Instructions for submitting originals

Research articles related to the objectives of the Cuadernos del Audiovisual | CAA publication are accepted. Texts with interdisciplinary, original approaches and innovative contributions that rigorously use the methodology of the field are especially welcome. The length should not exceed 10,000 words, excluding bibliography, summary/abstract, keywords/keywords and notes. The template for submitting articles must be used.

Cuadernos del Audiovisual | CAA will primarily publish scientific research articles, although it is also open to essays and reports. All submitted works will be subject to the double anonymous peer review process. Reviews of monographs are also accepted.

Common to all publications:

  1. Tittle. In Spanish and English. Texts in English will also be accepted, although they must be submitted with their corresponding translation into Spanish. Only two levels of titles will be accepted, duly specified, in high and low. Brief, clear, precise, informative, without questions or interjections, in a single sentence if possible, without quotation marks, without a full stop.
  1. Authors:
    1. Academic degree. Dr./Dra., DEA., Ddo./a., Lic., Mgter., Gdo./a.
    2. Academic status
    3. Full name and LAST NAME. ORCID signature (http://orcid.org/0000-0xxx-xxxx-xxxx).
    4. Institutional affiliation in full text and also in acronyms. Department. Faculty. University. Country. Postal address of the workplace, postal code, town, province, country, telephone, fax.
    5. Institutional email preferably.
  2. Summary and abstract.

In Spanish and English. It will be between 150 and 200 words long and in a single paragraph. It must contain the following information (all): context of the proposal, method, main findings, limitations and original contribution made by the text. This will be followed by the abstract, which will be the translation of the summary in English.

  1. Keywords and key words

Maximum 6 expressed in Spanish and English. They will be ordered alphabetically and separated by “;”. They will be frequently used terms, well chosen, specific.

  1. Acknowledgements or sources of funding

Thanks may be expressed to people who deserve recognition for the collaboration provided or to sources of funding if it is not the university itself (indicating the call, start-end year, original title of the research and reference).

A) RESEARCH ARTICLES

6.Structure of the article following the formula Introduction + Methodology + Results and Discussion + Conclusions and Bibliography:

  1. Introduction. It will present the purpose of the research, its objectives, and define the research problem, its importance and the current situation of the topic to be studied. It will present the contributions of other relevant research and will emphasize those on which it is based to define the objectives and the research hypotheses, which will be clear and precise – unless it is exploratory research, without a history of previous similar research – and will be presented in a reasoned manner. Purpose, objectives, problem, importance, situation, contributions, hypothesis and justification.

  2. Method or methodology. The type of method followed will be explained and the choice and design of the methodological tool used will be explained. If necessary, the population and sample selected and the system chosen to have the analysis units will be indicated. There will be a reference to the instrument chosen to capture the sample, its rigor and scientific validity will be ensured and the reasons why it was chosen will be explained. If it is an original system, its characteristics will be explained. The variables will be well defined. Method, design, population, sample, analysis units, instrument, rigor, validity, reasoning and, where appropriate, explanation. The objective is to ensure the replicability of the study.

  3. Results and discussion. Presentation of the findings obtained, presented in a concise, brief, precise, orderly manner and they will be correctly presented in statistical terms if applicable. There are no citations here. Present the credibility of the findings. Analyze whether the results answer the research questions formulated, correlating the results with the hypotheses. Compare with other results of similar research. Authenticity of the results, internal validity, generalization of the data and possible limitations of the study.

  4. Conclusions. They are derived from the results and are a synthesis of these, prepared in a clear and brief manner. Recommendations for theory and professional practice will be drawn up, as well as suggestions for future research.

  5. Bibliographical references: There will be at least 20 bibliographical references. 70% of the references will be from the last ten years, except for those topics for which it is not advisable. At least 50% will be references to articles from academic university scientific journals, except if the topic is so original that there is no relevant scientific journal. Only bibliographical references that have been cited in the text of the article will be included.

7. Text
There will be no bold or underlined text. Italics will be used only when appropriate according to style rules. In any case, to name films, television series or titles of works and foreign words not admitted by the Royal Spanish Academy of Language. Paragraphs with a maximum of ten lines are recommended, without indentation. Authors must use the names, symbols and nomenclature that are standardized for each discipline or scientific area. Avoid double spaces.

8. Citations in the text
Citations exceeding 40 words will be in a separate paragraph, indented one tab space from the left, without quotation marks or italics. The way of citing within the text will follow the Harvard or parenthetical system in upper and lower case (Author, year: page). All cited works will be in the bibliographic section.

9. Bibliographic references.
They will comply with APA7 standards. They can be consulted at: https://apastyle.apa.org/. They are also summarized in the article template.

10. ables, graphs, illustrations, figures and images
They will be legible, editable, preferably prepared with Office – or in the original version of the application used – pasted in the corresponding place within the text, numbered consecutively independently, preceded by a title (descriptive, short, no more than one line) and referencing the source at the bottom. Links to videos can be included and a frame can be included as an illustration, linked.

11.Notes
Notes will appear in footnotes, although authors are requested to use this resource when strictly necessary (translations of quotes or similar).

For any other references not indicated, it is recommended to view a published article.

B) ESSAYS:

Essays may freely express the author's thoughts and his/her own analysis and interpretation of the subject under study. They must include quotes or references. The maximum length is 10,000 words. The content may be linked to reflections, comments, personal experiences or critical opinions, theoretical proposals, etc. Essays must develop the following basic structure (to which the author may add the epigraphs that he/she considers necessary):

  • Introduction
  • Development
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliographic references

C) REPORTS:

Reports will have a maximum length of 12,000 words. They will contain objective data from institutional research carried out within an administration.

D) REVIEWS:

Reviews of monographs and collective works of a scientific nature with themes related to the focus of the publication are accepted. The review template must be used.