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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The title page and essential information page is filled and attached

Author Guidelines

Simbiosis Educativa is an academic journal published annually with free access, created at the initiative of Fundación Enseña Ecuador. The journal has two sections: Empirical Research Articles and Literature Reviews. The journal also contains a section dedicated to Editorial reflections.

Considerations

  • Only unpublished articles and works in institutional repositories used in degree processes or submitted as class work will be accepted, as long as they adapt to the guidelines of the author's guide.
  • After the first review stage, the journal reserves the right to assign the article to the section where it will be published if accepted.
  • At the end of each review stage, the authors make the corrections requested by the reviewers within the established time frame.
  • Authors should send their submissions through the Open Journal System OJS platform, responding to the requirements presented in the Author's Guide.
  • All citations and references must follow the Chicago standards, Author-date format.
  • Simbiosis Educativa reserves the right to make any style corrections it deems necessary, as long as they do not alter the article's message

  • Simbiosis Educativa reserves the right to accept or reject articles at any stage of the editorial process.

  • Only one article per author can be submitted, in collaboration or individually.

  • Each article can consist of a maximum of three authors or collaborators.

The authors' names should not be included in the manuscript.
Name of the submitted files:
TitleArticleTitle_AuthorInitials.

* Only include the initials of one of the authors if there is more than one.

Submission of contributions

Submissions will consist of two elements: (1) Title page with essential information and (2) the original manuscript

(1) Title page with essential information (download here) 

The name(s) of the authors should not be present in the manuscript. To that end, essential information regarding the author(s) should be recorded on a separate file. The file contains:

  1. Spanish and English title
  2. Authors' full names and institutional affiliations. Please indicate each author's institutional affiliation including the city and country the institution is located in.
  3. Authors mailing address
  4. Orcid ID 
  5. Person in charge of correspondence

(2) Manuscripts 

Investigation Articles Format

● Format: Microsoft Word file format (*.doc or *.docx).

● Font: Times New Roman, 12 points.

● Page layout: A4 sheet, 2.5 cm margins per side, 1.5 spacing.

● Language: Spanish

● Any words in a language other than that of the text should be written in italics.

● Typographical resources such as bold, italics, superscripts, and subscripts will be allowed, avoiding additional emphasis formats such as capitalization, highlighting, or underlining.

● The citation format to be used will be Chicago, Author-date format.

● Tables and figures will be listed according to the Chicago, Author-date format citation format.

● Each figure and table should have a legend to accompany its explanation.

● Footnotes will not be used to include citations. Footnotes serve to clarify ideas and or concepts in the article. 

Research article format:

  1. Title: in bold. It should be concise with reader-friendly language. Only the first word and proper nouns begin with a capital letter. If necessary, it can be divided into a title and subtitle using a colon (:)
  2. The title should be presented in Spanish and English.
  3. Spanish Abstract: Spanish translation of the abstract . If necessary, the editorial committee will be in charge of the translation.
  4. Abstract: Corresponds to a paragraph of no more than 250 words that explains the main arguments of the text, the methodology used, and the most important conclusions. Should not include quotations.
  5. Keywords: Maximum 10 words or groups of words, separated by commas and different from those used in the title.
  6. Spanish Keywords: Spanish translation of the keywords. If necessary, the editorial committee will be in charge of the translation.
  1. Introduction,
  2. Development
  3. conclusion
  4. References: Chicago Autor- Date

Guidelines

● Length

 Research Articles will be a minimum of 5000 words to 9000 words. This length includes titles, introduction, development, conclusion, and footnotes. It does not include a bibliography, references, or descriptions of tables or graphs.

 Editorials will be up to 1000 words. This length includes titles, introduction, development, conclusion, and footnotes, without taking into account the bibliography, references, or descriptions of tables or graphs.

Editorial Process:

Each selected article will be submitted through the peer review process. The process uses the double-blind methodology detailed below.

The first stage of the revision is based on a diagnosis of substance and style, making use of the following criteria: structure; pertinent use of grammar; relevance to the area of Education; coherent argumentation, congruence with the values of the journal; adequate use of bibliographical references. This is  to have constant feedback between authors and reviewers giving way to the commitment of the former to make the necessary corrections according to the recommendations and observations of the corresponding reviewers during each of the stages of the peer review process. The second stage consists of a review by experts who will decide under their own criteria if the articles meet standards of excellence for publication.

Download the Author's Guide for research articles:

Review and download the following link to the author's guide for research articles: (Author's Guide-Research Articles.pdf).

Citation Manual

Simbiosis applies The Chicago Author-date format. For more details visit:

 

OJS Submissions

ManualCheck the following link for a step-by-step guide for your submission: (OJS Guide.pdf)

Investigation Articles

This section is dedicated to receiving empirical research articles and literature reviews aimed at reflecting on methodological and evaluative reviews; educational guidance; professional training for educators; basic education; interculturality; public policy, and/or educational leadership.

Artículos de Opinión

Sección de artículos de opinión de experto en el tema, que no son parte del comité editorial.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in the journal accept the following terms:

1. Authors will retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons Acknowledgment License that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication this journal are indicated.
2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work, thus being able to publish it in a monographic volume or reproduce it in other ways, as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet:
a. Prior to submission to the journal, authors may deposit the manuscript in preprint servers/repositories, including arXiv, bioRxiv, figshare, PeerJ Preprints, SSRN, among others, which may produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work (See The Open Access Effect).
b. After submission, it is recommended that authors deposit their article in their institutional repository, personal web page, or scientific social network (such as Zenodo, ResearchGate or Academia.edu).

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes established in it and will not be provided to third parties or for use with other purposes.

Open Access Policy and Licenses

The journal adopts the open access definition proposed by DOAJ. Simbiosis Educativa is an academic journal where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license. This allows for immediate free access to the work and permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

  1. As of 2020, all articles and components of Simbiosis Educativa are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Under this license, Authors retain copyright over their works, but allow any user to share, copy, redistribute, transmit, and adapt the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes without needing to provide additional permissions, as long as the original authorship of the work is appropriately credited, providing a link to the license, and indicating if changes were made.
  2. This license supports the mission of Simbiosis Educativa as an open-access journal. The license appears on all individual pages of the journal's articles and components.

This work is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Access to both the contents of the journal and to publish in it is free of charge for readers and authors.

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons acknowledgment license that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and its first publication in this journal are indicated. Authors may 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 monograph), as long as the initial publication in this journal is acknowledged. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work online:
  2. Before submission to the journal, authors can deposit the manuscript in pre-publication archives/repositories (preprint servers/repositories), including arXiv, bioRxiv, figshare, PeerJ Preprints, SSRN, among others, which can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work (See The effect of open access).
  3. After submission, authors are recommended to deposit their article in their institutional repository, personal website, or scientific social network (such as Zenodo, ResearchGate o Academia.edu).