Author Guidelines

All papers submitted for publication in our journal have to be free from publishing commitments to any other journal or publishing house. Contributions are first reviewed based on their focal theme by our Editorial Committee and then strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed. The review process is double blind by both internal and external reviewers. You may submit your paper by emailing revista@fundacionmenteclara.org.ar, including your identifiers (ID) of Redalyc, ORCID and ResearcherID. When the submission has more than one author, they must indicate at the bottom of the article and before the references, the Declaration of Authorship according to the Taxonomy of academic collaboration roles. Along with the article, the supporting data of the research must be sent to be uploaded to the platform for reviewers to use. Once evaluated, and if the article is approved, the set of supporting data will be accessible in our institutional repository in accordance with Law 26.899 on Open Access Institutional Digital Repositories, unless the dissemination of this data may cause some type of damage, such as those that allow the location or identification of people, which could violate the so-called very personal rights, such as the rights to honor, privacy and image.

Our journal does not charge researchers any type of fees to publish their papers. No submission or processing fees are applied to authors to secure research freedom and speed up proper dissemination among the scientific community. 

If the article passes the double-blind review process and is accepted, the MenteClara Foundation will award the author a grant of 594 euros to cover 100% of the processing, publication, and dissemination costs of their research.

Papers must be submitted following standard bibliographical and layout rules such as Vancouver, Harvard or APA writing rules. Our committee recommends Argentine authors specialized in social sciences to use the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th Edition, 2024 (APA).

Our journal publishes papers in both Spanish and English. For submission, authors must download a layout model here in Spanish. There, you will find the rules established by the publisher, as well as the peer-review policy. Download here in English a layout template for shipment. In it you can see the rules established for the edit and the peer review policy.

Papers that do not strictly adhere to these shipping guidelines, set forth in the layout template, will incur a $100 fee.

We strongly suggest that you review this peer review policy before making your submission. There you will find part of the questionnaire that reviewers must answer to evaluate your paper. Some of the questions are specific to specific academic areas. We suggest you answer affirmatively at least 50% of those that correspond to yours. In do so, your article will not be rejected and the review process will begin.

The Editorial Committee is fully compliant with established international standards regarding codes of ethics and good scientific publishing practices. We ask authors to carefully read these standards in COPE's International standards for responsible research publication for editors and authors before sending us their research.

We strongly suggest that before writing your articles you go through the article addressed in Trip Database (Turning Research Into Practice) to verify the latest clinical updates related to your paper as well as you make sure that your work is original and unpublished, since our journal uses Dupli Checker and Crossref Similarity Check among other plagiarism checker tools.

 

  • Submission preparation checklist

    As part of the submission process, authors are required to indicate that their submission complies with all of the following elements, and that they accept that submissions that do not comply with these guidelines may be rejected.

    1. The submitted paper has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
    2. The file sent is in Microsoft Word format.
    3. URL’s have been added for references where possible.
    4. The text has simple line spacing; font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except URL’s); and all illustrations, figures and tables are inside the text in their corresponding place and not at the end of the paper.
    5. Text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors, which can be found in About the journal tab.
    6. If you are submitting your work to a peer-reviewed section of our journal, you have to make sure that the instructions in Ensuring a blind review have been followed.
    7. The Decalation of Authorship was completed according to the Taxonomy of academic collaboration roles.