Code of conduct and guide for authors

CODE OF CONDUCT

Lámpsakos magazine is a digital publication, attached to the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the Luis Amigó Catholic University, Medellín, Colombia. It aims to disseminate original and unpublished articles as results of scientific and technological research in the areas of engineering. Founded in 2009, the magazine has a biannual periodicity (published in June and December) with national and international reach, it has free online circulation access, under standards of scientific rigor and editorial quality.

Lámpsakos is open access funded by the Luis Amigó Catholic University, which deals with all costs of editing, publishing and dissemination. Therefore, it does not generate any charge to its collaborators (authors, readers, reviewers, librarians, etc.); it does not generate any financial compensation to the authors, nor members of the committees. The decisions and procedures are governed by criteria of academic quality, research excellence, integrity, honesty and transparency, so it adheres to the principles of the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).

The code of conduct and the guide for authors must be adopted by any actor who is linked to the magazine, in proportion to the role they play.

Team of collaborators

In order to certify and ensure that the actions of each of the actors involved are within the framework of ethics, transparency, quality and scientific rigor, always providing a human team that helps resolve conflicts, this journal is accompanied by the following committees:

 

Director / Editor

Ingrid-Durley Torres

PhD (c) in System Engineering

Recognized researcher in Colciencias

 

Editorial committee

Rubén Ángel Galindo-Aires, Ph.D., Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain

Giner Alor-Hernández, Ph.D., Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

Óscar Sapena-Vercher, Ph.D., Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain

Amit Chaudhry, Ph.D., Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Luis Fernando Garcés-Giraldo, Ph.D., Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Caldas (Ant), Colombia

Nazly E. Sánchez-Peña, Ph.D., Corporación Universitaria Autónoma del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

Nourou Khalidou Dia, Ph.D., Université des Sciences, Technologies et de Médecin, Nouakchott, Mauritania

Henry Alonso Colorado-Lopera, Ph.D., Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Julián Alberto Patiño-Murillo, Ph.D(C)., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia

The editorial committee is composed by a team whose training and knowledge are completely related to the thematic orientation of the magazine which exercises functions aimed at granting the levels of quality and rigor that it demands. To comply with the aforementioned, the members of this committee review, supervise, direct and ensure that each manuscript submitted and published meets the focus, orientation and quality criteria. They have the quality of acting as guest editors in special issues and contribute to the dissemination of the journal, in order to increase the academic and scientific interest of authors and readers of Lámpsakos, in the world. On some occasions, they may submit their publications to the same editorial process, always respecting the established parameters. 

 

Scientific Comittee

Marcelo Becker, Ph.D., Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, Brasil

José María Yusta-Loyo, Ph.D., Universidad de Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain

Gustavo Alejandro Schweickardt, Ph.D., Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina

Bizuayehu Abebe-Worke, Ph.D., Universidade da Beira, Covilhâ, Portugal

Aldo Pardo-García, Ph.D., Universidad de Pamplona, Norte de Santander, Colombia

Marta Silvia Tabares-Betancur, Ph.D., Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia

Yuri Ulianov-López, Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia

Andrés Felipe Agudelo-Santamaría, Ph.D., Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

The human team of the scientific committee enjoys recognition in the academic environment, and they act as external advisors. It is not part of their activity to evaluate, or apply for their articles. Their main role is to accompany with their objectivity the relevance and scientific quality of the articles postulated for publication.

Editorial board

Isabel Cristina Puerta Lopera, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research

Carlos Alberto Muñoz, Head of the Communications Office y RRPP

Paula Andrea Montoya Zuluaga, representative of the research teachers

Carolina Orrego Moscoso, Chief Editorial Fund Department

Alvaro Osorio Tuberquia, Head of Library Department

David Esteban Zuluaga Meza, representative of the directors-editors of scientific journals

Juan Diego Betancurt Arias, representative of the directors-editors of Popularization Magazines

 

Focus (Enfoque)

The topics covered in the magazine are addressed to all the people of the different educational, productive and business sectors that develop their activities around the areas of engineering. The works it publishes correspond to aspects of scientific, professional and technological development in all engineering disciplines.

