ISSN 0718-0705 online version
ISSN 0716-050X print version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope an policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts

ESTUDIOS PEDAGOGICOS only receives original, unpublished papers that have not been sent simultaneously to other journals for its publication. The authors are the only responsible ones to comply with this norm. ESTUDIOS PEDAGÓGICOS’s Executive Committee only evaluates the intrinsic quality of the received papers by the assessment systems created for this purpose.

All jobs received by ESTUDIOS PEDAGOGICOS for its publication will be sent to two judges using the double blind method. The judges will receive the jobs (with no reference to the authors and no reference to any previous projects), and a copy of the judgment policy. In case of significant differences in the reports, the job will be sent to a third judge. Based on the three reports, the main editor will consult the associated editors and they will determine whether the job will be published or rejected. In all cases, the author(s) will be informed about the decision.

Instructions for author(s)

ESTUDIOS PEDAGOGICOS will only receive the jobs via the following e-mail address: eped@uach.cl.

a) Written with Word Office 97-2003 (.doc), letter size and Windows OS. The first page will contain the title in Spanish, English and Portuguese; author(s)’ name and last name, institution they work for, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

b) In case the job was sponsored, the name of the sponsoring institution will be shown in a footnote. It will contain an abstract (no more than 150 words) in the three above mentioned languages, including 3 to 5 keywords. The job will contain no more than 20 pages, including bibliographical references.

c) Font shall be Times New Roman, size 12, single line spacing and standard margins.

Considerations about the text

a) In case the article is divided into sections, the titles will use bold font and will be preceded by numbers beginning with number one and followed by 1.1. or 2, as needed.

b) The first line in a new paragraph will have a left indent of 5 blank spaces. If the paragraph is located right after a title or subtitle, it will contain no indent in the first line.

c) Footnotes will be used, preferably, to make comments or to add information that will explain in a deeper way what is mentioned in the article’s body. There will be no limit in the number of footnotes, as long as all above mentioned specifications are respected.

d) All tables or charts included in the document will have the same format.

e) In case of using images, these will have the following formats: high resolution .jpg, .tiff, .png and/or .gif.

Consideration about quotes

a) For non-literal or general quotes, the last name and the year will be shown between brackets; as in: (Morin, 2006). If the source has two authors, the following criteria shall be used: (Maturana y Varela 1984). In case of a source with three or more authors, the criteria will be as in the next example: (Marchesi et al. 2001). If the quote comes from an indirect source, see the next example for criteria to follow: (Cit. en Touraine 2006: 47).

b) Literal quotes (no italics will be used, except if it is used in the original text), will follow the next criteria. When the quotes contain four lines or less, they will be between inverted commas and in the same paragraph. Quotes with more than four lines will be in a new paragraph, with a 10-space indent and no inverted commas. At the end of every quote and between brackets, the last name, the year and the page will be included; as in the following example: (Morin, 2006: 63). If the source has two authors, the following criteria shall be used: (Maturana y Varela 1984: 73). In case of a source with three or more authors, the criteria will be as in the next example: (Marchesi et al. 2001: 98). If the quote comes from an indirect source, see the next example for criteria to follow: (Cit. en Touraine 2006: 47).

c) Only if the author(s) and the year have been clearly identified before starting the quote, will the page then be mentioned. In case the quote comes from Internet, “on-line” will be written after the last name (the specific Internet address will be included in the list of quoted references).

d) The quote shall always be as in the original, showing also any special features (expressions). In that case, the word sic between brackets will be included afterwards.

e) In the case that part of the original text was to be omitted, (one or more words), this will be shown by the following symbol: […]. The square brackets will also be used to insert words that were not originally in the text but which would help to ease the reading process or would contextualize content that otherwise could lead to misunderstandings.

According to the APA rules (see: www.apaststyle.org), a list of quoted references will be included at the end of the article. The references will be sorted alphabetically, based on the last name of the main author. If two or more jobs from the same author were quoted, these will be sorted chronologically, showing first the most recent one and including the last name only in this one. The following jobs of the same author will begin with a hyphen and will not include the last name. If the edition year is the same, a letter will be inserted after the year in order to differentiate them (a, b, c).

Depending on the case, references will be written using the following criteria:

Complete book from only one author
Last name in capital letters, comma, initial from the first name, stop, year of edition between brackets, stop, title of the book in italics, stop, city where it was published, colon, publishing house, stop.

For example:
GARCÍA, R. (2000). El conocimiento en construcción. De las formulaciones de Jean Piaget a la teoría de sistemas complejos, Barcelona: Gedisa.

Complete book from several authors
Following the above mentioned order, all authors will be mentioned. Between the penultimate and the last author (or between the first and the second one, if there are only two) “&” will be written.

For example:
CEBERIO, M. y WATZLAWICK, P. (1998). La construcción del universo. Conceptos introductorios y reflexiones sobre epistemología, constructivismo y pensamiento sistémico, Barcelona: Herder.

Chapter in a book
The name of the author will be shown (following the above mentioned order). The name of the chapter will be written after the year (no inverted commas and no italics). After the name of the chapter and following a stop, “In” will be written, then the initial of the first name and then the last name (last name in capital letters) of the editor or compiler. After a comma, the title of the book will be written in italics, and the starting and ending page numbers for the chapter will be written between brackets (with a hyphen between the numbers).

For example:
PRIGOGINE, I. (1998). Resonancias y dominios del saber. En M. ELKAÏM, La terapia familiar en transformación (183-188). Barcelona: Paidós.

Article in a journal
The name of the article will be written (no inverted commas and no italics) after the year it was published in. Following a stop, the name of the journal will be written in italics. The issue of the journal will be shown after a comma, and after the number of the journal and another comma, the first and last page of the article (both pages separated by a hyphen).

For example:
VILLALTA, M. (2009) Análisis de la conversación: una propuesta para el estudio de la interacción didáctica en sala de clase. Estudios pedagógicos, vol.35, n.1, 221-238.

Electronic documents
They will follow the same guidelines already mentioned, including at the end the date they were consulted on and the electronic address.