Submissions

Author Guidelines

Sociedad e Infancias is an interdisciplinary journal, based on the consideration of children and adolescents as social actors, emphasizing their rights as citizens and their social role. It views childhood as a permanent structural component of any society, although its members are constantly renewed and they experience childhood differently, giving rise to a diversity of lived childhoods.

Its objective is to promote scientific knowledge, mainly in the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American spheres, but also from any part of the world, its orientation is the new Childhood Studies.

It is aimed at teachers, researchers and students in any field of social sciences related to childhood as well as professionals, NGOs working with children, international cooperation organizations and the media. It has a semi-annual periodicity.

Author Guidelines

1. Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts will be sent using the online application available on the journal webpage (http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/SOCI). The author must register online and then proceed to send the manuscript. 

Sending an original to SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS implies the acceptance of its editorial and evaluation standards.

Manuscripts must be anonymized before being submitted. The name of the authors and their affiliation will be deleted. Likewise, all citations, article titles, acknowledgments, allusions and other references that can identify the author will be deleted. Instead, it will indicate: //author// and year, if applicable. Once the author is registered, personal data will be provided in the section “Sending metadata”. If the article has any source of financing, it must be indicated as "Support Agencies". In the case of being approved for publication, the final non-anonymized version will be required. 

The articles must be unpublished in any language, and the author must duly inform when this criterion is not met. It is the author's responsibility to inform about the copyright situation. The publication of a work that infringes copyright is the responsibility of the author. If the text of the article has been previously presented at a conference/seminar, or if it forms part of a research project, or is derived from a doctoral thesis, this should be stated, as well as, where appropriate, the source of funding and/or the title and date on which the first version of the text was presented, in a footnote on the first page.

Following the guidelines for the use of inclusive language with a childhood perspective in communications, this journal will not use the terms minor or minors to refer to children or adolescents. Only in the event that it is imperative, it could be used as “minor/s of age”. It is also recommended that linguistic sexism be avoided by using inclusive language that makes girls and women visible. In research articles that consider the gender variable, it should be reported whether possible differences between the sexes have been taken into account in the conclusions.

The author of the submission or the sender will be the person to whom all communications related to the proposal from the SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS Secretariat through the OJS platform provided by the journal will be sent. This person will be responsible, in the event that there are several authors, for contacting their collaborators and providing the necessary information about them through the platform, taking responsibility for any possible conflicts over the authorship of the manuscript. Any change the author to whom the papers are addressed, must be explicitly requested.

2. Languages of original manuscripts

SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS accepts and publishes papers in Spanish and Portuguese. Abstracts, titles and keywords will be written in both languages and in English.

In order to increase and facilitate the exchange between researchers, academics and professionals in the field of childhood studies, the journal will accept articles written in English under the following conditions:

• The English version must be of perfect quality, so the article must have been written or reviewed by a native English speaker.
• Once the article has been evaluated and approved for publication, the author(s) must be responsible for the translation of the article into either Spanish or Portuguese.
• The author(s) of articles written in Spanish or Portuguese that have been evaluated and approved for publication may propose to the Editorial Board of the journal the publication of an English version that meets the above conditions.
• SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS will not carry out the correction of texts in English, although it may provide recommendations on support services for the correction of style, spelling and punctuation of the text.

3. Types of original articles accepted

- Articles (both in the monograph section and in the miscellaneous section): original research articles, either theoretical or empirical. The minimum length of these articles is 8,000 words and the maximum length is 10,000 words, including footnotes and bibliographic references.

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- Reviews: brief essays that analyze a new publication that is of academic interest to the thematic scope of the journal. The maximum length is 2,000 words. Reviews should include the bibliographic references cited, although these references should be reduced to a minimum.

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- Other contributions: As an account of experiences of intervention or research with children, of the development and evaluation of projects carried out with children and adolescents, reflections on rights, interviews, etc. Each will have a maximum length of 2,500 words, and will meet similar requirements to those determined for articles.

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As a guideline, it is recommended that the contributions sent present the following basic structure:
    -  In the case of originals for the Monographic or Miscellaneous sections: If they are research articles: objectives, theoretical perspective, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions and bibliographic references. If they are essays: approach, objectives of the work, theoretical argumentation, conclusions and bibliographical references.
    -  In the case of originals for the Other collaborations section, when they refer to a program or project: justification, objectives, development and conclusions

4. Editorial process: review, evaluation and publication of manuscripts

The Secretariat of the journal will acknowledge receipt of the work. Later it will inform of its acceptance or rejection.

    1. Pre-selection: The originals, anonymized, will be revised by at least two of the members of the Editorial Board, who will verify the adequacy of the manuscript to the thematic scope of the journal, its adequacy to its publication standards and its overall quality. In this stage, those works that do not meet the aforementioned requirements will be excluded, as well as those that lack the structure of an academic text.

