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Instructions to authors

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

The journal Astrolabio. Nueva Época is a biannual publication of the Center for Research and Studies on Culture and Society (CIECS), belonging to the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and the National University of Córdoba (UNC), Argentina. Dedicated to research in social and human sciences, Astrolabio. Nueva Época preserves the virtual format with which it was created, promoting the access and circulation of contributions. In this new stage, Astrolabio intends to continue exchanging and disseminating scientific production in Spanish and Portuguese, and publishing articles of quality and critical perspective presenting research and theoretical discussions, with a particular interest in those referring to the Ibero-American universe.

Astrolabio. Nueva Época invites humanities and social sciences researchers to submit contributions for its following issues. In each edition, Astrolabio publishes "Articles of theoretical discussion" and general "Research articles", for which the call for papers is permanently open. It also includes a "Dossier", whose theme is renewed periodically, for which scientific articles are received until the deadline indicated in each call. Also,  "Reviews" of recently published books are also received.

Astrolabio publishes scientific texts subject to double-blind refereeing and under international criteria of editorial quality. The Journal does not charge any submission or article processing fee (APC).

The structure of the journal is based in the Open Journal System (OJS). To submit contributions, the author creates a user account and follows the steps proposed by the system. Submissions must comply with the editorial and style standards indicated at https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/about/submissions.

Open Access Policy

Astrolabio, Nueva Época is committed to the policies of Open Access to scientific information adopted by Argentina (National Law 26,899) and the National University of Córdoba (RHCS 1365/2017), which promote free, unrestricted circulation of publications and research financed with public funds, in line with international regulations, declarations, and proposals.

All texts are available for reading and can be downloaded for free to be used for academic and scientific purposes. Commercial use of the original work and generation of derivative works is not permitted.

The journal adheres to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. Therefore, it allows sharing, distributing, downloading, and using the material for academic purposes, whereas:

1. a) Authorship and the original source of its publication (magazine, editorial, and URL of the work) are acknowledged.

2. b) Material is not used for commercial purposes;

3. c) If you remix, transform, or build on the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Preservation policy

National Law 26,899 “Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories, Own or Shared” https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/ley-26899-223459 determine that researchers, teachers, scholarship holders postdoctoral students and master's and doctoral students whose research activity is financed with public funds, must deposit or expressly authorize the deposit of a copy of the final version of their scientific-technological production published or accepted for publication in the digital access repositories open of its institutions, within a period not exceeding six (6) months from the date of its official publication or approval (Art.5). Primary research data must be deposited within a period not exceeding five (5) years from the time of collection, in accordance with the policies established by the institutions.
The materials published in this journal are deposited in the Repository of the National University of Córdoba (UNC), which ensures automatic backups and remote copies, format adjustments, integrity checks and other activities required to ensure digital preservation are carried out through the repository. The UNC is part of the National System of Digital Repositories of the Argentine Republic. It has joined the University Digital Repository as the Journal Portal and complies with the guidelines for content providers of the National System of Digital Repositories of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation. More information at http://oca.unc.edu.ar/normativas.

Code of ethics, good practices, and conflicts of interest

Astrolabio Nueva Época assumes the commitment with the scientific community and its readers to guarantee the ethics and quality of its content, taking as a reference the code of conduct and good practices defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for editors, reviewers /as and authors of scientific journals. You can consult the code in full here: Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and Code of Conduct for Journals Publishers 

The code addresses all parties involved in the management and publication of scientific results. Here are the highlights to be considered:

Best practice for editors would include

• Quality: refers to the journal's responsibility to guarantee the relevance, coherence, and suitability of the scientific articles it publishes and to ensure the continuous improvement of the editorial processes.

• Transparency: Astrolabio. Nueva Época is committed to providing information to show the management of each step of the editorial process from the submission of the article until it is accepted or rejected.

• Privacy: The names and e-mail addresses entered in this magazine will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this magazine and will not be made available for any other purpose or person.

