Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to Cuestiones Teológicas will undergo a preliminary review by the Editorial Committee. The Committee will determine whether the manuscript is suitable for publication based on the journal's focus and editorial line, as well as its compliance with the Author Guidelines. Once the manuscript has been approved by the Committee, it will be sent to two external peer reviewers, who will evaluate it anonymously (double-blind review) and provide a recommendation regarding its publication.

Given the high volume of submissions the journal receives and its commitment to academic quality, only manuscripts that receive a favorable recommendation from both reviewers will be accepted for publication. This means the manuscript should require either no changes or only minor revisions. If either reviewer rejects the manuscript or requests substantial changes, it will be rejected, even if the other recommendation is favorable.

The possible outcomes of the review process are:

• Accepted: the manuscript will be published without changes or with only stylistic and formatting adjustments.
• Accepted with minor revisions: the manuscript will be published once the author has addressed the reviewers' comments, which will in no case involve substantive changes.
• Rejected: the manuscript will not be published because at least one reviewer rejected it or requested substantial changes.

In all cases, authors will be notified of the decision regarding the evaluation of their manuscript. The entire review process, by both the Editorial Committee and the peer reviewers, is expected to take an average of three months.

The form used for manuscript review is available here.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater exchange of scientific knowledge.

Cuestiones Teológicas does not charge any fees for the submission or subsequent editing of articles.

Copyright

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. This license allows others to share the work provided that its authorship is acknowledged and the material is not used for commercial purposes. The license used is CC BY-NC.
2. Authors may enter into separate, non-exclusive agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in an edited volume), provided that its initial publication in this journal is acknowledged.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to share their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, on their personal website, or on academic social networks) before and during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges and increase citations of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).

The source must be cited for any full or partial reproduction of the articles.

Archiving

The journal's files are digitally preserved and restored automatically, following a general rule of weekly backups. The copies are stored on an international cloud server. The files are also available in the UPB Institutional Repository: http://repository.upb.edu.co/

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a file distributed among the participating libraries, enabling such libraries to create permanent files of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.  More information.