Author Guidelines

Psicodebate

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Alejandro Castro Solano, PhD |Editor-in-Chief

Guadalupe de la Iglesia, PhD | Managing Editor

Universidad de Palermo

Psicodebate publishes papers on psychology and other social and human sciences. All manuscripts go through a peer review process where external reviewers examine their content without knowing the authorship of the paper, and recommend accepting or rejecting the paper for its publication. Manuscripts may be directly accepted, accepted with a request of modifications (major/min) or rejected. The editor will inform the corresponding author of the decision made within the following eight weeks since the paper was sent.

All papers must be written according to the latest American Psychological Association (APA) style indications (fourth edition in Spanish, and seventh edition in English). The Word file must obey the following criteria: Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5 spacing. It is expected that all papers do not exceed 8000 words (excluding title, authors information, abstract and keywords). All papers must be original and not under evaluation by another journal.

For submitting your paper authors must have their work in a Word file that will be uploaded using Open Journal System (OJS). The web address for user registration and uploading the paper is:: https://dspace.palermo.edu/ojs/index.php/psicodebate

IMPORTANT: The Word file MUST NOT contain any information about the authors. Authors’ data (name and surname, affiliation, e-mail) are registered in STEP 3 (Metadata).

Before submitting your manuscript check if it meets all of Psicodebate's requirements:

Original Research Articles: The submission has not been previously published, nor is it currently submitted to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in “Comments to the Editor”). Prior to acceptance and publication in Psicodebate, authors may make their submissions available as preprintson personal or public websites (see Preprint Policy).
Acknowledging and citing previous work: Previous or concurrent publications of the author(s) based on the same or closely related research are properly acknowledged and cited. It is made clear in the manuscript in which way(s) it represents a novel contribution to warrant consideration for publication in Psicodebate. Note: Replications of previous work are explicitly welcomed if identified as such.
Authorship: All authors of the submitted manuscript are named in Step 3 of the submission process. All authors of the submitted manuscript are aware of and approve its submission to Psicodebate. All authors have made significant contributions to the manuscript. Contributions that fall short of authorship are mentioned in the Acknowledgments section of the submission/cover letter. (For criteria of authorship see the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Standard 8.12, Publication Credit, of the American Psychological Association (APA). Responsibility for authorship decisions lies entirely with the authors.)
Consent for data storage: All authors of the submitted manuscript consent to the storage of their personal data transferred in conjunction with the submission and in accordance with the Journal's Privacy Statement.
Ethical Standards: In the case of empirical research: The study received appropriate ethical review and clearance, thus meeting all ethical standards for research. Also, authors are expected to have follow the Ethical Standards of the American Psychological Association (2010).
Use of Copyrighted Materials: No copyrighted material is used unless that material has also been made available under a CC-BY license.
File Format: File format of the manuscript is MS Word (.doc or .docx).
Stylistic and bibliographic requirements: The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Psicodebate’s Author Guidelines.
Ensuring a Blind Review: all biographical details are removed from submission for peer review purposes in accordance with the instructions for Ensuring a Blind Review.

Anonymised submission includes:

Running head: short title (one line), no more than 50 characters including spaces
Title
Abstract: no more than 300 words
Keywords: 4-6 keywords or brief phrases separated by commas
Main article body including tables and figures
References: APA style (7th Edition)

Citations and References: Citations in text and the reference list conform to APA style (7th Edition). Note: Particular care should be taken to ensure that references are accurate and complete. Authors bear responsibility for the accuracy of all references and quotations. References should be listed in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References. See Author’s Guidelines for examples.
Copyright notice: In the case that the submission is accepted for publication, author agree for it to be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License(CC BY 4.0).
Disclosure and conflict of interest: All authors should include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

How to submit a paper to be considered for its publication in Psicodebate with OJS?

PREVIOUS STEP: Register as a user by clicking in LOGIN and then in “Not a user? Register with this site”. You will be asked to inform your personal data to register.

STEP 1: Once you are registered as a user, login with your user name and password and click on “New submission”. Go through the Submission Checklist to review if your papers meets all the requirements for it to be considered for publication. Check all elements if it does. If you wish, you may leave a comment to the editor in the text box below. Once you’ve done that, click on “Save and continue”.

STEP 2: In this step you have to upload the Word file with the paper that will be reviewed. IMPORTANT: This file MUST NOT have any author information. Choose the file and upload it. We suggest that you previously review the authors’ instructions before submitting your paper. Then click on “Save and continue”.

STEP 3: In this step you must upload all the submission’s metadata. Firstly, enter all authors’ information in the authorship order that should be published. Using the “Add author” button you may add additional authors. The, enter the title and the abstract, the keywords, the contributors or supporting agencies that must be acknowledge and the complete reference list (IMPORTANT: All references with DOI must inform it. You can check this with the Simple Text Query service of CrossRef: http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery).

STEP 4: Here you may upload any supplementary file that you consider important. Tables and figures must be placed in the Word file uploaded in STEP 2. Please place them within the text. It is likely that you won’t need to upload any file in this step.

STEP 5: Confirm your submission.

