Editorial Standards

Editorial Standards

Generalities:

  1. Articles must be original, unpublished in addition to not being nominated simultaneously in other journals. They will be submitted to arbitration for selection and publication from the double-blind peer evaluation system where the evaluators do not know the identity of the authors of the articles, and the authors do not know the identity of the evaluators. All evaluators and referees are external to the Journal. Articles other than Spanish and English will be received.
  2. Articles sent to the Journal must have a maximum of four authors, including the main one. The exception to this rule will be submitted to the editorial committee for consideration, based on the criteria of originality, relevance, contribution, and extension of the research process developed in the article.
  3. The Magazine is published biannually.
  4. The journal may produce extraordinary issues (special editions), subject to prior agreement with groups, networks, institutions, and organizations that hold research events such as conferences, forums, conferences, presentations, among others, for which it is essential to present the adjusted articles to these editorial standards.
  5. Contributors of ordinary and extraordinary issues must register in the OJS (Open Journal Systems) of METANOIA Magazine.

The type and structure of the articles:

  1. The articles will be classified as:
  2. Research: Maximum originality and innovation. They collect the results of unpublished research, theoretical or experimental, qualitative, or quantitative. The original aspects of the research must be clearly appreciated. It must be structured with title in Spanish and English, names and surnames of the author or authors, email address of each of the authors in gmail preference, institution to which they belong (indicating city and country), ORCID identifiers, summary, descriptors, abstract , keywords, introduction (includes statement of the topic or problem, objectives or purposes, justification or importance, theoretical reference), methodology, discussion, results, references consulted (only those used in the citation of the article). It must contain no less than 10 reference citations.
  3. Review: They describe and/or compile the most recent developments or published works on a certain topic, always providing some improvement, complement or original perspective that must also be expressly highlighted. They are a theoretical synthesis and a current vision of the topic addressed and, above all, highlight what may be a novel contribution to it. It must contain no less than 15 reference citations. It must be structured with title in Spanish and English, names and surnames of the author or authors, email address of each of the authors in gmail preference, institution to which they belong (indicating city and country), ORCID identifier, summary, descriptors, abstract , keywords, introduction (presentation of the topic), development of the review, contributions generated from the review, references consulted (only those used in the citation of the article).
  4. Reflective: They describe positive experiences in the application of current technologies, methods, and knowledge with notable achievements in any field, with preference in cases that involve improvements or original details that must also be expressly highlighted. It will reflect the “positive experiences” that have been obtained with the real application of techniques or knowledge, giving priority to considerations that contribute to universal knowledge. It must contain no less than 15 reference citations. It must be structured with title in Spanish and English, names and surnames of the author or authors, email address of each of the authors in gmail preference, institution to which they belong (indicating city and country), ORCID identifier, summary, descriptors, abstract , keywords, introduction (presentation of the topic), development of the reflection, contributions generated from the reflection, references consulted (only those used in the citation of the article).
  5. Editorial: Topics of editorial interest are proposed in an expository-argumentative manner. Works commissioned by the Director and/or Editor.

AESTHETIC CONFIGURATION OF THE ITEMS:

  1. Articles will be written without indentation and without spaces between paragraphs, only to separate titles and subtitles up to a maximum of 5 levels. The use of vignettes will be reduced to the essential minimum.
  2. Articles must be written in electronic format, with 1.15 spacing, font size 12 (Times New Roman), with right, left, bottom and top margins of 2.5 cm, on letter size paper in Format: INEN A4 (21 x 29.7 cm). They must have a minimum of ten pages and must not exceed twenty-five pages with the exception of articles on popular knowledge and technology, including graphics, maps and photographs. The title of the article should not exceed 20 words. Each article must present a summary of no more than 250 words and at least 150, and 5 key words, in English and Spanish (including the title and key words). The key words must be separated by a semicolon (;) and must not have capital letters and will be structured based on the UNESCO Thesaurus, both in Spanish and English (http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/es/ ) . For articles in ​​Agriculture and related areas, the AGROVOC Thesaurus (http://aims.fao.org/es/standards/agrovoc/functionalities/search ) will be used. See table 1.

Table 1. Length of words in title, abstract, descriptors, content, figures, graphs and tables and number of references for each article.

