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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.
  • I've read Editorial CSIC's Good Practice Code and comply with all its guidelines.
  • The Authorship, good publication practice and copyright transfer statement is filled and signed, and it'll be added to the submission.
  • I have consulted and applied the journal's Research data policy.
  • The article has not been previously published, and has not been sent to another journal for consideration.
  • The submission is an original work and does not violate the copy and reproduction rights of other authored works. If necessary, the author has written permit for the reproduced work and a copy will also be submited.
  • The person making the submission has been authorized by all the article authors to submit and act as their spokesperson in front of the journal during the review, editing and publishing processes.
  • ach of the authors has been identified including the following data:
    - Given name (in full form) and family name(s).
    - Email contact address.
    - Country of professional activity.
    - Institutional affiliation.
    - Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID).
    - Role/roles according to the CRediT taxonomy.
  • The text adheres to the length, format, references, citation of figures, tables and equations (if applicable), and bibliography requirements outlined in the journal guidelines.
  • TWO versions of the article are submitted, one in a Microsoft Word, or compatible file, that will include all the authoring information and any graphic element in the place considered most advisable. A second file, in PDF format, will include all the elements of the first one except those that allow the identification of the authors both in the text (name and affiliation, CRediT role/roles, self-citations, personal notes, etc.) and in the metadata of the file (check the "Properties" of the PDF in the "File" section). This second version will be the one used for the external evaluation, therefore, all the contents will be exactly the same in these two files, except for the modifications necessary to anonymize the PDF document. For the removal of metadata you can use specific software or one of the many free tools available on the Internet.

Author Guidelines

For Intructions to Authors please read the Spanish version of this Section.

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