Target audience

The magazine is aimed at the national and international public, with manifest interest in current and scientific engineering issues. Allowing to provide contextualized knowledge of real solutions, on contemporary issues in this area.

The entire claim will be received in writing by email to the magazine lampsakos@amigo.edu.co. The maximum term will be 5 business days from the receipt of the disagreement.

 

Editorial review, anti-plagiarism and article evaluation

1. Topic, structure and citation evaluation: the evaluation analyses if the paper is aligned with the topics of the journal and follows the criteria established in the author guidelines. In case the topic is not part of the ones established by the journal, the paper is returned to the author; if the presentation requires adjustments, it is sent to the author for corrections and to be submitted again following the editorial timetable; if the paper meets all the requirement, it is sent to the second step.

2. Analysis of similarity with other publications: in order to identify if the paper is original and unpublished and avoid possible plagiarism, all papers must undergo a technological revision which compares the manuscript with others published in digital media and Crossref academic publications. The technological system reports the similarity level, if it is over 25% the paper is discarded, if it is below 25% the paper is sent to the third step. The report also points out errors in citation and reference as well as primary sources and information credibility and avoids plagiarism.

3. Peer revision: all papers will be assigned referees under the double-blind review model. That is, both the author's and reviewers' identities and decisions regarding the paper are confidential. Once this review of the paper has begun, the author commits to seeing it through and not withdrawing the paper. The estimate time between the reception of the article and the evaluation process is about 3 months. The time might vary due to editorial processes and topics.

Referee selection: the journal has a group of national and international research scholars, with wide experience and publications in the field of social sciences. Each paper is assigned two referees that hold a masters or preferably a doctoral degree in the field and have no conflict of interests; that are not part of the editorial or scientific committees, nor are they affiliated to Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, Colombian scholars must be recognized as researchers by Colciencias, international peers must have graduate education or an h5 index above 2. 

Paper review: the director of the journal provides the referee with the paper, author guidelines and an assessment rubric which focuses on the following formal and topic based elements:

  • Relevance of the paper for the journal´s fields of interest.
  • Coherence between title and topic.
  • Validity of the topic.
  • Usage of concepts and terminology of the discipline.
  • Relevance of graphics, tables and figures.
  • Appropriate use of citation and reference.
  • Up to date references
  • Novelty of the paper
  • Theoretical and methodological thoroughness
  • Coherence

4. Decision: the rubric has three alternatives regarding the final decision: 1. “Accepted to publish with content unaltered” 2. “Accepted to publish with minor changes”; 3. “Rejected”. If both referees, consider that the paper should be “Rejected” the Director of the journal informs the authors and provides the result of the peer review. If both referees agree that the paper should be “Accepted to publish with content unaltered”, the author is notified and the paper is sent to edition. If one referee considers that the paper should be “Accepted to publish with content unaltered” while the other one “Accepted to publish with minor changes”, the author is notified about the required changes and the due date. If one of the referees considers that the paper should be “Rejected”, while the other one is under the opinion that it should be published, a third referee will be appointed by the editor (under the double-blind review model) in order to settle the situation. Once the third evaluation is received the author will be notified of the decision.

Causes of rejection

  •  There is plagiarism and self-plagiarism; alteration, forgery or foul play in the data, content or author.
  • If the article has been partially published and therefore unedited.
  • The content of the paper does not have an originality index of 75% or above. The criteria for originality is the capacity of the author to create, find, analyze and imagine.
  • There are conflicts of interest. The authors must notify the journal of any situation that can influence the result or interpretation of the manuscript.
  • The author does not follow the guidelines and code of conduct.
  • There is obscene, abusive, defamatory, insulting language or any expression that goes against human dignity and the good name of a person o institution.  
  • There is data that was collected without permission such as deficiency of accuracy in the presentation of findings and results, questionable data or results.
  • There is information or acts that violate national and international copyright laws or minor protection laws. 
  • The paper undermines publication ethical and good practices.

