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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 has not been previously published elsewhere, and it has not been submitted simultaneously to another publication.

  • The submitted file is sent in Microsoft Word format.
  • All URLs in the text (p.e., http://pkp.sfu.ca) are active and can be accessed.
  • The text is single-spaced; the font size is 10 points; all illustrations, figures, and tables are in the text in the appropriate place and not at the end of the text, and they have to be referenced.
  • The text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements stated in the Author Guidelines, which can be found in About the Journal.
  • Once the article is accepted for publication, the authors consent to serve as evaluators of other items in their area of knowledge, if required.
  • Once the final version of the article has been requested, in case of not receiving a response from the authors with the corrections requested on the established date (a maximum period of 20 days), the article will be removed from the publication process in the journal.

Author Guidelines

The Boletín de Ciencias de la Tierra publishes research, reviews, case studies, and data-type articles related to the disciplines of Earth and Environmental Sciences and mineral resource development.

Article Submission

The submission of an article must be accompanied by a Cover letter requesting the publication of it in the journal and indicating that the article has been approved by all of its authors. Also, authors should recommend 4 possible peer review candidates (2 national peers and 2 international peers), for subject-specific articles; if needed, attach any necessary permissions to republish previously published material. The Cover Letter should be attached in the supplementary files option. The article will be submitted to the Open Journal System - OJS in the Virtual Library of the National University of Colombia after going to the website and registering or logging in as a user.

Articles with the following characteristics will NOT be considered for publication:

  • Previously published in another scientific/informative journal or magazine.
  • A translation or use of material protected by intellectual property rights.
  • A critique of the state of the art of engineering which does not contribute to or innovate on the topic.
  • An article that comes from class notes.
  • Articles that are offensive or severe intended for individuals, research groups, products, and/or other services.

Authors must adjust their articles to comply with the Presentation Format and consult the Article Submission Format Model. Load the manuscript in Microsoft Word ® suitable for blind review " without authors' information" (NOT . ZIP or other compressed file) in their original version. Upload supplementary files (letters of use and originality, images, the original version of the paper, as it should be, with authors' names, institutional affiliation, city, country, e-mail, and others, etc.)

Once the article, cover letter, and article registration form have been correctly submitted through OJS, the system will send an acknowledgment of receipt to the author registered in the system. All communication regarding the article and the processing of supplementary material will be carried out through the registered e-mail of the article’s principal author.

In case the article is accepted for publication, the authors must carefully and completely read the Assignment of Property Rights in favor of the Boletín de Ciencias de la Tierra, which must be signed by all the authors and submitted by the time of approving the final version for publication. Simultaneously, authors must give their consent to serve as reviewers of other articles in their area of expertise, if required.

Formato del Artículo

  1. The maximum length of the articles should be 15 single-spaced, letter-size pages, including the ABSTRACT (maximum 150 words) in English and Spanish and the KEY WORDS (between 3 and 10 words), also in English and Spanish.
  2. Every article will be subjected to a peer review, designed by the Editorial Committee. Exceptions will be decided by the Committee.
  3. The presentation of the article must be under the Model Format for Submitting Articles. Footnotes are not allowed for reasons of the layout of the journal.
  4. Under the title of the article (in Spanish and English), only the following data of the authors should be strictly included:
    • The name of the author(s)
    • Highest academic or professional qualification
    • Institutional affiliation of each author (name of the Institution without abbreviations or acronyms), city, and country
    • Email address, in case the addresses belong to the same domain, they are NOT to be grouped, each address is written completely and separately

Example:

  1. Regarding graphics, tables, and figures, these must be placed in the appropriate location and designated as graphic objects (to facilitate the text’s assessment). The titles for these tables, figures, or, graphics must clearly describe their content.
  2. The figures, photos, and images lose resolution when inserted into Word and only will be accepted in this state for reviewing purposes. If the article is approved for publishing, the authors must send the final version, along with the appropriate high-resolution file, in EPS, TIFF, or JPG formats, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. You may use any graphics program you like to do this. 
  3. Equations must be written, preferably using Word’s equation editor, complying with the international notation system.
  4. When using acronyms, they must be explained the first time the term is mentioned. The same rule applies to the definition of the variables presented in the used equations.
  5. In the Acknowledgment, you may include the research that originated the article and the source of its financing.
  6. The bibliographic references must go at the end of the article, following the journal’s proposed formatting guidelines. Consult the Bibliographic Reference Elaboration Guide. Include the DOI identifier at the end of the references in those who own it.
  7. At the end of the article, after the references, there must be the biographies of each author (no more than 150 words for each biography).
  8. During the evaluation process, authors may be requested to send electronic or scanned files of any material cited in the text, in case they are referenced as citations.
  9. For technical assessment of the submitted article, the author(s) may send the attached material that they deem pertinent, especially articles published by themselves that are related to the current article, as well as any other material that has been referenced in the text, or for which there was not sufficient space to be included in the article.

 

Guide for the Elaboration of Bibliographic References

The present guide is an indication to elaborate the presentation of the bibliographic references that are most frequently used in the citation of scientific articles. The elaboration of this guide has been based on the ISO, Harvard, and Vancouver Standards, and on the characteristics for the marking of articles in SciELO. Also, it is modeled after the guide text of the "Revista Ingeniería, investigación y Tecnología" of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has been used as a model.

Printed Journal
Journal title, place, volume (number), month(s), year.

