Publication standards

Shipping Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission meets all of the elements shown below. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).

Complies with APA 7th EDITION regulations and with the specific publication standards of this journal.

The submission file is in Microsoft Word format and the authors are not identified.

Wherever possible, URLs are provided for references.

The text has 1.5 line spacing; 10 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.

The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.

The evaluation and publication process has a cost of 80€.

Guidelines for authors

TEMPLATE FOR PREPARING ARTICLES. APA STANDARDS 7th EDITION:

Download the template in Word format.

Guide to Citations, References and Bibliography

APA Website.

Article structure

Qualification

Title of the article in capital letters, centered, bold and no more than 15 words

Introduction

The introduction must include: the statement of the topic, the state of the matter, avoiding a detailed review of the bibliography, the objectives of the work and a justification of the importance of the contribution of said work to scientific knowledge, without being a summary of the results. 

Theory or Theoretical Background

A Theory section should develop, not repeat, the scientific background of the research, already covered in the Introduction, and lay the foundation for the research work presented.

Methodology

This section must provide in detail the methodology used (sources, data, methods, techniques, procedure). The entire research process must thus be presented to allow the reproduction of the work by another researcher. The methods used that have already been published must be referenced by a citation. The methodology used must reflect how it helps to solve the problems presented in the main questions, hypotheses or propositions.

Results

They must be clear and concise. Tables, graphs, maps, diagrams can be used to allow analysis and interpretation of the results.

Discussion

Conclusions

The conclusions should not be a summary of the work; but it is convenient to relate the verification or not of the main hypotheses/propositions/questions with the objectives and results obtained; highlighting, if it has not already done so, the contributions of the research. It is important to justify the interest and novelty of the work for the topic analyzed or the scientific discipline from which it has been addressed.

References

According to APA standards 7th EDITION.

Thanks

Likewise, if applicable, any support received (administrative, technical, etc.) that is not disclosed in the financing section can be recognized in this section.

Annexes

Optional section that may contain tables and complementary information to the text or other important elements to better understand the research presented. The information provided in the annexes must be cited where appropriate in the text.

ETHICS

Previously published material is not accepted. Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions to partially reproduce material (text, tables or figures) from other publications and for correctly citing their origin. The opinions expressed in the published articles are the responsibility of the authors. Anti-plagiarism programs will be used to check the originality of the manuscripts.

Authorship: OCSI declines any responsibility for possible conflicts arising from the authorship of the works published.

Informed consent: The authors must mention, in the case of research with people, especially minors, that they have been carried out with informed consent.

Articles

The body text follow the format of the template. Top and bottom margin, left and right 2.5 cm; 10 point Arial font; line spacing 1.5; justified and. The length of the article should be between 5000 and 7500 words.

Make a new submission to the Articles section.

Essays

Up to 10,000 words, including title, summaries, descriptors, tables and references. It will be especially appreciated that not only a theoretical review is presented, but that new points of view and arguments are included, that there is a critical contribution of the analyzes and xposed, that there is a personal integration of the theoretical sources consulted and that coherence is maintained in the work.

Make a new submission to the Essays section.

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Those authors who have publications with this journal accept the following terms:

This journal provides immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public. All content published on OCSI is subject to Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the necessary permissions for images that are subject to copyright.

Authors whose contributions are accepted for publication in this journal will retain the right to use their contributions for academic, research and educational purposes, including self-archiving or depositing in open access repositories of any type.

The electronic edition of this magazine is edited by Servicios Acadómicos Intercontinentales S.L., and it is necessary to cite the origin in any partial or total reproduction.

The authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (for example: depositing it in an institutional electronic archive or publishing it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication is indicated in this magazine.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to disseminate their work over the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase communication. quotes from published work. (See The Effect of Open Access.)

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

HEAR YOU. Local Development and Social Economy, provides immediate open access to its content:

You are free to:

Share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt – remix, transform and build upon the material

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ANTI-PLAGGERY

Contributions to the Economy, maintains an anti-plagiarism policy that ensures that all published works are unpublished, all texts received are submitted to Turnitin. We reserve the right to reject articles with a similarity percentage greater than 30%.

DIGITAL PRESERVATION

Contributions to the Economy uses DOI which is a persistent identifier, which ensures that the link will be preserved. Service provided by https://www.crossref.org/

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