Author Guidelines

Proposals of Working Papers to be published in DOCFRADIS series must be inedit and original. They need to be unpublished or be in

Submission of an Working Paper implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere until Cátedra Fundación Ramón Areces decides on its possible publication.

Submitted papers must also comply with the following requirements:

1) Any given author can only submit three proposals during the same year.
2) Work can be submitted either in English or Spanish.

Those working papers accepted for publication within the DOCFRADIS series that are later published, either totally or partially in journals with impact factor will receive a monetary reward according to the following levels:

1. Papers published in journals included in Journal of CItation Reports will receive a reward of EURO 250, payable to the first author.
2. Papers published in journals not included in JCR but included in national or international catalogues and databases such as IN-RECS, DICE, EBSCO, LATINDEX, DIALNET, SCOPUS, etc, will receive a reward of EURO 150, payable to the first author

In order to receive the aforementioned rewards, authors must send the published paper in pdf format to Cátedra Fundación Ramón Areces de Distribución Comercial, who will proceed to its referencing and archiving. A basic requirement is that the article includes a mention of the support of Cátedra Fundación Ramón Areces in one of two ways:

1. A mention like: "A previous version of this work has been published as the DOCFRADIS Working Paper nr. XX of Cátedra Fundación Ramón Areces de Distribución Comercial (http://catedrafundacionarecesdc.uniovi.es)"
2. A mention like: "The authors acknoledge the support of Cátedra Fundación Ramón Areces de Distribución Comercial (http://catedrafundacionarecesdc.uniovi.es) in previous versions of this research"