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Author Guidelines

See General Publishing Guidelines here

Ethical Conduct and Good Practices of Publishing

The Santo Tomás University and the editorial committee do the CITAS journal, with the aim of ensuring the scientific and academic quality of its publications, have established the following ethical principals, published by the Committee on Publications Ethics-COPE, as well as the ethical and legal standards of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition.  These best practices should be adhered to be the authors, the editorial committee and the institution.

Responsibilities of the authors

Where necessary, the author must present the relevant information (funding bodies, institutional affiliation, participants, et cetera) that authorises its publication in repositories or other forms of storage.

The author must declare the originality of the paper and provide information as required by copyright (Andean Pact Decision 351 of 1993).

Where required, the author must provide guarantee that the research carried out on humans or other species complies with national and international law.   To that end, the author must present evidence of informed consent or the approval by the ethics committee.

Declare any possible conflict of interest

The author must notify the editorial committee of any significant error in the published article so that it can be rectified through a list of corrections, an appendix, a letter to the editor, or removal of the publication.

If plagiarism, impersonation or omission of information is detected, the author is obliged to publicly retract their paper, and, depending on the gravity of the misconduct, the withdrawal or correction of the publication can be expected.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published or submitted for 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.
  • Wherever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • Text is single spaced; 12 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and biliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guidelines, which appear in About the journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring Anonymous Review should be followed.

Copyright Notice

The authors sign a transfer of rights so that Universidad Santo Tomás can publish the articles under the conditions described below. The authors, readers and other users are free to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate the work under the following conditions:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

CITAS is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Until 2019 the documents published in the magazine were under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA), however, in order to guarantee the open and free distribution of the content published in the magazine, it was decided to change the type Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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