Information For Authors

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS:

The Editorial Team of Temas de Comunicación Journal will accept articles whose topics are related to scientific research, bibliographic reviews, reflections, and reviews that revolve around topics related to the field of communication. Articles should not be signed by more than five authors. If the number of authors on the articles exceeds five, the remaining authors must appear in the DECLARATION OF AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS section, which must be included between the final text and the bibliographic references.

STRUCTURE AND CONTENT OF AN ARTICLE TO BE SUBMITTED TO TEMAS DE COMUNICACIÓN JOURNAL:

Authors interested in submitting their manuscripts to Temas de Comunicación Journal must comply with the Word template format. The Editorial Team reminds you that failure to comply with all the stipulated guidelines may result in your manuscript being rejected in the first instance.

The Temas de Comunicación Journal accepts three types of articles: research, bibliographic review, and reflection. Reviews of academic or research events will also be accepted. A common organizational structure is established for receiving articles, based on the IMRyD format (Introduction, Methodology, Results, and Discussion), which is complemented by the title, abstract, keywords, conclusions, and bibliographic references to form the article as a whole.

Below, in order to facilitate the authors' work, a brief summary of the content of each section is described:

TITLE: The title should be a sentence that contains the essential concepts and ideas of the article; it should be meaningful and concise, with a maximum of 15 words. It should contain the essential terms of the article and should not be a double-meaning phrase, literary phrase, verse from a song, etc. It should not contain abbreviations or symbols, except for articles whose topics are related to linguistics, basic sciences, or any other topic where the use of symbols is unavoidable. In this regard, several authors recommend constructing the title based on the objective, to ensure discursive coherence and a connection to the main scientific result.

ABSTRACT: This constitutes a summary of the article. It is very important because it is what appears in bibliographic databases and what encourages the reader to continue reading and cite or not cite the article. Its content should include a brief reference to the importance of the study conducted and the context of the research (why was it conducted?), the objective of the research that led to the article (what was the purpose?), the methodology used (how was the study conducted?), and the main result (what was its impact?). It is written in a single paragraph and essentially condenses the content of the work and does not include citations. Temas de Comunicación Journal accepts a maximum of 250 words in the abstract.

KEY WORDS: Keywords are typically three to five words or short phrases that summarize the most important themes presented in the article. When choosing keywords, consider what words a user would use to find your article through a search engine. These words should be chosen according to the terms used in the professional environment on the subject and should be in a natural and frequently used language. Therefore, "new" words (words proposed to describe new algorithms, products, theories, etc.) should not be used.

These keywords are used by bibliographic services to classify the work under a specific index or subject. They facilitate the article's inclusion in international databases. They are also used by search engines such as PsycINFO and Google Scholar, among others, to find articles on specific topics. Thus, an article with good keywords can be easily found through these databases.

For this reason, in the case of Social Sciences and Humanities, the selection of keywords should be guided by descriptors such as the UNESCO Thesaurus http://skos.um.es/unescothes/?l=es, the OECD Macrothesaurus Chapter Headings http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/oecd-macroth/es/, or the one established by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) https://www.bartoc.org/es/node/933.

The title, abstract, and keywords are sources of information for retrieving articles in databases.

INTRODUCTION: This section should answer two basic questions: first, why was this work, study, or research undertaken? And, second, what is the problem to be solved? Therefore, it is necessary to explain the background and current status of the problematic situation, with brief notes on the state of the art. The author should state whether they are adopting a theory that serves as their foundation, as well as the author(s) who support it, or whether they are constructing a theoretical perspective, the novelty or scientific contribution, the objective of the study that gave rise to the article, and its importance.

The introduction should be brief, with a maximum length of 15% of the total article. It should include strictly relevant references and should not include data or conclusions.

METHODOLOGY: This section answers the question: How was the problem studied? The Temas de Comunicación Journal considers it important for the author to state the type of article (research, bibliographic review, or reflection).

If it is a research article, the author must specify the type of research that served as the basis for the article, its paradigm, the type of design used (referring, in all cases, to the source used for classification), where the research was conducted, the size of the population and sample, the type and technique of sampling used, and the instruments for data collection, analysis, and processing.

In addition, for any type of article, the author must explain how the study was conducted, the order, logic, or procedure followed, the methodology used, according to what theory or theoretical support, and what materials, experiences, studies, and methods. This is a very important section because it allows other researchers to reproduce the study in other contexts.