Communication with the authors

  • The editorial decisions are informed by the journal in a timely way, with respectful terms, and try mutual learning.
  •  Each stage of the editorial process, the publication and divulgation will be notified to the authors, that in use of their rights can make and request changes in their texts until before the public disposition of material design. 

Cancellation publication causes

  • The detection during any stage of the process of some of the terms described in this text.
  • Doubt or dispute of the authorship or co- authorship.
  • Request of the authors about any kind of benefit.

Transparency

  • the committees will safeguard for the journal academic quality; thus, their opinions are consulted regularly and they will be aware of the on line disposition of the journal.
  • The director, the committees, and the evaluators will have freedom to emit their opinion regarding the viability of the article publication.
  • The journal will not reveal the names of the authors to the evaluators and vice versa, during the edition and revision process. The evaluators ‘group will be published on the preliminary pages of each number. 
  • In no case, the journal´s direction will demand to the author the citation of the same or someone of the collaborates team. The evaluators declare the inexistence o
  • The evaluators declare the inexistence of interest conflicts, furthermore, that the concept is not cut on by the financial, working, professional, personal or other connivance agreement.

No collection model

  • The journal does not pay to the authors for their contribution neither generate receipt for the activities of the editorial and publication process.
  • Do not generate economical retributions for the members of evaluators or committee members.
  • All the prices for the editorial production, publication and divulgation are assumed by the Luis Amigo catholic university.

 

 

ETHICAL OF THE PUBLICATION AND GOOD PRACTICES

The editor is responsible for: the editor of the Lámpsakos is in charge of select the articles that will make great of the annual of the journal. For this, it is ridged by the conduct code that this publication has. The selection of the articles will have guided for their level and their thematic pertinence, and in this since the gender discrimination, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic, or religious inclination or politics of someone who postulates their manuscripts never will be considered as a selection criterion. However, the editor has the possibility to discuss the decisions regarding the article’s selection that other members of the publication take, always under the quality text criteria in the field of social sciences publication. Regarding the authors, the editor is committed to maintaining the decisions’ confidentiality concerning his / her articles, in this sense, only the authors will be informed of those decisions. Finally, the editor will avoid expressly manage articles that derive in interests’ conflicts with the result of any possible connection with those conflicts, with the objective of maintaining the transparency of the edition and publication process.

The referees will be responsible for: as a fundamental part of the publication process, the reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of the manuscripts that they receive, in this sense, they should avoid sharing with foreign people the material to evaluate. Is fundamental that the referee maintains the objectivity and neutrality when is time to formulate their article critics, especially, they should be supported by reasonable arguments. The evaluators are in freedom to support the editor and the author to elevate, with their suggestions, the academic quality of the articles that they are evaluated. Also is a responsibility abstaining for using for their benefit the material, and in the same line, avoid belong processes that could derive any interest conflict. Finally, the journal aims that evaluators accomplish with the assigned times for the evaluation process and inform the editor about their possibility of review in a timely and suitable way the text that is invited to evaluate. 

Authors will be responsible for: authors should be regulated according to the publication guidelines and the ethics code that our journal embrace. According to this, the manuscripts must be originals, unpublished, and cannot be in the process of publication in another journal. As members of a research community, their texts should be regulated for the procedures that allow the development of the discipline in the scientific order, that is to say, their texts should provide verified and reliable data, complete references and sources, and the well development of the themes with the objective that other authors should confirm, discuss, or support the ideas that the author presents. Therefore, fake and wrong statements will not be tolerated by our journal. The manuscripts presented should give recognition for the authorship to the persons that participated on its construction and redaction, and in this sense, the main authors and coauthors should be included on the texts, should have approved the information that is going to be presented by the journal. Authors must respect the integrity of the communities that are participants of their research exercises and give guarantee presenting the formats that show the voluntary and worthy participation of the participants. Moreover, the data of the financial sources must be transparent. Finally, the author has the compromise to inform and notify the editor immediately any kind of mistake, inaccuracy, or imprecision that the manuscripts could have.

