Submissions

Author Guidelines

Standards for the presentation of collaborations

1. The articles must be original, unpublished and not be under review of other publications at the same time. Neither will articles that are already published as lectures in conference proceedings be accepted. Regardless of their content, articles that fail with any of these criteria of originality will be rejected.

2. The papers must have a maximum of 25 letter-sized pages, including text, illustrations, graphics, or tables added by the author (corresponding to approximately 7,000 words in the entire manuscript). In addition, the text must be written in Word or Libre Office (ODT) and follow the guidelines established in the corresponding template.

3. The official Journal templates must be used, according to the formats shown at the bottom of this page.

4. The author may include photographs, slides, graphics, or figures to illustrate the article. However, the Editorial Board will decide whether or not to include these graphic elements in the final version of the article. These illustrations should be inserted in the document where they fit according to the author's criteria, and should be identified by their number and caption. In addition, they should be sent in a separate, properly identified file. Tables and graphs must be prepared in Excel or another compatible program and sent in separate files. Photos downloaded from the Internet or low-resolution digital photos (less than 300 dpi) will not be accepted.

5. The bibliographic references in the body of the text must be annotated in accordance with the guidelines of the American Psychological Association [APA] (Seventh edition, 2020).

6. Only the International System of Measurement Units will be used, both for the writing of numbers and for the abbreviation of units (Law 5292, Republic of Costa Rica).

7. The explanatory notes at the bottom of the page are not admitted. If due to the nature of the work the explanatory notes become indispensable, they should go at the end of the article duly numbered.

8. The author must register in the online platform of the journal in order to send his/her collaborations and submit these to the evaluation process.

9. Submissions to be evaluated by the journal must be sent through the journal’s platform along with the declaration of authenticity and transfer of rights; you can download the declaration form in the journal’s documentation section, click here.

10. In a separate file, a synthesis of the curriculum of each of the authors of the document proposed for publication should be included. This information must not exceed 60 words and must indicate the institution for which the author(s) currently work, position he/she/they occupy, city and country where the institution is located.

11. The journal has the following email address: innoveducativas@uned.ac.cr

12. The approximate review time for articles is 12 weeks after passing the initial review by the Editorial Support Team, which includes submission and review by the reviewers and the internal process of drafting the decision once the review criteria are met, after which the status of the manuscript will be communicated. If the evaluation criteria need to be extended, the deadline extension will be communicated.

13. The articles should present the following basic structure:

a)  A title of no more than 25 words in Spanish with its corresponding translation into English and Portuguese.

b)    Name of the author or authors, their institutional affiliation, and ROR.

c)     A summary of 250 words maximum.

d)    A corresponding translation of the abstract into English, Portuguese, or Spanish, as applicable.

e)  Between five and seven keywords, using the UNESCO thesaurus, with their corresponding translations into English, Portuguese, or Spanish, as applicable

f)     The body of the document.

g)    List of references.

14. The body of the document in the case of articles resulting from research projects must include the following sections: 

• Introduction to the topic expressing clearly the objectives of the work and the main theoretical elements that sustain the analysis.
• Materials and methods where the methodology followed for collecting the information is clearly presented in the work.
• Discussion of the results (according to the methodological approach of the work, it is also admissible that the results and the discussion appear in only one section).
• Conclusions.

15. The body of the document in the case of scientific essays must include the following sections:

• Introduction: It must include the contextualization of the essay and its importance.
• Development of the subject matter  

             a) Proposition         

             b) Arguments for discussion

              c) Reflections on the subject matter

• Synthesis and final reflections:

  This must show (or recapitulate) the ideas presented in the arguments and in the introduction.

16. The body of the document, in the case of systematization of experience, must include the following sections

• Introduction. This contains the contextualization of the experience that gives rise to the document.
• Development of the Experience. It should be clear and organize the information in such a way that the course of the work is understood.
• Synthesis and concluding reflections. It should recapitulate the main ideas and the contribution of the systematization to the academic discipline.

17. The body of the document in the case of bibliographic reviews must contain the following sections:

• Introduction. This contains the topic to be presented, explains the original concern that gave rise to the review.
• Literature on the subject. It must contain the theoretical description, review of sources and/or background of the topic addressed.
• Method. Information must be provided on the method, instruments, source selection criteria, among other relevant data.
• Results. Requires depth in the reflection of the review
• Conclusions. It should recapitulate the most important ideas presented.

Guides for authors

18. The Author's Guide can be downloaded from the journal's documentation section, click here.

19. In addition, you must use the templates for each document format; these templates can be downloaded from the documentation section of the journal, click here.

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Editorial supervision and peer review process for manuscripts submitted for special issues

All special issues published by Innovaciones Educativas follow a rigorous process of evaluation and editorial standards. Each of the manuscripts submitted for consideration undergoes a triple-blind peer review process, in which experts from specific fields related to the topic of the special issue participate.

Editorial guidelines for authors who wish to be included in a special issue

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by other publications. Manuscripts that have been published as discussion papers in conference proceedings will not be accepted. Papers that do not meet these criteria for originality will be rejected, regardless of their content. Final graduation papers must follow the APA standard for citation.

• All articles, essays, systematizations, and bibliographic reviews submitted to the journal are reviewed using the "double-blind peer review" arbitration system. Authors must follow the " Manuscript Preparation Guidelines" mentioned in the following section.

• The official format templates of the journal must be used according to the type of document (this is a mandatory requirement in order to continue the editorial process). There is a specific format template for each type of manuscript: article, essay, systematization or review. Click here

• The estimated review time for articles is 12 weeks from the date of submission by the author to the journal. This time includes the initial evaluation, submission and peer review, as well as the internal process of drafting the decision once the evaluation criteria have been considered. The author will then be informed of the status of the manuscript. If the review process requires an extension, the author will be notified.

• All submissions that deal with education in general, and educational innovation in particular, will be considered, but this does not guarantee their publication, nor does it guarantee the return of the material sent.

• The journal has a broad geographical and institutional base. Editorial openness is guaranteed; therefore author and editorial endogamy is discouraged. Every manuscript submitted to the journal must undergo a revision process. However, if the manuscript is accepted, it cannot be published if either the author or co-author has another publication in the same issue, which means that it will have to be published in the following issue.

• Authors who publish their works in Innovaciones Educativas have moral rights of copyright. The works published in the journal are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license, under which the contents of the journal may be reused and redistributed, provided that the original work is cited and/or referenced correctly and is not modified in any way.

• Innovaciones Educativas is guided by the guidelines established in the document "Ethical Principles and Good Editorial Practices of Innovaciones Educativas Journal". You can download the document here.

• All manuscripts must meet the requirements for originality set forth in the Guidelines for Authors. Therefore, when the editorial team receives a manuscript, it is checked using Turnitin software to ensure that the manuscript is original, and that authorship of cited sources is properly acknowledged.

• Authors must submit an affidavit along with a brief resume. The format can be downloaded here.

• Neither the processing nor the publication of the documents submitted to Innovaciones Educativas will incur any costs for the authors if they are approved by the editorial board.

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