For research articles, as applicable, the following must be stated: population, type of sampling and sample size (how it was calculated), criteria supporting the type of sampling (even if it is non-probability sampling of an intentional or convenience nature), and in cases where the research procedure does not involve such a selection, explanations must be provided.

Furthermore, taking into account that research articles involve working directly with individuals and may involve interviews, behavioral observation in certain processes, etc. and from the need to comply with the Ethics of research in Social Sciences, developed since the 1970s, as an extension of the debate initiated in the field of bioethics in Western Europe and the United States after the Second World War and with the ethical behavior of researchers, it should be included in the investigative process and mentioned in this section of METHODOLOGY, the management to obtain the informed consent of the people who are the subject of research, where they state their conformity and authorization for the information they provide to be used, respecting the principles of confidentiality and anonymity as components of the Ethics of research in Social Sciences.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: This section contains approximately 70% of the total article. In the journal Temas de Comunicación, Results and Discussion form a single section containing the essence of the article, the main scientific result expressed in the objective; it answers the questions: What was found? And what do these findings mean?

These may include data, interpretations, or comments. These must be clear and concise and can be presented in the form of lists, tables, and figures, the data of which must be explained in the text. When the research involves comparing your own results with those obtained by other authors, the source of the data compared must be clearly indicated. When statistical analysis is included, the results must clearly establish which variables show statistical differences.

In addition, the significance of the results is described in the context of what is known about the research topic. Whether the proposed hypothesis, if formulated, is verified or rejected should be discussed. New and potentially important findings of the study should be emphasized. The limitations of the experimental methods should be discussed, as well as the possible implications for future research. When appropriate, the clinical relevance of the results should be included. In this section, the results should be compared with those reported by other similar investigations.

CONCLUSIONS: These express the synthesis of the main result obtained from the research process or study carried out. They are a consequence of it, and therefore the conclusions are directly related to the stated objective. In no case are they declarations of principles or truths established before the study was conducted, but rather are derived from it.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES: The citations included in the article must appear in the Reference List at the end of the article, that is, there must not be a work in the Bibliographic References to which there is no corresponding citation in the text. The reference list must follow the APA 7 bibliographic standards and style. Citations in the body of the text will be delimited as follows (Author's last name, year, page or paragraph number). For example (Hernández, 2025, p. 12) or (Hernández, 2025, pp. 78-112), if the citation is located on more than one page or (Hernández, 2025, paragraph 18), if it is a citation on a web page that does not declare a page number.

To facilitate your work, you can use specific software that allows you to capture, store, organize, and export citations and bibliographies in the desired format. The most commonly used bibliography managers include Refworks, EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley. Citations are traffic drivers that can lead to your article being read. If citations from relatively important articles have been used, those articles will appear indexed and will have their "cited by" lists, lists that are frequently consulted. However, if the citation made to an article is irrelevant, it can damage the author's scientific image, so the articles to be consulted and cited must be chosen with great care.

It is reiterated that citations and references from articles published in journals indexed in high-impact databases, such as Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), and the ICI Journals Master List, should preferably be used, ensuring that at least 50% are from the last five years. Regarding the books to be cited, consider those considered classics in the subject matter.

COMMON RULES FOR ALL TYPES OF ARTICLES:

