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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.
  • Submission has not been published previously nor has it been submitted previously to any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the editor). Please note that we only accept submissions in Spanish, with no exceptions.
  • Author Guidelines have been reviewed and applied. We only accept submissions in Spanish language.
  • The article contains article title, abstract and keywords without subtitle. Two versions of the article have been prepared, one anonymous and the other complete, both in .rtf format , .odt, .doc or .docx. . Typography should be Times New Roman or similar, 12 pt. Titles should be enumerated in 3 levels, i.e. 1. Introduction, 2.1. XXXX, 3.4.2. XXXXXX.
  • The article complies with the bibliographic requirements > and APA standards style . Where available, URLs for the references have been provided, And the DOI for those scientific papers which have it.
  • The tables and figures will be integrated into the article file in its place (not at the end) and their separate submission is not required in the initial proposal. If the article is accepted, it will be requested independently in editable format. It is also not necessary to send the metadata in English in the initial proposal.
  • The following limits will be respected, even if modifications are requested: Article, 54000 characters with spaces; title, 90 characters with spaces; abstract, 900 characters with spaces; and keywords, maximum 5. Enseñanza de las Ciencias doesn't use subtitles.
  • The paper should be anonymous, and respect the following limits:
    The text shall not exceed 54000 characters including spaces. The autoship in the properties of the file has been removed. Will be uploaded as "text of the article".
  • The non-anonymized version will include all authors in their final order and their citations and references without anonymization. The authors and their order cannot be modified later.

Author Guidelines

Enseñanza de las Ciencias accepts proposals of papers in Spanish only, except by explicit invitation from the editors to submit a paper in English.

Works should be new and original and not have been published previously.

Persons who submit works for possible publication in Enseñanza de las Ciencias should verify beforehand that the text submited scrupulously meets the following guidelines:

  1. To submit articles to our journal you should go to the webpage http://ensciencias.uab.es/user/register and follow the instructions to register as an author with the journal. It is recommended to fill the ORCID iDs. For those authors who don’t have ORCID ID, can follow the link ORCID Registry. Once registered you should identify yourself at http://ensciencias.uab.es/login in order to upload articles online and to check the status of uploads.
  2. The text of all articles should be anonymous: all citations, acknowledgements, references and anything else that might allow for a direct or direct identification of the author should be deleted. The editorial team at Enseñanza de las Ciencias will check that texts comply with this requirement. Should the article be accepted for publication, the full version will be then submitted to the journal. You should make sure that you attach a version of the article without the names of the authors nor any information relating to the same. (institution they belong to, bibliographical references to the authors etc.)
  3. Articles should be written in Spanish although, exceptionally in case of invited articles, could be in English. They should have a maximum length of 54000 characters including spaces, but including tables, charts and appendices. The information referred to in points 4 and 7 is included in the maximum length. Must use Times New Roman (or equivalent), size 12 points and 1.5 line spacing in paragraphs.
  4. The article shall also include, in Spanish, a title (90 characters including spaces) an abstract (900 characters including spaces), and five keywords.
  5. We recommend the articles be written using a compatible text processor (Macintosh and PC). Articles shall be submitted in the following formats, Rich Text Format (rtf), OpenOffice Writer (odt) or Microsoft Word (doc or docx) via the journal website: http://revistes.uab.es/ensciencias. No other form of submission will be accepted, nor will we enter into correspondence regarding articles which are not submitted via our portal or in other formats.
  6. Non-text elements (tables, pictures, maps, graphs, illustrations, outlines, drawings, images, etc.) which form part of the work shall appear inserted in the corresponding place in the text. In addition they shall be submitted separately at the same time as the article is uploaded (point 4. “Uploading additional files”), as images embedded in the text are not valid for later publication. It is essential that they should be saved in the following formats, TIF, EPS or JPEG, and with a resolution of 300 ppp, 16 cm width and in original colour.
  7. All bibliographical references shall appear at the end of the article in alphabetical order by surname. Citations should be referenced following APA guidelines (6th edition), as in the examples given in this link.
    All bibliographical references should correspond to information mentioned in the text.
  8. Submissions should indicate in which section of the journal the article is proposed for publication: Academic Research, History and Epistemology or Academic Innovation.
  9. Once a text that meets all formal requirements has been received, acknowledgement of receipt will be issued and the review process will begin. In case the initial review article does not comply with all the requirements, the author will be requested to send again the text with the changes required by email. The deadline for sending the text with the requested changes will be one month. In case of failure to comply with the deadline, the article will be dismissed and archived.
  10. In the first stage the editorial team will undertake a general review of the quality, and the suitability of the topic of the work, and may reject, without going on to an external review, those works whose quality is patently low, or which do not provide any contribution to the topic areas of the journal.
  11. Articles which pass this first filter will be assigned to an editor who will submit them to two external reviewers, specialists in the subject or line of research dealt with. In the event that there is discrepancy between the reviewers, or for any other motive, the editor may submit the text to a third reviewer.
  12. In the light of the reviewers’ reports the editor may take one of the following decisions, of which the author will be informed:
    • Submission accepted: publishable as is, or with slight modifications. 
    • Publishable with modifications: in this event publication will be dependent on the author undertaking all the changes required by the editors. The term in which to undertake such changes shall be three months and a brief explanation of the changes introduced and how the text has been adapted to the editors’ requirements should be attached. Exceeded this period, the article will be archived as “not publishable”.
    • Re-review: not publishable, but with the possibility of rewriting and resubmitting the work. In this case resubmission of the work shall not imply any guarantee of publication, but rather that the review process will begin again from stage one. Will be applied a three months deadline to send a new version, including a brief explanation of the changes introduced and how the text has been adapted to the editor requirements. Exceeded this period, the article will be archived as “not publishable”.
    • Not publishable 
  13. In the event that the work should be accepted for publication, a summary of no more than 4100 characters including spaces in English should be submitted. In the event that the article is written in English the summary should be in Spanish.
  14. Proofs will be sent to the authors to be checked in the term indicted by the journal.

Copyright Notice

The articles published in this journal are under a license Creative Commons: By 4.0 España from  volum 33, number 1 (2015).

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

  1. Authors retain copyright and keep the acknowledgement of authorship.
  2. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.
  3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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