Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all the elements shown below. Submissions that do not meet these guidelines will be returned to the authors:

  • Dear Author
    This Open Journal Systems platform is at your disposal, but we would appreciate it if you also send the file to the following email address: indtec.ca@gmail.com in Word format, indicating in the "subject" if it is an Article or an Essay.
  • As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify submission compliance with all of the following items:
    1. For the submission of manuscripts, it is required that all articles be original and unpublished and that they are not simultaneously submitted in other journals or editorial bodies until a final decision is made (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments for the editor).
    2. The submission file is in the format: Microsoft Word (* .doc, * .docx), OpenOffice (* .odt), or Rich Text Format (* .rtf).
    3. The template provided by Revista Scientific has been used to send the presentation (template for Articles; template for Essays).
    4. The manuscript has a Title in Arial font, twelve (12) point size; Centered; in normalized spelling (those in capital letters are not accepted) and bold (maximum 15 words). This must be concise, easy to understand and strictly correspond to what is presented in the Article.
    5. The name of the author or authors must appear justified on the right margin of the page. The following information must be included for each author, in full: names and surnames, institutional affiliation (without abbreviations), email (in lower case), geographic location (city, country) and ORCID registry (https://orcid.org/register).
    6. The abstract will have a maximum of 200 words (in Spanish and English).
    7. Keywords must be between three and five, separated using the punctuation and spelling sign, semicolon ";" and in lowercase, these can include short sentences that describe significant topics in the manuscript (using the terms of the UNESCO Thesaurus by area of knowledge).
    8. Use the Classification Code offered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which is an International Nomenclature for the fields of Science and Technology, as a knowledge classification system constituted in a tree Elementary ontological that allows managing the information of research and development projects. Enter the classification code (6 digits) and the corresponding classification identification. Example: 5802.04 - Education levels and topics.
    9. The manuscript will be sent in letter size, on one side only, the text will have 1.5 line spacing; the Arial font will be used, in a size of twelve (12) points; margins are used: 4 cm (top and left) and 3 cm (bottom and right) and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, instead of at the end.
    10. The sections of the article must be organized using the decimal system: Eg: 1. Introduction, 2. Theory and concepts, 2.1. Integrated system, 2.2. Theories of contingencies, 3. Methodology, etc.
    11. Expressions in a language other than Spanish must be presented in italics and must not exceed twenty-five (25) words in the entire article.
    12. When acronyms are used, the corresponding name must be written blank the first time it appears, followed by the acronym in parentheses.
    13. Citations and references meet the criteria established in the APA Standards for journal authors.
    14. Whenever possible, URLs will be provided for referrals. (The links or hyperlinks must work correctly and contain the aforementioned information).
    15. The author or authors must include at the end of the work a brief review of the author's professional career, which should not exceed 100 words, with a digitized photo in high definition * .PNG or *.JPG, on a white color card-like background, including: full names and surnames, email, city and country of birth.
    16. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guidelines, which appear in About the journal.
    17. The author has followed the instructions in the Ensuring Blind Peer Review section.
    18. Once you have made the necessary adjustments to your article or essay, proceed to send: the Letter of Originality, the Letter of Transfer of Rights filled out and signed, the Declaration of conflict of interest, of the author and co-author of the manuscript, the digital image of the national identity document (in color) and the document adapted to the Revista Scientific template, complying with the Author's Guidelines. (In the case of a Program or Project, the Program or Project Declaration Form must be filled out).
  • The journal does not charge authors for submitting articles, or for publishing them once accepted. Nor to readers for accessing its content.
  • I have read and accept the author's responsibilities that guarantee the ethical principles of scientific publication.
  • The author or authors declare not to violate any ethical issue (such as plagiarism or self-plagiarism, fictitious authorship, data manipulation, duplicate publication, fragmented publication or copying of third-party material without authorization).
  • All authors and their metadata will be included during the submission process. I also declare, as responsible for the presentation, that this document has no other authors. (No more authors can be added in the editing process).
    *The journal is not responsible for the authors omitted during the submission process.
  • It should be understood that, throughout the review process, it is prohibited for the contribution to go through a parallel review process in another journal.
  • Texts that do not meet the guidelines of these guidelines will be rejected without any academic evaluation. Authors will be notified of the reason for rejection, and they will be able to resend the text, once they have made the pertinent changes to adapt it to the terms of these guidelines.
  • Copyright notice
    The Author or authors, assign the publication rights to the Instituto Internacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico Educativo INDTEC, C.A., to reproduce, edit, publish, distribute and make said work available through intranets, internet or CD, without any limitation of form or time and with the express obligation to respect and mention the credit that corresponds to them in any use made of it. (The article cannot appear in any mass media without the express authorization of INDTEC).
    The authors agree to the terms of this Copyright Notice, which will apply to this submission as long as it is published by this journal (comments to the editor can be added below).