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Submission Preparation Checklist

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.
  • The content of the article is the product of the research of the author(s) and all citations are duly referenced; There can be no citations without references or viceversa.
  • Transdigital journal charges an article processing fee. Once the text is approved by the evaluation committee, the fee of 4,500 Mexican pesos (260 USD) must be paid. Preferably 3 authors maximum and not exceed 6 thousand words. Otherwise there will be a price adjustment.
  • The URLs and DOIs of the original sources were provided for references; URLs from metasearch engines such as Dialnet, Redalyc, Scielo, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, etc. are avoided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Submissions section (the article is within 5000-6000 words including supplementary material and references and has a concise and factual abstract of 150-250 words.
  • Authorship data has been included in the text: full name, institutional affiliation, institutional emails, and ORCID number of each author.
  • The file to be submitted should use the Microsoft Word template provided by Transdigital. You will find the templates in the "Formal aspects" section on this page (below).
  • Images, illustrations or graphics are included in the article, but they have also been sent as separate files (in .jpg), so that the image quality can be preserved.

Author Guidelines

Transdigital accept English and Spanish submissions.

All contributions should be submitted online and with Microsoft Word format.

Before sending in your contribution, please ensure that Transdigital guidelines for submissions are followed. This is absolutely necessary as it minimizes the workload and increases the turnaround period. The guidelines follow the conventions of the American Psychological Association (see http://www.apastyle.org/). Please also take a look at contributions published so far.

To ensure a successful review process, please make sure the contribution has the following components:

 

Length

The article is within 5000-6000 words including supplementary material and references.

 

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract of 150-250 words is required for the Research reports. It should follow the IMRaD method, that is, to state briefly an Introduction (problem and purpose of the research), the research Method carried out, the principal Results and a Discussion or Conclusion.

A concise and factual abstract of 150-250 words is required for the Scientific essays. It should follow a general structure, such as introduction, development and conclusion.

 

Keywords

After the abstract, authors must provide a maximum of 5 keywords.

These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

 

Formal Aspects

The manuscript has to be formatted preferably according to the Transdigital template.

Microsoft Word template for Research report contributions in English is available here.

Microsoft Word template for Scientific Essay contributions in English is available here.

The revision process of articles not formatted according to the Transdigital template might take considerably longer.

 

Article Structure

Contributions to Scientific Article Section should be divided into sections as appropriate to a research article (e.g. Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions).

Contributions to Scientific Essay Section should be divided into a general structure such as Introduction, Development and Conclusions.

Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, etc.), 1.2, etc. Any subsection may be given a brief heading, and each heading should appear on its own separate line.

 

Language

Transdigital will accept contributions written either in English or Spanish. 

In case you are interested in sending a contribution in English, please check on consistency of spelling (consistent use of American or British English) before submitting the paper.

National colloquialisms and idiomatic use of language should be avoided to prevent misinterpretations, and gender-neutral language used.

Failing to provide a grammatically and syntactically correct text (either in English or Spanish) could be a valid reason to justify rejection of a submission.

 

Style

The writing style follows the style guideline of the latest Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).

If authors are non-English speakers, it is highly recommended that a native English speaker—preferably with experience in academic writing—should read the article before submission.

Only internationally accepted abbreviations can be used without definition. Other abbreviations should be defined at first mention in the text.

 

References

The manuscript explains and correctly cites the sources and materials used.

References have been prepared according to the latest Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Every reference cited in the text must be also present in the reference list and vice versa.

References must be as timely and current as possible and works published within the last 5 years should be preferably cited.

Authors should not self-cite excessively.

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of each reference used in the manuscript should be provided, if available (http://www.doi.org).

Whenever possible, URLs for the references should also be provided.

 

Tables and Figures

All tables and figures should be embedded in exact location in the main manuscript file.

Tables should be created with Microsoft Word and figures should also be provided separately as Supplementary Files.

Figures should be numbered consecutively by Arabic numerals (Table 1, Figure 1, etc.).

Tables and figures should provide additional information that is not repeated in the text.

Graphics must be sent as either JPG, TIFF or EPS files.

All graphics must be sent in high-resolution (i.e. 300 DPI).

All figure captions have to be included in the manuscript.

 

Citations

Citations of other contributions should be limited to those strictly necessary for the argument. Any quotations should be brief and accompanied by precise references following the APA citation style.

We encourage to use a reference manager such as Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero, EndNote, CiteULike, for instance.

 

Originality

All articles submitted to Transdigital must be original. The authors must guarantee that the article has not been previously published elsewhere, nor is it under consideration by any other publisher.

 

Authors' name and affiliation

All the identification details of the authors including whole name, professional affiliation (specifying the city and country) and e-mail addresses must be provided.

 

Other important aspects

In case of publicly-funded research, the authors must state the name of the project and the funding entities in the manuscript file.

The article should report empirical research or be at least partly empirically-based.

Permission must have been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources, including the Internet.

An article cannot be signed by more than three authors.

After an author has published in Transdigital, he/she will not be able to publish any new manuscripts in the next issue.

 

Journal Templates

Microsoft Word template for Research report contributions is available here.

Microsoft Word template for Scientific essay contributions is available here.

 

Article Processing Charges

Transdigital magazine charges an article processing fee. Once the text is approved by the evaluation committee, the fee of 4,500 Mexican pesos (260 USD) must be paid.

Copyright Notice

All articles in Transdigital are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Authors hold the copyright and retain publishing rights without restrictions.

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