FILE TO BE UPLOADED IN STEP 2: ARTICLE WITHOUT AUTHORS’ INFORMATION

Title Page WITHOUT authors data. Title in Spanish. Running head in Spanish. Abstract in Spanish (300 words maximum): Briefly, include information about the papers aim, sample studied, materials, results and principal conclusions. Keywords in Spanish (between 4 and 6 words). Title in English. Abstract (300 words maximum). Keywords (between 4 and 6 words).
Introduction. Clearly delimit and lay out the research problem. Use subtitles to present theoretical and background research. Here, objectives and hypotheses must be enunciated.
Method. It must include the following subsections: Participants, Materials and Procedure. In them, authors must inform about the sample studied, sampling method, type of study and design, materials and procedures used for data recollection.
Results. Here authors must inform the statistical analysis performed and the results obtained for each research objective.
Discussion. In this section include the interpretation of the results obtained contrasting them to theoretical and background research.
References. They should be listed in a complete and organized manner. All of the text citations must have their correspondent reference in the list, and all references must be cited in the text at least once. Use the Simple Text Query service of CrossRef to review if the elements of your list have doi. In that case add them for the reference to be complete. The web address is: http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery
IMPORTANT: Check that there is no author information in the file

MAIN GUIDELINES REGARDING APA STYLE:

Citing references in text:

All citations must include only the authors last names (not their initials) and the year of publication.
The use of direct quotations will be exceptional. In case where direct quotations are necessary and the text to be quoted has less than 40 words it will be incorporated in the text within quotation marks with the authors last name, year of publication and number page. Examples:

… as pointed out by Castro Solano (2012): “Estudiantes extranjeros, líderes expatriados, diplomáticos, militares desempeñándose en misiones de paz, residentes transitorios deben adaptarse de modo efectivo a la cultura y tener éxito en la tarea, sea de trabajo o de estudio” (p. 1).

…as it has been stated: “Estudiantes extranjeros, líderes expatriados, diplomáticos, militares desempeñándose en misiones de paz, residentes transitorios deben adaptarse de modo efectivo a la cultura y tener éxito en la tarea, sea de trabajo o de estudio” (Castro Solano, 2012, p. 1).

In those cases where the text bears more that 40 words, no quotations are used and the text will be copied in a new paragraph using indentation. Examples:

… as pointed out by Castro Solano (2012).

Estudiantes extranjeros, líderes expatriados, diplomáticos, militares desempeñándose en misiones de paz, residentes transitorios deben adaptarse de modo efectivo a la cultura y tener éxito en la tarea, sea de trabajo o de estudio. Las poblaciones migrantes comentadas son denominadas residentes temporarios (soujourners) ya que son personas que migran a un contexto cultural distinto por un tiempo relativamente largo (6 meses a 5 años), para realizar una tarea determinada y ponen en juego las habilidades de adaptación sociocultural, que definimos como competencias culturales. (p. 1).

…as pointed out in a previous study.

In all other citations use the conjunction of authors last names by and in the text, and by using the & symbol within parenthesis. Examples:

Castro Solano and Góngora (2011) concluded….

… as it was concluded by a previous study (Castro Solano & Góngora, 2011).

When the reference has between three or more authors always use et al.

About statistical data and numbers:

Some statistics are written in lower case letter and in italics (example: p, r, t).
A colon must indicate decimals.
No precedent zero must be used in those values that cannot exceed the unit (example: Pearson’s r, Cronbach’s alpha, p value).

Figures:

Indicate the number and name of the figure right before it. Example:

Figure 1.

Diamonds’ diagram.

Reference each figure within the text.
Number all figures consecutively.

Tables:

Indicate the number and name of the table right before it. Example:

Table 1.

Gender differences in...

Use the last line of the table when further explanations are needed. Example:
Reference all tables within the text and number them consecutively.

Reference list:

Each reference will be complete when the following information is included:

For papers: Last name and initial of the authors – Year of publication – Paper title – Journal’s full name (do not use abbreviations) – Volume – Number (if available) – Beginning and ending page number – DOI - Example:

Demaray, M. K., & Malecki, C. K. (2002). Critical Levels of Perceived Social Support Associated with Student Adjustment. School Psychology Quarterly, 17(3), 213–241. https://doi.org/10.1521/scpq.17.3.213.20883

For books: Last name and initial of authors – Year of publication – Book title – Publisher - DOI

Example:

Castro Solano, A. (2014). Positive Psychology in Latin America. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9035-2

For book chapters: Last name and initial of the authors – Year of publication – Title of the chapter – Initial and last name of the editors – Book title – Beginning and ending page number – Publisher - DOI

Example:

Lupano Perugini, M. L. (2014). Positive Psychological Assessment in Latin America. En A. Castro Solano (Ed.), Positive Psychology in Latin America (pp. 37–60). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9035-2_3

Use hanging indentation.
Arrange them according to the following criteria: alphabetical order – nothing comes before something – from the oldest to the newer.
Look over the correct use of colons, commas, parentheses and italics.
For other kind of references refer to the APA style manual.