of originality and copyright

• Third file. The work or article to be published. Very important: You should not refer to the authorship of the work or any other information that allows the author or authors to be identified within the article itself.

  The article must be headed by:

  – The title of the work and the keywords/descriptors (between 3 and 6), first in Spanish and then in English.

  – A summary of the work of approximately 10 lines and, next, its translation into English (abstract).

  – Summary. Arabic numerals will be used (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.)

  The article must contain a final bibliography.

• Work extension. The extension of the works will be, according to the section of the Magazine to which they are destined, the following:

  – Doctrinal Studies; Comparative Law and Foreign Law in Social Security and Related Matters and Economics and Sociology of Social Security and the Social State: maximum 25 pages (including title, abstract, keywords, summary, annexes, bibliography, etc.).

  – Judicial Doctrine Studies: maximum 22 pages (including title, extract, keywords, summary, bibliography, etc.).

  – Reviews: maximum 3 pages.

   

• Document Format.

Margins:

Font: Time New Roman, Full Justification, and with single line spacing (single spaced). Within the text of the originals, words or phrases should not be placed in bold or underlined. It is possible to put words or phrases in italics. Of course, avoiding excessive or abusive use of this technique.

Size: Normal Text 12; Footnotes 10

Legislative or judicial references must express as far as possible the references of the database used or, failing that, they must be cited with data that ensures their identification and effective location (for example, the Official Gazette where the , appeal or judgment number, etc.).

The surnames of the cited authors must only be capitalized with the first letter and small caps. Names are only identified by capitalized initials.

Examples:

-If it is a work of individual authorship or co-authorship of up to four authors:

Rodríguez Iniesta, G.: Las prestaciones por muerte y supervivencia. Viudedad, orfandad y favor de familiares, Murcia, Laborum, 2009, pp. 201-242.

Monereo Pérez, J.L.: Los orígenes de la Seguridad Social en España. José Maluquer y Salvador, Granada, Comares, 2007, pp. 40-48.

-Si es una parte de una obra colectiva con directores y/o coordinadores:

VV.AA.: La economía de la Seguridad Social. Sostenibilidad y viabilidad del Sistema, Sánchez Rodas, c. y Ortiz Castillo, F. (Ed.), Murcia, Laborum, 2006, pp. 50-80.

VV.AA.: V Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Salud y Seguridad Social. La Seguridad Social en el Siglo XXI, Ojeda Avilés, A. (Ed.), Murcia, Laborum, 2008, pp. 106-125.

VV.AA.: VIII Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Salud y Seguridad Social. La reforma de las pensiones en la Ley 27/2011, Ortiz Castillo, F. (Ed.), Murcia, Laborum, 2011.

VV.AA.: Los retos de la asistencia sanitaria española en el contexto de la Unión Europea. XIII Congreso Nacional de la Asociación Española de Salud y Seguridad Social, Monereo Pérez, J.L. (Ed.), Murcia, Laborum, 2016.

VV.AA.: La reforma de la Seguridad Social. Estudio sistemático de la Ley 40/2007, de 4 de diciembre, de medidas en materia de Seguridad Social, Monereo Pérez, J.L. (Dir.), Madrid, La Ley, 2008, pp. 145-173.

VV.AA.: La reforma y modernización de la Seguridad Social. Análisis de la Ley 27/2011, de 1 de agosto, Sempere Navarro, A.V. y Fernández orrico, F.J. (Dirs.), Cizur Menor (Navarra), Aranzadi, 2012.

The titles of a work or a Magazine, in italics. The title of a chapter or doctrinal article, in quotation marks or brackets.

3. PUBLISHING PROCESS

• Reception of articles. There are 2 ways to receive the articles, either by sending them by mail to revsegsoc@laborum.es or through the digital magazine platform https://revista.laborum.es, in which you must register as authors to have access to the submit articles section.

Its receipt will be acknowledged by the Editorial Coordination, which will not imply its acceptance.

Once receipt has been acknowledged, the Coordination will carry out a first editorial assessment consisting of checking both the adequacy of the thematic area and the fulfillment of the formal presentation requirements demanded in point 2, the Editorial being authorized to return the studies as long as they do not comply. to the publication standards indicated.

