INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Informatio Journal receives works in digital editable format and only publishes original and unpublished papers which should not be in the stage of evaluation process in another journal or similar publication and must be linked to the field of information science and related areas.

Research articles (theoretical or empirical) may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English and will undergo an external evaluation according to a double-blind peer review thus preserving the identity of the author and reviewers during the evaluation process.

Submission of papers implies the full acceptance of the following guidelines.

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Articles

All articles should cover up to 25 pages, 12 point Times New Roman font with 1.5 line spacing, line spacing after 6, no indentation and justified. Page configuration A4, left and right margins to 3.5 cm, top and bottom margins to 2.5 cm.
 

Experiences Reports

Accounts of experiences will also be accepted for publication. The final statement on the inclusion of a contribution in this item will be decided by the Informatio editorial board. The guidelines being on the same terms as those required for the articles. No more than two accounts of experiences will be published per issue.

Reviews

Reviews will be published by invitation only. The text should be no longer than 10 pages and will follow the presentation guidelines required for the articles.

About the presentation

First page

Title of article in the same language of the text and translated into English and Portuguese (centered align, bold type and font size 16 for the original text and translations).

Complete name and Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) of author(s), separated by space, left-justified, font size 12 and adding a footnote to the corresponding affiliation.

Academic membership stating institution name, country, postal and electronic address (font size 12). If you require including more information you may do it by adding a note at the end of the document.

Summary in the article’s original language not exceeding 200 words and also in English and Portuguese. (left-justified and font size 12)

Keywords in the three-mentioned languages, up to five words, entirely written in capital letters, separated by semicolon with a final full stop. (left-justified and font size 12).

Articles written in Portuguese should include, in addition to the abstract in the language of the country of origin, an abstract in English and another one in Spanish, as well as title and keywords in the three languages. Articles written in English should include title, abstract and keywords in Spanish and Portuguese.

Organizational features of the text

Titles of the text should be centered, in bold type and font size 16. Subtitles should also be centered, in bold type and font size 14. If there is a sub-title within a sub-title, the font size is 13 and must be centered, in bold type and having before and after space.

In the event of using different hierarchies in the titles within the body of the text, the use of multi-level lists with Arabic figures is suggested (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.), respecting font sizes, as previously stated.

Underlined sections, bullets, automatic numberings and different font sizes should be avoided.

For articles presenting research results achieved, the following pattern is suggested:

Introduction (formulation of the problem, background and theoretical foundations)

Objectives

Methodology

Results achieved

Discussion

Final considerations and/or conclusions

Textual transcripts

Text citations integrated in the body text will be enclosed in «Spanish quotes», without italics; if there is a quote between quotes, «Spanish quotes» will enclose “English quotes”, and these, in turn, will enclose any 'single quotation marks'.

In case text quotes with an extension greater than 40 words are included, they will be placed in a separate paragraph, with single spacing, font size 11, and leaving left and right indentation of one centimetre, without quotation marks and with a space of separation with respect to the previous and subsequent paragraphs.

Citations in the text (textual, free or mixed) will refer to the work bibliography and will be prepared in accordance with the standards of the American Psychological Association (APA). Pages will be quoted, if applicable.

Bibliographic References

In accordance with the citation in the text, full bibliographic references will be written according to the guidelines of the APA standard. They will be submitted in a single list, left-justified, font size 12, in alphabetical order, at the end of the text under the title Bibliographic References. 

They will only include the literature cited or referred to in the text.

In the case of citing more than one work by the same author and the same year, lowercase letters (arranged alphabetically) will be added after the year, for example:

Wilson, T. (1997a)

Wilson, T. (1997b)

Depending on the type of authorship, proceed as follows:

a. One author: Cabré, M.T.

b. Up to seven authors: Gilbert, D., McClernon, J., Rabinivich, N., Sugai, C., Plath, L., Asgaard, G. and Botros, N.

c. Eight or more authors: Bagdassarian, D., Carro, E., De Paula, R., Rasines del Campo, M., Irureta, G., Carbajal, B….. Smitd, M. .

d. Editor or compiler: Diskin, M. (Ed)

e. Institutional author: American Library Association

Illustrations, charts and graphs

They should be referenced in the text with the following style for example “(see chart 1)”

They will be centered and numbered consecutively with Arabic figures in each case and must be accompanied by heading or title and source of inquiry.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be used exceptionally and may be generated automatically by the word processor format in use.

Annexes, appendix

The research material used for research should be determined in this section, for instance, interviews, surveys or others the author(s) may consider.

This point should be properly referenced in the text and will be included after the bibliographical list.

General notes

They will appear at the end of the text after the bibliographic list or the annexes if applicable.

Types of mandatory notes to include:

Author contribution: It must be specified what contribution each author made to the article. For this purpose, the standardization established by CRediT must be used: https://credit.niso.org/

Example of CRediT author statement:
First and last name: conceptualization, writing and review. First and last name: Supervision, Validation.

Open data: Informatio, within the framework of its adherence to the open access and open science policies promoted and supported by the SciELO project to which it belongs, establishes that as of July of this year (2023) the journal is required to declare in a general note at the end of the work to be published, if the data used by the authors to prepare it is available or not in a repository.

To this end, the following phrase can be used: "The data set that supports the results of this study are available in..." or otherwise: "The data set that supports the results of this study are not available."

Other notes considered by the author(s), such as:

Financing: In the event that the research has been financed by an institution.

Conflict of interest: In the event that one or more authors have a direct link with the objective of the study.

Further Recommendations

Authors are requested not to send files which exceed 2Mb, otherwise please make it explicitly clear. In the case of documents with pictures, they must be high definition photos.

Articles must meet the above-mentioned specifications and in all cases will be submitted for style editing and the application of special software for plagiarism detection. Informatio journal uses the “Compilatio” program.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to introduce minor changes in the originals, for the purpose of standardization, respecting the authors’ style and opinion.

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