Editing standards

Abstracts

Abstracts should contain between 500 and 600 words (excluding the names of authors, links, etc.). They may be written in Spanish or English, and should be submitted by June 6, 2022 at the latest.

The abstracts will be published in a book of conference proceedings, edited by the Catholic University of Avila, in digital format and available after the conference for downloading by the authors.

  • Abstracts will be signed by a maximum of 3 authors.
  • In cases of co-authorship, only one of the authors should submit the abstract.


The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the scientific committee who may accept the abstract or propose changes to be made.

The abstracts must contain between 500 and 600 words, excluding the names of authors, links, etc.

They may be written in Spanish or English.

The delivery format will be only and exclusively Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx).

Structure:

  1. If it is a research work, an experience or bibliographic/systematic review, it must contain information on: introduction, objectives (with or without hypothesis), method, results and conclusion.
  2. If it is a theoretical review or reflection, the structure to follow will be: introduction, objectives, development of the topic and conclusions.


A final bibliography section should not be included. Therefore, references to other authors should not be included in the text.

Images, tables and graphs may not be included. Key words should not be included.

Title of the contribution. Style: Font: Times New Roman, body: 12 p., single spacing, centered text.

Name and surname. Style: Font: Times New Roman, body: 12 p., single spacing, centered text, blank line before and after.

Affiliation: Department, University (Country), e-mail and ORCID. Style: Tirant-Nom author (Font: Times New Roman, body: 12 p., spacing: single, centered text, leading and trailing blank line.

Abstract text: Font style: Times New Roman, body: 12 p., line spacing: single, text justified, first line indent 0.5 p.)

Book Chapter

The final text to be submitted as a book chapter can be uploaded to this platform until July 24th (non-extendable date)*.

It should be remembered that participation is optional.

The publication of the collective volume is scheduled for the end of 2022 in Dykinson publishing house.

There is a mandatory style template in Word format that must be used to edit the text. It is necessary to edit it with Microsoft Word, since the template contains internal metadata for the platform to identify the documents. We therefore recommend that you replace the example texts with your own, respecting and using the proposed styles. This will facilitate all subsequent layout work by the congress organizers and compliance with the publication deadlines.

The length of the chapters, including all the sections, will be a maximum of 20 pages. words. Bibliography, footnotes, tables and graphs will be included in this amount.

This text will include an abstract and keywords.

You can modify the title of the final text with respect to the title of the defended paper**.

The structure of the text should be articulated as follows:

  1. If it is a research paper, an experience or literature/systematic review, it should contain information on: introduction, objectives (with or without hypothesis), method, results and conclusion.
  2. If it is a theoretical review or reflection, the structure to follow will be: introduction, objectives, development of the topic and conclusions.


The mandatory citation system is APA 7th edition.
You can consult the rules of the APA 7th system at this link.
However, it is advisable to use a bibliographic reference manager to avoid citation errors, duplications, etc. Some examples of bibliographic reference managers: Zotero, Bibme, EasyBib, Mendeley, Endnote, Refworks, Bibcitation or Bibtex.
It is recommended to include the DOI in those articles or book chapters that have it.

The maximum file size that can be uploaded to the platform is 10 Mb. If your document has more weight check the resolution of the images (100 dpi for example is sufficient for a digital edition).

Book chapters will be reviewed by members of the scientific committee who may accept the chapter, propose major or minor changes or reject it***.

Once your chapter has been reviewed by blind peer review, you will have available in the “certificates” section of your work desk a certificate of participation in chapbook.

Important warnings:

Submission of proposals for publication as book chapters implies acceptance of and compliance with the rules of these and deadlines referenced above.

Ethical aspects. The UCAV, UEK and the conference Digitalization and Business, aims, as a whole, to ensure compliance with ethical standards in scientific research:

  1. They maintain an ethical commitment to the academic community and society, inspired by the international agreements taken from the Comité de Ética de Publicaciones (COPE). Authors should take into account the indications of this Committee.
  2. Paper proposals must be original (zero tolerance to plagiarism), scientific or professional in nature. They cannot be papers already published or presented previously or simultaneously in another congress. For this purpose, several specific anti-plagiarism tools will be used, setting reasonable margins and analyzing the cases that exceed these margins (20% max.). We consider as plagiarism: self-plagiarism, errors in the wording of attributions, the nature of the text, quotations, etc. If any of these cases are detected, the papers will be rejected and there will be no right to reimbursement of the amounts paid to the organization.

The Scientific Committee will reject and, therefore, will not be published (informing those affected):

* Failure to deliver the book chapter by the author/authors on the date indicated will result in their exclusion from the final work, with no right to a refund of the amounts paid to the organization. Also, the delivery of a file on time that is not the final version or does not correspond to the work, in order to gain time and make changes, will result in their exclusion from the final work, without the right to a refund of the amounts paid to the organization.

** Under no circumstances may the contents or the object of the research be modified. This situation will result in their exclusion from the final work, without the right to reimbursement of the amounts paid to the organization.

*** If the chapter, once modifications have been requested, does not meet the minimum quality standards, it will be definitively rejected for publication, resulting in its exclusion from the final work, without the right to reimbursement of the amounts paid to the organization.

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