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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 under consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor)
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • The articles are properly written, free of grammatical and spelling errors.
  • Articles must have a minimum length of eight pages and must not exceed 20 pages. The font type should be Times New Roman, 12-point size, with one and a half spacing on A4-sized paper.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About's section
  • If submitted to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensure a Blind Review must be followed.

Author Guidelines

 

  • The CIYA journal will accept articles for review and subsequent publication that are properly written, free of grammatical and spelling errors.
  • Articles submitted for possible publication must be original, unpublished, and not under review or approval in another journal.
  • Articles must have a minimum length of eight pages and must not exceed 15 pages. The font type should be Times New Roman, 12-point size, with one and a half spacing on A4-sized paper. In a separate form, the author(s) must include their name, highest academic degree, institutional or professional affiliation, article title, submission date, mailing address, and email.
  • The journal accepts articles in Spanish and English; however, only three types of papers are accepted: articles resulting from scientific or technological research, scientific notes, and review articles.
  • The first type refers to original research results, structured into six sections: introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, and references.
  • Review articles present research results on a specific topic from a critical and analytical perspective, incorporating discussions and scientific references.
  • Scientific notes contain observations of scientific relevance based on a specific topic or simple study whose contributions or results are significant enough to be shared.
  • All articles, without exception, will be reviewed under a double-blind peer review system by national and international evaluators external to the Technical University of Cotopaxi. These reviewers will provide comments and suggestions to ensure the scientific quality of the articles. If the articles pass the peer review process, the authors must submit a revised final version incorporating the external reviewers' suggestions.

About References: The IEEE citation style must be used for references.

Authors are encouraged to use reference management tools such as Zotero, Mendeley, etc.

IEEE Citation Style

What are IEEE Standards?
It is essential to use information responsibly, ethically, and legally when writing an academic paper. Including references allows us to acknowledge the ideas and information taken from other authors. Additionally, using a standardized citation style helps recognize the source and enables others to locate the cited documents. The IEEE citation style is recommended by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is one of the most widely used styles in engineering papers.

Characteristics:
According to IEEE style guidelines, sources are cited using a number within the text. The number corresponds to a full reference listed at the end of the document.

Citing within the text:

The use of references within the text must follow these rules:

  1. References must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the document.

  2. Once a number is assigned to a reference, the same number must be used every time that document is cited in the text.

  3. Each reference number must be enclosed in brackets [ ], e.g., "... the purpose of the research [12]..."

  4. The author's name does not need to be mentioned unless it is relevant to the text.

  5. The publication date should not be included in the body of the document.

  6. The word "reference" should not be included, e.g., "...in reference [27]..."; instead, just write "...in [27]...".

  7. To cite multiple sources at once, each should be enclosed in its own brackets, e.g., "as several studies indicate [1], [3], [5]..." instead of "as various studies indicate [1, 3, 5]...".

Reference List:

All references cited in the text must be listed at the end of the document in a section titled "References," numbered sequentially in the order they appear in the text.

Example:
[1] B. Klaus and P. Horn, Robot Vision. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1966.
[2] L. Stein, "Random patterns," in Computer and You, J.S. Brake, Ed. New York: Wiley, 1994, pp. 55-70.
[3] R. L. Myers, "Parametric oscillators and nonlinear materials," in Nonlinear Optics, vol. 4, P.G. Harper and B.S. Wherret, Eds. San Francisco, CA: Academic, 1977, pp. 47-160.

Guidelines for the Reference List:

  1. The reference list must provide sufficient information to identify and retrieve the cited sources.

  2. Every citation in the text must have a corresponding reference in the final list, and vice versa—each entry in the reference list must be cited in the text.

  3. Citation details must be taken from the original document.

  4. Personal names should be abbreviated, using only initials.

  5. For anonymous works, the first element of the citation should be the title.

  6. If the author is an organization, its name should appear as it does in the original source.

  7. Every major word (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs) in the title of a book, journal, or conference should be capitalized.

  8. Only the first word of an article or chapter title should be capitalized (except for proper names, acronyms, etc.).

  9. The "V" in "Volume" should be uppercase for books but lowercase for journals.

  10. The punctuation for article titles should be placed inside quotation marks.

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Research article

This is the presentation of a theoretical or technological research study: It is the first publication of the results of an original research project in a periodical publication. Historical works may also be included.

Review articles

This is a work that compares results published in research articles, examining them and providing a critical assessment, organizing and placing them in perspective to reach important conclusions or presenting current developments and trends. It may review a topic or the work of a specific researcher or team of researchers. It must present a thorough and comprehensive bibliographic review.

Technical notes

Works that present laboratory procedures, workshops, processes, etc., testing techniques, applications in production, and others.

Copyright Notice

The authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License allows others to share the work with acknowledgment of authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to disseminate their work electronically (for example, in institutional repositories or on their own website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as further citation. earliest and largest of published works (See The Effect of Open Access) (in English).

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