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Author Guidelines

Manuscripts should be written in a clear and informative style, and their language should be inclusive of researchers, practitioners, students and emerging scholars in different parts of the world.

Manuscripts should be submitted in a double-spaced electronic file (Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format), page size A4, with 2,5 cm margins and 1,25 cm indentation. They should be written in Times New Roman, 12 point font, left justified. Citations, endnotes and the list of works cited should conform to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd ed.).

Manuscripts should be preceded by a cover page containing the title of the manuscript, name(s) of author(s), institutional affiliation, e-mail address(es), telephone number(s) for contact, and a biography of up to 100 words for each author, describing his/her education, professional experience, research fields and most important publications (optional).

Articles

Authors should send: the cover page (as described above) and the complete manuscript. The manuscript:

The first page should include (1) the title, (2) an abstract of up to 200 words (written in English and the language of the text, when other), and (3) five keywords written in each of the abstract languages following the abstract text
The abstract may be descriptive or informative, with preference being given to informative abstracts.
- Descriptive abstracts (up to 100 words) should provide the context or background for the study, the purpose or research objective(s) or the hypothesis tested by the study, method and methodology, and scope of the article.
- Informative abstracts (up to 200 words) should provide the context or background for the study, the purpose or research objective(s) or the hypothesis tested by the study, method and methodology, and scope of the article, the findings/results and conclusions/implications of the research, and the author’s recommendations.
- Abstracts written from a Humanities perspective should describe the problem, with references, the author’s position/argument and provide an overview of the contents.
The body of the paper should be 3000 to 5000 words long. Longer articles will be considered
The body of the paper should be divided into sections, duly titled. Manuscripts may use up to three levels of headings
Illustrations, color reproductions, tables, figures, charts and other visuals should be submitted, in their original format, (a) in the body of the paper, accompanied by a descriptive caption, (b) in separate filed, one per visual. All visuals should read as well in color as in black and white.
Author-date citations should be used within the text (Burke 263)
Notes should be formatted as endnotes
A complete list of “Works Cited” should be included.

Teaching cases

Authors should send: the cover page (as described above) and the complete manuscript. The manuscript:

The first page should include (1) the title, and (2) an abstract of up to 100 words stating the main points of the manuscript (written in English and the language of the text, when other)
The body of the paper should indicate the practical problem addressed, the scenario and its population, the learning objectives and teaching material and methods, the learning outcomes and the implications for the professional and academic communities.

Book reviews and reviews of other artifacts

Reviews should contain most of the following elements:

bibliographic information (author, title, edition, publisher, place of publication, year of publication)
description of the subject, aim and scope of the artifact
outline of thesis and bias
evidence-based evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the artifact
survey of topics not covered
overall assessment of the artifact.

Submission Preparation 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 submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is double-spaced; uses Times New Roman 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.

Copyright Notice

All texts will be licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution non-commercial License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

Authors will obtain permission to reproduce copyrighted material from sources and accompany the submitted manuscript with statement(s) of such permission(s).

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