Submission process

To submit a manuscript to Doxa Comunicación, please follow these steps:

1. Registration on the Platform

    • Manuscript submissions are only accepted through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform of Doxa Comunicación: https://revistascientificas.uspceu.com/doxacomunicacion/about/submissions
    • If needed, you may consult the "Submission Guide".
    • Submissions sent via email will not be accepted. Registration and login on OJS are required to proceed.
    • If this is your first submission, you will need to create a user account on the platform. If you already have an account, please log in using your credentials.
    • Doxa Comunicación will not charge any fee for the application, processing, publication or reading of articles in the magazine. Doxa Comunicación does not charge APCs (Article Processing Charges).

2. Make the Submission

  • Once registered and logged in, select the “New Submission”
  • Please read the submission guidelines carefully.
  • Select the primary language for submission: English or Spanish.
  • Articles should be submitted to one of the following sections of the journal:
    • Miscellany of Scientific Articles and Essays
    • Monograph
    • Research Notes
    • Bibliographic Reviews
    • Doctoral thesis news

Refer to the style and editorial guidelines for each section here.

  • Works that do not conform to the Editorial Standards of the journal will be returned to their authors for modification before initiating the revision process.

3. Checklist

  • Ensure that you meet all the requirements on the submission checklist and tick the corresponding checkbox.

4. Submission Role

  • Select the "Author" role.

5. Privacy Consent

  • Check the box to give consent.

6. Metadata

    • Authors must complete all required submission metadata, uploading their institutional affiliation, institutional email, ORCID, and a CV of about 100-150 words in item 3 "Metadata" of the submission process.
    • The submitted manuscript will be a Microsoft Word format file (.doc/.docx), single-spaced; the font size and type will be Times New Roman font 12; italics will be used instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables will be inside the text in their corresponding place and not at the end of the text. The source of each table, graph, and chart will be indicated.
    • The manuscript must be sent anonymously, and as such, the author's personal data shall not be included in the manuscript. Any reference that allows for identification of authorship of the text will be omitted. However, the name of the author will not be replaced by the word "author," either in the citations or in the final bibliography, as it is understood that a well-cited reference does not have to be associated with the author of the text. In the document properties (see file-properties), digital fingerprints that might identify the author must be deleted. For more information on how to anonymize a document, click here.
    • Ensure that the bibliographic references only include works cited in the manuscript, formatted according to APA 7th edition guidelines. References should be included in the corresponding field of the manuscript metadata, separated by a carriage return for each reference. Include DOIs and web addresses when possible, and shorten URLs except for DOIs.
    • The metadata of the manuscript shall also be completed, including the type of research being submitted and the body that is funding the work (when available). The order of the authors (links "add contributors", section 3 "Metadata" of the submission process) will be the one that appears in the article.
    • In the case of co-authorship, the authors will decide before hand the order of the signatories, and they will indicate this to the journal. The individual participation of each author in the different headings will also be mentioned ( section 6. of the article, named "Contributions"), indicating the name and surname of the authors, with the possibility of several authors participating in the same task. More information: CRediT (Contributor Role Taxomony) https://www.niso.org/publications/z39104-2022-credit
    • Doxa Comunicación accepts a maximum of 4 authors in each manuscript.
    • Indicate all sources of funding for the research in item 3 of the metadata, concisely stating the funding agency and any identifying code or reference. This information will be included in the Acknowledgments section upon acceptance.
    • You can save your submission and retrieve it later, allowing for reviewing and corrections before final submission.
    • After uploading the manuscript, you will receive a confirmation notification on the platform indicating that your submission has been successfully received.

Papers shall be submitted to an anonymous external “double-blind peer review” system according to the procedure and criteria made public by the journal. More information: here

Doxa Comunicación will notify the authors of the editor’s decision, which will include the reasons that have led to the acceptance or rejection of the manuscripts, as well as the opinions issued by the reviewers.

Copyright Notice Authors

The authors will retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons License, Attribution-NonCommercial, International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means that the user is free to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon it under the following terms: Appropriate credit must be given (journal, author, URL/DOI), and it may not be used for commercial purposes.