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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 proposal has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal.
  • The text has simple line spacing; font size is Times New Roman 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables are inside the text and in the appropriate place, not at the end of the document.
  • The text uses non-sexist language, following the recommendations of the 'Guía para un uso no sexista de la lengua' (UAM, 2019), adopted by the CSIC.
  • The text informs about whether the source data of the research takes gender into account, in order to allow the identification of possible differences.
  • The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in “About the journal”.
  • The text does not include any information (authorship, funding sources, acknowledgements, etc.) that would allow the identification of the authors.
  • The files sent are in Microsoft Word or RTF format. The images, if any, are attached as additional files in JPG, PNG or TIFF format. The graphics, if any, are attached as additional files in Excel format.

Author Guidelines

EDUCAR is an open-access scientific journal published by the Department of Applied Pedagogy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) since 1982. The EDUCAR Journal aims to disseminate the results of educational research to promote and share them among the scientific community, professionals, and academics, as well as the public specialized in pedagogical issues.

EDUCAR publishes unpublished applied research articles (of quantitative and/or qualitative methodology) and theoretically based reviews focusing on current issues of an educational nature and from an interdisciplinary perspective in Catalan, English, and Spanish. The publication is biannual (January and July) and is structured in the following sections: Monograph and Research.

  • The Monograph section includes specialized works on the topic chosen in each issue. People interested in proposing and coordinating a monographic issue must submit the proposal following the instructions they will find in the "Submissions" section. The Editorial Committee will review the proposal and decide whether to accept or not the proposal. Equally, the final decision to accept an article proposed for the monograph section rests on the editorial team of the Journal and not on the coordinators of the Monograph.
  • The Research section collects work in the educational field of current interest, not necessarily linked to the monograph topic.

1. Presentation of monograph coordination proposals

All persons interested in proposing a monographic issue to EDUCAR must fill out and send a specific application form addressed to the Editorial Committee through the institutional email educa@uab.cat

Proposals will have to meet the following requirements:

  • Include the title proposed by the Monograph.
  • Enter the names and surnames, professional category, university, and email address of the person in charge of the Monograph (short resume, maximum 300 words per person).
  • It is necessary to consider that the Monograph must be coordinated by personnel with verifiable experience in the proposed field of study (maximum of 3 people). In addition, at least one of the coordinators must have a stable contract at their university.
  • If the monograph is coordinated by more than one person, they must belong to different institutions. It will be highly valued if at least one of these institutions is foreign.
  • Justify the interest and timeliness of the proposal presented and specify its connection with the educational field (maximum length: 500 words). Also, a description of the recipients of the proposal.
  • The international nature of the proposal will be highly valued, both in its approach and in the results it presents and in the authors who participate.
  • Include a list of 10 initial contributions that could be part of the monograph. They must be the result of research in the educational field, and their inclusion must be accompanied by possible topics or content to be developed.
  • It must be guaranteed that at least two articles are written in English.
  • No more than one contribution can be submitted per author and there cannot be more than two contributions from authors coming from the same institution.
  • It is necessary to include a list of a minimum of 10 possible experts on the topic of the monograph who can act as reviewers of the monograph articles. Some of the authors may be considered linked to the proposed contributions, but at least 80% must not be linked.
  • It must be guaranteed that the topic and contributions sent are not being evaluated nor have they been previously published in other journals or editorial media.

All contributions presented in the Monographic section will be subjected to the general review and evaluation process of the articles. The final decision to accept or reject a text proposed for the monographic section is the decision of the Editor and the Assistant editor, once the reports issued by the Scientific Committee have been analyzed; In no case will the people who coordinate a monograph issue related judgments in this regard.

2. Information required for submissions

The language of the articles will be Catalan, English or Spanish. The minimum length will be 5000 words and the maximum 6000 (including abstract, references and tables). Each contribution must have

  • A title in Spanish, Catalan, and English.
  • An abstract of 150-200 words in Spanish, Catalan, and English. The summary will follow the IMR&DC format (Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion-Conclusions).
  • A minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 keywords in Spanish, Catalan and English headed, respectively, by the terms “Palabras clave”, “Paraules clau”, and “Keywords”. They must be internationally accepted terms in social-scientific disciplines and/or common expressions of bibliometric classification. It is recommended to use keywords from the European Educational Thesaurus: https://www.vocabularyserver.com/tee/es
  • Body of the article, following the IMR&DC structure (Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion-Conclusions).

The non-textual elements (tables, charts, maps, illustrations, etc.) contained in the work will appear inserted in the corresponding place of the text and will also be delivered separately in Word, RTF, PDF, JPEG or TIFF format (300 dpi). Likewise, the graphics included in the document must be included in the corresponding place in the text and sent in a separate file in editable Microsoft Excel (xls) format. All non-textual elements will be numbered and titled, their source will be specified in the footer and explicit reference will be made to all of them in the text.

3. How to cite

APA 7 standards must be used (http://goo.gl/I5C5sZ; https://goo.gl/QOA5lw; http://goo.gl/UOVvSE). By the above, at the end of the manuscript, the list of bibliographical references will be included under the heading <<Bibliographical references>> presented in alphabetical order. It will be ensured that any reference cited in the text appears in the list of <<Bibliographical references>> (and vice versa). All references that have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) must include it at the end. You can find the DOI of your references at CrossRef Query Services.

Some examples:

Books (one or more authors)

Mas, O. & Tejada, J. (2013). Funciones y competencias en la docencia universitaria. Síntesis.

Rodríguez-Gómez, D. (2015). Gestión del Conocimiento y mejora de las organizaciones educativas. La Muralla.

Edited book

Gairín, J. (Ed.) (2015). Las comunidades de práctica profesional. Creación, desarrollo y evaluación. Wolters Kluwer.

