Submissions

Author Guidelines

The rules and requirements that authors must follow when submitting articles to Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa are detailed below.

Receipt of articles

The receipt of originals takes place permanently —through the journal's platform— and is free of charge. The calls will be duly communicated and broadcasted in the Announcements section.

To start submitting articles, authors must register or log in (if they already have an existing account).

The journal does not charge fees for the processing of papers or for the publication of articles.

For any questions or inconvenience, contact us via email cuadernosie@ort.edu.uy

Publication frequency

The journal is published digitally and with open access. It is of continuous publication: all accepted articles are immediately incorporated into the website, with the idea that they are quickly visible and quotable.

It is compiled twice a year and the manuscripts received are collected in a semi-annual issue.

Content of the articles

The journal receives and publishes original articles in Spanish and English, referring to diverse educational contexts and levels, among which the contributions of research projects with empirical evidence stand out (Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa gives priority to this kind of proposal), as well as literature reviews with critical and reflective results on the advances of a certain topic that account for relevant findings that are of interest to the regional and international scientific community.

The articles may deal with different topics, such as educational innovation, skills and competencies for learning, educational policies, evaluation in education, teacher training and professional development, management and governance of the educational system, digitization and gamification, immersive and inclusive pedagogies, competency-based curriculum, professional learning communities, digital citizenship, and futures studies.

As a general rule, the papers must deal with a topic of relevance and constitute a notable contribution to the field of educational research; include a structured, coherent text, easy for readers to understand; carry out an in-depth review of the subject of study (have updated, original and fundamental bibliography both regionally and internationally); have a consistent and solid methodology, appropriate for the proposed objectives; and detail relevant and powerful results and conclusions.

Submission of files

Authors must submit three files:

1. Article

It must be in Microsoft Word (“.doc” or “.docx”) or OpenOffice (“.odt”) electronic format. It is important to ensure that the papers are completely anonymized and that there is no information that allows the identity of the authors to be recognized.

2. Authors' responsibility document: in which they accept the journal's policies and, in particular, general aspects of copyright.

PDF version
Word version (to download and edit)

3. Additional file

It must have the following information, preferably in the order listed below:

a) Names and surnames of the authors: as they want to be shown in the article. The order in which they are submitted will also be the order in which they will be published. Except for duly justified exceptions, Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa will accept contributions from up to 5 authors.

b) Institutional affiliation of all the authors. It refers to the institution where the authors work or study (in the case of students who publish in the journal). A dual affiliation will only be accepted if both institutions made a key contribution to the research.

c) Country where the institution/s detailed in the affiliation is/are located.

d) Email of all the authors.

e) ORCID of all the authors: in case they do not have one, they can request the identification number on the ORCID website.

f) Authorship contribution: paragraph detailing the contribution of each author in the article, in accordance with the CRediT Taxonomy:

Conceptualization: devise, formulate or design the objectives of the research.
Data curation: develop activities to collect, clean and normalize data, as well as to produce metadata.
Formal analysis: apply statistical techniques to analyze or synthesize the study data.
Financing: obtain financial support for the project to be carried out.
Research: conduct the research and, specifically, collect the data or evidence.
Methodology: develop or design the methodology, create models.
Administration: manage and coordinate the project, the planning and execution of the research.
Resource management: provide the study materials and other analysis tools.
Software: program and develop software and algorithms.
Supervision: lead the planning and execution of the research.
Validation: verify the general replicability and reproducibility of the results and of other research products.
Visualization: prepare, create and present visual aids that allow visualizing the data and results.
Writing of the draft: write the initial draft of the article.
Review of the manuscript: comment, review and approve the final manuscript.

Important: the categorization is generic, so if there are roles that do not apply to the specific case of an article, it is not necessary to include them. Also an author can fulfill several roles, and/or a role can be performed by different authors.

Examples:

• [Names and surnames of the author]: conceptualization, data curation, research, methodology design, administration, supervision, validation, visualization, writing of the draft and review of the manuscript.
• [Names and surnames of the author]: data curation, research, visualization, writing of the draft and review of the manuscript.

g) Availability of data: please specify whether the research dataset is available and, if so, where it can be accessed.

Examples:

• The dataset supporting the findings of this study is available at [XXX].
• The dataset supporting the findings of this study is not publicly available. 

h) Preprints: if an article originally published as a preprint is submitted for review to Cuadernos de Investigación Educativa, it is necessary to state where and when the preprint was published and include the assigned DOI.

