Submissions
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the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The article is unpublished: it has not been previously published, accepted, or submitted for publication in any other journal or website.
- The article is original: the text is the result of a research process and has been reviewed by peers prior to submission for publication.
- The file submitted is in Microsoft Word format and strictly follows the Author Guidelines of the journal.
- The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Guidelines for Authors.
- All figures and tables are placed within the text in their corresponding locations, not at the end of the document.
- If the article is approved for publication, the author(s) commit to making the modifications suggested by the editor, reviewers, and copy editor within the deadlines established as a requirement for publication.
- If the article is approved for publication, the author(s) authorize the journal to edit and disseminate the article by any means—printed, electronic, or through scientific databases.
- By submitting manuscripts for review and publication in the journal, the author(s) accept the Author Guidelines and assume full ethical, factual, and conceptual responsibility for the content of the article. Likewise, the content, quotations, references, hyperlinks, and graphic and/or audiovisual material used by the author(s) are their sole responsibility and do not generate any commitment or liability from the journal or the institution. The opinions and judgments expressed by contributors do not represent the institutional philosophy.
Research Articles
Present original results derived from research processes that generate new knowledge relevant to the field of social sciences, thus contributing to the strengthening of the discipline. These manuscripts must clearly identify the research problem, summarize the most recent approaches in the literature, explicitly describe the employed methodology (design, type of study, population, sample, data collection instruments, and data analysis techniques), present the main findings, and discuss them in relation to existing literature, concluding with the main implications of the study.
Review Article
Constitute a rigorous exercise through which the author presents advances and trends in a specific topic—within the scope of the social sciences—by systematizing, integrating, and analyzing the published literature. This type of article must include a clear methodological approach and a sufficient number of bibliographic references supporting the review, which for the journal must not be fewer than 50 references.
Reflection Articles
Are contributions that present the results of completed research projects from an analytical, critical, or interpretative perspective of the author, regarding a specific topic, and are supported by relevant bibliographic sources.
Copyright Notice
Authors declare, under oath, that:
a) the article is unpublished and has not been previously published, accepted, or submitted for publication elsewhere;
b) the article is original and the result of a research process;
c) if the manuscript is approved for publication, the authors commit to implementing the changes suggested by reviewers within the established timeframe;
d) if approved, the authors authorize the Journal to edit and disseminate the article through any medium, whether printed or electronic.
Furthermore, the authors irrevocably assign all economic rights over the ARTICLE to the Fundación Universitaria Católica del Norte. Consequently, the institution will be the sole holder of the reproduction, distribution, public communication, and transformation rights of the ARTICLE, with the right to reproduce, distribute, and make it publicly available—totally or partially, in unlimited copies and at no cost—in any format, including but not limited to print, PDF, XML, and HTML, through electronic, print, internet, or other current or future media. The article may also be included in international indexes and databases.
Authors also agree to hold harmless the Fundación Universitaria Católica del Norte from any legal, extrajudicial, or administrative claims related to copyright ownership over the ARTICLE. They will defend the institution against any claims concerning originality, authorship, or copyright, covering all associated legal fees, arbitration costs, or indemnities, as applicable. Opinions or judgments expressed by the authors do not represent the institutional philosophy.
In accordance with the journal’s editorial policies, the Fundación Universitaria Católica del Norte authorizes self-archiving or deposit of the ARTICLE upon acceptance, in its post-print (editorial) version, on personal websites and in institutional or thematic repositories.
All texts published in this journal, starting from 2019, are under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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