Claims

  • If once published an article: 1) the editor discovers plagiarism, mistakes that attempt to the quality or scientificity, he/she will request its removal or correction. 2) If a third person detects the mistake, it is the obligation of the author to publish an immediate retraction and the public correction.
  • During the edition process, authors must inform of any mistake or alteration in the manuscript; if the article has been published with such mistakes the author will request its removal or correction.

Procedure to resolve conflicts arising from unethical behavior

  • Identify faults supported with evidence before establishing an unethical behavior.
  • Hold back any decision or observation related to a specific situation that is under analysis until all evidence is gathered and there is no doubt regarding the fault
  • Present before the editorial committee the evidence for each situation according to the type of fault and actions to be taken for such action.

The possible actions are:

  • Inform the author about the situation, correct it and establish that it should not happen again.
  • Formal withdrawal with an editorial note informing the motive for this action and bringing attention to the importance of appropriate ethical practices.
  • Inform the financial, academic or commercial institutions about the situation and the consequences in order to promote appropriate ethical practices.

Copyright

  • Moral rights. The authors are acknowledged as creators of the piece and are protected under it. The author or authors may have additional rights in their articles as established in the agreement with the editor. Authors are morally and legally responsible for the content of their articles, as well as, respect for copyright. Therefore, these do not in any way compromise the committees, referees, editorial staff or Universidad Católica Luis Amigó.

 

License

The journal and the individual texts in this publication are protected by copyright laws and by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative-International 4.0. © 2019 Universidad Católica Luis Amigó. Licenses that go beyond of what is covered by this license can be found at http://www.funlam.edu.co/modules/fondoeditorial/

 

Frequency of publication

Lámpsakos journal is published semiannually. It is published during the periods January-June and June-December.

 

Reception of contributions

Ways and terms of reception. The purposed texts are sent through Open Journal System (OJS), management and publication software of journals that allows the follow up of the documents on different stages. The online deliveries request a username and password, that can be asked for in http://www.funlam.edu.co/revistas/index.php/rccs/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions. The journal will not receive printed articles neither partial versions of the text, that is to say, those texts that are not adjusted to the requirements described on the guide of authors.

The journal will give an answer maximum three days later of the reception of the document, but it is not a confirmation that the journal is going to publish the article.

The enqueries for the reference can be sent to the journal’s email (lampsakos@amigo.edu.co).

Authors’ compromises and right´s session. When the editor verifies the compliance of the minimum requirements, the editor will request the authors for: I). A declaration where the author confirms the article’s originality and that the article does not have evaluation processes in other journals. II). Do not move away from the article after the peers’ evaluation, if they determine the publication´s viability, even though in its actual state or with modifications. III). A declaration of the inexistence of conflict interests. The authors must manifest the cession of patrimonial rights to Universidad Católica Luis Amigó. IV). The authorization of personal data treatment.

Author´s data publication. When the article is sent, they are accepting the publication of the personal data related in the authors ‘note.

Authorization of personal data treatment. The Universidad Católica Luis Amigó as the responsible entity of the personal data treatment and giving compliance to Ley 1581 de 2012 and el decreto 1377 de 2013, manifests that the personal data of the members of comities, evaluators, and authors are included in the institutional databases and are only of university exclusive use. According to the privacy policy, that you can review at our webpage www.ucatolicaluisamigo.edu.co, the data are not shared to foreign people without the author’s permission. In addition, the university has the technological media to claim the data in safety and reliable way.

According to the last statement, is an obligation during the edition process to give the authorization to Universidad Católica Luis Amigó for the treatment of personal data, for the own university objectives.

