ABE - Innovación Educativa en la Edificación / Advances in Building Education is a three-times-a-year online research journal about Educational Innovation in Technical Degrees in the scope of Building, Architecture, Engineering and Construction.
Guidelines for Authors
ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) does not charge authors for processing or publishing an article and provides immediate Open Access to its content.
ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) is an “Open Access” online publication. Articles will be published in PDF format, and will be available free of charge to readers immediately after online publication, without any restriction at the following website: https://polired.upm.es/index.php/abe
Submission of manuscripts for evaluation and approval
Manuscripts should preferably be written in Spanish or English. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed first from a linguistic point of view. Manuscripts with a poor quality level in this aspect will be returned without being evaluated. Submission of a manuscript implies that all co-authors have approved and accepted the content of the submitted text, tables, graphical material and any other supplementary material provided. The contact author will be responsible for ensuring that all co-authors have correct information about the submitted manuscript.
All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter or a text that clearly indicates the original and unpublished nature of the content of the manuscript, and that it has not been sent simultaneously to another publication for assessment. ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) subjects all manuscripts received to an originality verification process offered by Turnitin, LLC.
Preparation of manuscripts
To assist authors in the preparation of their manuscripts take a look at the document: information and guidelines for authors.
Likewise, as an aid to authors in the preparation of their manuscripts, there is a template that can be downloaded at: Template for authors
- Submission and acceptance: Papers submitted for publication in ABE (Advances in Building Education / Innovación Educativa en Edificación) must meet the requirements set out below. Non-compliant manuscripts will be returned.
- Originals: All originals received will be reviewed by two referees in accordance with criteria of scientific quality. Final decisions on the publication of manuscripts will be made by the Editorial Board based on the referee’s evaluations. Journal reviewing is double-blinded. Referee’s suggestions will be forwarded to the authors for amendment of their papers as appropriate. Only original manuscripts not previously be published in other journals will be accepted.
- Article structure: The paper should be divided into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be also numbered. Any section or subsection may be given a brief heading. Each article should consist of the following sections:
- Title: Paper titles should be explicit and precise and clearly reflect their content. They should be followed by the author´s(s’) name(s), surname(s), position(s), affiliation(s) as appropriate and date of submission and contact author email.
- Abstract: Articles are to be preceded by an abstract in English and Spanish (250 up to 300 words in each language), clearly indicating objectives, approach and conclusions.
- Between 4 to 7 keywords may be listed to define what the content of the paper is about.
- Highlights: Three to five result-oriented bullet points that provide readers with an at-a-glance overview of the main findings of your article. Each Highlight must be 85 characters or fewer, including spaces, and the Highlights together must clearly convey only the results of the study
- Wording and Presentation: The text should be worded as clearly and concisely as possible according to the information and guidelines for authors. Authors must submit their manuscripts in English or Spanish to the following e-mail address: abe.editor.edificacion@upm.es. You may choose to submit your manuscript as two single files to be used in the refereeing process both in PDF and Word document.
- References: References should be limited to publications directly related to the paper submitted. Lengthy comments on the publications cited should be avoided. A minimum of 15-20 bibliographic references should appear at the end of the text. At least 30% must be related to the last four years. References should be cited consecutively to the order in which they appear in the text, placing the order number in square brackets, according to the IEEE standard format. It will be necessary to detail the DOI of the cited documents that have it. Entries should use the following format:
Papers
[1] Martínez, M., Amante, B., Cadenato, A., Rodríguez, R. (2013). Una propuesta de evaluación de competencias genéricas en grados de Ingeniería. Revista de Docencia Universitaria, vol. 13, pp. 113-139.
[2] Costa, V.A., Arlego, M., Otero, M.R. (2014). Enseñanza del Cálculo Vectorial en la Universidad: propuesta de Recorridos de Estudio e Investigación. Revista de formación e innovación educativa universitaria, vol. 7 (1), pp. 20-40.
Books
[3] Montes, M.C. (2014). Innovación educativa en las enseñanzas técnicas: Vol. II. (ed.) Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha.
[4] Alonso, C., Gallego, D., Honey, P. (1994). Los Estilos de Aprendizaje: Procedimientos de diagnóstico y mejora. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero.
Web search
[5] Collado, ML, et al. Modelo pedagógico para la elaboración del proyecto fin de carrera aplicado al crédito europeo. Adaptación a la titulación de arquitecto técnico e ingeniero de edificación. En el espacio europeo de educación superior [Recurso electrónico]: una oportunidad para las enseñanzas técnicas: Zamora, 19, 20, 21 y 22 de junio de 2007: Actas del congreso. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2007. pp. 537-544. Fecha última consulta: 2 de febrero de 2017.
- Tables, figures and photographs. Tables and figures should be included with restraint. Each graph or figure must be numbered and cited in the text accordingly. The approximate position for figures in the text should be specified. Only photographs that are genuinely useful, reproductively clear and representative should be submitted. Figures and photographs must be provided in TIFF of JPEG format. Graphs will be presented in vector files (EPS or vector PDF) or TIFF format. Tables in Word or Excel. The photographs and figures must be designed so that they are visible when adjusting to the format of 8,8 cm (width of 2 columns) presenting a good contrast so that they do not lose quality with the reduction, to a minimum resolution of 300 pixels per inch (ppp). Tables, figures and photographs that do not belong to the author must cite the sources.
- Mathematical expressions and formulas: Must be inserted in the manuscript and in no case embedded as images. Maximum clarity and legibility should be pursued, using the notation that takes up the least possible space. Formulas are to be numbered in the text between square brackets in correlative order as cited.
Proofs: Authors will be provided galleys for proofing, which must be returned with any corrections, together with the original, within three days. No new material corrections will be allowed on proofs. proofs.