    2. External evaluation: The articles will be subject to evaluation by double-blind peers review. The evaluators will issue a motivated report on the scientific quality of the texts, recommending their publication, with or without modifications, or their rejection. The journal will have an approved form for the evaluation reports. For this purpose, there will be evaluation sheets and detailed instructions on the criteria for evaluating the originality, relevance, methodological rigour and formal presentation of the manuscripts, as well as on how to carry out the review. The list of external reviewers involved in the evaluation processes will be published periodically.

Once the two external evaluations have been received, the authors will be informed of these assessments. In the event that the article in question is considered suitable for publication with minimal or substantial modifications, these recommendations will be sent to the authors. The latter must revise their respective papers in accordance with these recommendations and must send back, via the journal's email, their texts and the detailed justification of how they have taken into account these recommendations.

    3. Decision on the publication: the Editorial Team will decide on the publication, taking into account the reports of the external evaluators and following the advice of the Editorial Board. The reasoned resolution will be communicated to the author as soon as possible. Such notification must include: reasons for acceptance, revision or rejection of the manuscript, as well as the opinions, original or editorially amended, issued by the evaluators.

- Texts to be modified: authors of publishable manuscripts, provided they are modified, will have a period of one week to communicate whether they agree to make the modifications and four weeks to send the final version, counting from the first communication. The revised text shall be accompanied by an explanation of the changes made. The Editorial Team will reconsider the relevance of the publication, taking the advice of the Editorial Board if necessary.

The papers submitted to the other two sections of the journal (Reviews, Other Contributions) will be evaluated directly by the Editorial Board.

5. Author’s rights

Once an article is accepted for publication, authors will transfer to SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS the exclusive rights to the reproduction, distribution, and sale of their manuscript for exploitation in all the countries of the world in the format of a paper journal, as well as in any other magnetic, optical, and digital medium.

The rights of communication, public dissemination and licences for reproduction and exploitation through any means of dissemination and storage of SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS will be those stipulated by Ediciones Complutense, an organisation of the Complutense University of Madrid.

6. Dishonest practices: plagiarism and scientific fraud

For the purposes of the provisions of the Law on Intellectual Property regarding the actions and procedures that may be taken against anyone who infringes intellectual property rights, the publication of a work that infringes such rights will be the responsibility of the authors, who will be responsible for any conflicts that may arise for copyright reasons. The most important conflicts may arise from plagiarism and scientific fraud. Plagiarism is understood as:

1. Presenting the work of others as one's own.
2. Adopting words or ideas from other authors without due acknowledgement.
3. Not using inverted commas in a literal quotation.
4. Giving incorrect information about the true source of a quotation.
5. Paraphrasing a source without mentioning the source.
6. Abusive paraphrasing, even if the source is mentioned.

The practices that constitute scientific fraud are the following:

1. Fabrication, falsification or omission of data.
2. Duplicate publication.
3. Conflicts of authorship

7. Format

The template format included in section 3 of these Rules should be used.

Articles and reviews will be presented in text (doc, docx, rtf, odt) format, in Times New Roman 11 font, exact line spacing (in 12 pts), with justified text and the beginning of indented paragraph (special indentation - first line in 0.5 cm), except the one that follows the title of the epigraph or sub-heading.

Footnotes must be numbered and must not be placed at the end of the text. Times New Roman 8, single spacing, and with French indentation in 0.5 cm will be used for them. To facilitate reading, notes should be kept to a minimum and not used as a way to provide complete bibliographic citations. 

The sections or divisions of the text must be numbered and the titles must be in lower case letters, bold print, and Times New Roman 11 font.

   ► Tables and graphs

All tables and graphs must be numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals after the word “table” or “graph” (depending on the case). They must have a concise title that reflects their contents and the source must be cited below, even if they are prepared by the author, in which case the phrase “Author's elaboration” will be employed. Tables and graphs must be inserted in the corresponding places in the text. They must also be sent in a separate folder in the format of the original version of the program used (Photoshop, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Excel, etc.).

Images must be inserted into the text and also be sent separately, as tif or jpeg files. They must have a 300 pixel/inch resolution, with a minimum width of 10 cm.

   ► Order of authors

The order of authors on the original manuscript sent will be scrupulously respected. Regarding the format for the names, the following is recommended:

1. Name + Surname
2. If there are two first names, we recommend using Name + Initial of Middle Name + Surname.
3. For two last names, Name + (initial of second name) + First surname + Second surname.

   ► Title

Articles, reviews and other contributions must have the title in Spanish, Portuguese and English. We recommend that the title be no longer than 15 words. It must be clearly informative and faithfully reflect the content of the article and it should avoid using empty words and will include, if possible, descriptors taken from thesaurses of the discipline. The use of abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, and formulas should also be avoided.

   ► Abstract

Articles will be preceded by a short abstract, in Spanish, Portuguese and English, which must be limited to between 175 and 250 words. It should be strictly informative and no information that does not appear in the text of the article should be included. Words and expressions with little meaning, periphrases, and excessively long sentences should be avoided.

   ► Key words

A maximum of 5 descriptors or keywords, in Spanish, Portuguese and English, should be included. For standardization purposes, these keywords will be taken form standardized thesauruses and vocabularies

   ► Table of contents

A table of contents of all of the sections in which the article is divided will be included.

