Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission complies with all of the following elements. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

• The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the editor).
• The submission file is in a Microsoft Word document file in accordance with Pro Sciences' format and template. We will reject your manuscript if it does not comply with the journal's format and template.
• Where available, URLs for references were provided. The order of citation in the text should be reviewed according to the order of appearance in the text, i.e., starting from alphabetical order.
• The text has single line spacing; 12-point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.
• Check your similarity index (similarity checker software); all submissions must be below 15%, and matches from a single source must not exceed 3%. Remove your work from the Turnitin/iThenticate repository before submitting it to Pro Sciences.
• The structure of the manuscript consists of four chapters:
  • • INTRODUCTION
    • MATERIALS AND METHODS
    • RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Please refer to the template correctly; a review of a different structure will be rejected.

Guidelines for authors

ARTICLE FORMAT

Document length

Articles must be between 15 and 24 pages long, double-spaced, with margins of 2.5 cm (top and bottom) and 3 cm (left and right). Only in the case of review articles, the 15 pages do not include bibliographical references.

Presentation format

Articles submitted must be unpublished works written in Spanish or English and must be typed in Microsoft Word, complying with the following guidelines:

• 12-point Times New Roman font.
• Double-spaced columns.
• Margins of 2.5 cm (top and bottom) and 3 cm (left and right).
• Paragraphs should be justified.
• Do not include page breaks or section breaks.
• If you wish to highlight words or phrases in the text, do not use bold type, but italics.
• Decimals should be indicated with a comma (,) and not a period.
• Thousands and millions should be indicated with a thin space.
• Avoid footnotes.
• Arabic numerals should be used up to the third level only.

Document structure

Papers must have the following structure and meet the following requirements:

Composition of an article

All articles submitted for evaluation and possible publication by the Journal must have at least the following components:

• Title in English and Spanish (mandatory).
• Abstract in English and Spanish (mandatory).
• Keywords in English and Spanish (mandatory).
• Introduction (mandatory).
• Development (mandatory).
• Conclusions (mandatory).
• Bibliographic references.
• Funding
• Conflict of interest
• Authorship contribution
• Conclusions (mandatory).
• Future work (optional).
• Acknowledgments (optional).
• Bibliographic references.

METHODOLOGICAL STRUCTURE:

TITLE:

• Maximum 25 words.
• Summarize the key result. Abbreviations, acronyms, and jargon are not permitted.
• Times New Roman font, bold, font size 16.

ABSTRACT:

Presented in a structured manner in Spanish and English and in a single paragraph (French), with a length of 250 words. Its content will concisely describe the reason and objective of the research, the methodology used, the most notable results, and the main conclusions and/or recommendations that can be drawn from the work. The novel and relevant aspects of the work will be emphasized. It should be written in the past tense, in an impersonal tone, and without abbreviations, references to the main text, footnotes, bibliographic references, or descriptions of quantitative data.

What is included in the abstract must be in the body of the work. It should not contain citations, tables, references, abbreviations, or mathematical expressions.

Keywords: include between 3 and 5 keywords, which may be compound and related to the topic, separated by semicolons.

ABSTRACT:

it must be a correct translation into English, respecting the same characteristics as the Spanish abstract.

KEYWORDS:

relevant terms in English, separated by semicolons.

INTRODUCTION:

It is essential to present the context of the topic of study, highlighting its relevance and topicality. A brief review of the relevant literature should be included, incorporating previous research related to the topic, in order to identify gaps in knowledge and justify the need for the present research. It is also crucial to clearly formulate the objective of the study and the research question that will guide the development of the work (if a research question is necessary, depending on the type of study). Finally, an overview of the structure of the article should be provided in order to prepare the reader for the content that will be addressed throughout the document.

METHODOLOGY:

• Describe precisely the procedure used to obtain the results, as well as the resources used in the process
• The characteristics of the subjects or the material used.
• Detail the techniques and tools used in such a way that they can be reproduced.
• How it was done: to what or where it was applied.
• Detail the statistical methods used.
• It is entirely descriptive and should be written in the past tense.
• It does not include bibliographic citations unless the method used is very extensive and you do not want to repeat it in detail.

RESULTS:

• They are presented in a logical sequence and do not interpret the observations.
• The main findings of the research are described in concrete terms. Measurement or quantification data may be presented to complement the information.
• Tables and figures shall have their corresponding captions (by whom they were prepared and source).
• There is a restriction of 5 between graphs and tables.

DISCUSSION:

• The researcher's interpretation of the results is presented, comparing them with other studies, stating their advantages and contributions, and avoiding laudatory adjectives.
• Analysis of novel aspects contributed by the research.
• Implications of the results.
• Data or information already presented in the INTRODUCTION and RESULTS sections is not repeated.
• Each result must be discussed separately and in the same order in which they were presented.
• It must be written in the past tense.

CONCLUSIONS:

• The aspects developed in the introduction and results are not repeated.
• They are consistent with the objectives of the work and must therefore be written separately.

REFERENCES:

• All references in the text must appear in this section and vice versa.
• No fewer than 15 bibliographies, with more than 50% updated in the last 5 years.
• Self-citations should not exceed 20%.
• They are presented according to the recommendations of the APA Standards.

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