Submissions

Author Guidelines

PUBLICATION RULES

Authors interested in publishing in the Conrado Journal should submit their papers through the journal's platform accessible at: https://conrado.ucf.edu.cu/index.php/conrado/about/submissions.

Our journal will only accept unpublished works that are not in the process of publication in other serial publications. The language of publication will be Spanish; although articles will be accepted in English and Portuguese, if one of the authors comes from a country of that language, or if they have been translated by a professional translator.

Contributions may be written in Microsoft Office Word (“.doc” or “.docx”), using Calibri font, 12 point, 1.5 line spacing. The sheet should be 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm (letter format). The top and bottom margins should be 2.5 cm and 2 cm should be left and right.

Other font size will be used for titles and subtitles in the article according to the template provided.

Manuscript structure

Contributions submitted to the editorial staff of the journal should have the following structure:

Length between 5000 and 10000 words.

TITLE in Spanish and English (15 words maximum). Calibri 14 font

E-mail: (e-mail of each author, preferably institutional).

ORCID identifier: with the following format and without a period: https://orcid.org/0000-000O-0000-0000 it is mandatory that all authors of the article have their profile in https://orcid.org/ updated with their employment, main publications and be visible to the public.

In case of more than one author, the *Author for correspondence must be defined, which is written after the name of the institutions as follows.

*Author for correspondence: (Write the author's e-mail to be determined)

Abstract in Spanish up to 250 words, including presentation of the problem, general objective, methodology used and main results achieved. An abstract should also be provided in English.

Keywords in Spanish and English (three to ten in Spanish and English), separated by commas. It is suggested to use the UNESCO Thesaurus.

Introduction; Materials and methods; Results and discussion and Bibliographical references, for research articles; the rest of the contributions will have: Introduction Development, Conclusions, the latter never numbered; and Bibliographical references. In case of having Annexes, they will be included at the end of the document.

Other formal aspects

Pages should be numbered in the lower right corner.

Tables should be numbered in order of appearance and their title should be placed at the top (Calibri 11 font). They should be cited in the text as follows: table 1 or (Table 1).

Figures should not exceed 100 Kb, nor should they be wider than 10 cm. They should be submitted in a separate folder in image format: .jpg or .png. In the text, they should be listed in order, and their name should be placed at the bottom (Calibri 11 font). They will be cited as follows: figure 1 or (Figure 1).

The acronyms will accompany the text that defines it the first time, in parentheses and will not be conjugated in plural. E.g. Ministry of Higher Education (MES).

Notes are located at the foot of the page and must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Only clarifying notes and do not make excessive use of them. They should be up to 60 words long.

The annexes will support ideas raised in the paper and will be mentioned in the text as follows: Annex 1 or (Annex 1).

The main author must upload to the platform a document, in his/her name and in the name of all signatories, stating that there is no conflict of interest related to the article and specifying the contributions made by each author.

Authors will make a declaration of authorship under the CRediT taxonomy that allows differentiating the recognition of the contribution of each co-author in an academic document.

Citations and bibliographical references

Citations and bibliographic references should conform to the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition, 2019. The veracity of citations and bibliographical references is the responsibility of the author(s) of the article. Up to 25 sources should be used, preferably: scientific articles.

It is important to prioritize those sources that come from scientific journals indexed in WOS, Scopus and SciELO. Avoid gray and outdated literature (maximum 5 years old).

In the manuscript, sources cited from scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WOS should be shaded.

Avoid self-citations to the Conrado Journal, do not use more than one citation to the Conrado Journal.

Although the APA standard does not require it, whenever possible provide the URL or DOI of the document.

In the text, citations should be marked as follows: Surname (year), if the sentence includes the surname(s) of the author(s). If this information is not included, the variant: (Surname, year) will be used. Only the page number should be included in textual citations. Only those cited in the text should be mentioned at the end of the article, in alphabetical order with French indentation.

For each type of source, the way in which it should be referenced is explained below.

Book

Surname, A. A., & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title. Publisher.

Example:

Cruz Ramirez, M. (2009). The Delphi method in educational research. Academia.

Book parts

Surnames, A. A., & Surnames, B. B. (Year). Title of chapter or entry. In, A. A. A. Last names, Title of book (pp-pp). Publisher.

Example:

Picó, F. (2004). Arecibo, sun and serenity. In, F. Feliú Matilla, 200 years of literature and journalism: 1803-2003 (pp. 129-134). Ediciones Huracán.

Magazine article

Surnames, A. A., Surnames, B. B., & Surnames, C. C. (Date). Title of the article. Title of the publication, volume(number), xx-xx. URL

Example:

López, L. B. (2006). The literature search: a key component of the research process. DIAETA, 24(115), 31-37. https://www.fmed.uba.ar/sites/default/files/2017-12/busqueda_biblio.pdf

Thesis

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the thesis (Type of thesis). Name of the institution.

Example:

Van Hiele, P. M. (1957). The problem of comprehension: In connection with the comprehension of school children in the learning of geometry. (Doctoral dissertation). Royal University of Utrecht.

Paper

Surnames, A. A., Surnames, B. B., & Surnames, C. C. (Year). Title of the paper (Type of contribution). Name of the event. City, country.

Example:

Rozemblum, C., Unzurrunzaga, C., Pucacco, C., & Banzato, G. (2012). Evaluation parameters for the inclusion and indexing of scientific journals in local and international databases. Analysis on their contribution to the quality of Humanities and Social Sciences publications (Paper). VII Sociology Conference of the UNLP. La Plata, Argentina.

Audiovisual media

Surname, A. A. of the director (Date). Title of the source. [Type of media.] Production company.

Example:

Cameron, J. (1997). Titanic? [Film]. 20th Century Fox?

Electronic sources

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the source. Name of the site. URL

Example:

Bruguera i Payà, E. (2012). Proceso de búsqueda y localización de información por Internet. UOC. http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/17829/1/UW07_00071_02418.pdf

Institutional author

Printed

Country. Name of the Institution (Year). Title of the source. Publisher.

Example:

Ecuador. National Secretariat of Planning and Development (2013). National Development Plan / National Plan for Good Living 2013-2017. SENPLADES.

On line

Country. Name of the Institution (Year). Title of the source. Publication where it is hosted. URL

Example:

Ecuador. National Constituent Assembly (2008). Political Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador. Official Register 449. https://www.cec-epn.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Constitucion.pdf

Unpublished manuscript

Surnames, A. A., Surnames, B. B., & Surnames, C. C. (Date). Title of source (Status of manuscript). Institution.

Example:

León González, J. L., López Bastida, E. J., & Mora Quintana, E. C. (2019). Impact and visibility of scientific journals at the University of Cienfuegos (Unpublished manuscript). University of Cienfuegos.

See a summary of the APA 7th Edition in the following Link.

In the journal you can find instructions for the creation of user accounts on the platform and how to submit to it.

You can also download an article template at the following link

Both resources can be found in the right panel of the journal.

Notes:

1. The journal does not charge for publication, nor does it undertake to remunerate the authors.
2. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make style corrections and any changes it deems necessary to improve the quality of the article.