   ► Acknowledgements 

If acknowledgements are included, they must come after the table of contents. They must not exceed 250 words in extension.

   ► Bibliographic references

• Bibliographic references must appear in the body of the text, never in footnotes. All quotes must always be translated into the text language.
• For references in the text, the APA 7^th edition's author-year system must be used (author, year, p. xx):

(Simon, 1945, p. 323)

• In references of documents with two authors, the last names will be united by “and”:

(Tomás and Ortega, 2011)

• If the work has three or more authors, the first author will be referenced, followed by et al.:

(Almansa et al., 1989)

• If several works of an author or a group of authors published in the same year are referenced, a, b, c, should be added after the year.

(Francino, 2012b)

• When the works of several authors are referenced, the references should be separated by a semi-colon (;):

(Bourdieu, 2001; Foucault, 2013)

• When the last name of the author referenced is part of the text, the year of the work referenced must always be indicated in parentheses:

As stated by Gerison (2010)…

• Each of the bibliographic references must correspond to a reference in the final bibliography.
• Self-referencing should be avoided and its use restricted only to indispensable cases.

   ► Notes

Notes should be used only exceptionally and they must be footnotes. They will contain only additional text, never complete bibliographic references.

   ► Bibliography

The bibliography will be placed at the end of the article and it will only contain references cited in the text. It is absolutely forbidden to include additional references. The authors will be listed alphabetically, and whenever possible, the DOI or URL of the article will be provided.

SOCIEDAD E INFANCIAS uses APA 7th edition as the citation style (for more information, you can consult the APA Style website). The rules to follow when citing the bibliography at the end of the text are as follows:

• Books

- Single author: Surname, N. (year). Title of the book. Publisher.

   Ambert, A. M. (1992). The Effect of Children on Parents. The Haworth Press.

- Multiple authorship: authors will be separated by commas, except for the last one, which will be added after an “and.” Surname, N., Surname, N., and Surname, N. (year). Title of the book. Publisher.

   Alderson, P. and Morrow, V. (2004). Ethics, social research and consulting with children and young people. Barnardo’s.

- If the work has multiple unspecified authors, the author will be replaced by the title of the work. If the work does not have a publication year, "n.d." will be used.

   Introducción a la economía y administración de empresas (2003). Ediciones Pirámide.

When several works by the same author appear in the bibliography, they will be listed in strict chronological order, starting with the oldest. The surname and first name will always appear in the same format in all references.

   Korczak, J. (1986). Como amar a un niño (1ª ed.). Trillas.

   Korczak, J. (1993). El derecho del niño al respeto (1ª ed.). Trillas.

- The year of publication should include a, b, c, etc. if there is more than one item by an author dated the same year (e.j.: 2008a, 2008b, etc.).

   Kellett, M. (2005a). Children as active researchers: a new paradigm for the 21^st century? Methods Review Papers, 003(1), 21-32.

   Kellet, M. (2005b). How to Develop Children as Researchers: a step by step guide to the research process. Paul Chapman.

• Journals
  

Surname, N. (year). Title of the article. Title of the Journal, volume(issue), xx-xx.

   Alanen, L. (2010). Taking children’s rights seriously. Childhood, 17(1), 5-8.

• Chapter of a book
  

Surname, N. (year). Title of the chapter. In N. Surname (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. xx-xx). Publisher.

   Olk, T. (2009). Children, Generational Relations and Intergenerational Justice. En J. Qvortrup, W.A. Corsaro, M.H. Honig (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies (pp. 188-2149). Palgrave Macmillan.

• Papers and communications at conferences
  

Surname, N. (Year). Title of the contribution. In N. Surname & N. Surname (Eds. or Chairs), Title of the symposium or conference (pages of the paper). Publisher.

   Martínez, A.L. (2013). Aproximación a los principales conflictos generados entre abuelos que cuidan a sus nietos y los padres. En H. Cairo y L. Finkel (Coords.) Crisis y cambio: propuestas desde la Sociología. Actas del XI Congreso Español de Sociología. Federación Española de Sociología.

• Unpublished dissertations

Surname, N. (year). Title of the thesis [Unpublished doctoral or master's thesis]. Name of the Academic Institution.

   Galais, C. (2008). ¿Socialización o contexto? La implicación política subjetiva de los españoles (1985-2006) [Unpublished doctoral's thesis]. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

• Webpages

Surname, N. (year). Title of the article from the website. Website Name. Retrieved [day month year] from https://url.com

   UNICEF (2015). Observaciones Generales del Comité de los Derechos del Niño. Retrieved 16^th of november of 2015 from https://www.unicef.org/ecuador/UNICEFObservacionesGeneralesDelComiteDeLosDerechosDelNino-WEB.pdf

8. Acknowledgements

The author/s of the manuscript may include a section for acknowledgements. This will be a section that will be placed before the bibliographic reference section, and titled ‘Acknowledgements’. The funding received and the reference of the research project funded can be included here.

If this section is included, it will be included in the final version of the text, in order to preserve the anonymity of the manuscript throughout the review process.