Formal Conditions of Acceptance:
– Article will only be published in English.
– All articles are refereed, and the Editor reserves the right to refuse any manuscript, whether on invitation or otherwise, and to make suggestions and/or modifications before publication.
– It’s mandatory to use the official template REM_template_v.2.2
– It’s mandatory to follow the guidelines for the authors.
Publication Charges:
The journal does not charge publication/processing fee to the authors.
Review process for papers:
Double blind peer review
Each article should include:
1. title of the submitted article;
2. abstract;
3. keywords (2-5, separated by a semicolon), limited to the terms included in the European Education Thesaurus (http://redined.r020.com.ar/en/);
4. full text, subdivided in paragraphs and sub-paragraphs, titled but not numbered;
5. references, following APA – American Psychological Association rules;
6. figures and tables (if any) progressively numbered, in their definitive and graphically perfect version.
Abstract guidelines:
The maximum length for abstract is 200 words.
Article guidelines:
– it’s mandatory to use the official template
– the maximum length of articles – studies and research – is about 30.000 characters, including spaces (and including graphics, tables, notes and bibliography);
– footnotes, if any, should be progressively numbered, and should have only an explanatory function (no bibliographical notes);
– the different paragraphs (with bold title, no numbering) and sub-paragraphs (with italic title, no numbering) should be clearly marked by leaving one line between title and text, and two lines between a paragraph and the following title;
– to highlight text portions or foreign words, italics should be used, never bold or underscored;
– all references must be done according to the APA style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. See http://www.apastyle.org/ or http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ for details on APA style.
– In order to ensure a Blind Peer Review, it’s mandatory that:
- The authors of the document have to delete their names from the text, with “Author” and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors’ name, article title, etc. e.g. Author (2018).
- With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
Publication:
If your paper is accepted for publication
- please read the ethics statement and sign the Open Access License
- follow the instructions that will be sent to you by e-mail to prepare the final version of the paper
Help or assistance: rem@sirem.org