Submissions

Author Guidelines

EDUCIENCIA PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

Authors must request a username and password from the email educiencia@uat.edu.mx in order to be registered on the journal's platform.

In their request to submit a manuscript, authors must include the title of the manuscript, its abstract, and an official email address from an academic institution or research center (public or private). Manuscripts will not be accepted through any other means, printed or electronic.

1. Guidelines for Authors

1.1 Contributions

The journal Educiencia publishes original scientific articles, essays, and reviews by authors affiliated with national and international educational institutions or research centers, in Spanish, in open-access electronic format. Its objective is to disseminate basic and applied scientific knowledge on topics in the fields of:

• Education, and
• Technology

1.2 General Considerations for Publication

The material submitted to the journal's Editorial Committee for evaluation must be original and unpublished, meaning it must not be under editorial review for publication in other journals or editorial bodies, nor previously published, and the authors and co-authors must approve its publication.

Manuscripts must have scientific quality and use clear and precise language, defining technical terms to allow comprehension by readers from other fields and academic levels. In addition, they must include the following sections in both Spanish and English: title, abstract, keywords, table and figure captions. The author is responsible for correct writing in each section. A short title must also be included.

Neither the editorial committee nor the journal Educiencia will be legally liable if a claim for damages is filed regarding the published work. The sole party responsible is the author to whom correspondence is addressed.

Manuscripts must be submitted in Spanish and have a maximum length of 25 pages for research articles; 20 pages for essays, and 5 pages for reviews. This length includes all parts of the manuscript (figures, tables, and appendices).

2. Manuscript Preparation

Format

Manuscripts may be submitted in Spanish, written in an impersonal style, with a maximum length of 25 pages for research articles, 20 pages for essays, and 5 pages for reviews. This length includes all parts of the manuscript (figures, tables, and appendices). All manuscripts must follow the APA 7th edition citation and reference system.

The manuscript must be written in 12-point Times New Roman font, at one-and-a-half line spacing, on letter-size paper, continuously numbered, in Word processor format, with 2.5-centimeter margins on all four sides. Lines must be continuously numbered to facilitate the review process.

All manuscripts must include a title, an abstract, and three to five keywords in Spanish and English. The title should describe the work in a maximum of 150 characters, the abstract must not exceed 200 words, and the keywords should be taken from the ERIC Thesaurus http://www.vocabularyserver.com/tee/es).

If figures, tables, images, or photographs are included, they must be referenced in the text, preferably in color, and placed at the end of the manuscript, each on a separate page.

The text describing the figures must be written independently and must not form part of the image itself. Figures must also be sent separately in JPG format at 300 dpi or higher. When using maps, coordinates must be specified indicating the study area or location, following this format: 98°12'15'' W or 45°23'10'' N. For a polygon, the extreme upper-left and extreme lower-right coordinates must be indicated. Elevations above sea level must be cited in meters.

Tables referenced in the text must appear at the end of the document in Word format and must not be included as images. Information described in tables and figures should not be repeated in the text, except where necessary for the discussion of results.

Acknowledgments will be included at the end of the text only in the case of funding sources.

Include an author information sheet on a separate page indicating: full name of the authors; the affiliated institution in the following order: University, Faculty or Institute to which they belong, complete postal address, corresponding author's email address, telephone number with area code for contact, CVU number, ORCID ID, and SNII level (if applicable).

3. Structure of Articles

Articles must be presented following this structure: introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions (although these sections may have a different title if preferred), acknowledgments (if necessary), and references. The introduction (maximum 3 pages) should include a review of up-to-date scientific literature, the importance of the study conducted, and conclude with the objective, research questions, and/or hypothesis of the work. The methods section should provide sufficient information to facilitate understanding of the procedures followed; it must include the research design and the main methods of analysis used, the sources from which the information was obtained, the subjects or actors studied, and, if materials were used, the brand, model, city, and country of origin of the equipment used in the study. Units of measurement and their abbreviations should follow the international system described at: http://physics.nict.gov//cuu//UNITS/units.html. The results section should present the findings obtained from the experiments described in the methods section and the evidence supporting those results, whether in the form of figures, tables, or brief text. They must be quickly and clearly understandable. The discussion and conclusions should draw on recent scientific literature demonstrating that the knowledge generated is current or innovative, so at least 40% of the citations must be from the last five years.

