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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 request has not been previously published, nor it has been sent to another journal in the same form and content.
  • The file is sent in RTF format, OpenOffice/LibreOffice or Microsoft Word. Should there be any image, must be attached in additional files in JPG, PNG or TIFF formats.
  • When possible, Web URLs will be provided for cited references.
  • The text should be typed in single line spacing, font size 12. When appropriate, please do use italics instead of underlining text (except in URLs). All figures and graphics should be placed in its final position within the text.
  • The text meets all the bibliographic and style requirements listed in the instruction guidelines, within the “About” section.

Author Guidelines

  1. Submitted papers must be unpublished scientific papers in Spanish or English and should not be under simultaneous evaluation for publication in any other Journal. 
  2. Contributions will be submitted in Microsoft Word (doc) formats and uploaded to the journal website. Firstly, it is needed to be registered as author, to sign in using the username and password and to click in “New Submission”. If not yet registered, go to http://revistes.uab.cat/grafowp/user/register. If a new version of the manuscript is required by reviewers and/or editors, please, upload it on the same website, and entering the same place of the initial version. Don’t upload it as a new article. In case of any doubt, please, contact us through revista.grafo.wp@uab.cat. 
  3. Papers will be written in Arial (download template):
    ⎯ Article Title: Arial 18, bold, italic, justified.
    ⎯ Summary and keywords: Arial 12, single line spacing and 6 points before and after the paragraph.
    ⎯ Section title: Arial 12 bold, single line spacing.
    ⎯ Subtitle section: Arial 12 bold, italics, single line spacing.
    ⎯ Paragraph subtitle: Arial, 12, italics, single line spacing.
    ⎯ Normal paragraphs: Arial 12, single line spacing, 6 points before and after paragraph justified.
    ⎯ Paragraphs indent (quotations): leading simple with an indent of 0.5 cm left and right.
    ⎯ Footnotes: consecutive within each article. Arial 10, 3 points before and after paragraph, justified, single spacing. 
  4. The text of articles should be sent in an anonymized version, without the name of the authors, explicit references to the institutions they represent or financing institutions or acknowledgments, and removing the corresponding metadata within Microsoft Word options. 
  5. The title, abstract and keywords will be presented in Spanish and English. The abstract should not exceed 200 words in one paragraph and no indication of sections, trying as far as possible remaining in the first page of the article. It must be followed by 3-6 key words that adequately describe the content of the article. 
  6. The names, affiliation, email and biographical summary must be entered properly in the metadata, during remission of the article, as the authors wish to appear in the final version of the article. 
  7. Charts, graphs, tables and maps will accompany the text in the desired location, in line with the text and numbered consecutively. The titles will go below the image or table in Arial 10 format, single line spacing, 6 points after paragraph. 
  8. Images, graphs and maps should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, to ensure its adequate visualization. The format of the images will be JPG, JPEG or TIF. 
  9. References will in APA format (5th / 6th Edition) and the DOI for each reference is mandatory if available (you can check them at: http://search.crossref.org/references page). 
  10. References at the end of the text should have the second and following lines indented, 1.27 cm.

Articles

Section editors: José Luis Molina González and Jorge Grau Rebollo.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
    1. Authors retain copyright.
    2. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Spain Attribution 3.0 licence. You may copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work, provided you attribute it (authorship, journal name, publisher) in the manner specified by the author(s) or licensor(s). The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/deed.en.
    3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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8. Modifications of this Data Protection Policy

This data protection policy was established on 5 May 2018. The UAB reserves the right to modify its data protection policy in future in accordance with its own criteria or due to a change in the legislation, jurisprudence or business practices. If the UAB introduces any changes, the new text shall be published on this same page, where the user is provided with information on the data protection policy. In any case, the relationship with users shall be governed by the regulations in force at the precise moment when they access the website and, as a result, they must be read every time users provide their data via our website.