Instructions for authors

The original language of the journal is Spanish, the language used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. However, meeting the demands of a globalized world requires the use of not only Spanish but also English to make the articles we publish available to the international academic community, just as we have traditionally done by publishing some articles in English. Therefore, the policy of the journal is for it to be printed wholly in Spanish and for articles to be published in Spanish and English on its website (revistadepedagogia.org). Articles are received in Spanish, if this is the first author's mother tongue. Otherwise, articles are received in English. If an article is accepted, an economic agreement will be reached with the authors to implement the procedure that guarantees the use of appropriate academic language in them, with the translation being done by native expert professionals in each of the languages who must translate all the contents of the original article, including tables and graphs. Texts cited in the article that were originally published in Spanish, although they were later edited in an English translation, or those that are only published in Spanish, have a special treatment. In particular, it is preferable for a classic text to be cited with both versions: that of its original and that of the printed translation. This ensures that, when translating the article for the Spanish version of the journal, the translator does not retranslate into Spanish some Spanish quotations translated into English. On the other hand, an article from an Spanish journal or a paragraph from a book in Spanish, never published in English, is quoted with the text in its original language and the translation is left to the translator, without prejudice to the fact that, in certain circumstances, the author may consider it appropriate to offer his or her own translation.

C.1. The publication of research articles must be in accordance with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 7th Edition, 2020, (www.apastyle.org), from which we include some basic points which must be strictly followed by the authors.

 

1) The length of the contributions, including all sections, will be between 6000 and 7500 words. They must be written double spaced, on numbered pages, and using the Times New Roman typeface.

 

2) The first page must include: the title of the article (in lower case, except the first letter) in English (not in italics, 24 point, bold) and Spanish (in italics, 18 point, bold); the name of the author or authors (bold, name in lower case and surname in capital letters), 11 point and also bold, followed by the abbreviation Ph.D. if you are a doctor, and followed by your professional category and place of work (Full Professor, University of Valencia, not in italics) as well as your email (in italics); an Abstract (10 point bold) followed by the body of the abstract of between 200 and 300 words (10 point, without bold, first line indented) in English,in accordance, where possible, with the IMRAD format (introduction, objective, method, results, discussion and conclusions). Then, the Keywords (10 point bold) are listed, between 5 and 8 (10 point, lowercase and not in bold). Authors are adviced to check international thesauri such as UNESCO or ERIC. Following the abstract and keywords, the article should include the translation of both into Spanish (Resumen and Descriptores) or English, depending on the original language of the article.

 

It is important to remember the value of reflecting carefully on the choice of title and the wording of the abstract of the articles. The text of the article then follows in 12 point.

 

3) The start of each paragraph will be intended in 0.5 cm. The text will not be justified. Headings should be in lowercase 14 point bold and in line, not intended. Subheadings will be in lowercase 12 point bold and in line, not intended. Finally, lower-level subheadings will be in lowercase 12 point normal text, and in-line, not indented.

 

4) Following the APA model, the References list will be at the end of the article, in alphabetical order by surname, naming all the authors up to a maximum of twenty, with the second line indented. If the number of authors of a publication exceeds twenty, the first nineteen authors should be listed in the reference, followed by ellipses and the last author.
It is not necessary to indicate the geographical location of the publisher. The original title of foreign publications should be included next to their English translation in square brackets. The date of retrieval of an online publication should only be indicated if the content is designed to change over time and the page is not archived.
Some examples are given below:

 

• Books:

Genise, N., Crocamo, L., & Genise, G. (2019). Manual de psicoterapia y psicopatología de niños y adolescentes [Manual of Psychotherapy and Psychopathology of Children and Adolescents]. Editorial Akadia.

 

• Journal articles:

Siegel, H. (2002). Philosophy of Education and the Deweyan Legacy. Educational Theory, 52 (3), 273-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-5446.2002.00273.x

• Chapters in multiauthor books:

Mendley, D. M. (2005). The Research Context and the Goals of Teacher Education. In M. Mohan & R. E. Hull (Eds.), Teaching Effectiveness (pp. 42-76). Educational Technology Publications.

