Submissions

Author Guidelines

General guidelines

The articles must not have been published elsewhere. They should be written in Spanish or English. The authors commit to publishing an article of their own and not copy all or part of the work of others. If the article is part of a research project, this should be indicated with the full name of the project, reference number and funding entity.

Authors must sign and login with their full name, academic degree, institutional affiliation, status, country and email address, as it appears in ORCID.

The length of the articles must be between 20,000 and 40,000 characters (3000-6000 words). The articles are accepted in English or Spanish, but they must be submitted together: title, abstract and key words in both languages.

Articles will be sent using the "Submissions" resource of the REG|AC journal (Open Journal Systems 2.3.7.0), for which it will be necessary to previously register as an "Author".

Body of the Document

The format of the articles must be OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect. The layout used for submission is the following: double spaced with standard margins, Times New Roman with a 12pt font and italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses). All illustrations, figures and tables should be inside the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

Style guidelines

1. Italics is used only in the titles of books, journals or newspapers, in non-English words, or when alluding to the meaning of the word.
   
   
2. The quotes that are used for quotations (and other cases) must be the English quotation marks (“ ”).
   
   
3. Spanish words written in capital should carry accent, if they correspond to the rules of accentuation.
   
   
4. Colon is followed by lowercase, unless the text appears on another line or unless it’s a quote. No full stop after question mark or exclamation point.
   
   
5. When a phrase is between dashes, it is followed by punctuation marks, as if parentheses were used. If subsection ends in full stop, the last dash is deleted. Allow a space before and after the hyphen, never between the hyphen and the phrase: "When it started to rain –almost nobody remembered that fateful day– when everyone fled to the mountain".
   
   
6. To write correctly numbers in digits the following guidelines will be considered: a) When writing more than four digit numbers, these three are grouped in threes starting from the right, and separating groups by whitespace. The four-digit numbers are written without a space. b) Never write with dots, commas or white space, when the numbers refer to years, pages, verses, street numbers, postal codes, PO numbers, legal articles, decrees or laws. c) To separate the integer part of the decimal comma should be used, as regulated by international rule. d) The amounts that are based on a numeral substantive as a million, billion, trillion, and quadrillion, provided that at least the last three digits as zeros, may be shortened by mixing numbers and writing letters: “327 million”.
   
   
7. The most common abbreviations in bibliographical references are: ch. (chapter); ed. (edition, editor); et al. (and others); Ibid. (in the same place); n. (number); cit. (in the cited work); p. (page); pp. (pages); vid. (see).
   
   
8. The keywords should be written in lowercase (except for proper names) and separated by semicolons (;).

Referencing

The journal uses APA standards for citing bibliographic information.

a) Books

Author's surname, comma, initial(s) of first name(s), full stop, date in brackets, full stop, title in italics, full stop, place of publication, colon, publisher, full stop. For example:

Carr, W. y Kemmis, S. (1988). Teoría crítica de la enseñanza: La investigación-acción en la formación del profesorado. Barcelona: Martínez Roca.

b) Journal Articles

Author's surname, comma, initial(s) of first name(s), full stop, date in brackets, full stop, title of article, full stop, title of journal in italics, comma, volume and number, comma, pagination, full stop.

Stenhouse, L. (1991). La investigación del currículum y el arte del profesor. Investigación en la Escuela, 15, 9-15.

c) References

The article must include a final References section that lists all the references cited in APA style. More information can be obtained on the official website of the American Psychological Association and on other websites (in English and Spanish). There are also other resources from the Centre de Recursos per a l'Aprenentatge i la Investigació (CRAI) at the University of Barcelona (in Catalan, here and here).

Articles that do not comply with these citation standards will be automatically discarded.

Use of Images

The author is responsible for obtaining the corresponding permits for the reproduction of images included in the text. Images must be sent in separately, and will be numbered (Fig. 1, Fig. 2...) in correspondance with their placement in the text. Within the text, the place for the image to be inserted shall be specified by including the figure caption in the following format: Figure number, full stop, artist's name, title, comma, year, full stop, museum/archive, full stop, institution granting permission for reproduction, full stop. For example:

Fig. 1. Doris Salcedo (2007). Shibboleth. Crack in the floor of the Tur­bine Hall, filled with concrete and wire fence, approx. 167 m. Tate Modern, London. Courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York, and Jay Jopling / White Cube, London.

How to ensure a Blind Peer Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
   
   
2. With Microsoft Office or similar documents, the identity of the author should also be removed from the file properties (in Microsoft Office, File > Save As > Tools (or Options on a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties when saving > Save).
   
   
3. With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.