Information For Authors

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Guidelines for Article Submission:

Authors must submit original articles with scientific rigor. They should also provide an accurate description of the work performed, as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data must be accurately represented in the manuscript. The work should contain sufficient references to allow reviewers to make their assessments. Manifest fraud constitutes behavior that violates the ethics of the procedure and is unacceptable.

Personal Data:

Authors must provide their contact details to be used during the evaluation process and, if applicable, for the publication of the article. These details will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

Originality and Plagiarism:

Authors commit to submitting original works and appropriately citing, according to the journal's guidelines, the works of other authors. To detect possible plagiarism, submitted works will be analyzed with the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool before being sent to reviewers.

Multiple or Redundant Publications:

As a general rule, authors may not publish articles that contain results already disclosed in other works. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously constitutes behavior that violates the ethics of the procedure and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources:

Authors will provide appropriate acknowledgment of the bibliographic sources that have made the preparation of their work possible. In the case of using an observation, derivation, or argument that has been previously communicated, the author must accompany it with the corresponding citation.

Authors who use artificial intelligence tools in the writing of a manuscript, the production of images or graphic elements of the article, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent and declare how it was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including those parts produced by any artificial intelligence tool.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI):

Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript must be transparent and declare how and in which parts of the text it was used, and which tool was used, always in accordance with the usage and citation recommendations present in the Guidelines for Authors.

Warning:

Once the manuscript is written, it cannot be uploaded (neither in whole nor in part) to an AI application to complement the review process, as its content could potentially become part of the training data. Confidential information would be shared—the manuscript would no longer be original—and the author's intellectual property rights would be infringed.

Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including those parts produced by any artificial intelligence tool.

Authorship of a Manuscript and Contribution:

Authorship will be limited to those individuals who have taken part in the conception, design, and execution of the work.

All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. When other individuals have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be named in an acknowledgments section.

The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors (as defined above) and no inappropriate ones are listed in the manuscript's author list, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the work and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Artificial intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors of an article. They do not meet the authorship requirements, as they cannot assume responsibility for an article. They lack legal personality and cannot affirm the presence or absence of conflicts of interest or manage copyright contracts.

Conflict of Interest:

Every author must declare in their manuscript any conflicts of interest, whether financial or otherwise, that could affect the results or their interpretation and consequently the evaluation of their work (e.g., employment, consultancies, ownership rights, fees, testimonies of hired experts, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funds).

Funding Sources:

Every author must mention the funding sources of the project that led to the article.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works:

When an author discovers a significant error in their already published work, it is their obligation to promptly communicate this fact to the journal's Editor and cooperate with them in the retraction or correction of the article.