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Author Guidelines

Scope:

The Revista CENIC Ciencias Biológicas (RCCB) accepts articles related to the following research areas: toxicology, pharmacology, neuroscience, immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology, microbiology and the environment.

Submission process:

All submissions will be done through the online system of the journal platform through the corresponding link. Each submission must have two main documents, one will be the article and the other will be a letter of authorship. This letter is written and signed (with electronic signature) by the main author. It will state that the work is original, its content is the responsibility of the authors and that it is not being evaluated by any other publication. Without this letter it will not be possible to start the peer review process.

Type of articles:

The RCCB publishes Research articles, Review articles, Short communications y Book reviews.

a)      Research articles: derived from empirical and methodological research. Its structure is as follows: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments (if applicable), bibliographical references and annexes (if applicable). The abstract should range between 250 and 300 words. The keywords must not be less than three and must not exceed six. In general, this type of articles must have at least 4 thousand words and should not exceed 8 thousand.

b)      Review articles: derived from revisions of the literature. Its writing structure is free but the title, abstract, keywords, introduction, conclusions, acknowledgments (if applicable), bibliographical references and annexes (if applicable) must not be absent.

c)      Short communications: derived from empirical results. Its structure is equal to that of the research articles (title, abstract, keywords, introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments, bibliographic references and annexes); but its extension must oscillate between the 1500 and 3500 words. They also have an abstract of no more than 250 words; as well as no more than five keywords.

d)     Book reviews: brief review of recently published books whose content is of interest to the scientific community in the area of biology. Its extension ranges between one thousand and two thousand words.

Language:

-          The language of publication is Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Text style and format:

-          Articles must be sent in .doc or .docx format. Documents in PDF format are not accepted, unless it is the letter of authorship.

-          The extension of the articles varies according to their typology: Research articles, from 4 thousand to 8 thousand words; Review articles, from 4 thousand to 8 thousand words; Short communications, from 1500 to 3000 words; and Book reviews, from one thousand to two thousand words.

-          The text must be justified, with Times New Roman font, font size 12 and line spacing 1.5.

-          The pages should appear listed.

-          The headings should be listed according to their sections and subsections.

-          The use of acronyms must be previously defined in the text.

Tables and figures:

-          Tables and figures should appear with their title above and numbered with Arabic numerals.

-          All tables and figures must be referenced in the text and, if they have legends, they will appear below the figure or table and their content should not be similar to what is expressed in the text.

-          Tables are not accepted in the form of images.

-          The figures must not have a resolution greater than 96 dpi and its format must be JPEG, PNG or TIFF.

-         The authors must have available the images and tables in case they are requested for the layout of the document.

Issues of interest:

-          The articles must not contain personal information of the authors.

-          The titles must represent the content of the article and it is recommended that they do not exceed 20 words. Avoid in these the use of acronyms, formulas or equations and symbols.

-          The abstracts should express specifically the objective of the article, the method used, the results and basic conclusions, as well as the original and the contribution of the research. Articles in Spanish and Portuguese should incorporate an English version of the abstract and keywords. While the articles in English must have a Spanish version of the abstract and the keywords. It is important to define the acronyms previously in the abstract.

-          The results section can be joined to the discussion section. Similarly, the discussion can be joined to the conclusions.

-          The annexes should appear after the bibliographic references, numbered with Arabic numerals and correctly referenced in the text.

Bibliographic references

The RCCB will use the APA standards for the citation. It is recommended that more than 75% of the bibliography refers to articles from scientific journals whose current level is framed between the last five years preferably. References must be alphabetically listed. Below are examples for the use of these bibliographic standards.

Direct or textual citations (less than 40 words):

Pérez (2015) states: “the discussion must be supported by empirical data” (p. 21).

Direct or textual citations (more than 40 words):

Barroso et al. (2006) affirm:

However, in preliminary results obtained in our laboratory with pea plants under different environmental stresses, an increase in the GSNOR activity was found by low and high temperature, continuous light, darkness, and mechanical wounding. These results contrast with those reported in this work for Cd and suggests under that abiotic stress conditions, the GSNOR activity is differentially regulated depending on the stress type (p. 40).

Indirect citations with one or two authors:

Borrego (2017) refers to the more complex situations presented….

Borrego y Sardiñas (2017) refers to the more complex situations presented ….

Empirical findings have revealed that this pattern is not common in certain communities of the Amazons (Borrego, 2017).

Empirical findings have revealed that this pattern is not common in certain communities of the Amazons (Borrego & Sardiñas, 2017).

Indirect citations with more than two authors:

Borrego et al. (2017) refers to the more complex situations presented ….

Journal article:

Winston, P. W., & Bates, D. H. (1960). Saturated solutions for the control of humidity in biological research. Ecology, 41(1), 232-237.

Book:

Hernández Sampieri, R., Fernández Collado, C., & Baptista Lucio, P. (1998). Metodología de la investigación. México: Editorial Mc Graw Hill.

Book chapter:

Martínez, F. (2004). Ciencia en acción. In F. Requeijo Domínguez (Ed.), Ciencia, tecnología y sociedad (pp. 129-134). México: Editorial Mc Graw Hill.

Thesis:

Muñoz Castillo, L. (2004). Determinación del conocimiento sobre inteligencia

emocional que poseen los maestros y la importancia que le adscriben al concepto en el aprovechamiento de los estudiantes. (Unpublished master thesis). Universidad

Metropolitana, San Juan, PR.

Electronic source:

Royal Society of Biology (2018). Learning through games and play. Retrieved from https://www.rsb.org.uk/images/Learning_through_games_and_play_-_July_2017.pdf

Research articles

Derived from empirical and methodological research. Its structure is as follows: title, abstract, keywords, introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments (if applicable), bibliographical references and annexes (if applicable). The abstract should range between 250 and 300 words. The keywords must not be less than three and must not exceed six. In general, this type of articles must have at least 4 thousand words and should not exceed 8 thousand.

Review articles

Derived from revisions of the literature. Its writing structure is free but the title, abstract, keywords, introduction, conclusions, acknowledgments (if applicable), bibliographical references and annexes (if applicable) must not be absent.

Short communications

Derived from empirical results. Its structure is equal to that of the research articles (title, abstract, keywords, introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments, bibliographic references and annexes); but its extension must oscillate between the 1500 and 3500 words. They also have an abstract of no more than 250 words; as well as no more than five keywords.

Book review

Brief review of recently published books whose content is of interest to the scientific community in the area of biology. Its extension ranges between one thousand and two thousand words.

Privacy Statement

By means of this DECLARATION OF AUTHORITY I declare that:

  1. a) This article is the original work of the author(s), and that it has not been previously published anywhere else, either in print or electronic form (including websites, discussion groups and other electronic newsletters), and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
  2. b) That this article does not contain any violation of any existing copyright or other third party rights or any material of an obscene, defamatory or illegal nature.
  3. c) That the authors have obtained permission and acknowledged the source of any illustrations, diagrams or other material included in the article for which I (we) own the copyright.

 

I assign (or we assign) hereby to CENIC Journals of Chemical Sciences the present and/or future copyright worldwide in any language (including without limitation the optical disc, transmission through the Internet and other communication networks, and in any other electronic form).

I (or we) assume full responsibility for checking the galley proofs of my article, including the order in which the co-authors appear in the contribution, and for notifying the editor of any corrections within 5 days of receipt of the galley proofs from the Publisher.

In the event that we do not notify the Editor of any corrections, I agree that my (or our) contribution may be published at the Editor's discretion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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