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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished. Attached to this submission is a note signed by all authors, stating that they are responsible for the content of the work and that it has not been published or sent simultaneously to any other scientific publication.
  • Submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF format and images are in JPG or PNG.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements explained in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

General Guidelines

Accepted languages to submit articles to this journal are Spanish, Portuguese or English. In all cases, an abstract and key words in English, Spanish and Portuguese must be included. The text must be in "DOC", "DOCX" or "RTF" format and must not exceed 25 pages A4 size (including References), with margins of 2.5 cm on each side, 12 point Times New Roman font with 1.5 spacing and continuous line numbering.

Articles must be original and unpublished. Attached to the submission must be a letter stating that the authors are responsible for the content of the work and that it has not been published or sent simultaneously to any other journal. The letter must be signed by all authors and contain complete postal address, telephone, fax and e-mail of the main author or the correspondence author.

Each author must express their personal contribution to the work in a note, which will go after the “Acknowledgments”. The taxpayer role taxonomy (CRT) must be applied.

The roles are: Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Research, Methodology, Project Management, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing.

Example 1: Contribution note: The author is responsible for: conceptualization, methodology, data curation, formal analysis, writing-original draft and writing-review and editing.

Example 2: Contribution note: All authors participated to an equal extent in all processes of conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, writing-original draft, and writing-review and editing.

Example 3: Contribution note: 1. Conceptualization, 2. Data curation, 3. Formal analysis, 4. Funding acquisition, 5. Research, 6. Methodology, 7. Project administration, 8. Writing-original draft.

Juan Luque has contributed in 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8. Andrés Nuñez has contributed in 1, 2 and 7. Francisco Segovia has contributed in 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

The description of the roles can be seen on the page: https://credit.niso.org/

Authors must check if the data referenced in their investigation is still available online. If it is, authors must indicate so by using the phrase “Data availability: The data set that supports the results of this study is available at…” If the data is not available use the phrase: “Data availability: the data set that supports the results of this study is not available.”

Authors must provide their ORCID identifier. If you do not have one, please register at https://orcid.org/.

The tables (the word Table must be used) must be placed at the end of the manuscript, each one at the beginning of a page and in editable text (not pasted as images), with the titles above them. The figures (charts, photographic images and drawings) shall be in jpg or png formats with a resolution of at least 600 px width, and submitted as separate files (one file per figure). The legends of the figures must be placed at the beginning of the page that follows the References section and before the tables. In the figures, when applicable, use black and white patterns (not colors). Tables and figures should be self-explanatory (they should be understood independently of the body of the manuscript). A maximum of five figures, in color or black and white, may be included.

Regardless of the author's request, the Editorial Board should classify the manuscripts received into: 1. Original article, 2. Technical note, 3. Review article.

Original Articles

It is a publication that describes original results that contain enough information for another researcher to evaluate the observations, repeat the experiments and check the conclusions. The text must express the scientific rigor of the work with logic, clarity, and precision, with a maximum length of 7500 words and will be supported by essential bibliographic citations. Only works whose results have not been previously published will be accepted, except in a preliminary format (e.g. abstracts at congresses, symposia or conferences).

Guide for authors - Original Articles

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Technical Notes

They are concise but complete works, which describe an investigation or report limited in length, or which results from the combination of a specific result seen in a different context with a novel interpretation. The first diagnoses or case reports can be included in this work category. Its content should be of sufficient interest to motivate its publication. The text, expressed in a logical, clear and concise manner, should not exceed 3500 words and will follow the same format as the Original Articles.

Review Articles

The review articles should cover topics related to the scope of the journal that are of current interest and will consist of a form of systematization of existing information on a topic and critical analysis of it by the authors. The text, expressed in a logical, clear and precise way, must be supported by recent international bibliography and have a maximum length of 9000 words. Authors should have proven research experience in the area of review knowledge. It may be submitted by the author(s) or at the invitation of the Editorial Board.

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