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 author(s) have read carefully the guidelines and indications for authors provided in https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/innovar/about/submissions
Note: These guidelines establish the minimum aspects of quality and form in the presentation of ideas, which will be checked by the Editorial Team in the editorial review stage, prior to the formal acceptance of the document to begin the evaluation. If you have any doubts about the stages of the editorial process, we invite you to consult the stages of the editorial process and the workflow. About
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Does your paper fall within the disciplinary fields of management or accounting, or within the social sciences that have some implication in the study of organizations?
We remind you that these are the disciplinary fields of interest of this journal. If your paper deviates from these disciplinary fields, your application may be rejected for lack of thematic relevance to Innovar. If you have doubts about the thematic relevance of your paper, you can consult the Editorial Team before submitting your paper.
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Does your document fall within the document typologies that the journal indicates in its guidelines for authors?
These are: research article, review article, reflection article, reviews. If you have doubts about these document typologies, you can read more information here If you think that this list leaves out the typology of your document, please contact the Editorial Team before submitting your paper. Eventually, Innovar accepts and publishes other types of documents such as essays, position papers, letters to the editor, among others.
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Is your document original and unpublished?
Innovar checks the originality and unpublishedness of the submitted documents. Please refrain from submitting a paper that has already been published, in whole or in part, in a scholarly source with ISBN, ISSN or DOI. In case of originality and uneditedness problems, we will resort to the provisions of the COPE and the Elsevier Research Ethics Manual.
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Is the document submitted to Innovar simultaneously under evaluation in another journal or academic dissemination media?
Papers submitted for evaluation in Innovar cannot be under evaluation in another medium simultaneously. If this ethical misconduct is identified, the Innovar editorial board, the editorial board of the identified source and the institution of the author(s) will be notified. The document will be automatically rejected from the editorial process and the editorial committee will consider any sanction to the author(s).
- Authors must be researchers, experts in the field, or with a minimum of postgraduate studies. A maximum of five authors per paper are accepted.
- Title of the article: it must be concise and correspond to the content, without failing to specifically point out the subject or matter studied. It is recommended that it be between twelve and twenty words. The use of a non-numerical note is also recommended to indicate any clarification about the work (derivation of a research project, financing, acknowledgements, among others).
- The abstract should have a maximum of 210 words in the original language of the article. It is suggested that abstracts contain the following elements: a brief introduction to the subject-problem, objective of the work, methodology, results and main contributions. Abstracts should present the above key elements in a precise and brief manner, without unnecessary data. They should not contain tables, figures or references. Their objective is to accurately reflect the content of the article.
- Keywords should be at least five keywords. It suggested that these words appear in the title and/or abstract of the paper.
- Three codes from the Journal of Economic Literature Classification (JEL Classification) must be specified. The codes should have one alphabetic and two numeric characters, e.g., M41. This classification is available at http://www.aeaweb.org.
- Papers should have a minimum length of 6,000 and a maximum length of 10,000 words, including references, notes, and tables. Reviews should not exceed 3,000 words, including references.
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The author(s) have considered the following sections that their document should have:
Introduction: should present a brief delimitation of the research topic-problem with respect to the specific disciplinary field. A review of the antecedents should be made to show the novelty of the contributions and justify the importance of the work in the discipline. It is recommended to present the research question and objective, as well as a paragraph that explains the structure of the document.
Theoretical framework or literature review: there should be a logical linkage that presents the background of the research topic-problem in the field. A pertinent and current bibliographic review should be sought.
Methodology: it should present and justify the methods, techniques and sources used.
Results and discussion: it should show a relationship between the background and the results of the research. An analytical presentation of the results is suggested in order to establish a dialogue based on the contributions of the work.
Conclusion: it is suggested to emphasize the novel contributions of the paper to the field, as well as to recognize the limitations and propose future lines of research. - References: the American Psychological Association (APA) style, seventh edition, must be used for citation and referencing. Citations within the text must use the parenthetical system (surname, year, and page [only direct citation]). The list of references in alphabetical order should be included at the end of the text. There must be a correspondence between citations and the sources included in the references. A DOI number must be included for all sources. In case they do not have a DOI number, authors could add an online link directing to the source.
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Other items: graphs, tables, images, and other graphic elements must be included in the body of the text in an editable format and attached in its original or an editable format (.jpeg, .png, .ppt, .xls). They must be included in grayscale. The title and source must also be inserted. These resources should be mentioned within the body of the text.
We suggest indicating the hierarchy of titles through numbers (1, 1.1, 1.1.1) in order to facilitate the editing work, although this will be eliminated during proofreading.
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum. All major comments must be included within the text. -
Have the author(s) filled out, prior to the application, the Innovar authors' form? This form must be filled out by each of the authors. Thus, a code will be sent to the registered e-mails, which will be requested in the postulation, in the comments for editors section. There should be as many codes as authors.
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Have you read the OJS manual for article submission?
This manual will allow you to know the specific steps to follow for the submission of your paper.
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Have you adjusted the article or review according to the submission template provided by Innovar?
It is an indispensable requirement to adjust the submit documents to the journal's editorial process according to the template provided by Innovar.
You can consult it here
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