Editorial Process

RCCI Manuscripts will only be accepted through the OJS management platform (for technical problems contact editor@revistaccinformacion.net), once the article is received, an acknowledgment of receipt will be sent by automatic email generated by the platform itself. The works will be submitted to a first evaluation by the Editorial Committee, in which it is verified that the manuscript is in accordance with the criteria of clarity, relevance and relevance, as well as the editorial guidelines of the journal, non-compliance with the criteria reflected in Checklist supposes an automatic rejection. It is also important that the topic addressed is of interest to the journal. The articles that are not accepted in this first evaluation will inform their authors of the decline within a period not exceeding fifteen (15) business days.

Peer Evaluation phase. The total estimation time of the Editorial Process will depend to a large extent on how many review rounds the manuscript must be submitted to. In each review round, the authors will have 5-10 calendar days to make the pertinent corrections, depending on the number of corrections suggested for each paper. As a rule, the journal will not admit more than 3 rounds, if at the end of these, an agreement is not reached with the opinion of the reviewers, the article will be rejected, since it means that the aspects indicated by the reviewers in the previous rounds are not being corrected. The maximum term for scientific evaluation is 90 days, the average review response time is 40 days.

Once the publication of the manuscript is accepted, it will go to the Editing stage, during this stage the manuscript is submitted to a bibliographical and style correction, it is estimated around 15 days for the completion of this process, everything will depend on the delay in the publication. response from the authors to the corrections requested in this phase.

Once the article has been corrected from the ortho-typographic and bibliographic point of view, it will be submitted for translation into English or Spanish, if the original language differs from it. The official language of the magazine is Spanish, although contributions in the original language are accepted in English, French, Italian and Portuguese. The magazine is bilingual in its publication since the texts translated into English are always published. The estimated time for this phase is 10 business days.

As of 2021, the journal adopted the continuous publication system, uploading the articles individually as the editorial process ends in free access electronic format, prior to the publication of the official issue, the articles will be available in the "Accepted Articles" section where they can be cited and consulted through their DOI.

The estimated maximum time for the completion of the entire editorial process from the receipt of the submission to its final publication is 16 weeks.

 

Rules for Publication of The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información

The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información considers that the following formal data are mandatory for any type of contribution submitted to the journal. Failure to comply will result in the rejection of the manuscript.

Only unpublished works will be considered and that are not in the process of arbitration of other journals. Authors are the only ones legally responsible for the assertions made in their text, since RCCI is not responsible for these opinions.

 

Document deliveries and supplementary files

The author should upload supplementary files in step 4 of the submission process. They are expected to belong to one of the following component classifications:

• Articles should be sent in Word format for PC.

• The following should be attached as complementary files: an anonymous version of the manuscript and the letter of originality, the latter in .word or .PDF format.
  
  

The author may upload supplementary files in step 4 of the submission process. They are expected to belong to one of the following classifications of components:

• 1. Article text: The text of the original article.

• 2. Research results: (Transcripts; excel of graphs; excel tables, etc.).

• 3. Multimedia: (videos or multimedia materials).

• 4. Image: (images included in the body of the paper).

• 5. Other: (Letter of originality; anonymized text).

As part of our commitment to contribute to an increasingly open and free science, we encourage our authors to deposit supplementary materials or at least the research data underlying publications in institutional or thematic open access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

 

Presentation

Regarding the data, content, structure and style of the original manuscripts, authors should observe the following rules in order to achieve greater efficiency in the editorial management of the papers:

 

Letter of originality

The letter of originality and assignment of rights must be submitted through the journal's OJS management platform, as a complementary file (in the "Others" classification).

 

Article

Maximum length. It is recommended -although not mandatory- that articles should be no less than 5,000 words and no more than 8,500 words in length. As for the number of pages, they will be:

 

• Research Articles. Original and unpublished, the result of a scientific research, whose expression in articles has the usefulness of being validated and disseminated to the scientific community. With an extension of up to 15 pages (according to template).

• Review Articles. This is a publication format in which an updated, critical and evaluative analysis is carried out, based on the study of the existing scientific literature, on a specific research problem: in no case is it exclusively a meta-analysis or an uncritical compilation of published research, but it should provide a state of the art of the subject treated. Up to 25 pages in length (according to template) with exhaustive use of existing bibliography.

• Review. Up to 3 pages in length, according to template. In the case of reviews, an editorial filter is applied for their selection, according to the relevance, interest and objectives of the books reviewed. Reviews of books older than 3 years will not be accepted.

 

THE ARTICLE MUST COMPLY WITH THE FORMAT STANDARDS INDICATED IN THE ARTICLE TEMPLATE.  ARTICLES THAT ARE NOT PROPERLY FORMATTED IN THE TEMPLATE PROVIDED WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.

 

Title: In Spanish and English and in the original language of the contribution (in case it differs from the two previous ones). The title should be informative and concise, should not include acronyms and should not exceed 15 words including articles, prepositions and conjunctions. It should be in capital letters, bold, Cambria at 14, single spaced and centered.

