Editorial care

The Editorial Team reserves the right to make modifications to the text once it has been accepted; it also reserves the right to include articles for publication in the issue it deems most appropriate. The content of published articles is the responsibility of each author and does not represent the viewpoint of Diseminaciones.

Diseminaciones does not charge its authors for publishing, and its contents are fully accessible and usable.

Peer review

The Editorial Team reserves the right to directly reject works that do not comply with the instructions set out in the Author Guidelines.

All articles considered for publication in Diseminaciones undergo a review process whereby at least two specialists in the subject evaluate the works through a double-blind academic peer-review process (Evaluation Form). After this process, one of the Editors will inform the author, by means of a review report, of the acceptance (Accepted, Accepted with minor corrections, or Accepted with major corrections) or rejection of their work, as appropriate. A maximum period of 6 months is anticipated for this process. Should there be discrepancies between the reviewers' recommendations that result in a tie, the Editorial Team will request an additional review from another specialist in order to break the tie.

Once the author receives the review with the comments, they will have 4 weeks to submit the revised article in accordance with the instructions given. If this period is exceeded and the corrected manuscript has not been received, it will be assumed that the author withdraws from the editorial process. The revised version of the article submitted by the author must be accompanied by a document explicitly stating how the reviewers' comments have been addressed. This document, together with the new version of the article, will be sent back to the reviewers for evaluation, and they will indicate whether the article is ready to be published, whether it needs further corrections, or whether it must be rejected.

The decision to accept or reject submissions will be the responsibility of the editorial directors, based on and respecting the assessments made by the peer reviewers, as well as the suggestions of the Editorial Committee.

Reviews and interviews will be evaluated by the journal's Editorial Committee.

If the article or review is accepted, the author will receive a letter of acceptance confirming the issue of the journal and the tentative date scheduled for publication.

Open access policy

Diseminaciones is a semiannual, freely accessible publication under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); the total or partial reproduction of the contents and images is therefore authorized, provided that the complete source and the electronic address of the original publication are cited, that they are not used for commercial purposes, and that derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Diseminaciones is committed to the democratization of knowledge, promoting free and open access to publicly funded research through a digital platform in order to foster the global exchange of knowledge. It adheres to DORA.

Ethics and good-practice guidelines

Diseminaciones uses plagiarism-detection software for the contributions it receives. All texts received must be unpublished and must not be under simultaneous consideration in any other review or publication process; they will be processed through the anti-plagiarism software Turnitin. If the analysis returns more than 20% matches (not counting verbatim citations), the text will be subject to internal review. After this, articles and essays will be sent out for review.

In general terms, Diseminaciones adheres to the guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For further information, see https://publicationethics.org

Ethics for editors

Editors are responsible for coordinating the editorial process. They handle the receipt of texts, their review, copyediting, layout, editing, publication, and dissemination, ensuring at all times compliance with the Submission Guidelines, the editorial policies, and the publication dates. In addition, they must confirm that the publishable texts are relevant, of high quality, and pertinent to the journal's field of study.

Diseminaciones reaffirms its commitment to transparency at every stage of the editorial process. At Diseminaciones, manuscripts are evaluated objectively, without distinction of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, institutional affiliation, nationality, or any other personal characteristic of the person submitting a text.

Ethics for authors

Articles submitted for evaluation must be original and unpublished and must not be under simultaneous consideration in any other review or publication process. A manuscript will be considered not original if it exceeds 20% similarity with another published work.

Likewise, authors are solely responsible for what is expressed in their writings and guarantee that they contain no illegal material. They also undertake to ensure that any material obtained from other scientific research (their own or others') is correctly cited.

Authorship criteria. Only those who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the work should appear as authors: participating in its conception, design, analysis, or interpretation; drafting it or critically revising it; approving the final version; and assuming responsibility for its content. Those who collaborate without meeting these points will be acknowledged in the acknowledgments. Honorary authorship and ghost authorship are not accepted; any change in authorship after submission requires the written agreement of all parties involved.

Ethics for reviewers

By accepting the invitation to evaluate a manuscript, reviewers assume the obligation to maintain the confidentiality of the content of the assigned work. Manuscripts sent for review are confidential documents and must not be shown to or discussed with other experts without the authorization of Diseminaciones.

Reviewers must notify the journal, as soon as possible, whether they will evaluate the manuscript. If they are unable to carry out the review, they must delete all physical or digital copies of the file sent.

They must report any unethical conduct or anomaly detected during their review and justify any decision to reject objectively, avoiding personal criticism. It is crucial that they express their opinions clearly and with valid arguments. The decision must be accompanied by the manuscript-evaluation form automatically provided by Diseminaciones.

