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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.

Author Guidelines

Free format submission

To facilitate the submission of manuscripts to the Journal, we enable authors to submit texts without adapting them to a strict style and citation guidelines. Once the manuscripts are approved for publication, the editor will request the formatting of the text according to the rules of the Journal. However, unformatted submission does not imply manuscripts should be sent without structure. In this regard we ask authors to consider the following: 

  1. Metadata. Manuscripts should have an abstract not longer that two hundred and fifty (250) words. It should state the purpose and describe the main contents of each section. Also, it should contain appropriate keywords, said keywords should preferably be terms between two or three words, and there should be between four to six unique terms.
  2. Structure of the articles. Research and review articles should follow the classic structure: introduction, methodology, results, discussion and conclusions. Its length should not exceed ten thousand (10,000) words without references.
  3. Other manuscript structures. Short articles and reviews should ensure a coherent structure, preferably with an introduction, a development of its contents, and conclusions. Short articles should not exceed three thousand (3,000) words without references. Book reviews should not exceed one thousand and five hundred (1,500) words without references.
  4. Tables and figures. All tables, figures and images should be mentioned in the body of text and inserted in the place closest to their mention. They must have a title and indicate the source from which they come or specify if they are self-made. Authors are responsible for the permissions to use tables, figures or images published by other media.
  5. Citation style. Rules of citation must be consistent throughout the text. 

Submissions. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s publishing platform (Open Journal System). Declaration of conflict of interest and a release form must be uploaded with the text. Templates for said documents can be downloaded here: 

https://revistas.unbosque.edu.co/index.php/RCB/about/submissions 

If the author is unable to make the submission on his/her own or wishes to clarify any aspect of it, he or she can send his/her manuscript and attachment directly to the journal’s e-mail: 

revistacolombianadebioetica@unbosque.edu.co

 

Manuscript submission essentials

Metadata. Abstracts have a maximum length of two hundred (200) words. Its structure should follow the indications given below. In the case of papers, the structure will be: 

  1. Statement of purpose
  2. Introduction
  3. Methodology
  4. Results
  5. Discussion and conclusions 

The journal recommends that keywords should be terms of two to three words and there should be between five to six terms for each manuscript. For example, instead of writing “care” and “elder adult” as to different keywords, we recommend writing “care of the elder adult” as one keyword. 

Heading levels

Level

Format

1

Centered, boldface

2

Flush left, boldface

3

Flush left, boldface italic

4

Indented, boldface, ending with a period.

5

Indented, boldface italic, ending with a period.

 Tables and figures (images). Here are some recommendations on the tables and figures of the manuscripts: 

  1. Tables and figures should always be mentioned in the body of the text, either as part of the narrative thread of the manuscript or in parentheses.
  2. Tables and figures shall be numbered in Arabic numerals. The title of the table or figure will be headed by its numbering, in bold, and will be placed at the top of each one, and without a full stop: 

“Table 1. Number of cases reported monthly by 2020" 

The source should be indicated at the bottom of the table or figure, with a colon, and with a full stop: 

“Source: own elaboration.” 

  1. Images, photographs and other graphic material will be considered as figures and should be named and numbered as such within the manuscript.
  2. Authors are encouraged to make their own tables and figures. Those tables and figures that come from other sources must have the proper authorization to be reproduced. These authorizations must be processed and submitted to the journal by the authors. Manuscripts that include such graphic elements, without their proper authorizations or licenses, will not be processed. This is in order to avoid probable inconvenience due to misuse of protected or copyrighted. 

Citation norms. Approved manuscripts must adjust to Chicago citation style author-date. This means sources are cited in the body of the text by using parentheses, including surnames of the authors, the year and page number (when the mentioned quotation is textual). A list of references should be included at the end of the manuscript. The correspondence between the list and the quotations in the body of the text must be equal. 

The journal recommends consulting the Chicago manual’s quick guide to get used to the structure of the Chicago author-date style. Authors can visit the quick guide at the following link: 

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-2.html

Copyright Notice

Originality of the manuscripts. Manuscripts submitted to the journal publication process must be an original creation of their authors and must not have been previously published, in whole or in part, in other formal media such as journals, books, or online publications.

If a previous version of the manuscript has been published in institutional or scientific repositories, academic networks, personal websites, or some other kind of online repository, authors will be asked to remove that version of their text before submitting it to the RCB. This kind of previous publication may jeopardize the “double-blind” peer review process.

All tables, figures and images taken from other sources must have proper permissions in order to be reproduced in the manuscript. The journal will not process such permissions and will not process manuscripts that do not have the respective permissions. The authors are directly responsible for this process. Authors are invited to produce their own tables, figures and images.

Finally, it is not in the journal’s interest to publish translations.

 

Cession agreement and reuse. The RCB request the cession of rights of the manuscripts approved for publication. However, the journal allows reuses for scientific, academic or educational purposes, after consultation with the editor. The only condition is to grant full reference to the published text in the journal, including its DOI.

Also, the journal publishes its contents under the open access model and protects all its manuscripts with a Creative Commons 4.0 license of attribution, non-commercial and no derivative works (BY-NC-ND).

Privacy Statement

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