Submissions

Author Guidelines

Guidelines for the submission of manuscripts

The articles submitted must:

- Correspond to the categories universally accepted as a product of research.

 - Be original and unpublished.

- Meet the criteria of precision, clarity, and brevity.

- Have been adjusted to the Word template published in the journal.

They are classified as:

Original scientific and technological research articles: they present, in detail, the results of completed research projects. The structure generally used contains six important parts: introduction; materials and methods; results; discussion; conclusions; and bibliographical references. Acknowledgments are left to the author's discretion. Tables and figures should be integrated into the scientific discourse and should be in grayscale and sent in a modifiable format to adapt them to the style of the journal; however, figures may be sent in color.

Review articles: results of completed research where the results of published or unpublished studies on a field of science or technology are analyzed, systematized, and integrated, in order to report on progress and development trends.  It is characterized by presenting a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 references. Its structure is as follows: abstract; introduction; methodology; development and discussion; conclusions; and bibliographical references.

Technical notes: these are articles whose objective is to communicate scientific progress with originality and synthesis and should not exceed six typed pages. It does not need to be written in sections. It should be structured as follows: abstract; introduction; materials and methods; results and discussion; conclusions and bibliographical references.

Structure of the manuscript

Title page: title; abstract, complete data of authors, keywords (Spanish, English, or Portuguese).

Title: in Spanish, English, or Portuguese and not exceeding 20 words. It should be written in upper and lower case, as appropriate.

Author (s) data: full name and surname(s), institutional affiliation, authors' country of affiliation, institutional e-mail, ORCID number, and updated information. Avoid academic titles or institutional positions.

Abstract, analytical, descriptive, or synthetic analytical: this is the most read section of a scientific article and allows the reader to know the content of the work.

It is written in a single paragraph and should contain a brief sentence that clearly expresses the importance and scope of the work, the objective, methodology, results, and conclusions; it should not exceed 250 words and be presented in Spanish (resumen) and English (abstract) or Portuguese (resumo). In the case of technical notes, it should not exceed 150 words and should follow the same steps and presentation as the abstract of the scientific article.

Keywords: five words or a group of words that are not found in the title. They must be presented in Spanish (palabras claves), and English (keywords). They serve to classify the article thematically. Words defined in the UNESCO thesaurus http://databases.unesco.org/thessp/

Introduction: in this section, written in the past tense, the author expresses the purpose of the article, its scope, the context of the problem to be solved, and briefly presents the most recent and important research related to the topic, with an average of 10 years old, except for the obligatory reference classics. It ends with the objective of the research.

Materials and methods: the purpose of this section is to provide information for the study to be replicated. It is written in the past tense. It should indicate how the problem was studied and; therefore, clearly express all the protocols, methods, and relevant characteristics of the materials used to reach the results. It is essential to present the materials evaluated (technical specifications, quantities, origin or preparation method, generic or chemical names, avoiding commercial ones), and the statistical analysis (must be performed by means of specialized software). Indicate the references to other authors or studies, including them in the corresponding section.

Results and discussion: the findings should be explained clearly and precisely, complemented with tables and/or figures, which should be numbered correlatively as they are mentioned in the text. Avoid repeating the information in the tables and figures, only highlight the most relevant. Tables and figures should be self-explanatory so that the reader does not have to go to the text to understand the information provided; scientific names, abbreviations, and units, among others, should be included. It is written in the past tense. Regarding the discussion, the findings should be interpreted, explaining their importance, implications, and relationships with other studies, theoretical scope, and contributions to the advancement of science. The discussion should be based on statistical analyses and contributions from other authors with similar studies, not on subjective appraisals.

Conclusion: it is a synthesis of the findings and should correspond to the objective stated.

Acknowledgments: it is optional and should not exceed 100 words.

Citations and bibliographic references:

Citations: when citations are made they can be, short citations (with less than 40 words) which are incorporated into the text and can be: textual (it is enclosed in double quotation marks), paraphrased, or summarized (they are written in their own words within the text); extensive textual citation (greater than 40 words) should be arranged in a line and an independent block with omission of quotation marks; do not forget in any case the author's reference (last name, year, p. 00).  It is ideal to use paraphrased citations and give the corresponding credits to the authors to whom the information belongs, in order to avoid plagiarism.

Conflict of interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest in this publication or in any of its stages.

Bibliographic references

In the elaboration of the scientific discourse, the author can use articles from scientific journals, books, book chapters, patents, standards, reports from state institutions and other recognized entities with international prestige (FAO, UNESCO, among others), maps, satellite images, and computer programs. Other documents such as theses, newspaper articles, conference papers (congresses, symposiums, seminars, workshops, and events), interviews, encyclopedias, monographs, reviews, and electronic documents not indexed in the databases of scientific journals and web pages will be cited at the foot of the page with a superscript number without parentheses, and under the requirements established by the journal's style for these documents.

As a model for the construction of references, the following is used:

Book:

Author/editor (year of publication). Title of the book (edition) (volume). Place of publication: publisher or publishing house. The number of pages.

One author: author's surname, first name initials (year of publication). Title of the work. City, country: Publisher. The number of pages.

Luenberger, D. (1989). Programación lineal y no lineal. Mexico: Addison-Wesley. 498 p.

Two authors: surnames author A, first name initials, surnames author B, first name initials (year of publication).  Title.  Place of publication: Publisher. The number of pages.

