About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Intersticios Sociales is an electronic journal in the Social Sciences and Humanities published semi-annually by El Colegio de Jalisco, A.C. Important features of our publication include: its international scope, strict arbitration process, totally open, free access, and commitment to generating and disseminating scientific knowledge by publishing original, unedited works related to the areas of sociology, history, anthropology, law, political science, philosophy, geography, literary studies and other disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted for evaluation by the journal’s peer review process must be relevant to the orientation defined for one of the sections that make up our publication (i.e., “Theoretical reflections”, “Social topics under debate”, “General Section”, and “Book reviews”). The link between each paper received and the orientation of the journal’s sections is first assessed by the journal’s Editorial Team. If it is found to meet the criteria established, then peer-review is performed by nationally- and internationally-recognized scholars, external to El Colegio de Jalisco, following the double-blind method.

Publication Frequency

Programming publication

Intersticios Sociales is a biannual digital journal. The publication dates for each issue are March 1 and September 1 of each year.

Open Access Policy

Intersticios Sociales is a digital journal with open, total and free access. This means that there are no limiting periods established for consulting, printing or downloading the articles published in the journal, and that all these functions will be available free of charge to users from the first day that each issue of the journal appears (March 1 and September 1 of each year). Likewise, the historical set of articles published in Intersticios Sociales is permanently available in open-access.

El Colegio de Jalisco, the institution responsible for publishing Intersticios Sociales, does not charge authors or institutions for publishing their works.

Guidelines for authors

1. Submission of materials for publication

To submit proposals for articles, authors must register as users in the OJS platform. To complete this process, we suggest following these steps:

a) In the Index, click on the menu “Register”, located in the main header.

b) Fill in the form that appears.

c) At the end of the form, in the “Register as” section, check the boxes for “Reader” and “author”.

d) During the registration process, each user will be asked to select a user name and password; upon finalizing registration, return to the index to open a session as a “User”.

e) When initiating a session as a registered user, the “Personal area” appears as an option in the main header.

f) By clicking on “Personal area” the “Main user page” opens and the word “Author” appears with a link; click on “Author”.

g) The “Active submissions” page will open. Complete the form that appears on the sub-menu “Begin a new submission”.

h) Complete the information of Step 1 of the submission process. In the option “Journal section”, select one of the four options (“Theoretical reflection”, “Social topics in debate”, “General sections”, “Book reviews”. For a detailed description of each section, consult the respective information on the journal’s homepage (“Presentation and sections”).

i) Select the language of submission, and ensure that your proposal fulfills the requirements indicated in the editorial policy and the “Submission check-list” on the same form.

j) Save the information and go on to Step 2 of submission. This section offers the options for uploading the corresponding files. Make sure to “Upload” the file you have selected. Once the file is uploaded, click on “Save” and continue.

k) Complete the information required in Step 3, “Submission metadata”, as they are required to index the article.

l) If the article includes image files, upload them in Step 4. Click on “Save”, and continue (if no additional files are required for the article, go directly to the “Save” button and continue).

m) Step 5. Click on “Finish submission”.

 

2. General guidelines

All manuscripts submitted must comply with the following conditions:

a) All works must be unpublished and products of original research. No work that has already been published, or that has been sent previously for peer-review to be disseminated through any other printed or digital media, will be accepted.

b) The journal receives proposals for articles in Spanish or English.

c) Font: Times New Roman, 12-points; line-spacing: 1.5.

d) Letter-sized paper (21.5 x 28 centimeters), with margins of 2.5 centimeters on all four sides. Each page must be numbered progressively using Arabic numerals.

e) In MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD format, any version.

f) Except for Book reviews, all articles must be accompanied by a title in Spanish and English, an Abstract in Spanish and English no longer than 260 words, and a minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 keywords, also in both languages.

g) Texts for the “Theoretical reflections” section must be between 20 and 35 pages. A maximum of 5 articles will be published in this section in each issue. Texts for the “Social spaces for debate” and “General” sections shall be between 20 and 30 pages. In each issue, a maximum of four texts will be published in this section, while six may appear in the “General section”. In the case of “Book reviews”, texts must not exceed seven pages. A maximum of two book reviews will be published in each issue.

h) The title of the work must be placed in quotation marks in the center of the first page, with no underlining or italics. The author’s name will be omitted to ensure anonymity. In the event that the manuscript is approved for publication, the final version submitted will include two lines under the title, to the right, for the name(s) of the author(s), but without academic degrees. Immediately beneath this, the institution with which the author(s) is(are) affiliated will appear. The text shall begin two lines under this information. Each author’s contact information (e-mail, institutional affiliation, nationality) will be included in a footnote for the reader’s benefit.

