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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.
  • El envío no ha sido publicado previamente ni se ha sometido a consideración por ninguna otra revista (o se ha proporcionado una explicación al respecto en los Comentarios al editor/a).
  • El archivo de envío está en formato OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF o WordPerfect.
  • Siempre que sea posible, se proporcionan direcciones URL para las referencias.
  • El texto tiene interlineado sencillo; 12 puntos de tamaño de fuente; se utiliza cursiva en lugar de subrayado (excepto en las direcciones URL); y todas las ilustraciones, figuras y tablas se encuentran colocadas en los lugares del texto apropiados, en vez de al final.
  • El texto se adhiere a los requisitos estilísticos y bibliográficos resumidos en las Directrices del autor/a, que aparecen en Acerca de la revista.

Author Guidelines

Elaboration of texts

Two types of sections are considered:

  • Short articles, with a maximum of 8,000 characters (counting spaces), will occupy four magazine pages.
  • Long articles, with a maximum of 20,000 characters (counting spaces), will appear on ten magazine pages.

Being this a popular science magazine, it is recommended that mathematical formulas or overly specialized nomenclature be reduced to a minimum.
The manuscript's text will have a title and the authors' names with their affiliations and electronic address. It may also contain a summary, an introduction, the necessary subtitles according to the subject, the conclusions, and the required bibliographical references.

Delivery of texts

  • The text will be delivered in an electronic file via email, in Word format, without indentation or tabs.
  • The text will specify where the figures should be included.
  • The list of figure captions will be made at the end of the text.
  • Figures and videos were kept in separate files for PC.
  • The author responsible for receiving the correspondence will be indicated with an asterisk.

References will be made following the following format:

  • For journals: initial of the first and last name of the authors. "Title of the article", name of the journal, VOLUME (year), initial and final page.
  • For books: initial of the first and last name of the authors. Title of the book, Publisher, country or city, year.

Submission of illustrations

Photographs and illustrations must be sent with a resolution of 300 dpi and in eps or tiff files.

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