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The Research and Special Projects Center of the School of Finance, Government and International Relations of the Externado University of Colombia invites academics, researchers, and specialists interested in contemporary international issues to publish their research projects in the OASIS Journal. The journal is an integral part of the Observatory of the Analysis of International Systems. The OASIS Journal has national and international circulation. It has been published annually since 1995 and twice a year since 2014, in January and July.

The OASIS Journal seeks to contribute to the production and socialization of scientific knowledge in social sciences, with special emphasis on contemporary international issues such as area studies, international relations theory, geopolitics, migration, governability, development, cooperation, transitional government, energy and natural resources, and finally conflict, peace and security.

Texts submitted to the OASIS Journal should be articles of research, reflection, or review that present original research findings. Each article should have the following four sections: introduction, methodology, findings, and conclusions. The articles submitted to the journal must be original and unpublished and written in Spanish, English, French or Portuguese with their respective abstracts and keywords in both Spanish and English. If the article is not in Spanish, the author will be responsible for sending it to a proofreader in its original language, either before submitting it or at the moment the article is accepted for publication.

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 peer review process through a double-blind system, which will guarantee the anonymity of the reviewer(s) and author(s). The evaluation format can be downloaded here.  Once the evaluation process is finished, the journal communicates the authors the decision to publish the article with or without modifications, or not to publish it.  In case of conflict between two reviews, the Editorial Committee will appoint a third referee to make the final decision. This process takes approximately two months. The referees should not have any  conflict of interest with the authors and their works. They should also be aware of the journal´s international standards of scientific publication, especially with regard to the issue of plagiarism (using the Ithenticate software) and the peer review process. In addition, all reviewers should accept the privacy statement. 

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 can also make editorial changes. If deemed necessary, 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 the article’s theoretical position, the point of view of the author, or the chosen methodology. 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 their thesis or ideas. 

When submitting their work through digital media, the authors must clearly state: 1. if they agree with the Editorial Policy of the OASIS Journal; 2. if their article is original and unpublished, and; 3. affirm that the article is not being evaluated by another journal or editorial. 

The author must include his/her complete name, a brief résumé, their affiliated institution address, e-mail, ORCID ID (if you do not have it yet, please create your profile (https://orcid.org/)), 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 (150 words maximum) and keywords in Spanish and English (four to six). The article should begin on the following page, preceded only by the title in Spanish and English. 

The length of the article should be 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:http://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. All documents will have its DOI number. 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/oasis]. 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 journal is indexed in the catalogue LATINDEX, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and in the data bases of International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS), Redalyc, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Cengage Learning, Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE), Fuente Académica EBSCO, Dialnet, Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (REDIB), Registro Escandinavo de Publicaciones Científicas, and the Open Journal System. 

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: 

Jerónimo Delgado
Editor Revista OASIS
Calle 12 nº 1-17 este
Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos Especiales
Universidad Externado de Colombia
Bogotá D.C., Colombia
[oasis@uexternado.edu.co]
www.uexternado.edu.co/oasis