Chapter in an edited book

Gairín, J., & Rodriguez-Gómez, D. (2014). Leadership, educational development and social development. En I. Bogotch & C. Shields (Eds.), International handbook of educational leadership and social (in) justice (pp. 819-843). Springer.

Journal articles (with DOI)

Gairín-Sallán, J., Rodríguez-Gómez, D., & Armengol-Asparó, C. (2010). Who exactly is the moderator? A consideration of online knowledge management network moderation in educational organisations. Computers & Education, 55(1), 304-312. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2010.01.016>

Meneses, J., & Mominó, J. M. (2015). Online community building in classrooms and schools: Using the internet to extend teachers’ face-to-face community practices. Educar, 51(2), 417-440. <https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/educar.727>

Rumbo, B. (2016). Problemas y retos de la educación de personas adultas. Educar, 52(1), 93-106. <https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/educar.707>

Journal articles (No DOI)

de Waal, E., & Grösser, M. (2014). On safety and security in education: Pedagogical needs and fundamental rights of learners. Educar, (50), 339-361.

Quotations

When quoting directly from a work (short and long quotations) provide the page number(s) after the date (Boudon, 2004, p. 73) and put inverted commas around. Quotations of more than four lines must be placed separately, without putting inverted commas round, first line indent and in different point font. Some examples:

  • […] we also believe that it is important to stress that even though some authors hold that "the horizontal, collegial structure of educational organisations" (Petrides & Nodines, 2003, p. 23).
  • In the words of Harris (2008), "managing human knowledge is a critical dimension of organisational survival" (p. 219)
  • If you refer to two or more sources by the same author from the same year, distinguish them by adding a lower-case letter after the year, as follows: (Boudon, 2004a, p. 73).

4. Submission

Articles will be sent in Word or RTF format through the Open Journal System portal (https://educar.uab.cat/). No other means of delivery will be accepted nor will correspondence be maintained regarding originals not sent through the portal or in other formats.

5. Review criteria

The articles submitted must be unpublished and cannot be submitted to other journals for consideration once they are in the evaluation process to EDUCAR.

Reception of articles. Its reception will be acknowledged and, subsequently, the Editor and the Assistant Editor of the Journal will carry out a first editorial assessment consisting of checking: a) the suitability to the thematic field and the interest of the article based on the editorial criteria of the Journal, and b) compliance of the formal presentation requirements demanded in the publication standards (authors’ guidelines).

Format and presentation errors, non-compliance with the journal's rules or incorrect spelling and syntax may be grounds for rejecting the work without subjecting it to peer review. The reception and evaluation of the article do not imply its acceptance.

Article review. The articles submitted must be unpublished and cannot be submitted to other journals for consideration from the moment of submission. The evaluation is based on:

  • The articles received will undergo a first review by the editor and the assistant editor of the Journal to verify that: a) the theme of the manuscript fits the focus and scope of the journal, and b) the manuscript complies with the authors’ guidelines established by the journal.
  • The reviewers are chosen from the bank of reviewers that makes up the Scientific Committee of EDUCAR
  • The Journal's review policy is “double-blind”, which means that neither the authors nor the reviewers know the identity of the other party.
  • EDUCAR guarantees anonymity throughout the process of review and evaluation of texts.

EDUCAR follows a peer review system for the evaluation of articles. Once compliance with the formal requirements and adaptation to the thematic interest of the Journal has been verified, the article will be sent for evaluation by two expert reviewers (Scientific Committee), confidentially and anonymously (double-blind), who will issue a report. on the convenience or not of its publication, which will be taken into consideration by the Secretariat. In case of disparate judgments between the two reviewers, the manuscript will be sent to a third reviewer.

Given the reviewers’ reports, the editor and the assistant editor will make one of the following decisions:

  • Accepted. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the editors will ask the authors to review the printing proofs, giving them one week to make them effective.
  • Accepted with modifications. The revised manuscript can be published conditional on the inclusion of modifications. This must be corrected and returned by the authors to the Journal within a maximum period of 20 days. If necessary, the new version will be sent again to the reviewers, who may reject the article if they consider that it does not meet the quality criteria of the Journal. The authors will receive the evaluation reports from the reviewers, anonymously, so that they can make (if applicable) the appropriate corrections. When a revision of the article is sent, two files must be included: a file in which the authors must mark the changes made in red and a response letter to all the reviewers' comments.
  • Rejected. If the reviewers' assessment reports that the article does not meet the journal's quality criteria, the article will be rejected. The authors will receive comments from the reviewers so that they can improve the proposal and submit it for consideration in a new journal.

6. Contributor agreement and copyright

  • EDUCAR publishes under the Creative Commons license, under the system of “Attribution-Noncommercial” (by-nc) under the following conditions: “You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor, and you may not use the work for commercial purposes”.
  • When the author(s) submits the contribution, the author(s) is signing a publishing agreement. Likewise, and about the contribution, the author(s) are accepting inclusion in the instalments of EDUCAR. This assignment is to be published by EDUCARwithin two years (maximum).
  • To ensure the widest dissemination, EDUCAR publishes in Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and different repositories under this protocol. That is, contribution submission for publication represents the explicit approval of the author(s) to distribute that way.

7. Publication, Submission and Page fees

There are no publication, submission, and page fees for EDUCAR.

Monograph

Includes specialized contributions concerned to the selected topic of each issue (http://educar.uab.cat/announcement).

Research issues

The “Research topics” section, as its name indicates, contains strictly articles bearing on the practical working in education, on issues of current interest and, not necessarily, on issues related to the monographic topic.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright.
  2. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international licence (from Vol 54, No 1, 2018). You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
  3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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