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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 shipping file has been edited with the specific template of RiiTE in Microsoft Word.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines, which appear in about the journal. All the illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places of the text, instead of at the end. The APA standards are respected in the references.
  • If submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in the section on "Ensuring an anonymous evaluation" should be followed.
  • The submission is original, has not been previously published nor has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Editor's Comments). RiiTE uses anti-plagiarism tools to guarantee the originality of the submission.
  • Links to the information collection instruments in their full version are included to facilitate the possible replication of the investigation.

Author Guidelines

RIITE is an electronic and open access journal that surges with the purpose of promoting and sharing the advances in research about ​​Educational Technology. Our interest is the distribution of research in its various phases of the process, and to give visibility to projects (funding and not funding), studies, interviews, and book reviews related to the area.

 

STRUCTURE AND PRESENTATION

- Text format supported: doc or docx. Only research articles or reviews are allowed.

- The maximum length of the works will not exceed 6000 words including all sections (title, abstract, abstract, references ...).

- The articles must comply with the standards presented in the template. Template download  (Microsoft Office)

- The text will be written in Arial 10 pts., The first level entries in Arial 12 pts. and the second level entries in Arial 11 pts. The writings must be sent in DIN A4 size (21.5 cm x 27.9 cm). The figures and tables will be centered, they should be included in the body of the article and follow the APA standards for their elaboration. The graphics, diagrams and tables must be presented in a format that is not an image to facilitate subsequent modifications if necessary in the layout of the article. The notes will be numbered correlatively, and their text will be collected at the bottom of the page, at 9 points, justified and space between paragraphs of 6 points. Bibliographic references are not accepted as footnotes.

- The authorship of the papers submitted by master or doctorate students must also include the director (or directors if applicable).

- Manuscripts will be written in Spanish or English, at the authors' discretion. They will carry both the title, the summary, and the key words in both languages, Spanish and English.

The following information will be placed in a separate file:

- Author information (name and surnames, position or academic affiliation and email).

- Unique ORCID identifier for each author.

- Brief resume (maximum 200 words) indicating professional and academic profile, main lines of research, as well as links to the Web, blog, or other social media.

Each contribution must have:

a) Title: Must be short and precise, indicating the content of the work with a maximum of 20 words.

b) Summary: It must be drafted in a direct manner, specifying the important methodological aspects, and emphasizing the most relevant results and conclusions. It must not exceed 300 words. Abstract: It is the faithful translation into English of the summary.

c) Keywords: After the summary the authors should present and identify as such, 5 keywords that facilitate the documentarists the analysis of the article. The keywords will be extracted from the ERIC Thesaurus.

d) Introduction: It should be brief, clarifying the nature of the research problem studied with its corresponding theoretical support. Specification of the research: Clearly define the topic, research problem, objectives, or hypothesis.

e) State of the art: It must adhere to the literature review focused on the subject, updated and that, in addition to being directly related to the research, allows the final discussion.

f) Method: The structure of this section can be organized in different sections (objectives, participants, research focus, procedure, etc.) as justified in relation to the study's research and design approach.

g) Results: They must contain an accurate information of the contained data, the main results of the study or analysis. The tables, diagrams and graphs must be self-explanatory, they must be referenced in the text and placed as close as possible to the text with which they are related, numbered in Arabic and in correlative order.

h) Conclusions and Discussion: Analysis of the main results in relation to the problem and the objectives or hypotheses. Interpretation of the results found by the study in relation to previous investigations. The aim is to explain what the results mean, considering the available evidence. In addition, the potential limitations of the study as well as future lines of research should be included.

i) Links: Various resources (video, visual resources such as infographics, presentations or others, the complete document if it is published in a repository, a URL about the project, if any, etc.). A LINK to the INSTRUMENTS of data collection in full version will be obligatory, to facilitate replication of the investigation.

j) Acknowledgments: If some recognition or acknowledgments are necessary, they will be here at the end, just before the references. It is not mandatory, except in the case of financed projects.

k) References: APA style, from Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition. Remember that especially in the articles must include the DOI. To find out if you have a suggestion, look it up at http://www.crossref.or

HOW TO CITE THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

APA requires that information be cited in 2 different ways—within the text and in a reference list at the end of the paper. The reference list should be on a new page, double spaced, and use the hanging indent method (all lines after the first one are indented). APA 6TH Edition, 2010 (http://www.apastyle.org/).

- Journal Article :

Last Name, A. Last Name, A. (Year). Article title. Journal name, vol. (nº), x-x. https://doi.org/xxxx

- Book:

Last name, A. (year). Title. Editorial.

- Chapter of a Book:

Last name, A., Lat name, A. & Last name, A. (year). Chapter title. In last name, A. (Ed.) Book title (pp. xx-xx). Editorial.

- Communications

Last name, A., Last name, A., Last name, A., Last name, A., (year, month). Communication name. Communication presented to name of conference, Place. Summary retrieved from http://xxxx

- Citing Legal Materials in APA Style

Any time a law or a court case is mentioned in the text of a paper, include an “in text citation” in the proper format (usually in parentheses).

For court cases, that includes the main party names as well as the year – e.g. (Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965).

For laws (statutes), the preferred form includes the name of the law and the year – e.g. (Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974).

APA style requires anything cited briefly in the text (e.g. in parentheses) should also have a complete listing in the References list.

SHIPPING OF ITEM

Articles will be sent through the Open Journal System portal (http://revistas.um.es/riite/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions). No other means of delivery will be accepted, nor will correspondence be maintained on originals not sent through the portal or in other formats.

AUTHORS COMMITMENT

Sending an article to this journal implies the following commitments for the authors:

- The one who sends the manuscript is the author or representative of all the authors.

- Neither the manuscript or any other version/translation of the manuscript has been published in the media or journal

- The manuscript has not been sent to any other publication or journal, and will not be sent during the evaluation process in RIITE.

- The author must consider that the breach of any of the previous commitments will cause the withdrawal of the article from this journal.

CHARGES

There are no charges for publication, shipping, or page for RIITE

Special Issue

If you are interested in publishing a special section about any interesting topic in Educational Technology, you must contact with our Editorial Committee <riite@um.es>

Copyright Notice

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

a. The authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons License. Non-commercial attribution 4.0 International that allows to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format and adapt, remix, transform and build on the material in the following terms:
Recognition - You must give the appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor or its use endorses it. Non-commercial - You cannot use the material for commercial purposes. Share under it - If you remix, transform, or create on the material, your contributions must be distributed under the same license as the original.

b. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the published work (e.g. deposit it in an institutional telematic file or publish it in a monographic volume) whenever the initial publication in this journal is indicated.

c. Authors are allowed and encouraged to distribute their work through 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 citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).

d. In any case, the Editorial Team understands that the opinions expressed by the authors are their exclusive responsibility.

 

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