• References to web page:

Guarino, B. (2019, January 3). How will humanity react to alien life? Psychologists have some predictions. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/12/04/how-will-humanity-react-to-alien-lifepsychologists-have-some-predictions   U.S. Census Bureau. (n.d.). U.S. and world populatíon dock. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved July 3, 2019, from https://www.census.gov/popclock/

 

 

5) References in the body of the article are written in an abbreviated way that differs from what is used in the Reference list. Specifically, if the reference is a direct quotation, the text must be enclosed in quotation marks and, usually at the end, the author's last name, year and page number are placed in parentheses: (Taylor, 1994, p. 93). If it is not a direct quotation, and so is not enclosed in quotation marks, the page number will be omitted: (Taylor, 1994). When the author's name is given in the text he/she will not be included in the parenthesis: According to Taylor (1994, p. 93), culture ... When an idea is supported by several authors, they will be separated by semicolons: (Taylor, 1994; Nussbaum, 2012).

 

To quote several works by one author, only the years will be added after the author, with letters added if it is necessary to distinguish between publications from the same year: (Taylor, 1994, 1996a, 1996b).

 

When citing works by 3 or more authors, only the first one is cited followed by et al.

 

Textual quotes will be written in-line if they have fewer than 40 words. If the quotation has 40 words or more, it will be placed in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, indented by 0.5 cm and in the body text style in a typeface one point smaller. Following the quotation, the author, the year and the page are added in parentheses. The material quoted is reproduced textually, including spelling and punctuation.

 

Other authors’ texts will be quoted following the criterion of consulting the originals that are written in those languages and using their official translation when such text has also been edited in the other language. If this official translation is not available, the quoted text will be offered to the readers translated by the author of the article (noting that the translation belongs to the author of the article), or by the sworn translator hired by the journal.

 

The use of endnotes will be limited. They must have correlative numbering, using the automatic system in Word and they will be placed after the body of the article and before the References that list everything cited in the text.

 

6) To highlight a word, italics will be used. Underlining or bold should not be used.

 

7) The number of lists, diagrams, tables and graphs in the text should be limited. These will be called Tables or Graphs. In any case, they must be where they should be in the article and always in black and white. In tables, columns should be aligned using tabs (only one tab per column). When quoted in the text (e.g. "as we see in Figure 1 on core subjects"), only the first letter will be capitalized, while at the top of the Table or Figure the whole word will be in small caps, in 12 point capital with Arabic numerals, followed by a point, writing the title in normal text.

 

The text within the table will be written in the same typeface as the normal text, not in italics or bold, and in 9 point. The source of the table or figure will be placed below it, without a space of separation, stating the Source, colon, surnames, comma and year, or saying Own elaboration.

 

Graphs and tables, in addition to appearing where they should in the article, have to be sent in their original editable format whenever possible. The images sent must be of high quality (300 dpi).

 

Equations will be centered, separated from the main text by two lines. They should be referenced in the text, stating the number of the equation; therefore, they will be accompanied by Arabic numerals, aligned to the right and in parentheses in the same line.

 

The article will conclude with a list of the bibliographical references of all the works cited, except for the works cited whose authors include one of the authors of the article. In these cases, these works will be listed in the version with names of the authors, while in the anonymous ones they will not be included in the references, although they will appear in the text, where they will appear as follows: (Author, 2022, p. 39). Citation of publications belonging to journals or publishers considered "predatory", i.e. those that lack a rigorous and quality scientific evaluation system (e.g. double-blind peer review) and whose main purpose is not to disseminate knowledge but to obtain an economic profit by charging publication fees to authors. Lists of predatory publishers and journals can be consulted at: https://beallslist.net/

 

Finally, a brief biography of the authors should be included, of a maximum of ten to fifteen lines, which should mention their ORCID and the main aspects of their academic career, current academic situation, university where they obtained their higher academic degree, as well as the contact telephone number of the Editor, which will not be made public.

