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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 13-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • The submission uses the PNA template

Author Guidelines

The dates for manuscripts submissions established by the journal are:

- From January 15 to July 20

- From September 10 to December 15

In order to send a manuscript to PNA for review, please follow these instructions:

1. The study reported has to be on mathematics education. The study can be theoretical or empirical. It should not have been published previously in a research journal.

2. The manuscript can be written in either Spanish, English, or Portuguese. It should follow APA’s 7th edition publication guidelines.

3. The manuscript should not exceed 9,000 words, including summary, references, tables and appendices.

4. It should include, in English, Portuguese and Spanish: (a) title, (b) summary not exceeding 100 words, and (c) three to six keywords.

5. The file containing the manuscript should be sent in DOC or RTF format in a single text column.

6. Drawings, diagrams, graphs and images should be sent separately (in a folder not containing the manuscript file) in TIFF, JPG or PDF format with at least 300 ppi resolution. The manuscript's file should indicate the location of each file in the text flow.

7. A second blind version of the manuscript should be sent without the authors’ names and no information that might allow to identify them (e.g., affiliation, cites, references, acknowledgements, information about the research project). In this version, you should replace self cites and references by “Author, year” or “Author et al., year”. The name of the journal or the title of the edited book where self-references are published should be removed.

8. Authors information should be provided in a separate file (name, affiliation, email, address, telephone and fax number). This file should include a brief (three sentences) biographic information of each author.

9. Authors should suggest three possible reviewers for the manuscript.

10. Authors should possess the manuscript’s copyright and obtain the rights of other authors’ material included in the manuscript.

11. If there is more than one author, a corresponding author should be designated. The corresponding author will be in charge of all the communication with PNA.

12. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication, PNA will ask the corresponding author to sign a letter transferring the manuscript's copyright to PNA. No changes (addition or elimination) in the authorship are allowed.

13. PNA does not charge any cost for receiving manuscripts, nor for its publication.

14. PNA is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author if the comply with the conditions of a Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative license. This is in accordance with the BOAI and DOAJ definition of open access.

15. In the same volume (four annual issues), no more than two manuscripts by the same author will be published.

More detailed guidelines are given in the following template to format the manuscript (Link to Template in English)

PROCESS OF SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS ON OJS

1. Once registered in the platform in the main window click on [New Submission]

2. In the "1. Start" tab, check the sections of Submission Checklist and add comments to the editor if necessary. Once this step is done click on "Save and Continue"

3. In the "2. Upload submission" tab upload the different documents. In the option "Article text" include the blinded manuscript for review process. The other sections can be freely used to upload the original manuscript, images, personal details and a brief biography of the authors, and the suggestion of three reviewers. Once this step is done click on "Save and Continue"

4. In the "3. Enter metadata" tab, the authors' data, title, abstract (English/Spanish), keywords and references must be filled in. All other sections are optional. Once this step is done click on "Save and Continue"

5. Once this step is completed, the submission will be confirmed by clicking on "Finish Submission"

Any doubt or incidence will be communicated to the email either pna@ugr.es or joseanfplaza@ugr.es

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