Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors interested in publishing in the Complexity Sciences Journal may submit original articles and review articles, which must comply with the publication standards established to be accepted in the peer evaluation flow. Only unpublished works that are not committed to other publishers will be accepted. The languages ​​of publication will be English and Spanish.

The Complexity Sciences Journal, based on its open access policy, does not apply charges for article submission, processing and/or publication, so each accepted manuscript is treated free of charge. The Ethics Declaration, Code of Conduct and Anti-Plagiarism Policy of the journal emphasize the originality of the manuscripts.

Contributions may be written in Microsoft Office Word or Open Office Writer always using a space and a half, Arial 11 font, duly aligned, with a maximum of 25 pages including annexes, tables and figures. All pages must be numbered consecutively. Titles and subtitles should be short and informative. You can use the following template to submit your work: Download Template in WORD format.

Article submission

Authors with internet access may submit their work through the journal's web version, available at https://revistas.unsa.edu.pe/index.php/rcc. In the same way, collaboration proposals will be accepted in electronic format addressed to cienciasdelacomplejidad@unsa.edu.pe. All communication between authors and collaborators with the editorial group will be carried out exclusively through this email account. Likewise, contributions may be received by certified mail addressed to:

Journal of Complexity Sciences
Research Unit of the Faculty of Economics
National University of San Agustín de Arequipa
Av. Venezuela s / n - Pab. Economy 3rd Floor
Arequipa, Arequipa
Peru

Authors, by submitting their manuscript, accept compliance with the rules, guidelines and editorial policies of the Complexity Sciences Journal, especially the Ethical Declaration, the Code of Conduct and the Anti-Plagiarism Policy.

Authorization

Only papers that are submitted with the proper authorization of the institution where they were made will be published. The inclusion and/or delivery of content that may be considered restricted or confidential by the institutions to which they have been attached is the sole responsibility of the authors. The journal reserves the right to make changes to the content of the article, always attending to the authors and respecting their criteria.

Authorship

It is limited to those who have contributed substantially to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the research. All who have contributed in this way must be listed as co-authors. Authors should carefully consider the listing and order of the authors before signing the manuscript. Any change can be considered at the author's request for correspondence, with the rationale, approval of all authors (initials, added or removed), sent before acceptance of the manuscript and approved by the Editorial Board.

Structure of the manuscripts

All materials to be published will have:

Title in Spanish and English.

Full names of the authors and institutional affiliations. ORCID code. The full name of the institution, postal address including telephone and email must always be indicated.

An abstract will be included in Spanish and English, with an extension of 200 to 250 words and between 3 and 5 keywords in both languages. Pages should be numbered in the lower right corner.

Keywords: 3 to 5 terms are accepted and they should avoid being general, plural and include multiple concepts. Avoid the use of abbreviations, unless they are firmly used in the field of research that the manuscript addresses.

Do not use abbreviations or unnecessary acronyms, when they appear for the first time they must be accompanied by their meaning.

The International System of Measurements will be used and the comma (,) in the figures.

Tables and figures should be inserted in the body of the text and preferably in vector formats.

Images must be at least 531 x 1328 pixels (length by width) using a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. If you use a long image, it must be proportional to 200 height x 500 widths. The images must count that proportion when being scaled. The types of files to export the images preferably in this order of acceptance: .SVG, .EPS, .TIFF, .PNG.

The title of the figures will be placed at the bottom using Times New Roman at 10 points, with sequential numbering according to the order in which they appear in the work. If texts are included, the same language as in the contribution will be used. The accepted fonts in the figures are Times, Arial, Courier, or Symbol, with a large size that allows the readability of the font and can be reduced in size for a table of contents.

References

References will be listed at the end of the text in alphabetical order, and year of publication in case of more than one article per author. All citations in the article must appear in the final list of references and all of them must be cited in the text. Whenever authors refer to ideas or results of another author, they must indicate their origin using the appropriate citation. Citations must be written in text using the APA 7th Edition style.

Tables and figures: Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively, following their order of appearance in the text. They must include legends that adequately describe the content of the table or figure and must include the source of information used to build the table or figure.

Appendices: if necessary, authors can add appendices to the document that include supplementary material useful to other researchers (for example, questionnaires used in surveys or econometric models). The annexes will be placed after the bibliographic references section, and must be labelled with capital letters (Appendix A, B, ...), and must have a descriptive title of their content.