Methods of submission and evaluation of papers

Researchers interested in publishing their work in Revista Ceres should submit their proposal by accessing the journal's website, once the corresponding registration has been completed.

https://revistaceres.com/index.php/ceres/index

Likewise, the following e-mail addresses are available in case of any inconvenience:

edicionesclio.es@gmail.com

jorgevidovicl@gmail.com

Proposals must have:

From the authors:

1. Surname and first name
2. E-mail address
3. ORCID updated with their last university degrees, institutions to which they belong and research work.
4. Institutional affiliation (University, Institute, Research Center, Foundation, among others).
5. Curriculum vitae no longer than ten (10) lines and a cell phone number with the international code of the country of origin.
6. Indicate the origin of the research or work performed, as well as the agency to which it is attached.
7. Once the work has been accepted for publication, authors must wait at least two (2) issues before submitting another proposal.
8. The maximum number of authors allowed is four (4), provided that the work stems from a research project and that it is duly supported by verifiable sources.

Of the manuscript:

1. With the proposal, the authors will issue a written communication with autographed signatures, addressed to the Editor of the journal, stating that they express interest in proposing their work for publication, that it is unpublished, has not been proposed or published in other journals or publishers, and that they are solely responsible for its content.
2. The papers will be evaluated by a Committee, specialists of recognized prestige in each of the areas of knowledge that are proposed.
3. The evaluation of the Reviewers will be carried out by the procedure known as blind pair: the reviewers and the authors will not know each other's identities.
4. All papers are treated with specialized software to detect duplicate content (plagiarism). Any case detected will imply the rejection of the article; in this case, a notification will be issued to the author(s), accompanied by a detailed report and he/she will not be given the possibility to postulate another manuscript in the journal again.

Evaluation criteria:

Formal or presentation criteria: 1) originality, pertinence and adequate length of the title; 2) clarity and coherence of the discourse; 3) adequate preparation of the abstract; 4) internal organization of the text; 5) all other criteria established in these regulations.

Content criteria: 1) evidenced mastery of knowledge; 2) scientific rigor; 3) theoretical and methodological basis; 4) timeliness and relevance of the sources consulted; 5) contributions to existing knowledge.

The refereeing process is described in detail on the journal's website:

https://revistaceres.com/index.php/ceres/arbitraje

Upon receipt of the response from the Referees Committee, the authors will be informed by e-mail of the corresponding decision. If the paper is accepted for publication, authors should verify that, once their article has been published, both personal and academic data are correct. Any changes should be communicated during the first fifteen (15) days after the publication of the issue of the journal, always taking into account the periodicity of the journal.

Submission of papers

Download here the basic template to submit the manuscript

Papers should include:

1. An abstract of 150 words maximum and up to four keywords; both the abstract and the keywords will be in Spanish and English.
2. The title and subtitle (if any) will be presented in the language of origin; also in Spanish and English.

3. The maximum length of the paper will be between twenty (20) and forty (40) pages.
4. The presentation format will be in Microsoft Word, on letter size paper, with continuous numbering and margins of two (2) centimeters on each side. The text shall be presented in Times New Roman font, size twelve (12). Tables, graphs and footnotes should be in Times New Roman font, size 10.

Body of the paper

Title: It must be short, explanatory and contain the essence of the work. This title should be provided both in the original language of the paper and in Spanish and English.

Author(s): Indicate the surname(s) and full name(s), the name of the institution where the work was carried out, e-mail and Orcid. In footnote of the first page, academic level and institutional affiliation.

Abstract: No longer than one hundred and fifty (150) words, in the language of origin of the work, as well as in Spanish and English.

Keywords: Three (3) or four (4) keywords should be included in the source language of the paper, as well as in Spanish and English. These descriptor words facilitate the inclusion of the article in the international database. It is suggested to make use of the UNESCO Thesaurus available at: https://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/es/

Sections and sub-sections: It is recommended, if applicable, to divide the paper into: abstract, introduction, theoretical foundations, methodology, analysis and discussion of results, conclusion or final considerations and references. Each of the sections or sub-sections should be numbered with Arabic numerals.

