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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.
  • You can send your attached articles to the address [email protected]

    As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all the elements shown below. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to the authors.
  • The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • El fichero enviado está en formato Microsoft Word o compatible, y no tiene una extensión superior de palabras indicada para cada tipo de artículo.
  • The article must collect the data and affiliation of the authors, as indicated in the submission template.
  • The original includes: title, authorship, abstract, keywords, text, acknowledgments, bibliographical references and a single appendix (if applicable).
  • The summary/abstract is between 250-300 words in Spanish and English and has been made according to the IMRDyC structure.
  • Five keywords are indicated in Spanish and five in English, separated by semicolons, writing the first letter of each keyword in lowercase to facilitate searching in databases.
  • Wherever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text conforms to the journal template and all the illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in the right place and not at the end. Italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the journal.
  • The author acknowledges and agrees that, if published, the article will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Authors retain copyright to their work.

Author Guidelines

quarterly Journal

"Research and Critical Thinking"

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS


RULES FOR AUTHORS AND AUTHORS


1. The objective of the Investigación y Pensamiento Crítico Journal is to promote the exchange of information about preferably empirical research of a scientific nature. Whoever wishes to collaborate in the magazine must follow the instructions detailed below:
2. The works must be original.
3. The authorship must be detailed with their names and affiliations.
4. It is ESSENTIAL that all the people who make up the authorship of the article are indicated in the submission process (adding them one by one), taking into account that the order in which they sign will be that of publication (no change will be allowed in authorship later). One of them will also be identified as the "Main Contact" for editorial correspondence.
5. If considered appropriate, when sending an original, in the "Comments for the editor" section, two possible reviewers can be proposed, providing us with their name and surname, full professional affiliation and email address. This proposal will not imply the obligatory nature of its choice by the Editorial Committee.
6. All authors must provide the Journal with the ORCID. https://orcid.org/

 


STRUCTURE AND RULES OF THE ARTICLES


1. The structure of the articles presented will contain at least the following sections: a) Name, surname, professional affiliation and email of the author of correspondence; likewise, at the foot of the page it must be clearly indicated if the proposed article is the result of research from projects financed by public or private organizations, preferentially valuing this aspect in the selection of originals; b) Title (Spanish and English); c) Resumen/Abstract (Spanish and English); d) Keywords (Spanish and English); e) Introduction; f) Method; g) Results; h) Discussion and conclusions; i) Acknowledgments, j) Bibliographic references and k) Appendix (if applicable).
2. The summary/abstract will be between 250-300 words in Spanish and English and will be carried out according to the IMRDyC structure: introduction, method, results, discussion and conclusions. After the summary/abstract, 5 keywords in Spanish and English (included in a thesaurus) will be indicated, separated by semicolons, writing the first letter of each keyword in lowercase to facilitate their search in the databases.
3. The length of the papers will depend on the type of publication, including: title, authorship, abstract, keywords, text, bibliographical references and appendix (if applicable). The template that the journal makes available to the author will be strictly followed. The document will be compatible with Microsoft Word in any of its versions.
4. All works must have a clearly identified title. Attached to the title will be the name of the author(s), as well as their institutional affiliation and their postal and electronic address.
5. The first listed author will be considered as the main author and the corresponding author will be indicated to whom any communication regarding the work will be directed.
6. For the writing of the works, the APA regulations will be followed in their latest version. It is recommended to consult the corresponding manual directly. References that have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) must appear with their corresponding link. Failure to comply with this criterion, in its entirety, will cause the direct rejection of the article.

7. It is recommended that the author review, among others, the contributions of the journals included in the home section of the Research and Critical Thinking website, related to the topic of their research.
8. The submitted manuscripts must be original and not be submitted to evaluation by any other scientific journal or previously published. The Journal uses anti-plagiarism tools to guarantee the originality of the manuscripts.
9. Investigación y Pensamiento Crítico (IPC) is a Diamond Open Access journal. It does not charge authors for manuscript submission, editorial processing, peer review, article publication (APC), page count, use of images or color figures, or any other fees related to the publication process.


GENERAL INFORMATION


The articles, to be evaluated, can be submitted at any time. The issues of the magazine are published during the last week of each quarter. Quarterly periods: January-April, May-August, September-December. For any questions regarding the management of articles, please contact: [email protected]

 

Copyright Notice

The authors retain copyright to their works and grant Investigación y Pensamiento Crítico (IPC) the right of first publication, as well as a non-exclusive license for publication, dissemination, preservation, and indexing.

Articles published by IPC are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

This license permits copying and redistribution of the material in any medium or format, as well as remixing, transforming, and building upon the material, provided the following conditions are met:

Attribution (BY): Appropriate credit must be given, the original publication must be cited, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes made must be indicated.

NonCommercial (NC): The material may not be used for commercial purposes.

ShareAlike (SA): If the material is remixed, transformed, or used to create a derivative work, it must be distributed under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Authors may deposit and disseminate preprint, accepted manuscript (postprint), and final published version (Version of Record) in institutional, thematic, or personal repositories without an embargo period, provided that the original publication is properly acknowledged where applicable.

The full license can be found at Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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