Privileged information obtained through the peer-review process must be kept confidential and not used for personal purposes. Reviewers must refrain from evaluating manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest.

Ethics for readers

Readers and users have free and open access to the content published in Diseminaciones. Citing, sharing, printing, and distributing the material is permitted, provided that it is clearly acknowledged that the work was originally published in the journal Diseminaciones. The material must not be used for commercial purposes.

Conflicts of interest

All parties in the editorial process —authors, editors, reviewers, and members of the Editorial Committee— must declare any conflict of interest (financial, professional, institutional, or personal) that could affect the objectivity of the process. Authors will declare the funding sources of their research and any relationship that could be perceived as a conflict. Editors or reviewers who notice a conflict regarding a manuscript will refrain from intervening and will notify the Editorial Team, which will reassign the task. The existence of a conflict is not grounds for rejection, but its deliberate omission constitutes a breach of publication ethics.

Research misconduct

Diseminaciones will address any allegation of misconduct —plagiarism, data or citation manipulation, improper authorship, duplicate or redundant publication, among others— in accordance with the COPE flowcharts and recommendations. The Editorial Team will investigate the case, give the author the opportunity to respond and, depending on the severity, may reject the manuscript, retract the article, notify the author's institution, and restrict future submissions.

Use of artificial intelligence (AI)

Diseminaciones recognizes the growing use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools and establishes the following conditions for their responsible and transparent use in the editorial process.

No generative language model (such as ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) may appear as an author. If the research team used AI tools as support for copyediting, translation, or data processing, this must be explicitly declared at the end of the manuscript. Authors assume full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and ethics of the final content.

Reviewers and editors must not enter manuscripts —or parts of them— into generative AI tools, for reasons of confidentiality, nor delegate to them the preparation of reviews or editorial decisions; any use of AI in the review process must be declared.

Corrections and retractions policy

Diseminaciones preserves the integrity of the scholarly record in accordance with COPE guidelines:

• Correction (erratum): for minor errors that do not affect results or conclusions; a note linked to the original article is published.
• Major correction: for errors that affect substantial parts without invalidating the work.
• Retraction: for proven misconduct (plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, duplicate publication) or errors that invalidate the results; a retraction note linked to the article is published, and the article remains accessible and clearly marked as retracted.

Requests for correction or retraction may be submitted by authors or third parties and will be evaluated by the Editorial Team.

Complaints and appeals policy

Authors who disagree with an editorial decision may appeal in writing to diseminaciones@uaq.mx, setting out their reasons in a reasoned manner. The appeal will be reviewed by the editorial directors, who may request a new review; their decision will be final. Any complaint about published content, the editorial process, or the conduct of the journal's staff may be addressed to the same email and will be handled promptly and confidentially, in accordance with COPE guidelines.

Data sharing and reproducibility policy

Diseminaciones promotes the transparency and reproducibility of research. Authors are encouraged to make available —in public repositories or as supplementary material— the data, corpora, and materials that support their results, except where ethical or legal restrictions exist (for example, personal data or the confidentiality of participants). Where applicable, authors will be invited to include a data-availability statement.

Funding

Diseminaciones is published and funded entirely by the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, through the Facultad de Lenguas y Letras. It receives no commercial funding and, in accordance with its non-commercial open-access model, applies no article processing charges (APCs) and no charges to authors or readers.

Self-archiving policy

Diseminaciones permits and encourages self-archiving. Authors may deposit the published version of their work in open-access institutional or subject repositories, provided that the original publication in the journal is acknowledged and the link to the article is included. This practice favors broad dissemination and the preservation of knowledge.

Metadata policy

Diseminaciones generates and manages standardized descriptive metadata for each article, in order to ensure its correct identification, retrieval, and interoperability. The metadata include, at least: authorship (with ORCID identifier where available), title, abstract, keywords, publication data (journal, volume, issue, dates, and pagination), persistent identifier (DOI), and ISSN. The journal, managed in Open Journal Systems, exposes its metadata through the OAI-PMH protocol and uses standard schemas (Dublin Core) to facilitate harvesting by indexes, databases, and aggregators.

Copyright notice

Authors who decide to publish in this journal accept the following terms:

• Diseminaciones uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); therefore, all works published in it are subject to the terms of that same license.
• Authors will grant the journal the right of first publication of their work.
• Authors may enter into other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work, provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
• Authors acknowledge that third parties may share their work under the same terms as those of the aforementioned License, provided that its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to disseminate their work via the Internet, which could lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work.

Privacy statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.