Submissions

Author Guidelines

Presentation and structure of originals

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively through the OJS (Open Journal System) platform.

Three authors is the recommended number for each manuscript, except in cases where a higher number is justified.

Authors must create an account on the platform with all the required information to proceed with submission (it is recommended to review the complete checklist for submission preparation here).

In the case of multiple authors, only one will be the corresponding author.

If an author had a manuscript published, this author must wait two consecutive issues before submitting another manuscript.

Four files must be submitted simultaneously: a) Cover letter and Copyright Agreement, signed by all authors; b) Manuscript and Author’s Information document with information about the article and authors; c) Authorship Declaration signed by all authors; and d) An anonymized manuscript. All documents must be prepared in accordance with the following instructions.

Document Preparation Guide

Files must be anonymized to protect author identification throughout the editorial process, including external peer review.

a) Cover Letter

The cover letter must include the full names of the authors, along with their signatures, confirming that the article is unpublished, that has not been submitted to any other journals, it is an original contribution,it has not been sent elsewhere during evaluation and publication, authorship is confirmed by signatories, and formal modifications in the manuscript are accepted according to the journal’s standards, as well as copyright transfer to Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. Furthermore, the authors declare the absence of any conflict of interest and confirm adherence to the ethical principles relevant to the research conducted.

b) Manuscript and Author’s Information

The journal accepts manuscripts in three languages: Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Therefore, regardless of the original language of the submitted article, authors must prepare the title, abstract, and keywords in all three languages.

The cover page should be prepared as follows:

Article Title: In Spanish on the first line, with as many significant terms as possible, up to 85 characters including spaces. Authors and editors are responsible for it, and if the title does not correctly reflect the work, it may be modified.

In English on the second line, with as many significant terms as possible, up to 80 characters including spaces. Authors and editors are responsible for it, and if the title does not correctly reflect the work, it may be modified.

In Portuguese on the third line, with as many significant terms as possible, up to 85 characters including spaces. Authors and editors are responsible for it, and if the title does not correctly reflect the work, it may be modified.

Abstract:

Resumen, in Spanish with 210 words, where the research objective, the theory used, the methodology, the main findings, and the primary conclusions and contributions are described in a structured manner.

Abstract, in English with 200 words, where the research objective, the theory used, the methodology, the main findings, and the primary conclusions and contributions are described in a structured manner.

Resumo, in Portuguese with 210 words, where the research objective, the theory used, the methodology, the main findings, and the primary conclusions and contributions are described in a structured manner.

Keywords

5 keywords in Spanish (palabras clave), it is recommended to use the UNESCO Thesaurus. New terms are only accepted in exceptional cases. Terms should be in standardized scientific Spanish and provide information different from that in the title.

5 keywords in English, it is recommended to use the UNESCO Thesaurus. New terms are only accepted in exceptional cases. Terms should be in standardized scientific English and provide information different from that in the title.

5 keywords in Portuguese (palavras-chave), it is recommended to use the UNESCO Thesaurus. New terms are only accepted in exceptional cases. Terms should be in standardized scientific Portuguese and provide information different from that in the title.

 JEL Code. Authors must select a classification code and include both the numeric and alphabetical information (http://bit.ly/31q1irE).

c) Author Details

Up to three authors are accepted. For more than three authors, a significant original contribution from the team must be justified, considering the complexity and length of the manuscript.

Scientific name (first and last), highest academic degree, institutional affiliation, city-state-country, email, and ORCID number.

Standardized academic signature as per international conventions to facilitate identification in major databases.

Authorship Statement

All articles published in this journal with more than one author must include an authorship statement following the CRediT taxonomy. This taxonomy assigns specific roles to contributors, promoting greater transparency in the scientific process.

Authors must download the form, complete it according to the following definitions, and sign it (all authors, in order of precedence).

CRediT Roles:

1. Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or development of the research's overall objectives and goals (link).
2. Data Curation: Management activities for annotating (generating metadata), cleaning, and maintaining research data (including software code when necessary for data interpretation) for initial use and subsequent reuse (link).
3. Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data (link).
4. Funding Acquisition: Securing financial support for the project leading to this publication (link).
5. Investigation: Conducting research and inquiry processes, specifically performing experiments or collecting data/evidence (link).
6. Methodology: Development or design of the methodology; creation of models (link).
7. Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for planning and executing the research activity (link).
8. Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, equipment, patients, laboratory samples, animals (link).
9. Software: Programming, software development, design of computer programs, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components (link).
10. Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility in planning and executing the research activity, including external mentoring to the main team (link).
11. Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research findings (link).
12. Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization/presentation (link).
13. Writing – Original Draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically drafting the initial manuscript, including substantive translation (link).
14. Writing – Review & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by the original research team, specifically critical review, commentary, or corrections, including pre- and post-publication stages (link).

An author may perform multiple roles, or multiple authors may share the same role. In these cases, the degree of contribution can be specified. The lead author will be responsible for assigning the roles, and all authors must confirm their respective roles.

Authors are requested to submit the authorship declaration (download here) along with the cover letter when submitting their articles.

Examples of authorship statements:

• Author 1: conceptualization, methodology, writing.
• Author 2: conceptualization, writing.
• Author 3: conceptualization, methodology.

For more information on the CRediT taxonomy, visit this link.

Language

All UASB-E publications strive for written expression that does not discriminate against women or any group in society, while recognizing the history, structure and economy of the language, and the most comfortable use for readers and speakers.

Therefore, no sexist or inequitable usage will be accepted, nor will the immoderate use of inclusive duplications or the morpheme e, @ (it is not a letter) or x to compose supposedly generic words, which contravene the standard use of the language.

Rules for citations and references

Estudios de la Gestión follows the Chicago Manual for Style, and within this, the author-year subsystem (SAA).

The reference citation, as a rule, according to the Chicago Manual for Style, the author cited in the text is included in the speech, and the year is indicated in parentheses and, if it is a textual citation, the number of the page preceded by a comma. If the author does not go in the speech, he goes inside the parentheses, preceding the year.

It is essential that the bibliographic citation, both in the discursive thread and in the references, responds to uniform and constant criteria. This is a key aspect in a scientific journal. Inconsistencies or alterations of established regulations are not accepted. Please respect the punctuation system: commas, periods, and semicolons.

Here are some recommendations related to the Manual:

a) Words in other languages ​​and highlighted words must be in italics.

b) The text should never be underlined.

c) The first-time acronyms or acronyms are used, it must be in parentheses after the complete formula. Example: Economic Commission for America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

d) On figures and tables:They must be incorporated into the text in an orderly manner, according to the order of appearance.

• They must be incorporated into the text in an orderly manner, according to the order of appearance.
• It is recommended to include tables and figures with 3D design.
• Figures, such as photographs and images, must clarify the text and their number will not exceed six between figures and tables.
• The information that goes inside the tables must be with single spacing, in Arial, ten points, with initial capital letters, and centred/justified as appropriate.
• Each element must have a title and sequence number, centred, single spacing, Arial, in ten points. Example:

Table 1

Table example

- Each element must include its respective citation in Times New Roman, 9 points in the lower left corner. Examples:

                       i. Quote: Source: ECLAC (2018, 87).

                       ii. Paraphrase: Source: adapted from ECLAC (2018).

                       iii. Author of the writer: Source and own elaboration.

- Each element must be sent separately in any standard readable format (show the format). They must have printing quality, presented in .PNG format and in a separate file in editable (modifiable) format.

- If they were prepared in a statistical program, they must be accompanied by a PDF generated directly by the program.

- Figures must be of quality or from royalty-free image banks.

- The originality of the authors´ graphic presentation with professional programs will be valued: RawGraph (https://www.rawgraphs.io/), ChartGo (www.chartgo.com); Online Chart Tool (www.chartle.com), etc. or other 3D graphics programs.

e) It is prescriptive that all citations having DOI (Digital Object Identifier System) are reflected in the References (they can be obtained at https://search.crossref.org/).

f) All journals and books that do not have DOI must appear with their link (in their online version, if they have it, shortened).

g) All the web addresses that are presented must be shortened in the manuscript through https://bitly.com/, apart from the DOI that must be in the indicated format.

h) The authors´ citation saturations (self-citations) and of this journal should be limited.

i) National and international journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Scopus, REDIB, Dialnet Metrics, ERIH and FECYT are recommended.

j) Regarding the number of citations, it will depend on the nature of the paper, but it is recommended to have, on average, 45 references, 10% of which must be Scopus or WOS references.

Citations and bibliographic references examples

The reference citation is the one included in the document; the bibliographic citation is the one included at the end of the document. Here are some examples of the most common types of citations and references:

• Book

Reference citation:

(Carlino et al. 2013, 34)

If the reference citation is textual, the page number must be preceded by a comma, as shown in the example above. 

Bibliographic citation:

Carlino, Paula, Patricia Iglesia, Leandro Bottinelli, Manuela Cartolari, Irene Laxalt and Marta Marucco. 2013. Reading and writing to learn in the various careers and signatures of the IFDs that train high school teachers. Buenos Aires: Ministry of Education of the Nation. http://bit.ly/33IBWqS.

When the paper has four or more authors, in the reference citation only the first author´s last name is written followed by the Latin phrase “et al.” All authors are included in the bibliographic citation and only first author´s name of the cited is reversed. In the case of books consulted on the web, the respective link is added.

• Chapter of book

Reference citation:

(Alvear 2009, 30)

Bibliographic citation:

Alvear, Miguel. 2009. "Cinema outside the cinema". In Ecuador underground: video graphs in parallel circulation, edited by Miguel Alvear and Christian León, 28-39. Quito: Ocho y medio.

• Web page

Reference citation:

(EC Ministry of Education 2019, para. 7)

(Rivas and Ramón 2018, para. 10)

Bibliographic citation:

EC Ministry of Education. 2019. "Inclusive schools". Ministry of Education. Accessed September 19. http://bit.ly/2ptF9f3.

Rivas, Natalia, and Pamela Ramón. 2018. “The subway is passing and Solanda is sinking”. The Space Bar. Accessed November 2019. http://bit.ly/2OWPA5y.

• Article in scientific journal

Reference citation:

(Agudelo and López 2018, 85)

(Chu 2011)

Bibliographic citation:

Agudelo, Daniel, and Yohana López. 2018. "Dynamics of systems in inventory management". USBMed Engineering Journal 9 (1): 75-85. https://doi.org/10.21500/20275846.3305.

Chu, Edward. 2011. “Inventory Turnover of Fortune 500 Manufacturing Companies after 2001 and its Relationship to Net Earning”. Journal of Business & Economics Research (6): 2-12. https://doi.org/10.19030/jber.v6i6.2426.

After the name of the journal there are two numbers: the first corresponds to the volume and the second corresponds to the number (which normally only appears as a "number" in publications). Some journals do not have the volume figure, in that case, the number figure is written directly in parentheses.

• Thesis

Reference Citation:

(German Salvador 2003, 69)

Bibliographic citation:

German Salvador, María Gabriela. 2003. “The audio-visual imprint in Ecuadorian culture”. PhD thesis, Tulane University, Tulane. https://bit.ly/2VMUZxf.

• Presentations at conferences, semimars, etc.

Reference citation:

(Boero 2014)

Bibliographic citations:

Boero, Gabriel. 2014. "Social responsibility and entrepreneurship". Paper presented at the X International Entrepreneur Forum, Quito, November 19.

• Legal sources

Constitution, laws, and decrees

Reference citation:

(EC 2008, art. 298)

(EC 2010, art. 22)

Bibliographic citation:

2008. 2008. Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador. Official Registry 449, October 20.

---. 2010. Organic Law of Higher Education. Official Gazette 298, Supplement, October 12.

Institutional documents

Reference citation:

According to / According to ISO 31000 (INEN 2014, 4)

Bibliographic citation:

Ecuadorian Institute for Standardization. 2014. NTE INEN- ISO 31000. Risk Management, principles and guidelines (ISO 31000: 2009, IDT). Quito: INEN.

Instruments of international organizations

Reference citation:

AENOR (2015)

Bibliographic citation:

Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification (AENOR). 2015. UNE EN ISO 14001: 2015 standard. Environmental management systems: requirements with guidance for their use. Madrid: AENOR.

Other annotations

The final text must be checked with the word processor's dictionary since it solves some problems automatically. To avoid the general marking with two spaces between words error, the Word search engine (replace) can be used, pointing to looking for double spaces to be substituted by one.

Abbreviations: only universally accepted should be used (see: Units Symbols and Abbreviations). When it is intended to shorten a term often used in the text, the corresponding abbreviation in parentheses must be the first time it appears. Roman numerals will not be used in the text, using the point to the right of zero for decimals and not the comma (for the Spanish version).

Complementary material: when the manuscript is required to be complemented with visual, audio-visual, statistical documents and annexed materials, extensive tables, complex colour graphics that due to format and size reasons cannot be inserted in the articles, these documents must be as extraordinary files, and once accepted, they will be published in a prescriptive way and online by the author, using the Figshare platform (http://figshare.com), collecting the citation in the manuscript. This platform also offers a complementary free DOI.

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