Author guideline

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify compliance with the following presentation elements (for more details, see the Author Guidelines template):

  1. For manuscript submission, every scientific article must be original and unpublished, and it must not be simultaneously under consideration by other journals or editorial bodies for publication, whether in Spanish or any other language, until a final decision has been made.

  2. It is important to previously review the similarity level of your document, which must not exceed 10%.

  3. The file must be in Microsoft Word format (*.doc, *.docx) in its most recent versions.

  4. All tables, diagrams, figures, etc., must be embedded within Word; they must not be inserted as images.

  5. The text must be presented in letter size, Times New Roman, 18-point for the main title, single spacing, 12-point for subtitles with 1.5 spacing, 2.5 cm margins, and paragraph indentation of 0.5.

  6. The first page or COVER PAGE must include: title (Spanish ≤ 20 words / English with the topic necessarily aligned with the journal’s focus: innovation for sustainable development), personal data such as a) author’s or authors’ name, b) ORCID (mandatory), c) institution of affiliation, d) city, state, and country, e) institutional e-mail address for correspondence. This must be repeated for each co-author. f) If applicable, the source of funding for the research. The article must also include between three and five keywords in English and Spanish, lowercase, separated by commas.

  7. The article must not exceed 20 pages, broken down as follows: A. COVER PAGE (1 page), B. ABSTRACT in Spanish (1 page), C. ABSTRACT in English (1 page), followed by: 1. INTRODUCTION (maximum 1 page), 2. CONTEXTUALIZATION (maximum 2 pages), 3. LITERATURE REVIEW (maximum 4 pages), 4. METHODOLOGY (maximum 2 pages), 5. RESULTS (maximum 2 pages), 6. DISCUSSION (maximum 3 pages), 7. CONCLUSION (maximum 1 page), 8. REFERENCES (maximum 2 pages).

  8. The abstract (in both Spanish and English) must include context, problem, objective or purpose, methodology, findings, originality due to a multidisciplinary study on sustainable innovation, conclusions, and limitations.

  9. Citations and references must comply with the criteria established in the journal’s Author Guidelines, based on APA-7.

  10. Ninety percent (90%) of bibliographic references must be between 5 and 10 years old. References must provide DOI identifiers. If not possible, URLs must be provided (hyperlinks must work properly and contain the cited information).

  11. The authors adhere to our Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Content Generation (AICG) Tools.

  12. The person(s) responsible for the submission declare(s) that this document has no authors other than those indicated (no additional names will be added during the editing process).