• Independent review of biases or ideological positions: the journal guarantees that the documents submitted to this journal will be evaluated solely for their intellectual merit and not for ideological issues defended by the author.

• Qualified evaluation: the journal assures its collaborators that it sends their work to recognized reviewers in the field of reference.

Best practice for authors would include

• Knowledge: authors declare that they know everything related to the focus of the journal, its scope, author regulations, use policies, and documents for authors.

• Originality and plagiarism: the authors declare that the papers submitted are original and have not been published in any other journal, since Astrolabio does not admit simultaneous publications. In the case of using graphics, images, photographs, etc.; the authors declare that they are free and without restrictions or licenses for use, or that they have the corresponding permissions for their use.

• Sources: authors are responsible for mentioning in all cases the sources and contributions mentioned in the article. They also confirm the veracity of the data, that is, that the empirical data have not been altered to verify hypotheses.

• Authorship: contributors guarantee the inclusion of those people who have made a significant scientific and intellectual contribution to the work.

• Responsibility: all collaborators accept responsibility for what has been written. Once the article is published, if the authors detect an important error in their work, they must immediately inform the journal and provide the necessary information to make the appropriate corrections/rectifications.

• Conflicts of interest: authors have the responsibility to acknowledge and declare in the manuscript all financial support received and other financial or personal connections with that work. A conflict of interest exists when there is a confrontation between the personal interests (financial, academic, or related) of the author and his scientific actions, his critical judgment, and the honesty of his acts.

Best practice for reviewers would include

• Contribution: reviewers assume the commitment to carry out a critical, honest, constructive, and unbiased review, both of the scientific quality and the literary quality of the writing in the field of their knowledge and skills.

• Confidentiality: each work to be evaluated must be considered confidential, and will not be open to discussions or suggestions from other people without the express consent of the editors.

• Objectivity: the peer review will be carried out objectively. No personal judgment of the authors of contributions is considered appropriate. Reviewers are required to give sufficient reasons for their ratings. The reviewers will have a guide provided by the editors to facilitate their task, where they can present their suggestions to the authors in a constructive, respectful, and well-founded manner.

• Corrections/omissions/similarities: the person responsible for the evaluation undertakes to indicate precisely the bibliographical references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author. You should also inform the editors of any similarities or overlaps of the manuscript with other published works.

• Conflict of interest: during the peer review process, the reviewers must not examine papers in which conflicts of interest interfere, either due to relationships of professional competence in the same field of research or for other reasons involving any type of relationship with the authors or the institution they represent.

Works that do not meet these ethical standards will be dismissed.

Plagiarism and self-plagiarism policy

Astrolabio. Nueva Época  publishes original works that have not been previously published or are being submitted for consideration by other publications, totally or partially. A statement to this effect will be requested from authors when submitting their manuscripts (see Guidelines for Authors). Translations of works published in another language in Spanish translation at the request of the Editorial Committee are excepted.

All submitted articles will be exhaustively reviewed for plagiarism or self-plagiarism detection. Is considered plagiarism when the authorship is omitted or quotes are not cited and/or when minimal changes are made in the text of a third party and it is presented as original, or when there is an original authorship reference, but the source pages are inaccurately indicated. Is considered self-plagiarism when the appearance of the submission is changed and it is presented as if it were a different one, or when the indication that the work is a new version of another work that has already been published is omitted.

Astrolabio uses the plag.es tool, which allows comparing text coincidences with several databases of public access and payment documents. Text matching algorithms output similar text matches at various fragmentation levels, and allow plagiarism risk to be calculated based on the presence of these largest continuous blocks of similarities in the document (plag.es). If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected, the evidence will be sent to the author and a response will be requested. If the answer is not satisfactory, the manuscript will be rejected and no new articles from the author will be received for three years.

