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.

·         Authors must have an ORCID registration code.

·         The article is free of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.

·         The article is original and unpublished, and has not been submitted to other journals simultaneously.

·         The text complies with the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Style and Formatting Standards contained in the Guidelines for Authors.

·         The article includes the section “Data availability” in which the authors report whether and where the data set used is available, in case of original research. See indications in the Guidelines for Authors.

·         The Authorship Responsibility Statement, completed and signed by all authors, is attached.

·         A curriculum vitae of the authors is attached.

·         A Word file of the manuscript with the author's data is attached.

·         A Word file of the manuscript anonymized as indicated in the Guidelines for Authors is attached.

Author Guidelines 

Dixit receives collaborations all year round. These must be submitted exclusively through the web platform (see tutorial). Manuscripts submitted to Dixit cannot be simultaneously submitted to other journals.

Authorship Responsiblity Statement and authorial contribution

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

In this document, the authors will complete the contribution of each one to the work, according to the CRediT Taxonomy.

For articles resulting from original research, authors must explain whether their data is available in an open repository and where to access it. Possible open data repositories are: SciELO Data, Mendeley Data, Zenodo, DANS, DataHub, FigShare.

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..

Style and formatting standards

The text should be in Microsoft Word, written in Times New Roman font size 12 (footnotes size 10), 1.5 spaced. Citations to sources and the list of references should be in APA 7 (see point 5 below). Images should be sent in jpg or png format.

1. Title. It states synthetically and clearly the objective and focus of the article, in no more than 15 words. It is written centered at the top of the first page. The titles in Spanish and Portuguese are included below.
2. Author's data and institutional affiliation. Centered below the title, in separate lines, the first and last names of each author (without titles or academic degrees), their ORCID code, institutional affiliation (academic institution, city, country) and e-mail address are written.
3. Abstract and keywords. They are written on a new page and presented in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The abstract (resumen in Spanish and resumo in Portuguese) is a paragraph of up to 150 words long that explains: objective of the article, methods or methodology, main findings or results obtained and conclusions. In the next line, there are up to five keywords (palabras clave in Spanish and palavras-chave in Portuguese), other than those contained in the title of the article and that represent fundamental concepts of the work; they are separated by a semicolon, and it is recommended that they be included in the UNESCO Thesaurus or in the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) of the Getty Research Institute.
4. Pagination. This begins with the number 1 from the page presenting the abstracts.
5. Citation of sources and list of references. They should follow the guidelines of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). See basic guidelines and examples. The reference list is presented at the end of the article with the subtitle “References”; it includes only the materials cited, mentioned or referred to in the text, and is arranged alphabetically with French indentation. Up to 35 references are accepted in research articles, and up to 50 in literature review articles.
6. Tables and figures. Tables, on the one hand, and figures (diagrams, graphs, illustrations or photographs), on the other hand, are numbered consecutively. They are inserted in the document in the corresponding place, and in the writing of the work they are referred to by their numbering (example: “shown in Table 1” or “shown in Figure 1”) and not by their spatial location (below, above, next, etc.). In the line before each table or figure, a heading is written with the numbering (Table 1 or Figure 1, as appropriate) and, in a separate line, a description. Below the table or figure in question, a note is placed with explanatory information and data on the source, authorship and copyright. If the inclusion of these elements results in a very heavy file, low resolution versions can be inserted in the manuscript and high resolution files (with a minimum of 300 dpi) can be attached separately.

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.

How to prepare the anonymous file for review

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 file should be named with the word “Anonymous” followed by the title of the article. It should not contain author information in the file name.
• The anonymous manuscript will not contain the names or surnames of the authors or their institutional affiliations, nor notes or information on funding or projects that reveal the institution to which they belong.
• 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 element, 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 identified only with the word “Author” and the year in parentheses should be placed at the beginning, all other elements of the reference should 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 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 menu “Information > Inspect document > Remove personal information”. In Word for MacOs, this can be done under “Protect document > Remove personal information on save”.

Research articles

They are original and unpublished papers, with a length between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including abstracts, references, notes, tables and figures) and a limit of up to 35 references. For literature review articles, up to 50 references are accepted. These collaborations are peer-reviewed in a double-blind system.

Bibliographic reviews

They should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words in length. These collaborations are evaluated by the Editorial Board.

Thematic dossier

Proposals for thematic dossiers are received and will be evaluated for acceptance and implementation by the Editorial Board. Preference will be given to those proposals that have a regional scope over themes linked to particular territories or countries. They should include a well-founded presentation of the topic (up to 500 words), the names of the persons who will coordinate the dossier as guest editors and a summary of the curricula vitae of each of them (up to 500 words). These proposals will be sent to the journal by e-mail to the editor in charge.

Copyright Notice

If the manuscript is accepted, the authors agree to transfer the copyright to the journal according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), open access system, with the authors retaining responsibility for the content and opinions expressed, which do not reflect the views or scientific policy of the journal.

The authors hereby declare that their work does not infringe on the rights of third parties and that they are the sole holders of the property rights being transferred, allowing them to dispose of these rights without any limitations or encumbrances. They also declare that, in creating the work subject to this transfer, they have not violated any third-party intellectual property rights. Consequently, the authors are obliged to guarantee the authorship and originality of the work’s content to the journal and ensure the peaceful exercise of the transferred rights. The authors will be responsible for any claims made by third parties regarding intellectual property rights over the work, thus exempting the journal from any liability. They will also be liable for any damages that may be caused to the journal due to such claims.

The article’s content will not be subject to any other rights by any other publication, nor has it been previously published. If tables or figures from other publications are reproduced, written permission from the authors or copyright holders will be provided as appropriate. In all cases, the APA guidelines for presenting tables and figures will be followed.