Author Guidelines

Manuscript Submission

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) editorial platform of the journal Llimpi.

Since user registration is restricted, authors who wish to submit a manuscript must request the creation of their account by writing to:

luis.alfaro@unh.edu.pe

and providing the following information:

• Full name

• Email address

• Institutional affiliation

• ORCID

• Journal: Llimpi

Once the account has been created, the access credentials will be sent to the author so that the manuscript can be submitted through the OJS system.

The manuscript must be prepared using the official journal template.

📄 Article template:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m8w0exkclRkds64zHJ5-Qq2pnCqB_NGP/view

Documents to be Submitted

During the submission process in the OJS system, authors must upload the following documents:

• Cover letter, addressed to the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Llimpi, requesting the evaluation of the manuscript for possible publication.

• Signed declaration form by all authors, stating that the submitted article is original, is the intellectual property of the authors, and has not been previously published or submitted for evaluation to another journal.

📄 Document templates:

• Cover letter template

• Author declaration form

Article Types

Manuscripts submitted to the journal must correspond to one of the following categories:

• Research Article

• Short Communication

• Review Article

• Letter to the Editor

Manuscript Structure

Research Articles

Research articles must follow the structure below:

• Title Page

• Funding and Conflict of Interest Declaration Page

• Abstract (in the original language: Spanish or Portuguese) + Keywords

• Summary (in English) + Keywords

• Introduction

• Materials and Methods

• Results

• Discussion

• References

• Tables, graphs, and figures

The total length of the article, including references, must not exceed 14 pages, excluding tables, graphs, and figures.

The abstract and summary must be presented on separate pages, written in a single paragraph, and must not exceed 250 words.

Authors must include 3 to 6 keywords after the abstract and summary.

Citations and references must follow the guidelines established in the American Psychological Association (APA) Manual.

A maximum of 10 tables, graphs, or figures will be accepted. These must be placed after the references section.

Short Communications

Short communications must follow the structure below:

• Title Page

• Funding and Conflict of Interest Declaration Page

• Abstract (in the original language: Spanish or Portuguese)

• Summary (in English)

• Introduction

• Content

• Discussion

• References

The total length of the article, including references, must not exceed 10 pages.

The abstract and summary must be presented on separate pages and must not exceed 200 words.

Authors must include 3 to 6 keywords.

Citations and references must follow the guidelines established in the APA Manual.

A maximum of 6 tables, graphs, or figures will be accepted.

Review Articles

Review articles must follow the structure below:

• Title Page

• Funding and Conflict of Interest Declaration Page

• Abstract (in the original language: Spanish or Portuguese) + Keywords

• Summary (in English) + Keywords

• Content

• References

The total length of the article, including references, must not exceed 30 pages.

The abstract and summary must be presented on separate pages and must not exceed 250 words.

Authors must include 3 to 6 keywords.

Citations and references must follow the guidelines established in the APA Manual.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must follow the structure below:

• Letter

• References

The document must not exceed two pages.

A maximum of two tables, graphs, or figures will be accepted.

The maximum number of authors is five.

Citations and references must follow the APA Manual.

The maximum number of references allowed is 10.

Authorship Contribution Policy (CRediT)

In order to ensure transparency in the authorship process and to recognize the specific contributions of each individual involved in the development of manuscripts, the journal Llimpi adopts the CRediT Taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) as the international standard for reporting author contributions.

This policy aims to prevent unethical authorship practices (such as honorary authorship or unjustified omission of contributors) while recognizing the individual and collaborative work behind each publication.

What is the CRediT Taxonomy?

CRediT is a taxonomy developed to describe in a standardized way the roles performed by authors in the creation of a scientific article. It includes 14 contributor roles, and each author may fulfill one or more of them.

The CRediT roles include:

• Conceptualization

• Data Curation

• Formal Analysis

• Funding Acquisition

• Investigation

• Methodology

• Project Administration

• Resources

• Software

• Supervision

• Validation

• Visualization

• Writing – Original Draft

• Writing – Review & Editing

Metadata License

The metadata of all articles published in Llimpi. Revista Electrónica de Educación (such as title, abstract, keywords, author names, institutional affiliations, references, etc.) are distributed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license.

This means that anyone may freely use them, without restrictions, including for commercial purposes, in order to facilitate their dissemination, interoperability, and indexing in bibliographic systems and academic search engines.