RULES OF PRESENTATION OF WORKS TO PUBLISH IN THE JOURNAL Astrolabio (based on the rules of the American psychological association -APA)

1. Articles should consist of up to 10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. They must be written in Word format (2003 compatible) with a spacing of 1.5. The font size of the body of the text should be 11 points Arial typography. The text should be justified.

2. The title of the work should be in lowercase (except the initial of the first word and the proper names that go with uppercase), without underlining and in bold on the left margin and an English version of it should be added. The title must be in Spanish and English.

3. The summary, of a maximum length of 250 words, should include the presentation of the problem, the/objective/s, the methodology and the contribution to the field of study, developed in a synthetic and clear manner. Include a summary in Spanish and English and five keywords (in both languages).

4. Subtitles should be highlighted in bold, without capital letters, located on the left margin and without numbering.

5. Words to be highlighted should be in italics (never bold or underlined). Words in other languages should be placed in italics.

6. The paragraphs following the titles do not need to be indented, but all others should be indented by 1.25 cm.

7. The text should contain a specific paragraph clearly developing the methodological strategy used.

8. Footnotes should be numbered in Arabic numerals and placed at the end of the text. The font size and type of the footnotes shall be Arial 10 and the spacing shall be 1,0.

9. Bibliographic comments should be between 1500 and 3000 words and reviews should not exceed 500 words.

10. Bibliography: all references cited in the text must appear in the bibliographic list and vice versa. For the bibliographic citation, the following rules should be taken into account, based on the criteria of the A.P.A.

11. The version of the text to be evaluated should not contain any data that allows identifying the author/a to guarantee the blind review (neither in the body of the article, in the bibliography, nor in the footnotes). Then, if the article is accepted, the data will be added where appropriate. Send, a separate file with a summary of the author’s resume.

12. Upload the metadata to your profile on the journal’s website. It is important to complete the fields of institutional membership or affiliation (avoid using acronyms and abbreviations) and address ORCID

To cite bibliographic information

A. Books.

1. Must appear author's last name in capital letters, comma, name, date in parentheses, period, title in italics, period, place of publication, colon, publisher, and period. For example:

CARR, Wilfred . y KEMMIS, Steve. (1988). Teoría crítica de la enseñanza: La investigación-acción en la formación del profesorado. Barcelona: Martínez Roca.

COULON, Alain. (1988). La etnometodología. Madrid: Cátedra.

ELLIOT, John. (1989). La Investigación-acción en educación. Madrid: Morata.

2. When the place of publication is not a known capital, it is appropriate to cite the province, state, or country. For example:

COMES, Prudenci. (1974). Técnicas de expresión-1: Guía para la redacción y presentación de trabajos científicos, informes técnicos y tesinas, (2ª ed). Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona: Oikos-Tau.

FERNÁNDEZ SIERRA, Juan y Santos Guerra, M. Angel. (1992). Evaluación cualitativa de programas de educación para la salud. Archidona, Málaga: Aljibe.

3. If there is more than one author, all of them must be indicated in the Bibliographic References, separated by a semicolon (;) except for the last one, which is preceded by the conjunction 'and'. For example:

COOK, Thomas D. y REICHARDT, Charles S. (1986). Métodos cualitativos y cuantitativos en investigación educativa. Madrid: Morata.

GOETZ, Judith P. y Le COMPTE, Margaret D. (1988). Etnografía y diseño cualitativo en investigación educativa. Madrid: Morata.

BARTOLOME, Margarita; ECHEVERRÍA, Benito; MATEO, Joan y RODRÍGUEZ, Sebastián (Coord.). (1982). Modelos de investigación educativa. Barcelona: ICE de la Universidad de Barcelona.

4. In the body of the text, if the work has more than two authors, it is cited for the first time with all the surnames. In subsequent mentions, only the last name of the first author is written, followed by the phrase et al (and others). For example, "Bartholomew et al. (1982)", "Goetz et al. (1988)".

