Submissions

This journal is not accepting submissions at this time.

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 has it been submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Editor's Comments).
  • The shipping file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
  • Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text has a simple line spacing, a font size of 12 points, italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs), and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate text places, instead of in the end.
  • The text meets the stylistic and bibliographic conditions included in Guidelines for the author, in About the journal.
  • In the case of sending the text to the peer evaluation section, the instructions included in Ensuring an anonymous evaluation are followed.

Author Guidelines

Reflection articles: Document that presents results of research completed from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of the author, on a specific topic, using original sources.

 

 Review article: Document resulting from a completed research where the results of published or unpublished research are analyzed, systematized and integrated, in a field of science or technology, in order to account for advances and development techniques. It is characterized by presenting a bibliographic review of at least 50 references.

 

Short article: Short document that presents preliminary or partial original results of a scientific or technological research, which usually requires an early dissemination.

Structure of the Articles: The articles must be unpublished, typed in Word to space and medium, with Arial font of 12 points, with a minimum length of 16 pages and a maximum of 25 in letter size paper including the cover, tables and illustrations, notes bibliographical references. It must include the title, summary and keywords in Spanish and English. In the event that the article is written in a foreign language other than English, both the title and the abstract and the keywords must be translated into this language and into Spanish; the rest of the content will remain in the original language.

The maximum length of the titles must be 12 words, which describe the main idea of the article. The use of numbers, symbols and abbreviations will be avoided, as they make it difficult to search in databases, catalogs and indexing systems.

Each article must include the name of the author (s), understood as the person (s) responsible directly for the writing of the content. Each author must include a footnote with the following information in strict order: the name as usually recorded in their publications, last level of training, institution (without abbreviations) to which it belongs, city, country, email and research group, if it belongs to one.

The summary must be analytical, of maximum 250 words. In the case of articles, research products will include the objective, the methodology, the size of the sample, the strategies or instruments to collect the information and the main results found. In the case of articles that are not the result of research, the summary must, in the same way, clearly and succinctly express the objective of the article, the main assumptions of which it leaves, the arguments and authors it uses as support and the thesis or the theses that structure it.

The tables. They must be identified consecutively with numbers (table 1), have a specifically descriptive heading, be cited in the text, abbreviations, symbols explained and indicate the source at the bottom of the table.

The figures. When the support of tables, graphs, maps will be part of the text, it must be identified consecutively with numbers (figure 1), have a descriptive heading, be cited in the text, abbreviations, symbols explained and indicate the source at the bottom of the figure.

For the references and the citation, the APA guidelines, sixth edition, will be used.

ORGANIZATION OF THE TEXT

 

Structure

 

• Title in Spanish and English.

 

• Analytical summary in Spanish and English with a maximum length of 250 words describing the central idea, the objectives, conclusions, and in case of being an article of scientific research, the methodology.

• Five keywords in Spanish and English, from a thesaurus of the discipline.

 

• Review of the author that indicates: the name and the two surnames, last level of training, institution (without abbreviations) to which it belongs, city, country, email and research group, if it belongs to one .

 

Formal Requirements

 

The text should be sent in Microsoft Word, letter size, with margins of 3cm on each side of the sheet, with space 1.5, Arial font, with a size of 12.

 

 

STRUCTURE OF THE APPOINTMENTS

 

• The citation system will use the APA system, 6th edition.

 

• Textual citations of three lines or less must be incorporated into the text using quotation marks. Extensive textual citations should be separated from the text by a space at each end and tabulated from the left margin without the use of quotation marks. In both cases the source should be quoted as follows: author, year and page number of the text, as well as its complete reference.

 

• Quotations in the text: the surname of the author and the date of the work is included in parentheses within the sentence.

• If the author's last name is included in the sentence, only the date in parentheses is written, for example:

According to Saldarriaga (2011), being with the "other" is virtually the clear demonstration of the deepest loneliness.