 

C.2. In addition to research articles, the revista española de pedagogía wishes to keep up to date by publishing, in various formats, other works and relevant information in pedagogical science. For this reason, it publishes reviews of books, current news, brief commentaries on educational problems, readers' comments on articles published in the last year, etc. These must all be sent to the journal using the procedure described in the next section. The reviews, always on recent books from relevant publishers, will be between 1200 and 1700 words and must be submitted along with a copy of the book reviewed. They will be headed by the book's details as follows:

 

Villardón-Gallego, L. (Coord.) (2015). Competencias genéricas en educación superior. Narcea. 190 pp.

 

Commentaries will be of moderate length. The analysis of published articles will be sent, from the journal, to the author of the analysed article, so that he/she can prepare a response.

Papers must be sent to: director.rep@unir.net. Authors must send two Word files: the first one will not disclose the identity of the author or any self-references that reveal his or her name; the second file must include this information. Along with these files, authors must send a document containing a declaration of authorship, transfer of copyright, etc., which can be downloaded HERE.

 

Due to the high number of papers sent to the journal, papers may only be submitted within the 4 following time frames:

• 10^th to 30^th January
• 1^st to 30^th April
• 10^th June to 10^th July
• 1^st to 30^th October

Special deadlines may be set for public calls for papers for monographic issues. Articles will not be accepted outside of these time frames and anyone who does send one will not receive a reply. Reviews, news, etc. may be submitted all year round.

 

The assessment process is objective and impartial. To this end, the "double-blind" principle is applied, ensuring that reviewers are unaware of the identity of authors whose articles they are reviewing, and authors, likewise, are unaware of who is reviewing their papers. External reviewers will work in the assessment process to guarantee expert opinions.

 

Authors will receive confirmation of receipt of their article within 15 days of emailing their work to director.rep@unir.net. Approximately three weeks after this notification, they will be sent the results of the initial evaluation. The time frame established for completing the review process is four months from the date the article was confirmed as received. After this deadline, the author will ordinarily be informed of the final outcome of the assessment. If the outcome is positive, it is important to bear in mind that the journal will not normally publish papers by the same author within a period of two years following the publication of his or her paper, nor will topics that have been addressed in special issues be accepted within the same period. If the outcome is negative, please be reminded that the experts do not review authors, whose identities are unknown, but rather the specific papers. This allows authors whose papers have not been accepted to submit other papers at a later date. Any papers received will not be returned.

 

When a paper is accepted, the author will be required to send a printed copy of the final text, attaching an explanation of how he or she has incorporated the observations reached, as the case may be. The author will send an editable Word document with the final text to the aforementioned email: director.rep@unir.net.

 

The publication of articles does not entitle authors to any form of remuneration. Authorisation from the journal is required for any type of reproduction/copy. Authors of articles and book reviews will receive one copy of the edition. They will also receive a PDF version of their article in both English and Spanish. A one-year embargo will be applied to this PDF file, following the publication of the edition; however, it may be sent privately to the authors cited in the paper, colleagues, etc. All authors are required to use the most effective methods to spread their articles, obtain citations and further pedagogical knowledge, in accordance with the different possibilities while their articles are under embargo, or when one year has already passed since they are published including them in repositories, etc.

Once the papers have been published in the revista española de pedagogía, authors can contribute to dissemination tasks, both by supporting the ones that the journal itself carries out and by their own initiative. Specifically:

 

1) The revista española de pedagogía has profiles on the main social networks (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), where it disseminates the papers it publishes, consequently we recommend that authors follow the journal on these networks and share their publications.

 

https://www.facebook.com/revistadepedagogia

https://twitter.com/REPedagogia

https://www.linkedin.com/company/revista-espanola-de-pedagogia

 

2) In addition, our journal is part of the Aula Magna 2.0 academic blog (http://cuedespyd.hypotheses.org/), where entries on topics of interest for educational research, as well as reviews of articles are regularly published, which contribute to their diffusion.

 

3) It is also advisable to use academic social networks (ResearchGate, Academia, university repositories, etc.), uploading the articles when the embargo period (one year) has elapsed.

 

4) Articles have a one-year embargo period before becoming freely available on the web. These articles could be offered freely immediately, after an economic agreement with the journal.