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Contexto Internacional is committed to publishing analytically strong and theoretically original scholarship in International Relations and related fields. Contexto is particularly suited for innovative, investigative and exploratory articles that provide insight into the realities and situated knowledges that stem from and around the Global South.
Contexto Internacional is published in English, three times a year. The editors invite submissions from researchers and practitioners from all over the globe, especially senior and junior scholars, and PhD students in the fields of International Relations, Political Science and related fields. The journal accepts submissions of research articles, review essays, book reviews, and proposals for special issues, especially proposals centred on themes relevant to the problems and political processes affecting the Global South and to the development of a more diverse understanding of International Relations.
Manuscripts may be submitted in English (the journal language), French, Portuguese, or Spanish. Manuscripts are reviewed in the language of submission. If the review process results in a decision to publish, it is the responsibility of the author alone to translate the article into English. Contexto reserves the right to reject articles if the level of English is insufficient.
Contexto Internacional adopts a rigorous double-blind peer-reviewing policy. The response from the first round of reviews will normally be provided within 120 days from the submission. Authors are expected to correct and return proofs of accepted articles within 48 hours of receipt.
Authors should hold a PhD or be enrolled in a PhD program, and/or have a strong professional/academic background in International Relations, Political Science or related field at the time of submission. In co-authored manuscripts, at least one of the authors should meet that criteria fully. The editors will reject manuscripts before review if they are not suitable for the journal, for example, because of low adherence to Contexto’s editorial policy and scope, inadequate or imprecise analytical development, inconsistent formatting or non-compliance with our submission guidelines, and poor writing style (this list is not exhaustive).
Publication Process
Contexto Internacional adopts a rigorous six-phase publication process, as follows:
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Administrative checklist: A submitted manuscript is firstly evaluated in relation to its conformity to the technical requirements of its corresponding type of submission. Technical requirements include minimum and maximum number of words, mandatory files in appropriate formats, among others (see the specific requirements to each type of submission in the section Manuscript Format and Structure below).
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Preliminary evaluation: Once a manuscript has been approved by the administrative staff, it becomes subject to a preliminary evaluation by the editors. This phase consists in the assessment of a manuscript’s adherence to the journal’s editorial policy and scope, as well as its overall quality. In cases of research articles, the failure to attend to such requirements may result in the decision to immediately reject the manuscript. Otherwise, the manuscript is assigned to external referees (see phase 3 below). In rare occasions a research article may be immediately accepted at this phase. Review essays and book reviews, on the other hand, are fully evaluated by the editors at this phase. Five distinct outcomes may result from the editors’ decision on these types of manuscripts: (1) Immediate Reject: the review essay/book review is rejected in its current form; (2) Immediate Reject and Resubmit (R&R): the review essay/book review is rejected in its current form, but the author(s) is/are encouraged to resubmit a comprehensive revised version within 180 days; (3) Immediate Major Revision: the review essay/book review is accepted with the condition that the author(s) meet(s) the editors’ requests, and that a revised version is resubmitted within 60 days; (4) Immediate Minor Revision: the review essay/book review is accepted with the condition that the author(s) meet(s) the editors’ requests, and that a revised version is resubmitted within 30 days; (5) Immediate Accept: the review essay/book review is accepted in its current form.
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Double-blind peer-review evaluation: Research articles approved in the previous phases are then anonymously assigned to at least two external referees at the discretion of the editorial committee. Priority is given to referees with widely recognized production on the same subject matter as the submitted research article. Following Contexto’s editorial policy, we strive to maintain a diverse geographical and gender distribution of peer reviewers. The complete list of referees is published every two years. The response from this first round of reviews will normally be provided within 120 days from the date of submission. In cases of disparate evaluation by peer reviewers, the manuscript is typically assigned to a third referee. In cases like this, the timeframe of the evaluation process may be extended by about 40 additional days. Based upon the external referees’ reviews, an Associate Editor further evaluates the manuscript and commits a final recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief.
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Editorial decision: Five possible editorial decisions may result from the overall evaluation process described above: (1) Reject: the research article is rejected in its current form; (2) Reject and Resubmit (R&R): the research article is rejected in its current form, but the author(s) is/are encouraged to resubmit a comprehensive revised version within 180 days; (3) Major Revision: the research article is accepted with the condition that the author(s) meet(s) both the referees’ and the editors’ requests, and that a revised version is resubmitted within 60 days; (4) Minor Revision: the research article is accepted with the condition that the author(s) meet(s) both the referees’ and editors’ requests, and that a revised version is resubmitted within 30 days; (5) Accept: the research article is accepted in its current form. In cases of R&R, Major Revision and Minor Revision, the revised manuscript is submitted to a second round of evaluation by peer reviewers and editors. The response will normally be provided within 120-160 days from the date of resubmission.
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Copy-editing: Once a manuscript is approved for publication, it goes through a thorough copy-editing process for linguistic and stylistic revision. Proposed changes are normally sent off for author’s approval within 20-30 days from the manuscript approval date. Authors are expected to meet the copy-editor’s requests and return the revised manuscript within 48 hours of receipt. This revision process may occur more than once until a definitive version of the text is finally approved by the editors.
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Proofreading and publication: This phase consists of creating and revising the PDF proofs of an accepted manuscript until a final proof is approved, and subsequently published online and in print. Authors are expected to correct and return proofs of accepted manuscripts within 48 hours of receipt. The manuscript is normally published online within 30 days from the proof approval date, and published in print after 30 additional days.
Copyright
All content published by Contexto, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY-NC. It is a condition of publication that all contributing authors grant to Contexto Internacional the necessary rights to the copyright in all articles submitted to the Journal. Authors are required to sign an Article Publishing Agreement to facilitate this. This will ensure the widest dissemination and protection against copyright infringement of articles. The “article” is defined as comprising the final, definitive, and citable Version of Scholarly Record, and includes: (a) the accepted manuscript in its final and revised form, including the text, abstract, and all accompanying tables, illustrations, data; and (b) any supplemental material.
As an author, you are required to secure permission to reproduce any proprietary text, illustration, table, or other material, including data, audio, video, film stills, and screenshots, and any supplemental material you propose to submit. This applies to direct reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source). The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
Contexto Internacional allows authors to self-archive their work in institutional repositories, personal webpages or other serf-archiving systems, provided that they clearly indicate that the article has been published in Contexto Internacional, and that they provide the link to the original publication in www.scielo.br/cint.
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