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Originals reception

IROCAMM publishes mainly research papers, preferably presented in the IMRAD format (Introduction, Methodology, Research and Discussion of Results), as well as, occasionally, essays.

For each issue, a specific deadline will be set for the receipt of originals between 15 January and 1 June. This deadline will be announced with the call for papers for each issue.

Research articles related to commercial communication and advertising, distribution, as well as those related to the other two variables of the marketing mix and its environment: product and price are accepted. Texts with interdisciplinary, original approaches and innovative contributions that rigorously use the methodology of the field are particularly welcome. Both research papers and essays should not exceed 10,000 words, excluding bibliography, abstract, keywords and notes.

All articles submitted to IROCAMM must be original (at least in the language in which they are submitted) and not being evaluated by another publication. They will be sent through the Open Journal System platform of the IROCAMM journal, which can be accessed at the following address: https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/IROCAMM

The platform will guide you through the article submission process. If you have any questions or need further information, please contact us at info@irocamm.com

The contents of IROCAMM are published under the CreativeCommons "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0" licence. For more information on this, see: http://creativecommons.org/


 


 

Guidelines for authors

Research articles, essays and book reviews related to commercial communication and advertising, distribution, as well as those related to the other two variables of the marketing mix and its environment, product and price, are accepted. Texts with interdisciplinary, original approaches and innovative contributions that rigorously use the methodology of the field are particularly welcome. The length should not exceed 10,000 words, excluding bibliography, abstract, keywords and notes.

The following structure shall be observed (to facilitate authors' working schema, those who wish to have a basis for this structure can use the template - (download here):

 

RESEARCH ARTICLES:

  1. Title: In the original language of the article and, in any case, in Spanish and English. Texts in French, Portuguese and Italian will be also accepted. Only two levels of titles duly specified, in high and low will be admitted. Brief, clear, precise, informative, without questions or interjections, in a single sentence if possible, without quotation marks, without end point.

  2. Authors:
    1. Academic degree: PhD., Degree, Lic., Mgter.
    2. Academic situation: Professor (Professor, Holder, University School Holder, Doctor, Associate, Assistant, Doctoral Assistant), Researcher, Scholarship holder, Doctoral candidate.
    3. Full name and SURNAME. It is recommended to include the signature of ORCID (http://orcid.org/0000-0xxx-xxxx-xxxx).
    4. Institutional affiliation in full text and also in acronyms. Department. Faculty. University. Country. Postal address, postal code, town, province, country, telephone, fax.
    5. Institutional email, preferably.

  3. Abstract: In the original language and in any case, English (Portuguese or French, following the same percentages), with an extension between 150 and 200 words. In a single paragraph. It should contain the following information (all): context of the proposal, method, main findings, limitations and original contribution of the text. It will be followed by an abstract, which will be the translation of the abstract into English (in case the language of the text is not English).

  4. Keywords and keywords: Maximum 6, expressed in the original language and, in any case, in Spanish and English. Portuguese, French or Italian shall, in any case, be additional. Sorted alphabetically and separated by ';'. They will be frequently used, well chosen, specific terms. The keywords will then follow, which will be the English translation of the words (in case the original language of the text is not English).

  5. Acknowledgements or sources of funding: thanks may be expressed to the persons deserving recognition for the collaboration provided or to the sources of funding if it is not the university itself (indicating call for proposals, year of commencement and end, original title of the research and reference).

  6. Article structure: following the formula (IMRD): Introduction + Methodology + Results + Discussion/Conclusions (+ Bibliography): 

