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 has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Submission
We recommend to review the section About the Journal in order to check the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register before submitting a paper. If you are already registered, simply log in and start the five-step process to submit a paper.
Proposals sent to MES must include:
A title no longer than 12 words or that can be summarized within this extension. A summary comprising between 7 and 10 lines (100-150 words, approximately) and between 4-8 keywords. The title of the paper, the summary and the keywords must be sent in English, as well.
An introduction containing the justification of the research problem (or the topic/experience) of the article.
Information about the research methodology, description of the population or sample, data collection techniques, instruments, etc.
Analysis of results or examples.
Conclusions or implications of the article.
Bibliographic references (APA format).
Information about the authors: name, surname, e-mail, website (if applicable), organizational affiliation and a brief bibliographical review.
All articles submitted must be sent in Word format, using the template provided.
As the arbitration process comprises a double-blind peer review, we kindly ask the authors to replace their names with the formulation “XXX” in the first submission. The latter will apply also to the section containing bibliographic references, as well as in-text citations or other specific mentions that may allude to the authors. A full version of the manuscript, including names, in-text citations, bibliographic references and mentions will be sent as well in PDF format, likewise.
Once the article is accepted for its publication, the corresponding author will be asked to sign a letter implying a cession of copyrights on behalf of all the authors of the paper. This work is licensed under a Creative Common License (CC BY 3.0 ES)
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. Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been published before, neither is under consideration in any other journal (or else an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
All files are in OpenOffice (.odt), Microsoft Word (.doc; .docx)or RTF (.rtf) format.
Whenever they are available, URL of the references will be provided
Texts must display single spacing; 12 point font; use italics instead of underlining (except for URL); all illustrations, figures, charts and tables must be placed where they belong in the text, and not at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements specified in the Author Guidelines.
The revision of the articles submitted comprises a double-blind peer review.
