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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 text complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the Rules for authors, which can be find in About the magazine.
  • If you are submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, you need to make sure that the instructions at Ensuring a blind review have been followed.
  • The petition has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The file sent is in OpenOffice and Microsoft Word format (eventually in LaTeX).
  • Web addresses have been added for references where possible.
  • The text has single spacing; font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables are within the text in their corresponding place and not at the end.
  • Send a Word document that includes three possible expert referees in the area of ​​your article, indicating institutional email, university where they work and profession. They can be either national or international, and must not belong to the institution from which the article comes.

Author Guidelines

  1. Generalities

Tekhné is a peer-reviewed journal that receives and publishes papers from all areas of engineering and basic sciences. Articles must have scientific and/or technological content, with original contributions, and may be written in Spanish or English.

  1. Nomination of articles

The editorial committee of Tekhné magazine makes, on the one hand, newspaper calls for the application of articles which include dates, minimum format requirements and links for their application. On the other hand, it designates suitable arbitrators who are recognized experts in the area on which each of the articles submitted to arbitration deals.

  1. Presentation format

Authors can adapt their article to the templates provided for the page layout or follow certain minimum guidelines. If accepted, you must necessarily format your article with one of the templates. Consequently, it is advisable to submit the article, from the beginning, following one of the formats or templates in Word, OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

The minimum essential conditions that the article must have are:

  • The font on the cover must be Adobe Garamont Pro.
  • A maximum of 30 pages.
  • The body of the article must be written in two columns in Arial 10 font.

So that your documents (articles, essays, reports and degree works) can be corrected by the referees, it is necessary to use the template provided. In turn, the Letter of Originality and the Letter of Permission for Dissemination must be signed, which must be attached to the shipment.

  • Include in one of the files the names of the authors, their email addresses and the institution and country to which they are linked.

The file for blind evaluation SHOULD NOT have information about the authors or links to institutions

  • It must include two summaries, not exceeding 300 words, with their respective keywords (maximum five). One summary in the original language of the article and the other in any other language selected by the author, written in an impersonal manner (preferably it is desirable that one of the summaries be in English).
  • Graphs and tables must have their description or title numbered consecutively.
  • Include the sections corresponding to any formal investigation. As an example, the following parts are suggested:

   o Summary

   o Introduction

   o Materials and methods

   o Results and discussion

   o Conclusions

   o Bibliographic references

  • Bibliographic references must be cited following the IEEE cited style. Each citation is defined with a number in square brackets, in ascending order, that refers to its corresponding reference. For its part, the bibliography may also include references that were not cited in the article, but that were consulted.

or Book:

[#] Initials and Last Name of the author, Title of the book in italics. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication.

  • [1] R. G. Gallager. Principles of Digital Communication. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

o Magazine article:

[#] Initials and Last name of the author, "Title of the article in quotes", Abbreviated title of the journal in italics, volume (abbreviated vol.), abbreviated number (no.) pages (abbreviated pp.), Month Year.

  • [5] S.-Y. Chung, “Multi-level dirty paper coding,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 456-458, June 2008.

 

o Internet page:

[#] Initials and Last name of the author (year, month and day). Title (edition) [Type of media, generally Online]. Available: Url

  • [14] A. Jones. (1991, May 10). Networks (2nd ed.) [Online]. Available: http://www.atm.com

 

o Article Presented at a Conference:

[#] Initials and Last Name of the author, "Title of the conference paper", Full name of the conference, City of the conference, Abbreviated conference status (if applicable), year, pages (abbreviated pp.)

  • [6] N. Osifchin and G. Vau, "Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU) countries", in Second International Telecommunications Energy Special Conference, 1997, pp. 9-16.

o Master's thesis or doctoral thesis

[#] Author's initials and last name, "Title of the thesis or project", Type of document (doctoral thesis, master's thesis, etc.), Department, Academic institution (abbreviated), City, abbreviated state, Year.

  • [10] H. Zhang, “Delay-insensitive networks,” M.S. thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 1997.

 

Examples taken from "Biblioguides: Citations and bibliography preparation: plagiarism and the ethical use of information: IEEE Style." Main Page - Biblioguides at the Autonomous University of Madrid. https://biblioguias.uam.es/citar/estilo_ieee (accessed April 25, 2023).

  1. Consignment of articles.

At least one of the authors must be registered on this portal and submit the article. For more information you can contact the director of Profa magazine. Beatriz Soledad to the email: bsoledad@ucab.edu.ve

  1. Submission through the platform.

To submit the article, one of the authors must enter the magazine's platform and follow the steps in the instructions in the following link

 

  Institutional affiliation of the lead author

It is an essential requirement that the main author of the article be affiliated with a higher academic institution or a formal institution.

Additional

We require authors to provide at least three recommended referees for review of their work. Recommended referees must be experts in the article's research area and be willing to review the work impartially and with academic rigor.

To ensure the quality of peer review, it is important to consider the following restrictions when selecting recommended referees:

  • Conflict of interest: The recommended referees must not have any conflict of interest with the authors of the article.
  • Expertise: Recommended referees should have solid experience in the research area of the article.
  • Neutrality: Recommended referees must be impartial and objective in their evaluation of the work.
  • Availability: Recommended referees must be willing and have the time available to review the work within a reasonable time.

Of these referees, the following must be provided:

  • Name
  • Email
  • Workplace
  • Work area

This information must be sent via email to revistatekhne@ucab.edu.ve in PDF format or Word file.

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