Submissions

Author Guidelines

Unpublished articles that are not simultaneously submitted or under review by other journals (up to 20 pages including tables, graphs, and figures) with a total length of between 8,000 and 10,000 words are published. The published content is aimed at researchers, teachers, undergraduate, and graduate students.

A maximum of three authors is allowed.

Manuscripts must be submitted in Word format (Microsoft Office), ensuring that they are completely anonymized, both in terms of content and file properties. Documents in PDF format will not be accepted.

In order to comply with the double-blind review system, it is essential that the file does not contain any identifiable information. This includes removing any references to your own work and carefully reviewing the document properties to prevent personal data from being leaked.

Images must be inserted into the body of the text in jpg or gif format. Each image must be properly identified with its number, title, source, and the word “figure.” Tables and graphs should also be included in the text and sent as attachments. Please use Arial font size 10 and grayscale. Digital files corresponding to images, graphs, and tables should be named according to their corresponding number in the document.

Authors must submit their work:
Work must be submitted via the journal's platform: https://ojsintcom.unicen.edu.ar/

If you encounter any problems, please send an email to: intercom@virtual.soc.unicen.edu.ar
You must include the author(s)' personal details: full name, areas of research or interest, current institutional affiliation, postal address, email address, and ORCID.

Author contribution roles

Intersecciones en Comunicación adheres to the use of CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) to highlight, differentiate, and recognize the participation of each author with their respective roles in the production of the research document.

Roles:

Project management: Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
Fundraising: Acquisition of financial support for the project that led to this publication.
Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Conceptualization: Ideas, formulation, or development of general research objectives and goals.
Data curation: Management activities related to annotating (producing metadata), deleting, and maintaining research data, in phases of use and reuse (including writing software code, where these activities are necessary to interpret the data itself).
Writing - review and editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work by those in the research group, specifically, critical review, comments, or revisions, including pre- and post-publication stages.
Research: Development of a research process, specifically, experiments or data collection/testing.

Project management: responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
Funding acquisition: Acquisition of financial support for the project that led to this publication.
Methodology: Development or design of methodology, creation of models.
Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials of any kind, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools.
Writing—original draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically, writing the initial draft (includes, if relevant in terms of the volume of text translated, translation work).
Software: Programming, software development, computer program design, implementation of computer code and support algorithms, testing of existing code components.
Supervision: Responsibility for supervision and leadership in the planning and execution of research activity, including external tutoring
Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the replication/general reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outcomes
Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work, specifically, the visualization/presentation of data.

Articles should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words in length, including all sections.

Sections of the manuscript:
Title in Spanish
Title in English

All this in Spanish and English
Abstract (150-200)
keywords (3-6)

Text (body parts)
Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion/Conclusion
References
Notes

Paper size: A4

Font: Times New Roman, size 12 Line spacing: 1.5

Alignment: Left-aligned

Footnotes are numbered continuously.

Citation and reference style: APA 7 (American Psychological Association) APA Style Guide, 7th Edition.

On the Use of AI

Heredia Declaration: promotes the ethical use of artificial intelligence in scientific publishing, with human responsibility and transparency.

In accordance with COPE’s recommendation, authors who use AI tools in the drafting of the manuscript, the production of images or graphic elements, or in the collection and analysis of data must indicate in the Materials and Methods section (or a similar section) how the AI tool was used and which tool was employed. Authors remain fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including any parts generated by an AI tool, and are therefore accountable for any violations of publication ethics.

Policy on Plagiarism. Ethical Principles in the Publication Process

Intersecciones en Comunicación reviews all submitted articles for potential plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and undisclosed use of AI through a plagiarism detection system and a tool for identifying plagiarism and grammatical errors.

When authors submit their work, it must be original and not previously submitted to other publications. Editors receive the submissions and subject them to anti-plagiarism analysis to verify that the work is original and eligible for evaluation. During the peer review process, reviewers are asked—based on their expertise—to identify possible instances of plagiarism. If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected, the editorial committee will follow the steps outlined by COPE in the guideline What to do if you suspect redundant or duplicate publication.

Therefore, Intersecciones en Comunicación adheres to international standards and practices regarding the ethical aspects that must be followed in the publication of original articles. In this regard, it follows the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Non-Sexist Language and Best Practices for Gender Equality

Authors are strongly encouraged to carefully review the guidelines outlined in the Guide for Non-Sexist Language, developed by the Interuniversity Network for Gender Equality and Against Violence of the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), to ensure appropriate use of language in submitted articles.