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.- All authors must indicate their ORCID when registered. In case you do not own an ORCID code, follow the steps at https://orcid.org/signin
- The authors must send the reference of three specialists in their line of research, these must be external to your work institution (for example, if you work for the University of Costa Rica, the people you recommend must belong to institutions other than this university); people with international affiliations to avoid conflicts of interest between authors and the possible reviewers. The information shared by these people must include name, academic degree, institutional affiliation, email, and specialty. The Revista Ingeniería reserves the right to assign these suggested people as peer reviewers.
- Please, fill and attach the file “Publication authorization form”, which you can find at https://inii.ucr.ac.cr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2020-05-18-Publication-authorization-form.docx
- The manuscript has not been published or sent yet to any other journal (unless an explanation has been provided on the section Comments to the Editor)
- The autor/authors accepts a grammar and style review from a philologist. Otherwise, the author/authors provide a letter declaring that the document has been previously reviewed by another philologist or that the manuscript meets these requirements.
- The authors must generate a supplementary document, which must be sent with the draft of the manuscript. The roles in which each of the authors has participated should be detailed. Each author can have multiple roles and each role can be used in different authors. (See taxonomy, final part of copyright section)
Copyright Notice
In order to be considered an author, the researcher must:
- Has contributed substantially in the conception or design of the research, or in the interpretation of the data.
- Has taken part in the design of the research or in the critical study of the content.
- Has taken part in the approval of the final version of the work.
- Be able to answer any question that the published work may raise.
- An “author” must meet all of the above considerations (adapted from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/translations/spanish2015.pdf)
Authors wishing to publish in this journal agree with the following terms:
- Authors conserve the copyrights over their work and let the journal be the first publication venue for their manuscripts.
- Authors agree with the Creative Commons Attribution License established by the journal which allows them to distribute their work by mentioning the initial journal where the work was published.
- Authors can establish separate agreements for non-exclusive distribution of their work (i.e. work repository) by mentioning the journal as the initial publication venue.
- Authors may publish their works electronically (e.g. in institutional repositories or in their own website) only after the journal approves and publishes the manuscript.
- As of Fascicle 26 No.1 of 2016; copyrights are the property of the authors of the documents. Prior to that date, editorial policies indicated that this right belonged to Engineering: Journal of the University of Costa Rica.
Contributor Roles Taxonomy
- Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
- Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
- Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
- Funding acquisition - Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
- Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
- Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
- Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
- Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
- Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
- Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
- Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
- Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
- Writing – original draft – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
- Writing – review & editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
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