Submission

Submission Preparation Checklist

 

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

  • Editorial proposals must be unpublished.

  • When sending the article to the journal, legal and formal requirements are automatically accepted as well as terms for publication's evaluation and selection.

  • Reception of the manuscript does not compromise Transdisciplinary Science to its publication; only to its analysis under diagnosis, evaluation, and editorial policies.

  • The author commits to refraining from presenting the manuscript or any of its parts to other journals for as long as the decision and evaluation are taken about its content without prior editorial consent; this includes not participating in contests that affect the assessment process.

  • Text ethics to avoid plagiarism is something we insist on. Rights must be respected in citing texts and images adequately.

  • The maximum length of the manuscript will be 15 pages and a minimum of 12 pages for scientific, technological and reflection articles. For review articles, a maximum of 10 pages and a minimum of 8 pages will be accepted.

  • Font: Open Sans; font size: 11 points; space: simple; and alignment: justified. Margins: 2,5 cm.

  • Figures and Tables must be placed in the exact place after the citation. In addition, they should be of good quality. However, during the layout process, the necessary adjustments will be made for the best possible presentation of the final manuscript.

  • Sources for citations must meet high standards (indexed journal articles, chapters and books of recognized publishing houses).

  • Footnotes should be avoided. They should only be considered if absolutely necessary.

  • Italics should be used to mark the emphasis of a word or short phrase, to use an unfamiliar foreign word, etc. Quotation marks should not be used.

  • All pages should be numbered in the lower right-hand corner.

  • Cover letter: prepared by the author team, specifying the number and name of the authors, their affiliations, the title of the manuscript, the number of words, figures and tables, and a brief thematic description.

Author Guidelines

Authors should submit their articles structured according to the Editorial Policy and the Publisher's Manual of Style of the Editorial Instituto Antioqueño de Investigación. Below, you will find the most relevant guidelines for the submission of your manuscript.
 

Structure and form of the manuscript: the text should be submitted in A4 size word processor, single spaced, justified and in Opens Sans 11 font; it should not be indented or capitalized.
 

Length: the maximum accepted length will be 15 pages for research, reflection, review and translation articles, including tables, notes and figures. Preliminary results or case reports should be no longer than 10 pages. Letters to the editor and reviews should not exceed 3 pages. Other types of articles will be subject to the criteria of form and content that the Editorial Committee deems appropriate.
 

Authorship: Transdisciplinary Science recognizes as AUTHOR OF A MANUSCRIPT those who contribute, substantially or totally, in the following: 1) Planning and design, data acquisition, data analysis, and data interpretation; 2) Drafting and critical revision; 3) Approving opinion on the version to be published. (For more information, read the Code of Ethics of the Instituto Antioqueño de Investigación); 4) Those whose names appear on the manuscript prior to submission and refereeing allowing, during the process, change only in the order of the authors, but not the authors themselves. Minor contributions, not constitutive as authorship, can be recognized through a note. If there are two or more authors, they are responsible for setting their order and contribution in the manuscript. Principal author and the order of authorship credit must be reflected with accuracy the contributions of each one involved in the manuscript. The Editor in chief of Transdisciplinary Science can request to the authors of the manuscript the precise contributions they made.
 

Language: The authors must be to submit the paper in English if the authors send the paper in the Spanish language, the editorial team will do the peer review process too, however, if the manuscript is approved, the authors must be converted it to the English language (both languages for abstract english-spanish). If English is not your first language, consider having your manuscript professionally edited before you submit by someone with considerable English-language editorial experience. In addition, the Authors take full responsibility for the quality of the translated text.
 

Organization and sequence of the manuscript: for research, preliminary results, case reports and literature reviews papers, the organization will be as follows: introduction, method, results, discussion, conclusions and references. In letters to the editor and reviews it is advisable to include the Frame of reference section to adequately substantiate the author's opinion, or to allow comparisons with other publications. For all contributions, the first page will include the title of the work, name and surname of the authors with their academic titles, institutional affiliation, emails, city and country. On the same page write down the abstract, which should be between 120 and 150 words. The abstract should be precise and concise, and focus on the most important characteristics of the study. Empirical studies must describe the objective, methodological aspects and results. Also include keywords in a number of no less than three and no more than six; these words must be recognized in the Thesaurus of the manuscript area. On the following pages are the other sections that your manuscript should have according to the type you are sending to the journal. Citations and references must respect the Style Manual of the Editorial Instituto Antioqueño de Investigación.
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