AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Submission Preparation Checklist 

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• ·         The submission is original, has not been previously published and is not under consideration by any other journal.
• ·         The article is free of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.
• ·         The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• ·         In case of original research, the article includes the section "Data availability" in which the authors report whether and where the data set used is available. See indications in the Author Guidelines.
• ·         Along with the submission, the Declaration of Authorship must be attached, completed and signed by all authors.
• ·         A summary of the authors' curricula vitae must be attached to the submission.

·         If submitted to a double-blind peer-reviewed section, an anonymized version of the article must be uploaded in addition to the text of the article. Instructions are available in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines 

Contributions

Contributions must be submitted exclusively through the web. Contributions sent to Dixit cannot be submitted simultaneously in other journals. Since 2024, preprints are accepted.

Declaration of Authorship

Authors must download and complete the Responsibility Statement, which will be attached to their application.

Brief CV

Authors must send a brief CV, up to 120 words, including academic affiliation, last University degree obtained, recent academic or professional areas of work, main publications or main field work completed.

Anonymous version

Authors applying to peer-reviewed sections in the double-blind system must attach, in addition to the original article file, an anonymous version of the paper, i.e., a file that does not contain any information that could reveal their identity to potential reviewers.

Authors should consider the following aspects:

- The paper should be classified as an "anonymous version" when uploaded to the platform and should not contain author information in the file name.

- The anonymous file will not contain the names of the authors or their institutional affiliations, nor footnotes or funding information that reveals the institution to which it belongs.

- In those passages where institutions or specific geographic coordinates are mentioned, the text will be replaced by crosses or, if necessary for comprehension, by a description of the deleted item, in straight brackets. Examples:

• "The study was conducted among the students of the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx."
• "The study was conducted among the students of [study center]."

- Citations to previous work by any of the authors of the manuscript should be replaced by the word "Author". In the list of references, entries only identified with the word "Author" and the year in parentheses will be placed at the beginning, all the other data must be deleted.

•  Example in the text: "As already studied (Author, 2019)".
• Example in the reference list: Author. (2019).

- Authors should check in the word processor that there is no metadata left in the file that identifies any user by first or last name. In Word for Windows, this information can be checked and removed in the "Information > Inspect Document" menu. In Word for MacOS, this can be done under "Protect document > Remove personal information when saving".

Format

Texts should be in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font, 12 point size. Footnotes, in the same font, 10 point size. Visual files should be sent in JPG format with a high resolution of 300 dpi.

If the contributions contain tables, figures, illustrations or photographs, they should be inserted in the document in the corresponding place. If this results in a very large file, insert low resolution versions and attach the high resolution files separately. Authors should provide the necessary information to identify these elements: title, descriptive legend, date, authorship, source and/or credits.

Use of images

If the authors send images that are not of their own authorship, they must obtain the necessary permissions for their reproduction or ensure that the images are released in terms of image rights in the case of images of people and respect for copyrights in general. In any case, the documentation supporting the reproduction of the images in Dixit must be sent together with the application. The Editorial Team may or may not accept the inclusion of these images, depending on the characteristics of the permissions provided by the authors. The authors will be the only ones responsible for any claims from third parties that refer to any aspect related to the right to the image and intellectual property rights over the material.

Formal elements

All papers submitted to Dixit must include a title in Spanish, English and Portuguese, authorship data and institutional affiliation. The articles must also contain an abstract in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, as well as five key words in Spanish, English and Portuguese.  Citations to sources and the list of references should be in APA 7 (see points 7 and 9 below). Papers by several authors should detail the contribution of each one to the article (see item 11).

1. Title. From its position at the center of the upper part of the first page, it states the main idea of the article (i.e., the objective and the way it will be approached) in a clear, simple and concise manner. The title may not exceed two lines of text. If it is necessary to add a subtitle, it is separated from the title by a period or colon. Below are the English and Portuguese titles.

