Editorial Management Procedure

Goal
Contributing to the dissemination of the scientific production of social communicators, both national and foreign, giving them greater visibility. Through indexing, the aim is to configure the journal as an important source of global consultation, aimed at students and professionals in the social and humanistic sciences.

Scope
It has a national and international scope due to its distribution and subject matter, and can be found in digital media (free access). The magazine is also a space open to the participation of undergraduate and postgraduate students, university professors, researchers, as well as professionals in the social and humanistic sciences interested in obtaining in-depth knowledge in the area of communication sciences.

Normative
The Statute of the San Martin de Porres University, in its corresponding regulations and rectoral resolution No. 000, the journal Correspondences & Analysis belonging to the Research Institute of the School of Communication Sciences of the San Martin de Porres University is created.

Responsible

• Editorial Committee
• scientific Comittee
• Editor
• Writing and style
• Editorial assistant

Requirements
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission complies with all of the elements shown below.

• Manuscripts must be original and unpublished articles, whose themes revolve around the areas of communication (and related) to communication sciences, in fields such as journalism, public relations, advertising and audiovisual communication.
• The manuscripts that are sent for publication can be: original articles , methodological articles , theoretical articles and

Regarding the shipping conditions

• Manuscripts must be sent to the OJS platform by attaching the corresponding files only in Word doc.docx format, strictly following the composition styles and the apa.
• The texts must have a minimum length of 15 (fifteen) pages, without exceeding 30 (thirty). The typographic features of the articles are as follows: The document format is A4, the font is Times New Roman, size 12; footer in Times New Roman size 10, single line spacing, 2.3 cm margins. and justified alignment.
• The names of radio and television programs will be enclosed in quotation marks.
• The names of guilds, associations, companies and corporations in general will not have quotation marks or italics.
• The use of bold, underline, or italics to emphasize a particular phrase, font, or expression is restricted.
• Bold will only appear in the sentences that make up the titles and subsections of the work.
• The use of italics is restricted to the titles of publications, names of media (newspapers, radios, television channels, electronic spaces), as well as foreign terms (Anglicisms, Gallicisms, among others).
• Citations and references should follow the model of the publication guidelines of the American Psychological Association (APA), (Seventh edition, 2020).
• The list of consulted sources must exceed 20 (twenty) titles.
• The received scientific articles will be subject to review, anonymously, by referees belonging to the Scientific Council and the Professional Committee of the journal Correspondences & Analysis.

Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to authors.

Editorial management process

• Editorial management is the first filter for evaluating manuscripts, where the Editorial Assistant receives the articles and refers them to the Editor, who evaluates the theoretical and methodological quality and subsequently authorizes the manuscript to go through Turnitin . If the result is negative, the article will be returned to the Main Editor; and if it is positive, it will be referred to the Scientific Committee who will evaluate the theme, form and relevance of the article.
• In the first instance, the manuscripts received are evaluated by the Scientific Council, considering the theme, form and relevance of the article (10 calendar days). If they do not meet the criteria required by the journal, they will not be able to continue with the editorial process. Instead, if they meet the requirements, the manuscript continues the evaluation process.
• In the second instance, the articles are sent to two external evaluators, considered experts on the subject, having a maximum of 30 days to submit their reports, using an article evaluation format . This evaluation work is carried out under the modality of pairs (double blind). The evaluators are sent the article without the identity of the authors or any other data that refers to them. In the event that there is no consistency between the evaluations, a third evaluation is carried out, following the same double-blind scheme. The evaluators will carry out their work under the criteria of confidentiality and impartiality.
• In the third instance, once the evaluation of the manuscript has been completed, the author receives a notification of the opinion of the peers, where the observations, comments and/or suggestions issued by them are indicated verbatim. This opinion is sent with one of the following notifications: a) approved, b) recommended with specific changes, c) conditioned or d) rejected. In those cases in which the article is approved with modifications, the author receives suggestions and comments made by the evaluators and has a maximum of 15 days (from the delivery of the evaluation) to make the adjustments and send the corrected version to the Editor. , attaching a report detailing the corrections made.
• The Editorial Committee verifies the incorporation of the changes and if it considers it pertinent, it sends the text again to the peer reviewer for their respective verification. The final decision on the publication of the article is subject to the agreement of the academic peer and the editorial committee regarding the inclusion of the modifications requested from the author. Finally, the article is reviewed by a style editor. Once the edition is done, the print proof of the article is sent to the author for his approval within the indicated period (10 days), specifying if there were any changes.
• In case of not agreeing with the evaluations, the authors can make the pertinent clarifications and justification and then send the text again to the peers for the final opinion. The journal reserves the right to edit the texts, without changing the meaning of the article.
• The content of the texts, tables, figures and images included in the material to be published are the sole responsibility of the authors. Likewise, the article does not necessarily reflect the thinking of the editorial committee. Acceptance does not imply immediate publication. The journal reserves the rights to publication dates.
• The designer will be in charge of the layout and layout of the magazine and will forward the template to the Editor for approval and subsequent printing in digital format to finally be referred to the Editorial Assistant for the publication of the magazine.