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Author Guidelines

PRESENTATION OF THE ARTICLE. TEMPLATE

The manuscript must fulfill with 100% of the Microsoft Word Template provided. Download the template here.

STRUCTURE OF THE MANUSCRIPT

Catedra journal publishes scientific articles in Spanish and English; therefore, authors are responsible for the translation of figures and tables. The journal provides translation if necessary, however, the authors will be the only ones in charge of translating and transcribing such information in the figures and tables.

The manuscript presented for its publication at Revista Cátedra must fulfill the norms about: structure, citation using APA norms (seventh edition), extension and writing of the manuscript. Download the instructions here.

La Revista Cátedra, of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Education Sciences of Universidad Central del Ecuador has the following norms for the presentation, structure and submission of the manuscript.

These style norms and instructions are mandatory for the author/s, if the norms are not strictly followed in relation to the style and instructions, the manuscript can be rejected.

 

AUTHORS GUIDELINES

[ ] Manuscripts submitted for the publication in “Revista Cátedra” must comply with 100% Microsoft Word template. Download it on http://revistadigital.uce.edu.ec/index.php/CATEDRA/about/submissions

[ ] Write the article with a length of at least 10 pages and maximum of 20 pages, without including the title, summary, bibliography and presentation of the authors.

[ ] To quote use the International Standards of The American Psychological Association (APA), in its seventh edition,

[ ] One to four authors per article will be accepted. If an article requires more authors with extension to a project, the editors of the journal should be previously indicated.

Structure of the article

[ ] Title. A maximum of 20 words is recommended (including prepositions, conjunctions and other words). To connote research, use words such as: factors, perception, evaluation, innovation, etc. The title can also offer a solution or be the first to state the problem.

[ ] From the authors. It must contain this data in the following order: first and last name of the author, institution to which he/she belongs to, city, country, institutional email and ORCID number.

[ ] Abstract. 

The summary should answer the following six questions:

  • What is the problem?
  • Why is the problem important?
  • What did others do that did not work?
  • What is the proposed solution?
  • What is the methodology?
  • What are the main results?
  • What are the consequences or implications of the solution?

It will have a minimum length of 200 and a maximum length of 250 words.

[ ] Abstract in English. It must be written in English, with the same length and structure of the abstract in Spanish.

[ ] Keywords (Spanish) and Keywords (English). At least 5 and maximum 8 words must be included, separated by commas and sorted alphabetically.

[ ] Introduction. 

The introduction is the author's description of the research problem. In writing the introduction, the aspects that the thesis will contain are addressed succinctly, thus, the readers will have a panoramic view of the research work they will approach.

Another way to understand the aspects to be written in the introduction would be to establish an analogy between the introduction with the action plan to develop a research, since in this segment are all the elements that shape the article, as well as the complete summary of what will be covered in the research. The questions to be taken into account for the writing are:

  • What is the nature and scope of the problem being investigated?
  • What are the difficulties, obstacles, challenges of the research?
  • What is the importance of the problem (extended version with respect to the abstract)?
  • What is the main idea of what is intended to be done?
  • Research questions?
  • What are the limits of the research?
  • What is the purpose of the thesis?
  • End the introduction with a paragraph describing section by section the structure and content of the thesis.

[ ] Literature review. Bibliographical sources should be updated and obtained from reliable sites; it must be relevant to the development of the research and must be cited at the end of the document.

[ ] Materials and methods. This section is written in the past tense. It is the development of the research and it usually answers the following questions: how are we going to investigate? Who are we going to investigate? And what are we going to investigate?

[ ] Results. It must have a logical and sorted sequence using illustrative materials (tables and figures). It is recommended to do an explicit analysis after the table or figure.

[ ] Discussion. It examines and interprets the results presented in the previous section.

[ ] Conclusions.  It should contain a direct answer to the research question, implications with other research from other authors or own, and future lines of research.

[ ] Acknowledgment. It is optional, aimed at those who, without being authors or co-authors, have supported the research intellectually or financially.

[ ] Bibliography. Bibliographical references will be cited according to APA standards in its seventh edition. It should be noted that the literature responds to the authors mentioned throughout the article.

[ ] From the presentation of the authors. At the end of the article, two paragraphs will be used to talk about the authors in the same order of their participation. The information used will be: titles obtained; the professional activities of the author.

 

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Publication frequency

Revista Cátedra has a semestral frequency, and is published the first month of each January-June, July-December period. (It is published the first month of each period). The author must consider the submission dates and must take into considerations:

  • The journal constantly receives articles and these must be submitted through the Open Journal System (OPJ), for which it is necessary that the authors register in this link.

At the end of the final version of the articles, the documents that must be sent are:

ARTICLE VALUATION

Before submitting the manuscript through the OJS, it is recommended to verify the fulfillment of the previous control.

TOPICS

The topics covered are the theoretical bases of the Education Sciences in its different specialties and levels of the educational system. Priority will be given to papers describing pedagogical experiences, didactics used, innovation processes, and their relationship with new educational technologies.

AUDIENCE

All the national and international researchers interested in publishing quality research papers that help in the improvement of the educative process. The journal accepts articles in Spanish or English.

ARBITRATION PROCESS

Double-blind revision, minimum two reviewers per article, with external evaluators.  

DIGITAL PRESERVATION POLITICS

The website of the journal provides Access to all articles published throughout the time.

ACCESS POLITICS

La Revista Cátedra provides open and free access to investigations with the aim of presenting knowledge. The articles are published under the licencia de Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

PLAGIARISM DETECTION

The journal uses a plagiarism detection tool (Compilatio, https://www.compilatio.net/es ). A maximum match rate of 10% will be accepted.

Privacy Statement

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