ISSN 1692-2522
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ISSN 2248-4086
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Method and Preparation of Texts
• Sending of manuscripts

The following document explains the duties, actions and practices that regulate and conduct the editorial management of Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación in its ethical dimension and the treatment of the cases linked to authorship, intellectual property and the professional and academic integrity of the production of knowledge. This document is based upon the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). https://www.um.es/ead/red/etica_cope.pdf.

Regarding the authors:

The authors must manifest the originality and clarity of the article, the veracity of the data, as well as the validity of the study and its relevance regarding the journal's scope.
They must know the guidelines for authors and comply with them.
They must state any relevant conflict of interest for all the contributors if there were any.
They must make the editors aware if any individual must not review the submitted material, every time those requests are reasonable and viable.
They must know the publications dates of the journal, as well as the deadlines for submission and approval of articles.
The author can appeal against the editorial decisions.

Regarding the reviewers or arbitrators:

The Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación journal, in its peer review process, selects international arbitrators with expertise in the topics following a blind double peer system to guarantee that the review is in accordance with anonymity standards.
The reviewers must state any possible conflict of interests that might arise from the closeness or hostility against any of the authors. Likewise, if the reviewer identifies the author(s) despite the removal of their names from the manuscript. The arbitrators must declare any conflict of interests and reject the invitation of the editors for evaluating the manuscript when, for example, they identify the authorship of the manuscript, they are academically or family-related, they belong to the same university, department or research group, professional network, research project or any other kind of connection or professional proximity. Given any of these cases, the reviewer must decline the editor's invitations for arbitrating the article.
The arbitrators must review the article within the timeline stated by the journal to follow the stipulated times and paying due diligence to the authors and their works.
The reviewer must keep strict confidentiality in the assessment of the article and must not divulge its content to any third parties.
The opinion of the reviewers is vital for detecting the originality of the contents and guaranteeing the scientific and literary quality of the manuscript.
The assessment reports must have an exhaustive analysis of the manuscript, contrasting the information presented on it, the verification of the scientific literature employed in the text and also present a quantitative and qualitative report to the editors on the suitability of the work for its publication.
The reviewers must make commentaries on the ethical problems arising from possible inadequate conducts of the publications of the research.

Regarding the editors:

The editors must guarantee the quality of the material published in the journal.
They must also select expert peers with knowledge, experience and academic trajectory in the topic without conflict of interests.
They must uphold intellectual rights.
Guarantee the confidentiality and anonymity of the authors and reviewers in the process; as well as in every aspect regarding consent and special requirements for research on human beings and animals.
Publishing corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies whenever necessary.
Actively search for points of view of authors, reader, reviewers and members of the committee of other journals of possible ways of improving its publishing processes.
Complying with the continuous publication declared by the journal Anagramas Rumbos y Sentidos de la Comunicación.
Identify, select and review the composition of the members of the scientific and editorial committees in accordance with the experience and academic trajectory of its integrants.
Employ systems for the detection of falsifications as a routine procedure and in those pieces suspicious of plagiarism. For this regard, the journal employs theTurnitin software to determine the similarity of an article with other documents.

The topics of the submissions to the journal must be related to the results of researches and reviews in the communication field. The journal will prioritize three types of documents:

Scientific and Technological Research Articles:A document that presents, in a detailed manner, the original results of a research project. The structure is generally composed of four main parts: an introduction, a methodology, results and conclusions.

Reflection Articles.A document that presents the results of research from an analytical, interpretive or critical perspective of the author on a specific topic for which the author recurs to original sources.

Review Articles. A document that results from the analysis, systematization and integration of the results of published or unpublished research on a science or technology field with the purpose of communicating the advancements and development trends of them. It is characterized by having a rigorous bibliographical review.

The article must have a statement that certifies that it is unpublished (declaration of originality letter), of its authorship and that it has not been proposed for publication in other journals simultaneously. Furthermore, it must state the yield of the moral rights to the University of Medellin and the authorization for broadcasting the said articles by any media, whether printed or online, the internet included. It is very important to state in a footnote the origin of the article (name of the research in which it is based, financing of the research, research group responsible for it and its institutional context).

