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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission is in Microsoft Word format; and all illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in the corresponding place and not at the end of the document.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • All editorial guidelines, rules and policies have been read.
  • The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
  • All information (names, surnames, affiliation, emails and others) that allows the identification of the authors of the work has been eliminated from the manuscript.

Author Guidelines

INTRODUCTION

The Revista de Investigación Tecnológica ISTCT has biannual periodical publications whose objective is to contribute to scientific and technological knowledge, through the publication of scientific research articles, applied research articles and review articles related to electronics majors, electricity, automotive mechanics and industrial mechanics.

TYPES OF PUBLICATIONS

All publications are refereed under the modality of external peer review, double blind, where the identity of both the authors and the reviewers will remain anonymous.
Scientific research articles.- They are complete articles (4000 - 10000 words) resulting from original and innovative research, without necessarily implying the development or implementation of associated technology.
Applied research articles.- They are complete articles (4000 - 10000 words) resulting from original and innovative applied research. These will necessarily involve the development or implementation of associated technology.
Review articles.- They are complete reviews (7000 - 10000 words) of the state of the art in a specific area or topic related to original and novel research.

CHECKLISTS

The importance of the authors making a prior review of compliance with the "Checklist for the preparation of shipments" described in the corresponding section is highlighted.
We ask the authors to ensure that they have the following additional elements prior to submission:
• The manuscript (full text of the article) has been uploaded in editable format (including mathematical formulas), including all tables and figures in the corresponding place (including titles, description, footnotes, etc.).
• Any element that identifies the authors (names, affiliations, e-mails, etc.) has been removed from the manuscript.
• Keywords have been included.
• A summary of no more than 150 characters has been included.
• The spelling and grammar of the manuscript has been checked.
• All references mentioned in the "Reference List" are cited in the text, and vice versa.
• The "Front Page" document has been loaded including:
a) Full names, emails, ORCID and affiliations of each of the authors in the corresponding order. Once the article is accepted, the addition, elimination or reordering of the authors cannot be made.
b) Full names and email of the author for correspondence.

FORMAT REQUIREMENTS

The manuscript format and references can be found at the following link:

* Formato artículo científico
 
Without prejudice to the established format, the authors may incorporate the sections that they consider corresponding, as long as at least the following are guaranteed: Summary, Keywords, Introduction, Materials / Methods, Results, Conclusions. The mathematical formulas and tables should be in editable format (not as images) within the full text of the manuscript.
 
CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
 
Authors must disclose any financial or personal relationship with other people or organizations that may inappropriately influence their work. All authors through the checklist must declare the non-existence of this type of conflict.
 
EDITORIAL PROCCESS
 
1. Authors may send their manuscripts within the term of the calls published for this purpose.
2. The editor-in-chief will conduct editorial verification to accept or reject publications sent to the journal prior to external peer review. Said verification will be carried out in accordance with the guidelines previously established by the magazine. As the case may be, at the discretion of the editor-in-chief, the associate editors, members of the editorial body, may carry out the editorial verification and extend the respective recommendation. As part of the editorial verification, the plagiarism detection process will be carried out through the PlagScan Pro tool (License 20190410150913) or another that is available to the journal, the accepted percentage being less than or equal to 20% for the reviewer.
3. After the editorial verification, the submissions will be sent to the respective review by external peers under the double-blind modality for the corresponding recommendation. This process can be done in more than one round.
4. Once the editorial verification and external peer review stage has been passed, the editor-in-chief will make the decision to accept or deny publication of the manuscript.
5. Finally, the respective layout work will be carried out prior to publication.

Copyright Notice

COPYRIGHT

The ISTCT Technological Research journal is an Open Access publication, whose contents are disseminated under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial license (CC-BY NC 4.0 International). All articles published in the ISTCT Technological Research journal are published in Open Access and are available online for free immediately after publication.

This journal provides metadata for third-party indexing services through the open files initiative.

The ISTCT Technological Research journal recognizes and respects the moral rights of the authors, as well as the ownership of the patrimonial right, which will be transferred non-exclusively to the journal to allow its legal dissemination in Open Access.

The ISTCT Technological Research journal does not reserve the rights to publish articles. Authors may distribute their own material in any other medium or medium, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes, informing the editors that the work will be published again and giving the corresponding credit to the ISTCT Technological Research journal.

Authors can make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the distribution of the article published in this journal (e.g., include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was published for the first time in "ISTCT Technological Research Magazine". In the case of reproduction, a note similar to the following must be included:


"This text was originally published in REVISTA DE INVESTIGACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA ISTCT N ° -, section -----, number of pages, year of publication."

Authors are recommended to publish their work on the Internet (for example on institutional or personal pages) in the final version published by REVISTA DE INVESTIGACIÓN TECNOLÓGICA ISTCT, as it may lead to a greater and faster dissemination of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).

The publications in this magazine, due to their free nature, do not entitle the authors to any financial remuneration.

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