Authors' data: They will be in lower case, Cambria at 12, bold, single spaced and adjusted to the left. Full names, never abbreviations, and two surnames should be written for each of the signatories. In order to increase the visibility of the authors' work, it is suggested that they be registered in: El Registro Internacional para Autores y Científicos, in ORCID, in ACADEMIA.EDU, in Google Citations-Google Academics-Google Scholar, in directorio EXIT, in Research Gate and Redalyc, which will revert in a greater accounting of authorship for the purpose of documentary indexing and, consequently, counting of references and citations.

The affiliation: it is written after the period and followed by the authors' data; it should not be written in bold. The name of the Organization / Institution / Superior Entity to which each of the authors belongs must be written (the name of the institution must be written in its language of origin). The country to which the institution belongs should be written after a period and followed by a period. The e-mail address of each author should be written below the line of the author's data and affiliation. It is required to indicate the institutional email, avoiding generic ones (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo...).

 

Example:

Evelio Ramón Morales-Cuervo. University of Buenos Aires. Argentina.
eveliormorc@uba.ar

 

- Main author: the following data of the corresponding author should be indicated in a footnote (inserted after the name of the main author): full name and surname, without abbreviations, affiliation and official e-mail address of the institution, in Cambria 10 bold typeface. Then a brief CV of no more than 3 lines in normal Cambria 10.

- Abstract: It should be in lowercase, Cambria 12, single spaced and justified. In Spanish and professional English and in the original language of the contribution (in case it differs from the previous comments). The text of the abstract, which must contain between 200 and 250 words and must not include bibliographical references. Both the summary and the abstract will follow this model of presentation:

 

Introduction. It analyzes (...). Methodology. We proceed to (...). Results. The main consequences (...). Discussion. In view of the above (...) Conclusions. At the end we find (...).

 

- Key words: In Spanish and English and in the original language of the contribution (in case it differs from the previous comments). It is mandatory to write 5-7 keywords. They should be written in lower case, Cambria at 12, single spaced and justified, comma separated. In order to promote a standardized description of the articles in our publication, please use, as far as possible, terms taken from the SKOS Thesaurus (UNESCO Thesaurus).

 

- Headings and sub-headings: headings and sub-headings will be numbered using Arabic numerals and will follow a staggered block order, which will respond to the hierarchical relationship in which the author shows the relationship of the contents of the manuscript, with a maximum of three levels.

 

 

RCCI maintains mandatory structures for the different types of accepted articles, as explained below. Citations, endorsements, acknowledgements and acknowledgements to the persons or institutions that have sponsored the article are allowed (See the article template for their location).

If the proposed contribution is a Research Article, the headings are:

 

1. INTRODUCTION: The introduction should state in an updated manner the state of the question in which the research is framed, it should reflect the objectives and the contribution of such research. Sub-headings are allowed.

2. OBJECTIVES: In this section, the authors should identify as clearly and concisely as possible the objectives of the research presented in the article. Sub-headings are allowed.

3. METHODOLOGY: In this section, the methods / techniques / procedures / approaches / models that will be considered to obtain the results of the research should be stated. Sub-headings are allowed.

4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The results obtained will be presented, analyzed and discussed how the hypotheses have been contrasted in relation to the research objectives. The relationships, consequences and generalities that indicate the results obtained will be reflected. The results will be compared with similar existing research in the scientific community, without prejudice to what is stated in the introduction, and the methodologically improvable aspects of the research presented will be reflected. Sub-epigraphs are allowed.

5. CONCLUSIONS: Conclusions should be directly related to the objectives of the work and the results obtained; they should be a set of deductions from the results and the research problem. Conclusions that are not directly related to the research, as well as to the results presented, should be avoided. Sub-epigraphs are allowed.

6. RECOMMENDATIONS: They should be cited based on their direct relationship with the research results, especially if there were limitations that prevented to go deeper into specific aspects of the research presented.

7. REFERENCES: The style of the American Psychological Association (North) will be used for the organization and writing of the bibliography (APA) available in: APA Standard Manual 7th Edition. All references will be included in alphabetical order regardless of their type (book, article, thesis...) without distinction. Cambria 12, French indentation 0.5 cm and justified. Between bibliographical references there should be 1 blank space, single spacing. When an author repeats, his or her name should be rewritten, avoiding hyphens -----.

8. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS, FUNDING AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: In order to avoid the exchange of quotations and the attribution of authorships that do not correspond, RCCI has decided to include in its template for articles the section on Author Contributions, therefore, at the end of the bibliography, all the contributions made by each author, both to the research and to the writing of the article, should be exposed according to the proposed structure. In the case of articles by a single author, the same is not valid, since it is understood that all the related points correspond to the same author.

9. CURRICULUM VITAE: A summary of the professional curriculum of each and every one of the authors should be included, which should not exceed 120 words per author. It must include the identifying links to at least these platforms: ORCID and GOOGLE SCHOLAR and we advise submitting those of: RESEARCH GATE, ACADEMIA.EDU and ID-REDALYC.

10. APPENDICES / ANNEXES: Documents whose volume makes their inclusion in the text undesirable, but are important for its understanding, will be included. Therefore, they will be included after the text and in a separate section, under this heading and numbered in Arabic numerals if there is more than one.

