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Author Guidelines
- The journal declares its openness to the participation of authors foreign to the publisher.
- All articles must be original, unpublished and must not be in course of being published.
- Following our editorial policy, commited to narrative clarity and argumentative rigor, we ask authors to consider the accessibility of the text to readers from different backgrounds and avoid the use of specialized jargon in order to facilitate communication and discussion of the work.
- Submissions must be sent through the following form: https://lastorresdelucca.org/index.php/ojs/author/submit/1
- The attached file must be anonymous. Identity data are to be completed only on the form.
- Files must be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or other software that meets the characteristics of the Open Document Format for Office Applications.
- Contributions should be in the range of 7,000 to 10,000 words and the Book reviews 2500 words (approx. 4 pages).
- Articles must include title, abstract (maximum 200 words) and keywords in Spanish and English.
- The citation of documentary sources in the text should follow the APA standards (http://blog.apastyle.org/).
- Place the number of notes to calls after the dot.
- Place closing quotation marks before the dot or the comma.
- Write the citation before the dot. For example "(Hobbes, 2002)." And not "(Hobbes, 2002)"
- To highlight a word, use "double" quotes, do not use italics for it.
- Use italics only for titles of works or words in another language.
- The quotations must be marked with "double" quotes.
- More than four lines of quotation should be marked in a separate paragraph indented 1cm from the left. In this case quotation marks must not be used.
- Do not use bold letters.
- Citation in the text:
- According to Jones (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was the first time they did" (p. 199).
- Jones (1998) found that "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (p. 199); What does this mean for teachers?
- She said "Students often had difficulty using APA style," (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but offered no explanation why.
- At the end of the article, there should be a list of all documentary sources cited as in the following examples:
Book
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Book: Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, United States of America: American Psychological Association
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Edited Book with an Author: Plath, S., & Kukil, K. V. (Ed.). (2000). The unabridged journals. New York, United States of America: Anchor.
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Edited Book without an Author: Miller, J., & Smith, T. (Eds.). (1996). Cape Cod stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard. San Francisco, United States of America: Chronicle Books.
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Translated Book: Laplace, P. S. (1951). A philosophical essay on probabilities (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Trad.). New York, United States of America: Dover. (Trabajo original publicado en 1814).
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Non-traslated book: Piaget, J. (1966). La psychologie de l’enfant [The psychology of
the child]. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France.
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Multi-volume Book: Mills, L. (1996). Architecture of the Old South (Vols. 1-2). Savannah, GA: Beehive Foundation.
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Book Chapter: Jeffrey, I. (1988). Introduction. In B. Savelev, Secret city: photographs from the USSR (pp. 8-12). New York, United States of America: Thames and Hudson.
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Internet Book: Prairie oysters. (2002). In Rawson’s dictionary of euphemisms and other double talk. Recovered from http://crownpublishing.com
Articles in Academic Journals
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Article: Brunero, S., Cowan, D., & Fairbrother, G. (2008). Reducing emotional distress in nurses using cognitive behavioral therapy: A preliminary program evaluation. Journal of Nursing Science, 5(2), 109-115.
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Online Article with DOI: Gibson, M., & Kirkwood, P. E. (2009). A purchase-on-demand pilot project at the Univeristy of Arkansas, for the Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Symposiums. Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, & Electronic Reserve, 19(1), 47-56. doi: 10.1080/10723030802533853
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Online Article without DOI: Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to the nature of human rights. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 8. Recovered from http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html
Articles in non-academic Journals
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Monthly Journal: Swedin, E. G. (2006, May/June). Designing babies: A eugenics race with China? The Futurist, 40, 18-21.
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Weekly Journal: Will, G. F. (2004, July 5). Waging war on Wal-Mart. Newsweek, 144, 64.
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Internet Journal: Romm, J. (2008, February 27). The cold truth about climate change. Salon.com. Recovered from http://www.salon.com
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.
- The submission has not been previously published or is under consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided about it in the Comments to the editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
- Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
- The text is singlespaced; 12point font size; italic is used instead of underlining (except in URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
- The text meets the stylistic and biliographical requirements presented in the Guidelines for Authors, which appear in About the Journal.
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If the submission is sent to a peerreviewed section of the journal, follow the instructions:
- 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.
- With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
- With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.
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Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- 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.
- 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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