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Unpublished articles that are not simultaneously submitted or under review by other journals (up to 20 pages including tables, graphs, and figures) with a total length of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.

The journal allows a maximum of three authors.

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

In order to properly follow the double-blind review system, the file have any identifiable information removed. This includes eliminating any references to the author´s 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. The authors are asked to 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 to the journal's platform: https://ojsintcom.unicen.edu.ar/

If there are any problems issues, please send an email to: intercom@virtual.soc.unicen.edu.ar

The author(s)' personal information must be included: 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 the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CrEdiT) to highlight, differentiate, and recognize the participation of each author with their respective roles in the production of the research document.

Roles:

Project management: managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
Fundraising Funding acquisition: acquiring financial support for the project that led to this publication.
Formal analysis: employing statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Conceptualization: Ideas, formulation, or development of overarching research.

Data curation: Management activities related to annotating (producing metadata), deleting, and maintaining research data (including writing software code, where these activities are necessary to interpret the data itself for initial use and later reuse. 

Writing - review and editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work by those people from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision, including pre- and post-publication stages.
Research: Conducting a research process, specifically, experiments or data collection/testing.

Methodology: Developing the design of methodology, and models.
Resources: Providing study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing 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 of the replication/general reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outcomes either as part of the activity or separately
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

Abstract (150-200 words)
keywords (3-6)

Text

Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion/Conclusion
References
Notes 

Acknowledgments

Contribution roles of the authors

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

Paper size: A4

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

Alignment: Left-aligned

Footnotes are numbered continuously.

Use of AI 

Heredia Declaration: promotes 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) which AI tool was used and how it was employed. Authors remain fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including AI-generated fragments, and are therefore accountable for any violations of publication ethics.

Policy on Plagiarism and AI use. 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 papers they must be original and therefore not previously submitted to other publications. Editors receive the submissions and execute an anti-plagiarism analysis to corroborate the authenticity of the work so that it can be evaluated. During the evaluation process, reviewers are asked to use their expertise to detect possible plagiarism cases. If plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected, the editorial committee will proceed in accordance with COPE What to do if you suspect that a publication is redundant or duplicated

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.