Privacy declaration. All authors ‘data, committees, evaluators, and other members of Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales that are introduce in the OJS platform and/or in the articles will be used exclusively for the inclusion of the journal on the indexing and summary systems and the aims declared by the journal and they will not be available for other purposes or person.

Closing edition. The article´s reception is permanent, but the journal establishes as closing dates for the articles´ sections the second Friday of march for the corresponding number to the period July – December; and the second Friday of September for the number that is published in January – June. Sice those terms, the journal starts the process of correction, diagraming, and the other processes. Due to the high number of articles that the journal receives, the revision and evaluation activities are done in the order that the journal receive the papers, the time between the reception and the publication is six months.

Ethics committee approval. With the objective of evidence that the journal has the required permission of the juridical and natural persons related in the research, each article must send to the journal a copy of the ethics committee approval.

 

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

Lámpsakos magazine is a publication attached to the Faculty of Engineering of the Luis Amigó University Foundation, Medellín Colombia. It aims to disseminate original and unpublished articles as results of scientific and technological research in the areas of engineering. Its periodicity is semi-annual (published in June and December) with national and international reach, it has free online circulation access, published under standards of scientific rigor and editorial quality. For this purpose, it considers articles that meet the guidelines of this guide. For this reason, the continuity of the postulated texts is subject both to the understanding and acceptance of the authors of the journal's policies, and to the fulfillment of the criteria described below.

 

Academic training and affiliation of authors

Articles are received from authors with an academic level of specialization, masters, doctorate and postdoctoral degrees, and from postgraduate students who write in co-authorship with professors or qualified researchers at any of the mentioned levels.

To ensure institutional exogamy, the publication of texts by external authors to the Luis Amigó Catholic University will prevail, without downplaying the priority to the quality of the content.

Language and typology of articles

Articles may be original and unpublished, written in Spanish, English or Portuguese, as long as their structure responds to one of the types described by the Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation - Colciencias in the Indexing Guidance Document, issued in February 2010 (p. 7), which are cited in this section:

  1. Article of scientific and technological research. Document that presents, in detail, the original results of finished research projects. The structure contains six important parts: introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions and references.
  2. Reflection article derived from research. Document that presents results of finished research from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of the author, on a specific topic, using original sources.
  3. Review article. Document emerged from a finished investigation where the results of published or unpublished research on a field in science or technology are analyzed, systematized and integrated, in order to account for progress and development trends. It is characterized by presenting a careful literature review of at least 50 references.

Although the magazine privileges the three types of articles described above, it also considers:

  1. Case Report. Document that presents the results of a study on a particular situation in order to make public the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific case. It includes a commented systematic review of the literature on similar cases.
  2. Letters to the editor. Critical, analytical or interpretative positions on the documents published in the journal, which in the opinion of the Editorial Committee constitute an important contribution to the discussion of the topic by the scientific community of reference (Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation - Colciencias in the indexing guidance document, issued in February 2010 (pp. 7-8).

Each number will be headed by:

  1. Presentation. Document written by the editor; it accounts for the purposes of the magazine and the articles that make up the particular number.
  2. Editorial. Text that includes guidance and reflections on the thematic domain of the magazine written by a member of the committees or a guest researcher.

Exceptionally book reviews will be published, which should be written by a recognized author-researcher and be related to texts that are considered important for the disciplines covered by the magazine. By decision of the Editorial committee, reviews may take the place of the editorial.

Characteristics of document forms

Manuscripts wishing to participate in the calls must meet the following requirements:

  • Word format, in letter size.
  • 2 cm margins on each side.
  • Arial font size 10 single space in double column.
  • All figures and tables are placed within the text after they have been mentioned in the text (not before). Tables do not have lines separating cells.
  • The minimum length is 7,000 words and the maximum is 10,000, including tables, illustrations and notes, and except references.
  • Bibliographic numbering according to IEEE format. All citations in the manuscript must be noted in the bibliographic references. There should not be either isolated bibliographic references that are not cited within the body of the manuscript. Each article must include at least 15 bibliographic references of scientific quality, with their respective URL or DOI links.
  • The article title is written in capitals, bold and centered. The subtitles are written in bold and aligned to the left, with the first word in initial capital letter - the others in lower case, except for proper names. The titles will be bold, italic and capitalized only in the initial letter.

