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JOURNAL MESSAGE

 

Scope and editorial policy

 

Mission
"Disseminate scientific information produced through research from the psychological discipline, promoting the establishment of networks in all areas of psychology, with the purpose of generating changes in society."

Form and preparation of manuscripts

Type of desired documents

The Revista Investigación Psicológica (RIP) is a scientific journal, in which empirical, theoretical articles and original and unpublished bibliographic reviews are published.

Articles from all psychological approaches, areas of application, as well as articles from interdiscipline are accepted.

It generates two journals per year and preferably in Spanish.

Interest conflicts

The Revista Investigación Psicológica is a document that will avoid conflicts of interest so as not to affect the scientificity, the editorial process, the authors and the members of the portfolio of opinion leaders. It is recommended that the authors prevent any conflict of interest, and inform the responsible editor about any conflict of interest. According to the format of the APA (6ta. Edición. 2010). http://www.apa.org/about/index.aspx. y www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/pdf/GuiaRevMarzo2012APA6ta.Ed.pdf.

Procedure of editorial review until publication

 

The works will be subject to the evaluation of the members of the Internal and External Judges Portfolio and regulated by the Editorial Committee, which will consider the thematic relevance and the academic and formal contents. The referees will sanction the work in a "double blind" evaluation process and will use the following criteria: a) accepted, b) accepted with suggestions for changes and c) not accepted. These results will be notified in a period of approximately 2 months, after which the author will have about 10 days to make the changes. Upon completion of this process, the author will be notified of the final evaluation result, accepting or rejecting the submitted work.

 

The sending of any collaboration to the journal implies not only the acceptance of what is established in this document, but also the authorization to the Editorial Board of the Journal "Investigación Psicológica" to include in its portal, reprints, or another system that allows achieving greater and better dissemination. To do this, the author (s) must attach a signed letter "informed consent", where the copyright is transferred to the journal.

 

Format for empirical research articles

Title: The title must be in Spanish and English and it must not exceed 12 words, so it must be as short as possible and in relation to the content of the article.

 

Abstract: The abstract should be in Spanish (abstract), in English (abstract) and Portuguese (abstract). The summary should be 150 to 200 words. It should be clear and well written, it should not be a scheme, nor a list of topics, but an informative and indicative text that involves all the content of the scientific version, the methodology, the main result, some idea of discussion, main conclusion. At the end of the summary, 5 key words will be included, in alphabetical order in Spanish (Palabras clave), english (Key words) and portugués (Palavras chave).

 

Introduction: The introduction according to Leon and Montero (2003) should start by making a general description of the problem in a theoretical framework or literature review. The hypothesis should be presented in case of the existence of this, questions and objectives.

 

Method: The type of research design, techniques, instruments, population and procedure must appear in the method, which may be qualitative or quantitative.

 

Results: "In this section we present the abstract of the empirical evidence obtained" (León y Montero, 2003, p.405). These can be presented in tables, in text, and in tables and text. The results may be structured by themes or sub-chapters.

 

Discussion: It is the interpretation of the results, their scope and the relationship with other similar investigations.

 

Conclusions: The conclusions are the expression of the results and the empirical work carried out.

 

Bibliographical references: Only references that are mentioned in the text are included and must be in accordance with the aforementioned instructions.

 

Format for theoretical research articles

A theoretical article is the systematic, organized, coherent and well-argued analysis of a topic based on the results of empirical and / or theoretical research.

It is important for this type of article to make explicit the assumptions, sustain the arguments and clearly establish the conclusions.

 

Instructions to publish in the Psychological Research Journal

-The collaborators, is the authors, will accompany your article with a brief reference of the authors (as) at the foot of the page that contains: full names, institution of belonging, short curriculum (paragraph of 3 to 15 lines) and e-mail. In case of more than one author, the main author is the one who has worked the most, he should go to the top of the list and the others in alphabetical order. In case of thesis, the tutor must go to the end of the list.

