By submitting a text, the author agrees to sign the ethical declaration included in the journal's forms, in which he/she declares that it is an unpublished, original and relevant collaboration for his/her discipline. Letters can be sent to ediciones@cienciadigital.org . The texts will be received through the Ciencia Digital journal platform and must be identified with the full names, emails, Orcids and affiliation of the authors. Texts in Spanish, English and Portuguese are accepted. Authors who wish to send a text in another language must contact the editors.

The text file must be single-spaced, with three-centimeter margins, and must be the final version of the text. The length must fluctuate between 10 and 22 pages for all original articles, and between 3 and 10 pages for special communications and analysis and expert opinions. The first page must include the title and subtitle of the collaboration, the name of the author and the institution to which he belongs. All divisions or sections will be indicated with headers aligned to the left and separated from the text by a previous line and a subsequent line. Textual quotations of more than five lines will be transcribed in a separate paragraph, without modifying the general line spacing, and with a lower score. Footnotes will be composed in consecutively ordered Arabic numerals and placed after the punctuation marks.

An abstract of the article's content must be included in a maximum of 300 words, as well as a summary of the author's curriculum, not exceeding 120 words (with name, affiliation, email, lines of research and publications). It is also necessary to provide between 4 and 8 keywords for the identification of the content.

Uniformity criteria

The journal will maintain the following criteria in its text layout, layout and printing:

  • The text will be written in Times New Roman font, and its different design variations (italics, capital letters, bold, etc.).
  • Only original photos, graphics and images will be accepted. Those that have been scanned or copied from another text will not be accepted.
  • Images will be attached to the article individually in jpg format, at a resolution of 300 dpi.
  • Photographs must be of sufficient size to adequately show what is intended to be explained. Photos showing a commercial product or part of it without the respective authorization will not be included.
  • All tables, graphs, images or photographs that have not been cited in the text and that are not directly related to what was written will be eliminated.
  • Accepted graphics and photographs will always be printed in full color, and will maintain the same font type and size in their respective title and caption of the graphic or photo.
  • To name the authors of each work, the most relevant academic title will always be placed first, followed by the first and last name. Their main affiliation will be cited with a superscript number.
  • The correspondence address will be the email address of the main author and a contact telephone number.
  • The page numbering will always be continuous from one issue to the next, so that the annual volume remains consistent.
  • The journal, as such, has no page limit; however, depending on the decision of the Editorial Board for each issue, the number of pages may be reduced or increased.
  • All decisions made by the Editorial Board must be published in the next issue of the journal.

 

The estimated time of publication of the article will be approximately 6 months, considering the publication times of the volumes of the magazine (January, April, July, October). When uploading an article to the magazine's website, you will automatically receive a confirmation email of the submission of your publication.

Within 3 to 6 weeks, the manuscript will be answered whether it has been accepted for review or rejected (according to editorial standards).

The respective corrections of the peer reviews will be sent within a period of no more than 4 months. After verification and compliance with the requested changes and adhering to the editorial standards of the journal, the certificate of acceptance of its publication will be issued, which establishes the date and volume in which it will be published.