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 in MLA 7 edition citation. However, unformatted submission does not imply manuscripts should be sent without structure. In this regard we ask authors to consider the following:

• Metadata. Manuscripts should have an abstract not longer that two hundred (200) 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.
• 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.
• Other text 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. Reviews should not exceed one thousand and five hundred (1,500) words without references.
• 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.
• Citation Style. Rules of citation must be consistent throughout the text and must be follow style citation of MLA 7.

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/rcfc/about/submissions
If the author experiences any inconvenience in the submission process 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:
revistafilosofiaciencia@unbosque.edu.co
Review Process

• The Journal manages a comprehensives review process. First, there is an editorial review. Then, a content review by external peers in a "double-blind" peer review system. Detailed explanation of the main aspects of the process is given below:

Editorial Review

• Each manuscript will be reviewed by the editor and, if necessary, adjustments will be requested before the manuscript is sent to peers. There may be cases in which it is decided not to accept the submission of a manuscript because of problems with its originality. Also, the manuscript will be rejected if there is any ethical issue or its focus escapes the thematic spectrum of the Journal.

Review System

• The Journal has a "double-blind" peer review system. This means the identity of authors and reviewers is reserved throughout the process, and the publisher will be responsible for preventing probable conflicts of interest and auditing the quality of the concepts.

Review Process

• The arbitration process consists of three stages. The first one is the assignment of reviewers, usually two for each manuscript. The Journal selects reviewers according to their academic degrees, their current lines of research and their most recent publications.
• The second stage is the review and consolidation of concepts by the editor. Manuscripts can be approved without modifications, approved with modifications of form, approved with substantial modifications or rejected. In case of contradictory concepts, where one reviewer approves with modification of form and another approves with substantial modifications or rejects, a third review will be requested to resolve the conflict.
• The third stage is publishing the arbitration results. This may involve closing the manuscript process when the manuscript is rejected or when is approved without adjustments (this occurs in very rare cases), another case is when there are adjustments to make and verification of this changes. Manuscripts which receive concepts where substantial modifications are recommended may be rejected by editorial decision or their final approval will depend on the success of the corrections of the identified problems. The verification of the adjustments will be done by the same peers or with the help of a scientific editor or a member of the journal's committee.

If authors fail to make the modifications or if the changes aren't deemed complete enough to make the manuscript publishable, they will have one more opportunity to make a new revision. If there is insistence of problems in the second verification, the final decision will be to reject the manuscript.

Review Times 

The review of a manuscript can last three months on average. This is since its submission until the final decision about its publication. The editor notifies authors of the decision to not publish their manuscript after the editorial filtering if some major problems are detected in its quality, originality or ethical conditions or if the manuscript escapes the journal's thematic spectrum and scientific approach.

Editorial production is the professional editing process to which manuscripts that have been approved by peers are submitted. It includes style correction, design, layout, proofreading, spelling check, metadata translation and markup or technical interventions of the texts in html or xml, or in the formats to be determined.
The following is a description of some aspects that authors should consider regarding the editorial production process and its particularities in the Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia.

Continuous Publication

The Journal has a continuous frequency of publication. That means the peered approved articles are quickly sent to editorial production with the purpose of being edited and published online as soon as possible. The speed of the production process depends on several factors. Those include the commitment of the authors to review the originals at each stage of the process. The editor will ask the authors to check their texts at several points of the process (listing, correction, collation and approval) with the expectation that each revision will be made within a time frame. The main stages of editorial production are described below:
Enlistment

• Along with the final approval of the text i.e. once the peer review process and verification of corrections have been completed, the editor will notify the authors of the start of the production phase and the enlistment of the originals. At this point, the editor may request the authors corrections of some aspects of the manuscripts format about metadata, author information, tables and figures, or the citation system, according to the guidelines of the Journal.

Changes in the manuscript must adhere to form issues and will be handled with change tracking tools. Adding new information or paragraphs to the text that were not included in the original version that was reviewed is not admissible. If any addition is detected without consulting the editor, it will cause the rejection of the article in spite of peer approval.
Style correction

• Style correction is the process where prose writting is intervened, its syntax and spelling. The purpose of the process is minimizing errors and optimizing the coherence of the texts. The proofreader, the editor and the authors interact in this process to verify the corrections and resolve inconsistencies or doubts about the content. No manuscript will be published without going through the proofreading stage. Authors should facilitate the process with their quick responses and flexibility.

Layout

• Layout is the process of arranging texts in the design model of the Journal. This ensures the contents fulfill editorial conventions so they can be presented to the readers in an organized and easy way to read.

Collation and review of evidence

• Once texts have been corrected and designed, a new reading is done to check that contents are complete and to check if all the problems were resolved. Proofreading and spelling checking are performed to ensure that any overlooked errors in spelling, typing, layout, design of tables and figures or in spacing and interpolation of the text, are corrected. In this stage authors could make additional observations about the text.

Finals approval

• In the last stage of production, the editor will ask the authors to verify for the last time the contents of their manuscript. If necessary, final corrections will be made. Then, the final version of the manuscript is approved for publication. There will not be further opportunities to make corrections, except those involving a retraction or public correction of the text in accordance with the journal's ethics policy.

Production times

• The expected duration of a publication process for a manuscript, once it has been approved, is three to four weeks. On average, authors will be given two to three days, in each requested revision, to submit their clarification to the editor or their corrections.

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:

• The statement of the manuscript's purpose
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Results
• 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.
Titles hierarchy

The Journal publishes all its contents in immediate open access through the Open Journal Systems platform. The contents are protected by a Creative Commons 4.0. license of attribution, non-commercial and no derivative works (BY-NC-ND).
Reuses of our content are permitted under these conditions. We request in all cases where a reuse is submitted that the full reference to our publication be included, with the DOI of the publication.
Financing and publication costs. The Journal is entirely funded Universidad El Bosque. It has no stipulated costs for authors in any of its processes.
Self-archiving. The Journal allows self-archiving the papers or texts it publishes and calls its self-archiving policy blue, according to Sherpa-Romeo's classification. That means authors can self-archive the final version of the published manuscript or the publisher's version.
However, it is important that there is the DOI as link to the original publication of the article, when this one is catalogued or registered in a repository.
Digital preservation. The platform where Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Cienciais published follows the information security protocols of the institutional repository of Universidad El Bosque. This facilitate access and ensure digital preservation over time. Similarly, all published texts are given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to ensure their online location and retrieval.
Indexing. The Journal frequently carries out indexing and updating processes of its volumes in indexes, bibliographic bases, databases, repositories, directories and catalogues. It is made to provide the greatest possible access to its contents to the specialized community of Philosophy in the world and to readers interested in the most relevant scientific discussions in the journal's topics.
It is also part of the essential purpose of the Journal to consolidate and maintain itself as a reliable repository of peer-reviewed scientific knowledge, easily accessible, in order to promote an impact on the solution of problems and to contribute to more responsible and conscious professional and social practices around