Guidelines for authors

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Legal requirements for submitting articles

The RAVGS does not issue or receive payments for the submission, processing and publication of texts. The documents that are postulated for possible publication in the journal must submit the following complete documentation and the final version of the article through the OJS manager:

* Declaration of originality, This letter must be filled out with the data of the main author with the express authorization of all its co-authors, verifying that they all agree with this declaration.

* Copyright agreement and Conflict of interest statement, must be filled out and signed with the data of the author and/or authors of the article.

* In the case of previously published material whose content is subject to copyright –graphics, images, photographs, artistic work, etc., whether by the author(s) themselves, or by third parties – A copy of the reproduction authorization must be delivered by the owner of the economic rights.

Changes will not be accepted once the process has started.

Technical requirements for submitting articles

For the delivery of the material, the following criteria must be taken into consideration:

* Submit the text in electronic format for word processing (sending PDF files will not be accepted). Use the submission template to send your your manuscript.

* We do not accept tables in the form of images, they must come directly from a program such as Excel or be made in Word itself, included in the text. The title of the table must be concise and directly related to its content.

* Figures (diagrams, graphs, photographs, drawings, maps, among others) must be in JPG format (or compatible), with proportional width and height. Figures that do not meet these characteristics will be returned to the author and the article cannot be submitted for evaluation. Figures of authorship other than the author of the article must indicate the source from which they come.

* Both tables and figures must be incorporated in the text, numbered in arabic and in line with the text.

* Authors are aware that articles in Spanish, if accepted, must be translated into English at the authors' expense, who are responsible for ensuring that the article has been reviewed or translated by native English speakers or professionals with solid knowledge of the language. This must be confirmed by means of a certificate of proofreading or translation, which must be attached at the time of submission.

An author with strong English language skills may write the manuscript, but must attach a certificate confirming their expertise at the time of submission. Also, if one of the authors is a native English speaker, the editorial flow will continue according to the established guidelines.

The article may be rejected if there is insufficient evidence and guarantees to ensure the quality of the translation/revision. In the event that linguistic problems are detected during the evaluation of the article, the Editor will ask the authors for linguistic revision after the article has been accepted.

We will send the article to Editorial Review when the application requirements are met.

Editorial opinion

Authors who submit a contribution for possible publication in the RAVGS must submit – complete and in its final version – the documentation indicated in the section Legal requirements for submission. Once the editorial team confirms that the submission meets all the application requirements, the text will be sent for editorial opinion, which includes the following stages:

* We will value that the text is an original and unpublished contribution.

* We will verify that the proposed text is related to the Focus and purpose of the journal.

* Credit a review under the Editorial Board-approved plagiarism detection tool (Turnitin), only after that it will be possible to continue with the following stages of the editorial opinion.

* We will check that the bibliography used is relevant, updated and duly standardized in APA 7th edition format.

* We will check that the text complies with each of the format indications indicated in the requirements for the application and delivery of articles, as well as in the guidelines for authors.

* In accordance with the editorial policy guidelines approved by the Editorial Committee, we will prioritize texts whose bibliography is delivered electronically managed and with active hyperlinks to the respective DOIs, where appropriate.

Once the proposed contribution accredits the editorial opinion, we will formally notify the contact author of the registration and start of the academic opinion process.

Content responsibility

By submitting the manuscript, we assume that each of the authors has had full access to all study data and assumes full and public responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the data analysis. For this reason, the RAVGS declines any responsibility for possible conflicts arising from the authorship of the works published in it.

Anonymity in the identity of the authors

The RAVGS will take care not to include in the body of the article any information that reveals the identity of the authors, this in order to ensure an anonymous evaluation by the academic peers who will make the opinion. After acceptance of the manuscript, all identification information will be included on the initial page.

Inbreeding

RAVGS publishes a limited number of articles per year. So, to serve the entire community, you will not publish more than one article per author and per volume or year (exceptionally two). Publications for members of the National Autonomous University of Alto Amazonas will not exceed 20% per number.

Note: The RAVGS declares that the presentation of the articles, as well as the way of writing, was elaborated based on the proposal of Santesteban-Echarri & Núñez-Morales (2017).