Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. GENERAL RULES

• RIED makes two annual calls for papers: 1st) From June 2 to December 1, and 2nd) From December 2 to June 1 of the following year. For official entry purposes, each article will be considered as December 1 (for the number published in July) and June 1 (for the number corresponding to January) of each year. Immediately afterwards, the evaluation processes of the articles will officially begin (not before). Therefore, it is recommended to submit articles to RIED only during the months of May and November of each year. When there is a call for a Special Issue, these articles may partially or totally occupy the content of the RIED number.
• Before submitting an article, it is mandatory to review the About the Journal section, especially the Code of Ethics on Publication and Misconduct. This includes the Ethical Code of Duties for Authors, which represents a committed and consented declaration of everything stated therein. No article should be submitted to RIED if any single point of this Ethical Code is violated.
• Authors must review and apply the Author Guidelines and know our Requirements and Evaluation Criteria and our Priority Criteria for the selection of articles. And finally, adhere to our format template. All authors must have an updated ORCID. The failure to fulfill any of the required parametres may be enough reason to reject the submission.
• The articles of RIED-Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia can be received in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Starting in 2024, the publication will be bilingual: either in Spanish or Portuguese and always in English.
• Extension. The length of articles will be between 5.000 and 7.000 words (excluding bibliographic references). 
• Format. The format, in Word, will be that of our template. You can download it here.
• Structure of the articles. Each article will have the following structure: 
• Title of the article in English. Below, the title must be translated to Spanish. 16 or fewer words. Title in Spanish (or Portuguese), and translation to English below, if the article is in Spanish / Portuguese.
• Author/s and affiliation (name and surname; institution and country) and ORCID ID. These data will be omitted in the initial submission.
• Abstract in Spanish or Portuguese (extension 200-250 words) and in English following the IMRD structure (Introduction-problem, Methodology, Results-findings, Conclusions, and the Recommendations).
• Keywords (between 3 and 6 descriptors) in Spanish or Portuguese, and English. Ideally, these keywords should be extracted from the European Thesaurus of Education or The ERIC Thesaurus. However, for works related to novel technologies, methodologies, or other types of innovations, it is essential to prioritize the use of descriptors that facilitate easy location in searches across various relevant databases and catalogs.
• Text of the article. Description and analysis of the undertaken research, following the IMRD structure as much as possible.
• Graphs, figures and images. High quality, can be presented in color. Embedded within the text.
• Explanatory notes to text (if any). The call to the note should be numbered  correlatively with superscript. The body of the note will be added after the article, as shown in our model template.
• References according to RIED’s model are explained below. They must be relevant, adequate, enough (more than 25), current and varied (international)
• Academic and professional profile of the author (between 30 and 50 words), in the same order that appears in the header of the article. The main research lines should be included. These data should be omitted from the first submission (to ensure a blind peer review).
• Postal and electronic address/es of the author/s. These data will be deleted from the first submission.
• Receipt and acceptance dates of the article (will be included by the Editorial Committee).
• Citations within the text. References to articles or books will appear in the text in parentheses, indicating the author's last name and year, separated by a comma (e.g., Peters, 2001). In the case there are several books or articles, they will be cited in alphabetical order and separated by a semicolon (García Aretio, 2002; Sarramona, 2001; Ferreri & González-Bastida, 2012). If several works belong to the same author, the last name and the years of publication of the different works will be separated by commas, and, IF necessary, distinguished by letters (a, b, etc.) when the texts have been published in the same year (Casas Armengol, 1990, 1995, 2000a, 2000b, 2002, 2004). If the author's name is part of the text  only will appear in parentheses the year of publication [Keegan (1992) said ...]. If the work in the citation has more than 2 authors, the surname of the first of them will appear followed by “et al.” [Uribe-Rodríguez et al. (2001) said...].
• Textual citations. Textual citations of less than 40 words will appear within quotes, followed by the last name of the author of the text, the year and the page or pages from where the text was extracted, all within parentheses. For example: "by distance education we understand [...] occasional contact with other students" (Blanco, 1986, p. 16). If the author's name is part of the text, it would be like this: As Martínez Sanz (2001, p. 102) points out "...". Citations of 40 or more words (direct citations) should appear in a separate paragraph without quotes and adjusted to the same indentation as the first line of a new paragraph.  The author, year and page/s will be indicated at the end,
• References. All and only those works cited in the text will be included in the references section. All author's names must appear, separated by commas (','). They must be in alphabetical order in one list, both those in print and electronic means. The format will be as follows:
  • Brzezinski, Z. (1970). La era tecnotrónica. Paidós.
  • Bienkowski, M., Feng, M., & Means, B. (2012). Enhancing teaching and learning through educational data mining and learning analytics: An issue brief. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology.
  • García Aretio, L. (1999). Historia de la educación a distancia. RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 2(1), 11-40.  https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.2.1.2084
  • Rienties, B., Brouwer, N., Carbonell, K. B., Townsend, D., Rozendal, A-P., Loo, J., Dekker, P., & Lygo-Baker, S. (2013). Online training of TPACK skills of higher education scholars: A cross-institutional impact study. European Journal of Teacher Education, 36(4), 480-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2013.801073
