Submissions

Letter of submission, where it is stated that all authors have read and approved that:

• They agree with the submitted manuscript, in its content, organization and presentation.
• The work is original, which has not been previously published and, likewise, will not be submitted to another journal until the response of the Editorial Committee is known.
• If the manuscript is accepted, its publication is authorized under the rules established by the journal.
• The document does not have text or figures that have reservation of rights and if you have them you have the written authorization for its reproduction.
• The document does not contain citations or transcriptions of works that lack duly cited bibliographic references.
• A paragraph is included where the authors declare what was the contribution of each of them to the document.
• The signed letter must be attached in the present submission process in pdf format.

Appearance

• Complete title of the manuscript in Spanish and English.
• Short title.
• Names and surnames (complete name, first and second surnames separated by a hyphen) of all authors (without job titles or academic titles), affiliations and e-mail address.
• Name of person responsible for correspondence with their complete address, telephone number and electronic address.
• E-mail and ORCID of all coauthors
• Text, references and tables in the same file together with legends of the figures.
• Figures in jpg or tiff format.

Structure of the article

• An abstract should be included in both Spanish and English.
• Keywords (no more than 6) should be included in both Spanish and English.
• Introduction.
• Materials and methods.
• Results and Discussion for short communications.
• Discussion.
• Authors' declaration of contribution.
• Declaration of conflict of interest.
• Acknowledgments to collaborators and institutions and organizations which financed the research.
• References.

Figures and Tables

Figures

• They are included as a separate file, each figure on a separate page.
• The corresponding legends are included at the end of the text of the manuscript.

Tables

• They are included at the end of the original, elaborated in the simplest model of tables of the Word program, they are ordered sequentially.

References

Citations must follow the journal ACCEFYN´s norms found in the authors´ instructions 

Abbreviations

The first use is introduced in parentheses

Nomenclature

• The generic and specific names are written in italics.
• Names of micro-organisms, plants and animals are written out completely the first time that they are cited in the title and in the abstract.

Supplementary information

Tables, figures, and text can be sent as additional information duly referenced in the text: table 1S, 2S, etc.; Figure 1S, 2S, etc.

Reviewers

List three or four possible reviewers with their complete names, academic background, and e-mails.

Ethics and malpractice considerations

• All authors know and approve the presentation of the manuscript, its content, the authorship and the order of the authorship.
• The manuscript has been submitted only to the ACCEFYN Journal and is not postulated nor has it been published in another journal.
• If the article includes research in humans or with animals, the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and the use of non-human primates in research have been followed.

It includes thanks to the institutions or organizations that funded the research

Research articles

A manuscript documenting the results of at least one experiment/study by following the following structure: introductions, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, and references. Extra material can be reported as supplementary information.

Brief articles

Manuscripts reporting the results of novel experiments/study in a succinct manner and that require prompt diffusion.

Inaugural articles

Manuscripts reporting literature reviews on a topic proposing critical comments, novel analysis or re-interpretations of published work.

It is one requirement for the Academics to be admitted to the Academy.

Opinion

Succinct essays that develop a specific topic defined by the authors in the title of the submitted text, duly argued in its development.

Opinion articles must propose a novel idea, capable of becoming a hypothesis or theory that can be subjected to potential tests that may contradict it.

Journal Club

Comments to highlight recent articles on current issues, selected by members of the Editorial Committee.

Letters to the editor

Critical, analytical or interpretative comments about documents published in the Journal. It is up the editorial committee to determine its publication.

Book reviews

Short manuscripts reporting a review of a book recently published within an area of interest to the journal.

The manuscript including

• Title page
• Abstract
• Text

Tables with titles, graphics with descriptive legends must be prepared in Microsoft WORD processor in double space. Use Arial font size 12 without justification. Do not forget to number the entire manuscript.

Manuscripts must contain the following information

• Complete manuscript title in English and Spanish.
• Short Title.
• Names and surnames (complete name, first and second family name separated by a hyphen) of all the authors (without positions, and without academic degrees), academic affiliations and email addresses.
• Abstract in Spanish and English using 250 or less words.
• Keywords in Spanish and English not containing more than 6 words.
• Name of the author responsible for the correspondence with his / her full address, telephone number, email address and ORCID code. Open Researcher and Contributor ID (Identification of the Researcher and the open collaborator)
• Email addresses of all co-authors and ORCID codes Open Researcher and Contributor ID
• Text, references and tables in the same file together with the figure legends
• Authors' contribution: a paragraph in which the authors declare their personal contribution to the manuscript under consideration
• Declaration of conflict of interest
• Figures in jpg or tiff format in individual files and with a resolution greater than 300 dpi ( dots per inch )
• The maximum number of tables and figures is 7. To send additional information you can use the Supplementary information section duly referenced in the text: table 1S, 2S, etc .; figure 1S, 2S

Introduction

There must be a clear description of the theoretical framework of the theme of the investigation, purpose of the article and justification of the study, indicating the limitation of the problem question.