i) Once the submission has been received and its compliance with these editorial rules verified, the manuscript will be returned to the author(s) for authentication. They must return it duly signed. Also, they will receive a form requesting a brief biographical note for each author that includes highlights of their academic trajectory, their current lines of research, ORCID, and an identification document, among other items.

j) Texts written in co-authorship are welcome for publication in Intersticios Sociales; however, the maximum number of authors in one manuscript is three (3). In such cases, the authors must indicate one person who will be responsible for all communications with the journal.

k) All footnotes will appear at the bottom of the page, numbered in Arabic numerals. The Bibliography shall be added at the end of the article. Intersticios Sociales’ publication format requires that footnotes be brief (and, preferably, limited to the bibliographic data).

l) All graphs, tables and charts must be numbered consecutively. Graphs or tables imported from Excel or Word will be included in the body of the text if their size allows it (otherwise, they will be added at the end with their location in the article indicated). Elements elaborated in other programs will be treated as “images”. They must be submitted in separate files with their location marked in the text for correct placement. Regardless of the programs used to make these elements, they must maintain uniformity in the position of the title (center-top) and source (beneath, at the right margin).

m) All images submitted must be sent separately in TIFF files at a minimum resolution of 300dpi, and with credit given to the photographer, painter or source. In the event that the source is protected by copyright, the author must obtain the corresponding permission to reproduce.

n) Authors must adapt their manuscripts to the comments and corrections made by the members of the editorial board and/or the spelling- and style-checker.

o) The journal applies anti-plagiarism software (iThenticate) to all articles and reviews submitted to prove that they are unpublished and original. In the event of a breach of these aspects, the journal will proceed according to the actions described for ethical breaches (See Section 2.5, subsection B).

q) Authors cannot submit more than one article for consideration for publication in the span of three years, in order to avoid practices that could be considered endogamic.

 

3. Use of punctuation marks

Quotation marks: 

The titles of stories, poems, articles or essays within a larger work must be placed between quotation marks. For example: ‘Luvina’ a tale included in the book El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo.

Due to the composition of modern keyboards, the use of English quotation marks [“…”] instead of Latin ones [«…»] is accepted for textual citations. It is recommended that authors use simple quotation marks [‘...’] and English quotation marks [“...”] to indicate a citation inside a larger citation. For example: “…a way to understand the world and a world for each ‘style’”.

Terms used to clarify the meaning of a word or phrase shall also be placed between simple quotation marks; for example: “Only that which is on display is on sale (i.e., ‘the things exhibited’)”.

Direct references to individual elements are also to be placed between quotation marks (not marked with italics); for example: “The notions of ‘anteriority’, ‘posteriority’ and ‘simultaneity’ show the relational nature of the linguistic […]”.

Square brackets: 

Square brackets […] shall be used to indicate that text has been suppressed in a citation; for example: “[...] the constant coming and going that is established between the increasing massification and development of these micro groups that I call ‘tribes’. [...] The metaphor of tribe allows [...]”.

Italics:
1. — Titles of books, works, films, exhibitions and newspapers must be in italics –for example: El llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo– and the grammatical criteria for the use of capital and lowercase letters must be applied.

2. — To identify a word in another language, an idiomatic expression, or to indicate emphasis.

Long Dash [ – ]:

This is used to indicate an annotation inside the body of a text and to differentiate it from the dash [ -]. For example: ‘Hence, “people”, according to their various “identifiers” – defined by their affections and rejections– may participate in multiple “tribes”’.

Small caps (Format, font, effects):

Small caps are used –in Spanish– for the Roman numerals that indicate a century (for example: siglo xxi, where lowercase + small caps = xxi, instead of: siglo XXI (uppercase, or capital, letters).

These are also used for institutional acronyms, such as fce, ciesas (not fce, ciesas), etc. Note that the first time that an institutional acronym is used in a text it must be accompanied by the full name of the institution to which it refers, in parenthesis.

Acronyms:

Acronyms made up of the union of various words shall be written in upper- and lowercase letters; for example: Conaculta (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes), or Infonavit (Instituto del Fondo Nacional de la Vivienda para los Trabajadores).

Note that the first time that an institutional acronym is used in a text it must be accompanied by the full name of the institution to which it refers, in parenthesis.