  • Oettinger, A. G. (1971). Communications in the national decision-making process. In M. Greenberger, (Ed.), Computers, communication, and the public interest (pp. 73-114). Johns Hopkins Press.
  • Majó, J. (2000). Educación, ciencia y tecnología. En T. Rodríguez, J. V. Peña y J. Hernández, (Coords.), Cambio educativo: presente y futuro (pp. 75-84). Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo.
  • Martín, S. (2011). Educación Aumentada: Realidad o Ficción. Blog CUED. https://goo.gl/w46mpA
  • Carey, B. (2019). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html
  • García Aretio, L. (1999). Fundamento y Componentes de la Educación a Distancia. RIED. Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 2(2), 28-39. https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.2.2.2076
  • Adelson, F. C., Jr., Bright, J., Dissendorf, R., Keyland, S. D., & González-Breith, N. (2019, August 8-11). Group videocall: An event on the power of community [Conference presentation]. APA 2019 Convention, Chicago, IL, United States. https://convention.apa.org/2019-video
  • Cacioppo, S. (2019, April 25-28). Evolutionary theory of social connections: Past, present, and future [Conference presentation abstract]. Ninety-ninth annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Pasadena, CA, United States. https://westernpsych.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/WPA-Program-2019-Final-2.pdf
• Book: Author’s last name, Initials. (Year). Title of book. Publisher.
• Journal: Author’s last name, Initials. (Year). Title of article. Name of the journal, volume(issue) and page numbers (from first to last). DOI or URL, if existing.
• Chapter or article in a book: Author’s last name, Initials. (Year). Title of the article or chapter. In Initials. Last names of the author/s, (editor/s or coordinator/s, if applicable), Book Title (pp. pages comprising the article or chapter within the book). Publisher.
• Electronic documents: Author’s last name, Initials. (Year). Title of the article or entry. Name of blog or website. DOI or URL
• Articles in electronic periodical publications (electronic jounals): Author’s last name, Initials. (Year). Title of the article. Name of the journal, volume(issue). Pages comprising the article in the printed version of the journal (if any). DOI or URL
• Conference presentation: Author’s last name, Initials. (Date). Presentation title [Conference presentation]. Conference name and place. URL, if existing
• Abstract of a conference presentation: Author’s last name, Initials. (Date). Title of the abstract [Conference presentation abstract]. Conference name and place. URL, if existing
• The updated information on how to quote can be found on the page APA (American Psycological Association).
• References and citations. At least 40% of the references must be works from the last four years. Similarly, relevant, enough (more than 25) and varied (international) references are required.
• The use of artificial intelligence tools is permitted, provided that the type of AI used, the parts of the work it was applied to, and its purpose are clearly specified. This must be indicated in the methodology section or relevant part of the paper. The use of AI does not exempt authors from full responsibility for the content, nor should it affect the authenticity or scientific integrity of the work.
• It is recommended to take care of the use of inclusive language, always within the grammatical correctness, as well as, where appropriate and if pertinent, address the gender variable in the source data of the research.
• EVALUATION CRITERIA. See HERE.
• Peer review.  After an initial evaluation by the Editor-in-chief, the articles sent to RIED will be analyzed, first, by the technical staff of the RIED’s Secretariat. Compliance with the objectives and the formal criteria of the journal will be examined (Preliminary Assessment). Once this first phase has been passed, peer review will start, following the blind peer review procedure (Scientific Assessment). According to the reviewer’s reports, based on the criteria of quality, relevance and significance to RIED, the article may be accepted, proposed to incorporate modifications or rejected.
• Article structure. The work submitted must be original and unpublished in any printed or electronic way, either completely or partially, or submitted for publication elsewhere. All articles will go through anti-plagiarism tool Turnitin. The research presented should be the result of  the author’s own research and priority will be given to articles that follow the structure IMRD + B (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion + Bibliography):
• Introduction (I). Introduce the topic of the article, as well as the objectives or questions that the article intends to address.
• Method (M). The type(s) of methodology, sources, hypotheses, procedures, instruments, etc., used to aress to the goals and questions should be presented.
• Results (R). The scope, consequences, results, effects or conclusions, etc, will show the research interest of the article for other researchers.
• Discussion (D). Interpretation of  the results and conclusions of the study by comparing them with other proposals that have discussed similar issues. The strengths and weaknesses of the research itself will be pointed out.
• Bibliography. See above.
• In any case, the Summary should follow the IMRD structure.
• Result. Once evaluated, the author will be notified of acceptance or subject or not to modifications. In the latter case, once the original text has been revised and modified by the authors according to the reviewers’ indications, the new version of the article will be reviewed again by the evaluators, in accordance with the initial assessments.
• PRIORITY CRITERIA. See HERE. Among the articles that pass the evaluation processes, a final selection of works that will definitively be published will be made in accordance with these criteria.
• Rejection of an article may occur at any point in the editorial process if the Editorial Team detects any misconduct on the part of the authors of said original.
• Proofreading. The corrections will be made by the journal team on the galley files, comparing them with the orginal. In the case of special issues, these corrections will be made by the Guest Editors.
• Responsibility. RIED cannot be held responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed in the published articles. This will be the full responsibility of the author/s.
• The RIED team thanks authors in advance for the observation of all these norms, which will ease the assessment and edition processes.

