Author Guidelines

AUTHOR´S INSTRUCTIONS 

Publishing policy
Items called for research journals of the Universidad La Gran Colombia Sectional Armenia, undergo evaluation by external academic national and international experts in thematic pairs, in the form of double-blind. 
This evaluation is required at time of sending the manuscript to two peer reviewers, the process involves pairs will be of equal or greater degree.

STEPS OF THE PEER REVIEW

PHASE 1: the article to peer evaluator, which will have a maximum of one month to submit its opinion of the work assessed is sent. 
STEP 2: Once the opinion sent by the peer reviewers proceeds to forward suggestions to the author, which will have a time of 25 days from the shipping date. 
STEP 3: When you receive a positive opinion and negative of the same work, is sent to a third pair and assessment by an editorial decision is taken.

Intellectual property By sending an article to UGCA Research Magazines, the author (s), certify that the manuscript has not been or will not be presented or published by any other scientific magazine. By sending this article for evaluation the author (s) equally accept that the Rights for publishing will  be transferred to the magazine for its release on printed or electronic version. For this purpose, a release form must be signed by    all the authors and sent to the magazine in PDF once the manuscript has been accepted for publishing after being arbitrated.

Author´s rights
The contents of the articles published in the magazine are exclusively responsibility of the authors and don’t necessary reflect the thought of the Magazine Publishing y/o Scientific Committee. Manuscripts can totally or partially be reproduced for readers by quoting the registered source on the bibliographic heading in each article.

The Journal is guided by the criteria established by Colciencias for articles to be published in any indexed magazine under eleven well defined types such as:
Scientific and technological research article: Document that presents in detail the results of finished research projects. The generally used structure contains four important parts: Introduction, methodology, results and conclusions.
Articles of reflection: Document presenting the results of a finished research from the author´s analytical, interpretative, or critical perspective in regard to a specific subject using original bibliographic sources.

Review article: Document presented as a result of a finished research where either published or unreleased research results are analyzed, systematized or integrated on a specific scientific or technological field with the purpose of reporting advances and tendencies for development. It is characterized by presenting a careful bibliographic revision; at least 50 references.
Short article. It’s a brief document presenting the original, preliminary or partial results of a scientific or technological research which requires a prompt diffusion.

Case study report. Document presenting the results of a case study regarding a particular situation with the purpose of diffusing technical or methodological experiences considered in a specific case. It includes a commented systematic revision of literature on analogous cases.
Theme’s revision. It´s a document presented as a result of the critical literature revision about a particular subject.

Letters to the editor. Critical, Analytical, interpretative points of view about the documents published in the magazine that according to the Publishing Committee criteria constitute an important contribution to the discussion on the subject by the referenced scientific community.

Magazine editorial. Document written by:  the editor, a member of the editorial committee or a research fellow, in regard to the orientation on the thematic domain of the Journal.

Translation. Translation of classical texts or current affairs, articles of research published in another language, transcriptions of historical documents or those of particular interest on the publishing magazine domain. A letter from the Author or the Rights Owner is required, authorizing the publication.

Document of reflection not derived from investigation. It´s a writing of academic character not derived from a research process, it must have the same characteristics as those of the reflective article.

Bibliographic review. It is a selective synthesis about a particular work which has been submitted to the control of academic pairs and it´s presented as a result of a research process. The purpose is to inform the reader about the characteristics and contribution of the work in reference, therefore it assess to highlight virtues or to prevent deficiencies. Moreover it interprets, suggests backgrounds and clarifies the author’s perspective. The magazine will prioritize for its publication, articles type 1, 2 and 3 (Articles as a result of research) as part of its indexing policy. Nevertheless other types of articles will be welcomed.

Publishing criteria: Articles must be submitted in digital word format, letter size paper, 3 centimeters margins each side, Arial font, 11 for body texts, 10 for bibliographic quotes format , 9 for footnote  quotes, single spacing. Articles must have an extension of 10 to 18 pages maximum, including graphs, images and bibliographic references.
Graphic materials: Figures and images must be properly quoted and included inside the article, moreover, they must be submitted in separated files, jpg format and a minimum resolution of 300dpi (points per inch).

STRUCTURE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES

Title: Title must be short (15 words maximum), specific, clear and it must make reference to the work of study or research findings.
Marginal note: The name of the project, name of the research group where the project emerged, must be input as a footnote quote of the title as well as the name of the educative institution supporting the project.
Title in english: Specify the name of the article in English to make the work visible allowing its incorporation in international bibliographic indexes and databases.

Author: The article´s author can be individual or corporate. In the second case, it´s preferable for authors to be displayed according to the importance of their contribution to the manuscript. The totality of the names must be footnote including the following information in reference to each author: Academic titles, current place of work, job position, research group they belong to, institutional e- mail address, institutional mailing address, city, Region, Country.
Abstract: Summary must be a synthesis of the whole article, (between 250 and 300 words) where objectives, methodology, important findings and conclusions are described. This part must be done in an analytical and not a descriptive way.

Key words: Authors must define 5 key words to help the article cross indexing. The words describe must describe the document´s content and must be written in alphabetical order. These descriptors should be as standardized as possible to guarantee the search in bibliographic databases.

Introduction: The introduction must be brief (laconic), in a way that serves to provide readers sufficient background.  The length of the introduction must not exceed1/4 of the whole article.Introduction must clarify the following aspects: In a continuous text without subtitles: 
• Nature and extent of the problem. What´s the importance of the study or research matter? What´s the relation with other studies or researches about the same subject? What limits were necessary to enforce in the research work?•Objectives of study: Specifically, what important information was expected to be obtained?