 

4. Quotations and References:

The articles and reviews proposed for publication in Intersticios Sociales must follow the reference style for ‘footnotes’ or the ‘humanities style’ of The Chicago Manual of Style.

For a more detailed description of this style of quotations and references, consult the website http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.

In general, adopting this footnote style means that manuscripts submitted to Intersticios Sociales will show the following structure:

First quotation:

BOOK: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the book in italics [with no punctuation mark after the title] [open parentheses] (city of printing in English [colon]: publisher [comma], year of publication [close parentheses]) [comma], page(s) quoted; for example:

7 Samuel Villela and Silvia Gastélum, Los cholos: transculturación chicana en bandas juveniles de Sinaloa (Culiacán: UAS, 1981), 62.

BOOK CHAPTER: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the chapter in quotation marks [comma], title of the book preceded by in [comma], name of the book’s coordinator or editor [open parentheses] (city of printing in English [colon]: publisher [comma], year of publication [close parentheses]) [comma], page(s) quoted.

For example:

8 Andrés Lira, “La consolidación nacional (1853-1887)”, in Historia de México, coord. Gisela Von Wobeser (Mexico: Academia Mexicana de la Historia – SEP – Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010), 185-207.

ARTICLE in a printed science journal: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the article in quotation marks [comma], name of the journal in italics [no punctuation mark after the name] volume and/or issue [open parentheses] (date of publication [close parentheses]) [colon]: page(s) quoted.

For example:

9 Robert A. Potash, “Historiografía del México independiente”, Historia Mexicana 39 (January-March 1961): 361-413.

ARTICLE from an online science journal: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the article in quotation marks [comma], name of the journal in italics [no punctuation mark after the name] volume and/or issue [open parenthesis] (date of publication [close parenthesis]) [comma], website [no immediate punctuation mark] (date consulted in parentheses).

For example:

10 Louis Cardaillac, “Erotismo y santidad”, Intersticios Sociales 3 (March-August 2012), http://148.202.248.171/colegiojal/index.php/is/article/view/25, (Consulted March 1 2012).

THESIS: author’s name and surname [comma], title of the thesis in quotation marks [no punctuation marks after the title] [open parentheses] (Degree of the thesis [comma], city, university [comma], year of thesis defense [close parentheses]) [comma], pages consulted.

For example:

11 Alma Dorantes, “Protestantes de ayer y hoy en una sociedad católica: el caso jalisciense” (Doctoral Thesis, Guadalajara, CIESAS Occidente, 2004), 35-45.

Subsequent quotations:

From the second occasion in which a book, book chapter, article or other source is cited, only the author(s) surname(s) and first words of the title will appear used; for example:

11 Villela and Gastélum, Los cholos, 61.

12 Lira, “La consolidación”, 188.

13 Potash, “Historiografía”, 370-398.

14 Aceves, “El culto”.

15 Dorantes, “Protestantes”, 56.

Archival documents:

Because The Chicago Manual of Style does not include concrete guidelines for citing archival documents, Intersticios Sociales uses the following convention: Author, header or title of the document, place where the document was elaborated or signed, date, location of the repository or archive where held, and location of the documents according to the classification system used by that institution.

When references include correspondence, reports or other documents that have no title, only the information about the document and its respective reference shall appear, in the order mentioned above.

On the first occasion that an archive is mentioned, its full name must appear (e.g.: Archivo General de Indias / Archivo Histórico de Jalisco), but the appropriate acronyms (AGI / AHJ) shall be used in subsequent citations.

References to websites:

Name of the webmaster or website, title of the document or section consulted with the preposition ‘in’ followed by colon [in:], and the website’s name underlined, respecting the grammar of links. At the end, write the date when the website was consulted in parentheses.

For example:

16 Coordinación General Académica, “Programa de formación, actualización y capacitación docente”, in:

www.cga.udg.mx/?q=formacion-docente/evaluación-acreditacion-y-certificacion (consulted May 13 2016).

Peer-review process

All articles submitted that comply with the editorial guidelines of Intersticios Sociales and that are accepted for evaluation will be sent for a peer-review process that uses a double-blind system with academic peers external to the editorial institution (El Colegio de Jalisco) who have no conflicts of interest. Submission of manuscripts to the peer-review process in no way guarantees their publication in the journal.

Each manuscript is sent to two reviewers. In the event that differences exist in their opinions in this stage, a third review could be requested to emit the final ruling.

The peer-review process can take from three-to-six months, depending on the number of reviewers deemed necessary.

