Author Guidelines
Template for the presentation of articles:
Title, 12 words maximum, bold, Times New Roman 14,
Title, 12 words maximum, bold, Times New Roman 12
Author’s Name
(Academic degree, specialty, university, institutional affiliation, country, and e-mail must be specified in the footnote)
Abstract
The abstract should not exceed 300 words. The content of the work will be accurately defined in this section, clearly indicating the objectives, the methodology (sample or population, data collection instruments) and the main results. If it is the result of a bibliographic investigation, it must present part of the content, object of study, theoretical foundation, and main results. Times New Roman 12.
Keywords: in Spanish; 5 keywords minimum, separated by commas. Times New Roman 12.
English version abstract: the same previous abstract translated into English, with all the corresponding style and content characteristics.
Keywords: in English; 5 keywords minimum, separated by commas. Times New Roman 12.
Body of the article and margin format
The length of the article will not exceed 30 pages (8.5 x 11 letter-size paper, size 12 Times New Roman font and double spacing), including the references and annexes.
Page Margins: top: 3 cm, bottom: 4 cm, left: 4 cm, right: 3 cm. No additional spaces should be left between paragraphs.
The text should be subdivided into the necessary parts for its clear explanation and correct understanding, for example: introduction, materials and methods, conclusion, bibliography. Each section should be numbered.
- Introduction
- First level heading
The explanatory notes should be placed at the bottom of the page with a footnote numbering scheme.
- Second Level heading [only if the author requires it] Bold will not be necessary.
If the article includes charts, maps, graphs, figures, and pictures, they must be clearly presented (high quality) in the digital version. The chronology and scale must appear in the figure (never in the footnote). Extremely large or extremely small charts will be avoided; Likewise, the credits of any image, table, diagram, figure, photograph, or map must be indicated.
In addition, if you incorporate tables, graphs, images, illustrations or tables into your work, you must reference and explain, in the text, in such a way that these resources are a support for the reading and visualization of the data. Consider that the way to identify them is to number each of the elements (table 1 or graph 1) next to its corresponding name. Avoid charts that are cut between pages and you must add a legend indicating the source from which the data was taken.
Table 1. Example on how to present tables
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Source: [The source and its corresponding reference will be required if the table is based on data from another document]
- Third level heading [if applicable]
For the presentation of articles from the Pensamiento Actual journal, the style of the American Psychological Association 2020 in its latest version should be considered (for more information you can go to the following link: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000) to quote and reference texts within this academic journal, for this reason take into account the following tips:
For quotations of fewer than 40 words, add quotation marks around the words and incorporate the quote into your own text; there is no additional formatting needed. Do not insert an ellipsis at the beginning or end of a quotation unless the original source includes an ellipsis.
E.g.: Effective teams can be difficult to describe because “high performance along one domain does not translate to high performance along another” (Ervin et al., 2018, p. 470).
Block Quotations (40 Words or More)
Format quotations of 40 words or more as block quotations:
- Do not use quotation marks to enclose a block quotation.
- Start a block quotation on a new line and indent the whole block 0.5 in. (1.27 cm) from the left margin.
- Double-space the entire block quotation.
- Do not add extra space before or after it.
- Either (a) cite the source in parentheses after the quotation’s final punctuation or (b) cite the author and year in the narrative before the quotation and place only the page number in parentheses after the quotation’s final punctuation.
- Do not add a period after the closing parenthesis in either case.
E.g.: Researchers have studied how people talk to themselves:
Inner speech is a paradoxical phenomenon. It is an experience that is central to many people’s everyday lives, and yet it presents considerable challenges to any effort to study it scientifically. Nevertheless, a wide range of methodologies and approaches have combined to shed light on the subjective experience of inner speech and its cognitive and neural underpinnings. (Alderson-Day & Fernyhough, 2015, p. 957)
- Conclusion
In this section, the synthesis of the subject set out in the article should be included, in such a way that it encompasses and responds to the main concerns of the entire work.
- References
Follow the examples below:
Journal Article
Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., y Yelinek, J. (2019). Emociones en los libros de cuentos: una comparación de libros de cuentos que representan grupos étnicos y raciales en los Estados Unidos. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8 (3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
Whole authored book
Sapolsky, RM (2017). Comportarse: la biología de los humanos en nuestro mejor y peor. Penguin Books.
Whole edited book
abinowitz, FE (2019). Profundización de la psicoterapia grupal con hombres: historias e ideas para el viaje. Asociación Americana de Psicología. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000132-000
Webpage
Fagan, J. (25 de marzo de 2019). Enfermería clínica cerebral. REA Commons. Recuperado el 17 de septiembre de 2019 de https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/53029-nursing-clinical-brain/view
Organización Mundial de la Salud. (24 de mayo de 2018). Las 10 principales causas de muerte. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10- causes-of-death.
Types of publications
Refereed section (evaluated by external peer review)
The journal publishes the following types of unpublished articles:
Scientific article (text with empirical evidence and well-defined methodology): 30 pages maximum. This is derived from research, social action, or teaching experience. It refers to the achievements and their possible scientific applications. The objectives, the method used, and the results must be stated. It must show its own purposes and independence with respect to the research that supports it.
Bibliographic essay: 30 pages maximum. It consists of a narrative discussion of research reports, research articles, books, among others, of a certain field of study related to some of the topics that the Journal accepts.
The scientific essay: 30 pages maximum. It is the type of text that defends a hypothesis or contrasts two or more hypotheses about the specific subject of study it deals with. It is a reflective discourse that emphasizes the analysis of current studies and the ideas proposed at that moment on a specific topic, with the aim of discussing their scope and relevance.
Biographical note: 30 pages maximum. It is a biographical sketch that highlights the most outstanding events related to some area of research that determined the nature, studies, and historical relevance of a person or institution. It recognizes their achievements in their field of study and how their actions modified the course of the country's history or specific knowledge. The legacy that the person left is recognized.
Reviews: 30 pages maximum. These are texts that summarize experiences in relation to projects, initiatives, cultural, educational, artistic or health policies, and literary texts. They are presented with the accuracy of an essay but allowing the subjective appreciation of the writer.
Other collaborations: short literary texts or visual art documents with their corresponding preliminary analysis.
