Submissions
Author Guidelines
Types of manuscripts accepted
-Research articles: original and unpublished papers, products of research work with scientific or technical merit. The maximum number of words will be 12000 in the document except for references.
-Reviews: revision of a topic with exhaustive criticism, meta-analysis on a specific topic in any of the journal's areas of interest. The maximum number of words will be 10000 in the document except for references.
Main criteria for papers acceptance
Novasinergia will accept works that correspond to the topics declared in the journal. The content could be partial or total results of research based on science, engineering, and technology. The manuscripts should be original solutions to the priority problems of society, the environment, and its diversity, complying with quality parameters and applying international ethical standards that regulate the dynamics of publications.
Language
Articles may be written in Spanish or English. Manuscripts must contain the title, abstract, and keywords in the main text language and English when this is not the language of the text.
Cost
Submission, review, processing, and publication of the article have no cost to the author.
Manuscript preparation: Text Structure
Writing the manuscript for RESEARCH ARTICLES can be done using MS Word.
Whiting of the manuscript of REVIEWS can be done using MS Word or LaTeX Editor.
Guidelines for the content can be found in the templates.
Page, Text style and size
The page size must be A4 format, with 3 cm margins on all four sides. The manuscript must be at least 7 pages long. Style Text: Times New Roman, size 10 points. Titles of Tables and Figures: 9 points.
Additional remarks
When the manuscript text is not in English, present the title, summary, and keywords in English (use italics for the Abstract text in another language). The authors' names must appear under the title (first name and surname), separated by commas and sequential numbering in superscript format associated with each author's affiliation. The corresponding author must be marked with an asterisk. Affiliations should appear under the authors' names, including the name of the department (optional), university, city, country, and postcode. Afterward, the email address of the corresponding author should be included. Sections Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgments, and References are not numbered.
Figures and Tables
The title of figures and tables must consist of the text "Figure #: description of the figure, Table #: description of the table," respectively, and sequential numbering according to the order of appearance. For Tables, use only bottom edge lines to separate titles and in the last row. If the images and tables are not displayed correctly in a single column, the width of the page can be occupied (2 columns).
Equations, symbols and units
The equations must be centered, with their numbering justified on the right, sequentially with Arabic numbers in parentheses. Equations and units must have the correct scientific notation.
For decimals, a separator is used as a point, whereas cursive is the style for large numbers.
Use the international system of units to express the different units.
Interest conflict
The authors must declare in the corresponding section of the manuscript that there is no Conflict of Interest of any nature, or if there is any, to declare it.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
The Statement on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence section should include an explicit statement indicating whether or not generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) was used in the preparation of the article. If it was used, the tools and scope of its use should be specified.
Authors' Contribution
For articles with multiple authors, a brief paragraph should specify each author's individual contributions, following the CRediT taxonomy (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). See the manuscript template.
Bibliography
References should be included at the end of the document and in the text sequentially as they appear.
Novasinergia is updating its guidelines as of January 22, 2025; Citations and References must be submitted following IEEE standards. It is recommended to review the following link: https://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/library-guides-to-citing-referencing/attachments/ieee-style-guide.pdf
Acknowledgments are optional.
Appendices
The title of the appendix and each of the titles is justified to the left, with the following label "Appendix A: xxx," without section numbering.
Submission
Articles must be sent in format .docx generated by Microsoft Word. Authors wishing to contribute to the journal can send their work through the website http://novasinergia.unach.edu.ec or by email novasinergia@unach.edu.ec. Documents sent by mail must attach a Proof of Delivery form (available here).
Authorship Criteria
All the following authorship criteria are considered by Novasinergia:
- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
- Final approval of the version to be published; AND
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.
In the articles we include only one corresponding author, however all the authors are listed, their ORCID and email. The corresponding author takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process, and ensures that all journal administrative requirements such as authorship details, approval of the preprint version, declarations of conflict of interest, copyright and ethics committee (if applicable), registration documentation and other data, guaranteeing the completeness of the information of all authors.
We assume that the authors decided who the corresponding author will be, acknowledging that they are directly responsible for the manuscript and for direct communication with the Novasinergia editorial team. In cases of disagreement between authors, the guidelines of the Publications Ethics Committee (COPE) will be applied.
Each author's contribution to the research work can be disclosed when submitting an article, in the letter to the editor.
Manuscripts Evaluation
All articles submitted to the journal will be subject to a rigorous review process by specialists in the subject area to which they correspond. The arbitration process must contemplate peer review with the double-blind pair modality. Thus, authors' and evaluators' anonymity and confidentiality are kept explicit.
