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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manuscript is original, unpublished, and is not under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
  • The manuscript file is in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.
  • The manuscript follows the journal's official template and Author Guidelines.
  • The title, abstract, and keywords are provided in at least Spanish and English.
  • Whenever possible, bibliographic references include the corresponding DOI or URL.
  • The manuscript includes the Author Contributions Statement (CRediT Taxonomy).
  • The Copyright Transfer Form, duly signed by all authors, is uploaded as a supplementary file.
  • A supplementary file is provided for each author, including: full name, institutional affiliation, email address, a visible and up-to-date ORCID iD, and a biographical note of no more than 100 words.

Author Guidelines

Paradigma: Revista de Investigación Educativa accepts original, unpublished manuscripts in the field of education. Before submitting a manuscript, authors must ensure that their work complies with these guidelines, as well as with the journal’s editorial and ethical policies.

Manuscript languages: The journal publishes manuscripts in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Although the templates are provided in Spanish, manuscripts submitted in English or Portuguese must follow the same structure and use literal translations of the titles and headings of each section. The title, abstract, and keywords must be provided, at a minimum, in Spanish and English.

Author contributions (CRediT Taxonomy): The journal adopts the CRediT Taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to transparently describe the individual contributions of authors. This information must be included in the Author Information file. For more information, please consult the Ethics and Good Practices section.

Ethics and good practices: Manuscripts must comply with the journal’s editorial ethics policies. In particular, when applicable, the Author Information form must include a declaration regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. Manuscripts must also comply with provisions concerning authorship, conflicts of interest, research integrity, and good research practices. For the complete policies, please consult here.

Maximum number of authors: 5.

Manuscript templates

Each contribution must be prepared using the corresponding official template. The templates contain the structure, required sections, and formatting guidelines for each type of manuscript.

In general, the following structures apply:

Research articles: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, theoretical review, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, recommendations (optional), and references.

Essays: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, development and discussion, conclusions, recommendations (optional), and references.

Systematization of educational practices: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, theoretical background, description of the experience and results, conclusions, recommendations (optional), and references.

Reviews: identification of the work, review, and references (when applicable).

Letters to the Editor: title, body of the letter, and references (optional).

Manuscript preparation

Manuscripts must be prepared using the corresponding template and must comply with the journal’s editorial guidelines.

When research involves human participants, the methodology section must include a brief description of the ethical considerations adopted, indicating, when applicable, approval by an ethics committee, the process for obtaining informed consent, and the measures implemented to protect the confidentiality and rights of participants.

Tables, figures, and notes must comply with the APA Style, Seventh Edition (APA 7).

References: References must be prepared in accordance with the APA Style (7th edition) and must include only sources cited in the manuscript. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding reference, and every reference must be cited in the manuscript. The journal recommends using recent references (from the last 5 years), as well as relevant classic works and other sources pertinent to the topic under study, and including the DOI whenever available. Some examples of references according to APA 7 are provided below:

Book Arteaga, C., & Urbina, M. (2020). Edición de textos científicos. Editorial Universitaria.
Journal article Castañeda Naranjo, L. A., & Palacios Neri, J. (2015). Nanotecnología: fuente de nuevos paradigmas. Mundo Nano. Revista Interdisciplinaria en Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, 7(12), 45–49. https://doi.org/10.22201/ceiich.24485691e.2014.12.49710
Thesis Flores Carranza, Z. G. (2017). Propuesta de metodología para la implementación del alumbrado público [Master’s thesis, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán]. https://tesis.upnfm.edu.hn/10578/
Webpage Riera, M. (2021, February 20). Re: Invertir en emociones [Online forum comment]. https://www.em.com/preguntas/
Institutional document Secretaría de Educación. (2003). Diseño Curricular Nacional Básico. https://www.se.gob.hn/media/files/basica/DCNB.pdf
Report Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico. (2020). La dinámica de la urbanización de África 2020: Áfricapolis, mapeando una nueva geografía urbana. OECD Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1787/b6bccb81-en

 

Manuscript submission

Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. To submit a manuscript and subsequently check its status, authors must have a user account. Authors may log in to an existing account or register a new account to begin the submission process.

If technical difficulties prevent completion of the submission through the platform, authors may exceptionally submit all required documentation by email to paradigma@upnfm.edu.hn, indicating the technical problem encountered during the submission process.

The manuscript must not contain information that could identify the authors. Authorship information must be provided only in the supplementary files designated for this purpose. In addition to the manuscript, authors must submit the Author Information form and the Copyright Transfer and Privacy Statement form.

Author Information form

The Author Information form, available here, must be included with the submission as a supplementary file. This file must provide the following information for each author: full name, institutional affiliation, email address, visible and up-to-date ORCID identifier, and a biographical statement of no more than 100 words. The form also includes the authorship contribution statement according to the CRediT Taxonomy; this information will be incorporated into the manuscript if it is accepted for publication.

Copyright Transfer and Privacy Statement form

The Copyright Transfer and Privacy Statement form, available here, must also be submitted as a supplementary file.

Editorial timelines

The initial editorial review takes between 2 and 3 weeks; external peer review takes between 5 and 7 weeks. The editorial decision is usually communicated within approximately 3 months. The complete process, from manuscript submission to publication, is completed within a maximum of 6 months. For more information, please consult the Peer Review section.

Copyright Notice

Transfer of Copyright

  • The author, when sending the work, states that it is his will to give the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán the patrimonial rights that correspond to him as the author of his work.
  • The rights here assigned include all economic rights (Reproduction, transformation, public communication and distribution) and are given without limitation in terms of territory; This Assignment is given for the entire duration term established in the current legislation in Honduras.
  • The cession of the aforementioned rights does not imply the cession of moral rights over it, because in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright and Related Rights Law, Chapter II, of the Moral Rights, Article 34, Article 25 , these rights are inalienable, imprescriptible, indefeasible and inalienable.
  • The research work or document must be original and have been done without violating or usurping rights of third parties, therefore, the work is exclusively authored and owns the same.
  • In the case of any claim or action by a third party, as to copyright on the work in question, the author must assume full responsibility for the rights assigned.
  • Upon completion of the Rights Assignment Form, the author states that the work has not been published in another way, that the rights on the work have not been assigned and that no encumbrance or limitation on their use or use is imposed on them.

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