Padrini, F. e Lucheroni, M. T. (1996). El gran libro de los aceites esenciales. Barcelona: De Vecchi. 208 p.

More than two authors: surname author A, initials of names, surname author B, initials of names, surname author C, initials of names (year of publication). Title. Place of publication: Publisher. The number of pages.

Gardner, E. J., Simmons, M. J. and Snustad, D. P. (1991). Principles of genetics. Eighth edition. John Willey & Sons, Inc. New York. 455 p.

Chapter of a book:

Author/editor (year of publication). Title of article or chapter. Page numbers. In: Author(s) of the book (surname(s) and initial of the name(s)), Title of the work. Edition. Volume. Place of publication: editor or publisher.

Prins, R. A. and Clarke, R. T. (1980). Microbial ecology of the rumen. p. 179-204. In: Ruckebusch F. and Thivend, P. (Eds.). Digestive physiology and metabolism in ruminants. First edition. AVI Publishing Company, Inc. Westport, Connecticut.

Scientific journal:

Author, A.A. and Author, B. (year of publication). Title of article. Journal name, volume (number), pp-pp. Doi:

Párraga-Muñoz, L. E., Chavarría-Párraga, J. E. y Sabando-García, Á. R. (2022). Comportamiento agroproductivo de Cucumis sativus L. en diferentes ambientes de producción agroecológica. La Técnica, 12(2), 68-74.  DOI:  https://doi.org/10.33936/latecnica.v27i2.4385

Serial publication:

Author, A.A., Author, B.B., and Author, C.C., (Year of publication, include month and day of publication for daily, weekly or monthly publications). Title of article. Title of journal, daily, weekly, Volume (number), pages 0-0.

Article found in a journal published on the Internet:

Author, A.A. and Author, B.B. (year if found). Title of article. Title of journal, volume, if found, (number if found). Retrieved from URL.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures: the designation tables and figures should be used. They must contain a title related to the research topic that is sufficiently explanatory and the origin if it does not belong to the research (author and/or source, year, p.00); in addition, the explanatory legend of the abbreviations or elements required by the same. Tables should have the title before the table and, in the case of figures, at the bottom of the table. Figures, photographs, and illustrations may be submitted in color. They must be placed in the corresponding place in the text at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

The author is responsible for acquiring the rights and/or authorizations for the reproduction of images and/or figures taken from other sources.

Examples of tables and figures

See table example

See example figure

Cover of the journal:

La Técnica Journal may use for its cover an image representative of a manuscript to be published in the corresponding issue. The images must be original and the authors must cede the publication rights to La Técnica. This Journal also invites authors to postulate an image inherent to their manuscript for publication on the cover.

Text: Papers will be prepared in Word word processor, on numbered pages, double-spaced, in Times New Roman font at 12 points. It will be extended up to 25 pages including tables and figures.

Footnotes: explanatory notes or footnotes should not exceed five lines or 40 words; otherwise they will be incorporated into the general text.

Quantities and magnitudes: the works published in La Técnica will observe the norms of the International System of Units (SI).

Leave a space between the quantity and the unit of measurement (10 m, 25 °C). Do not leave space when dealing with angles, percentages, and latitude or longitude measurements (180°, 10%, 30°15'5" N). Do not leave space to separate numbers in units of thousands or millions (1,534,897).

Numbers from one to nine will be written in letters (one, two, three) in the context of scientific discourse (five cows, nine countries), except in tables and figures or when accompanied by a unit of the International System of Units and Measures.

Use comma (,) as a decimal separator (0.12; 12.345).

The magnitudes of the results of the analysis should be reported with the same precision with which the measurements of the variables were made (...if the precision of the measurement was made in meters (m) and the result of the analysis was 45.23 m, it is reported as such unless an approximation of the value is required.

Rounding of figures: to approximate to a certain number of decimal digits of a magnitude. It is better 6.4 than 6.44235 or 5.44 than 5.4450.

Rule: when the digits that appear to the right of the position to be rounded exceed 5, approximate to the next higher one (233.425012, approximate to 233.43); on the other hand, if these digits are less than 5, truncate the magnitude in the desired position (233.4349, truncate to (3); 233.43).

If the digit to the right of the position to be rounded is exactly 5 or higher, the number of the digit to be rounded is approximated to the next higher value (12.35 is approximated to 12.4).

Download the template for your article

Download the instructions for authors in PDF format

Declaration of contribution to authorship according to CRediT

The authors’ contributions will  be presented according to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy  (CRediT), considering each author's pertinent roles. The fourteen established roles are: conceptualization; data curation; formal analysis, funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, software, supervision; validation; visualization; writing-original draft; writing-review & editing.

Example:

Diego Edmundo Pita-Gutierrez; methodology, investigation, formal analysis, writing-original draft, writing-review & editing. María Auxiliadora Pico-Mero: formal analysis, writing-original draft, writing-review & editing. Victor Andrés López Tuarez: conceptualization, formal analysis, methodology, investigation, writing-original draft, writing-review & editing.

Errata publication and article retraction

The journal allows the publication of errata to correct any errors or inaccuracies that may arise in published articles. Furthermore, we commit to retract any article that has been published incorrectly or does not meet our editorial standards.

GUIDELINES FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF PREPRINTS

Guidelines for the Acceptance of Preprints in La Técnica Revista de las Agrociencias