Author Guidelines

Publishing guidelines

People interested in publishing in Culturales must consider and adapt their work to the following guidelines:

1. Culturales publishes research articles and book reviews in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.

2. Articles remitted to this journal for its possible publication, must be original and unpublished. The authors are committed to not submitting their work to a simultaneous evaluation in other printed or electronic publications.

3. The article must have a formal structure according to the current scientific criteria. Preferably, in a format including Abstract, Introduction [aims], Context, Basis/Conceptual Discussion, Methodology, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and Bibliographic References, in accordance with the editorial guidelines set forth by the journal.

4. Culturales receives articles with a maximum of three authors.

5. Articles must be sent by the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform of the journal Culturales [http://culturales.uabc.mx/]. Articles will not be received via email. The following steps must be followed for submission:

5.1. Create an account: All people should access the OJS system of the journal, and create an account [user and password].

5.2. Registration of proposal: Log in with your account [user and password] and follow the steps to submit the article, filling in all the information requested.

5.3. Confirmation of registration: Once the registration is completed, the system will automatically send a notification to your email containing the information of registration and the tracking link.

6. The publishing process of Culturales, from article submission to publication, is estimated to take approximately 8 months (240 days), not accounting for possible unforeseen delays in any of its stages.

7. When authors postulate an article for its publication in Culturales, they are accepting the rules, guidelines, and directives of the established digital process and automatically assigning the proprietary rights to the journal Culturales. The authors keep the copyright and assign the proprietary rights of the first publication to the journal Culturales, granting permission to the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California through the Instituto de Investigaciones Culturales-Museo for the publication, translation, distribution, dissemination, and communication of the material in printed and digital media. Once the article has been published, the authors will be able to include it in an institutional repository, personal website, or diffuse it on academic network websites.

8. The journal Culturales does not charge for the reception, publication and downloading of its articles. In the same way, all the published content can be downloaded from the website, available free of charge.

9. Culturales recognizes and adheres to the principles of transparency and best practices for academic publications promoted by the Committee on Publication Ethics and by the Directory of Open Access Journals to ensure the quality of the editorial process and the authenticity of the publications. For further information consult the document about Ethics & Good Practice Policy | Culturales.

10. As part of our policies and actions protocols, all articles will be reviewed using software to check for cross-referenced similarities, detecting duplicate, redundant, or fraudulent content at any stage of the editorial process. For more information, please refer to the document on Política de buenas prácticas | Culturales.

11. If the article submitted is the result of a completed master's or doctoral thesis, we request that the journal be notified of this situation and that a link to its location be included. Please remember that the article must comply with the guidelines and editorial standards of Culturales.

12. Culturales recommends using bias-free language regarding gender in article writing. In this sense, the use of generic masculine to refer to all people should be avoided, and inclusive formulas that integrate a gender perspective should be employed. For more information, consult https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language.

13. In order to ensure the transparency and integrity of articles derived from funded research, all authors and reviewers must notify Culturales of any conflicts of interest.

14. In order to acknowledge the participation and contribution of the authors in the article, Culturales adheres to and recommends the implementation of the CRediT – Contributor Role Taxonomy, which records some of the activities performed by the authors during the development process of the article, according to the following nomenclature:

Conceptualization: Original idea, problematization, and study objectives.
Data selection: Selection and classification of the foundational information for the study.
Analysis: Analysis and interpretation of the foundational information and data of the study.
Investigation: Theoretical and methodological foundation of the study.
Methodology: Techniques and tools used for data collection and acquisition.
Visualization: Creation and presentation of the research through images, tables, graphs, etc.
Writing, review and editing: Writing, reviewing and proofreading the manuscript at different stages.

15. Responsible declaration on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Authors must disclose the use of Artificial Intelligence, specifying whether it has been employed in the development of the article, identifying the generated content, and mentioning the generative AI used, if applicable. Chatbots or other AI-assisted technologies cannot be listed as authors. Authors bear full responsibility if AI-generated content and/or material violates editorial best practices (see Administrative Action Protocols | Culturales).

16. Culturales promotes the general exchange of knowledge and, therefore, provides unrestricted access to its content from the moment of publication on its electronic platform. Culturales operates under a license that allows sharing, copying, and redistributing the material in any medium or format, as well as adapting, remixing, transforming, and creating derivative works for any purpose (see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es).

17. Privacy Statement: The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes established herein and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

18. For further comments, questions, suggestions or requests for additional information, please send an e-mail to: revista.culturales@uabc.edu.mx