-The texts will be delivered in simple format in Word and PDF (In the latter, any identification of the article should be deleted as self-citations, changing them by (author1) (Author2) and eliminate the author in ownership of the file) written in Arial font of 10 points, a single space for the body of work, 9 for abstracts and footers, 16 for title and 14 for name / s of the author / s. All titles must be numbered and capitalized. The works should be within the range of 15 to 25 A4 pages including text, tables, graphics, photographs and others. Percentage tables, graphs and / or photographs must not exceed 30% of the document.

-All the notes and references must be in accordance with the APA format according to the examples referred to below.

 

-The tables and graphics should be prepared in Excel, the photographs and any other visual element should be delivered as they are obtained from the program or the equipment used, clarifying the reference. 

 

-The list of bibliographical references should follow the alphabetical order (then between citations by the same author, list in chronological order); Magazines should be cited without abbreviations. It is recommended to follow the following examples recommended by Leonor Andrade (2008) and Diana Rubio (2010):

 

  1. Book

 

Benenzon, O. (1981). Manual de musicoterapia. Barcelona: Paidós.

 

     B. New edition book

 

Papalia, D., Wendkos, S., Duskin, R. (2010). Desarrollo Humano (11ª ed.). México: McGrawHill.

 

     C. Book (Editor [es], compiler [es]

 

Catalán, J. (Ed.). (2011). Psicología Educacional. Proponiendo rumbos, problemáticos y aportaciones. Universidad de la Serena. La Serena Chile

 

  1. Book chapter

 

Soria, V. (2010). Antecedentes de la Psicología Cultural. En P. Tintaya (Ed.), Psicología cultural (pp.31-48). La Paz: IIIPP.

 

  1. More than six authors

 

Park, J. Hoffman,L., Marquis, J.,Turnbull, A., Poston, D., Manna, H., et al. (2003). Toward assessing family outcomes of service delivery: validation of a family quality of life survey. Journal os Intellectual Disability Research. 47-367-384.

 

  1. Documents of the same author in the same year

 

Piaget, J. (1980a.) Adaptación vital y psicológica de la inteligencia: Selección orgánica y fenocopia: España. Siglo XXI

 

Piaget. (1980b.) Estructuralismo: España. Oikos-Tau

 

  1. Magazine articles

 

Peredo, R. (2013). Estado de la educación primaria en Bolivia en cifras e indicadores. Revista Investigación Psicológica, 9,9 - 26

 

  1. Electronic journal article

 

López, N. & Lora, M (2014). Algunas consecuencias en la subjetividad de migrantes bolivianos residentes en tres poblaciones de España. Revista Ajayu, 12, 1-20. Recuperado el 16 de junio de 2014, de http://www.ucb.edu.bo/Publicaciones/Ajayu/

 

  1. Another document retrieved from the internet

 

         Organización Panamericana de la Salud (2013) El Abordaje de los Determinantes Sociales de la Salud a través de Acciones Intersectoriales: Cinco Casos de Política Pública de México. Recuperado el 5 de abril de 2014, de http://www.paho.org/mex/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=329

 

  1. Article that is accepted by a journal but has not yet been published

 

Quisberth, M. (En prensa). Capacidad resiliente en niños y niñas de 9 a 12 años que pertenecen a familias monoparentales de la Unidad Educativa “General Esteban Arce”. Revista Investigación Psicológica.

 

  1. Doctoral thesis

 

Hellín, M. (2007). Motivación, autoconcepto físico, disciplina y orientación disposicional en estudiantes de educación física. Tesis Doctoral no publicada, Unidad de Investigación en Educación Física y Deportes, Universidad de Murcia, España

 

  1. Papers or communications at academic events

 

Guil, A. & Rivero, V. (2005, Julio). Women and men in European and Latin American Universities. Comunicación presentada en International/Council/of/Psychologists. 63rd. Annual Convention, Foz de Iguacu-Brazil. 

 

Submission of manuscripts

The shipping forms in msWord and PDF format:

Prof. Virna Rivero Herrera Ph.D © University of San Andres Bolivia

evrivero@umsa.bo

revistadepsicologia@umsa.bo






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