Guidelines and requirements for manuscripts submitted to the journal

  1. The works must deal with interdisciplinary and multi-thematic research; these may be theoretical or empirical studies of sectors / cases of a local, regional and international order. Authors must guarantee that the papers presented are unpublished and have not been postulated in other journals; if the case arises, the author may be sanctioned with indefinite non-publication in the journal.
  2. The works are submitted to an initial evaluation by the Editor and the Editorial Committee, after approval the referees are assigned, for which the Editorial Committee reserves the right to publish articles that meet the established publication criteria. In the magazine. The papers that pass said evaluation will be refereed by specialists in the area of ​​knowledge, specifically through the "blind pairs" method. However, in order to be published, they must obtain two positive evaluations of it, even when they present slight corrections, which, if any, need to be corrected by the author (s) within the indicated period.
  3. Likewise, papers must be submitted through the submission system provided by the Open Journal System software, in which the journal is mounted, having previously registered as an author in the respective publication.
    For this, the interested party must comply with the following steps:
    1. Fill in the registration data of the author who is going to send the manuscript.
    2. Select the section of the journal, language of the submission and enter comments for the editor, in case you want to highlight a specific aspect.
    3. Upload the article.
    4. Enter the metadata of the authors (name, surname, email, institution, country, biographical summary) and of the article (title, abstract, keywords, collaborating organizations and references)
    5. Upload complementary files such as research tools, data sets that comply with the terms established by the ethical review of the research, sources that would not otherwise be available to readers, figures and tables, if any.
    6. Confirm the shipment.
  4. After the review of the respective expert evaluators (which should not exceed 3 weeks), the author or authors are informed of the necessary corrections required by the referees in case of being accepted. In the same way, they will communicate via the Web the acceptance or rejection of the article.
  5. It is important to consider that the magazine reserves the right to make minor style corrections. Similarly, during the editing process, the authors may be consulted by the editors to resolve some specific concerns. Throughout the evaluation process, as well as the editing process, email constitutes the privileged means of communication with the authors.
  6. The papers will be presented in English, Spanish or Portuguese. For contributions in languages other than English, the abstract must be additionally translated into English, with a length of two hundred and fifty (250) words; it must also contain between three (3) and five (5) keywords, which are also translated into English on the abstract page. The summary must contain: Objective, methodology, results and conclusions.
  7. The minimum accepted length of the work will be 10 pages and a maximum of 20, with a 12-point Times New Roman typeface, single spaced, on one side, with the following margins: Left four (4) centimeters, top, lower and right three (3) centimeters. Longer works may be accepted depending on their relevance and content.
  8. For the content: Identified abstract and unidentified abstract, Introduction, Body (which will depend on the type of research), Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion of results, Conclusions and Bibliographic References. It is important to list the sections and subsections, placing the titles in bold and aligned to the left with the title type format. If there are notes, they will be made at the bottom of the page. Math symbols and formulas must be executed with the respective function in the text editor or support program. Graphics, tables and images must have their title and source; if necessary they will be presented in additional files. They must be written in the third person singular (impersonal), have adequate punctuation and be free of spelling errors, keeping the balance in the structure of the paragraphs.
  9. Bibliographic references: cited in the text, they must appear in the list of references at the end of the work (and vice versa). Therefore, it is requested to carefully observe that all references are marked, that the spelling of the authors' names corresponds and the dates given in the text are the same as those contained in the references. Avoid citations from unreliable sources, especially in the case of the Internet, any reference to private communications and documents of limited diffusion, not universally accessible. Minimum must contain 35 references with greater emphasis on published scientific articles Scielo, Scopus and books. The citations will be in the traditional format Surname (year, p.), Removing the number of pages for cases of paraphrasing or use of the idea, in case of being documents of organizations, the name of the organization or institution (year) is cited, in If there are more than two authors, the word et al. must be added, before the year (only in citations, since it must appear complete in references). If the quotation is verbatim with more than 40 words, it must be separated in a 1-space block with an indentation of 5 spaces between the right and left margins.
  10. Similarly, bibliographic references must be written in alphabetical order by the last name of the (first) author and in French indentation. Multiple references of the same author (or identical group of authors) are ordered by year of publication, if the year of publication is also the same, differentiate them by writing a letter a, b, c…., After the year, the format to be used in the same way in the appointments.
  11. To reference different types of documents, the following order must be followed:
    BOOKS: Surname, initial of the name. Year of publication in parentheses. Title of the book in bold and the edition number in parentheses if necessary, publisher and country of publication.
    In case of being a book chapter or part of a compilation: Surname, initial of the name. Year of publication in parentheses. Chapter title. In Surnames and names of authors / compilers. Book or compilation title in bold. Editorial. Country.
    PERIODIC MAGAZINES: Surname, initial of the name. Year in parentheses. Qualification. Magazine name in bold. Volume, number, country and pages of the article (pp. XX-XX).
    LAWS, REGULATIONS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: Enacting bodies. Year in parentheses. Qualification. Official Gazette. Country.