There are three possible outcomes of the peer-review process:

a) The manuscript is approved with no modifications.

b) Approval is conditioned on the need to make corrections.

c) The manuscript is rejected.

Authors will be informed of the result by e-mail in the form of a “Peer-review Act” issued by the journal’s Directors in representation of the Editorial Committee.

Once an article has been recommended for publication, authors have a time limit of three weeks to incorporate the observations received. If at the end of this term the new version of the text has not been received, they shall be considered to have withdrawn their work from consideration, and the corresponding file will be closed. Any later submission will be considered a new proposal for publication.

The corrected version of the articles that have been revised by their authors will be sent again via the OJS platform and e-mail to the contact addresses. Once the new version has been found to respond adequately to the issues raised by the reviewers, the “Report of Acceptance” can be sent to conclude the evaluation process. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, each author must sign the corresponding transfer of rights using the form employed by the journal.

A ruling that rejects a manuscript is not appealable.

By submitting a proposal for publication to Intersticios Sociales, each collaborator accepts that their work will be evaluated according through the evaluation stages described above. The journal, for its part, is committed to ensuring an impartial assessment process conducted by academic peers outside the publishing institution (El Colegio de Jalisco), and strives at all times to ensure that the scholars-reviewers do not come from the same state.

 

Check list for submissions

 1. The work has not been published previously or submitted for consideration by any other journal (unless the author provides an explanation in her/his conversations with the editor).

 2. The file sent is in the format of Microsoft Word, any version.

 3. Verify that the file is not protected and that all references to authorship have been deleted from the body of the text and from the “Properties” of the file.

 4. The text has a spacing of 1.5 lines with a font of 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except for links); and all illustrations, figures and charts are in the appropriate place, not at the end of the text.

 5. The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in Guidelines for authors, that appear in the “About” section of the journal.

 6. If the work is sent to a section assessed by peers of the journal, the instructions in Ensure an anonymous evaluation must be followed.

Cession of rights

Once a paper has been approved for publication in Intersticios Sociales, each author must sign the corresponding transfer of patrimonial rights using the format approved by the journal.

Authors maintain the moral rights over their work, and the cession described above is understood to apply only to the non-profit, academic publishing by Intersticios Sociales and El Colegio de Jalisco.

Open-access policy

The journal Intersticios Sociales offers open, total and free access. This means that there are no time limits imposed on consulting, printing or downloading the articles published therein, so that these functions are available to users from the first day that the issue of the journal appears (March 1 and September 1 of each year) free of charge. Likewise, the entire collection of articles published historically in Intersticios Sociales is permanently available in open-access.

El Colegio de Jalisco, the institution responsible for editing Intersticios Sociales, does not charge authors or institutions for publishing their works.

Ethical criteria and good editorial practices

Intersticios Sociales is a not-for-profit academic publication edited by El Colegio de Jalisco A.C. Because the journal is an integral part of this institution, it shares the mission that El Colegio has defined concerning “the generation of scientific knowledge and its dissemination to society”. In this spirit, El Colegio de Jalisco is founded upon a set of values that frame its scientific activity; hence, honesty, respect for the search for knowledge, and freedom of thought are all important bastions of these aspirations.

Intersticios Sociales respects these general principles in the tasks it has set for itself in terms of propitiating academic dialogue and promoting original, critical and propositive research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. At all times, Intersticios Sociales supports harmony in the generation and diffusion of knowledge with the aforementioned liberties and a commitment to honesty and respect.

In projects of this nature, the collaboration of everyone involved in the editorial process of a journal is indispensable, from submitting proposals for publication right through their appearance. Each stage of the editorial process presents specific challenges, but every member involved is expected to act responsibly, reliably, honestly and with strict adherence to the ethical criteria that are made clear to them. The publisher, the journal’s Directors, its Editorial Team, and the Reviewers and authors all play key roles in generating a culture of scientific and editorial responsibility, whose basic aspects are expressed in the following guidelines.

