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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 previously published nor sent to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in «Comments to the editor»)
  • Submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF or compatible formats
  • URLs for references have been provided whenever possible
  • Text format is in simple spacing and font size 12, and italics is used instead of underlined (except for the URLs). All graphics, charts and pictures have been included in the corresponding place, and not at the end of the text
  • Submission fulfils style and bibliography requirements mentioned in the «Author Guidelines» section found in «About»

Author Guidelines

RIDAS publish scientific works on service-learning in study, investigation, reflection, essay, and article formats. Each work should be original and unpublished and should not be a pending publication in other journals.

The original work should be delivered in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. The writing follows the style guide established in the Criteria of the University of Barcelona (https://www.ub.edu/cub/criteris.php).

If it is an article, the maximum length should be of about 8,000 words, and in the case of experiences and testimonies, of about 4,000 words.

The layout of research papers should be as follows: title, keywords, abstract, body (containing introduction, theoretical framework, methodology, results, and conclusions) and bibliographical references.

Author’s citations included in the body should always be between quotation marks. At the end of the citation, the bibliographical information should be included in brackets (author’s name, year, and page).

Footnotes should only be used to provide details, examples, and comments on certain important aspects related to the body content. Bibliographical references mentioned in the body paragraphs are excluded from the footnotes.

Graphics, charts, and pictures should be included in their corresponding place in the body paragraphs with number and reference.

Bibliographical references should be added using APA format.

Copyright Notice

Authors submitting to this journal are in agreement with the following terms:

  1. Authors keep the authorship rights and give the journal the right of first publication.
  2. Submissions will be published according to the Creative Commons public license, which enables to share the work with third parties, as long as authorship is acknowledge, the first publication in this journal and the license terms.

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Additional information

For further information, please visit this link:  http://hdl.handle.net/2445/122803