    1. Introduction: It will present the purpose of the research, its objectives, and define the research problem, its importance, and the current status of the topic under study. It shall set out the contributions of other relevant research and emphasise the contributions on which it is based in order to define the research objectives and hypotheses, which shall be clear and precise - unless it is exploratory research, with no previous history of similar research - and shall be presented in a reasoned manner. Purpose, objectives, problem, importance, situation, contributions, hypotheses and justification.
    2. Method or methodology: The type of method used and the choice and design of the methodological tool used shall be explained. If necessary, the population and sample selected and the system chosen for the units of analysis shall be indicated. There will be a reference to the instrument chosen to capture the sample, ensuring its rigour and scientific validity, and reasoning as to why it was chosen. If it is an original system, its characteristics shall be explained. The variables will be well defined. Method, design, population, sample, units of analysis, instrument, rigor, validity, reasoning and, where appropriate, explanation. The aim is to ensure the replicability of the study.
    3. Results: Presentation of the findings obtained, presented in a concise, concise, concise, precise and orderly manner and correctly presented in statistical terms if necessary. There are no appointments here. Expose the credibility of the findings.
    4. Discussion: Discuss the results and explain whether they answer the research questions asked, correlating the results with the hypotheses. The present is used verbally. Compare with other results of similar research. Authenticity of the results, internal validity, generalization of the data and possible limitations of the study.
    5. Conclusions: They are derived exclusively from the results and are a synthesis of the results in a clear and brief manner. Recommendations for professional theory and practice will be developed, as well as suggestions for future research.
    6. References (20-7-5-2): The bibliographic references will be at least 20. 70% of the references will be from the last 10 years, except for those topics that do not make it advisable. At least 50% shall be references to articles from university academic journals, except if the subject is so original that there is no relevant scientific hemerography. Up to 20% self-citation is accepted, with a maximum of 3 self-citations, for published texts only. Only bibliographical references that have been cited in the text of the article should be included. It is also recommended that previous work related to the subject and published in IROCAMM be cited. Also, if the topic requires it, part of the bibliography should be in English.

  7. Text: There will be no bold text or underlining. Italics shall be used only where appropriate in accordance with the rules of style. In any case, to name films, television series or titles of works and foreign titles not admitted by the SAR. We recommend paragraphs with a maximum of 10 lines, without indentation. Authors should use the names, symbols and nomenclature that are standardized for each discipline or scientific area. Avoid double spaces.

  8. Quotations in the text: Quotations that exceed 40 words should be placed in a separate paragraph, with indentation of a tab space on the left, without quotation marks or italics. The form of citation within the text will follow the Harvard or parentheses system in highs and lows (Author, year: page). All the works cited will be included in the bibliographic section.

  9. Bibliographic references: They shall comply with the APA standards (7th edition). Also available from http://www.apastyle.org/.

  10. Tables, graphs, illustrations, figures and images: They shall be legible, editable, drawn up with Office preferably - or in the original version of the application used - pasted in the corresponding place within the text, numbered sequentially independently, preceded by a title (descriptive, short, no more than one line) and referencing the font at the bottom. You can include links to videos and include a frame as an illustration, linked.

  11. Notes: Footnotes will be provided, although authors are requested to use this resource when strictly necessary (translations of quotations or similar).For what is not indicated it is recommended to view a published article.

The shipment will be made, in a first moment, through e-mail. As soon as we have developed a sending platform, the sending by mail will be replaced by this system. This application will ask for two original and novel contributions to be made to the text (for short reviews of the text during the dissemination phase on social networks) and two questions to be used on social and academic networks.

 

 

ESSAYS:

An essay is a text that freely expresses the thought of an author. The author analyses, interprets or evaluates an issue. It has the following characteristics: thematic freedom; personal style in writing; includes quotations or references; has no defined structure; the author chooses the order in which he develops his argument and is generally aimed at a wide audience. It has a preliminary, introductory or propaedeutic character. The maximum length is 10,000 words.

Its contents are very varied: reflections, comments, personal experiences or critical opinions, theoretical proposals in the absence of verification or proposals that do not stem from the application of the scientific method.

It develops the following contents:

  • Introduction: the subject to be dealt with and the approach from which it will be dealt with is explained.
  • Development: includes the author's ideas.
  • Conclusion: expresses the final contribution of the writer. It's the end of the trial.
  • Bibliographic references.

 

In the essay, the organization of ideas and their presentation is especially important in order to proceed from formal explanations to concrete evidence, from facts to conclusions. Two procedures are possible: to begin by showing examples and from them to deduce the general statements (inductive logic) or to begin by showing general statements that are documented throughout the trial by means of concrete examples (deductive logic).

Trials will be subject to the double-blind, anonymous review process.

 


 

 

Checklist for preparing submissions

 

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all the elements shown below. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

  1. Previous publication: The article/review has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted simultaneously to another journal or will it be submitted in the future (or an explanation has been provided in comments to the editor, in the submission process). By checking this box you acknowledge that you are aware of the journal ethical.

  2. Template: The text file of the article has been dumped in the format template provided by the journal in word (download here). The review has been dumped into the template for reviews (download here). In the template, the authorship data are not filled in. However, it is important to have entered the data of all co-authors in step 3 of this submission (introduction of metadata) so that, once the review process has been passed and before the text is published, this data can be added. By checking this box, you declare that you have followed these instructions.

