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Author Guidelines

Manuscript Submissions

Authors submit their manuscripts online by registering with this journal then logging in and following an automated, five-step submission process.

Length and Formal Criteria

The texts sent to @tic can be turned down because of formal issues as spelling, inadequate use of lexicon, unnecesary Anglicisms, wrong punctuation, unconnected syntax, lack of clarity, incoherences, etc. We strongly recommend to the authors that, before sending an article, they review carefully the linguistic aspects of the text and its adequacy to the standard language used.

1. For the Articles, section we welcome submissions from 15 to 20 pages in length. Bibliographic references will be included after the text, as indicated in @tic Style guide. Please, use footnotes on the text.


2. For the Learning with ICT section, we welcome submissions from 6 to 8 pages. Bibliographic references should be included at the end of the article. They should follow the Guidestyle. Figures, graphics, audio files, etc. will be submitted as complementary material and the article should include the project web page, if it exists.

3. For the section Evaluation of Tools, and also for 4. Reading Room and 5. The Pergola , the length will be between 4 and 6 pages, and this includes images and bibliographic references.

Annexes will be considered additional material.

Styles

The styles are:

1. “Normal” style: Arial, 11 pt., spacing above paragraph 6, below paragraph 0, single line spacing, without indenting.

2. “Footnote”: Arial, 9 pt., spacing above paragraph 6 and below paragraph 0, single line spacing. If there are footnotes, they will be numbered consecutively.

3.“Bibliography”: Arial, 9 pt., single line spacing.

The texts will be sent without indenting or tabs. Graphics, images, tables, etc. will appear in the part of the text they are referred to, consecutively numbered and, if necessary, specifying its origin. Tables will be in Arial 8, single line spacing and spacing above and below paragraph 0. Graphics, tables, etc. should be consecutively numbered and they will include Title and Origin.
Annexes will be numbered with and A after a number (A.1, A.2, etc.).

Each author should include with his/her article a passport photograph, in jpg format and 200 ppp.

Structure

Both the Scientific Articles section and the Learning with ICT one, will include two additional pages:

Page 1:
- Title and author/s
- Information about the articles' author/s or the director of the project, including the institution he/she works in, complete postal address, email and web page (if they have)
- Scholarships or projects that have support this work

Page 2:
- Summary (in Spanish, Catalan and English): maximum 100 words
- Keywords (in Spanish, Catalan and English): between 3 and 7 words

Page 3 and more:
- Title in the first line and also the text without the author's name (to facilitate a blind peer review process

Besides, we recommend that the document includes:

1.Introduction
2.Methodology/ Data and Analysis
3.Conclusion/ Results
4.Bibliography
5.If desired, author/s can suggest two or three possible reviewers for his/her article.

Bibliographic references

Through the text the bibliographic references should appear as: (Surname year), example (Benveniste 1958) or with page indicator: (Benveniste 1958: 183). When there are more than one author the surnames of all of them have to appear or its abbreviated form: (Surname 1st author et al. year). Example (Serra et al.2000: 520).

Bibliographic references have to go at the end of the article, in alphabetical order and chronological if needed. References will be in the format previously specified. As you can see in the examples, the citation style will include the complete name of authors and also translators.

1. Articles in periodicals:
Surname, Name; Surname, Name; Surname, Name (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Volum (number), pages.
Bara, Bruno G.; Cutica, Ilaria; Tirassa, Maurizio (2001). Neuropragmatics: Extralinguistic Communication after Closed Head Injury. Brain and Language, 77, pp.72-94.

2. Articles in a monographic issue, congress, etc.: The citation will reflect the original publication year.
Surname, Name; Surname, Name (year). Title of the article. In Name Surname (Ed). Title of the book. City: Editorial, Year of this edition, pages.
Basso, Anna (2003). Therapy for Lexical Disorders. En Ilias Papathanosiou y Ria De Bleser (Eds). The Sciences of Aphasia: From Therapy to Theory, Oxford: Pergamon, 2003, pp.121-130.

3. Citation of a book:
Surname, Name; Surname, Name (year first edition). Title of the book. City: Editorial, Year of the edition used if different to the 1st one.
Marina, José Antonio (1993). Teoría de la inteligencia creadora. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1994.

4. Citation of a translated book:
Surname, Name; Surname, Name (year original edition). Title of the book . City: Editorial, Year of the original translated version used; pages. Transl. Of Name Surname.
Postman, Neil (1985): Divertim-nos fins a morir. El discurs públic a l’època del ‘show-bussiness’. Barcelona: Llibres de l’índex, 1993. Trad. De Betty Alsina Keith.

5. Citation of magazines or online resources:
Surname, Name; Surname, Name (year). Title of the article. Title of the magazine. Volume (issue number if available), URL. Retrieved month, day, year from .
López Menes, Eloy y Miranda Velasco, M.Jesús (2007). Influencia de la tecnología de la información en el rol del profesorado y en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. RIED, Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 10 (1), http://www.utpl.edu.ec/ried/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&Itemid=152 Fecha de consulta, 02.07.2008.

Other norms

The text's links will be included in the document (using the "Include links" menu), but in the bibliography it will be included explicitly.

To highlight elements of the text italics should be used , but never "quotation marks", bold·type, italics, small capitals or uppercase letters.

Quotation marks only willl be used in textual quotation.

@tic. revista d’innovació educativa accept originals in Catalan, Spanish and English languages.

Articles should be sent through this system, OJS. All the editorial process will be done by electronic procedures with only one exception: the publishing certificates, which will be sent after the articles' acceptance.

To be published in @tic articles must not be either published or selected by publishing for any other journal. On the other hand, they must not be under reviewing process by any other publication.

@tic.revista d’innovació educativa, uses a peer evaluation process for each article. This process won't be longer than three months from the initial reception to the moment the authors receive a first answer.

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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.

1. Here, I certify that this sending hasn’t been published previously in any other Journal and I declare that I will not send it to evaluation to any other scientific Journal until @tic. revista d’innovació educativa gives me an answer.
2. The document sent is in Microsoft Word, RTF or Open Office format.
3. All the URLs included in the text (e.g, http://pkp.sfu.ca) work properly.
4. The text fulfil the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in: Author Guidelines.
5. If your submission is to a peer review section of the journal, please be sure that the article fulfils the Author Guidelines ).
6. Photographs, figures and audio files have to be submitted as separated files (the photographs in jpeg format, 200 ppp.)
7. Please, submit also a personal photograph of each author, in jpeg format and 200 ppp.
8. I declare that all data and references to previously published materials are clearly identified and that all those materials are free of copyright.
9. It’s necessary that in the article metadata you complete the information about: title, abstract and keywords IN ENGLISH. Please include this information also in the first word page document.

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