4. Structure of Essays

Essays must be presented following this structure: introduction, development, conclusions (although these sections may have a different name if preferred). The introduction (maximum 3 pages) should establish the background, the questions and objectives guiding the essay, and a brief explanation of the methodological strategy used to address the subject; the development presents the arguments used to address the questions raised, and the argumentation may follow an analytical, comparative, or cause-effect structure. The conclusions should be derived as a logical consequence of the argumentation developed in the body of the essay. To demonstrate that the argumentation and knowledge generated are current or innovative, at least 40% of the citations must be from the last five years.

5. Structure of Reviews

Reviews of academic books express the author's point of view. This is a text that provides a detailed and critical account of books addressing a relevant and pertinent issue in line with the journal's focus, presenting an analysis and discussion of the content and its subject matter, which must be current and of interest to the field of educational research (no more than 3 years old), with a maximum of 5 pages and including a bibliography.

6. Submission of Proposals

Using their username and password, the author may log in and upload their manuscript to the platform, as well as continue the editorial process by checking its status (once under evaluation) and sending and receiving correspondence (once external reviewers are involved). Articles will not be accepted through any other means, printed or electronic.

The number of authors of the manuscript must be consistent with the quality and quantity of the work performed and presented. An unjustifiable excess of authors is grounds for rejection.

The manuscript must include an author information sheet on a separate page indicating: the full name of the authors (avoiding the use of initials; paternal and maternal surnames should be joined with a hyphen); the affiliated institution in the following order: University, Faculty or Institute to which they belong, complete postal address, corresponding author's email address, telephone number with area code for contact, CVU Rizoma, ORCID iD, and SNII level (if applicable).

In the first stage, manuscripts will undergo a preliminary evaluation by the journal's Editorial Department to verify compliance with thematic and formatting requirements, as well as the level of similarity with previously published material (using anti-plagiarism software).

Once the general publication requirements are met, the work will be assigned to the editor, who will determine the manuscript's relevance (a second review may sometimes be required); if approved, it will proceed to evaluation by at least two external academic peers, experts in the relevant subject area, who will determine whether the article is accepted or rejected based on an academic and scientific analysis of the material. In case of discrepancy between the reviewers' results, the manuscript will be sent to a third reviewer, whose decision will determine publication.

Authors will have a set time to address the reviewers' comments based on the requested changes; if changes are not made within the specified time, the manuscript will be rejected. Manuscripts undergo a double-blind review process, in which authors do not know the identity of the reviewers and vice versa. The outcome of the academic review process is final and not subject to appeal.

7. Submission and Evaluation of Manuscripts

Manuscripts must be submitted through the Educiencia platform at the following address: https://educiencia.uat.edu.mx

Manuscripts received will undergo an editorial process carried out in stages, in which authors must address each of the comments and suggestions provided during the reviews, marking in red the changes made to the most recent manuscript (it is necessary to work on the same Word file that is sent at each stage). An attached form will be provided with responses to each comment and the modifications made to the most recent manuscript.

In the first stage, manuscripts will undergo a preliminary evaluation by the journal's Editorial Department to verify compliance with thematic and formatting requirements, as well as the level of similarity with previously published material (using Turnitin software). Once the general publication requirements are met, the work will be assigned to the editor, who will determine the manuscript's relevance (a second review may sometimes be required); if approved, it will be reviewed by at least two external academic peers, experts in the relevant subject area, who will determine whether the article is accepted or rejected based on an academic and scientific analysis of the material. In case of discrepancy between the reviewers' results, the manuscript will be sent to a third reviewer, whose decision will determine publication.

Authors will have a set time to address the reviewers' comments based on the requested changes; if changes are not made within the specified time, the manuscript will be rejected. Manuscripts undergo a double-blind review process, in which authors do not know the identity of the reviewers and vice versa. The outcome of the academic review process is final and not subject to appeal.

If manuscripts are conditionally accepted pending minor changes, the author will have a maximum period of two weeks to address them, which must be marked in red. In addition, an attached form must be sent with responses to each comment and the modifications made; if no response is received, the article will be rejected. Similarly, accepted articles will undergo a copyediting and formatting review process to bring them in line with previously published articles. Once galley proofs are sent, the author will have four calendar days to review them; if no response is received within the indicated time, the article will be published based on the journal editor's judgment. If the author(s) require additional time to respond at any stage of the process, they must request it from the journal's Director.

8. In-Text References

All publications cited in the text of the article must appear in the references section and vice versa. The author must ensure that the names of cited authors and the dates are exactly the same both in the text and in the reference list. Likewise, they must check that all elements of a bibliographic reference are included. It is the author's(s') responsibility to ensure the correct spelling of the names of the authors of the works cited in their article or review.

