Submissions

Author Guidelines

Chargue

The journal Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences does not have either article submission charge or article processing charge (APCs).

TEMPLATE

The files you submit in the first submission must be “Manuscript”, “Title page” and “List of reviewers”.

After the review process more files must be uploaded. A letter of response to the reviewers' comments, detailing point-by-point the changes made and giving reasons for those not made. Please highlight all the amends on your manuscript or indicate them by using tracked changes. Additionally, please provide a clean copy of the manuscript. The name of the files must be “Response to reviewers”, “Manuscript_track_changes”, and “Manuscript_clean_copy"

Title Page

The title page should include:

• The name(s) of the author(s)
• A concise and informative title
• The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
• The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Text

Text Formatting: Manuscripts should be submitted in Word. The number of words should be between 3,000 and 6,000 approximately.

• Use a normal, plain font (12-point Times Roman) for text.
• Use italics for emphasis.
• Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Do not use field functions.
• Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Headings: Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations: Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes: Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.

Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.

Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References

The American Psychological Association (APA) Style should be used for the reference section.

Citation: Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

• Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Smith 1990).
• This result was later contradicted by Harrison and Davis (1996).
• This effect has been widely studied (Klaus 1991; McWilliams et al. 1995; Long and Smith 1998; Lemak et al. 1999).

Reference list: The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

Journal article: Harris, M., Karper, E. and Stacks, G. (2001). Writing labs and the Hollywood connection. Journal of Film Writing, 44(3), 213–245.

Article by DOI: Slifka, M. K. and Whitton, J. L. (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of Molecular Medicine, doi:10.1007/s001090000086.

Book: Calfee, R. C. and Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Book chapter: O’Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing, transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle (pp. 107–123). New York: Springer.

Online document: Abou-Allaban, Y., Dell, M. L., Greenberg, W., Lomax, J., Peteet, J., Torres, M., & Cowell, V. (2006). Religious/spiritual commitments and psychiatric practice. Resource document. American Psychiatric Association.

http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/lib_archives/archives/200604.pdf. Accessed 25 June 2007.

Tables

• All tables should be included in the text. They should be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

Artwork and Illustrations Guidelines

All figures should be included in the text. They should be numbered using Arabic numerals. Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).

Color Art

Color art is free of charge for online publication.

Supplementary Files

Complementary files are considered those that contain information that enriches the work or that facilitates its understanding, for example audios, videos, tables, maps, images, etc. Images, tables, graphs, etc. contained in the text are not considered complementary files, these must be included in the text in their proper location and size.

Supplementary files can be the following formats:

• Text: ASCII, Word, PDF, HTML
• Tables: Excel, Word, HTMAL, XHTML, XML
• Audio and video: AVI, MPG, Quicktime, RM, MP3, WAV
• Animation: GIF, JPEG, Flash/Shockwave
• Images: GIF, JPEG, TIFF

They will be uploaded to the platform during the submission process and will be named complementary files. You can upload as many as required. 

Submission editorial process

Upon the arrival of a new submission, the editorial team will verify that it complies with the standards regarding style and content (see Focus and Scope).

If the submission is accepted, it will go to the review step, where the editorial committee will select two expert researchers who will issue evaluation reports; these reports will include an opinion regarding the opportunity of the research, methodological adequacy, bibliographic review and contribution to the area of knowledge, through the double-blind system. In case conflicting reports are issued, a third report will be requested. The reports will be tools for editorial decision-making that will fall to the editorial committee, this will be the one who communicates to the author the editorial decision that may be: accepted, accepted with minor corrections, modifications (in this case the new submission will be submitted to a new review round) or rejected. In any case, the author may question the editorial decision and communicate with the editorial team to receive the appropriate clarifications. It is the intention of the editorial committee to motivate the editorial decision and guide the author in the opportunity of his research.

A first editorial decision (acceptance or rejection) will be made in the first 3 months, and final acceptance will be made between 6-8 months after receipt. Always depending on the volume of submissions that is managed at any time.

Suggesting reviewers

Please submit as a separate file the names, affiliations and institutional e-mail addresses of several potential reviewers.

You should not suggest reviewers who are colleagues, or who have co-authored or collaborated with you during the last three years. Editors do not invite reviewers who have potential competing interests with the authors. Further, in order to provide a broad and balanced assessment of the work, and ensure scientific rigor, please suggest diverse candidate reviewers who are located in different countries/regions from the author group. Also consider other diversity attributes e.g. gender, race and ethnicity, career stage, etc. Finally, you should not include existing members of the journal's editorial team, of whom the journal are already aware.

Note: the editor decides whether or not to invite your suggested reviewers.