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 The articles must be original, unpublished and not be under review of other publications at the same time.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.
In the event that plagiarism is detected in an article that has already been published, the journal will retract the publication made. (See ethics policy).
2. Papers must have a maximum of 25 letter-size pages (8.5 x 11 in.) including text and illustrations, graphs or tables that the author adds (corresponding to an approximate of 7,000 words throughout the entire manuscript). ¡. The text must be written in Word or in Free Office (ODT) and you must use only the font "Arial" in 12 points 1.15 space throughout the text.
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 (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. Contributions to be evaluated by the journal must be submitted through the journal's platform, along with a declaration of authenticity and authorization to publish the content; 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 respective translation into English.
b) Name of the author or authors and their institutional affiliation.
c) A summary of 250 words maximum.
d) A respective translation of the summary into English or Spanish, as corresponds.
e) Between five and seven key words, using the UNESCO thesaurus, with their respective translations into English or Spanish as corresponds.
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
- Development of the subject matter
a) Proposition
b) Arguments for discussion
c) Reflections on the subject matter
- Synthesis and final reflections
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.
