Information For Authors

Are you interested in publishing in our journal? It is recommended to review the About the journal page for the journal section policies. Authors must register with the journal before publishing or, if they are already registered, they can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Submissions

- Only original and unpublished articles will be accepted.

- All the works carried out for external evaluation, and their subsequent acceptance, must include a summary in Spanish and English. Contributions can be submitted in Spanish and English.

- Website templates should be used to submit contributions. Authors must send the following files through the platform:

1. Template Articles IJ21CE (see template).

2. Template IJ21CE Articles (without authorship) for blind peer review (see template).

- The font that will be used for the body of the text will be Arial Narrow 12. Each beginning will begin with an indentation of 0.5 cm. Footnotes will be 10 points and will include continuous numbering.

- The title of the work will be in Arial Narrow 14, bold and centered alignment. The names of the authors and their emails must be below the title in Arial Narrow 11 in lowercase and aligned to the right; below, in correct alignment, the organization or University to which they belong. The line spacing of the document will be simple. There will be no spaces between paragraphs; nor between heading or subparagraph or beginning of paragraph. Between the end of the paragraph and the next section or subsection, there will be a space.

- Tables and graphs must appear with their title and corresponding caption (in the tables above and in the graphs below), and they must be numbered according to their category (table 1, table 2; graph 1, graph 2 ). The text included in tables and graphs will be written in Arial Narrow 10. Quality images must be used. The use of tables will be moderate including only the essential data, combining tables whenever possible. These elements are inserted in the appropriate place within the text.

- Citations will be included in parentheses in APA format (latest edition). The bibliography used at the end of the manuscript under the title "References" and ordered alphabetically. The first line of each reference will start at the left margin and the rest will start with an indentation of 1 cm.

a) Books: last name and initial (s) of the author. (Year). Title of the book . Editorial. (Example: Imbernón, F. (2011). Teacher training and professional development. Towards a new professional culture. Graó.

b) Book chapters: Last name and initial (s) of the author. (Year). Chapter title. Name Surname (Editor-s), Book title (pages). Editorial. (Example: Bolívar, A. (2010). Context of Secondary Education: Structure and Organization. In F. Imbernón (coord.), Educational Processes and Contexts: Teaching in Secondary Education institutions (pp. 35-54.) Graó.

c) Journal articles: last name and initial (s) of the author. (Year). Article title. Magazine title, volume (number), pages. doi / URL. (Example: Ortega, R. (2002). The best and worst of peer networks: Gambling, conflict and violence. Interuniversity Journal of Teacher Training, 44, 93-113. Https://www.redalyc.org/ pdf / 274 / 27404406.pdf

d) Online electronic documents: Last name and initial (s) of the author. Article title. Title of the web page. (Year). doi / URL. (Example: Siemens, G. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. (2004). Http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm.

- Presentation of reviews. Due to the scientific nature of the journal, scientific publications and innovations will be evaluated preferably according to the relevance of the subject of the work, as well as the specialization and prestige of the author or authors, the publisher and the news (publications of the last five years) . The review will be headed by the data of the work reviewed following the model: Surname, A. (year). Qualification. Editorial. Number of pages of the work. ISBN of the work. The name of the author of the review must be written at the end of the text, not including the university or organization to which he belongs. It will be written in Arial Narrow 12 and with a maximum of 700 words. The review template can be found available on the magazine's website (see template).

Copyright notice

The authors who publish in the journal accept the following conditions:

1) The magazine International Magazine for the Education of the XXI Century owns the copyright of the published works. It is an open access journal.

2) The works are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial (acknowledgment - non-commercial) license. This license has the following characteristics:

Authorship must be cited.
Comercial uses are not allowed

3) Each paper will have an associated DOI (Digital Object Identification).

4) The diffusion of the manuscript is allowed once it has been published.

5) The papers will appear automatically in Dialnet and in Google Scholar after the publication of the number to which they belong.

6) Manuscripts will be subjected to anti-plagiarism review using the Turnitin software provided by the Library of the University of Córdoba

7) Readers will have free access to the articles without registering on the website and will be able to download a PDF version of the manuscripts.

Submission fees

Submitting a manuscript to IJ21CE is free.

Publication and authorship:

International Journal for 21st Century Education hopes that authors maintain a level of demand in their behavior in relation to the publication rules: the publication of the same study in more than one journal, the repeated publication of the same work by part of the author (in whole or in part) and the misappropriation of other authors’ works are prohibited.

In the case of an unresolved dispute, the problem will be communicated to the institution to which the author is linked as well as to the relevant agencies so that it can be investigated and mediated.

Author’s liability:

The authors' original works will be subjected to a blind peer-review process. International Journal for 21st Century Education expects that all authors have contributed significantly to the research submitted for evaluation, and that all data included in the articles are real and authentic. All authors are reminded that they are required to provide corrections and retractions in the event of an error.

Peer review and reviewers’ responsabilities:

The judgments of the reviewers of the International Journal for 21st Century Education will be objective, and the reviewers will not be in conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors and / or the entities that finance the research in the review phase. In this sense, the journal confirms that the reviewers will suggest relevant published works that have not been cited and that the reviewed articles will be treated in a confidential manner.

Editorial responsibilities:

The editors of the journal assume full responsibility and authorship for rejecting or accepting an article. In addition, the editors confirm that they do not have a conflict of interest with respect to the articles they reject or accept, and they will only accept an article when they are reasonably certain about its authenticity. If errors are found, the editors will promote the publication of the corrections or retraction, preserving the anonymity of the reviewers.

Ethical issues related the publication:

The ethics of the publication process will be supervised and protected by the Editorial Board of the International Journal for 21st Century Education on the basis of a use of the rules in the rejection of the articles and the maintenance of the academic data integrity. The journal will be always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, rectifications and apologies, when necessary, assuming that no plagiarism or fraudulent data will be published.