 

IT IS NECESSARY TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE USE OF REFERENCES WILL BE EVALUATED BY REVIEWERS ACCORDING TO:

 

• The correct citation of the reference, according to the bibliographic style of the APA-7 mª edition.

• The use of current and adequate bibliography for the topic of the research, especially in the Introduction and in the Discussion.

• The use of international sources of information.

 

In the case of Review Articles, some flexibility will be maintained in the headings, being mandatory only: INTRODUCTION - OBJECTIVES - CONCLUSIONS - REFERENCES and CURRICULUM VITAE, leaving all the others to the author's discretion. In addition, sufficient citations to previous works should be presented.

Names, symbols and nomenclature: Authors should use those that are standardized for each discipline.

Figures: all types of visual elements other than tables, for example, illustrations, computer graphics, photographs, flow charts, drawings, maps, etc., are understood as figures.

 

THE FOLLOWING SPECIFICATIONS REGARDING THE DEFINITION OF IMAGES MUST BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT:

 

• .JPG files (color or grayscale), must have a minimum of 300 pp.

• The title of the figures must be clear and precise, and the source or origin must be mentioned below and centered, in bold and Cambria 12.

• The use of graphs is suggested to reflect trends or relativized data.

• They should be presented in the simplest format that allows the correct interpretation of the underlying data, avoiding as much as possible the use of three-dimensional graphs, highlights, glows and other elements that do not provide specific value to the interpretation of the graphs.

 

Tables: The title of tables should be clear and descriptive, and will be placed as a heading, bold, centered, Cambria 12. The typeface in the tables should be Cambria 10, normal. Redundancy of information between tables, figures and text should be avoided, as well as tables that offer simple information. In these cases, the synthesis of information in as few tables as possible is recommended. Below the table, the source should be cited, centered, in bold, Cambria 12. In addition, authors are requested to attach these elements in editable formats (Excel, etc.) as additional files, as far as possible, in order to facilitate the final layout of their articles.

In-text numbering. In-text numbering (not heading numbering) should be in Arabic numerals. It is not preceded by a blank space, but it is followed by a blank space:

• First item (Cambria 12, left number position at 0.63 with French indentation, justified, single spaced).

• Second item (Cambria 12, left number position at 0.63 with French indentation, justified, single spaced).

Bibliographic references: In references, all electronic publications (such as journals) should include the doi or url. The url must be from the original publication and not from repositories.

All authors cited in the text must appear in the bibliographic references.

The reference of each cited author must be complete: author's name, date of edition, title of the work and publisher, in the case of books, and in the case of articles, author's name, date, title, journal name, volume, number, pages and doi.

 

Indirect or referential citation in the normal text: When paraphrasing or alluding to ideas from another work, the author and the year of the reference work should be placed in parentheses; it is recommended to indicate the page if the text from which they were taken is extensive (Author, Year, p. XXX). If the sentence includes the author's last name, only the date is written in parentheses (Year). If the author is not included in the sentence, the last name and date are written in parentheses (Author, Year). When there are between three and five authors, in the subsequent mentions, only the surname of the first author should be written, followed by the phrase et al. If there are more than six authors, et al. is used from the first mention.

 

Direct or textual citation in normal text of less than 40 words: The quoted text is enclosed in quotation marks. If the work has one or two authors, both surnames are cited throughout (Author and Author, Year). When there are more than two authors, only the last name of the first author is used without italics, followed by the phrase et al.

 

Direct or textual citation in normal text of more than 40 words: If the quotation has more than 40 words, the text is written in block, without quotation marks, on a separate line, with a left indentation of 1.25 cm, without indenting the first line of the quotation.

 

Change in authorship: Requests must be sent to the editor of the journal exclusively by the main author, who must also state:

 

• The reasons why the author's name should be deleted or added and the name of the authors with the definitive order to be presented in the manuscript, with all their data.

 

• Written confirmation from the rest of the authors of the manuscript expressing their agreement with the modification of authorship. Requests that are not made by the corresponding author will be sent to the corresponding author and the process described above will be followed.

 

Until the change of authorization process is completed, the manuscript will not be published definitively, which may constitute a delay in the final publication process.

Important notice for authors: it is recommended to adopt a pen name, for correct indexing of the article in international databases, consisting of a first name and a single surname for uncommon names and surnames, or the first name and two surnames joined by a hyphen for the most common ones (e.g. Elena López-Pérez).

The importance of writing an adequate title and abstract lies in the fact that their readability will determine to a large extent whether potential readers will read the complete work (especially in electronic searches).

 

Editorial practices in Gender Equality

The Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información encourages the use of non-sexist and inclusive language in scientific publications. For this reason, authors are requested to use forms that include both women and men in their texts. The use of non-sexist language is not a binding criterion for the rejection of the manuscript; however, authors should abide by the recommendations that may arise during the editorial process of the manuscript to ensure that the text presents inclusive language.

In the same way, RCCI recommends that authors of postulated papers who have written their manuscripts using the sex variable as part of the research data report in their conclusions whether possible differences between sexes have been taken into account.

The journal includes the full names of the authors of the papers it publishes.

 

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