Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author guidelines

In Cuadernos.info, manuscripts must be presented electronically through the website http://www.cuadernos.info. Authors must create an account on the website (as AUTHOR) and follow the steps indicated there. Manuscripts sent by other means are not accepted.

Manuscripts that do not meet the following requirements or which are otherwise considered inappropriate for their publication in Cuadernos.info will be returned to the author without undergoing peer review.

Important considerations

• Manuscripts must be unpublished (not previously published in a substantially similar form or with substantially similar content) and not being evaluated in another publication.
• If the manuscript has previously been presented or is in the process of being presented at a conference or congress, when sending the manuscript, the authors must specify it in the comments to the editor, and must not authorize the conference to publish the paper (they are allowed to disseminate the title and abstract, but not the complete document).
• For purposes of Cuadernos.info, papers published in conference minutes, university dissemination platforms, etc. will NOT be considered unpublished, so they will be rejected immediately.
• If the manuscript emerges from a thesis (particularly in those cases in which universities require that they are published online), it is necessary for the authors to specify this situation in the comments to the editor section when sending the manuscript, to analyze the postulation.
• Cuadernos.info will only accept simultaneous review of a maximum of two (2) manuscript requests per author, regardless of whether the author is an individual or co-author.
• Manuscripts can be submitted in Spanish, English or Portuguese, reviewed by native speakers of these languages when the author is not native to guarantee its correct writing and, therefore, the correct understanding of those who can read it.
• In the event that the work methodology includes data collection with the participation of people, it is necessary to include the ethics certificate of your institution at the time of applying, attaching said document in the additional files.
• The text can not contain any evidence of the identities or institutional affiliations of the authors, since it must be able to be sent to a blind peer review. This must be true both in the text and in the document properties. In the case of self-citations in the document (references to the author of the manuscript), we request that they not remain blind, maintaining the author's identity without modifying them or excluding them as "AUTHOR", since it is contrary to the blind review interest of this journal.
• Themes: manuscripts of all areas of communications with application in Ibero-America, including but not restricted to journalism, institutional communication, audiovisual, digital, multimedia, advertising, and film are accepted.

Formal aspects

• The minimum length is 6,000 words and the maximum is 8,000 words, including abstracts, bibliographical references, tables, figures, appendices and notes.
• The manuscripts as a whole must conform closely to the style guidelines of the 7th edition in English of the American Psychological Association (APA) Manual of Publications. This implies that in the list of references all titles of works cited in languages other than English must include a bracket that includes their translation into that language. If you have any questions about the use of the APA standard, please review the articles previously published in the journal or consult the following link: https://libguides.csudh.edu/citation/apa-7
• Standard fonts should be used: Times New Roman, size 12, double spacing and margins of 2.5 cm (1 inch) per side on letter-size sheet.
• All components of the manuscript (including tables, figures and appendices) must be included in the main document in MS Word format (with the extension .doc or .docx). Files in PDF format will not be accepted.
• The structure of the article should approximate the following format: introduction; theoretical framework and/or literature review; methodology; results; discussion; conclusions; references.
• Page 1 must include: a) Title in Spanish, Portuguese and English of maximum 85 characters with spaces; b) Abstract in Spanish, Portuguese and English describing the research objective, methodology, main results and main conclusions in a maximum of 100 words; and c) Between 3 and 8 key words in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
• Footnotes should be used only to provide information that cannot be included in the text of the article just in strictly necessary cases. It is recommended to avoid this resource as much as possible.
• References should begin on a separate sheet.
• When available, references should include the doi that identifies them according to the following format: https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx If you are unsure about the correct way to cite doi, see: https://www.crossref.org/display-guidelines/
• Quotation marks (" ") should be used for textual quotes only. Extensive citations (more than 40 words) should be in a separate paragraph, without quotes, with a larger margin (2 cm from the left margin) than the one used in the text, and with a size two-point lower than the rest of the text (Times New Roman, 10).
• Italics should be used for: words in a language other than the original language of the article; for book titles, media and television programs; for the presentation of a technical term or keyword; to highlight words or phrases cited as a linguistic example.

Graphic elements

• The use of graphic elements within the text must be minimum (ideally no more than 5).
• The editorial team reserves the right to ask the authors to reduce these elements to the number they deem necessary depending on each case.
• Color images and illustrations will be accepted and will be adjusted to the design of the magazine in case of publication.
• Tables, graphics, images, figures and notes should be included within the text in the corresponding place and not at the end of the article. These should be listed correlatively and indicate in the foot its source, even when it is elaboration of the authors (E.g., source: own elaboration).
• In addition, each graphic element must be incorporated into the system as an independent file: a) Editable tables and graphics in Excel (.xls, .xlsx) (with all the data that originate them); b) Editable figures and diagrams in PowerPoint format (.ppt, .pptx); and c) Images in JPG format (.jpg, .jpeg), in high resolution, about 1000px high and minimum of 300 DPI.