Submissions

Author Guidelines

All the articles are published with a  Creative Commons License Deed.  Attribution Non--Commercial 4.0 International. The authors keep the copyright of their works and must be contacted directly if there is any commercial interest in the use of their works. Publication in IENCI is not remunerated by any kind of payment to the authors.

The author responsible for the submission represents all the co-authors of the work and when sending the article to the journal, guarantees that he/she has the full permission of all the co-authors to do so. In the same way, he/she provides an assurance that the author does not infringe authors´rights and that there is no sign of plagiarism in the work. The journal is not responsible for any opinions that are expressed.

Articles of any kind of theoretical or methodological orientation are considered for assessment, provided that they address some aspect of the teaching/learning of the sciences and that there is an understanding that they are original and are not being submitted for publication in other journals. Works are appraised that are written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. We request the authors to pay special attention to the focus and scope of IENCI outlined in this link: focus and scope.

Submission of articles for publication in the IENCI must only be carried out on the page of the journal with the  Online Submissions Form. All correspondence related to submissions must also be conducted at this page of the journal.

The editors do not recommend publications with more than three authors. If this occurs, reaching the maximum limit of five, a separate document must be submitted with a justification and clarification regarding each author's contribution to the work.

There is no limit to the maximum number of pages for publication but if the editors or referees deem that the article is excessively long, they can request it to be shortened.

The submission of articles to IENCI must strictly adhere to the following conditions:

• the article must be unpublished and not have been submitted to other journals;
• articles are accepted in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• the article must include a title, abstract and at least five keywords in the original language. If written in Portuguese or Spanish, there should also be a translation into English of the title, Abstract and keywords. If it is written in English, it should include an English version of the title, Abstract and keywords.
• The text of the article should be sent anonymously which means withholding the name of the authors and any information about them, such as the academic institution they belong to, addresses, bibliographical citations, acknowledgments references (i.e quotations from their own work) and other allusions that might reveal the identity of the authors. If the article is accepted for publication, a complete version of the work will be requested, together with all the information that has been withheld.

With regard to the formatting:

Authors must use one of the available electronic templates, which are already formatted according to the specifications for each type of article. Guidelines on content and formatting are provided within each template file.

Authors are required to select the appropriate template based on the type of article being submitted:

1. Empirical Research (IENCI_template_PQEmp.docx)

2. Literature Review (IENCI_template_RevLit.docx)

3. Theoretical Article (IENCI_template_ArtTeor.docx)

4. Critical Contribution (IENCI_template_ContCrit.docx)

In the full version—submitted after the article is accepted for publication—authors must include their names, contact information, and institutional affiliation, as well as all other details omitted from the anonymous version. The structure and formatting of the article’s front matter must follow the corresponding template as indicated above.