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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

General aspects

The Cuban Journal of Public and Business Administration is an open access electronic journal of a scientific-academic nature, edited and published by the Higher School of State and Government Cadres, following the principles of transparency and good practices in academic publications such as those described by the Ethics Committee in Publication (Ethics-COPE) , uses the review system by pairs for the evaluation of the articles. The journal receives articles in the languages ​​ Spanish and English .

The objective of this is to provide the dissemination of research work, good practices, scientific, technological, training and management experiences in Cuba and in other regions of the world, contributing to the updating and feedback of professionals and managers, as well as to the discussion and scientific exchange, in the different disciplines of knowledge related to Social Sciences in the field of public and business administration.

The target audience of this publication are directors and professionals of the public and business administration, researchers, professors, students and the general public interested in related topics.

Thematic profile

The themes of the journal include aspects, both theoretical, methodological and of application, related to Public and Business Administration, with particular interest in the fields of management, economics, accounting, finance, legal, technology information and communications and sustainable development. The proposals for the design and implementation of public policies, process, product, service and organizational innovations in the public administration and the business system stand out, as well as experiences in the generation of capacities in managers.

Sections of the journal

The Cuban Journal of Public and Business Administration publishes 7 sections of articles (see the description of each of them in the section Section policy )

  • Editorial
  • Original article
  • Review article
  • Good Practices
  • Case study
  • Reflection
  • Technical Report

Submissions policy

In order to request the publication of an article in the Cuban Journal of Public and Business Administration, the document must have two sections with the structures indicated below (Standard guide).

1- Article presentation

Title: It must convey a clear idea of the objective and object of study. It must be consistent and related to the content of the article. Maximum: 20 words (English and Spanish).

Authors: The full names and surnames of all the authors, which will be ordered by participation and relevance, without differentiating between main authors and other authors. For each author, without exception, must be specified:

  • institutional affiliation (full official names, city and country)
  • ORCiD identifier code ( https://orcid.org/ )
  • scientific degree
  • academic title
  • teaching and / or research category
  • job occupation and position
  • postal address and email

Corresponding author: The author for the correspondence must be declared (it can be shared by up to two authors).

JEL Classification: Classify the article according to the code system used by the Journal of Economic Literature, with a maximum of 3 codes ( www.aeaweb.org/econlit/jelCodes.php )

Authorship contribution: The level of contribution of the authors must be indicated in each of the phases, both of the research and of the writing of the contribution, following the taxonomy CRediT (Only in case of co-authorship).

Example

Author 1: I contribute to the collection and processing of the data.

Author 1 and Author 2: analyzed the data and wrote the first version
of the manuscript.

Declaration of conflicts of interest: There is a conflict of interest when an author or the institution to which it belongs, reviewer or editor have personal relationships, financial, or academic rivalries, which may interfere or influence their judgments regarding the preparation, evaluation or publication of a manuscript. Authors must always declare the existence or not of conflicts of interest in relation to the submitted article.

Abstract : A single paragraph, written in an impersonal style (English and Spanish). It must contain the objectives of the work, the methods used, main results and conclusions. It should not contain references. Its length should not exceed 250 words.

Keywords : between 3 and up to 6 words, should describe the content of the article and facilitate its inclusion in indexes. They can be combined words or short phrases. The use of abbreviations is not accepted. They will be written in order of priority, they must describe the content of the article and facilitate its inclusion in indexes. The first is the most important and they are all written in lowercase.

2- Anonymous article

Introduction: The theoretical-referential framework and its contribution will be described and analyzed. The object and objective of the article must be stated clearly and concisely. If you use abbreviations or acronyms, first write the words that identify it and then the acronym in parentheses, the context that explains the problem, the reasons for carrying out the investigation, should also be indicated as clearly as possible, summarize the pertinent investigations to offer the context, background and topicality of the topic, bibliographic research (study of the state of the art), the objective, state the main conclusion and result and how their work differs from published works.

Development: You can adopt a flexible structure depending on the type of article in question. In the case of an original article in the Development, it must include the sections: Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion.

