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Author Guidelines

Cost of publication: free.

General Requirements

• Authors should ensure the accuracy of the quotes, charts, tables and maps.
• Refrain from including irrelevant images and graphics in the article.
• Keywords are very important for search engine positioning. To achieve a better dissemination of the work, please make sure your keywords are clear an precise.
• f they want, authors can add at the end of the article, in an Acknowledgments heading, the financial support or subsidies received in the research.

Format Requirements

• Graphics and images should be clear and easy to see. We cannot improve the quality of images.
• All images, graphics and tables must be accompanied by a title and a source.
• All images, graphics and tables should be placed where they will appear in the text.

Bibliographic References

The citation style chosen by this journal is the APA’s (American Psychological Association).The references in the text must follow an abbreviated format (Author, Year: pp.). The full reference list shall appear at the end of the article. Preferably include references from the last five years; It will increase the article possibilities of acceptance by the reviewers. Efforts should be made to minimize the number of footnotes.

Whenever possible, include the DOI for each article in the bibliographic list. Authors can use a citation generator of APA style to adapt their bibliography to APA 7th edition as the one in the following link: https://www.scribbr.com/citation/generator/

The list of references should appear at the end and look as follows:

• Printed Book by One Author:

Vézina, V. (2021). Political ideologies and worldviews: An introduction. Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

• Electronic Book by One Author:

Pearce, E. (2020). Contemporary families: An equity lens. Open Oregon Educational Resources.

• Several Books by One Author:

McWhorter, J. (2018). The creole debate. Cambridge University Press.

McWhorter, J. (2021a). Nine nasty words: English in the Gutter: then, now, and forever. Avery.

McWhorter, J. (2021b). Woke racism: How a new religion has betrayed Black America. Portfolio.

• Book by Two Authors:

Carrera, S. & Geddes, S. (2021). The EU pact on migration and asylum in light of the United Nations global compact on refugees. European University Institute. https://doi.org/10.2870/541854

• Book by more than Two Authors:

Hutchison, R., Gottdiener M., & Ryan, M.T. (2014). The New Urban Sociology. Westview Press.

• Collective Book with Editors:

Aarts, E., Fleuren, H., Sitskoorn, M., Wilthagen, T. (Eds). (2021). The new common. How the COVID-19 pandemic is transforming society. Springer.

• Book Chapter:

Pearlman, W. (2020). Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany. En D. Abdelhady, N. Gren & M. Joormann (Eds). Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526146847.00019

• Journal Article:

Schiavo, R., (2020). Children and COVID-19: addressing the mental health impact of the pandemic. Journal of Communication in Healthcare.  https://doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2020.1821438

• Video or Conference Presentation:

United Nations (2016, May 16). United Nations Global Student Videoconference to celebrate heritage, culture, roots of African Diaspora at Headquarters on 13 May. United Nations Organization. [Video].   http://www.un.org/press/en/2016/note6480.doc.htm

• Film:

Unkrich, L. & Molina, A. (Co-directors). (2017). Coco [Film]. Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios.

• Online Newspaper Article:

Emigh, R.J. (2021, August 10). A historical sociology of the authentication of news. Items. https://items.ssrc.org/beyond-disinformation/a-historical-sociology-of-the-authentication-of-news/

• Printed Newspaper Article:

Ongcal, A. (2021, October 8) ‘We just need food’: Manila’s newly homeless tell stories of survival in lockdown – photo essay. The Guardian.

• PhD Dissertation:

Gonzalez, I. (2019) Imagining a blue future: The blue economy and social values in the Illawarra Region. [Doctoral thesis, University of Wollongong, Australia]. https://ro.uow.edu.au/thss/18

• Blog Post:

Peterson, A. (2021, July 1). Social capital, active community, and educational disadvantage. Social Sciences Birmingham. https://blog.bham.ac.uk/socialsciencesbirmingham/2021/07/01/social-capital-active-community-and-educational-disadvantage/

The author may decide the section REFERENCES distribution in several sections, with bibliographics references criteria different from the general ones: for example, including a webography or a primary sources list, without necessarily following the order of these instructions.

Editorial Quality

• The peer review process is rigorous in order to ensure the quality of the content published in the journal. We expect the authors to revise their texts following the suggestions of the reviewers. If the authors do not perform such reviews and do not submit comments back, the manuscript will be definitely rejected.
• Some manuscripts may be of excellent quality, but be poorly written in English. This may be the case for authors whose native language is not English. In this case, we could request the authors to re-write the article completely, independent of the final punctuation the article may have obtained. We have an editorial service that can be hired by the authors to improve the writing expression of the article.