  • Manuscripts must adhere to the format of the provided Word template.
  • Footnotes may be used.
  • Tables and figures in the manuscript's Word document must be simple and included as images, in JPEG or PNG format with sufficient quality, and must be referenced in the text close to their position. No more than 15 images between tables and figures will be accepted.
  • The maximum length of each manuscript must not exceed 10,000 words, and the minimum must be 5,000, including figures, tables, and bibliographic references. Manuscripts that do not fit into one of the three accepted formats or are under 5,000 words will not be accepted. The Editorial Board of Temas de Comunicación Journal will review the exceptional case of a manuscript exceeding 10,000 words.
  • The maximum accepted manuscript size, including all components (text and images), will be 25 MB.
  • Figures and tables must be inserted into the text in the appropriate place. These tables and figures must be referenced within the text in their corresponding place. Additionally, a single file must be submitted, including a zipped folder containing all figures in JPG or PNG format, easily identifiable (figure number in the file name) and of acceptable quality.
  • Once the article has been reviewed and approved by the blind peer reviewers, it will be edited into PDF. Before publication, each author will be sent a proof printout in the final PDF format. The author must consent to the final edit, and once authorized, the article may be published.
  • Bibliographic citations must be included within the text in parentheses with the following format (Author's last name, year, page or paragraph number). For example (Hernández, 2025, p. 12) or (Hernández, 2025, pp. 78-112), if the citation is located on more than one page, or (Hernández, 2025, para. 18), if it is a citation on a web page that does not state a page number. The cited bibliography inserted in the text must appear listed at the end of the work, ordered alphabetically by author and chronologically in the case of citing several books or articles by the same author, from oldest to most recent. For bibliographic references at the end of the work, APA 7 standards will be used.
  • Bold and underlined type should not be used, either throughout the text or in bibliographic citations. Italics should be used in the following cases: 1) First use of key terms or phrases, often accompanied by a definition. 2) Titles of books, reports, web pages, and other independent works. 3) Titles of magazines, newspapers, and their respective volume numbers. 4) Letters (with the exception of Greek) used as statistical symbols or variables. 5) Meanings of a scale (but not the associated number). 6) Scientific names and words in a language other than Castilian or Spanish, only when they do not appear in the dictionary of the language in which the article is written. Denominations, proper names, and place names should not be italicized.
  • Capital letters should be used for proper names, geographical features, rivers, continents, countries, etc.; names of phases or periods, cultures, types, etc., should also be written with an initial capital letter. Directional terms should only be capitalized if abbreviated (N, S, SE).
  • Numbers used in the text and referring to any material are expressed in words if the number is from zero to nine. If the number is greater than nine, they are written with numeric characters. Numbers expressed with more than three digits have a period in the thousandths place (e.g., 3,000). Ordinal numbers are always written in words (e.g., first), except for centuries, which are written with Roman numerals (e.g., 4th century). Measurements should be given in Arabic numerals and in the abbreviated metric system, without a period and leaving a space between the number and the abbreviation (e.g., 20 cm).
  • Direct quotations of fewer than 40 words are incorporated into the text paragraph, highlighted by double quotation marks (e.g., ""). Single quotation marks should only be used to indicate quotations within other quotations. Always indicate the author's last name, year, page or paragraph number at the end of the quotation. For example, (Hernández, 2025, p. 12) or (Hernández, 2025, pp. 78-112) if the quotation is located on more than one page, or (Hernández, 2025, para. 18) if the quotation is from a web page that does not specify a page number. Brackets are used to indicate text added by the author within the quotation.
  • Direct quotations of 40 words or more are in a separate paragraph, and the entire paragraph is indented 1.27 cm.
  • References included in the text, when there are more than three authors, will be indicated with the surname of the first author followed by et al.
  • All sources cited in the text must be declared in the BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES list, which will be governed by APA 7. In the case of figures and tables, the source will only be declared if it is not the work of the article's authors. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES are arranged alphabetically and, in the case of several articles or books by the same author, chronologically. Everything other than tables will appear named as figures, without abbreviations (e.g., Figure 1). The text with the figure number must appear at the bottom of the figure. The source is indicated at the top with the term "source" (e.g., "Source: ..." if the figure was not created by the article's authors).

SUBMISSION PREPARATION CHECKLIST:

  • All submissions must meet the following requirements:
  • A single zip file containing all figures in JPG or PNG format must be attached, easily identifiable (figure number in the file name) and of acceptable quality.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.
  • The maximum size of the manuscript, including all its components, does not exceed 25 MB.
  • The file format used is the Word template provided on the Temas de Comunicación Journal website, and JPEG or PNG for images.
  • The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
  • The authors declare that the research that led to the manuscript followed good ethical practices and that the necessary approvals from Research Ethics Committees, where applicable, are described in the manuscript.
  • The format complies with all the standards indicated in the Word template provided on the Temas de Comunicación Journal website.
  • Tables must be in JPEG or PNG format with a minimum resolution of 150 dpi.
  • Figures and tables must be inserted into the text at the author's discretion, and must not exceed 10.
  • The manuscript must be no less than 5,000 words and no more than 10,000 words (except in exceptional cases authorized by the Temas de Comunicación Journal Editorial Committee), including figures, tables, and bibliographic references (justified exceptions will be considered).

COPYRIGHT NOTICE:

AUTHOR'S RESPONSIBILITY: They are responsible for the ideas and data contained in the manuscripts, for the accuracy of the information, for the correctness of citations, for the rights to publish any material included in the text, and for submitting the manuscript in the format required by Temas de Comunicación Journal (Word template). A manuscript submitted to Temas de Comunicación Journal must not be previously published or have been submitted in the same format to another publication.

COPYRIGHT: The articles published do not necessarily reflect the views of Temas de Comunicación Journal. The Journal adheres to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license policy. Each author retains the copyright to the article published in Temas de Comunicación Journal.

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