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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • For articles submitted in Spanish, included an abstract and keywords in English.

Update: Oct. 7th, 2020

Manuscripts must have a maximum length of 15 pages (including text, illustrations and references). Only manuscripts written in English or Spanish will be considered. They should be organized as follows: title page, abstract and keywords, introduction, material and method, results, discussion.

The manuscript must be presented in the following order:

Title page must include:

Title: Title of the article and subtitle if applicable

Identification of the author (s) as a mandatory element ORCID identifier can be include. If you don't have one follow the link.

Filiation of each of the authors, if they have more than one affiliation, they must be individualized with Arabic numbers. Following the scheme: Institution, (Faculty). Department. City, Country.

Email of all authors.

Corresponding author: identify only 1 author who will be the interlocutor with the journal and will speak on behalf of all the authors of the article.

Summary (structured): It should not exceed 300 words.

Keywords: indicate a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 10 keywords.

Text: organized in Introduction that includes research problem or question, motivation, input and objective, material and methods, results, discussion.

Tables: must be mentioned in the text and be numbered in order of appearance with Roman numerals. Each table must have an explanatory text.

Figures: must be mentioned in the text and be numbered in order of appearance with Arabic numerals. Each figure must have an explanatory text and must come in a high quality file.

Acknowledgments and / or fundings.

Ethics committees: research on human beings must have the approval of an ethics committee and this must be mentioned in the description of the work methodology.

The authors must declare eventual conflicts of interest.

References: The journal uses the rules of the modified CHICAGO system. Text references to literature should be arranged chronologically and placed in alphabetical order, by the authors' last name. All authors must appear in Bibliographic References. In the text, if there are more than two authors, "et al." Is placed after the name of the first, accompanied by the year of publication in parentheses, only in the first citation. When referring to more than one work by the same author, published in the same year, refer to: a, b, c, etc. Along with the year of publication in parentheses. The year must be repeated in each citation if the author had more than one mentioned work.

Whenever possible, include the article DOI or URL.

Follow these examples:

Articles

Hernández Guerrero, María José. «Presencia y utilización de la traducción en la prensa española». Meta 56, n.º 1 (2011): 101-118.

Feliu Albadalejo, Ángeles. «La publicidad institucional en la arena parlamentaria española». Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 66 (2011): 454-481. doi:10.4185/RLCS-66-2011-941-454-481.

Books

Duch, Lluís. Mito, interpretación y cultura. Barcelona: Herder, 1998.Segura, Santiago. Gramática latina. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2012.

Web

McDonald’s Corporation. «McDonald’s Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts». Acceso el 19 de julio de 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

Nomenclature: use metrical units of measure (International System of Units -SI-)

CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy

At the end of the manuscript add the contribution of each authors in the research and /or preparation of the article. More information HERE.

The roles of authorship will be identified in the order that appears below, including each author in the role that correspond, and omitting the roles that do not proceed in each case.
Authorship contribution
1. Conceps: xxxxxx
2. Data curation: xxxxxx
3. Analysis: xxxxxx
4. Acquisition of funds: xxxxxx
5. Research: xxxxxx
6. Methodology: xxxxxx
7. Project administration: xxxxxx
8. Resources: xxxxxx
9. Software: xxxxxx
10. Supervision: xxxxxx
11. Validation: xxxxxx
12. Display: xxxxxx
13. Writing - original draft: xxxxxx
14. Drafting - revision and editing: xxxxxx

• Concepts - Ideas; formulation or evolution of the objectives and general goals of the investigation.
• Data curation - Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), debug data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
• Analysis - Application of statistical, mathematical, computational or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Acquisition of funds - Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
• Investigation - Conducting an investigation and investigation process, specifically conducting the experiments, or collecting data / evidence.
• Methodology - Development or design of the methodology; modeling.
• Project administration - Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
• Resources - Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources or other analysis tools.
• Software - Programming, software development; computer program design; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; test existing code components.
• Supervision - Responsibility for supervision and leadership in planning and executing research activities, including external mentoring to the core team.
• Validation - Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replicability / reproduction of the results / experiments and other research products.
• Visualization - Preparation, creation and / or presentation of published work, specifically the visualization / presentation of data.
• Writing - original draft - Preparation, creation and / or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including the substantive translation).
• Drafting - revision and editing - Preparation, creation and / or presentation of the work published by the members of the original research group, specifically critical review, comment or revision - including the stages before or after publication.

The journal only publishes in electronic format. The journal does not send copies of articles by physical means to authors or readers.

The editorial committee reserves the right to omit authors or reduce their number in consideration of the type of research, previously informing the author.

Any questions, consult the Journal:scicomm@uautonoma.cl