Submissions

Author Guidelines

PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

Authors interested in publishing in the Conrado Journal must submit their work through the journal's platform accessible at:
email: https://conrado.ucf.edu.cu/index.php/conrado/about/submissions

On the journal's website, you will find instructions that will help you create a user account and make the submission.

The Conrado Journal accepts three types of contributions:

1. Original research articles: Present unpublished results of a systematic study.

2. Bibliographic review articles: Synthesize and analyze the state of the art on a specific topic.

3. Editorials: Institutional or thematic reflections or position statements, generally by invitation.

Required Structure:
Manuscripts must be organized following the IMRAD scheme (Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and Discussion) or, alternatively, the classic structure of Introduction, Development and Conclusions. Clarity in the methodological description and a discussion relating the findings to previous literature are recommended.

Only unpublished works that are not in the publication process in other serial publications will be accepted. The publication language will be Spanish; although articles in English and Portuguese will be accepted if one of the authors is from a country of that language, or if they have been translated by a professional translator.

Contributions may be written in Microsoft Office Word (".doc" or ".docx"), using Calibri font, 12 points, 1.5 line spacing. The page size will be 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm (letter format). Top and bottom margins will be 2.5 cm and 2 cm will be left for the right and left margins.

A different font size will be used for titles and subtitles in the article according to the provided template.

Structure of manuscripts

Contributions sent to the journal's editorial office must have the following structure:

• Length between 5000 and 10000 words.

• TITLE in Spanish and English (maximum 15 words). Calibri font 14

• Email: (email address of each author, preferably institutional)

• ORCID Identifier: in the following format and without a final period: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2092-4924 It is mandatory that all authors of the article have their profile at https://orcid.org/ updated with their employment, main publications and be visible to the public.

In case of more than one author, the *Corresponding Author must be defined, which is written after the name of the institutions as follows:

*Corresponding Author: (Write the email of the author determined)

• Abstract in Spanish up to 250 words, including presentation of the problem, general objective, methodology used and main results achieved. An English version of the abstract will be provided.

• Keywords in Spanish and English (three to ten in Spanish and English), separated by commas. Using the UNESCO Thesaurus is suggested.

• Introduction; Materials and methods; Results and discussion and Bibliographic references, for research articles; the rest of the contributions will have: Introduction, Development, Conclusions (never numbered), and Bibliographic references. In case of having Appendices, they will be included at the end of the document.

Download an article template that will help you prepare your submission.

Other formal aspects

• Pages are numbered in the upper right corner.

• Tables are numbered according to order of appearance and their title is placed at the top (Calibri font 11). They must be cited in the text as follows: table 1 or (Table 1).

• Figures must not exceed 100 Kb, nor have a width greater than 10 cm. They must be delivered in a separate folder in image format: .jpg or .png. In the text they will be numbered according to their order and their name will be placed at the top (Calibri font 11). They will be cited as follows: figure 1 or (Figure 1).

• Acronyms will accompany the text that defines them the first time, in parentheses and will not be conjugated in plural. E.g., Ministerio de Educación Superior (MES)

• Notes are located at the foot of the page and must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Only explanatory ones. They must have a length of up to 60 words.

• Appendices will support ideas presented in the work and will be mentioned in the text as: appendix 1 or (Appendix 1)

• The main author must upload to the platform a document, in their name and in the name of all signatories, declaring that there is no conflict of interest related to the article and specifying the contributions made by each author under the CRediT taxonomy.

Citations and bibliographic references

Citations and bibliographic references must adhere to the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition, 2019. The veracity of citations and bibliographic references is the responsibility of the author or authors of the article. Up to 25 sources should be used, preferably: scientific articles.

It is important to prioritize sources from scientific journals indexed in WOS, Scopus and SciELO. Avoid Gray literature and outdated literature (maximum 5 years old).

In the manuscript, cited sources from scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WOS must be highlighted.

Avoid self-citations to the journal Universidad y Sociedad, do not use more than one citation to our journal.

Although the APA standard does not require it, whenever possible provide the URL or DOI of the document.