• If the author is not included in the sentence, the surname and date are written in parentheses: Being with the "other" virtually, is the clear demonstration of the deepest loneliness (Saldarriaga, 2011).

 

• If the work has more than two authors, the first time with the last name of all the authors is mentioned, in the subsequent mentions, only the surname of the first author is written, followed by the abbreviation et al: The study of political theory it is important for the future of nations (Villa, Díaz, Ortega & Perdomo, 2001) Villa et al. (2001) establishes that an interdisciplinary reading is a priority for the historical analysis of political ideas.

 

• If the work has more than six authors, et al. From the first mention.

 

• Footnotes are used only to clarify or provide additional information. Not for bibliographical references.

 

REFERENCE LIST

books

 

• Books with author: Surname, A, A. (Year). Title. City: editorial.

 

• Electronic books: Surname, A, A. (Year). Title. Retrieved from http: /

 

• Book with editor: Surname, A, A, (Ed.). (Year). Title. City: Editorial.

Book chapters or reference work

 

• Surname, A, A. & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In Surname, C. C. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. XX -XX). City: Editorial.

 

• Surname, A, A. & Surname, B. B. (Year). Title of the chapter or entry. In Surname, C. C. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. XX -XX). City: Editorial. Retrieved from http: / / www.xxx.xx

 

Periodical publication

 

• Printed magazine article: Surname, A. A. (Year). Article title. Title of publication, volume (number), pp. XX-XX.

 

• Website article: Surname, A. A. (Year). Article title. Title of publication, volume (number), pp. XX-XX. Retrieved from http: // www.xxx.xx

Editorial

Documento escrito por el editor, un miembro del comité editorial o un investigador invitado sobre orientaciones en el dominio temático de la revista.

Revista Completa

En esta sección el lector puede encontrar el número completo en versión PDF para descargarlo en caso de que sea de su interés.

Copyright Notice

PUBLICATIONS POLICY

 

• The author must send completed the declaration of transfer of economic rights and declaration of conflicts of interest, which will be provided by the management of the magazine. This document indicates the originality of the article, which is not published in another medium and that is not simultaneously postulated in another journal.

 

• The author will transfer all rights to the article to the journal Science Of Human Action.

 

• Once the evaluation of the article has begun, the authors agree not to withdraw it until the end of the process.

 

• The Science Of Human Action journal will submit the articles received for initial evaluation by the Editorial Committee, in case the Committee finds the material pertinent, it will be evaluated by two anonymous referees who will determine if it is publishable. If one referee approves and the other rejects it, a third party will be appointed.

 

• The address of Science Of Human Action will answer within a maximum of three (3) days about the receipt of the contribution received from the author.

 

• Printed items will not be received. All the proponents will have to send their writings through the e-mail of the magazine.

 

• Partial versions of the text will not be received, that is, those that are not structurally adjusted to the type of article.

 

• Once the article is sent, it is understood that the author authorizes the publication of these data.

 

• The reception of articles does not imply an obligation to publish them. The authors are directly responsible for the ideas, judgments and opinions expressed in the articles; in such a way that the content does not compromise the thinking of the Editorial Committee or the Institution.

• Once the article is submitted, it is understood that the author authorizes the publication of the data corresponding to the author's note.

 

• This is an open access journal that does not charge authors for either the editorial process or the publication. All costs of editorial production are assumed by the Luis Amigó Catholic University.

 

ETHICS OF PUBLICATION

 

• The Editorial Committee, by virtue of transparency in the processes, will ensure the academic quality of the journal.

 

• Causes of rejection are considered: plagiarism, adulteration, invention or falsification of content and author data, which are not original and unpublished.

 

• In no case, the journal's management will require the author to cite it or publish articles with conflicts of interest.

• If once the article is published: 1) the author discovers substantive errors that threaten the quality or scientificity, may request its removal or correction. 2) If a third party detects the error, it is the obligation of the author to retract immediately and proceed to the public removal or correction.

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