Working Papers on Culture, Education and Human Development accepts
original and unpublished manuscripts to be considered for publication. The
editorial committee accepts to review articles understanding that they are
currently not being reviewed by other publications and that this status will
be maintained during the whole review process and until a final decision is
reached regarding the possible publication of the manuscript. The journal accepts manuscripts in
Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and English.
In
general terms, regarding questions of style, organization in sections, and
reference format manuscripts should follow the style manual
of the American Psychological Association (Fifth Edition). There is
not a size limit to manuscripts,
although it is recommended that they are not shorter than 2000 words. Also,
the editorial committee may request changes or editing of manuscripts which
are considered too lengthy for an article format. Manuscripts should be
accompanied by a 200 word abstract in the language of the manuscript and
English (or Spanish if the paper is written in English). Authors are invited
to contact the editorial committee for any other questions regarding the
preparation of manuscripts and the use and presentation of photographs or
multimedia material (audio and video). We
recommend authors consult the
instructions
when preparing their manuscripts.
As part
of an effort to find new ways of disseminating scientific knowledge, the
journal will follow and "open review" procedure organized in the
following steps:
a)
Manuscripts which are received and meet the content and format requirements
of the journal will be immediately "made public" in the section papers in
review.
b)
The editorial committee will send the manuscript to two reviewers
who will provide evaluations within a two month period. These reviews will
be "published" next to the manuscript as soon as they are received.
Meanwhile, readers may submit their own reviews of the manuscript which will
also be "published" as soon as they are received by the editorial committee.
During this period, the editorial committee will limit itself to monitoring
that reviews and the dialogue stemming from them take place in a
constructive and respectful manner. It will be in the hand of authors
of papers and reviews whether this exchange takes place
anonymously or not. For a model or some suggestions as to how to
prepare a review you can consult previous reviews, which are archived with
each volume.
c) Once
the review period is concluded and in light of the content of the reviews
the editorial committee will make a decision regarding the paper. Typically,
this decision will be one of three alternatives: 1. Reject. 2. Accept in its
current form or with minor revisions. 3. Accept pending more substantial
changes. In every case the editorial committee will provide an explanation
to the authors regarding their decision. In the last case, the editorial
committee and the authors will reach an agreement regarding the time period
in which these revisions will be made. This date will be "published" next to
the manuscript.
d)
Rejected manuscripts will be "erased" from the corresponding section.
Alternatively, once manuscripts are accepted for publication they will be
"erased" from the review section and published in its final form in
the corresponding volume and issue. To favor speed in
electronic publishing, each individual paper will be published as an
independent issue. Copyright of papers will be
transferred to authors as long as the original reference to the journal
publication is acknowledged in future reprints of the paper.
All
communication will take place through electronic mail. Manuscripts may
be sent as word attachments and reviews may be sent as word attachments or electronic mail messages to the following address:
david.poveda@uam.es
The book review section publishes brief commentaries of
recent books published in Spanish, English, Portuguese, Galician and Catalan. The
language of the book review should be one of these but not necessarily the
same as the book to be reviewed. Reviews should
have approximately an extension of 1500 words and should consist of a
critical evaluations and not merely a summary of its contents. Each review
should begin by citing the book or books to be reviewed, with full
bibliographic information including: authors, copyright date, full title and
including any subtitle, place of publication, publisher, number of pages and
ISBN Number. Books reviews will be published in a specific section
indicating the date of publication of the review.
Example:
Gallaway, C. y Richards, B.J. (1994).
Input and interaction in language acquisition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvi + 319. ISBN 0521 43725 3
