For Authors
LASA Forum is a peer review magazine by invitation only. However if you are a LASA member you can send your article to evaluate its publication to lasa@lasaweb.org
Submission Deadlines
| Issue | Deadline | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1/4 | June 1 | 3rd week of July |
| 2/4 | September 1 | 3rd week of October |
| 3/4 | December 1 | 3rd week of January |
| 4/4 | March 1 | 3rd week of April |
LASA Forum Style Sheet
- Submit articles in document format, such as Microsoft Word, RTF, or OpenOffice.
- Include author’s name, institutional affiliation, and email address after the title.
- Articles should not exceed 2,000–3,000 words.
- Include all accent marks in submissions in Spanish or Portuguese.
- Spell out numbers between one and ten. For percentages and numbers larger than ten use numerals (e.g., ten countries, 10 percent, 15 countries, 15 percent).
- For citations of websites or for additional discussion, notes are appropriate. For website content include as much of the following as can be determined: the title or description of the page, the author of the content (if any), the sponsor or name of the site, and a URL. Also include a publication date or date of revision; if no such date can be determined, include an access date.
- For source citations, use notes and/or in‐text citations keyed to a reference list. The Forum uses author-date style citations (Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.). See examples below.
In-text citations
The recent study by Víctor Vich (2015) of art and culture in Peru…
(See, e.g., Stavenhagen 1970; and for retrospective analysis see Roseberry 1993, Stern 1988, Weinstein 2008; cf. Adelman 1999.)
Latin America’s “crisis of futurity” (Coronil 2011, 260)...
References
Bacab Chulim, Jesús. 2012. “Constatan obras del ‘3x1’: Mejorarán la casa ejidal y harán casetas policiacas.” El Diario de Yucatán, 4 de maio. http://yucatan.com.mx/yucatan/constatan-obras-del-3-por-1.
Coronil, Fernando. 2011. “The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010).” In Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown, edited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian, 231–264. New York: New York University Press and Social Science Research Council.
Vich, Víctor. 2015. Poéticas del duelo: Ensayos sobre arte, memoria y violencia política en el Perú. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
Weinstein, Barbara. 2008. “Developing Inequality.” American Historical Review 113 (1): 1–18.
Questions
If you have any inquiries, please contact Julieta Mortati, Forum production manager at lasa@lasaweb.org.