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Author Guidelines

Mandatory templates and forms

Before preparing your submission, download the following two documents. The manuscript must be prepared on the template and must include the declarations form signed by all authors.

In the submission wizard, the declarations form is uploaded under the component Formato único de declaraciones del autor (author declarations form). The system requires at least one file of that component before the submission can be completed.

Citation style

The journal follows the APA (American Psychological Association) style, 7th edition, for in-text citations and the reference list. Every source cited must appear in the references and vice versa. Please include the DOI of each source whenever one exists.

Manuscript preparation

  • Editable file (.docx), letter size, 2.54 cm margins, a legible 12-point font, 1.5 line spacing.
  • Title in Spanish and English. Structured abstract in Spanish and English, up to 500 words. Between 3 and 6 keywords in both languages.
  • Length of 5,000 to 12,000 words, including references.
  • Numbered figures and tables, with title and source, referred to in the text and presented in APA style.
  • The manuscript must be anonymised, without names, affiliations or any information that reveals authorship, to ensure double-blind review. Author information is recorded only in the OJS metadata and in the declarations form.

Mandatory identifiers and metadata

  • ORCID iD for every author.
  • Full institutional affiliation and country.
  • Funding statement, with project title, funding body and grant number, or an explicit statement that the work received no funding.

Documents to upload with the submission

  • Anonymised manuscript prepared on the APA 7 template.
  • Author declarations form, covering authorship and order, CRediT contributions, conflicts of interest according to the ICMJE, use of artificial intelligence, originality and non-exclusive transfer of rights, responsibility and transparency, signed by all authors.
  • Where applicable, ethics committee approval, informed consent and the required reporting checklist (PRISMA or CONSORT, depending on the type of study).

The full version of these guidelines, together with the editorial, ethics and open science policies, is available on the Editorial UNIMETA website: https://editorial.unimetatech.la/pautas-para-editores/

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission is original and unpublished, and is not under review by another journal.
  • The manuscript is anonymised for double-blind review.
  • The template and APA 7th edition style are followed, and references include DOIs where available.
  • All authors have an ORCID iD and funding has been declared.
  • The author declarations form, signed by all authors, is attached.
  • A data availability statement is included.
  • Where applicable, ethics approval, informed consent and the completed PRISMA or CONSORT checklist are attached.
  • The use of generative artificial intelligence, or its absence, and any conflicts of interest according to the ICMJE have been declared.
  • The submission includes a title, abstract and keywords in English, also entered in the English fields of the form.

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Privacy Statement

Data controller

The Corporación Universitaria del Meta - UNIMETA, located at Carrera 33 n.° 34-06, San Fernando campus, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia, telephone 6621825, is the controller of the personal data collected through this journal. Processing is governed by Statutory Law 1581 of 2012, Decree 1377 of 2013 and UNIMETA's Personal Data Use and Protection Policy (in Spanish), which this statement supplements for editorial purposes.

Data collected

When users register and take part in the editorial process, the journal collects their first and last names, email address, institutional affiliation, country, ORCID iD, username and preferred language and, when the data subject chooses to provide them, a biographical statement, telephone number and postal address. The platform also records usage data, such as access dates and the editorial activity associated with each submission.

Purposes

  • To manage the editorial process through submission, peer review, editing, production and publication.
  • To communicate with authors, reviewers, editors and readers about submissions and the journal.
  • To publish accepted articles together with the authorship metadata required by academic practice.
  • To register and disseminate metadata in persistent identifier and indexing systems.
  • To check the originality of manuscripts.
  • To produce usage statistics and editorial management reports.

Consent

Registering on the platform and submitting a manuscript constitute the data subject's prior, express and informed consent to the processing described here. The corresponding author declares that they have their co-authors' permission to provide their data.

Public disclosure and transfer to third parties

The editorial process involves public disclosure and transfer of data, and data subjects should be aware of this before submitting their work.

  • Open publication. The authors' names, institutional affiliations and ORCID iDs are published with the article and remain permanently accessible.
  • DOI registration. Authorship metadata are transmitted to Crossref as the registration agency.
  • Indexing. Metadata are made available through the OAI-PMH protocol and may be harvested by databases, aggregators and academic search engines.
  • Originality checks. Manuscripts are processed by Copyleaks, which acts as a data processor for that specific purpose.
  • Infrastructure. The journal runs on Open Journal Systems, from the Public Knowledge Project, on technological infrastructure provided by the institution.

Beyond the above, the journal does not share data with third parties or use them for commercial purposes.

Retention

Data are kept for as long as the data subject's relationship with the journal lasts and, afterwards, for as long as needed to meet legal obligations and preserve the integrity of the scholarly record. Metadata that have already been published remain associated with the article indefinitely, a condition inherent to the work being citable.

Rights of the data subject

Under Law 1581 of 2012, data subjects may access, update and correct their data; request proof of the consent given; be informed about how their data have been used; lodge complaints with the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce; withdraw consent or request deletion where no legal or contractual duty prevents it; and access their data free of charge.

Profile data can be edited directly on the platform. For enquiries and complaints, data subjects may contact UNIMETA's General Secretariat by email at secretariageneral@unimeta.edu.co or in person at Carrera 33 n.° 34-06, San Fernando campus, Héroes del Pantano building, office 603, Villavicencio. Enquiries are answered within ten working days and complaints within fifteen working days, extendable under the terms of the institutional policy. For matters related to the editorial process, please write to editorial@unimeta.edu.co.

Scope of deletion

Deletion does not extend to the metadata of articles already published and registered with a DOI, whose permanence is required by the integrity of the scholarly record and by commitments made to registration and indexing agencies. In such cases, corrections are made through the editorial errata procedures.