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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the journal.
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  • As part of the shipping process, submitters are required to check that their shipment meets all of the elements, shown below. Shipments that do not meet these guidelines will be returned.
  • Submitters must provide references to similar work that has already been published, or is currently under consideration by another journal. If the work has already been presented in a paper, details should be provided in a cover letter. The journal will take into account the publication of the work previously presented as a short abstract or poster at a conference, but not as a full paper. If previously published tables, illustrations or more than 200 words of text are to be included, the author will submit to the Secretariat written permission from the copyright holder. Including copies of all letters of permission. Please note that if deemed appropriate, plagiarism checking software may be applied to your manuscript during the editorial review process.
  • The title, abstract and keywords comply with the above requirements.
  • The submission of the article with the summary (headings/paragraphs).
  • The text, font size and margins follow the above indications.
  • The text complies with the bibliographic and stylistic requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors, which can be found in the Guidelines for Authors under Submissions.
  • The instructions in Secure an anonymous evaluation must be followed.
  • The ORCID identification number of all authors must be provided, as well as the contribution of each author.
  • The agency or body funding the research must be stated.

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors

iQual. Gender and Equality Journal is a free publication. The journal does not charge fees, nor does it issue fees, to authors, readers, or evaluators, regardless of whether or not they belong to the Editorial Boards.

1. Topics of interest: iQUAL. Gender and Equality Journal accepts original research articles, theoretical review, applied, methodological and practical research, on equality between women and men, empowerment of women and girls, and elimination of all types of violence against them.

2. The edition of the journal is electronic and can be consulted in its entirety at the following electronic address: http://revistas.um.es/iqual

3. Reception of manuscripts: to submit the original articles and reviews to the Journal, the OJS platform itself enabled on the official website of the journal will be used. I don't know whether to put the page here.

4. Submission of originals: The originals must be unpublished. The languages admitted as of January 1 of each current year, and will be in Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian. The maximum number of pages will be 24 pages.

5. All papers must have: title, abstract and keywords in the language of publication (Spanish, Portuguese and Italian), and in English. In the event that the language in which the article is written is English, the second language would be Spanish.

6. Acceptance of a work for publication means that the copyright is transferred to the publisher of the journal.

7. Format. The articles must be presented in the template that is made available at the main template No article will be accepted that is not included in it. The journal's style rules are built into it.

8. In citations, the Rules of the 7th edition of the APA are followed. Available at https://normas-apa.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia-Normas-APA-7ma-edicion.pdf. All citations made within the text must be reflected in the Bibliographic References section. Articles that do not meet the standards of the seventh edition of the APA will not be accepted.

9. Image manipulation

The manipulation of images that may involve fraud is not accepted, because it is an infringement of scientific ethics and, therefore, action will be taken accordingly. The journal applies the following regulations for images: it is not allowed to enhance, obscure, move, delete or add any element of them. Adjustments to brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable as long as they do not obscure or remove any visible information in the original image. If non-linear adjustments are made (such as changes in the gamma parameters) they must be indicated in the figure caption.

10. Electronic formats

General considerations.

  • Make sure that you incorporate your original illustrations uniformly in terms of size and captions.
  • Insert the fonts into the file, if the application you are using allows it. Try to use fonts: Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Symbol, or others that look similar in your artwork.
  • Number the illustrations correlatively.
  • Opt for a logical nomenclature to name the image files. Provide the texts, for the caption of each figure, in a separate list.
  • Use a size similar to what the images should be in the publication. Submit each figure in a separate file.

formats

If you have used a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel), please submit the image in the file's own format. If you have adopted other applications, once the figure is finished, please 'Save As' or export or convert each of the image files to one of the following formats (note the resolution required for line drawings , halftones, or combinations of both as detailed below):

  • EPS (or PDF): vector images. Embed all the fonts you have used. TIFF (or JEPG): Color or grayscale (halftone) photographs, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi/dpi.
  • TIFF (or JEPG): bitmap, pure black and white pixels, with a resolution of at least 1,000 dpi/dpi.
  • TIFF (or JEPG): Combinations of bitmap lines and halftone images (color or grayscale), with a resolution of at least 500 dpi/dpi.

We ask that you do not submit:

  • Files that are not optimal for use on the screen (GIF, BMP, PICT or WPG, for example, tend to have a low resolution and a limited number of colors).
  • Files with low resolution.
  • Graphics that are disproportionately large in size in relation to their content.

11. Figure

In a separate document, write a caption for each of the figures and check that none are missing. The caption must contain a short title (which must not appear in the illustration) and a description of the figure. Try to keep the presence of text in the figure to a minimum, and don't forget to include in the caption.

12. Non-sexist language iQual.

The Gender and Equality Journal establishes the inclusion of the gender perspective in all published research, both in the research design and in the writing of the articles. For an adequate transfer of knowledge, guidelines are proposed for the use of an inclusive language in terms of gender in Spanish. See: https://www.un.org/es/gender-inclusive-language/guidelines.shtml

13. The author or the author must state the academic or professional affiliation, the email address, and the ORCID research number https://orcid.org/

14. In case of co-authorship, the contribution of each participant must be made explicit, as well as the order of signature in the authorship. The final version of the submitted article must contain an explicit mention of the criteria chosen to decide the order of signing, as well as the specific contribution of each parcipant. For this purpose, it is suggested to use the roles listed in CRedit

15. The author or the author should indicate the research funding institution.

16. People who submit an article to the journal must report whether the conclusions have taken possible differences between the sexes into account.

17. The author or author responsible for the submission will be the person who will receive all the communications issued by the Secretariat of the Journal, registering and covering the information requested from the OJS platform. This person will be in charge, before the journal, of contacting, in case of multiple authorship, with those who also subscribe said publication, and will be responsible, in case of any type of conflict.

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