Submissions

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.

• Postulated articles to the Journal must have a maximum length of 24 pages including all elements.
• The typing must be done in a 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, one column and all margins of 2 cm on letter-size sheet
• The title of the article should be short or divided in title and subtitle, attractive to the potential reader, no more than 15 words. In the same way, it must include the English translation of the title.
• The full name of the authors must be included and below each one, their affiliation: Bachelor’s degree, last postgraduate degree, institution where they work, city, country, e-mail and Orcid code.
• To present the content, it is recommended the use four subtitles starting with introduction and ending with conclusions, which are mandatory. According to the nature of article, it would be desirable to have the following sections: 1. Introduction, 2. Methodology, 3. Results and Discussion, 4. Conclusions, Acknowledgements, if there are, and References.
• It should avoid the use: indents, hyperlinks, bullets, headers and footnotes, as these elements are not accepted for layout. That is, the text should be as flat as possible, without special styles that make it difficult to manipulate the files.
• It will include an abstract in Spanish of maximum 150 words with its English translation, four key words in Spanish and English.
• Figures must be made in gray scale, referenced within the text, numbered and clearly titled.
• The figures must have an adequate quality and contrast for their reproduction on any type of paper, with a minimum resolution of 150 dpi.
• Each figure: pictures, diagrams, photographs, etc., must be included as images and not as Word auto-shapes.
• Tables must be edited from Word and not be inserted as images; they must be referenced within the text.
• When articles include equations, these must be elaborated in an appropriated editor, for example Microsoft’s equation editor. Furthermore, the equations should be enumerated in a consecutive way and be referenced within the text.
• At least half of the references are expected to be scientific articles from the last four years.
• The Journal uses the system of the American Psychological Association, APA, seventh edition, for the elaboration of references and citation.