A) Ethical guidelines

Responsibilities of the authors

  • To guarantee that texts submitted for publication are of their own authorship, derive from original research, and were conducted respecting scientific and ethical criteria consistent with the journal’s guidelines and those of similar international codes.
  • Where appropriate, to obtain the necessary permission(s) to reproduce or cite content from other sources.
  • To respect the authorship of other researchers by giving the corresponding credit when relying on other publications or communications of their results.
  • To abstain from practices such as the unethical duplication of information including –but not limited to– transcribing substantial portions of previously published texts even though the source is cited, the incorrect identification (intentional or not) of the authorship of the sources cited, and plagiarism.
  • To guarantee that the text has not been submitted for evaluation to any other medium of diffusion at the same time, or is about to be published elsewhere.
  • To obtain the express approval of the individuals or associations that could be objects of study before disseminating the content of recordings, conversations, or any other type of testimonies that could affect the privacy of those subjects.
  • To present their work in language that is respectful, and that does not in any way discriminate against any individuals, communities or associations for ethnic, religious, political, sexual or ideological reasons.
  • To notify the journal’s Directors of any substantial error in their work, and collaborate with the journal in implementing the correction mechanisms that are deemed relevant. These may include –but are not limited to– amending the wording, publishing an errata, or removing the article from publication.
  • To notify the journal’s Directors or, where appropriate, its Science or Editorial Committees, of any contravention of the ethical guidelines described herein.

Responsibilities of the reviewers

  • To declare any conflict of interest that could be deemed to limit their ability to emit an objective evaluation of any text submitted to their consideration.
  • To collaborate in the journal’s editorial process by elaborating a detailed, professional review of the manuscripts sent for evaluation within the timeframe established.
  • To deliver rulings with clear, well-founded observations that provide authors with concrete elements concerning the results of the evaluation of their work.
  • To maintain the confidentiality of the information they receive to perform their task, without circulating or using any research materials provided by the journal.
  • To verify the originality of the work sent for assessment, and to opportunely inform the journal’s Directors of any potential reproduction of works previously published by the same, or other, authors.
  • To notify the journal’s Directors or, where appropriate, its Science or Editorial Committees, of any contravention of the ethical guidelines described herein.

Responsibilities of the journal’s Directors

  • To guarantee that the acceptance or rejection of works received is based exclusively on the journal’s editorial policies and the academic merits of each manuscript proposed.
  • To ensure an impartial, double-blind, evaluation process by academic peers who have no affiliation with the publishing institution (El Colegio de Jalisco).
  • To show just, respectful behavior in managing the journal, without discriminating against collaborations and/or collaborators for ethnic, religious, political, sexual or ideological reasons, and without considering extra-academic interests or pressures.
  • To respond to the concerns of authors in a timely and adequate manner.
  • To inform the journal’s Editorial and/or Science Committees of any contravention of these ethical guidelines.
  • To process any contravention of the journal’s ethical guidelines in strict accordance with the procedures established in these statutes.
  • To offer authors the opportunity to be informed of, and respond properly to, any matter that the journal’s Directors and/or Editorial Committees investigate pursuant to receiving knowledge of behavior contrary to these guidelines.
  • To document each case that could lead to the presentation –and subsequent investigation– of a complaint alleging unethical behavior.

Responsibilities of the Editorial Committee and Science Committee

  • To aid the journal’s Directors in selecting reviewers who are qualified to provide professional, objective evaluations of the texts submitted to the journal.
  • To notify the journal’s Directors in the event that they come to possess any knowledge of unethical conduct related to the editorial or publishing processes of an article for the journal.
  • To participate in evaluating cases involving behaviors that could potentially breach the journal’s ethical criteria, following the procedures defined below.

Responsibilities of the publishing institution 

  • El Colegio de Jalisco will offer Intersticios Sociales the conditions it requires to fulfill its functions, and will respect the ethical criteria defined herein.

B) Procedures for responding to breaches of the ethical guidelines

Ethical breaches 

  • Any contravention of the guidelines and responsibilities established herein will be considered an ethical breach for purposes of these Ethical criteria and Good Editorial Practices.

Reports of possible ethical breaches 

  • Allegations of breaches can be reported to the journal’s Directors or, if appropriate, to the Editorial or Science Committees, at any moment and by any individual.
  • Situations in which suspicions of conduct contrary to these ethical criteria arise must be described clearly and supported by sufficient evidence so that the competent instance can take appropriate action.
  • Every report on such conduct will be examined thoroughly by the competent instance and handled with due formality. Contact with the party that presents the alleged breach will be ongoing, from the initial communications to the conclusion of the case. In the event that the process requires clarifying any individuals’ conduct, this same formality will be applied to the other party involved in the allegation.

Initial evaluation

  • In the event of alleged breaches, the journal’s Directors or, where appropriate, Editorial Board, will assess the consistency and severity of the allegations received.
  • At this point, they shall determine whether it is a minor or serious breach. Likewise, they shall determine if it is necessary to consult other instances beyond the journal’s Directors and the Editorial Board.

