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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.

  • The manuscript has not been previously published, nor it is being evaluated by another journal at the same time.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • DOI of the papers included in the references have been cited.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a Times New Roman 12-point font.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Journal's publication guidelines.
  • The maximum word count does not exceed 6,000 words, including abstract in English and Spanish, references, tables and figures. All pages are numbered at the top right.
  • All tables have been placed in the correct place in the text, using Word's table insertion function; they have been numbered consecutively according to their appearance in the text; their design followed the guidelines of the APA 7th edition.
  • All figure had a minimum resolution of 150 dpi; hey were placed in the correct place in the text and have been numbered consecutively according to their appearance in the text; their design followed the guidelines of the APA 7th edition
  • All documents have been blinded by removing the authors' data from the text and the file properties.
  • Use of non-sexist and inclusive language. Moreover, authors must make a correct use of the terms "gender" and "sex".

Before you begin the process of submitting your manuscript, make sure your article conforms to the journal's guidelines. In the successive steps, we will ask you for all the necessary information to be able to process your article: authors and affiliations, contact information, title, abstract in Spanish and English, abridged title, keywords, and lastly, to upload the text files in Word format. You should upload: the cover letter, the title page, and the blinded manuscript. It is essential that the references as well as the rest of the manuscript follow APA 7th edition norms. In addition, authors are recommended to check if the references included in their work have DOI, for this purpose they can use crossref.

Notice: From August 2023 all manuscripts received and under review must include in the procedure section the date (year and if possible months) when the data forming part of the study were collected.

Important: Although, papers may be written in either English or Spanish. If the original manuscript is submitted in Spanish, once accepted it must be translated into English (this would be mandatory for manuscripts received after November 2022) and uploaded, in word format, to the journal's website. Regarding the English translation, any possible cost of the translation will be covered by the author(s).

Moreover, if your submission is to be considered for one of our special issues, please in step 1. Start in the "Sections" section indicate for which special issue you would like your submission to be considered. Otherwise select the option "Articles".