Author guidelines

Nature of work

Manuscripts received for potential publication should present original results from high-quality academic work in the field of educational practice.

No simultaneous submissions

Work submitted must be unpublished and authors agree not to submit manuscripts for simultaneous consideration by any other publication. Accordingly, authors must include their declaration of originality.

Length and format

Full-text papers (title, authors, affiliations, abstracts, body of the article, table and figure captions, and references) should be double-spaced and on letter-size pages (21.5 x 28 cm) with 2.5 cm margins, in 12-point Arial font and written in Spanish or English (download template), and should not exceed 7,500 words. Only work in Microsoft Word will be accepted (no PDFs). Manuscripts should not include abbreviations, only international symbols.

Author anonymity

Papers should not include any information that reveals the identity of the authors in the body of the article or in footnotes, in order to ensure that the peer review assessment remains anonymous. Once the manuscript is accepted, all identifying information will be included in the title page.

Content of title page

The following information should be included in a separate file to the main paper.

  1. Title of the paper. In Spanish and English and no more than 10 words. A concise, descriptive title is recommended.
  2. Authors’ full names. These must be listed strictly in the same order as they are to appear in the publication. The order and number of authors cannot be changed after documentation is submitted (for more information, see “Author obligations” and “Policies on authorship”).
  3. Preference will be given to work with no more than 5 authors. Manuscripts with a greater number of authors will only be accepted when the complexity of the study justifies the involvement of more participants, in which case documentation will be required to prove that the paper is the product of a group research project.
  4. Author IDs. Each author must provide his or her ORCID identifier number. For more information, go to https://orcid.org/register
  5. Institutional affiliation and country of each author. Only the top-level name should be given for the institution, with no abbreviations, acronyms or translations of institution names (unless non-Western characters are used).
  6. Acknowledgments, if any.
  7. Declaration of No Conflict of Interest.
  8. Disclose the source of funding; if none, expressly state so.

Abstracts

All abstracts must be written in English and Spanish in a manner that is clear and concise and provides the reader with a summary of the research conducted. Abstracts should not include citations or acronyms, except when essential for brevity.

Abstracts are limited to 150 words and the structure should follow the order below, both in English and Spanish:

  1. Objective
  2. Design or methodology
  3. Results
  4. Limitations of the study or implications
  5. Originality or value
  6. Findings or conclusions

Keywords

Below the abstracts in English and Spanish, please include three to five keywords from the ERIC or UNESCO thesauruses.

Content of contributions

The body of original papers must include the following sections:

  1. Background, method, problem statement
  2. Results
  3. Discussion and conclusions
  4. References in APA 7 format

Explanatory notes

Any explanatory notes should be inserted as footnotes and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.

Preparing references

Use of automatic reference managers

Priority will be given to contributions with references standardized using the Zotero or Mendeley reference managers.

DOI identifier

Where applicable, and particularly in the case of references to electronic documents, the corresponding DOI should be included.

APA 7 citation style

  1. Authors should follow APA 7 citation style (author, year).
  2. Self-citation should account for no more than 15% of references.
  3. Only materials cited in the text (literature, periodicals, and electronic sources) should be included in the reference list, which should be in APA style.
  4. In the case of electronic references, care should be taken to ensure that links are active and that DOIs, if any, are always included.
  5. At least 50% of references should be from the last five years.

Examples:

Journal article with a DOI

Andres-Candelas, M. y Rogero-García, J. (2019). Public and household spending in private, publicly-funded private and public schools in Spain during the Economic Crisis (2007-2012). Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, 21, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.24320/redie.2019.21.e18.1756

Book:

Schleppegrell, M. J. (2004). The language of schooling: a functional linguistics perspective. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Preparing figures and tables

Figures

  1. Figures should be provided in an editable format in an attached file.
  2. Titles should be placed below figures (9-point Arial).
  3. Figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.
  4. Reference must be made within the text to each figure included.
  5. Figures must be included in the body of the article in high-resolution (300 dpi or higher) JPG or GIF format, and should be no larger than 800 x 600 pixels.
  6. Abbreviations and their definitions should be included below the figure.

Tables

  1. Tables should be prepared in the word processor, NOT included as an image.
  2. Tables should be numbered consecutively with Roman numerals.
  3. Titles should be placed above tables
  4. Reference must be made within the text to each table included.
  5. Tables must be inserted within the body of the text (they will not be accepted separately).
  6. Tables must follow APA style and use 9-point Arial font.

Legal requirements for the submission of originals

REDIE does not issue or receive payment for the submission, processing or publishing of manuscripts. Authors submitting manuscripts for potential publication in the journal must include the following documentation in full together with the final version of the paper through the OJS system. No submissions made by any other means will be accepted.

  1. Declaration of originality, This declaration must be completed with the author’s details. For co-authored papers, details must be given for each author, and a corresponding author must be specified together with his or her e-mail address and telephone number.
  2. Letter of assignment, This must be completed with the author’s details and signed. For co-authored papers, details must be provided for each author, and a corresponding author specified.
  3. In the case of previously published material with copyrighted content (charts, images, photographs, works of art, etc.), regardless of whether such material is the author’s own or the work of third parties, authors must submit a copy of proof of permission to reproduce the work from the holder of the proprietary rights.
  4. Attach the full content of the paper as established in the Guidelines for Authors, based on the section of the journal you wish to submit to.

No changes will be accepted once the submission process has begun.

Technical requirements for the submission of originals

Please consider the following when submitting material:

  1. Submit text in electronic text-processor files (PDF files will not be accepted).
  2. Submit photographs and images in electronic JPG (or compatible) files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
  3. Graphs, tables and figures must be attached in a separate spreadsheet (images of graphs, tables or figures hinder the editing process).
  4. Attach the full content of the paper as established in the Guidelines for Authors, based on the section of the journal you wish to submit to.

Once the submission requirements have been met, the manuscript will be sent for editorial review.

 

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