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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Submissions

Instructions for authors

Introduction

Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure you have everything required to

move your paper through peer review, production and publication.

Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible,

as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.

About the Journal            

The Journal of Latin American Sciences and Culture (JLASC) is an Open Access international,

peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research.

Please see the journal's Aims and scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.

Open Access means you can publish your research so it is free to access online as soon as it is published,

meaning anyone can read (and cite) your work. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access.

Please note that this journal publishes manuscripts in English and Spanish.

Yet the journal welcomes Chinese translations of the English and Spanish Version or Record (VoR) and viceversa.

The Journal of Latinamerican Sciences and Culture accepts the following types of article:

Original Articles, Literature Reviews, Review Articles, Book Reviews, News, Comments, Opinions, Podcasts, Letters.

 

Article Publishing Charge

As costs are involved in every stage of the publication process,

from administrating peer review to copy-editing and hosting the final article on dedicated servers,

I am aware that I have to pay an article processing charge (APC)

in order to publish an open access article under a Creative Commons license.

 For the Journal of Latin American Sciences and Culture the APC US$600/£460/€530. 

Waivers for APCs can be requested by all authors regardless of background and will be appraised

by the Publisher and the Editors based on individual circumstances and the ability to pay.

 

Peer Review and Ethics

The Universidad Privada del Valle is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review.

Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor,

it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees.

 

Preparing Your Paper

Structure

Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction,

materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references;

appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Word Limits

A typical Original Article for this journal should be no more than 7000 words,

inclusive of the abstracts, tables, references, figure captions, endnotes.

A Literature Review article is an original research manuscript that traces the history of a particular issue,

in the context of several recent (and older) books on the topic. It can be up to 7000 words, or considerably shorter.

A typical Book Review for this journal should cover 2 to 4 books at 350 words per book; this limit includes references, endnotes.

Format-Free Submission

Manuscripts may be supplied as single or multiple files.

These can be Word, rich text format (rtf), open document format (odt), or PDF files.

Figures and tables can be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents.

Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.

Checklist: What to Include

 

1. Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.

  • Authors are invited to hyphenate their last names to ensure appropriate alphabetical listings in citations of the article.
  • Authors are also invited to hyphenate the last names of all authors in notes and references to maximize their future accurate citation.
  • Where available, please also include ORCIDs.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
  1. An unstructured abstract of no more than 200 words, in English, Spanish or Chinese.
  2. You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. More details you can find in journalasc.org.
  3. Between 3 and 5 keywords.
  4. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:

For single agency grants:

This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].

For multiple agency grants:

This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx];

[Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

9. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. 

10. Biographical note. Please supply a short biographical note for each author.

This could be adapted from your departmental website or academic networking profile and should be relatively brief (e.g. no more than 200 words).

11. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper,

please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found.

Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).

12. Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open,

please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission.

You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set. See more information in journalasc.org.

13. Supplemental online material.

Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file, Spanish and Portuguese translations,

or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare.

Find out more information in journalasc.org.

14. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).

Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable

for figures that have been drawn in Word.

For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork document.

Find out more information in www.journalasc.org.

15. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.

Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.

16. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.

More information about mathematical symbols and equations. Find out more information in www.journalasc.org.

17. Please use SI units (non-italicized). (Find out more information in https://www.bipm.org/en/home)

 

Using Third-Party Material in your Paper

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.

The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis,

for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.

If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright,

and which is not covered by this informal agreement,

you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

 

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses Editorial Manager to manage the peer-review process.

If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in XXXXXX.

Please note that Journal of Latin American Sciences and Culture uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material.

By submitting your paper to Journal of Latin American Sciences and Culture you are agreeing to originality

checks during the peer-review and production processes.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript.

Whilst there are APCs, there are no submission fees or page charges for this journal.

Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge.

 

Data Sharing Policy

Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper

where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.

Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier,

preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan.

At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper.

If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink,

or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).

If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit,

upon request by reviewers.

Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer reviewed

as a part of the journal submission process.

It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data.

Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).

 

Copyright Options

Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission.

Universidad del Valle offers a number of different license and reuse options,

including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access.

All the translation versions are protected by the copyright of either of your VoRs.  

 

Complying with Funding Agencies

We will deposit all papers into Universidad Privada del Valle Data Center on behalf of authors,

meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies.

If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you.

 

My Authored Works

On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data).

This is where you can access every article you have published with us,

so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.

We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article.

 

Article Reprints

You will be sent a link to order article reprints via your account in our production system.

For enquiries about reprints, please contact the Universidad del Valle Author Services team at editorial@journalasc.org.

 

Queries

Should you have any queries, please send us a message to editorial@journalasc.org.

Original papers

Política de sección por defecto

Copyright Notice 

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions: 
The authors retain the copyright and assign to the journal the right of the first publication, 
with the work registered with the Creative Commons 4.0 attribution license, 
which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they mention 
the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal. 
Authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive 
distribution of the version of the article published in this journal 
(eg, include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book)
provided that they clearly indicate that the work it was first published in this magazine. 
Authors are allowed and encouraged to share their work online
(for example: in institutional repositories or personal web pages) 
before and during the manuscript submission process, 
as it can lead to productive exchanges, more and more quick citation of published work.

 

Privacy Statement

COPYRIGHT TRANSFER, ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE AGREEMENT, NOTICES FROM THE JLASC AND PRIVACY POLICY

 

JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN SCIENCES AND CULTURE (JLASC)

By accepting this statement, the author(s) are agreeing to be bound by the JLASC Provisions on Copyright.

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:


The authors retain the copyright and assign to the journal the right of the first publication, with the work registered with the Creative Commons 4.0 attribution license, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they mention the authorship of the work and the first publication in this journal.

Authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (e.g., include it in an institutional repository or publish it in a book provided that they clearly indicate that the work it was first published in this magazine.

Authors are allowed and encouraged to share their work online (for example: in institutional repositories or personal web pages) before and during the manuscript submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, more and more quick citation of published work.

 

https://journalasc.org/author-instructions/ (English)

https://journalasc.org/es/author-instructions/ (Spanish)

 

(1) Copyright Transfer: All copyrights of the above manuscript, including rights for publishing in any media, are transferred to the JLASC. The authors retain the following rights:

  1. All proprietary rights other than copyrights.
  2. Re-use of all or part of the above manuscript in their work.
  3. Reproduction of the above manuscript for author's personal use or for company/institution use provided that:

(a) the permission of the JLASC is obtained prior to reproduction,

(b) the source and IEICE copyright notice are indicated, and

(c) the copies per se are not offered for sale.

  1. The consent of the author (or one of the authors) be sought as a condition in granting republication permission to others.

(2) Article Processing Charge Agreement: The author(s) or the author's company/institution agrees to pay the article processing charge of the above manuscript (US$616).

(3) Notices from the JLASC and privacy policy: The author(s）agree to be contacted by the JLASC by electronic means such as e-mail regarding the following:

1) Contact regarding submitted papers,

2) Various notices on papers published by the JLASC (for example, Call for papers and recommended papers, and so on). In addition, the author(s) agree that the JLASC will operate the registered personal information in accordance with the JLASC’s privacy policy.

I hereby agree above (1) Copyright Transfer, (2) Article Processing Charge Agreement, and (3) Notices from the JLASC and privacy policy.