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Submission 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.
  • 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 text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The manuscript submitted is in Word format
  • A named version as well as an anonymous version are submitted, the last one for external peer-review. In order to guarantee anonymity in the evaluation,, all references that could identify the authorship have been removed
  • The title page of the manuscript includes: (Co)Authors details: institutional affiliation, email address and ORCID ID (freely available at https://orcid.org).
    Declaration of interest. If there are no interests to declare then please state this: 'Declarations of interest: none' (for more information please refer to DECLARATION OF INTEREST).
    Any clarification regarding the article, authors, funding sources and acknowledgments.
  • The article does not exceed 11,000 words/ research note do not exceed 6,000 words/ literature review does not exceed 1,300 words.
  • The article includes an abstract of 125-130 in the language of the article as well as a translation of such abstract into English. The abstract specifies briefly the objective of the manuscript, its methodology, and the findings.The submission includes five keywords in both languages. Works originally written in English must include a Spanish translation of the abstract
  • If applicable, a link to the supporting research data, published on a publicly accessible website where appropriate, has been included
  • The article presents a research problem (preferably expressed through a question), a tentative answer (preferably in a hypothesis format), a review of established knowledge, and/or some new contribution.
    The research note is a conceptual or theoretical reflection, a review of an area of study, an extended commentary on a book or debate, a report on some election, a preview on partial results of some research.
    If it is empirical, it presents findings and conclusions.