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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be initially evaluated by the Editorial Board to determine if they meet the objectives, scope, ethical guidelines, and international indexing standards of the journal. Manuscripts deemed appropriate will be sent for a strict double-blind peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included in it, such as photos, documents, and datasets. All authors identified in the submission must consent to be identified as such. Under no circumstances will an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system or Large Language Model be accepted as a co-author, as they lack legal and moral responsibility for the research. Where applicable, the research must be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the country of the study.

An editor may reject a submission automatically and without passing it to peer review if it does not meet minimum quality standards, if the TURNITIN analysis reflects a similarity (plagiarism) level higher than 10%, or if undeclared use of generative AI or an AI generation percentage exceeding 40% is detected, in accordance with our policies.

Before submitting, ensure that the study design and research argument are structured strictly using the provided official Article Template. The title should be concise, and the abstract must be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to evaluate the article. Once you are certain that your submission meets this standard, proceed to the checklist below to prepare your submission on the platform.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items. Submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • 1. Format Compliance: This submission meets all the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, and the document has been drafted strictly using the journal's official Article Template.

  • 2. Manuscript Anonymization: The submission file is in Microsoft Word format and has been properly anonymized (authors' personal information has been removed from both the body of the text and the file properties/metadata) to ensure a double-blind review.

  • 3. Originality: This submission is entirely original, has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration or peer review.

  • 4. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy: The author declares that the manuscript strictly complies with the journal's AI Use Policies. If generative AI was used for ideation, translation, data analysis, or style correction, this has been detailed explicitly in the Methodology section. The author accepts that the document will be evaluated and that an AI percentage higher than 40% is grounds for rejection.

  • 5. Mandatory Documentation: The Letter of Declaration of Originality and AI Use and the Authors' Information Template, properly completed and signed, are attached to the system as supplementary files.

  • 6. Bibliographic Rigor: All bibliographic references have been cross-checked against their in-text citations, ensuring there are no "orphan" citations or fabricated references. The final list is accurate, complete, and strictly adheres to the citation formatting required by the journal.

  • 7. Tables and Figures: All tables and figures have been numbered consecutively, labeled correctly, cited within the text, and are legible.

  • 8. Copyright and Ethics: Informed consent from participants (if applicable) and legal permission to publish all images, datasets, surveys, and any other third-party material provided with this submission have been obtained.

Research Articles

A document that presents, in detail, the original results of completed research projects. The structure generally used contains four important parts: introduction, methodology, results and discussions, and conclusions. In addition, they are those that address a question about a theoretical or applied disciplinary aspect, usually through a scientific study of the behavior of a phenomenon or situation under certain control conditions.

 

Bibliographic Review

Document resulting from a research where the results of published or unpublished research on a field of science or technology are analyzed, systematized and integrated, in order to account for the progress and development trends. It is characterized by presenting a careful bibliographic review of at least 30 references.

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