Submissions

Author Guidelines

RULES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO THE JOURNAL

1. The works must deal with interdisciplinary and multi-thematic research, which may be theoretical or empirical studies of sectors/cases of a local, regional and international order. The authors must guarantee that the works presented are unpublished and are not postulated in other journals, if the case arises, the author may be sanctioned with non-publication indefinitely in the journal.
2. The works proposed for publication are submitted to an initial evaluation by the Editor and the Editorial Committee, after approval by the aforementioned instance, who corroborate the correspondence with the area of ​​knowledge of the journal, evidence of plagiarism and compliance with the formal aspects of the journal, established in the rules for authors; Referees are assigned, for which the Editorial Committee reserves the right to publish articles that meet the publication criteria established in the Journal.

2.1 In the same way, the works that pass said evaluation will be arbitrated by specialists in the area of ​​knowledge, specifically through the method of double "blind pairs" (the authors do not know the identity of the expert evaluators, nor do they know the identity of the authors). However, in order to be published, they must obtain two positive evaluations of the same, even when they present slight corrections, which, if any, must be corrected by the author or authors within the indicated period.

2.2 The estimated time to complete this process is 3 weeks, which may be extended if the evaluating experts request an extension of the period indicated for the respective process.

2.3 If the work submitted to arbitration is rejected, a third evaluator is appointed, and its results will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee, in order to establish whether or not acceptance is appropriate. The rejected cases will be returned to the authors with the corresponding verdict.

2.4 The selection of the expert evaluators will be made based on their expertise in the subject, in addition to being an active researcher in the line to which the contribution submitted for its possible publication is assigned.

Based on the information provided by the expert evaluators, the editorial committee makes the decision to publish or not the manuscript submitted to the respective arbitration.

3. Likewise, the 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.

To do this, the interested party must comply with the following steps:

3.1 Fill in the registration data of the author who is going to send the manuscript.

3.2 Select section of the journal, language of submission and enter comments for the editor, in case you want to highlight a specific aspect.

3.3 Upload the article.

3.4 Enter the metadata of the authors (name, surname, email, institution, country, biographical summary) and of the article (title, abstract, keywords, collaborating organizations and references)

3.5 Upload supplemental files such as research tools, datasets that meet the terms established by the research ethics review, sources otherwise not available to readers, figures and tables, if any.

3.6 Confirm 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 correction(s) required by the referee(s) if 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 journal 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 is the privileged means of communication with the authors.
6. The works 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 Times New Roman font of 12 points, single line spacing, on one side only, with the following margins: Left four (4) centimeters, top, lower and right three (3) centimeters. Longer papers 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 number 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 placed at the bottom of the page. Mathematical symbols and formulas must be executed with the respective function in the text editor or support program. The graphs, 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, maintaining 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 indicated, that the spelling of the names of the authors corresponds and that the dates given in the text are the same as those contained in the references. Avoid quotes from unreliable sources, especially in the cases of the Internet, any reference to communications and private documents of limited diffusion, not universally accessible. It must contain at least 35 references with greater emphasis on scientific articles published in Redalyc, Scielo, Scopus, Latindex and books. The citations will be in the traditional format Surnames (year, p.) removing the number of pages for cases of paraphrasing or use of the idea, in the case of documents from organizations, the name of the organization or institution (year) is cited, in case of having more than two authors, the word et al. must be added, before the year (only in the citations, since in the references it must appear complete). If the citation is textual, of more than 40 words, it must be separated into a 1-space block with an indentation of 5 spaces between the right and left margins.
10. Similarly, bibliographical 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, format to be used Likewise in dating.
11. To reference different types of documents, the following order must be followed:

BOOKS: Surnames, 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: Surnames, initial of the name. Year of publication in parentheses. Chapter title. In Surnames and names of authors/compilers. Title of the book or compilation in bold. Editorial. Country.

PERIODIC MAGAZINES: Surnames, name initial. Year in parentheses. Title. Name of the journal in bold. Volume, number, country and pages of the article (pp. XX-XX).

LAWS, REGULATIONS AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS: Enacting bodies. Year in parentheses. Title. Official Gazette. Country.