Submissions

Author Guidelines

Responsibility of the authors

It is esencial that authors meet the following requirements when submitting their work to InterNaciones.

We highly recommend reviewing and complying with each of the following points:

• Register as a user on the InterNaciones website. You can do this using the ORCID application integrated into the journal site. If you do not yet have your ORCID iD code, you can obtain it at the following link: ORCID_Registration. Providing the ORCID identifier is a mandatory requirement for receiving contributions.

• Once you have registered as a user and have your ORCID code, consult and follow the instructions in the following link: guide to link your ORCID iD on the InterNaciones website. It is necessary to do this step so that, if your contribution is accepted, the visibility and reach you have as an author is increased.

• All research must be original and with strict adherence to copyright; To ensure this, the author must send, along with the manuscript, the signed and scanned copy of the Declaration of Originality. By signing this document, the author agrees not to simultaneously submit his work to other publications.

• The authors must send the publication rights transfer letter format duly requested and signed by the authors when the article has been accepted for publication. This format must be downloaded through the following link:  Letter of transfer of rights

• Include a separate author file in a WORD document, and send it to the email internaciones.asistenciatecnica@gmail.com where the following information is specified:

  • Full name of the author(s).

  • Name of country and institution to which you are/are assigned (dependency, institute, faculty).

  • It is essential that you attach the ORCID Code of each author. If you do not have it, you must create one at the following link: https://orcid.org/register and submit it in the author file.

  • Current academic level of the author(s), specifying the full name of the institution where it was obtained.

  • If this is the case, the source of research funding from which the article or contribution comes must be explicitly indicated.

  • If considered necessary, thanks to other colleagues or research assistants for the support provided should be included.

• Meet the publication requirements of the magazine related to: originality, that the text is unpublished, relevance.

• Present your collaborations honestly and without lies, falsification or manipulation of data.

• Sending a work for publication implies authorization by the author to the journal for free access, reproduction or distribution under the condition of citing the original source.

• If observations are received, the author will have a period of 15 calendar days to send the new version of the work to the editor.

• The content of the articles is the responsibility of the writer; the authors are the ones who must obtain the corresponding authorization for any illustration or figure used in the manuscript if they come from other authors or sources of information.

• Assume collective responsibility, if applicable, for the work presented and published.

• Indicate the sources of financing and, where applicable, possible conflicts of interest when submitting the article.

• Cite the work of others accurately and only refer to publications used in the text.

It is reiterated that both the Declaration of Originality and the Letter of Transfer of Rights will have to be duly signed and filled out with the information requested, as well as the author file. They must be sent to the email internaciones.asistenciatecnica@gmail.com to begin the editorial process.

These documents can also be attached to the platform, right at the same time that the author uploads the article or review to the website.

Criteria and guidelines required for contributions

Collaborations must be submitted in digital format (Word processor, 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced). The author will receive an acknowledgment of receipt within seven days.

Collaborations must have the following characteristics:

1. All publication proposals must be original and unpublished.
2. On the first page the title of the article must appear in capital letters and then the full name of the author, the institution to which he or she is affiliated (the exclusive use of acronyms is not considered valid) and his or her appointment there, including dependency, corresponding institute, faculty or school, and the country where the institution of affiliation is located. Likewise, the author's email address and ORCID number must be included. Collaborations with incomplete data indicated above will be rejected.

3. In cases of co-authorship, the data from the previous point are required for each of the participants.

4. The text must be accompanied by a summary of no more than 150 words, in which the objective of the article and the results obtained must be explained, in addition to five key words.

5. The title of the article, the abstract and the five keywords must be translated into English.

6. Subtitles should appear in bold.

7. Textual quotes shorter than 40 words will appear in quotation marks within the text. If it is longer than 40 words, they will be presented in a separate paragraph, indented 0.5 from the left margin, followed by a line and 10 points.

8. Explanatory or explanatory notes must appear at the foot of the page, referenced numerically.

9. Graphics (maps, illustrations, figures) must be included within the article and sent individually in .jpg or .tiff format with a minimum of 300 dpi, correctly numbered, with title and font.

10. The list of references will appear at the end of the text and will only include the cited works; That is, works consulted but not referred to in the text are not included.

11. The length of the articles is up to 35 pages; in the case of reviews, up to 15 pages.

Estimated deadlines for reception-publication of contributions.

The following deadlines are stipulated from the moment of receipt and until the publication of the contributions in InterNaciones:

• Initial review: 1 month.
• First decision for reviewed articles: 3 months.
• From shipment of the article to acceptance: 5 months.
• From acceptance to publication: 6 months.

Citation style and reference list

The citation style required for sending contributions to InterNaciones takes into account the APA standards - seventh edition 2020, which you can consult at the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ChsdK0aP_t2xkZzsJj6ST0Z57s6VQJTt/view?usp=share_link

The work whose complete data is presented in the references will be referred in parentheses, that is, each cited work must appear both within the body of the text and in the list of references.

The above reference is limited to the author's paternal surname, the year of publication and the page or pages used: (Last Name, Year, Page)

• To provide a page number:

  • For a single page, the abbreviation “p.”

  • For multiple pages, the abbreviation “pp” is used. and the page range is separated with a hyphen

  • When citing discontinuous pages, use a comma between the page numbers.

If the author cites fragments of works in another language, his own translation will be included in an explanatory footnote, clarifying that it is a personal translation. If the translation is by another author, credit must be given in the note, and complete data must be included in the references.

Regarding the Reference List

It must be presented in alphabetical order according to the following characteristics (APA):

 Book:

• Surname, A. A. (Year). Title. Place: Editorial.

 Book chapter:

• Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the chapter, in A. Editor, and B. Editor (eds./comps.), Title of the book. (pp. Xxx-xxx). Place: Editorial. 

Article in printed journal: 

• Author, A. A. (Year). Article title. Journal title, Volume(num), pp.-pp. 

Article in an electronic journal with DOI:

• Author, A. A., Author, B. B., and Author, C. C. (Year). Article title. Journal title, Volume(no.), Pp.-pp. DOI: xxxxxxxxxxxx 

Article in an electronic journal without DOI:

• Author, B. B., and Author, C. C. (Year). Article title. Journal title, Volume(no.), Pp.-pp. Retrieved the day of the month of the year at http: //www.xxxxxx

Newspaper article:

• Author, A. A. (day, month and year). Article title. Newspaper title, pp.-pp.

Online newspaper article:

• Author, A. A. (day, month and year). Article title. Newspaper Title. Retrieved the day of the month of the year at http: //www.xxxxxxx

Thesis:

• Author, A. A. (year of publication). Title of the doctoral thesis or master's thesis (doctoral thesis or unpublished master's thesis). Name of the institution: Place.

Thesis published online: 

• Author, A. A. (year of publication). Title of the doctoral thesis or master's thesis (doctoral thesis or master's thesis). Name of the institution: Place. Retrieved the day of the month of the year at http://www.xxxxx

Plagiarism detection to authenticate the originality of submissions

Authors are informed that, in order to ensure the authenticity and originality of the contributions received, InterNaciones uses the iThenticate software, a specialized plagiarism detector. The texts received will be reviewed before being sent for editorial and academic opinion, and will be rejected if the percentage of similarity with another text published or available on the Internet is greater than 33 percent.