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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 submission is original: it has not been previously published or sent to another journal.

    (This journal only publishes original articles. The authors guarantee the originality of their work and the absence of plagiarism in their text, including self-plagiarism or duplicate publication)

  • The submission is original: it has not been previously published nor submitted to another journal. (This journal only publishes original articles. The authors guarantee the originality of their work and the absence of plagiarism in their text, including self-plagiarism or duplicate publication).
  • The text does not contain defamatory, illegal, obscene, privacy-invasive, hateful, racially or ethically objectionable, abusive, threatening, harmful, or any unlawful statements.
  • The submitted file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or Open Office format. As per template .
  • The abstract in Spanish and English includes the following subsections: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions.
  • The manuscript includes the following elements:
    - Title (no more than 20 words)
    - Abstract (150-200 words).
    - Between 5 and 8 keywords.
    - High-quality images and photographs, so that the publication of the work will not be delayed for this reason.
  • The bibliography is in APA 7th edition. Where possible, the DOI for electronic references or their URL will be provided. URLs longer than one line will be shortened using any of the free programs available on the web.
  • There are no references in the References section that are not cited in the text. (This condition is added to avoid unnecessary inflation of the bibliography).
  • The anonymized document is free from data that identify the author and co-authors. (I have checked that the 'File > Properties' option in the Word document contains no information that identifies the author and co-authors).
  • All co-authors of the article are included in the OJS. The journal will not be responsible for the metadata recorded in your article. You must ensure to enter the names of your co-authors correctly, according to the order of signature, including their affiliations, emails, ORCID, and biographical summary. Otherwise, the names of unregistered co-authors will not appear alongside the author's when the article is published.

Author Guidelines

General Requirements

  • Only editable files such as Microsoft Word or Open Office will be accepted. PDF files will not be accepted for review.    
  • Authors should ensure the accuracy of the quotes, charts, tables and maps.    
  • Spelling can vary according to national usage, but should be internally consistent.    
  • Keywords are very important for search engine positioning. To achieve a better dissemination of the work, please make sure your keywords are clear and precise.

Format Requirements

  • The manuscript should be written using Times New Roman, size 12p, single space.
  • The manuscript should not include neither the name of the authors, nor the institution for which they work, nor their biographies.   
  • Graphics and images should be clear and easy to see. We can not improve the quality of images.    
  • All images, graphics and tables must be accompanied by a title and a source.    
  • All images, graphs and tables should be placed where they will appear in the text.    
  • Avoid using advanced functions of Word, such as:                      

                     a) Colored fonts and backgrounds.                     

                     b) Drawing objects.                     

                     c) Automatic tables of contents and indexes.                     

                     d) Fields.                     

                     e) Bookmarks.                     

                     f) Highlights, reliefs, shadows, and other complex functions of Word.

                     g) Forms.

Bibliographic References

The references in the text must follow an abbreviated format (Author, Year: pp.), The full reference list shall appear at the end of the article. Footnotes will be used to clarify or expand some explanations. They shall be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, letter of 8p. size, and full justification. Efforts should be made to minimize the number of footnotes. 

Whenever possible, include the DOI for each article in the bibliographic list, and indicate the URL if the cited work is open access. The citation style chosen by this journal is the APA's (American Psychological Association). 

The list of references should appear at the end, letter size 10p., single-space, with no blank lines between authors. References should look as follows:

  • Book by One Author: 

Toulmin, S. E. (1958). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.        

  • Book of Several Authors: 

Blanché, R. and Dubucs, J. (1970). La logique et son histoire. París: Armand Colin.        

  • Collective Book by Editors or Coordinators: 

Meerhoff, K. and Moisan, J. C. (eds.) (1997). Autour de Ramus: texte, théorie, commentaire. Québec: Nuit Blanche éditeur.         

  • Journal Article: 

Benoit, W. L. (1989). Attorney argumentation and Supreme Court opinions. Argumentation and Advocacy, 26(2), 22-38.        

  • Book Chapter: 

Eemeren, F. H. van and Grootendorst, R. (1993b). The history of the argumentum ad hominem since the seventeenth century. In: E. C. W. Krabbe, R. J. Dalitz and P. A. Smit (eds.), Empirical Logic and Public Debate. Essays in Honour of Else M. Barth (pp. 49-68, Ch. 4). Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.         

  • Several Works of an Author: 

Walton, D. N. (1991). Begging the Question: Circular Reasoning as a Tactic of Argumentation. Nueva York: Greenwood. 

—  (1999). One-Sided Arguments. A Dialectical Analysis of Bias. Albany: State University of New York Press. 

—  (2001). Enthymemes, common knowledge, and plausible inference. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 34(2), 93-112.

The author may divide, where appropriate, the REFERENCES section in smaller sections such as Webography or Primary Sources (ancient, medieval writings).

Editorial Quality

  • The peer review process is rigorous in order to ensure the quality of the content published in the journal. We expect the authors to revise their texts following the suggestions of the evaluators. If the authors do not perform such reviews and do not submit comments back, the manuscript will be definitely rejected.    
  • Some manuscripts may be of excellent quality, but be poorly written in English. This may be the case for authors whose native language is not English. When we receive a negative review on communicative quality, we may ask the author to resubmit a new version of the article. We cannot help the authors to re-write the content.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Non Commercial, No Derivatives Attribution 4.0. International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.), that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

According to what has been established by the Spanish Law 15/1999, of December 13, Protection of Personal Data (Ley Orgánica 15/1999, de 13 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal), we inform you that the information you provide will be included in a file that is held by Sinnergiak Social Innovation.

This file is intended to facilitate the provision of the services offered by the OJS platform (which belongs to Sinnergiak Social Innovation) and the management of the relationship with the users. Sinnergiak Social Innovation may use this data for its own academic activities, such as evaluation, prospective studies, institutional communications, and other activities related to the dissemination and popularization of social innovation worldwide, as well as policy orientation of social innovation in Europe.

You can use your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition at any time by sending an email to Sinnergiak Social Innovation, contact@sinnergiak.org, quoting the reference LOPD.