As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
O texto possui espaçamento duplo, justificado; o tamanho da fonte é 12 pontos; é utilizado itálico em vez de sublinhado (exceto para endereços de URL); e todas as ilustrações, figuras e tabelas estão inseridas no texto, no local apropriado, e não no final.
A visual summary is being submitted as a separate file in jpg format. or png., does not exceed 2.5MB with a minimum of 800 x 800 pixels (width x height) and a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
DOIs or web addresses have been added for references where possible.
If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you need to ensure that the instructions in Ensuring blind review) have been followed.
The submission has not been previously published or submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
The submitted file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements specified in the Guidelines for Authors, which can be found in the About the Journal section.
The text includes up to six keywords. The first three must be selected from the provided list in the Guidelines for Authors, while the remaining three are free choice.
Author Guidelines
1. The Editorial Committee of Chemical Education will only submit for an opinion from its portfolio of specialists, articles that have not appeared in printed or online publications and that are not in the editorial process in other magazines or books, neither printed nor electronic. On the first page of the article the author must declare that it is original, has not been published and is not being considered elsewhere.
Each article must be subject to the following editorial standards:
Extension. Contributions (in Word, PDF or documents with locks are not accepted). It will be less than 15 pages in a 12 point font size with 1.5 spacing, justified. In terms of characters, it is expected that the articles do not exceed 30,000 with spaces included. Any writing that exceeds this norm may be rejected immediately by the editor of the magazine.
Title (Spanish and English). Maximum of 7 words (including articles and connectors).
Keywords (Spanish and English). Send up to six words or concepts that clearly identify the article.
Abstract (Spanish and English). The article must include an abstract that should not exceed 200 words.
Images. All charts, diagrams and diagrams must be sent in editable format of at least 300 dpi, in JPEG, GIF, TIFF, EPS, PNG. The audios must be presented in WAV or MP3 with a duration of 5, while the videos must be sent in AVI, MPG4 MOV format with a duration of 5 to 8 minutes. Important: all audiovisual material that is included must be free of copyright or must have the proper authorization for its use.
Footnotes. Notes should only be explanatory or explanatory, they will only serve to expand or illustrate what has been said in the body of the text.
Bibliographic references. Each reference and citation must be included in the bibliography, and must follow the format of the American Psychology Association (APA).
In order to preserve anonymity in the review process for articles, the text should not contain names of authors or the institutions where they work. This information is sent through the publishing manager Open Journal Systems.
2. Chemical Education encourages references to other journals in the Ibero-American region. When they are mentioned in the text, it will be done by placing the last name of the author (s) and the year of publication in the appropriate place. When there are several references, they will be placed in chronological order and then alphabetically. At the end of the article, the complete set of references will be cited, in strictly alphabetical order.
Each reference to a book must follow the order: Author or Authors (year of publication). Name of the book (in italics). City, country: Editorial. Examples:
Heisenberg, W. (1958). Physics and Philosophy. The Revolution in Modera Science. Nueva York, USA: Flarper Torch Books. Latour, B. (2007).
Latour, B. (2007). Nunca fuimos modernos. Ensayo de antropología simétrica. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Siglo Veintiuno.
Each reference to an article must follow the order: Author or Authors (year of publication). Article name. Full name of the journal (in italics), volume (in italics) number in parentheses (if any), initial and final pages of the article. Examples:
Cardoso, N. Chaparro, N. y Erazo, E. (2006). Una revisión sobre la naturaleza de las concepciones de ciencia. Itinerantes, 4, 95- 101.
Szabadváry, F. and Oesper, E. E. (1964). Development of the pH concept. Journal of Chemical Education, 41(2), 105-107.
The citations of chapters in books must follow the following order: Author or Authors (year of publication). Name of the chapter of the cited book. "In:" or "In:" publisher (s), Name of the cited book (in italics), (pp. Pages where it appears). City, country: Editorial. Examples:
Driver, R. (1985). Beyond Appearances: The Conservation of Matter under Physical and Chemical Transformations, in Driver R., Guesne, E., Tieberghien, A. (editors), Children’s ideas in Science, (pp. 145- 169), Milton Keynes, Philadelphia, U.S.A: Open University Press.
Martínez, S. (2005). Constructivismo y filosofía de la educación, en Martínez, S. y Guillaumin, G. (comps.), Historia, filosofía y enseñanza de la ciencia, (pp.401-417). México: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas.
Brooke, J. H. (1995). Avogadro’s hypothesis and its fate: a case study in the failure of case-studies. In: Brooke, J. H. (editor), Thinking about matter. Studies in the history of Chemical philosophy, (pp. 235-273). Great Yarmouth, UK: Varorium.
Electronic references will follow the APA format. Examples:
Kind, V., Beyond Appearances: Students’ misconceptions about basic Chemical ideas, A report prepared for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Second edition, 2004, consultada en octubre 24, 2012, en la URL https://rsc.li/1YeBubi
Chemical Heritage Foundation, consultada en octubre 24, 2012, en la URL https://www.sciencehistory.org/
3. The language used should be simple and direct, avoiding long paragraphs. 4. When it is necessary to use a technical name or a word that only makes sense to those who master scientific language, then its meaning should be clarified, as simply as possible. 5. The articles will be accompanied by images. If you need material from other sources already published, the corresponding permission will be borne by the author. 6. Articles from any industry that refer to a technical problem or of industrial interest must be officially accredited by it. If they are the responsibility of the authors, this must be clearly stated. 7. Make sure not to repeat information published in the same journal and / or cite the articles mentioned.
IMPORTANT: All articles will be subjected to the iThenticate plagiarism checking software to guarantee their originality. Once they meet these conditions, they will be sent to the members of the Editorial Committee.
As part of our commitment to originality, we upload all manuscripts submitted to Educación Química to the iThenticate platform. The software compares the content of the manuscript with thousands of web pages and other publications. Subsequently, a report is generated for each manuscript that highlights any content that matches the sources in your database. The report includes a similarity percentage and a list of all matching items in the document, as well as their location on the web or in another publication.
If we detect a high percentage of similarity between a manuscript and another publication, we send the report to the authors in PDF format so that they can identify the areas of their writing that need to be modified.
NOTE: Selected and published works will remain the property of the journal, unless the main author submits in writing the decision to withdraw the article for publication.
