Submissions

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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 article has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal.
  • The article´s file is in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice format.
  • The article is published under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
  • Submission of a paper to this journal implies acceptance of the letter of originality, conflict of interest and granting of first publication rights.
  • The text must comply with the bibliographic and stylistic requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors found on this website.
  • Each author's name is followed by his/her full academic affiliation, institutional email address, and academic ID (ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchID...).
  • The title, abstract and keywords must be included in the article, both in English and Spanish.
  • The abstract in both Spanish and English should be between 150 and 250 words.
  • Under the abstract should appear the keywords (3 to 6, both in English and Spanish) with the possibility of syntagmas (but without abusing this figure), separated by a semicolon and a full stop.
  • The article must be structured according to the guidelines for sections in the publication standards.
  • If gender has been considered in the source data of the research, this is reported in the text, to allow the identification of possible differences.
  • If the article research´s involves the participation of humans or animals, the author must ensure that it was carried out in accordance with the WHO code of ethics (Declaration of Helsinki) on human experimentation.
  • The Journal's Research Data Deposit Policy has been consulted and applied
  • All tables, graphs and images have the title and authorship, or source indicated and are referenced in the text.
  • Images or figures have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, in .jpg, .jpeg format or equivalent.
  • The format of citations in the text and in the final bibliography follows the latest edition of the APA Style.
  • Final references have been rigorously checked and only those that have been cited in the text are included.
  • DOI references have been added where they exist and/or web addresses for references where possible.
  • The article follows the format and template of the journal for publication.

Author Guidelines

The submission will be carried out through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform and includes the submission of the manuscript and the Letter of originality, conflict of interest and assignment of first publication rights) in the same process.

If you wish to submit an original for review, please pay attention to the journal's publication guidelines. Authors can write their manuscripts using the article template as a guide.

When submitting the article through OJS, the metadata must be filled in correctly and all the persons who are authors of the article must be indicated in the submission process (adding them one by one), taking into account that the order in which they sign will be the one that appears in the publication. In the case of acceptance, no change in authorship will be allowed after the submission process. One of them will also be identified as the "correspondence contact" for editorial correspondence.

Letter of originality, conflict of interest and assignment of first publication rights

The Letter of originality, conflict of interest and assignment of first publication rights must be completed and signed by all the authors of the paper, and submitted via the journal's OJS management platform.

Editorial process

Receipt of papers
The journal will carry out an initial editorial assessment consisting of checking the article's suitability to the thematic profile, its interest in terms of the journal's editorial criteria, as well as compliance with the formal presentation requirements demanded in the publication rules. Receipt of the article does not imply its acceptance.
Peer review system
One or more external expert reviewers will be assigned to evaluate the article using the simple-blind system. They will use the online form for reviewers for their report.
The journal editor will inform the author within 15 days whether the manuscript has been rejected or accepted for peer review.
In the event that the manuscript presents superficial problems of structure and/or form, the editor will send the authors the pertinent suggestions so that they can be corrected before the manuscript is sent to the reviewers. In this case, the author will have a maximum of 20 days to submit the corrected manuscript to the editor. The editor reserves the right to make basic formal modifications, which do not affect the content of the text, in order to speed up the editorial process. Duration of the manuscript review process: the average time taken by the reviewers of the journal Anales del Instituto de Actuarios Españoles is 30 to 40 days.
The editor will send the author the review reports received, as well as the recommendations (if any) for modification of the article or, failing that, the decision to reject the manuscript together with the review reports. If necessary, the manuscript will be sent again to the reviewers to continue the evaluation process until the final rejection or approval decision is reached. In each case, the author will have 20 days to submit the corrected manuscript to the editor together with a justification of the changes introduced, as well as those discrepancies that lead to the non-modification of one or more of the aspects pointed out by the reviewers, if any.
In the event of contradictions between the judgements made by the reviewers, or because the editor deems it necessary, the article will be sent to an additional reviewer.
The journal has a database for internal use that processes and registers the transfer of articles and the set of reviewers. Reviewers receive an annual certificate of participation as
reviewers of the journal, irrespective of the number of articles they have reviewed per year.
Criteria for selection of reviewers
They are selected according to their area of expertise (which guarantees a value
judgement based on expert knowledge of the subject matter).
Editorial decision
The criteria for acceptance or rejection of works are as follows:
• Originality of the manuscript.
• Methodology.
• Quality of the results and conclusions, and consistency with the
objectives stated in the manuscript.
• Clarity of the language used.
• Compliance with the journal's rules.
• Ethical conduct in accordance with the canons applicable to scientific
research.
• Relevance and timeliness of the bibliographical references consulted.
Once the evaluation process has been completed, the editors will decide whether or not to publish the article and will notify the main author of the acceptance or rejection of the article. If the article is rejected, the contact author will be informed of the rejection of the submitted manuscript, attaching the reviewers' reports. In this situation, the authors may express their agreement or disagreement with this opinion, as well as any other opinions or questions they may wish to raise, which will be answered within a maximum period of 15 days.
Further information can be found in Editorial policies in About the journal.

Research articles

Maximum 30 pages (between 8,000 and 12,000 words) including graphs, tables and charts, excluding references.

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright and assign the right of first publication to the journal, which will publish the article on the internet on the journal's website (https://revistas.actuarios.org/index.php/aiae/index), under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

Authors must sign the Letter of originality, conflict of interest and assignment of first publication rights, which is available on the journal's website.

Authors are allowed and encouraged to electronically disseminate the post-print version (version evaluated and accepted for publication) in institutional or thematic open access repositories within the deadlines and under the terms established by the funding body of the published research, provided that they clearly indicate that the work was published for the first time in this journal, as this may lead to productive exchanges and a greater and faster dissemination of the published work.

Privacy Statement

Names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes set out in this journal and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

Anales del Instituto de Actuarios Españoles complies with industry standards for data privacy, specifically the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for "data subject rights" which include: 1. Breach Notification; 2. Right of access; 3. Right to be forgotten; 4. Data portability; 5. Privacy by design.

The GDPR also allows for the recognition of the "public interest in the availability of data", which is of particular relevance to those involved in maintaining, with the highest possible integrity, the public record of scholarly publications.

Who is responsible for the processing of your data?
Responsible: Instituto de Actuarios Españoles
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Registered office: C/ Victor Andrés Belaúnde, 36, Madrid 28016
E-mail: iae@actuarios.org and administracion@actuarios.org
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You can consult our Privacy Policy in detail on our website:
https://www.actuarios.org/politica-de-privacidad/