2. PROCEDURE TO SUBMIT ARTICLES

To submit original scientific articles resulting from study and research, you must register with RIED if you are not already. Enter the few details that are requested. It is advisable to register as a "Reader" in order to receive information on the news that RIED presents and on all the new numbers that are published.

If you want to publish in RIED, when registering you must also check the "Author" box. Once registered, you must login in RIED, HERE and in the upper right module of the magazine's website, you must insert your "User" and "Password" that you will have received when registering. Click on "Start session" -> "Author" -> "Start a New Submission". 

In "Section of the Journal", select "Studies and Research", unless it is part of the edition of a Special Issue, in which case, you will select "Special Issue". Under "Submission Preparation Checklist", you will need to check all of them, but NEVER without reading what you are committing to and NEVER check if the requirement is not met. The article must fully comply with the criteria and requirements established by RIED. 

In the "Article Metadata" you must compulsorily fill in (for each and every one of the authors) all the following sections: Name, Surname, Email, ORCID ID, Institution, Country, Biographical Summary (between 30 and 50 words). Subsequently, you must fill in these metadata: Article Title, Abstract, Keywords, Language and Bibliographic References (separated one from another by a space).

Keep in mind that if the Metadata is changed throughout the review / editing process, you must enter the new ones in the corresponding space.

From RIED we can only thank the attention of so many readers, scholars and researchers who follow our publication, the select cast of our Editorial Team for their generosity and dedication and, in a special way, the authors who come to our scientific publication to share your research papers. We hope to count on your future collaborations with the latter, with the conviction that through RIED your article will have a very wide circulation and a very acceptable possibility of being cited.

3. TEMPLATE ARTICLE

In order to facilitate the work of the authors, we provide a template in Word, which you must adapt your work. By clicking HERE, you can download the Word document to work on it.