2. Author's data. The author's name and surname must be written under the title, in a central position. Rank and academic qualifications are omitted. Authors must have an ORCID code as a requirement to publish in the journal. If they do not have an ORCID code, they can obtain one free of charge at http://orcid.org. The code is given below the name.

3. Institutional affiliation. Below the name of the author must appear the name of the university, city and country to which the affiliation belongs. Affiliation corresponds to the institution in which the author works nowadays, or to the last institution in which he has worked or studied. In both cases, the elements are separated by commas. The e-mail address of the author (or the main author in the works of several authors) is indicated below.

4. Abstract and keywords in Spanish. Both go on a new page beginning with the legend “Resumen” centered on the upper part. That abstract is a paragraph with a maximum of 150 words, complete as regards sense, in which the objective, main contents, methodology, conclusions, implications or applications discovered by the author are exposed briefly and clearly. On the following line, aligned to the left, the legend “Palabras clave” should be written, followed by a colon that precedes a list of words or concepts (separated by commas and cited ranging from the general to the particular) that are established as identifiers for this text.

5. Abstract in other languages. After the keywords in Spanish, separated by a line, the legend "Abstract" is written centered, and below it is the English translation of the abstract. On the next line, aligned to the left, the legend "Keywords" is written, and after a colon the English translation of the keywords. In the same way, the legend "Resumo" and the legend "Palavras-chave" are included for the Portuguese versions of these elements.

6. Pagination. Pages must be numbered, starting at the page which marks the beginning of the article and bears the number 1. 

7. Citation of sources. They should follow the guidelines of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). See basic guidelines and examples.

8. Footnotes. Notes must not exceed 80 words; they should provide explanations, commentaries or any other additional information that could broaden or clarify the content of the contribution. No Latin abbreviations should be used.

9. List of references. It is placed at the end of the article, on a new page with the legend "References" centered. It includes alphabetically ordered by the author's last name only the materials mentioned or directly referred to in the contribution (quoted, paraphrased, described), according to APA 7 guidelines. Each entry is aligned to the left with hanging indentation.

10. Data availability. In articles resulting from original research, authors should include, below the bibliographic references, a section called " Data availability" in which they report whether the dataset used in their research is available and, if so, where to access it.  In case the authors have their data on any server, they should state this within the article as follows: "The dataset supporting the results of this study are available at [name and link to repository]".  Otherwise, they should include a sentence within the article stating the following: "The dataset supporting the results of this study is not available". More information here. 

11. Author’s contribution. To be listed as an author of an academic article, researchers must have made a substantial contribution. The authors will complete the contribution of each one in the Declaration of Authorship, according to the CRediT Taxonomy.

Information for authors

During the external review process, referees follow the guidelines of the evaluation form and may make contributions, suggestions and recommendations in the manuscript itself, in review format. The entire review process takes no more than one year from receipt of the paper to its eventual publication.

The journal's rejection rate for 2023 was 51 %.

Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the Editorial Team reserves the right to decide in which section and volume it will be published.

Sections of publication

Research articles

Original and unpublished research articles (between 6,000 and 10,000 words) peer-reviewed, in double-blind system.

Make a new submission to the Research articles section.

Bibliographic Reviews

Bibliographic reviews must be between 1,500 and 3,000 words in length. They shall include an initial paragraph with the general characteristics of the work reviewed, as a summary; a description of the author's trajectory; the virtues and main contributions of the work to the specific field, and the eventual shortcomings or problems of the work. Tables or other graphic elements should not be included, nor titles or subtitles. In the case of quotations from the reviewed work, the page number should be added in parentheses at the end of the quotation. The review should be headed with a brief bibliographic record of the book (author, title, city, publisher, number of pages of the volume) and the name of the author of the review with their institutional affiliation and ORCID code should be placed at the end of the text. The inclusion of quotations from other authors should be avoided.

Make a new submission to the Bibliographic reviews section.

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