Article structure

In the case of articles in Spanish, the information must be presented in the following order:

• Title in Spanish
• Title in English
• Title in Portuguese
• Abstract in Spanish (resumen)
• Keywords in Spanish (palabras clave)
• Abstract in English 
• Keywords in English 
• Abstract in Portuguese (resumo)
• Keywords in Portuguese (palavras-chave)
• Body of the article
• References

In the case of articles in English, the information must be presented in the following order:

• Title in English
• Title in Spanish
• Title in Portuguese
• Abstract in English 
• Keywords in English 
• Abstract in Spanish (resumen) 
• Keywords in Spanish (palabras clave)
• Abstract in Portuguese (resumo)
• Keywords in Portuguese (palavras-chave)
• Body of the article
• References

a) Titles

They will be as illustrative and concise as possible, written in Spanish, in English and, finally, in Portuguese. They must have a maximum length of 12 significant words, extracted —if possible— from the ERIC Thesaurus (Education Resources Information Center).

b) Abstracts

They will have between 200 and 250 words. The abstract must be detailed in Spanish (resumen), then in English and, finally, in Portuguese (resumo).

The structure must follow the IMRD format:

- Introduction: it will include the objective or purpose of the research.
- Methodology: it will include the basic procedures used.
- Results: it will detail the main findings of the research.
- Discussion or conclusions: it will interpret the most relevant findings.

c) Keywords

5 to 10 keywords must be included in Spanish (palabras clave), in English and in Portuguese (palavras-chave). The authors have to use internationally accepted terms in the field of education to express the concepts and content. Therefore, they will be extracted from the ERIC Thesaurus (Education Resources Information Center), the UNESCO Thesaurus or the European Education Thesaurus.

d) Body of the article

It is recommended that the article includes the following elements: introduction, description of the problem or object of study, background, theoretical basis, design and methodology, results, discussion, conclusions and limitations of the study —if applicable.

The use of subtitles and short paragraphs is also suggested, to facilitate a coherent exposition and a better understanding of the reader.

e) References

Both textual citations and references must respect the criteria established in the latest edition of the Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). The general guidelines can be accessed through the APA website.

All the citations included in the body of the article must be listed in the references, at the end of the article. Publications that have not been cited in the text should not be listed.

The reference list must be arranged alphabetically, according to the surname and initials of the first author. In the case of two references with the same surname and initials, the date and title of the work must be taken into account.

When a source has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) ​​it must be indicated at the end of the reference.

Guidelines for writing bibliographic citations in the text
Guidelines for creating references

Presentation rules

File name

The names of the files uploaded to the platform must only contain alphanumeric characters and spaces.

Typography

Titles of the article (in Spanish, English and Portuguese): Verdana 16, centered and in bold.
Level 1 subtitle: Verdana 14, on the left and in bold.
Level 2 subtitle: Verdana 12, on the left and in bold.
Level 3 subtitle: Verdana 12, on the left and underlined.
Body of the text and bibliographical references: Verdana 12.

Line spacing 

Single, with spacing before 0 pt and after 6 pt. No blank spaces should be left between paragraphs.

Extension

Articles cannot exceed 8,500 words. Such extension will include the titles (in Spanish, English and Portuguese), the abstracts (in Spanish, English and Portuguese), the keywords (in Spanish, English and Portuguese), the body of the article, the notes, the references, the graphic elements and annexes (if any).

Tables and figures

Tables are visual presentations composed of columns and rows, in which textual information and/or numerical values ​​are presented. All visual elements that are not tables are considered figures. For example, photographs, images, drawings, infographics, illustrations, among others.  

All tables and figures presented in the body of the article must be referred to in the text —for example, “(see Table 1)” or “as shown in Table 1”—.  

At the same time, tables and figures must be detailed in the following format:  

Table 1 [in bold]  
Table title [in italics]  
(table)  
Note. If there are texts to be clarified in the table, which cannot be understood on their own (it is not a mandatory element, so only include it if necessary).  

Figure 1 [in bold]  
Figure title [in italics]  
(figure) 
Note. If there are texts to clarify in the figure, which cannot be understood on their own (it is not a mandatory element, so only include it if necessary). 

Annexes

They refer to complementary and fundamental materials for the research, which are used to expand the information presented. If there are any, they will go at the end of the paper. They must be included only when they are really necessary and cannot exceed 10% of the length of the paper (in number of pages).

Footnotes

They will be numbered consecutively and their text will appear at the end of the article. However, they must be restricted to the minimum necessary and when they are strictly necessary. It will not be accepted to include bibliographical references as footnotes.

Other considerations

- If the work has been carried out with financial support, it must be indicated in the first page, in a footnote in the title.

Evaluation

All articles are subject to a double-blind peer review, in accordance with international standards. The peer review system consists of appointing reviewers who are experts on the subject. In order to evaluate the article in a confidential and anonymous way, the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, nor do the reviewers know the identity of the authors.

In the evaluation process, the reviewers complete a review sheet, in which, in addition to justifying their decision, they adopt one of the following resolutions:

• accept and publish in its current form;
• publish after corrections; or
• reject the proposal and not publish.

Among the criteria for the acceptance or rejection of papers, the following aspects will be considered: presentation, wording and organization of the information, originality, relevance for the resolution of specific problems, topicality and novelty, significance for the advancement of scientific knowledge and methodological quality.