Propositos y Representaciones, Journal of Educational Psychology as an international scientific journal is inspired by ethics standards according to COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://www.publicationethics.org).

EDITOR'S AND EDITORIAL BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES

- Anonymity: To ensure the confidentiality of authors' and reviewers' data in the review process, so that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the entire process.

- Evaluation: Define and make explicit the criteria for acceptance of manuscript for review.

- Conflicts of interest: Avoid favorable treatment of authors.

- Equality: Manuscript submitted for publication are evaluated based on the scientific merit of the content, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, political opinion of the authors.

- Authorization: Not to use the research content of articles submitted for publication without the author's consent.

- Objectivity: Establish clear and objective review criteria to avoid subjectivity of reviewers.

- Evaluation time: Editors are responsible for complying with time limits for reviews and publication of accepted articles, thus ensuring rapid dissemination of their results.

- Authenticity: Review suspected plagiarism incidents and resolve any conflicts of interest.

- Reviewers: Editors ensure the selection of the most qualified reviewers to issue an expert and critical appraisal of the manuscript.

AUTHOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES

- Originality and plagiarism: To ensure the originality of manuscripts verifying that they have not been published in another source. In addition, the authors confirm the veracity of the data, i.e., that the empirical data have not been altered to contrast the hypothesis.

- Authorship: Authors guarantee that the manuscript really belongs to people who sign it. The condition of author implies the active participation in the realization of presented article, in writing text and in revisions of the same one. At the same time, authors have been organized hierarchically according to their level of responsibility and their respective roles.

- Conflict of Interest and Disclosure: All authors must declare that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results, and authors must also indicate information about research funding and/or the project from which the article arises.

- Sources: Indicate the sources of information used and differentiate those that have been used directly from those that have been used indirectly. If the article is accepted, the authors must undertake to make the modifications within the stipulated period.

- Responsibility: All authors accept responsibility for their writing. Authors undertake to review the most up-to-date and relevant materials on the research topic.

REVIEWER'S RESPONSIBILITIES

- Contribution to editorial decision: Peer-review is a procedure that helps editors make decisions about proposed articles and allows the author to improve the contribution submitted for publication.

- Anonymity: Reviewers will not know authors and will not know identity of peer reviewer. In addition, texts should not be disclosed to others without the explicit permission of the publisher.

- Conflicts of interest: When a reviewer has a personal or financial opinion or interest that could affect the objectivity to his or her evaluation, he or she should refrain from participating in the editorial process.

- Objectivity: Reviewers are required to give adequate reasons for their judgments by submitting a full and critical report in accordance with the Purposes and Representations review protocol.

- Evaluation time: Reviewers undertake to evaluate the works in minimum time possible to respect the established deadlines and have the responsibility of notifying the editors in case of any inconvenience to deliver the evaluation on time.