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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Once the manuscript has been prepared in accordance with all the criteria required in this journal, you must send it through our platform, following the steps indicated. To do this, you must be previously registered as an author.
  • Each of the authors agrees with the editorial policies established by Business Innova Sciences magazine.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor has it been presented or is in the process of being published in another (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submitted file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF format, and the structure is according to the following submission guidelines.
  • The journal uses the APA citation style (7th edition). Applies to article text, citations, tables, figures, captions, and notes. All citations present in the text of the work will be indicated in the references section. Whenever possible, references should present URL addresses or DOI identifiers.
  • Text is single spaced, 12 point font size, italicized instead of underlined (except in URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • The ORCID investigator codes for the authors, the corresponding author, and the sworn declarations of the authors, conflict of interest information and the sources of funding for the work are indicated.

Author Guidelines

PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
General format of manuscript presentation
1. Content of the works. The sent works must contain:
a) A main page identifying the author, or authors, with the title of the article (no longer than two lines) in Spanish and English, name and surname of each author, institutional affiliation and the postal address, telephone and e-mail of the person responsible for managing the manuscript, as well as a brief biography of each author (two or three lines), as a footnote.
b) An abstract of the work, between 200 and 250 words, in Spanish and English.
c) Five or six key words that identify the main findings of the research, in Spanish and English.
2. Structure of the texts. The general structure of the scientific texts sent should contain the following: introduction, method, theoretical framework, development of the topic, results, discussions and conclusions, as well as complete references.
3. Extension. The length of the full text will range from four thousand to eight thousand words, including cover, abstract, tables, figures, notes and references.
4. Margins. The upper, lower, right and left margins must be 2.5 cm long.
5. Font. Times New Roman or Arial font, size 12 must be used.
6. Line spacing. The main text must have a spacing of 1.5.
7. Indentation of the text. All paragraphs are indented (five spaces).
8. Titles and subtitles. The same font type as the text (Times New Roman or Arial) will be used, in black and according to the heading levels recommended in the APA standards (latest version).
9. Quotations. Both indirect and direct (textual) citations should indicate the surname of the author(s) and the year of publication, as well as the page number of the citation (in direct citations), according to the criteria established in the latest version of the APA standards.

10. Use of &. In a narrative citation you will use the word “and”, in a citation in parentheses and reference you must use the & sign.


11. Footnotes. They will be used exclusively for additional explanations and comments, but not to cite sources.
12. References. In the references section, only those that have been cited in the document should be completely and correctly placed, using for all criteria the current APA standards.
a) The surnames of all authors should be included in the list of references.
b) If there are several works by the same author, the oldest work is placed first.
c) When the date of a source is not indicated, it should be replaced by (s.f.), which means no date.
d) The names of journals and book titles must be written in italics.
e) Articles collected electronically must indicate the DOI (digital object identifier) of the document. If it is not assigned, then the web address (URL) from which the document was retrieved will be written. The date of retrieval of the document should not be set, unless you consider that the source of information will vary over time.
f) Neither the URL nor the DOI are underlined or italicized, nor is an end point placed after them.
13. Tables and figures. For their general use they will be governed by the criteria established in the current APA standards.
a) We only use the denominations tables and figures; not graphics, tables, photos, diagrams, etc.
b) Tables should be included in editable format, in the same text, and with a simple format (APA standards), without colors or frames in the background, without dividing lines of rows and columns.
c) Tables should not be cut between two pages. If the table is very long, it will be placed on a separate page.
d) When using existing tables, figures or models that have some modification made by the author, place "Adapted from", followed by the respective source. If a model has been copied, write "Taken from", followed by the source.
e) The tables and figures must be numbered correctly, in a correlative manner.
f) The tables must be titled above and to the left; while the figures will be titled below and to the left, with their respective legend, if there is one.
g) Excessive use of tables and figures in the work should be avoided, as it could be detrimental to reading and comprehension.
14. Images and photographs. They must be attached separately from the manuscript, indicating where they are going, in a resolution of 300 ppp, in tiff or jpg format (follow the instructions below). The images and photographs must be identified and with their respective legends, if any. These are in the category figures.

SUBMISSION, FOLLOW-UP AND DISSEMINATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT
1. Once the manuscript has been prepared in accordance with all the criteria required in this journal, you must send it through our platform, following the steps indicated. To do so, you must be previously registered as an author.
2. The author will be able to follow the process of review and evaluation of his manuscript sent through the platform, where the status of the process will be indicated.
3. Once edited and corrected the final text of the approved work that will be published in the journal, the author will be sent the latest version for a final review, in which only minimal corrections of form can be made. If the author(s) is (are) satisfied with the text, then he or she will send a letter of publication consent signed by him or her, indicating that he or she has reviewed the final version and that he or she has no objection to its publication.
4. After the article has been published in the journal, it will be permanently available for online consultation and free downloads in the form of a pdf file.

Copyright Notice

Authors cede the right to publish their article exclusively to the journal Business Innova Sciences, which may formally edit or modify the approved text to comply with its own editorial rules and universal grammar standards before publication; likewise, the journal may translate the approved manuscripts into as many languages as it deems necessary and disseminate them in several countries, always giving public recognition to the author or authors of the research.

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