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Author Guidelines

Language:

Articles should be in English or Spanish.

Submission of proposals:

All texts must be submitted via the Congress platform. Please note that texts sent directly to the directors of the Congress or thematic-area coordinators will not be accepted. The first step is the submission of abstracts. Abstracts will be evaluated by the directors of each thematic area. After approval, authors must submit the complete paper. The organization will communicate on the scheduled date the final acceptance of this complete version.

Authorship:

An author can submit only one paper at the Congress. Payment of the registration fee entitles the presentation of one paper, whether individual or co-authored. If the paper is co-authored, certificates of paper presentation will only be issued to those participants who have paid the registration fee; their name will also be included in the publications.

Abstract:

Proposals submitted for review must include the full title of the paper, identification of its authors and a summary of research which should not exceed 400 words. The summary should briefly state the main objective of the work, the methodology of the study and introduce the conclusions. It should not contain bibliographic references of the authors. Additionally, the proposal should include four keywords relevant to the paper but not mentioned in its title.

Reviewers will use the following criteria for the selection process: contributions to the fields of science and applied communication, methodology, quality of writing, suitability to the thematic area, originality or importance of the subject of study.

Final text:

• The final text will have a maximum extension of 4000 words, including the title, abstract, keywords and bibliography. This limit will be followed strictly. The objective of the same is to present the current research, theoretical or empirical, in a brief and precise way.
• No attachments of any kind will be accepted and footnotes will be avoided.
• The graphs, tables and illustrations will be placed in the text and numbered in correlative order. If photographs are included this will have a minimum resolution of 200 ppi.
• The final text must be submitted using the attached template: CICSA 2017 TEMPLATE.
• Authors should not edit the text.
• Citations and bibliography, alphabetically ordered, will use the APA system

Publication of papers:

Titles, abstracts and keywords will be published via the congress platform (OCS) of the research 'group methaodos.org'.  Papers that pass the evaluation process of double-blind peer review will be fully published in the congress proceedings in digital format.

Finally, the 14 papers that obtain the best evaluation from the CICSA Scientific Committee will be published as articles (12) and research notes (2) in a special issue of the scientific journal ‘methaodos.social science journal’ planned for May 2018. The selected papers must conform to the standards of the journal.

Final programme:

The final programme and congress proceedings will only include authors who have paid the registration fee by 30 June 2017. 

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

1. The submission has not been previously published nor has it been submitted for consideration in any other scientific conference or publication.
2. The sending file is in Microsoft Word format (.doc / .docx).
3. The submitted text always provides the URLs for the necessary references.
4. The text is edited following the model that has been provided in the instructions for the authors.
5. The authors have included an abstract, keywords, identifying data and a brief biographical note.

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