 

Citation and references structures

References are made up in IEEE format, http://www.ieee.org. The references are conformed by studies that are cited directly and indirectly along the text. It is important to verify that the authorship is respected about how the authors sign; it means that if they sign including two surnames, they should appear in both, cites and references. Also it is necessary to follow the authors ́ appearance in the consulted sources, because it obeys to the contribution extent in the research. The citation sequence in the references section should be done according to the alphabet order based on last name, instead of citation sequence itself in the article.

Short direct cite: it is when any author ́s idea is reproduced literally at 39 words maximum. No term of the text should be modified, and if any comment or addition is applied, it has to be put into brackets. A short cite should also be put into quotes, and followed by parenthesis in order to include the surnames of the authors, year, and number of pages where the direct cite was taken from. This kind of cites will never be written in italics and whichever emphasis should contain authorship (in both cases, if it comes from an original source or is just an emphasis). Example: “It is endlessly more comfortable for each one of us to think that wickedness is out of us [Italics], so we have nothing in common with the demons that have commited it” [1].

The corresponding reference is the following:

[1]   R. Yousefian y S. Kamalasadan, "A Lyapunov function based optimal hybrid power system controller for improved transient stability", Electric Power System Research, vol. 137, pp. 6-15, 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2016.03.042

 

Direct cites that surpass 40 words: This kind of cites are written in an isolated paragraph with no quotes or italics. With the purpose of an accurate identification for diagramming, in Lámpsakos journal, they are written in number 10 font, and no quotes. To conclude the cite, a period should be added before and after the reference in parenthesis.

Example:

People detection is done at the beginning of the guide application, when the robot is at the reception and waiting for any user. The detection algorithm verifies the presence of a face in the vision area, so if it detects one, the robot will start interaction by inviting the user to use its services. The user who wants to use the service will have to pose himself in front of the robot and use a touchpad functions, this will allow that the vision algorithm detects and saves the dominant color of the user that will be the closest to the robot. The facial detection algorithm works out at an average frequency of 10Hz  [3].

The corresponding reference is the following:

[3]   K. L. Luna, E. R. Palacios and A. Marín, “A Fuzzy Speed Controller for a Guide Robot Using an HRI Approach”, IEEE Latin America Transactions, vol. 16, no. 8, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TLA.2018.8528222

 

Paraphrasing or indirect cite: this type of cites take and reproduce ideas from an original source. However, the ideas are written on the author's words. They are used to expose general ideas. Example: El trabajo de [4] intenta potenciar una mirada objetiva del avance de la tecnología VoIP, con comparaciones actualizadas de diferentes servicios ofertados a la fecha.

The corresponding reference is the following:

[4] M. D. Núñez Cuadrado, C. A. Jativa Huilcapi y R. A. Lara Cueva, "Evaluación del desempeño de la tecnología VoIP en un set de servicio extendido, en concordancia con IEEE 802.11g," Sistemas y Telemática, vol. 5, no. 42, pp. 85-100, no. 46, pp. 28-35, 2017.

 

Books: citing this kind of reference implies to write; names initials, author ́s surname, title of the book in italics, edition, publication setting, publishing house, year of publication.

Examples:

[1]   R. G. Gallager. Principles of Digital Communication. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

Journal article: referencing implies to write; names initials and author ́s surname, title of the article among “quotes”, title of the journal in italics, volume (abbreviation vol.), number (abbreviation - no.), pages, (abbreviation pp.), year.

Examples:

[1]   G. Liu, K. Y. Lee, and H. F. Jordan, "TDM and TWDM de Brujin networks and suffflenets for optical communications," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 46, pp. 695-701, June 1997.

