Review articles: Documents resulting from research that analyze, systematize and integrate the findings of published or unpublished research on a field of science or technology in order to account for progress and development trends. It is characterized by presenting a careful bibliographic review that contains at least 50 references.
In any case, the first page of the document must include the title of the article (in Spanish and English), the full names of the authors and the institutional link of each one, as well as the abstract and keywords of the article. It must also include, in a footnote, the postal address, the fixed telephone number (with international call sign) and the email address of the authors.
Arbitration process
All the manuscripts sent to Acta Colombiana de Psicología are evaluated by two national or international peers, external to the publishing institution, under the double blind modality. In case of disagreement in the concepts, a third evaluating peer will be assigned to settle disagreements, and this one will make observations and issue a concept in terms of: (a) Accepted for publication, (b) Pending publication or (c) It is not accepted for publication. In the same way, verification will be carried out from the journal, of the correspondence between citations and references, and of compliance with the required norm (https://editorial.ucatolica.edu.co/ojsucatolica/revistas_ucatolica/index.php/acta-colombiana-psicologia/about/editorialPolicies#peerReviewProcess).
If the article is Accepted for publication, the authors must comply with the delivery of the following documents: (a) a letter informing that the suggestions made by the evaluators, if any, were included; (b) the final versions of the article in Spanish and English languages (attach translation certificate); (c) the authorization format established by the journal for the reproduction of the text with the signatures of the authors; and (d) the authors identification data for the respective database of the journal (ORCID code, full names, contact information, academic background, H index, among others).
Time between reception and publication
The time elapsing between the reception of the article and the first concept of the arbitration process is four months; and the time between the reception of the article and the concept of acceptance for publication is approximately five months.
Submission and processing costs
The journal Acta Colombiana de Psicología does not cause economic charges to the authors for sending their articles or processing them.
Form of citation and bibliographical references
The list of works cited in the article must be presented in alphabetical order at the end of the document, complying with the international standards of the American Psychological Association (APA) (http://apastyle.apa.org/) and it must include all the necessary information to allow any reader to locate the cited documents in a text. The information must be accurate, as it appears in the original document. Additionally, it is important that the authors include the doi (Digital Object Identifier) or the access link on the web (retrieved from http: // ...) in each of the articles and web pages consulted.
Below are some examples of references of books and articles with one or several authors, among others. The general elements of a reference are: surname of the author, initial of the name, (year of publication), title of the work [in italics], (edition), city: editorial.
1. Examples of book references:
With a single author:
Brannon, L. (2001). Psicología de la salud. Madrid: Paraninfo.
With two authors:
Tanagho, E. A., & Mcaninch, J. W. (1997). Urología general de Smith. México: Manual Moderno.
With a new edition:
Deutsch, M., & Cook, S. W. (2003). Métodos de investigación en las relaciones sociales (3rd ed.). Madrid, España: Rialp.
With a corporate author (state institutions, scientists or associations, etc.):
American Psychological Association (APA). (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, D. C.: Author. [In this case, the author or editor is the same, the word Author is used for the publishing house]
Chapter within a book:
Massaro, D. (2001). Broadening the domain of the fuzzy logical model of perception. En H. L. Pick, Jr., P. van den Broek & D. C. Knill (Eds.). Cognition: Conceptual and methodological issues (pp. 23-34). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Translation of a book into Spanish:
Laplace, P. S. (1951). Un ensayo filosófico sobre las probabilidades. (F. W. Truscott & F. L. Emory, Transl.). Nueva York, N. Y.: Dover. [Original work published in1814].
2. Examples of references of periodicals
Article with a single author with continuous pagination:
Flórez, A. (2003). La sociedad del conocimiento. Perspectivas en Filosofía, 4, 34-40.
Article with two authors with separate pagination:
Rodríguez, L., & Meneses P. (2004). Visibilidad del conocimiento científico. Revista Latinoamericana y del Caribe dePsicología, 34(2), 12-30.
(In the previous case, both the volume and the issue number of the journal are included, since each publication lists its pages separately. The figure in parentheses"(2)" refers to the number of the publication and the figure in italics to the volume of the journal).
Journal article in press:
Zuckerman, M., &. Kieffer, S. C. (in press). Race differences in face-ism: Does facial prominence imply dominance? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Newspaper article:
Pérez, J. (2005, febrero 12). Indexación y factor de impacto. Diario Alerta, p. 27.
3. Examples of references of doctoral dissertations and master's thesis
Unpublished doctoral dissertation:
Wilfley, D. E. (1989). Interpersonal analysis of bulimia: Normal-weight and obese [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of Missouri, Columbia, EE. UU.
Unpublished master's thesis:
Almeida, D. M. (1990). Fathers´ participation in family work: Consequences for fathers´ stress and father-child relations [Unpublished master?s thesis]. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
4. Examples of references to electronic media
Electronic means refer to documents in electronic format, databases and computer programs. They are accessible both online and on computer media, such as discs, magnetic tapes, DVDs, CD-ROMs, among others.
Summary on CD-ROM:
Author, I. (date). Title of the article [CD-ROM]. Title of the journal, xx. xxx-xxx Summary source and retrieval number.
Meyer, A. S., & Bock, K. (1992). The tip-of the-tongue phenomenon: Blocking or partial activation? [CD ROM]. Memory & Cognition, 20, 715-726. Summary from: Silver Platter File: PsycLIT Identifier: 80-16351.
Computer program (software):
Bower, F. (2004). The Observer 4.0 [Computer Software]. Baltimore, M. D.: Author.
In these cases, italics are not used for the names of the programs.
5. Examples of references of electronic periodicals
A reference of a source by Internet contains, at least, the author of the page, the title or some information about the document, like the date of publication, the update and / or retrieval, and a uniform resource locator (Uniform Resource Locator [URL]).
Article in an Internet journal:
Fredrickson, B. L. (7 March, 2000). Cultivating positive emotions to optimize health and well-being. Prevention & Treatment, 3 Article 0001a. Retrieved from: http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volumen3/pre0030001a.html
The examples of the different models of online resources can be consulted at the address indicated above.
Quotations of references in the text
A document quotation is the text taken from another source to give theoretical and conceptual support to the document or article prepared, and allows the reader to know the source from which the information comes -located in the list of references at the end of the article-. The most usual types of quotations are the textual and the contextual ones -or paraphrasing-.
A quotation is textual when transcribing a literal text by another author or a previously published document. If it has less than 40 words, it is written in quotation marks in the paragraph that is being exposed. If the quote has 40 or more words, it is written in a new paragraph without quotes, as a new division. The entire paragraph is written with a five space indentation from the left margin and respecting the margin to the right, using the same line spacing used in the rest of the document. In the cases of textual quotation, the number or range of pages from which the quotation was taken must be included in the parenthetical reference, after the author's surname and the year of publication.
A quotation is contextual when a specific part of a document or its content is summarized; also, when a writing is paraphrased or a reference is made to an idea contained in another work. Quotations can be written in three ways, according to the following emphases:
