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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.

Author Guidelines

1. Overview

  • Biblios only disseminates research related or linked to any of the areas of Information Sciences.
  • The contributions submit to Biblios must be original and unpublished.
  • You can submit texts in any of the official languages of the journal: Spanish, Portuguese, English.
  • As part of the submission process, the author must attach the completed and signed Publication Data Form as a complementary file in the system. This form includes declarations of originality, preprint, data availability, license, among others. It must be sent to Biblios.
  • Biblios only publishes the following types of contributions: original article, review article and case study.
  • The average time Biblios publication of receipt of the text until approval is 120 days.
  • All contributions that do not pass the peer review, after 60 days of submission, will be automatically archived and released.

2. Extension of contributions

  • Not less than 8 pages (A4 format)

3. Content contributions

  • The text should be written according to the rules of grammar and syntax of the language of origin.
  • Biblios suggests the following structure for the contributions:

a) Title.
b) Abstract. Using the structure: Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusions (OMRC).
c) Keywords (no less than three nor more than seven).
d) Title, abstract and key in English (compulsory for all items) words.
e) Introduction.
f) Literature review.
g) Methodology.
h) Results.
i) Discussion.
j) Conclusions.
k) Bibliography.
l) Notes: All notes must be footnotes. Endnotes will not be accepted.

 

4. Citation and bibliography style

  • American Psychological Association - APA Style


5. Presentation format

 

6. Author information

  • The file with the contribution cannot present any information or express reference to the authors (except for the cases of preprint and data as mentioned in the editorial policy).
  • Authors' data should only be registered in the system during the submission process and in the publication data.
  • All authors must include their ORCID digital identifier with their biography, academic background and publications.

Original

The original article is a written report, with scientific and conceptual rigor, that communicates for the first time the results of a research. It describes fully and concisely the results of original research, containing all the relevant information for those who wish to reproduce the research or assess the results and conclusions.

Review

The review articles are analysis from experts in the field. They are systematic, critical assessments of literature and data sources, aimed at critically reviewing and evaluating the current state of knowledge on a designated topic, in addition to commenting on studies by other authors.

Case report

Presentation of professional experience, based on a study of a peculiar case and succinct comments of interest for the practice of other professionals in the area.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. The Author retains copyright in the Work, where the term “Work” shall include all digital objects that may result in subsequent electronic publication or distribution.
  2. Upon acceptance of the Work, the author shall grant to the Publisher the right of first publication of the Work.
  3. The Author shall grant to the Publisher and its agents the nonexclusive perpetual right and license to publish, archive, and make accessible the Work in whole or in part in all forms of media now or hereafter known under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License or its equivalent, which, for the avoidance of doubt, allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the Work under the following conditions:
    1. Attribution—other users must attribute the Work in the manner specified by the author as indicated on the journal Web site;
    with the understanding that the above condition can be waived with permission from the Author and that where the Work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
  4. The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  5. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post online a prepublication manuscript (but not the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version of the Work) in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work shall be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Publisher-assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and a link to the online abstract for the final published Work in the Journal.
  6. Upon Publisher’s request, the Author agrees to furnish promptly to Publisher, at the Author’s own expense, written evidence of the permissions, licenses, and consents for use of third-party material included within the Work, except as determined by Publisher to be covered by the principles of Fair Use.
  7. The Author represents and warrants that:
    1. the Work is the Author’s original work;
    2. the Author has not transferred, and will not transfer, exclusive rights in the Work to any third party;
    3. the Work is not pending review or under consideration by another publisher;
    4. the Work has not previously been published;
    5. the Work contains no misrepresentation or infringement of the Work or property of other authors or third parties; and
    6. the Work contains no libel, invasion of privacy, or other unlawful matter.
  8. The Author agrees to indemnify and hold Publisher harmless from Author’s breach of the representations and warranties contained in Paragraph 6 above, as well as any claim or proceeding relating to Publisher’s use and publication of any content contained in the Work, including third-party content.

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