Author Guidelines
Instructions to Authors
The document must be send to the website Open Journal System from our Journal, entering http://www.uptc.edu.co/enlacaes/rcienciaed, where you can find the political and characteristics of our publication. There you register as an user filling out the request and deciding if your participation on the Journal will be as a Reader or as an Author, stablishing your language and topic.
To submit your article, select Author in the link home and follow the instructions that are stablish in there. This article needs to have a certifying letter with the originality of the work , declarating that you are transfering to the Journal copyright and reproduction patrimonial rights according to the templates and suggesting list up to four possible referees (experts in thematic field, these people must be out of the editing institution and they need to have recent published articles) with his respective e-mails adresses. Its letter must be attached to complementary file at the time you send the manuscript.
Author Templates
Ciencia en Desarrollo will receive 25 pages maximum articles with A4 size, the titles and subtitles needs to be in Calibri 12 and bold. The content should have a font size 11. Biological and Chemical sciences articles are receive in Word or Latex format; Physical and mathematical sciences articles will be receive only in Latex format. The Authors can download the respective template in the section of guidelines for preparing your article in our website.
Title: it needs to beinformative, precise, short(no more than 12 words),without any initials and without shortcuts. It would be in the middle of the top part of the page, in Capital letter, Font size 14 and bolt. In separate line will be the english version of title and if it is the case the subtitle.
Authors: it will include names and complete last names preceded by a lowercase letters and superscript are included. As a footnote it will include an academic degree, and an institutional filiation( department, faculty, university or institution) and an email adress of the corresponding autor will be indicated with an asterisk are include.
Abstract: it will stablish short and concise words with all fundamental basic points of the work, which it would be from 150 up to 200 words, with his respective english traduction, its traduction needs to be correct and accurate according with the original language abstract.
Keywords: must be select up to seven keywords, separated by comma and with an alphabetic order.
Body of the manuscript: The principal manuscript components need to be separated by sections with an accurate use of titles and subtitles, as required by organization and logical development of material. The principal text must be integrated by introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, references. If the autor wishes can includ anothe section for the acknowledgement.
The foodnotes need to be order by a consecutive number because the will be used for clarifications, comments, discutions by the author(s).
The footnotes with an asterisk will be used for clarification notes for the editorial commitee or the traductor in case they needed.
Equations: must be presented with their corresponding Arabic numerals consecutively in parenthesis, aligned to the right side and in the middle. In the main text will be cited using the shortcut Word Ec. , followed by the Arabic numeral in parenthesis. The symbols used in the equations must be described inmediately after the equation used for the first time.
Quantities and units:in numerical quantities reported in the text, as equations, tables or figures, will be used comma (,) to separate thousands, and dot (.) to indicate decimals. The units of measure will be expressed using the metric system and points after each abbreviation (g. m. km., etc.). When numbers are used will remain a space (10 g., 100 m.). Symbols or abbreviations shall be in lowercase, except the Kelvin unit of temperature (K), centigrade degrees symbol (°C), the ampere unite of electric current (A), the unit of molar concentration (M) and the unit of litre (L), or any unit that requires that.
Tables and figures: must contain enough information for explain themselves. The look includes 3 or 4 data groups by figure; well selected scales, axis labels of adequate size, visually clear symbols, and data groups easy to differentiate.
They must be cited in the text, listed by order of appearance. The tables must be headed by a brief and informative title, including the word Table (in italic and bold) followed by the corresponding consecutive Arabic numeral. The columns in the table should have headers; only horizontal lines should be used to separate the entries of tables and not vertical lines should be used to separate the columns in the table, moreover, should not duplicate information given in figures.
In the case of figures, in foot or label of each one will include the Word Figure (in italic and bold), followed by the corresponding consecutive Arabic number, with a brief description of the content of the figure. They should be prepared to be printed in black and White using different symbols or lines in the charts and figures that are used.
In the event that any figure is taken from another author and, therefore, protected by copyright, all data for the respective credit, along with the written authorization of the author or Publisher of the original publication must be attached.
Acknowledgements
The acknowledgements come at the end of an article after the conclusions and before the notes and references.
Notes and references
Footnotes relating to the main text should appear here. These might include comments relevant to but not central to the matter under discussion, limited experimental and spectral data, and crystallographic data, etc., the list of the references must be carried out following the style IEEE
Citation in monographs: initials ans surname, title of the book in italics, edition. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Examples:
[1] J. Jarvis, Y Google, ¿cómo lo haría?. Barcelona: Gestión, 2010.
[2] M.E. Holzschlag, La Biblia de HTML, 2ª ed. Madrid: Anaya, 2000.
Citation of a technical manual: Title of the manual, edition. Name of the company, headquarters of the company, year of publication.
Example:
[3] Motorola Semiconductor Data Manual, Motorola Semiconductor Products Inc., Phoenix, AZ, 2009.
Citation of technical reports: initials and surname of the author, “The report title quoted”, company name, headquarters of the company, type of abbreviated report, report number, date of publication.
Example:
[4] E. E. Reber, “Oxygen absorption in the earth’s atmosphere”, Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles, CA, Tech. Rep. TR-0200 (4230-46)-3, Nov. 2008.
Citation of a book chapter: initials and surname of the author, “Title of the chapter quoted”. In Title of the book in italics, initials and surname of the editor, compiler, etc. Publisher: place of publication, year of publication, pages (abbreviated pp.).
Example:
[5] L. Stein, “Random patterns”, in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New York: Wiley, 2004, pp. 55-70.
Citation of a journal article: initial and surname of the author, “Title of the article quoted”, abbreviated title of magazine in italics, volume (abbreviated vol.), abbreviated number (nº), pages (pp.), month and year.
Examples:
[6] W. Rafferty, “Ground antennasin NASA’S deep space telecommunications”, Proc. IEEE vol. 82, pp.636-640, May 1994.
[7] R. E. Kalman, “New results in linear filtering and prediction theory” J. Basic Eng., ser. D, vol. 83, pp. 95-108, Mar. 1961.
Citation of an Internet resource: resources on the Internet can present a varied typology: journals, monographs, portals, databases, etc. In general, they cite as printed documents, adding the indication [online] and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which usually corresponds to the URL.
Examples:
[8] J. Lau, Directrices internacionales para la alfabetización informativa [online]. México:Universidad Veracruzana, 2004 Disponible en: http://bivir.uacj.mx/dhi/DoctosNacioInter/Docs/Directrices.pdf
[9] E. H. Miller, “A note on reflector arrays”, [online] IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 53, pp. 475, 2005. Disponible en: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1549967&tag=1
Citation of unpublished documents: initials and surname of the autor, “Title in quotation marks”, type of document (doctoral thesis, work for college degree, etc.), academic institution, department, city and year.
Examples:
[10] L.M. Moreno, “Computación paralela y entornos heterogéneos”, Tesis doctoral, Dep. Estadística, Investigación Operativa y Computación, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, 2005
[11] J. O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer”, Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 2003.
Patents citation: initials and surname of the author, “Title of the patent in quotation marks”, number, month, day and year.
Example:
[12] J. P. Wilkinson, “Nonlinear resonant circuit devices”, U.S. Patent 3 624 125, July 16, 1990. Citation of regulations or technical standards: The standard title in italics, number, year.