Materials and Methods

A description of the object of observation or experimentation, instruments or devices and the methodology employed in the study.

Statistical analysis: indicate the statistical methods used and the data analysis employed.

Results

These must be presented in a logical sequence, with the accompanying tables and figures with their respective explanations and analysis.

Discussion

Emphasis must be given to those aspects of the study which are new and important, contrasting the results with the relevant information available in the recent literature and relate the conclusions with the proposed objectives.

Mention must be made of the implications and limitations of the results found and a comparison of the relevant observations with that of other studies.

Conclusions

They must respond to the objective of the reported research and include the setting of future objectives to be followed in the line of research.

References

The ACCEFYN Journal uses the standards of the APA Manual, proposed in the 7th version of the American Psychological Association (APA) that can be consulted directly on its official website (https://normas-apa.org/), these use an author-date citation system.

Text

All bibliographic references will be inserted in the text and must bear in parentheses the surname of the first author (in bold) and the year of publication.

If the surname of the author or authors is part of the formal structure of the sentence, only the year of publication will be placed in parentheses.

Example

Pérez and Ribas (1996).

If it is not part of the formal structure of the text, it will be placed in parentheses.

Example

(Bearded, 2003).

If there are only two authors, the two surnames will be given,

Example

(Pérez and Ribas, 1996)

If there are more than two, the first surname will be followed by et al.

Example

(Pérez et al., 1996)

List of references

They are organized alphabetically and are cited as follows:

1) Journal article. APA standards indicate:

• The name of the journal is written in extenso, not abbreviated and italics
• It also goes in italics the volume and without italics the number if there is one, it is separated from the pages by a comma
• It ends with full stop

Structure:

Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B., Surname, C. C. (Year). Title of the article. Journal name, volume (issue), pp-pp. If the journal article has a DOI, include the DOI in the reference.

Example:

Kay, M.A., Glorioso, J.C., Naldini, L. (2001).  Viral vectors for gene therapy: the art of turning infectious agents into vehicles of therapeutics.  Nature Medicine, 7, 33-40.

When there are multiple authors, the surnames, and initials of up to 20 authors (instead of 7) must be provided in the reference list (attention to ellipses...)

Example:

Miller, TC, Brown, MJ, Wilson, GL, Evans, BB, Kelly, RS, Turner, ST, Lewis, F., Lee, LH, Cox, G., Harris, HL, Martin, P., Gonzalez, WL, Hughes, W., Carter, D., Campbell, C., Baker, AB, Flores, T., Gray, WE, Green, G., … Nelson, TP.  (2018). Journal name, volumen (x), pp-pp.

2) Books

Structure:

Surname, A. A. (Year).  Title. Editorial

Example:

Salisbury, F. B., Ross, C. M. (1994).  Plant Physiology. Ibero-American Publishing Group.

3) Book chapter

Structure:

Surname, A. A., Surname, B. B. (Year). The title of the chapter or entry. In A. A. Surname. (Ed.), Title of the book (pp. xx-xx). Editorial.

Example:

Guba, E.G. (1983). Credibility criteria in naturalistic research. In J. Jimeno Sacristán and A. Pérez Gómez. Teaching: Its Theory and Practice (148-165). Akal.

4) Online journals

• If the journal article does not have a DOI and comes from an academic research database, end the reference after page range. Do not include database information in the reference.
• The reference in this case is the same as for a printed journal article. In other words, do not include database information in the reference unless the journal article comes from a database that publishes original and proprietary content.
• If the journal article does not have a DOI but has a URL that will resolve for readers (for example, it is from an online journal that is not part of a database), include the URL of the article at the end of the reference. In such a case, it is not written available because it works just like a DOI.

Structure:

Surname, A. A. (Year). Title of the article. Journal name, (extensively) volume(number), pp-pp. Available at http:/ /www...

Examples:

Cintrón, G., Lugo, A. E., Pool, D. J., Morris, G. (1978).  Mangroves of arid environments in Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.  Biotropica,10 (2),110-121. Disponible en: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2388013.

