Submissions

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for authors

The content of the articles should be a significant contribution to the body of scientific knowledge and should also meet the following requirements:

How to submit an article

• Researchers interested in publishing should send an e-mail to RevistaPGID@gmail.com, attaching the article in Word format.
• Unpublished and original scientific articles will be received throughout the year.
• Articles should be submitted with a letter of agreement signed between the authors. In this letter, the responsible author and co-authors should state that the submitted article has not been previously published. They should additionally approve the form and content (See section on Checklist for submitting articles).
• Every article's primary function should be to reflect on current issues, of national or international interest, with social relevance. It should be aligned with the research lines and sub-lines of the Postgraduate Program in Research and Development Management. (Or the topics decided by the committees of the magazine).
• The opinions and statements issued in the article are the sole responsibility of their authors.
• Articles submitted should be academically and scientifically relevant, updated, and bibliographically underpinned, with a deep level of analysis, reflection, and creativity.
• Accepted articles become the property of the Journal, "Gestión I+D," and may not be published (entirely or partially) without the written consent of the Editorial Committee.
• A Declaration of Responsibility and Transfer of Rights should be attached to the article (See section on Checklist for submitting articles), stating the consideration of the scientific article, expressly indicating that it is an original study and has not been partially or fully published in another journal. It should also include their knowledge of and compliance with the Journal's Standards for authors, which are therein accepted; that they have actively participated in the development and execution of the research, and that they assign the copyright to the Journal "Gestión I+D." 
• For additional information, please e-mail the Journal's editorial board at RevistaPGID@gmail.com.
• Scientific articles submitted should be structured in sections (abstract, introduction, methodology, results/discussion, conclusions, and references), depending on the type of article to be sent.
• Paragraphs in each section should be written in single space, leaving an indentation of one (1) centimeter at the beginning of each paragraph.
• Scientific articles should be written using single spaces, margins of 2.54 cm on all four sides, Arial font, 12 points, on letter-size paper, and written in Word (They should not be blocked or protected). Avoid footnotes as much as possible, and try to incorporate these into the main text of the scientific article.
• The length of the article should not exceed 25 pages and should not be less than 15 pages, including titles, abstracts, charts, and tables. All pages should be numbered (in Arabic) to the bottom right-hand corner, and all text should be presented in a single column. As for the text, it should be written in the order presented and with the following mandatory sections:

Preliminary Sections

• A concise and illustrative title in Spanish that summarizes the spirit of the research, in capital letters, bold and centered. No more than 15 words, without acronyms, symbols, acronyms, or abbreviations.
• Title in English with the same characteristics mentioned above
• Author(s). Identification with the scientific name of the researcher (s), including the highest current academic degree. (To maintain confidentiality during the arbitration process, this data should not appear in the other sections of the article): it is recommended that researchers write their scientific names in a consistent format in their publications.
• Institutional Affiliation Identifies the place where the research was carried out.
• E-mail: Add the e-mail (s) of the researcher (s), which will facilitate communication with the researchers
• ORCID code: Please include your ORCID code
• A summary, which should not exceed 250 words, written in a single block that expresses the purpose of the research, the methodology used, the main findings, and the conclusions. It should not have references or acronyms.
• Keywords: Please include 3 to 5 keywords related to the research that help classify and index it. For these purposes, it is recommended that authors use the Thesaurus of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the website http://databases.unesco.org/thessp/.
• Line and Sub-Line. Please indicate the research line and sub-line (only those studies that are within the framework of the research lines and sub-lines of the Postgraduate Program in Research and Development Management are accepted).
• Abstract: The content should be adjusted to what is mentioned in the previously indicated item (Abstract, but in English).
• Keywords: The content should be adjusted to what is mentioned in the previously indicated item (Keywords, but in English).

Body of Research

• Introduction: Expressing the research context or background, nature of the problem, purpose, scope of the study, importance, and the research objectives.
• Sections: Clear and coherent presentation of the findings (optional)
• Materials and Methods: Indicating the protocols followed within the investigation, incorporating the population, sample, technical information, statistics, and other procedures that demonstrate the rigor of the work.
• Results and discussion: A logical enunciation in text, graphs, and tables, in which the findings are specified, emphasizing reflection, analysis, and interpretation, not repeating in the text the data collected in the tables and graphs. These sections may be presented in a single section or separately; as a whole, they should describe the results, how they are interpreted, and how they are related to the hypotheses or objectives presented at the beginning of the investigation.
• Conclusions: Summary of the verification of the research objectives with their arguments and discussions; incorporating recommendations, proposals, and future lines of research are allowed.
• Abbreviations: Explain their meanings the first time they are mentioned. Do not use non-standard abbreviations unless they appear at least three times in the article.
• Tables and Figures: should be identified with Arabic numerals, with their corresponding captions, and a title that explains their content. Photographs should be original and of quality. They should also be explicitly cited in the text of the article and inserted after the end of the paragraph in which they were quoted. Numbering should be unique and sequential, regardless of the section where located (separating the sequence between tables and graphs). The data presented in tables or figures should not be repeated in the text, source of origin, or footnotes of the tables and figures; explain the abbreviations and relevant observations.
• Tables and figures should be converted to JPG format.
• Citations in the text: Regarding how to cite, the proposed articles should be prepared following the APA publication manual (in its sixth version in English and third in Spanish). They should be relevant to the scientific article, avoiding excessive redundancy in citations. Citations with less than forty words will be included as part of the paragraph, between quotation marks and within the context- more extended sources will be placed in a separate paragraph, with an indentation of 5 spaces in both margins, single-spaced. Using the surname, date, page system (Suarez H., 2016, pp 50-52), or Suarez H. (2016)…….(pp.50-52).
• Acknowledgments: If used, they should be included after the conclusions and before the bibliographic references and only for those people and institutions that contributed substantially to the research.
• Levels in the headings: the sections and subsections of the scientific article should be:

Source: American Psychological Association. (2012). Data from the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (3rd ed.). Mexico. The author.

• Bibliographic references: Any and only the citations made within the article should be included in the bibliographic references, and vice versa, which should support the statements made in the scientific article, ordered alphabetically, using French indentation, for which the specifications to be followed are based on the Publication Style Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Third edition in Spanish
• For any specific queries regarding the citation of sources, authors are recommended to consult the APA style standards page in English (www.apastyle.org) or the Third Edition style manuals in Spanish.
• Veracity is the exclusive responsibility of the article's authors.

General examples of references:

Books

Author Surname, Author name initial, (Year), Title of the book. City, Country: Publisher

Author Surname, Author name initial, (Year). Title of the book. Retrieved from http:\\www.xxxxx

Scientific articles

Author Surname, Author Name Initial, (Date). Article title. Journal name, volume(number), pp-pp

Author Surname, Author Name Initial, (Date). Article title. Journal name, volume(number), pp-pp. Retrieved from https://www.xxx.xxx

Dissertations and theses

Author Surname, Author Name Initial, (year). Thesis title. Name of the institution, place

• Documents that should accompany the manuscript:

Statement of Responsibility (See section on Checklist for submitting articles)

Review Articles

Contributions, through review articles, provide an exhaustive review of the research topic in order to express advances and trends, should not exceed 25 pages, and should not be less than 15 pages, including titles, abstracts, charts, and tables. All pages should be numbered (in Arabic) to the bottom right-hand corner, and all text should be presented in a single column. As for the text, it should be written in the order suggested (Preliminary Sections and Body of the Review) and with the following mandatory sections (Introduction, Development of the review (which may be separated into sections), Conclusions, and References).