• Procedures used: Must be described in general terms, not in material details or methods that will be detailed later, the place where research was made and the time spent.

• Don´t break in the subject unexpectedly, present previous records in a convincing way.
Materials and methods: The validity of scientific research is founded in the certainty of the procedures used in the research and the accuracy and precision of observations made, therefore it´s indispensable to make a concise and complete description of materials and methods used in the research. The materials and methods segment is organized in 5 areas.

• Design: The type of research is described (Descriptive, explicative. or evaluative) or the experiment design (random, controlled, cases and controls, clinic essay, or prospective etc.)

• Population: It describes the universe, the framework, and how the selection was made.

• Environment: Indicates where the study has been made (hospital, neighborhood, commune, school)

• Interventions: Description of techniques, treatments, measurements, units, pilot test, machinery and technology.

• Statistical analysis: It highlights how statistic methods were used and how data has been analyzed.
The materials and methods section must be sufficiently detailed as per any other author can reply the study and verify the results independently.
Results: The table of content must include chapters and sub chapters numbered with Arabic numerals. It includes the tables and images which express in a clear way the results of the study made by the researcher.
Results must fulfill two functions:
• To express the results of described experiments in regard to materials and methods.

• To present the evidence supporting the results, either in images, tables or verbatim.
The first paragraph of the text must be used to summarize in a concise, clear direct sentence the main findings of the study. This segment must be written using verbs in past tense.
Discussion of the results: This segment is the core of the manuscript.Some suggestions may help its development:
• Begin the discussion with the answer to the introductory question, immediately followed by the supportive evidence for the results.

• Write this segment in present tense, (“This data indicates that”…) though the findings of the research work are considered scientific evidence.

• Bring to light the anomalous results instead of hiding them and make brief comments giving a coherent explanation or simply saying that this is what was found, though they are not going to be explained at the moment.

• Speculate and theorize with logic imagination. This can revive the readers ‘interest.• Include recommendations you think might be appropriate.

• Upon all, avoid making conclusion beyond the results allow, as much as those conclusions are less spectacular than expected or desired.
Conclusions: Conclusions are mandatory and must be clear. They must express the final balance of the research and application of knowledge. The dividing line between the discussion of results and conclusions is subtle. Some authors prefer to treat simultaneously “discussion and conclusions” although they are two different and separate topics. The discussion unfolds the bridge between results and conclusions.

Bibliographic quotes: They must be input between inverted commas, number 11 letters at the interior of the text if not exceed  40 words, in which case they must be out of the text, 1,27 left sangria, letter # 10 as it is presented in the following examples subtracted from the article “ A Cultural View” by Roberto Gil Montoya (Sophia 2012).

Quotes at the interior of the text (less than 40 words)
If a word with no memory exits, neither can memory without a glance. It allows its reading, verification and later its writing. The act of writing, according to Bolleme, becomes tension “because writing implies to measure oneself on facing an established lingo with the purpose of taking a place with own words” (Bolleme, 1990:206).

Quotes out of the text (more than 40 words)
Lewis understands his anthropologist work as that one of rapporteur and study (pretty close to the journalistic exercise) what he calls anthropology of poverty. Therefore he has cohabited with the object of study families and has kept the tone of his language and has respected their visions of the world.
Poverty becomes the dynamic factor affecting the participation in the sphere of national culture creating a subculture itself. One can talk about the culture of poverty though it holds its own modalities and distinctive social and psychological consequences for its members. It seems to me that poverty culture exceeds the limits of the regional, rural and urban, even the national. (Lewis, 1972: 16-17)

Bibliographic references: List of reading sources used for the construction of the article placed at the end in strict alphabetical order. All these references must be quoted inside the article (referenced) Examples:
References extracted from the book:
Bolléme, G. (1990). The town in writing. Cultural meanings of the “popular”. Mexico: Grijalbo.

References extracted from a Journal:
Vargas, L. (2006). “Reflections of Jose Manuel Arango about poetry”. En: Boletin Cultural y Bibliografico (XLIII):73 Bogotá: Banco de la Republica.
References extracted from Internet:
Ferrater, J. (2002).Philosophy Dictionary. Consulted the 2nd of April 2010. In: http://www.ferratermora.org/ency_filosofo.htmlFootnotes: Clarification written by the author at the lower edge to expand or complete an idea presented in the text.
Writing guidelines
Use of capital letters: The use of initial or sustained capital letters must be restricted to the necessary ones according to the spelling criteria indicating its use only in recognized cases by the normativity of Spanish language (as the beginning of the text, beginning of the paragraph, names, abbreviations, but never acronyms) and to reduce typographic alterations as much as possible.
Abbreviations, measure units and initials: Abbreviations and initials must be avoided except those of institutions or programs whose names appear repeatedly in the text; if this situation occurs, the full name must appear in the first quote followed by the correspondent abbreviation. The units of measure are those recommended by the International System of Units and they are not expressed in plural neither final dot quotation marks. In any case it must be avoided the invention of exclusive abbreviations to identify particulars elements out of the articles main idea.

ARTICLES PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS

Articles must be submitted by the author in digital format (Word) and adjusted to the structure and conditions of the article for this call, images must be jpg (if it applies) along with the following attaches duly completed in word (not PDF).
• Information form for authors and articles. (fill in) 1 per manuscript

• Research project information form.
Files must be exclusively submitted prior the call deadline established by Universidad la Gran Colombia Armenia Headquarters, within its timetable for bibliographic production to the following e mails.