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Manuscripts should not exceed 10,000 words or 65,000 characters, including references, notes, tables, and figures. For formatting and stylistic details, authors must follow the guidelines of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Receipt of the manuscript will be acknowledged promptly, and authors will be informed of its status through the OJS platform. Final acceptance is contingent upon the incorporation of revisions suggested by peer reviewers and the Editorial Board.
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If a manuscript is accepted for publication, the rights to print and reproduce the work in any format or medium are assigned to Universidad Santo Tomás. Reasonable requests from authors to reproduce their contributions elsewhere will be duly considered.
Only original manuscripts are accepted. Requests to withdraw a submitted manuscript must be made formally through a letter addressed to the Editor. Withdrawal will be effective only upon written confirmation from the Editor-in-Chief.
Manuscript Evaluation and Acceptance
The evaluation process consists of two stages.
Initial Editorial Screening
The Editorial Team conducts a preliminary review to assess:
Originality of the manuscript.
Compliance with formal submission requirements.
Academic quality.
Relevance to the journal’s thematic scope.
Originality is verified using Turnitin and other specialized software designed to detect text generated by artificial intelligence.
Double-Blind Peer Review
Manuscripts approved during the initial screening are sent to external reviewers under a double-blind peer review process. Reviewers use a standardized evaluation form addressing both:
Scientific criteria, including conceptual rigor and methodological soundness.
Formal criteria, including adherence to publication and referencing guidelines.
All stages of the review process are managed through the OJS platform. Authors may monitor the progress of their manuscript through their user account.
The peer review process typically takes three to six months.
Once a manuscript is accepted, the editorial production stage—including copyediting, typesetting, author proof review and approval, and printing—takes approximately two additional months.
The journal is under no obligation to return submitted manuscripts and will not consider manuscripts that fail to comply with these guidelines.
Acceptance of a manuscript is subject to favorable evaluations by expert reviewers. The Editorial Board reserves the right to introduce formal modifications necessary to ensure consistency with the journal’s editorial standards.
If the manuscript derives from a research project, authors must provide the following information:
Name of the author and the institution where the research was conducted (for research articles).
Abstract of no more than 120 words.
Manuscript formatted according to APA 7th edition guidelines.
Figures and tables inserted within the text, consecutively numbered and accompanied by concise titles clearly describing their content.
References listed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order, following APA 7th edition style.
In-Text Citations
The journal uses the author–date citation system (surname and year of publication), which enables readers to locate the complete source information in the alphabetical reference list at the end of the manuscript.
Submission Preparation Checklist
Submission Checklist
All submissions must comply with the following requirements:
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the “Comments to the Editor” section).
Whenever possible, URLs are provided for all references.
The manuscript conforms to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines under the “About the Journal” section.
If the manuscript is submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions provided under Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
The submission file is in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word format.
The text is formatted with 1.5 line spacing, uses a 12-point font, employs italics rather than underlining (except for URLs), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are embedded in the appropriate places within the text rather than placed at the end.
If an artificial intelligence model was used in the preparation of the manuscript, a statement disclosing the use of AI must be included in a note at the end of the text. This statement must specify:
The AI model used.
The nature of the use (e.g., language editing, translation, coding assistance, literature synthesis).
A declaration that the author(s) assume full responsibility for the content of the manuscript.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright Notice
Authors retain the moral rights to their articles and are therefore free to share, copy, distribute, perform, and publicly communicate their work under the following condition:
Proper attribution must be given to the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor, provided that such attribution does not suggest endorsement by the author or licensor of the user or of the use made of the work.
Universidad Santo Tomás retains the economic rights (copyright) to all published works and encourages and permits their reuse under the terms of the license indicated above.
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