Submissions

Author Guidelines

I. Texts

The International Journal of Public Relations (La Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas) publishes two issues per year and admits papers that include the results of investigations, studies and reviews; those with international focus would be especially appreciated. The original papers can be presented in any of the following languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese or French. Only those texts will be accepted that are unpublished in the field of the paper, neither are in the process of admission in any other media. The responsibility for fulfilling this requirement is assigned to the authors of papers.

However, in the event that papers are detected in which results are repeated, with content (in whole or in part) that is not original and/or which contain parts or fragments of previously published papers, the authors of such papers will not be allowed to submit manuscripts to the International Journal of Public Relations for a period of 5 years.

II. Editorial process

The International Journal of Public Relations (La Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas) will confirm the reception of texts submitted by the authors and will provide updated and periodic information on the process of admission or  lack of thereof, edition and publication.

The papers can be admitted to the journal throughout a year, without any time restrains regarded to any particular call for papers. In order to submit the paper to the journal the registration on the web page of the journal is demanded:  http://revistarelacionespublicas.uma.es/index.php/revrrpp. The text must be submitted via application available on this website. Simultaneously, there might be announced any extra calls for papers for particular editorial editions or monographies.  Only the papers sent via website application will be the subject of revision as all the communication with the author is proceed via this application.  The process of evaluation includes the anonymous peer review; in case of controversy a third and additional evaluator will be involved.

In all cases, the reviewers remain external in relation to a paper in question. Nevertheless, authors are allowed to suggest possible reviewers. The final decision regarding a paper submitted and evaluated will be announced in the period of maximum 4 weeks from its reception. The anonymous reviews will be sent to the authors. The papers accepted will be sent back to the authors for further correction in order to include the points highlighted in revision. Subsequently, the definitive text of papers must be restored to Redaction Committee of the journal, respecting the established periods with the objective of being published in the forthcoming issue. The originals must be submitted via platform of Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas: http://revistarelacionespublicas.uma.es/index.php/revrrpp.

Each proposal to be revised (research paper, study or book review) must always include two documents: the cover page (containing personal data and contact data of the authors as well as the address of the main author) and the principal document containing the main text without signature or any other reference to the authorship of the text.

We publish all articles with author’s ORCID code to promote author’s research. For this reason, all authors should have an ORCID identifier (free of charge) and provide this number in the journal platform. More information in http://orcid.org/about/membership.

The International Journal of Public Relations reserves the right to make and / or apply appropriate editorial changes.

III. Information on structure and presentation.

a) Presentation:

- The style norms are based in American Psychological Association (APA) Style, 7th edition.

- The texts must be redacted in Calibri, body font size 12, inter-line spacing 1, separation between paragraphs 10 points, align is justify, without tabs; the titles and subtitles of the article must be written in Cambria, in bold, font size 16, inter-line spacing 1.

- Footnotes in each page, Calibri, body font size 10, inter-line spacing 1, align is justify.

- All margins must be 2, 5 on the whole page (the lateral, the top and the bottom).

- Maximum length: 4000-6000 words for investigations and studies (including abstract, summary and references); 1000 words for book reviews.

- The documents must be submitted in Word (PC) format.

b) Structure:

- The title must always be redacted in two languages: Spanish/English, French/English, Portuguese/ English.

- The authorship of the paper cannot extend 3 authors per paper; the data regarding authors must include the following: name and surname, institution, affiliation and email; ORCID number.

- Abstract in two languages (Spanish/English, French/English, Portuguese/English or English/Spanish). Texts written entirely in Spanish, French or Portuguese should include an extended abstract in English between 500 and 700 words (Calibri, body font size 12, inter-line spacing 1). Texts written in English should include a 300 words abstract (also in Spanish) (Calibri, body font size 12, inter-line spacing 1). Paper length is 6000 words (including abstract, summary and references).

- The text will contain maximum 6 keywords always presented in two languages: Spanish/English, English/Spanish, French/English, Portuguese/English.

- The structure of the paper is recommended to be developed in the following epigraphs:

Summary (always redacted in two languages: English/Spanish for fully English texts. Spanish/English French/English, Portuguese/English for texts written in Spanish, French or Proguese)

1. INTRODUCTION
2. THEORETHICAL FRAMEWORK
3. METHODOLOGY
4. RESULTS
5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
6. REFERENCES. References employed in writing each article, which will be presented at the end of the article, follow the APA Style 7th edition.

- The footnotes will be situated at the foot of the page for greater legibility.

- Tables and illustrations must have short descriptive titles, be numbered correlatively and be situated within text. It must have a source. 

- Epigraphs will be numbered, down to the third level, with Arabic numerals, font size 12 (1. METHODOLOGY, 1.1. Sample, 1.2.1. Analysis).

Bookreviews 

Name of the book in Cambria 16 and data referring to author, year, city, publisher and pages in Cambria 14, all centred. The rest of the text follows the same rules as the articles, including details of the author of the review (name, institution, affiliation, email). An image of the cover of the book in question should be included.

In order to comply with the rules of the journal, it is recommended to download the templates for texts and bookreviews availabe at https://revistarelacionespublicas.uma.es/index.php/revrrpp/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/1

IV. Guidelines for quotations and references (according to APA Style 7th edition)

TEXTUAL QUOTATIONS

Each author is responsible for the correct application of the citation rules following the APA Style in its 7th edition (official version). 

a) Direct textual quotation with less than 40 words: it will be made within text and included between quotation marks, followed by the parenthetical system: “author's surname (year, p. XX)” or “(author's surname, year, p.XX)”.

b) Direct textual quotation containing more than 40 words: they will be placed separately with double space tab and included between quotation marks. At the end of quotation should be stated author´s surname, year of publication and the numbers of corresponding pages following the parenthetical system. The surname of author and year might be as well included at the beginning of quotation only if quotation is placed in the form of bloc and closed by information on year and page number. The author is entitled to choose freely in regards with the structure of the following elements of text: (author's surname, year, p.XX).

c) Indirect quotations: the author will paraphrase information from the original text and is obligated to apply his own terms. The reference to the author of original source must be made just as year of publication, however excluding the information on page numbers.  These quotations are situated within text and the references.

REFERENCES

Each author is responsible for the correct application of the rules for listing references following the APA Style in its 7th edition (official version). 

- Basic tutorial (official website): https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples