Information For Authors

The Research and Special Projects Center of the Finance, Government and International Relations Faculty of the Universidad Externado de Colombia, invites academics, researchers, and specialists on issues of political science and government to publish their research developments in the ODEON Journal, which is assigned to the Observatory for Economics and Numerical Operations. The ODEON Journal has national and international circulation and is published twice a year, once during each semester.

The odeon Journal aims to contribute to the production and socialization of scientific knowledge in the financial field, as well to promote the communication of original research results, both theoretical and empirical, related to the study and practice of this discipline. All topics of research and development are welcome in the publication, but those related to: quantitative finance, computational finance, stochastic processes applied to finance, corporate finance, real options, history of finance and financial theory are privileged, and comodities models. The texts delivered to the odeon must be research, reflection or review articles that present in detail the original results of research projects. The structure generally used contains four important sections: introduction, methodology, results and conclusions

The Editorial Committee is committed to the general standards of academic quality. Once received, the articles are remitted to two external reviewers – anonymous academic peers specialized in the field of research – who shall undertake the process of arbitration through a double-blind system, which will guarantee the anonymity of the reviewer(s) and author(s). The referees will not have conflict of interest with the authors and their works. They should acknowledge the understanding of the journal´s international standards of scientific publication, especially regarding the control of plagiarism and the process of peer review, and accept the privacy statement. In case of conflict between two reviews, the Editorial Committee will appoint a third referee to make the final decision.

Thereafter, the Editorial Committee reserves the right to select the material to be published and to keep the accepted articles for future publications, if necessary. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to make editorial changes. If deemed necessary, the introduction of substantial modifications to the text will be consulted with the author(s). The author(s) will be notified in case the article is not considered for publication. All proposals shall be considered without regard to theoretical position, the expressed point of view, or the methodology that was utilized. The publication of articles does not imply that the directors of the Journal share the points of view expressed therein. The author(s) is (are) directly responsible for the thesis or ideas expounded in them.

When submitting their contribution through digital media, the authors must clearly state: 1. if they agree with the Editorial Policy of the odeon Journal; 2. if their article is unpublished or not; in case it is not, informing their reference bibliography in accordance to the requirements that are detailed further below, and; 3. affirm that the article is not in the process of evaluation by another journal or editorial organism.

The author’s identification must include complete name, a brief résumé, institution to which the author is linked, address, e-mail, and the work’s date. All articles’ presentations must be accompanied by a cover sheet with: title, name(s) of author(s), institution to which they belong with mailing address, web address, abstract in Spanish and English (200 words maximum), keywords in Spanish and English (four to six) and jel codes (at least two). The article will begin on the following page, preceded only by the title in Spanish and English.

The length of articles is of a maximum of 9,000 (nine thousand) words, single space, written in Word, Arial 12 point font, top and bottom margins of 2.5 centimeters; left and right of 3.0 centimeters, including bibliography, notes, photographs and graphs, if the document requires them. Graduation theses can be published with a maximum length of 9,000 words and proper authorization from the educational institution for their publication in the Journal.

Statistical information must be presented in tables and graphs and are the responsibility of the author. In addition to being in the body of the article, all tables and graphs must be submitted in a separate file and must be modifiable. Additionally, the sources must be documented in the bottom part of these.

The bibliography must appear at the end of the article and must contain a minimum of 17 references, separate from the notes, in case there are any, and shall be presented according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA: www.apastyle.org). In-text citations: (author’s last name, comma, year of publication). If the author is mentioned, only the year of publication of the referenced text must be written. 

When a work has two authors, both last names are always cited whenever the reference appears in the text. When a work has three, four, or five authors, all authors are cited the first time the text is referenced. In subsequent citations of the same text only the last name of the first author is written, followed by the phrase “et al.” and the year of publication.

Bibliographic references have the following citation outline: Author’s last name and given name, year of publication, book title in italics, city, and editorial. Chapters of collected works must include: author’s last name and given name, year of publication, chapter title, book title in italics, city, editorial, and chapter pages. Journal articles must include: author’s last name and given name, year of publication, article title, journal name in italics, volume, number, and article pages.

Notes will be presented as footnotes and standardized in their presentation.

The journal requires that the authors authorize, through a license, the editing, publication, reproduction, distribution, and public communication of the author’s work, both physically and digitally, for solely scientific, cultural, diffusion, and non-for-profit purposes. The authors retain copyrights and guarantee the Journal first publication rights, which will be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. The reproduction of the documents in other media, printed or electronic, must include recognition of the work’s author and its original publication, as is stipulated in the license. The authors may publish their work on any website or repository. Immediately after their publication, the articles must be sent on digital media to the various databases and indexation systems for the release of their content. The articles will also be accessible for free on the website [www.uexternado.edu.co/odeon] and on the following databases: Fuente Académica EBSCO, Social Science Research Network (SSRN) y Open Journal System (OJS).

The presentation and publication of articles implies no cost whatsoever to the authors. The Journal is committed to international standards of scientific publication. For this, the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010 guidelines are followed:

http://publicationethics.org/files/International%20standard_editors_for%20website_11_Nov_2011.pdf

The guidelines for authors can be accessed at:

http://publicationethics.org/files/International%20standards_authors_for%20website_11_Nov_2011.pdf

Articles and all correspondence related to the content of the Journal should be sent to:

Revista ODEON
Calle 12 n.º 1-17 este
Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos Especiales (CIPE)
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Bogotá D.C., Colombia
[odeon@uexternado.edu.co]
www.uexternado.edu.co/odeon