When the author submits his manuscript, he must commit to the editing process until the end in case his contribution is accepted for publication. The author's statement will be verified that the manuscript is not under submission for publication in other media and that all authors approved the submission to Novasinergia will also meet the editorial standards declared by the journal.
The editorial process consists of three stages: preliminary verification or pre-arbitration, arbitration, and post-arbitration.
In the preliminary verification (pre-arbitration), the editor checks that the manuscript meets the journal's requirements (originality, subject area, organization, presentation, quality and scientific rigor), as well as the verification of plagiarism and/or prior publication of the content submitted. The review is performed using the established software, having as a policy that no article that passes to the next phase may present a similarity percentage greater than 5%. The Editor may ask the authors for modifications to the manuscript until it is in a position to be arbitrated; if it finds no possibility of improvement, it will reject them in this instance.
In the arbitration stage, the editor will select the blind peer evaluators, using the journal's database of external peers as a reference, considering their predisposition, training, expertise, and scientific production. As a result, the arbitrators will issue their opinions for the editor's analysis and cases that correspond to the author's recommendations. The evaluation of the peer evaluators will be carried out using the opinion format defined by Novasinergia.
The evaluating peers may issue the following recommendations:
-Accepted for publication
-Accepted for publication after making modifications
-Rejected; it is not recommended to publish the manuscript
If the arbitrator suggest the opinion of "Rejected, it is not recommended to publish the article," the other arbitrator determines “Accepted for publication or Accepted for publication after making modifications”. In that case the work will be submitted to review by a third arbitrator, whose opinion will serve as a reference for the final decision.
If modifications are required, the authors must develop them within the established deadline, the process may be cyclical, in which the editor and correspondence author will intervene and, if necessary, the evaluation peers for a new assessment.
Post-arbitration consists in the preparation of the final version of the manuscript, issuing the letters of assignment of rights by the author to Novasinergia, and approving the final version, among other aspects. The manuscript will be published in the volume and number the editorial team determines using technical criteria.
The deadlines established for the editorial process are as follows:
* First Instance Review (pre-arbitration): 14 calendar days from receiving the manuscript.
* Second Instance Review (arbitration): 30 calendar days from when the manuscript is delivered to the evaluator.
* Incorporation of Modifications (post-arbitration): 7 calendar days after the corresponding author is notified.
Copyright
Upon receipt of articles, editors, and evaluators are free to suggest partial modifications of their content without affecting the meaning of the author's arguments. After the articles are accepted for publication, Novasinergia is free to reproduce the contents for dissemination purposes, duly pointing to the authors. The authors of each article will maintain the intellectual property and rights recognized by law.
The submission and evaluation of material received by Novasinergia means that the authors know and accept the following conditions::
- Authors retain the copyrights (copyright) and assign to Novasinergia the right of first publication of the work, under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows third parties to use what is published as long as they refer to the author or authors of the work and their publication in this journal
- Authors can share, copy, distribute, alter, transform, generate a derivative work, execute and publicly communicate the publication in Novasinergia, provided that:
a) the authorship and the original source of publications are cited (journal, edition, number and URL of the work);
b) are not used for commercial purposes;
c) the same license terms are maintained.
Ethics in publications
The editorial team of Novasinergia will be inflexible with the bad practices of the authors or members of the editorial team in case of plagiarism, investigative dishonesty, information concealment, disclosure of confidential information or its inappropriate use for private or third-party benefit, duplication of shipments for publication in other media, fraud, among others. For this, we will build on the "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" of the COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION ETHICS, available here.
Novasinergia will always respect the privacy of editors, authors, and manuscript reviewers who act as blind peers. Intellectual property rights belong to the authors.
If the Magazine suspects misconduct in terms of publication or investigation, it will proceed as follows:
- Suspicions of plagiarism in article received.
- Suspicions of plagiarism in published articles.
- Suspicion of duplicity in article.
- Suspicion of conflict of interest in article.
- Suspicion of ethics problems in article received.
- Suspicions of invented data in the received article.
- Suspicions of invented data in published articles.
If a change of author or extension to more authors would be necessary, once the manuscript arbitration process has begun, the Journal will proceed according to the COPE code of ethics.
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The submission has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
- Tables and images are clear, self-explanatory, and necessary for the logical sequence of information provided in the text of the manuscript.
- In general, the text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.
- If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the author agrees to proceed with the final editing process.
- All authors of the manuscript are in full agreement with submitting the paper for evaluation and possible publication in Novasinergia.
- The submission file must be in Word format, comply with Novasinergia's editorial guidelines, or use the templates provided in the Submit an Article section.
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The names and email addresses provided in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes established therein.
