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Author Guidelines

Postulated texts must:

  1. Correspond to the categories universally accepted as a research product.
  2. Be original and unpublished.
  3. Its contents respond to criteria of precision, clarity, and brevity. They are classified into:
    • Articles. This section includes:
      • Scientific or technological research articles: they present in detail the original results of completed research projects. The body of the article should follow an IMRD (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) followed by the Conclusions and References.
      • Review article: result of a completed investigation where the results of investigations, published or not, are analyzed, systematized, and integrated, whether in the scientific, artistic, or technological artistic field, to account for advances and developmental trends.

Guide format for authors

1. In addition, the articles must consider the rules indicated below, which can also be referenced in the  Word Template file to be used as a template to make the manuscript of the article to be presented:

  1. Details of the author or authors. Complete names and last names, institutional affiliation, ORCID number and email. The maximum number of authors allowed per article is up to five.
  2. Title. In Spanish and English, written in upper- and lower-case letters, with a maximum of 15 words. With 16-point Times New Roman font and in bold.
  3. Summary. It is written in a single paragraph. It gives an account of the topic, the objective, the central points, and the conclusions. It should not exceed 250 words and it is presented in Spanish and English (Abstract).
  4. Keywords. From five to six words or group of words, ordered alphabetically. The first with an initial capital letter, the rest in lowercase, separated by a comma (,), and that are not in the title or subtitle. They must be presented in Spanish and English (Keywords). These serve to classify the article thematically.
  5. The body of the article should follow an IMRD (Introduction, Methodology, Results and Discussion) followed by the Conclusions and References. If necessary, tables, images, and figures may be included in the appropriate sections; these must be numbered and referenced before being displayed. Additionally, if required, a Acknowledgments section may be added before the References, where any funding related to the work to be published and/or any special support received should be declared. For articles with more than one author, following the authorship criteria under the CRedit taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/), please declare the individual contributions of the authors. No declaration of individual contributions will imply equal participation of all authors.
  6. Pages must be numbered, single spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font. The length of the articles should be around 5,000 to 8,000 words. 
  7. Citations and references. In APA 7 format.
  8. Authors must know and comply with the Code of Ethics and good publication practices.
Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The petition has not been previously published, nor has it been submitted to another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the editor).
  • The file sent is in Microsoft Word format.
  • Web addresses have been added for references where possible.
  • The text has single spacing; the font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except for URL addresses); and all the illustrations, figures, and tables are within the text in the place that corresponds to them, and not at the end.
  • The text meets the bibliographic and style requirements outlined in the Guidelines for Authors, which follow this section.
  • If you are submitting to a section of the journal that is peer reviewed, you need to make sure that the instructions (in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
  • The sent file has gone through the basic review process, so it is "ready for Copy and Edition", COPY-EDITING READY.
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Similarly, the intellectual property of the articles or texts published in the RTE journal belongs to the author/s, who retain their copyright and unrestricted control of their work.

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