5. Sometimes the author is an organization or institution. In these cases, to avoid repetition, the reference is indicated at the end with the word "author". For example:

Circulo de Progreso Universitario (1982). Guía de las salidas universitarias. Madrid: Autor.

Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (1989). Libro Blanco para la Reforma del Sistema Educativo. Madrid: Autor.

6. When it comes to classic works, of which a recent version has been consulted, but it is of interest to specify the year of the original version, it can be done in parentheses after the consulted reference. For example:

BACON, Francis. (1949). Novum Organum. Buenos Aires: Losada. (Versión Original 1620).

7. If a work has not been published but its soon publication is known, the expression "(in press)" is written instead of the date. For example:

RODRÍGUEZ ROJO, Martín (coord). (en prensa). Actas del Simposio Internacional sobre Teoría Crítica e Investigación/Acción. Universidad de Valladolid: Valladolid, 1-4 de noviembre.

8. If several volumes make up the publication, which has been published in several years, they are written separated by a hyphen. For example:

WITTROCK, Merlin C. (Ed.). (1990–1991). La investigación de la enseñanza (3 tomos) Barcelona: Paidós/MEC.

ARNAU, Juan (1981-1984). Diseños experimentales en psicología y educación, (2 Tomos). México: Trillas.

9. When they are compilations (readings), they will be specified after the name, compiler, editor, director, or coordinator. For example:

HAYNES, Lucila (Comp.).(1989). Investigación/acción en el aula (2ª ed.). Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana.

LÓPEZ MELERO, Migual y GUERRERO López, J. Francisco (Coords.). (1991). Caminando hacia el siglo XXI; la integración escolar. VII Jornadas de

Universidades y educación especial. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga.

QUINTANA CABANAS, José M. (Coord.). (1986). Investigación participativa. Madrid: Narcea.

10. When citing a chapter of a book, which is a compilation (reading), the author of the chapter and its title are cited first, followed by the compiler (Comp.), editor (Ed.), or director (Dir.), coordinator (Coord.), title (pages in parentheses). Place of publication: and publisher, the same as in the reference of any book. For example:

GUBA, Egon G. (1983). Criterios de credibilidad en la investigación naturalista. En José Gimeno Sacristán y Angel Pérez Gómez (Comps.), La enseñanza: su teoría y su práctica (pp. 148-165). Madrid: Akal.

11. When the author's surname is very common, both surnames are usually used. For example:

MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Juan B. (Coord.). (1990). Hacia un enfoque interpretativo de la enseñanza. Granada: Universidad de Granada.

PÉREZ SERRANO, M. Gloria. (1990). Investigación-acción: Aplicaciones al campo social y educativo. Madrid: Dykinson.

12. For books consulted on the internet. Example:

 Apellidos, A. A. (Año). Título. Recuperado de http://www.xxxxxx.xxx

B. Journal articles.

1. In this case, the name of the article will be between quotation marks, what goes in italics is the name of the journal. The volume of the journal and the pages that the article occupies must be specified, separated by a hyphen. The volume and number of the journal will be specified, when each number begins with page one. For example:

GARCÍA RAMOS, J. Manuel. (1992). “Recursos metodológicos en la evaluación de programas”. Bordón, 43, 461-476.

HOUSE, Ernie R. (1992). “Gran política, pequeña política”. Cuadernos de Pedagogía, 202, 51-57.

STENHOUSE, Lawrence. (1991). “La investigación del curriculum y el arte del profesor”. Investigación en la Escuela, 15, 9-15.

MOLINA GARCÍA, Santiago. (2003). “Representaciones mentales del profesorado con respecto al fracaso escolar”. Revista Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado, 17(1), 151-175.

2. In all other respects the standards are equivalent to those given by the book references.

C. Other documents.

1. If they are unpublished documents and their possible publication is unknown, they can be indicated with the word "unpublished". For example:

BLANCO VILLASEÑOR, Angel. (1984). Interpretación de la normativa APA acerca de las referencias bibliográficas. Barcelona: Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Barcelona (inédito).

