Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors interested in publishing in Revista Metropolitana de Ciencias Aplicadas may send their contributions from the following email address: revista@umet.edu.ec

In our journal we will only accept unpublished works that are not committed to other serial publications. The language of publication will be Spanish; Articles in English and Portuguese will be accepted if one of the authors comes from a country where that language is spoken, or if they have been translated by a professional translator.

The types of contributions that will be accepted are: Scientific articles resulted from social research, specialized essays with reflexive and critical approach, reviews and bibliographic reviews.

Contributions can be written in Microsoft Office Word (".doc" or ".docx"), using Verdana letter, 10 points, single line spacing. The sheet will have the dimensions 21.59 cm x 27.94 cm (letter format). The upper and lower margins will be 2.5 cm and the right and left margins will be 2 cm.

Structure of the manuscripts

The contributions sent to the editing of the journal will have the following structure:

• Extension between 12 and 15 pages.

• Title in Spanish and English (15 words maximum).

• Name (fullname) and surnames of each of the authors.

• Institution, email and ORCID identifier. The authors who lack this personal identifier must register at https://orcid.org/register

• Abstract in Spanish and English (not to exceed 200 words) and keywords (from three to ten in Spanish and English)

• Introduction, in which the methodological design of the investigation is excluded; Materials and methods; Results and discussion, for research articles, the rest of the contributions will have a Development instead of these two sections; Conclusions, never listed; and Bibliographical references. In case of having Annexes will be included at the end of the document.

Other formal aspects

• The pages will be listed in the lower right corner.

• The tables will be listed according to their order of appearance and their title will be placed at the top.

• The images will not exceed 100 Kb, nor will have a width greater than 10 cm. They will be delivered in a separate folder in image format: .jpg or .png. In the text they should be listed, according to their order and their name will be placed at the bottom.

• The acronyms will accompany the text that defines it the first time, in parentheses and will not be conjugated in the plural.

• The notes will be located at the bottom of the page and will be numbered with Arabic numbers. They will have an extension of up to 60 words.

• The annexes will support ideas raised in the work and will be mentioned in the text as follows: see Annex 1 or (Annex 1).

Quotes and bibliographical references

The quotes and bibliographical references will be adjusted to the style of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7^th edition, 2019. The veracity of the quotes and bibliographical references will be the responsibility of the author or authors of the article. At least 10 sources from the last five years must be used, with the exception of the classics of that area of knowledge. In the case of sources that are scientific articles, should be preferably used those that come from indexed scientific journals.

In the text, the quotes will be marked as: Surname (year), if the sentence includes the surname (s) of the author (s). If these data are not included, the used variant will be: (Surname, year). Only the page number will be included in textual citations. At the end of the article, only those quoted in the text will be mentioned, arranged alphabetically with French indentation.

As follows, it is explained for each type of source, the way in which it should be referenced.

Book

Surnames, A. A., & Surnames, B. B. (Year). Title. Editorial.

Example:

Cruz Ramírez, M. (2009). El método Delphi en las investigaciones educacionales. Academia.

Book parts

Surnames, A. A., & Surnames, B. B. (Year). Title of the chapter or the entry. In, A. A. Surname, Title of the book. (pp-pp). Editorial.

Example:

Picó, F. (2004). Arecibo, sol y sereno. In, F. Feliú Matilla, 200 años de literatura y periodismo: 1803-2003. (pp. 129-134). Ediciones Huracán.

Journal article

Surnames, A. A., Surnames, B. B., & Surnames, C. C. (Date). Article title. Title of the publication, volume(number), xx-xx.

Example:
López, L. B. (2006). La búsqueda bibliográfica: componente clave del proceso de investigación. DIAETA, 24(115), 31-37.

Thesis

Surnames, A. A. (Year). Title of the thesis. (Type of thesis). Name of the institution.

Example:

Van Hiele, P. M. (1957). El problema de la comprensión: En conexión con la comprensión de los escolares en el aprendizaje de la geometría. (Doctoral Thesis). Universidad Real de Utrecht.

Presentation

Surnames, A. A., Surnames, B. B., & Surnames, C. C. (Year). Title of the paper. (Type of contribution). Name of the event. City, Country.

Example:

Rozemblum, C., Unzurrunzaga, C., Pucacco, C., & Banzato, G. (2012). Parámetros de evaluación para la inclusión e indización de revistas científicas en bases de datos locales e internacionales. Análisis sobre su aporte a la calidad de las publicaciones de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. (Presentation). VII Jornadas de Sociología de la UNLP. La Plata, Argentina.

Audiovisual media

Surname, A. of the director. (Date). Source Title (Media type). Producer company.

Example:

Cameron, J. (1997). Titanic (Movie) 20th Century Fox.

Electronic sources

Surnames, A. A. (Year). Title of the source. Name of the Web site. URL

Example:
Bruguera i Payà, E. (2012). Proceso de búsqueda y localización de información por Internet. UOC. http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/17829/1/UW07_00071_02418.pdf

Institutional author

Printed

Country name. Name of the institution. (Year). Title of the source. editorial.

Example:

Ecuador. Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo. (2013). Plan Nacional de Desarrollo / Plan Nacional para el Buen Vivir 2013-2017. SENPLADES.

On line

Country name. Name of the institution. (Year). Title of the source. URL

Example:

Ecuador. Asamblea Nacional Constituyente. (2008). Constitución Política de la República del Ecuador. Registro Oficial 449. https://www.cec-epn.edu.ec/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Constitucion.pdf

Unpublished manuscript

Surnames, A. A., Surnames, B. B., & Surnames, C. C. (Date). Title of the source. (manuscript status). Institution.

Example:

León González, J. L., López Bastida, E. J., & Mora Quintana, E. C. (2019). Impacto y visibilidad de las revistas científicas de la Universidad de Cienfuegos. (Unpublished manuscript). Universidad de Cienfuegos.

Notes:

The journal does not charge for send or publication, nor does it commit itself to reward the authors, since they give it the right to publish their articles.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to make style corrections and changes which it considers relevant for improving article quality.