Submissions

Author Guidelines

Pulso is a scholarly refereed journal published once a year at the Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros, a Teaching Training College administratively linked to the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, España). It is aimed at education specialists, researchers and professionals. Its main aim is to disseminate and promote those studies and experiences related to Education.

This journal publishes original empirical and theoretical research articles, studies, reviews and educational experiences. When assessing the works, those that are a product of financed research projects will receive special consideration.

Submissions

Articles proposed for publication must conform to the requirements of the submission guidelines and the general publication policies provided below. Manuscripts that have already been published elsewhere or are being considered for publication elsewhere are not eligible to be considered for publication in Pulso. Manuscripts have to be original.

Authors are encouraged to read the code of ethics before submitting their manuscripts.

Submissions should be written in Spanish or English. They should be pesented, without data that identify the author or institution, and sent in Word format, through this website, by the OJS application. Once registered as author, the authors should follow the Submission guidelines: https://revistas.cardenalcisneros.es/about/submissions.

Questions regarding the submission of papers may be consulted at: pulso@cardenalcisneros.es

Authors will have to sign a declaration of originality and a copyright declaration that will be sent to them after the submission.

In the information section about the authors, should also be included the full name of the authors, e-mail, address, ORCID ID, phone number (of the responsible person, in case of several authors) and a brief resume of each author (max. 200 words) in both languages Spanish and English. The funding of the work, if any, should be included in this file, with its complete reference.

When there are several authors, the exact order in which they should appear in the publication must be indicated.

The date of receipt and the date of approval will be included in the publication. Authors will be entitled to a physical copy of the journal.

Any article that does not comply with format, presentation or content requirements will be returned to the author.

The time between receipt acknowledgement and the first evaluation is around 60 days in which the author will receive the reports produced by the reviewers together with the suggestions—if there were any. Authors will have 20 days to introduce said suggestions.

Pulso. Revista de Educación does not charge the authors any fees for the delivery or publication of their work.

Languages

Pulso. Revista de educación, accepts proposals written both in Spanish and English. Foreign words and sentences inserted in the text should be italicized.

Evaluation process

Articles are first reviewed by the Editorial Board, who will make a pre-selection, to see if they meet the requirements for articles published in this journal. 

The Editorial Board can directly reject any manuscript without resorting to external consultation for any of the following reasons: if they consider them not fitting because they do not meet quality requirements, if they do not adhere to the scientific goals of the journal or if there is evidence of scientific misconduct. Manuscripts are revised using the plagiarism detection service provided by Crossref Similarity Check and powered by iThenticate.

This journal employs double blind reviewing, where both the referee and author remain anonymous throughout the process. Submissions are then sent out to, at least, two external referees, who are chosen for their expertise within the subject area. Should they not reach an agreement, the paper will be sent to a third external expert.

Every manuscript will be evaluated, except for reviews, which will be evaluated by the Editorial Board.

Anyone, whose work is to be reviewed, will be able to name up to three experts. The Editorial Board reserves the right to accept or reject the proposal and is not obliged to communicate its decision.

Reviewers are asked to comment on comprehensibility, originality and scholarly worth of the article submitted. All reviewers must follow the ethic code principles. Following the external review, the authors are sent copies of the external reviewers' comments and are notified of the decision (accept as it is, accept pending changes, or reject). The Editorial Board, taking into consideration the reports of the external reviewers, will decide whether to finally publish or reject an article and will always notify their decision to its author(s). Editorial Board may add comments to the reviewers' report if deemed necessary.

The time between receipt acknowledgement and the first evaluation is around 40 days in which the author will receive the reports produced by the reviewers together with the suggestions—if there were any. Authors will be required to introduce said suggestions within 20 days. Should any circumstance prevent that time commitment from happening, the journal will get in touch with the author to inform him/her about the state of the process.

In the case of negative evaluations, authors will have the right to reply. The reply will be managed by the Editorial Board.

Structure

Article manuscripts should not exceed 7500 words including the bibliography. Footnotes will be included at the end of the article.

Articles submitted should generally include the following sections:

a)   Title: first letter capitalized. Centred. Written both in English and Spanish.

b)   Authors: name and surnames, institutions, e-mail addresses.

c)    Abstract: A brief summary of the article, which should not exceed 180 words in length and should concentrate on the objectives, methodology, and significant findings, written both in English and Spanish.

d)   Key words: Up to five words describing the article written both in English and Spanish.

e)   Main text: Articles and pedagogical experiences should be organized clearly using headings and subheadings (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.). The structure of the articles submitted for the sections dealing with research should follow the IMRaD model.

f)    Bibliographical references

g)   Appendix

Before the submission, authors must check that the articles meet the following format requirements: https://revistas.cardenalcisneros.es/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/160

Reviews may vary in length from 700 to 2,000 words. Reviewed books must have been published in the same publication year as the journal or the immediate previous one, they also should cover aspects related to education. The interest of the review to be published, will be valued by the Editorial Team. Self-published book reviews are not accepted for consideration.

The review must include, besides the author’s details, the year, title, city, Publisher, ISBN and number of pages.

The book review must also include a quality image of the book’s cover.

Quotations

Direct quotations should be put in quotation marks. Quotations exceeding 40 words should appear indented in the text from the left margin without using quotation marks. These paragraph quotations must have an additional one-line space above and below.

References

Pulso follows the APA 7^th edition style. The sources used should be quoted in the text of the article or experience, using parentheses following this order (Author, year: page) or (Author, year). References should be listed alphabetically at the end of paper.

Visual materials

Any illustrations, figures, graphics, etc., must be included in the Word document in the relevant place. In addition, they must be sent in their original format in a separate file. All images and graphics included in the text must be referenced with the word “Figure” plus the corresponding number in brackets, e.g. (Figure 2). The same number must appear in the caption of the image.