Example:
Revista Boletín de Ciencias de la Tierra. Facultad de Minas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, Colombia, 31, julio, 2012.

Article in Printed Journal
Authors’ surname(s), name(s). Title of article. Journal title, volume (number), pages (pp.), month(s), year.

Example without DOI:
Rodríguez, D.A., Patiño, M.P., Miranda, D., Fischer, G. y Galvis, J.A. Efecto de dos índices de madurez y dos temperaturas de almacenamiento sobre el comportamiento en poscosecha de la pitahaya amarilla (Selenicereus megalanthus Haw), Revista Facultad Nacional de Agronomía Medellín, 58(2), pp. 2827-2837, 2005.

Example with DOI:
Ghiassi, M., Saidane, H., and Zimbra, D. K. A dynamic artificial neural network for forecasting time series events. International Journal of Forecasting, 21 (2), pp. 341-362, 2005. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2004.10.008

Electronic Journal
Title, medium, [between brackets], edition, place, publisher, publication date [date consulted]. Availability and access (essential requirement).

Example:
Acta Odontológica Venezolana [en línea]. Vol. 44, Caracas, Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2006 [fecha de consulta 25 de julio de 2007]. Disponible en: http://www.actaodontologica.com/ediciones/2006/2/

Article in Electronic Journal
Authors’ surname(s), names’ initials. (institution or person). Title of article. Title of journal or electronic series, [type of medium], vol. x, no. X, month(s), year [date consulted], location within the document of origin. Availability and access (essential requirement).

Example:
Sánchez, A. y Delgado, L. Estado oclusal y rendimiento masticatorio. Acta Odontológica Venezolana [en línea]. 44(2), 2006. [fecha de consulta 25 de julio de 2007]. Disponible en: http://www.actaodontologica.com/44_2_2006/estado_oclusal_rendimiento_masticatorio.asp

Book
Surname(s), initial(s) of name(s). Book title, edition, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, cited pages.

Example:
Sierra, C.E. Orígenes, evolución y consolidación del principio de la conservación de la energía, 1a ed., Medellín, Facultad de Minas - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2012, pp. 56-89.

Chapter in a printed book
Surname(s) - initials of name(s). Title of chapter, in: (followed by the name of the author of the book, when it differs from the author of the chapter, the title of the book) or in its (title of the book, when the author of the chapter is the same as the author of the book), place, publisher, year of publication, pages.

Example:
Moyor, M.A., Evaluación del lenguaje de ingeniería, en: Verdugo-Alonso J. Evaluación curricular: una guía para la intervención del ingeniero, 2a ed., Madrid, Salvat, 1994. pp. 324-344.

Electronic book
Surname(s) – name(s) of author(s) or institution, Document type, Medium type [between brackets], edition or version, place, publisher, publication date, [date consulted, required for online documents, between brackets]. Availability of access (essential requirement).

Example:
Pumarino, A., La propiedad intelectual en ambientes digitales educativos [en línea], Revisión sistemática, Santiago, Chile, DuocUC, 2004 [consulta, 1/8 de octubre de 2005]. Disponible en: http://www.uca.es/dept/psicologia/bvsss/csalud/memoria/pdf/tecnologia.htlm

Chapter in electronic book
Surname(s) – name(s) of author(s) or institution. Document title, Medium [between brackets], edition, place, publisher, publication date, review/update date, [date consulted, required for online documents], chapter or equivalent designation of part, title of part, location of source material. Availability and access (essential requirement).

Example:
Anderson, S., Multimedia en internet [en línea], California, Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías multimedia, 1998 [fecha de consulta 16 de mayo 1998], cap. 6, Formación y acreditación de modelos multimedia. Disponible en: http://www.usu.edu./sanderso/multinet.pdf

Thesis
Author(s) surname(s) –name(s). Thesis title (degree for which the thesis is presented), place, University, Faculty or School, date, number of pages.

Example:
Iturbe-Arguelles, M. del R., Transporte y dispersión de compuestos químicos orgánicos a través del flujo en medios porosos, tesis (Doctorado en Ingeniería), México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1997, 120 P.

Conferences, congresses, seminars
Name of the congress, conference, or seminar (congress number, date, and location), title of paper or memoirs, place of publication, publisher, date, pages.

Example:
Congreso de la Asociación Chilena de Control Automático (X, 1992, Santiago de Chile). Trabajo de planeación, Santiago, Chile, Asociación Chilena de Control Automático, 1992, pp. 340-356.

Paper presented at congress or conference
Author(s)’s surname(s) –name(s). Document title, in (followed by the name of the event [number, year, and place]). Title of paper, place of publication, publisher or sponsor institutions, date, pages.

Example:
Castellano-Costa J., El impacto ambiental del proceso edificatorio, en: Seminario Internacional de Edificación (1er, 2005, Santiago, Chile). Santiago, Chile, DuocUC, 2006, 52 P.

Report
Author(s)’s surname(s) –name(s). Title of report, place of publication, publisher, year, Serial number.

Example:
García-Guadarrama, J., Informe de ingeniería ambiental, México, División de Estudios de posgrados de la Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM, 2007, 89 P.

 

Notes

  • URL addresses can be separated after a dot (.) or after a forward slash (/).
  • To confirm references to monographs, maps, DVDs, charts, norms, patents, databases, computer applications, electronic contributions, etc., consult ISO Norms 690 y 690-2.

 

Bibliografía

 

Personal Data Processing Policy

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be available for any other purpose or another person.