Submissions

Author Guidelines

Policy for the acceptance of manuscripts to be published

• The journal only accepts original manuscripts which have not been published before in other scientific journals and in line with THJ's aims and scope.
• THJ’s scientific production and publishing team are not responsible for any of the opinions expressed by the authors.
• THJ is a publication primarily directed to the academia (professors, students and researchers).
• Articles presented for their publication can be written in English, Catalan or Spanish.  In case of papers in Catalan or Spanish, the abstract should always be presented in English and the language of the paper.
• Texts must be written in electronic format compatible with Microsoft Word text processors.
• Figures should be in JPG or TIFF format with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. 
• When uploading the manuscript to the online platform, the list of bibliographic references must be included in the form. 
• If the authors have an ORCID profile, they have to include it in the form for authors.

ACCEPTED PAPERS MUST FOLLOW THE NEXT STYLE REQUIREMENTS

On the first sheet should appear

• Title of the article
• Abstract (200 words) both in English and paper's language (when necessary).
• Keywords  (between 4 and 6); if possible, applying concepts included in the trilingual thesaurus of UNESCO. (Keywords should also be written in English and paper's language when necessary)

Main text

• The article should not exceed 8000 words.
• The article should preferably follow the structure: Introduction / Objectives / Methodology / Results' Discussion / Conclusion / References. Nevertheless, articles with other structures, such as essays, or bibliographic reviews, could be also assessed to be published.
• The sections of the paper should be listed as follows: 

• Tables, graphs and images are considered figures and should be included on the same page of the text where they are quoted. In the text we will refer to them as Figure 1, Figure 2... Each figure will have at the bottom, its number and title, and the source of data. If they were produced by the author "Own elaboration", “Prepared by the author” or similar will be recorded as a source.
• Footnotes will be used when strictly necessary.
• References should be cited in the text following APA (American Psychological Association) instructions; each consulted author and date within brackets: (Mangion, 1999) or (Cohen, 1972, 1979, 1988; Urry, 1990) or (Richards y Wilson, 2006) or (Boswijk et al., 2005). A page number should be mentioned in case of a direct quotation: (Prahalad & Ramaswamy, 2003, p.16).
• A reference list, in alphabetical order by author, should be included according to the following examples:

Acosta, L. E. (1995). Guía práctica  para la investigación y redacción de informes (8^th ed.). Paidos.

Book Chapter

Young, F. W. (1972). A model of polynomial conjoint analysis algorithms. In R.N. Shepard, A.K. Ronney and S. Nerlove (ed.), Multidimensional scaling: Theory and applications in the behavioral sciences (pp.78-80). Academic Press.

Papers

León, O. (1984). El uso del término “significativo” en los informes experimentales. Revista de Psicologia General y Aplicada, 39(2), 455-469.

Unpublished doctoral dissertation

Rocafort, C. M., Sterenberg, C., & Vargas, M. (1990). La importancia de la comunicación efectiva en el proceso de una fusión bancaria. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

• Further style requirement is provided in the paper template. 

PLEASE NOTE THAT BY SUBMITTING YOUR PAPER FOR ITS EVALUATION AND POSSIBLE PUBLICATION, YOU ARE STATING THAT:

• It is your own original work.
• Any material, of which you do not own a copyright, has been clearly acknowledged in the text.
• The submitted article does not contain any material which is libelous, illegal or infringes anyone’s copyright or other rights.