Citations or references inserted at the corresponding points in the text must be placed in parentheses and contain the author's paternal surname and the year of publication, for example: (Núñez, 1983). For two authors, use (Núñez and Pérez, 1983). For more than two authors, use Núñez et al. (1982). When citing more than one reference, they should be separated by a semicolon (Núñez and Pérez, 1983; Núñez et al., 1984). If there are two references by the same authors that could be confused, lowercase letters should be used according to the alphabet (Núñez and Pérez, 1983a; 1983b).

Direct quotations (text copied verbatim) of fewer than 40 words must be placed in double quotation marks, noting in parentheses the author, year, and corresponding page number(s), for example: (Núñez, 1982, p.126); Núñez (1982) found that "the placebo effect disappeared when..." (p. 126).

When using a secondary source (which should be done sparingly, only when the original work is out of print or available only in another language), it should be cited as follows: Barney (1991, p. 34) cites Douglas (1988) in defining that "…xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx." The secondary source will be included in the reference list.

When using a corporate author, such as institutes, ministries, organizations, etc., the meaning of the acronym should be defined the first time it appears in the citation. Example: according to data from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS, 2015)…, and subsequently only the acronym will be used (IMSS, 2015).

Legal texts are cited as follows: The Mexican Constitution of the United Mexican States (2008), in Article 27, establishes that "Ownership of the lands and waters within the boundaries of national territory originally belongs to the Nation"…

Citations of personal interviews, letters, and emails should follow this example: (Luis Fuentes-García, crab processor in Tamaulipas, personal communication, June 12, 2015).

Footnotes or references at the bottom of the page will not be included. Citations of theses, manuals, class notes, and any other material that is difficult to access should be avoided.

References

Bibliographic references must appear at the end of the article in alphabetical and chronological order according to APA 7th edition format, with the following specifications:

Journal Articles:

Hirsh Adler, A. (2016). Comportamiento responsable en la investigación y conductas no éticas en universidades de México y España. Revista de la Educación Superior, 45(179), 79-93.

Ducoing Watty, P., y Rojas Moreno, I. (2017). La educación secundaria en el contexto latinoamericano: consideraciones a partir del vínculo política educativa-currículum. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 22(72), 31-56.

Bello Benavides, L. O., Meira Cartea, P. A., y González Gaudiano, E. J. (2017). Representaciones sociales sobre cambio climático en dos grupos de educación secundaria de España y de Bachillerato en México. Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa, 22(73), 505-532.

Book Chapters:

Arizpe, L. (2008). Libertad cultural y redes simbólicas. Los retos culturales de México frente a la globalización. En F. Toledo, E. Florescano, & J. Woldenberg, Cultura Mexicana: revisión y prospectiva (págs. 289-326). México: Taurus.

Parrino, M. d., y Efrón, M. H. (2012). El desarrollo del Coloquio sobre Gestión Universitaria en América del Sur y sus contenidos. En N. Fernández Lamarra, La Gestión Universitaria en América Latina (págs. 93-108). Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay: Universidad Nacional del Caaguazú

Books:

Aguilar Villanueva, L. F. (2013). Gobierno y Administración Pública. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Burnham, P., Gillan, K., Grant, W., y Layton-Henry, Z. (2004). Research Methods in Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan

Newspaper Articles:

Reuters (2018). "Trump acusa al FBI de politizar investigaciones", el Milenio. 2 de febrero de 2018, D15.

Interviews:

Nacif, B. (2018). Presidente de la Comisión de Prerrogativas del Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE), Ciudad de México, México.

Chapters from Electronic Books:

Smith, K. (2013). Behaviorism. In B. T. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/edu/. Retrieval date: October 12, 2014.

Articles from Online-Only Electronic Journals:

González-Enríquez, C. (2012). La emigración desde España, una migración de retorno, en Revista ARI. Retrieved from http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_es/zonas_es/ari4-2012. Retrieval date: August 6, 2015.

Websites, Web Pages, and Electronic Books:

OMS, Organización Mundial de la Salud (2014). Informe sobre la situación mundial de la prevención de la violencia Ginebra, Suiza, en WHO publications. Retrieved from http://oig.cepal.org/sites/default/files/informe_sobre_la_situacion_mundial_ de_la_prevencion_de_la_violencia.pdf. Retrieval date: February 5, 2017

9. ERRATA

If an error is found in previously published material, a section will be included in the next issue with an erratum to clarify said error.