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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.
  • El envío no ha sido publicado previamente ni se ha sometido a consideración por ninguna otra revista (o se ha proporcionado una explicación al respecto en los Comentarios al editor/a).
  • El archivo de envío está en formato OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF o WordPerfect.
  • Siempre que sea posible, se proporcionan direcciones URL para las referencias.
  • El texto tiene interlineado sencillo; 12 puntos de tamaño de fuente; se utiliza cursiva en lugar de subrayado (excepto en las direcciones URL); y todas las ilustraciones, figuras y tablas se encuentran colocadas en los lugares del texto apropiados, en vez de al final.
  • El texto se adhiere a los requisitos estilísticos y bibliográficos resumidos en las Directrices del autor/a, que aparecen en Acerca de la revista.

Author Guidelines

Only unpublished scientific articles that are not linked to other periodicals will be accepted in the Journal. The language of publication is Spanish; although articles in English and Portuguese will be accepted.

The types of contributions that will be accepted are: scientific articles, research results, essays, reviews and bibliographic reviews.Contributions must be written in Microsoft Office Word (“.doc” or “.docx”), using Arial font, 12 point, single spaced. The sheet will have the dimensions 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm (letter format). The upper and lower margins will be 2.5 cm and 2 cm will be left for the right and left.

Structure of the manuscripts

The articles sent to the journal will have the following structure:

• Extension between 15 and 20 pages.

• Title in English and Spanish (15 words maximum).

• Full name of each of the authors.

• Email, ORCID identifier and Institution. Authors without an ORCID must register at https://orcid.org/register

• Abstract in English and Spanish (not to exceed 250 words) and keywords (three to ten in English and Spanish).

•Introduction; Materials and methods; Results and discussion (for research articles). The rest of the contributions will have instead of these two previous sections: Methodology, Development. All the articles will have: Conclusions, never numbered; and Bibliographic references. The Annexes, if you have them, will be included at the end of the document.

Other formal aspects

• The pages will be numbered in the lower right corner.

• The tables will be numbered according to their citation order and their title will be placed at the top (eg, Table 1. Name).

• The figures will not exceed 100 Kb, nor will they have a width greater than 10 cm. They will be delivered separately in image format: .jpg or .png. In the text they should be numbered, according to their order and their name will be placed at the bottom (eg Figure 1. Name).

• The abbreviations will accompany the text that defines them the first time, between parentheses.

• The notes will be located at the bottom of the page and will be numbered with Arabic numbers. They will have an extension of up to 60 words.

• The annexes will be mentioned in the text of the manner: see annex 1 or (annex 1).

Quotations and References

The citations and bibliographical references will follow the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition, 2019. A minimum of 25 sources that are in the range of the last five to ten years must be used. In the case of sources that are scientific articles, those that come from scientific journals indexed in Scopus and SciELO should preferably be used. In the references, only those cited in the text will be mentioned, arranged alphabetically with French indentation.

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