Submissions

Ecos de la Academia accepts original, unpublished manuscripts relevant to the field of education and its interdisciplinary intersections. Submitted works must not have been previously published or be simultaneously under review, editing, or publication by another journal, publisher, editorial repository, or academic outlet.

Accepted manuscript types

Research article: presents original results derived from empirical, theoretical, methodological, or applied research.

Review article: analyses, systematises, and discusses relevant scholarly literature on a problem, field, or line of research.

Case study: rigorously examines an experience, phenomenon, institution, community, educational practice, or specific situation of academic value.

Short communication, technical note, or academic essay: develops brief reflective, methodological, or technical contributions supported by scholarly literature and relevant to the journal’s editorial scope.

Languages, title, abstract, and keywords

The journal accepts manuscripts in Spanish, English, Quichua, and Portuguese. All manuscripts must include a title, abstract, and keywords in Spanish and English. When the main language of the manuscript is Quichua or Portuguese, these elements must also be provided in the original language of the work.

The abstract must have a maximum length of 200 words, be written as a single paragraph, and be organised as a structured abstract using the internal labels: Objective:, Methodology:, Results:, and Conclusions:. The label Limitations: is optional when methodological or scope-related restrictions need to be specified.

General manuscript format

The manuscript must be submitted as an editable file and comply with the journal’s official manuscript template.

The text must maintain academic writing, argumentative coherence, accurate spelling, and a clear structure.

Tables, figures, charts, photographs, or appendices must be numbered, titled, and cited within the text.

Images, tables, datasets, or third-party materials must have appropriate authorisation for use or a compatible licence.

Citations and references must comply with APA style, 7th edition.

Authorship, contribution, and correspondence

Authors are individuals who have made a significant contribution to the research process, writing, review, and communication of results, in accordance with the roles recognised by the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT).

Authors must declare the specific role of each contributor in the Article Submission Letter.

Authors must register:

Standardised academic name, preferably matching the ORCID record.
Institutional email address or academic contact email.
Complete institutional affiliation, including city and country. Authors are encouraged to include a ROR identifier where available.
Current and verifiable ORCID iD.

The person who registers the manuscript on the platform will assume the role of corresponding author and will be responsible for communication with the editorial team throughout the process.

Originality, plagiarism, and editorial ethics

Authors must ensure that the manuscript is original, unpublished, and does not infringe copyright, intellectual property rights, image rights, privacy, or any other third-party rights.

The journal does not accept plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, unjustified fragmentation of results, citation manipulation, data fabrication, falsification of results, or misleading use of sources.

All manuscripts will be subject to editorial review, peer review, and verification using similarity detection tools. When irregularities are detected before publication, the manuscript may be rejected. If they are detected after publication, the journal may apply a correction, expression of concern, or retraction.

Mandatory manuscript statements

Where applicable, the manuscript must include the following statements:

Author contribution: description of each author’s CRediT roles.
Funding: identification of financial, institutional, or technical support.
Conflict of interest: declaration of financial, institutional, academic, employment-related, or personal relationships that may influence the work.
Ethical approval: name of the committee, institution, date, and protocol or approval number when required by the nature of the study.
Informed consent: statement applicable to research involving people, images, interviews, recordings, minors, vulnerable communities, or sensitive data.
Data availability: repository, link, DOI, persistent identifier, or reasonable conditions for accessing the data.
Use of artificial intelligence: tool used, purpose of use, and stage of the process in which it was employed, where applicable.

Use of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence cannot be credited as an author or co-author.

Any use of artificial intelligence tools must be subject to critical human supervision, information verification, and quality control by the authors. Substantial uses must be declared transparently and traceably.

Peer review

Manuscripts that pass the initial editorial review will be sent for double-blind peer review.

Authors must therefore upload an anonymised version of the manuscript without names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding information, file metadata, or other elements that may directly or indirectly identify the authors.

Copyright, licence, and no publication fees

Authors retain their copyright in perpetuity and grant Ecos de la Academia a non-exclusive, free-of-charge, worldwide licence for the publication, distribution, preservation, and dissemination of their articles.

Content published by the journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)licence.

This licence allows users to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given.

The journal is diamond open access and does not charge submission, review, editorial processing, editing, layout, or article publication fees.

Manuscript submission

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively through the journal’s OJS platform.

Before submission, authors must verify that the file complies with these guidelines, that the version intended for review has been anonymised, and that the required supplementary documents are attached.

For editorial enquiries: ecos@utn.edu.ec

All submissions to Ecos de la Academia must meet the following requirements before entering the editorial process:

The manuscript is original and unpublished, has not been previously published, and is not simultaneously under review, editing, or publication by another journal, publisher, or academic outlet.
The manuscript file is submitted in an editable format and complies with the journal’s template, structure, and author guidelines.
The text includes a title, abstract, and keywords in Spanish and English. The abstract is written as a single paragraph, has a maximum length of 200 words, and uses the labels: Objective:, Methodology:, Results:, and Conclusions:.
The version intended for peer review has been anonymised and does not contain names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding information, file metadata, or other elements that may directly or indirectly identify the authors.
All authors have approved the submission, the order of authorship, the submitted version, and their respective contributions to the manuscript.
The ORCID iD, email address, complete institutional affiliation, city, and country of each author are provided.
Citations and bibliographic references comply with APA style, 7th edition, and include a DOI or stable URL where available.
Tables, figures, charts, photographs, datasets, instruments, or other included materials have appropriate authorisation for use, a compatible licence, or the corresponding attribution.
Where applicable, the manuscript includes statements on author contributions, funding, conflicts of interest, ethical approval, informed consent, data availability, and the use of artificial intelligence.
Where artificial intelligence tools have been used, their use has been declared transparently, indicating the tool used, the purpose of its use, and the stage of the process in which it was employed.
The authors accept that the manuscript will be subject to editorial review, similarity checking, and double-blind peer review.
The authors accept that, if plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, data manipulation, undeclared use of artificial intelligence, or any other ethical irregularity is detected, the manuscript may be rejected or subject to the corresponding editorial measures.
Authors retain their copyright in perpetuity and agree to publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
The authors acknowledge that Ecos de la Academia is a diamond open-access journal and does not charge fees for submission, review, editorial processing, editing, layout, or article publication.

Authors who publish in Ecos de la Academia retain their copyright in perpetuity.

If the manuscript is accepted, the authors authorise Editorial UTN, through Ecos de la Academia, with the perpetual right of first publication and grant a non-exclusive, free-of-charge, worldwide licence to publish, distribute, preserve, index, and disseminate the article in print, digital, and electronic formats, without prejudice to the rights retained by the authors.

The published version will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)licence.

This licence permits users to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made are indicated where applicable.

Authors warrant that the manuscript is original and unpublished, does not infringe copyright, intellectual property rights, image rights, privacy, or other third-party rights, and that they have obtained the permissions, licences, or attributions required for any materials incorporated into the work.

The CC BY 4.0 licence applicable to the article does not automatically extend to third-party materials that are not covered by that licence.