Materials and Methods or Methodology (As appropriate). They must provide detailed information to the extent that it is possible to reproduce the experiments, methods or methodology from the data provided or the steps to follow. In this section, the methods used should be explained, as well as their duration, if applicable. Some studies will have corresponding experiments or control groups; otherwise, the measures used to avoid biases will be explained and their possible effect on the conclusions of the study will be discussed. This section should be exposed in this way, preferably in the case of original articles. Other types of articles can be developed through sections that make their presentation understandable.

Results: The results must be concise and clear, They must reflect the new knowledge that is contributed to the scientific community, offer a general panorama of the subject dealt with and a broad description of the experiments as well as the presentation of the processed data and discriminated. They will be presented in such a way that there is no duplication or repetition of data in the text or in the figures and tables.

Discussion: This section should present the principles, relationships and generalizations existing between the observed facts. You should argue and not recap the results. Show how your results and interpretations agree or disagree with previously published works. In it, the significance of the results in terms of the theoretical consequences and practical applications must be exposed. The discussion will not contain new results, nor will it be a mere repetition of the results. It is used to point out exceptions, lack of correlation, unresolved issues.

Sometimes the sections Results and Discussion can be joined.

Conclusions: They must respond to the objectives of the article, be clear and concise and not repeat the results achieved.

Recommendations: Only in those cases that are essential.

Acknowledgments: If deemed necessary, the people or institutions that have contributed to the article will be cited.

Bibliographic references: They will be made, in correspondence with the guide for citing and elaborating the references according to the Vancouver Standard, referencing the citations listed consecutively according to the order in which they are mentioned for the first time in the text . It is recommended that superscript Arabic numbers be used without parentheses.

Document format

  • Text format: word
  • Font: Times New Roman 12
  • Leading: single
  • Left margin: 2.5 cm, the rest 2 cm.
  • Written to a single column, justified, without indentation, single spaced and must number the pages.
  • The title, subtitles and headings in bold.

Tables and figures

Both tables and figures should be inserted at the points where appropriate within the text. A maximum of 5 tables and 5 figures will be admitted; in exceptional cases the editor will approve an increase in the tables and figures. Figures and tables must have a heading or footer and be respectively numbered consecutively accompanied by the bibliographic source from which they were taken. If they are original, it should be clarified that it is their own elaboration, although sometimes exceptions may be accepted, in which it is obvious that the source of the elaboration is their own.

Bibliographic References and Citation

Consult guide to cite and prepare bibliographic references using the Vancouver standard (Download guide)

Artículos

Política de sección por defecto

Original article

It is the presentation of an unpublished theoretical, methodological or technological research, which has not been published previously. It is recommended that more than 50% of the bibliographic references be from the last 5 years.

Review article

Describe and compile the most recent developments or works published on a topic related to the magazine. You must submit a bibliographic review. It is recommended that most of the bibliographic references be from the last 5 years and from indexed journals.

Good practices

Describes positive experiences in any field of Public or Business Administration. It can include information on policies, regulations, products, projects, processes, systems and results obtained in public and business administration.

Case study

They describe and analyze methodological proposals, results, behavior and practical experiences in one or more cases of interest to the public and business administration.

Reflection

They constitute articles from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of an author, on a specific topic of public and business administration, subject to original sources.

Technical report

Reports on products, projects, processes, systems and results obtained in public and business administration. Exceptionally, the Editorial Committee will accept a number of pages higher than recommended and the publication of this type of article.

Copyright Notice

The authors retain the copyright and guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication, operating under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the authorship of the work.

The authors authorize the journal for their article to be hosted in external repositories and disseminated through the databases that the editor deems appropriate, with the aim of increasing the dissemination and visibility of the scientific production published in the journal.

The authors may establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (deposit it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with the acknowledgment of having been published first in this journal.

Authors are encouraged to disseminate their work through digital means (deposit in institutional repositories, academic networks, social networks and on their own website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as well as an earlier and greater citation of published works.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated in it and will not be provided to third parties or for use for other purposes. The names of the authors, scientific and academic degrees, as well as the names of the affiliated institutions and the email address of the corresponding author, will only be used to acknowledge the authorship of the published article.