In the text, citations will be indicated as: Surname (year), if the sentence includes the surname(s) of the author(s). If these data are not included, the variant will be used: (Surname, year). The page number will only be included in textual citations. Only those cited in the text will be mentioned at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically with a hanging indent.

The way each type of source must be referenced is explained below.

Book

Apellidos, A. A., & Apellidos, B. B. (Año). Título. Editorial.

Example:

Cruz Ramírez, M. (2009). El método Delphi en las investigaciones educacionales. Academia.

Book parts

Apellidos, A. A., & Apellidos, B. B. (Año). Título del capítulo o la entrada. En, A. A. Apellidos, Título del libro. (pp-pp). Editorial.

Example:

Picó, F. (2004). Arecibo, sol y sereno. En, F. Feliú Matilla, 200 años de literatura y periodismo: 1803-2003. (pp. 129-134). Ediciones Huracán.

Journal article

Apellidos, A. A., Apellidos, B. B., & Apellidos, C. C. (Fecha). Título del artículo. Título de la publicación, volumen(número), xx-xx. URL

Example:

López, L. B. (2006). La búsqueda bibliográfica: componente clave del proceso de investigación. DIAETA, 24(115), 31-37. https://www.fmed.uba.ar/sites/default/files/2017-12/busqueda_biblio.pdf

Thesis

Apellidos, A. A. (Año). Título de la tesis. (Tipo de tesis). Nombre de la institución.

Example:

Van Hiele, P. M. (1957). El problema de la comprensión: En conexión con la comprensión de los escolares en el aprendizaje de la geometría. (Tesis Doctoral). Universidad Real de Utrecht.

Conference paper

Apellidos, A. A., Apellidos, B. B., & Apellidos, C. C. (Año). Título de la ponencia. (Tipo de contribución). Nombre del evento. Ciudad, país.

Example:

Rozemblum, C., Unzurrunzaga, C., Pucacco, C., & Banzato, G. (2012). Parámetros de evaluación para la inclusión e indización de revistas científicas en bases de datos locales e internacionales. Análisis sobre su aporte a la calidad de las publicaciones de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. (Ponencia). VII Jornadas de Sociología de la UNLP. La Plata, Argentina.

Audiovisual media

Apellidos, A. A. del director. (Fecha). Título de la fuente. $Tipodemedio$. Compañía productora.

Example:

Cameron, J. (1997). Titanic? PelıˊculaPelıˊcula. 20th Century Fox?.

Electronic sources

Apellidos, A. A. (Año). Título de la fuente. Nombre del sitio. URL

Example:

Bruguera i Payà, E. (2012). Proceso de búsqueda y localización de información por Internet. UOC. [http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/17829/1/UW07_00071_02418.pdf]{.underline}

Institutional author

Print

País. Nombre de la Institución. (Año). Título de la fuente. Editorial.

Example:

Ecuador. Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo. (2013). *Plan Nacional de Desarrollo / Plan Nacional para el Buen Vivir 2013-2017*. SENPLADES.

Online

País. Nombre de la Institución. (Año). Título de la fuente. Publicación donde se aloja. URL

Example:

Ecuador. Asamblea Nacional Constituyente. (2008). Constitución Política de la República del Ecuador. Registro Oficial 449. [https://www.cec-epn.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Constitucion.pdf]{.underline}

Unpublished manuscript

Apellidos, A. A., Apellidos, B. B., & Apellidos, C. C. (Fecha). Título de la fuente. (Estado del manuscrito). Institución.

Example:

León González, J. L., López Bastida, E. J., & Mora Quintana, E. C. (2019). Impacto y visibilidad de las revistas científicas de la Universidad de Cienfuegos. (Manuscrito sin publicar). Universidad de Cienfuegos.

Citations in the text with 3 or more authors are placed with the surname of the first author followed by "et. al". However, in the bibliographic references all authors are listed.

Consult a summary of the APA 7th Edition standard at: [https://normas-apa.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Normas-APA-7ma-edicion.pdf]{.underline}

Notes:

1. The journal does not charge for publication, nor does it commit to remunerating authors.

2. The Editorial Board reserves the right to carry out style corrections and make changes it deems appropriate to improve the quality of the article.