Submissions
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of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The work is unpublished and will not be sent to other journals while awaiting the decision of the editors of the journal Ciencias Psicológicas.
- The text does not exceed 6000 words for research articles, 7000 for systematic reviews and 3000 words for brief communications, excluding in all cases bibliographical references, tables and figures.
- Written authorization from the authors or publishing rights holders is provided for tables or figures taken from other publications. In all cases, it refers to the APA regulation on the presentation of tables and figures.
- In-text citations and the list of bibliographic references are presented according to the guidelines of the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) in its 7th edition (see synthesis in the Author Guidelines).
- The average of the referenced bibliography does not exceed the last 5 years.
- For studies that involve the participation of humans or animals, the endorsement of an Ethics Committee for the research protocol is presented identifying the institution and the Ethics Committee that approved that protocol.
- For human clinical trials, a copy of the corresponding registration is required.
- The photographs and clinical materials of patients respect the anonymity of the people involved, as well as the name of the institutions that were the object of study, and the consent to publish such materials must also be included.
- The data of the investigation will be available to the referees, if they require it.
- In case of original research, the article includes the section "Data availability" in which the authors report whether and where the data set used is available (see indications in the Author Guidelines).
- If the manuscript is accepted, it will be the responsibility of the authors to provide the English version of it, a translation that must be carried out by experts.
- The authors have read, completed and sent together with the manuscript the Declaration of Responsibility for Authorship.
- The manuscript follows the presentation format guidelines stipulated in Author Guidelines.
- The authors have prepared an anonymous version of the work, following the instructions in Author Guidelines.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Original research articles and/or systematic reviews are published in this section.
COMMUNICATION
Exceptionally, the journal publishes short communications, essays or conferences of interest.
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