  3. URL Style: The url has been linked when quoting web addresses and these have been shortened with google shortener. The active link to the DOI of the articles cited has been added, if any, with this format (http://dx.doi.org/10xxxxxxxxx). All the bibliographical references are cited in the text and all the citations appear in the correct format in the bibliographical references at the end of the text. An orthographic review has been done and double spaces have been eliminated. All illustrations, graphs, tables or figures appear with correlatively numbered headings within each type and contain the source. All these elements must be editable, if not send them additionally as an additional file. By checking this box you declare that you have followed these instructions.

  4. Anonymity: Make sure that the text you send as an attachment remains anonymous (you have already included the authors' personal details in the submission metadata and you do not need to include them again in the attachment. We will include them later in the layout phase, if applicable). Observe these indications (they will be given in the future). By ticking this box you declare that you have followed these instructions. So, check that the text you send as an attachment preserves your anonymity:
    • For Microsoft 2010 (Windows):
      • From the File menu, select "Prepare to Share".
      • Click the "Troubleshooting" icon.
      • Click the "Inspect Document" icon.
      • Uncheck all boxes except "Document Properties and Personal Information".
      • Run the Document Inspector, which will search the document properties and indicate if any document property fields contain any information.
      • If the Document Inspector finds information it will notify you and give you the option to "Delete All", which you will have to click on to delete all the document properties and personal information.

        By checking this box you are indicating that you have followed these instructions.

  5. Summary: The summary of the text is a key element for its optimal dissemination. The terms you include are converted into metadata which allows for search engine localization increasing the chances of citation. It is important that you ensure that the summary clearly contains these elements: objectives, methodology, main results and main conclusions. The abstract must be entirely in one block of text.

  6. Dissemination strategy: A document with information for designing posts, entries and Tweets in different social networks, if accepted, is attached to the submission as an additional file (complementary file). The dissemination strategy for published texts increases the likelihood that the article will be cited. To this end, the following is requested:

    > 2 original and novel contributions provided by the text (specify in a few lines the contributions of your text;
    > 2 questions (about the text, to be used in social and academic networks);
    > 1 royalty-free image or video related to the topic.
    By ticking this box you declare that you have followed these instructions.

  7. Language metadata: (Step 3 of the submission, select language, click on submit, complete title, abstract and keywords and save -at the end of the page-) Select Spanish again to verify that the data remains in both languages. Although when you select English the headings of the different sections are still in Spanish (this is a system defect), the English translation of the metadata that will appear in the English version of the journal is being saved. Do the same with your personal profile: complete it in Spanish and English with this procedure: My profile, edit, language, select English, click on submit, complete what is missing in English and save. This is essential.

  8. Personal profile: I have completed my personal profile in the system, I have completed my personal profile in the system, especially the ORCID, institution, research interests and brief cv or url to the profile in Google academic.

 

 

 

Authorship Criteria

Each author should have participated sufficiently in the paper to be responsible for appropriate portions of its content. One or more authors should assume responsibility for the overall integrity of the manuscript, from inception to publication.


  

 

Guidelines for reviewers

Arbitration system - External peer and anonymous evaluation.

 

The editorial board of IROCAMM, once it has verified that the article complies with the rules regarding style and content indicated in the guidelines for authors, will send the article to two anonymous expert reviewers outside the Editorial Board, within the specific field of research and architecture criticism, according to the double-blind model.

The evaluation will affect the interest of the article, its contribution to the knowledge of the topic, the novelties contributed, the correct relationships established, the critical judgment developed, the bibliographic references handled, its correct wording, etc., indicating recommendations, if any, for possible improvement.

Based on the reviewers' recommendations, the journal editor will communicate the reasoned outcome of the evaluation to the authors by e-mail at the address they used to send the article. The editor will inform the principal author of the outcome of the review (publication without changes; publication with minor corrections; publication with major corrections; publication with major corrections; not suitable for publication), as well as the reviewers' comments and observations.

If the manuscript has been accepted with modifications, the authors must resubmit a new version of the article, following the requests and suggestions of the external evaluators. If they so wish, authors may also submit a letter to the editorial board indicating the content of the amendments to the article. Articles with important corrections may be submitted to the Advisory Board to verify the validity of the author's modifications.

In view of the degree of compliance with the modifications requested, the Advisory Council will decide whether or not to publish the article. This decision will be communicated to the author by the editor of the journal.

The evaluation will affect the interest of the article, its contribution to the knowledge of the topic, the novelties contributed, the correct relationships established, the critical judgment developed, the bibliographic references handled, its correct wording, etc., indicating recommendations, if any, for possible improvement. Please specify in the comments and assessments.

You can find here a revision guide template.