Minor breaches

  • It is understood that this kind of conduct includes, for example, using terms or forms of representation of situations or social actors that, while not constituting offensive expressions, may have generated well-founded discomfort in some sector of the journal’s readership. Imprecise quotations or phrases are included within this range of conducts.
  • In these scenarios, if the case is deemed to be sufficiently well-supported, the instance that received the initial communication can attend the matter with no need to seek additional opinions. In all such cases, the party responsible for the conduct reported shall be given the opportunity to respond to the initial assessments.

Serious breaches 

  • It is understood that this kind of conduct includes matters that violate the integrity of the work of other authors, copyright laws, or the reputation and good name of other individuals or groups.
  • To process allegations of such conduct, the journal’s Directors are required to consult with the Editorial and Scientific Committees to determine whether other institutions (such as the institution of affiliation, funding agencies, or organs that accredit research) need to be involved in handling the case.

Actions in the event of ethical breaches

Depending on the severity of the conduct analyzed by the journal’s Directors and Advisory Committees, the measures that can be implemented to deal with such cases range from notifications as to how these ethical criteria are to be interpreted to the removal of the articles and the emission of a notification to external instances to conduct appropriate procedures in other forums. These measures are framed in the following course of action, with the understanding that each case could include one or more of the dispositions listed:

  • In the event of a minor breach, the journal’s Directors or, where appropriate, Editorial Committee, will issue a brief note to describe the conduct that, in their judgment, deviates from the journal’s ethical guidelines.
  • If the severity of the case calls for it, or if a recurrent conduct is identified, the journal’s posture will be presented in a formal letter informing the other party of the precedent that has been set.
  • The journal can inform an author’s institution of affiliation, or other funding and accrediting bodies, that a serious breach of these ethical guidelines has occurred.
  • Intersticios Sociales can remove an article from its website if it is proven that in its elaboration and publication its author (or authors) incurred in a serious breach of the journal’s ethical criteria.
  • When an article is removed from the journal, Intersticios Sociales will also pursue the elimination of said document from the databases where the journal is indexed, and will alert the relevant agencies of the severity of the situation detected.

Journal History

Intersticios Sociales is a project for the diffusion of scientific knowledge directed by El Colegio de Jalisco that was created in 2010, with its first issue appearing in cyberspace on March 11, 2011. Under the direction of Dr. Laura Alarcón Menchaca, Intersticios Sociales was conceived as an electronic journal due to the worldwide reach that the electronic media offer in terms of disseminating new knowledge created by Mexican scholars.

During the five years that Dr. Alarcón served as the journal’s Director, she succeeded in consolidating the project, and soon Intersticios Sociales was included in the index of Mexican Journals of Scientific and Technological Divulgation (CONACYT), and the following indexes: SciELO, REDALYC and LATINDEX.

In October 2015, Dr. José Refugio de la Torre Curiel was named Director of the journal. His tasks included leading the transition from the original website to the OJS platform, where Intersticios began a new life as a truly digital journal, with all the technical issues that this change entailed. Thanks to the staff’s efforts, the journal achieved inclusion in the new Classification System of Mexican Journals of Science and Technology (CONACYT), in the category of ‘Journal in Process’. Finally, Dr. De la Torre had to reformulate the sections that make up the journal to give them greater clarity and facilitate management for both authors and readers.

In June 2017, the responsibility for managing the journal passed to Dr. Francisco Javier Velázquez, who has promoted a series of modifications to the journal’s image to comply with technical requirements of visibility and expand the journal’s international reach. Thanks to this, Intersticios was raised to a new level in the CONACYT’s aforementioned Classification System: ‘In Process of Consolidation’. At the same time, the journal has improved its level of evaluation in the SciELO and LATINDEX indexes, which allowed it to be incorporated into the LATINDEX CATÁLOGO and SciELO Citation Index.

The journal also now appears in the CLASE database and the specialized platform BIBLAT. Because the journal is committed to maintaining these positive evaluations, it has renewed its commitment to constantly improve and so increase its importance in fields in the Social Sciences and Humanities at the international level. To this end, the processes of receiving, evaluating and publishing articles is characterized by a high level of exigency from the academic peers who elaborate the double-blind reviews.

The world of technology is changing as well, so Intersticios Sociales, together with El Colegio de Jalisco, faces the challenge of staying ahead of the technological advances that the world of scientific dissemination demands today.