 

Section

Title

(words)

Abstract

(words)

Key words

Content (pages)

Figures, graphs  tables

References

Research

15

150-250

Min.3/Max.5

Min.10/Max.25

--

≥ 10

Review

15

150-250

Min.3/Max.5

Min.10/Max.25

--

≥ 15

Reflective

15

150-250

Min.3/Max.5

Min.10/Max.25

--

≥ 15

Knowledge and  Popular Technology

15

150-250

Min.3/Max.5

--

--

≥ 15

Letter to the  Editor

--

--

--

10

--

≥  5

Editorial

--

--

--

--

--

--

 

  1. The summary of the research article will be structured in an indicative - informative manner, which must contain: Objective or main purpose of the research, brief description of the methodology used, present the discussion of the most relevant results and conclusions.
  2. The summary of the articles under the typology: Review and Reflection, Knowledge and Popular Technology will be developed under the “unstructured indicative – descriptive type”, where the typology of the article and the most notable contributions will be mentioned and complemented what is stated in the body of the article (do not repeat information found in the body of the article).
  3. The Editorial Committee may establish exceptions in works that, due to their originality or contribution, require a greater length; thus, respecting the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) subscribed to by this journal (https://sfdora.org/read/es/ ).
  4. APA standards, seventh edition, will be used for citing the bibliographic sources referenced in the body of the article, taking into consideration when they are less or more than 40 words, as well as the number of authors, type of referenced document.
  5. The references consulted will be placed at the end of the article in alphabetical order. It must be included, next to the title of the reference in Spanish, the English title in square brackets.

Example:

  1. For article references, the DOI must be provided. Use the free tool for this: http://www.crossref.org/simpleTextQuery
  2. For all references consulted, if available, the URL addresses must be indicated and shortened using: https://n9.cl/es
  3. Tables, figures or graphs must be numbered according to the order in which they appear in the text, with Arabic numbers, followed by a brief title. At the end of tables, figures, or graphs the source must be indicated. Charts, tables, and graphs will be presented in Microsoft Word® or Excel® format, as long as they are editable, and images (figures, maps or photos), in JPG format; PNG (resolution greater than or equal to 300 dpi).

 

From the editorial process:

  1. The authors will upload the article to the Journal's OJS. At the beginning of the article, the names and surnames of the collaborator or collaborators, their electronic address, institution of affiliation or community (indicating city and country) and their respective ORCID (https://orcid.org/ ) must be specified. Contributors must fill out everything requested in the boxes when registering and uploading the article.

Write and send an affidavit of responsibility and originality of the article. See number 33 of these regulations.

  1. The article will be reviewed by the Editorial Committee, so that in a period of no more than thirty continuous days it will issue its decision of approval or non-approval for the initiation of the arbitration process in the journal. Articles not approved by the Editorial Committee may not be resubmitted for arbitration in any of the UNIANDES Magazines.
  2. All articles will be subject to anti-plagiarism programs as a quality and ethics policy for publications.
  3. If the Editorial Committee's decision is approved, the author or authors will be notified of it.
  4. Upon notification of the approval of the article, the author must upload it with the corrections emanating from the editorial committee to the Journal's OJS System to initiate the arbitration process.
  5. Articles will be evaluated based on 4 core criteria:
  • Originality / Innovation of research.
  • Utility / Social and cultural relevance.
  • Expository clarity of the text.
  • Scientific rigor with an investigative approach / Argumentation / Conclusions or final  considerations.
  1. Articles are refereed and classified into the following categories: Approved, Approved with modifications and not Approved.
  2. Originality, relevance, style, and contributions to the field will be evaluated.
  3. For the arbitration of the articles, double-blind peer evaluation will be carried out; where the evaluators do not know the identity of the authors of the articles, and the authors do not know the identity of the evaluators.
  4. The work of the evaluators is strictly confidential. The magazine is not responsible for the actions of the evaluators, who are completely autonomous.
  5. The articles will be submitted to evaluators external to the Magazine and the UNIVERSITY. Depending on the observations and recommendations made by the evaluators,

modifications may be requested from the author or authors to improve the quality of the work.

 

  1. To download the Editorial Standards, the Standards for Evaluators and the OJS author manual, visit:
  2. Conflicts of interest arising from the verdict of an article will be resolved through Uniandes' Ethics Policies, supported by the provisions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/ . As well as what is established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). These recommendations are available at: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/
  3. If any breach of ethics in publication is detected at the beginning, during the editorial process or after publication, the Journal will take the corrective measures detailed in the Ethics Policies and Good Practices.
  4. Authors must write an affidavit of responsibility and originality of the article; and send it to editor: revistametanoia@uniandes.edu.ec Format: Originality of the Article
  5. Any controversies that could arise about the published knowledge will be the responsibility of the author or authors of the article, who may be contacted via email. A judgment or discussion may be issued on the topic addressed, if this is done in an academic and scientific climate, thus developing a feedback process that builds science and knowledge.
  6. With approval of the editorial board, ordinary numbers may be published before the start of the declared period. Approved articles will be published in the immediately available issue.
  7. Anything not contemplated in these editorial standards will be submitted by the Editorial Committee of the Magazine.