Preparation of the manuscript

All the submissions are processed in the journal’s web page https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/anagramas through its Open Journal System (OJS). Those texts submitted via any other platform will not be considered. The articles must be written in the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English. The whole manuscript must be written following the American Psychological Association (APA in its latest version) standards. The text must not surpass the ten thousand words limit and must be presented in double spacing. It must be submitted in Arial font with 12 points.

Title of the article
The title must be presented in the three languages (Spanish, English and Portuguese), its extension must not surpass 90 characters including spaces. It must be highly relevant.

Subtitle (if necessary)
60 characters maximum, including spaces.

Authors
Full names ordered by priority and with its respective institutional affiliation as a footnote; the name must be normalized according to international conventions, i.e. the name must be linked to its orcid; if the author's name is not linked to an orcid she or he must obtain one in the website https://orcid.org/signin. The academic degree of the authors must be included, as well as the e-mail, the work centre and country of origin.

Abstract
Must be written in the three languages (Spanish, English and Portuguese) with an extension between 230 and 250 words. The abstract must not contain quotations and must be written in the third person. The abstracts are the presentation letter of your work and thus it must contain the following characteristics:

Research objectives
Topic justification
Methodology employed
Most relevant finding
Conclusions

Keywords
8 words. In order to control the metadata and being able to manage the manuscripts in the different databases, the Unesco Thesaurus will be taken as the base for this. http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/es/. Keywords outside of this controlled will not be accepted.

Body of the manuscript

Introduction: The theoretical structure of the article. The introduction must not contain conclusions or research findings.

Methodology: It must be precise in the explanations of the sampling; the type of analysis employed must be convincingly exposed.

Results: A systematic exposition of the findings. Display of figures, tables and other necessary resources.

Discussion and conclusions: Summary of the findings and contributions to the specific field. Prospective of the object of analysis.

References: The bibliographical references must be referenced within the text. Those references that are not mentioned within the texts must not be included. The number of bibliographical references must oscillate between 30 and 40 references and must be presented alphabetically ordered by the last name. At least 10 references must be from Scopus sources. The bibliographical quotes must be extracted from the original documents preferably.

Bibliographical references: For references within the text, the reference must be between quotation marks, if the fragment has more than 40 words it must be in its own body of text one space down of the regular redaction and with bleeding that allows its recognition and without quotation marks. At the end of the quote and between parenthesis the last name of the author, the year and the page(s) must be included, for example: (Pérez, 2012, p.133). Each reference within the text must be in the final list of references under the references subtitles. This list must alphabetically ordered and numbered. In case of referencing books the style used must be the last name of the author followed by the name initial. The year of publication must be between parentheses. After that, the title of the work must be in italics. Then the publisher name and a DOI if available. Example:

Pérez D., L. (2014). Estudio de los niveles de rendimiento de deportistas élite en Colombia. Medellín, Colombia: Edukart.

In case of referencing a journal article, begin with the first last name of the author and the initial of the second one (in case of having one), followed by the name's initial. Then the year of publication must be between parentheses, after that the title of the article in regulars. Followed by the name of the journal and the volume in italics and, within parentheses, the number and then the pages in regulars. Lastly, a DOI if available. DOIs may not always be available. In these cases, use a URL. Example:

Pérez D., L. (2012). Un análisis parcial a los niveles de rendimiento de deportistas élite en Colombia. Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte, 77(1), 127-148. http://rbceonline.org.br/revista/index.php/RBCE/article/view/555002.

Further guide on references can be consulted in the 7th version of the APA standards.

Tables and figures: In case of presenting tables and figures in the article, they must be numbered below them and titled, they should be preferably elaborated with the text processor, and in case of being fixed images they must be in accordance with the following technical requirement.

The images (pictures or graphics produced in digital formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others) that could eventually be added must be inserted within the RTF/DOC file and must be attached in JPEG or TIFF format with a resolution of 300 dpi or higher and will be equally numbered and titled.

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).´Download originality letter
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
• If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed