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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, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Authors interested in publishing in the Revista UGC may send their contributions to: revistacientifica@ugc.mx

Only unpublished scientific articles with the IMRyD format will be accepted in the Journal. Contributions sent cannot have been simultaneously submitted to other periodicals. The language of publication will be Spanish; although articles in English and Portuguese will be accepted.

The types of contributions that will be accepted are: scientific articles, research results, essays, reviews and bibliographic reviews.

Contributions must be written in Microsoft Office Word (“.doc” or “.docx”), using Arial font, 12 points, single spaced. The sheet will have the dimensions 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm (letter format). The upper and lower margins will be 2.5 cm and 2 cm will be left for the right and left.

Structure of the manuscripts

The articles sent to the Journal will have the following structure:

  • Extension between 15 and 20 pages.
  • Title in English and Spanish (15 words maximum).
  • Full name and surname of each of the authors. In the event that the authors have two surnames, they must be joined by means of a hyphen.
  • Email, ORCID identifier and main Institution. Authors without an ORCID must register at https://orcid.org/register
  • Abstract English and Spanish (not to exceed 250 words) and keywords (three to ten in English and Spanish).
  • Introduction; Materials and methods; Results and discussion (for research articles). The rest of the contributions will have instead of these two previous sections: Methodology, Development. All the articles will have: Conclusions, never numbered; and Bibliographic references. The Annexes, if you have them, will be included at the end of the document.

Other formal aspects

  • The pages will be numbered in the lower right corner.
  • The tables will be numbered according to their citation order and their title will be placed at the top (eg, Table 1. Name).
  • The figures will not exceed 100 Kb, nor will they have a width greater than 10 cm. They will be delivered separately in image format: .jpg or .png. In the text they should be numbered, according to their order and their name will be placed at the bottom (eg Figure 1. Name).
  • The abbreviations will accompany the text that defines them the first time, between parentheses.
  • The notes will be located at the bottom of the page and will be numbered with Arabic numbers. They will have an extension of up to 60 words.
  • The annexes will be mentioned in the text of the manner: see annex 1 or (annex 1).

Citations and References

The citations and bibliographic references will be adjusted to the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition, 2019. For the preparation of the article it is necessary to use at least 25 sources that are in the range of the last five to ten years. Preferably, those that come from scientific journals indexed in Scopus and SciELO should be used.

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