ISSN 0121-7488
printed version

ISSN-e 2462-7658
online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Statement of ethics
• Sending of manuscripts

Ciencia en Desarrollo is a Journal edited by Research and Extension Center of Sciences Faculty of the pedagical and technological university of Colombia, its an open Access Journal which publishes research articles  in the field of basic sciences; this includes researches related with: Biology-ecology, enviromental, materials and energy, foods, biotechnology, theoritical and experimental physics,  statistical and mathematic models of direct interest and impact in the basic sciences. Ciencia en Desarrollo is submitted through  a double-blind review from judges  of all received articles written in Spanish and also in english. Ciencia en Desarrollo publishes two Journals  every year.

Peer evaluation process:

The editorial team will evaluate each other manuscripts received and wether it is within the scope of the journal and complies with the instructions for authors, it will be named anonymous evaluators (at least two) who are experts in the subject, preferably external to the publishing entity. Once evaluated by reviewers through double blind way, the editorial team of the journal will decide on the acceptance or not of the manuscript for publication.

Open access policy:

This journal provides an open access to the consultation and download of its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The authors will maintain the author's moral right on their articles.

Policy of Screening for Plagarism:

Science in Development uses Turnitin software to review and detect possible cases of plagiarism in articles.

Author Templates

Ciencia en Desarrollo will receive 25 pages maximum articles with A4 size, the titles and subtitles needs to be in Calibri 12 and bold. The content should have a font size 11. Biological and Chemical sciences articles are receive in Word or Latex format; Physical and mathematical sciences articles will be receive only in Latex format. The Authors can download the respective template in the section of guidelines for preparing your article in our website. 

Title:  it needs to beinformative, precise, short(no more than 12 words),without any initials and without shortcuts. It would be in the middle of the top part of the page, in Capital letter, Font size 14 and bolt.  In separate line will be the english version of title and if it is the case the subtitle. 

Authors:  it will include names and complete last names preceded by a lowercase letters and superscript are included. As a footnote it will include an academic degree, and an institutional filiation( department, faculty, university or institution) and an email adress of the corresponding autor will be indicated with an asterisk are include.

Abstract: it will stablish short and concise words with all fundamental basic points of the work, which it would be from 150 up to  200 words, with his respective english traduction, its traduction needs to be correct and accurate according with the original language abstract. 

Keywords: must be select up to seven keywords, separated by comma and with an alphabetic order. 

Body of the manuscript: The principal manuscript components need to be separated by sections with an accurate use of titles and subtitles, as required by organization and logical development of material. The principal text must be integrated by introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, references. If the autor wishes can includ anothe section for the acknowledgement. 

The foodnotes need to be order by a consecutive number  because the will be used for clarifications, comments, discutions by the author(s).

The footnotes with an asterisk will be used for clarification notes for the editorial commitee or the traductor in case they needed.

 Equations: must be presented with their corresponding Arabic numerals consecutively in parenthesis, aligned to the right side and in the middle. In the main text will be cited using the shortcut Word Ec. , followed by the Arabic numeral in parenthesis. The symbols used in the equations must be described inmediately after the equation used for the first time. 

Quantities and units:in numerical quantities reported in the text, as equations, tables or figures, will be used comma (,) to separate thousands, and dot (.) to indicate decimals. The units of measure will be expressed using the metric system and points after each abbreviation (g. m. km., etc.). When numbers are used will remain a space (10 g., 100 m.). Symbols or abbreviations shall be in lowercase, except the Kelvin unit of temperature (K), centigrade degrees symbol (°C), the ampere unite of electric current (A), the unit of molar concentration (M) and the unit of litre (L), or any unit that requires that.

Tables and figures: must contain enough information for explain themselves. The look includes 3 or 4 data groups by figure; well selected scales, axis labels of adequate size, visually clear symbols, and data groups easy to differentiate.

They must be cited in the text, listed by order of appearance. The tables must be headed by a brief and informative title, including the word Table (in italic and bold) followed by the corresponding consecutive Arabic numeral. The columns in the table should have headers; only horizontal lines should be used to separate the entries of tables and not vertical lines should be used to separate the columns in the table, moreover, should not duplicate information given in figures.

In the case of figures, in foot or label of each one will include the Word Figure (in italic and bold), followed by the corresponding consecutive Arabic number, with a brief description of the content of the figure. They should be prepared to be printed in black and White using different symbols or lines in the charts and figures that are used.

In the event that any figure is taken from another author and, therefore, protected by copyright, all data for the respective credit, along with the written authorization of the author or Publisher of the original publication must be attached.

Acknowledgements

The acknowledgements come at the end of an article after the conclusions and before the notes and references. 

Notes and references

Footnotes relating to the main text should appear here. These might include comments relevant to but not central to the matter under discussion, limited experimental and spectral data, and crystallographic data, etc., the list of the references must be carried out following the style IEEE.