 Gutiérrez-Vargas, J.A., Moreno, H., Cardona-Gómez, G.P. (2016).  Targeting CDK5 post-stroke provides long-term neuroprotection and rescues synaptic plasticity.  Journal Cerebral Blood Flow Metabolism. DOI: 10.1177/0271678X16662476.

 It should include volume and pages and if it is only electronic check the suggested way of citing each journal, usually the suggest the number of articles instead of the range of pages

5) Website citations

• Write down the date of the consultation
• The APA 7.0 standards in Spanish suggest the word Recovered.

6) Websites with frequent updates

Structure:

Surname, A., Surname, B., and Surname, C. (May 20, 2020).  Title of the article on the website.  The name of the website.  Retrieved on the day month year of https://url.com

Example:

Guiry, M.D., Guiry, G.M. (2015).  Algae Base. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.  Disponible en http://www.algaebase.org., consulted January -June, 2015.  

Tables and figures 

The tables carry an Arabic numeration in accordance with the order in which they appear.

The corresponding title is placed on the upper part of the table and notes are placed in the lower part. Symbols for unit measures must appear in the column headings.

If it is necessary to display some information, use lower case letters from the alphabet according to the appearance of the table: a, b, c, d, e, etc.

Photographs, graphics, pictures, or sketches are named Figures, are enumerated in order of appearance, and their legends must be written in a separate page.

With respect to microfiches, indicate the size of the augmentation used. People or their names should not be identifiable in photographs unless written permission for their publication has been obtained.

When tables and figures have been taken from magazines or books, published in hard copy or electronically, specify the source and include the authorization for its reproduction from the respective publication.

Acknowledgments

These can be expressed to persons or entities who have aided in the realization of the work. Mention is made of persons and their type of aid provided, as well as to entities or institutions which have provided financial and material assistance.

In case of investigative projects with financial support it suffices to mention the registry code and the entity, institution or foundation which provided the economic support.

Considerations

The accepted articles belong to the Revista ACCEFYN and they could be reproduced totally or partially by the Journal. The Journal is not responsible of the scientific contents nor the legal issues of the articles published in it.

Proofreading and publication of the manuscript

Once the article has been accepted, it will undergo a style and format revision which will bring it to its definitive version. The authors will receive the galley proofs in PDF format for the correction of errors before its printing. The corrected version must be returned for final approval within a period of 48 hours. The manuscript must be accompanied with a letter to the editor informing him of the corrections that were carried out.

The editor will inform the author of the date and volume number in which the publication will appear.

Authors corrections and errata

Corrections to the information provided by the authors will be made in the number immediately after the announcement of these and will be the responsibility of the authors themselves.

The Journal will be responsible for publishing an explanatory note by way of misprints.

In the event that improvements and correction of ortho-typographical errors, visual handling of the information or involuntary inaccuracies are necessary, the author (s) may contact the Journal email so that they can be made in the electronic version of the Journal

Counterfeiting of articles

Fabrication of evidence, data omission, duplicity of data or plagiarism will be penalized. The authors and their institutions, research center or university and sponsors will be notified.

Conflicts of interest

If the authors or co-authors, the editors or reviewers (evaluators) have some conflict of interest which may in any way influence the transparency and objectivity of the peer review process and publication, it must be so declared.

The most obvious conflicts of interest are those referred to as financial conflicts, which result between, employer-employee, investments, and patents, as well as honoraria, consulting, paid investigation by companies which depend on the investigative results, etc.

There also exist personal conflicts arising from friendships, animosity, academic competencies and passions in the moral or intellectual field (for example relatives in a company which will benefit from the results to be published, the use of the results for immediate promotion based on the published article, religious beliefs which are in direct conflict with the investigation that will be published, etc.).

Misconduct in research process

Receipt of accusations, evaluation and opinion in accordance with COPE.

Note: all information on complaints and appeals, conflict of interest, data exchange and reproduction of investigations, ethical supervision, intellectual property and retractions is in the RACCEFYN document:

RACCEFYN. Considerations of ethics 2022

Publication periodicity

Availability of articles and archiving

• All published articles (1936-2020) are freely accessible through the website https://raccefyn.co/index.php/raccefyn/issue/archive.
• All interested readers can register on the website https://raccefyn.co/index.php/raccefyn/login, by doing so, they will be notified every time a number comes out and they will receive the Table of Contents by email.
• Galleys of articles (PDF) are stored in the Repositorio Institucional de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales.
• Authors are invited to store copies of the published article in their respective institutional repositories or personal websites, with the aim of expanding the dissemination of the new knowledge generated. It is requested that it be the version edited and published by the Journal.  

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