2. When it comes to communications and papers presented at Congresses, Seminars, Symposiums, Conferences, etc. author, title, and congress are specified, specifying if possible the month of celebration. In the end, the word "paper" can be inserted to indicate that it has not been published. For example:

 PÉREZ GÓMEZ, Angel. (1992). La formación del profesor como intelectual. Simposio Internacional sobre Teoría crítica e Investigación Acción, Valladolid, 1-4 abril, (paper).

3. If the subsequent publication of the communication presented to a congress is known, it can also be specified. For example:

CRONBACH, Lee J. (1974). Beyond the two disciplines of the scientific psychology. Comunicación a la Asamblea de la APA, 2 de septiembre. Reproducido en Más allá de las dos disciplinas de la psicología científica. En F. Alvira, M.D. Avia, R. Calvo y F. Morales, (1979). Los dos métodos de las ciencias sociales, (pp. 253-280). Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas.

D. Alphabetical order.

1. Bibliographical references must be presented in alphabetical order by the name of the author, or first author if there are several.

2. If an author has several works, they will be arranged in order of appearance. For example:

DE LANDSHEERE, Guy. (1982). La investigación experimental en educación. París: UNESCO.

DE LANDSHEERE, Guy. (1985). Diccionario de la evaluación y de la investigación educativa. Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona: Oikos-Tau.

DE LANDSHEERE, Guy. (1986). La recherche en éducation dans le monde. París: P.U.F.

STENHOUSE, Lawrence. (1984). Investigación y desarrollo del curriculum. Madrid: Morata.

STENHOUSE, Lawrence. (1987). La investigación como base de la enseñanza. Madrid: Morata.

STENHOUSE, Lawrence. (1991). La investigación del curriculum y el arte del profesor. Investigación en la Escuela, 15, 9-15.

3. If they are works in collaboration with several authors, the order will be indicated by the surname of the second author, regardless of the year of publication. Individual posts are placed before collaborative works. For example:

STAKE, Robert E. (1975a). Evaluating the arts in education: a responsive approach. Columbus, Ohio: Merril.

STAKE, Robert E. (1975b). Program Evaluation: particularly responsive evaluation. Occasional Paper n. 5. Kalamazoo: University of Western Michigan.

STAKE, Robert E. (1978). The case study method in social inquiry. Educational Researcher, 7, 5-8.

STAKE, Robert E. y EASLEY, J. A. Jr. (Comp.) (1978). Case studies in science educations, vol 1,2. Urbana, Ill.: CIRCE, University of Illinois.

STAKE, Robert E. y GJERDE, C. (1971). An evaluation of TCITY: The Twin City Institute for Talented Youth. Occasional Paper n. 1. Kalamazoo: University of Western Michigan.

4. If there are several references by the same author of the same year in the Bibliographical References, the years will be specified followed by alphabetical order. For example:

 FREIRE, Paulo. (1978a). Pedagogía del oprimido. Madrid: Siglo XXI.

FREIRE, Paulo. (1978b). Pedagogía y acción liberadora. Madrid: Zero.

FREIRE, Paulo. (1978c). Cartas a Guinea-Bissau: Apuntes para una experiencia pedagógica en proceso. Madrid: Siglo XXI.

5. If in the body of the text it is necessary to refer to works by the same author that has been published in the same year, these will be distinguished in the citations by giving them letters attached to the year of publication (those corresponding to those specified in the Bibliographic References) ( 1978a; 1979b).

6. If in the body of the text it is appropriate to add a citation that exceeds 5 lines, it must be in a separate paragraph, Arial font size 11, the indentation of the entire paragraph, left and right 1 cm. Line spacing 1.

Failure to observe these presentation rules may be grounds for rejection of the works.

All articles submitted to the Astrolabio journal are submitted to external reviewers, on whose opinion their publication depends; likewise, each of the accepted papers is subjected to a style review.

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