Important: To facilitate the submission of the paper, according to the modality, the journal Ceres in its web portal, invites you to download the corresponding format in the section Publication rules for the author.

Norms for citations and references

The citation will be made taking into account the manual of standards of the American Psychological Association (APA) in its 7th edition, available at: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations and applying the guidelines established in this section.

Citations

The author-date and page number are used in the text, in the case of a textual citation.

Textual citation: the author's words are reproduced exactly.

If the quotation is up to 40 words, it is incorporated in the text between double quotation marks, without italics. More than 40 words, it is written separately from the text, in block, indented 1 cm from both margins, without quotation marks, without italics and with single spacing. The identification of the source will be according to the following example, if the parenthetical style is used: (Granadillo, 1998, p. 45) or the narrative style: ...Granadillo (1998, p. 45).

Paraphrase citation: when the author's ideas are recounted, summarized or reorganized in the author's own words.

In this type of quotation, the page number is not included. Example: According to Granadillo (1998) or (Granadillo, 1998).

- If there are several works by the same author published in the same year, they will be arranged literally in alphabetical order; thus, (Granadillo, 2008a), (Granadillo, 2008b), Granadillo (2008a), Granadillo (2008b).
- If there are two authors, only the first surname of each will be used, for example: According to Pietri and Granadillo (2008) or (Pietri and Granadillo, 2008), following the same criteria explained above for textual citations and paraphrases.

- If there are three or more authors, the surname of the main author should be included, followed by "et al.", for example: (Rincón et al., 2008).
- Citations of unpublished or in-print works, as well as references to communications and private documents of limited circulation, should be avoided whenever possible, unless strictly necessary.
- In the case of documentary, electronic, or other sources that, due to their nature, make it unfeasible or complex to adopt the cited author-date suggested in these standards, the reference may be used or opted for the one cited in the footnote.

References. References (bibliographic, newspaper, oral, and/or documentary) should be presented at the end of the text. The order of references is alphabetical by surname. Different works by the same author should be organized chronologically, in ascending order, and if there are two or more works by the same author and year, the strict alphabetical order by title should be maintained.

References will be made taking into account the standards of the American Psychological Association (APA) in its 7th edition, available at: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references and applying the guidelines established in this section.

References should be made only to those cited in the work. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Books or manuals: must contain the last name (comma), first initial (period), year of publication in parentheses (period), title of the work in italics (period), edition in parentheses (period), publisher (period), URL if it is a digital version or the DOI (no period at the end).

Example:

Jackson, L. (2019). The Psychology of Prejudice: From Attitudes to Social Action. (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

Sapolsky, R.M. (2017). Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Penguin Books.

Scientific journal articles: must contain the last name (comma), first initial (period), year of publication in parentheses (period), title of the work (not italics), journal title in italics (comma), volume followed by a number in parentheses (comma), page range separated by a hyphen (period), DOI (no period at the end)

Example:

Grady, J.S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Pérez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks depicting ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8 (3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Note: For other styles, please refer to the APA Style Guidelines in their 7th edition. Edition: https://apastyle.apa.org/

Appendices: Appendices are complementary elements of the text that refer the reader to a part of the work or outside of it, with the purpose of illustrating the ideas expressed in the text, expanding or clarifying, or complementing what is expressed therein. Appendices are counted as part of the page count of the manuscript. In the case of figures and tables, the author may accompany the original with any illustrations they deem necessary.

Other works: The following short works (maximum fifteen pages) are also accepted: Conferences, Essays, Reviews: commentaries on recent readings. Reviews: critical analysis (or commentary) of recent readings, agreements, statements, interviews: conducted for research purposes.

Any other unforeseen situation will be resolved by the editors as they deem appropriate to the interests of the journal.