Citation in monographs: initials and surname, title of the book in italics, edition. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication.
Examples:
[1] J. Jarvis, Y Google, ¿cómo lo haría?. Barcelona: Gestión, 2010.
[2] M.E. Holzschlag, La Biblia de HTML, 2ª ed. Madrid: Anaya, 2000.

Citation of a technical manual: Title of the manual, edition. Name of the company, headquarters of the company, year of publication.
Example:
[3] Motorola Semiconductor Data Manual, Motorola Semiconductor Products Inc., Phoenix, AZ, 2009.

Citation of technical reports: initials and surname of the author, “The report title quoted”, company name, headquarters of the company, type of abbreviated report, report number, date of publication. Example:
[4] E. E. Reber, “Oxygen absorption in the earth’s atmosphere”, Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles, CA, Tech. Rep. TR-0200 (4230-46)-3, Nov. 2008.

Citation of a book chapter: initials and surname of the author, “Title of the chapter quoted”. In Title of the book in italics, initials and surname of the editor, compiler, etc. Publisher: place of publication, year of publication, pages (abbreviated pp.).
Example:
[5] L. Stein, “Random patterns”, in Computers and You, J. S. Brake, Ed. New York: Wiley, 2004, pp. 55-70.

Citation of a journal article: initial and surname of the author, “Title of the article quoted”, abbreviated title of magazine in italics, volume (abbreviated vol.), abbreviated number (nº), pages (pp.), month and year.
Examples:
[6] W. Rafferty, “Ground antennasin NASA’S deep space telecommunications”, Proc. IEEE vol. 82, pp.
636-640, May 1994.
[7] R. E. Kalman, “New results in linear filtering and prediction theory” J. Basic Eng., ser. D, vol. 83, pp. 95-108, Mar. 1961.

Citation of an Internet resource: resources on the Internet can present a varied typology: journals, monographs, portals, databases, etc. In general, they cite as printed documents, adding the indication [online] and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which usually corresponds to the URL.
Examples:
[8] J. Lau, Directrices internacionales para la alfabetización informativa [online]. México:Universidad
Veracruzana, 2004 Disponible en: http://bivir.uacj.mx/dhi/DoctosNacioInter/Docs/Directrices.pdf
[9] E. H. Miller, “A note on reflector arrays”, [online] IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 53, pp. 475,
2005. Disponible en: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1549967&tag=1

Citation of unpublished documents: initials and surname of the autor, “Title in quotation marks”, type of document (doctoral thesis, work for college degree, etc.), academic institution, department, city and year.
Examples:

[10] L.M. Moreno, “Computación paralela y entornos heterogéneos”, Tesis doctoral, Dep. Estadística, Investigación Operativa y Computación, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, 2005
[11] J. O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer”, Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 2003.

Patents citation: initials and surname of the author, “Title of the patent in quotation marks”, number, month, day and year. Example:
[12] J. P. Wilkinson, “Nonlinear resonant circuit devices”, U.S. Patent 3 624 125, July 16, 1990.

Citation of regulations or technical standards: The standard title in italics, number, year. Example:
[13] Referencias bibliográficas: contenido, forma y estructura, UNE 50-104-94, 1994

All information provided by referees is confidential and it will not be used for any different than the conduct of the evaluation process. Reviewer experts will be covered by principles of confidentiality and no conflict of interest.

Authors

1. Manuscripts submitted to Revista Ciencia en Desarrollo must be original and not be sent simultaneously to another journal in any language (see Author Instructions).
2. Submitting articles implies that all authors express their agreement for possible publication in Ciencia en Desarrollo.
3. Confirm that the manuscript submitted is agree with internationally accepted ethical standards. The Revista Ciencia en Desarrollo assumes that the results have been obtained with the approval of the Ethics or Bioethics committee of the institution submitting the proposal; however, in the case that any referee require it, authors should supply the respective support.
4. The authors transfer the publishing rights to the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia and Revista Ciencia en Desarrollo in its printed and online forms.
5. Provide information about research funding.
6. Report immediately to the editor if an error is identified in the article.
7. Collaborate with the editor to publish an erratum if required.

The document must be send to the website Open Journal System from our Journal, entering http://www.uptc.edu.co/enlacaes/rcienciaed, where you can find the political and characteristics of our publication.  There you register as an user filling out the request and deciding if your participation on the Journal will be  as a Reader  or as an Author, stablishing  your language and topic.  

To submit your article, select Author  in the link home and follow the instructions that are stablish in there. This article needs to have a certifying letter with the originality of the work , declarating that you are transfering to the Journal copyright and reproduction patrimonial rights according to the templates and suggesting list up to four possible  referees ( experts in thematic field, these people must be out of the editing institution and they need to have recent published articles) with his respective e-mails adresses. Its letter must be attached  to complementary file at the time you send the manuscript.