Information For Authors

The instructions for authors will be presented in a Word file, available on the Web and printed in all numbers of the journal. This document will be used as a template by the authors and will be available in Spanish, English and Portuguese as a strategy for geographic diversification of the published articles.

The SIGNOS journal will provide authors with the space to indicate their distinctive author's name, which consists in defining a unique way of presenting the author's name in all their publications, which favors the best use of search tools and analysis of citations in the citations SIRES Indexation and Summarizing Systems; if the author does not have a distinctive author's name, the SIGNOS journal will advise the construction of one. In any case, authors’ full names will always appear on the cover of the article.

The journal will advise the presentation of the institutional affiliation of the authors, always must be presented from lowest to highest hierarchy and include the postal address, city and country. Authors will be asked if the institution to which they belong has a policy that refers to the proper way to name it and if acronyms are used, in no case should the authors translate the proper names of the institutions of their original language.

The authors of the Universidad Santo Tomás must register the name of the institution as follows: Universidad Santo Tomás USTA Colombia, applies to all the headquarters and sectional offices in the country.

To cite articles published in the SIGNOS journal, the name of the journal is "SIGNOS".

For the authors presentation in the references it is recommended to use the form of the name that appears in the article, independent of the APA forms. This recommendation is presented to favor the citations analysis of the databases.

Bibliographic citations of the authors referenced in the text should use the methodology established in the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), sixth edition.

Lo invitamos a revisar la plantilla de artículos para sus próximos envíos. 

Así mismo el formato de cesión de derechos.