To reference papers that have not been accepted for publication, the following phrase should be used “admitted for publication”, instead of putting the date. If they have been accepted and not published yet, the phrase is “to be published”, instead of putting the date.

Articles published in lectures. Use the following format: name initials and author ́s surname (s), “Lecture article title”, full name of the lecture in italics, abbreviated name of the lecture (if it does exist), city, lecture host country, year, pages where the article will be found (abbreviated pp.).

Examples:

[1]   N. Osifchin and G. Vau, "Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union” CEE/FSU), in Second International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, 1997, pp. 9-16.

[2]   G. Caire, D. Burshtein, and S. Shamai (Shitz), "LDPC coding for interference mitigation at the transmitter," in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Allerton Conference in Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, Italia, october 2002, pp. 217-226.

NOTE: the word “in” before the title of the conference will be upright, instead of italics.

 

Article presented in a lecture, pending of publication. Use the following format: name initials and author ́s surname, “Title of the lecture”, include the word -presented at-, full name of the lecture in italics, abbreviated name of the lecture (if it does exist), city and lecture host country, year.

Example:

[3]   H. A. Nimr, "Defuzzification of the outputs of fuzzy controllers", presented at 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

 

Technical reports (internal documents, memoranda, reports): to reference in this way, use: name initials and author ́s surname, “Title of the report”, name of the company, company's branch, type of report (abbreviated), report number, date of publication.

Example:

[4]   K. E. Elliot and C. M. Greene, "A local adaptive protocol", Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, France, Tech. Rep. 916-1010-BB, 1997.

Doctoral or master's thesis: to reference this kind of text, follow the next route: name initials and author ́s surname, “Title of the thesis or project”, type of document (PhD thesis, master ́s thesis, etc.), Department, Academic Institution, city, country, year.

Example:

[5]   H. Zhang, "Delay-insensitive networks", master thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canadá, 1997.

[6]   J.-C. Wu. "Rate-distortion analysis and digital transmission of nonstationary images", doctoral dissertation, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA, 1998.

When the text is taken from the internet, use: name initials and author ́s surname (year, month, day), title, edition.

Example:

[7]   J. Jones. (1991, May 10). Networks (2nd ed.) http://www.atm.com

NOTE: resources that are taken from the internet can be widely varied (journals, monographs, corporate web sites, databases, etc.). They should be cited like the printed document to which they make part, adding the word DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or URL.

Catalogues: to cite catalogues, use: Catalogue No., Catalogue code, the name of the product, Company, City, State.

Example:

[8]   Catalog no. NWM-1, Microwave Components, M. W. Microwave Corp., Brooklyn, New York.

 

Standards or patents: to cite this kind of document, use: name initials and author ́s surname, “Title of the patent”, number, month, day, year.

Example:

[9]   K. Kimura and A. Lipeles, "Fuzzy Controller Component,"; U. S. Patent 14,860,040, December 14, 1996.

 

Article delivery:

  • The articles should be sent through the Open Journal of the journal: http://www.funlam.edu.co/revistas/index.php/lampsakos/user/register, do the registration of databases required there.
  • The information required should never be written in all caps.
  • Proper and single names are written in initial capital letters.
  • Make sure of inserting references correctly, according to IEEE rules.
  • It is important to verify that authorship guide is followed.
  • Read the behavior policies; there you should agree on participating in editing and publication processes, which include not only documentation supply, but also authorization for personal data management and improvements to the proposal of publication.
  • If the article has been sent to another journal previously, this information should be commented in “Comments to editor”.
  • If any inconsistency about the text delivery, it should be reported at: lampsakos@amigo.edu.co

 

Trial revisions

If an article has been accepted for publication after peer-evaluation, the next step will be to make the necessary corrections about publication guidelines. The document should be sent to the authors for the corresponding revision, approval or comments, so diagramming is able for the next step. Once the article is diagrammed, it will be sent to the authors with the purpose of revising typing mistakes. Content editing and material addition will not be allowed in any case.