• Submission of originals to the Editorial Board. The Editorial Coordination will send the work to the Editorial Board of the Magazine, which will analyze the study evaluating its referral to external evaluators, outside the Editorial and Advisory Councils, and who have been selected by the editors of the magazine (vid https://revista.laborum.es/equipoeditorial or list at the beginning of the magazine) taking into account their academic merits, their accredited research solvency and their extensive experience in the field of Legal and Social Sciences.

The Editorial sections, the Chronicles (of Comparative Law and Foreign Law in Social Security and related matters; Legislative Chronicle, Judicial Doctrine and Bibliographic News; Chronicle of Administrative Doctrine in matters of Social Security; and of Economics and Sociology of Social Security and Social Status), as well as Social Security Classics are excluded from the double-blind peer review process. Extraordinary issues are also excluded from the double-blind peer review process.

• Peer review system. The article sent for evaluation will be analyzed by two external evaluators, confidentially and anonymously, who will issue a report on the suitability or otherwise of its publication, which will be taken into consideration by the Editorial Board. The evaluation protocol used by the reviewers is made public in point 4, dedicated to the editorial policy criteria. In the case of disparate judgments between the two evaluators, the work will be sent to a third evaluator. The revised work that is considered may be published subject to the inclusion of modifications and, in this case, the document must be corrected and returned by the authors to the journal within a maximum period of one month, whether minor or major corrections are requested. . If necessary, the new version will be sent again to external reviewers. The authors will receive the evaluation reports from the reviewers, anonymously, so that they can make (where appropriate) the appropriate corrections.

• Publishing process. Once the evaluation process is finished, the acceptance or rejection notification for publication will be sent to the main author of the work. Also, if necessary, the print proofs of your work may be sent to you for examination and eventual correction.

• Posting deadlines. The interval between receipt and acceptance shall be less than 60 days and the interval between acceptance and publication shall not exceed 90 days.

• Copy for the author: The publisher will send the author or authors an electronic version of the work presented and published

4. EDITORIAL POLICY CRITERIA AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Editorial policy criteria. The factors on which the decision on the acceptance-rejection of the works by the publisher is based are the following:
  1. Originality.
  2. News and novelty.
  3. Relevance and applicability of the results for the resolution of specific problems.
  4. Significance for the advancement of scientific knowledge.                                          5. Proven methodological quality. 6. Presentation, good writing and organization (logical coherence and material presentation).

• Ethical responsibilities. The Journal does not accept previously published material. The authors are responsible for obtaining the appropriate permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and Internet sites and to cite its source correctly.

5. ANTI-PLAGIARISM POLICY

The authors confirm that the work is original and guarantee that no type of information has been plagiarized, invented or manipulated, with an inappropriate use of the citation technique, by signing the document "declaration of originality" that must be attached together with the shipment of the article. In the event that the Publisher appreciates some type of plagiarism during the evaluation process of the article, it will be rejected and its publication will not proceed. If the detected plagiarism is due to improper use of the citation technique, the author will be given the opportunity to review and edit his work as a necessary requirement for its publication. In the event that plagiarism is detected once the article has been published, this article will be removed from the website, without prejudice to the denunciation of dishonest practices on the various cases of scientific fraud (plagiarism, duplicate publication, etc. ).

6. GENDER EQUALITY POLICIES

• Commitment to the use of non-sexist language: The authors undertake to write their works following good practices in gender equality, using inclusive and non-discriminatory language.
• Disaggregation of data according to sex: It is important that the source data of the research take into account sex to warn of possible differences. In the event that the authors present data, whenever possible, these should be disaggregated according to sex in order to allow the identification of said differences.

7. INFORMATION POLICIES ON SOURCES OF FUNDING

Each author must acknowledge and determine the funding that he has received for the preparation of the article in question. In the same article, in the first footnote, the funding agency or agencies will be indicated, as well as the code(s) of the research projects in which the work has been carried out. This information will also be included in the article's metadata.