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Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check that their submission meets all the items listed below. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

• The submission has not been previously published or is under consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).

• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

• URLs are provided for references whenever possible.

• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font size; uses italics instead of underlining (except for URLs); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at appropriate points, rather than at the end.

• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines, which appear in the About the Journal section.
Author Guidelines
AUTHORS
Authors and their work must meet the following requirements:
• Commitment to the ethical and responsible development of research
• To identify themselves as authors, register on ORCID
• Generate an original, unpublished document. No plagiarism or self-plagiarism
• Coherence of the publication, where the identified research problem corresponds to the article's objectives, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusions
• Rigor in the treatment of data. Authenticity of data and results (not copied, fabricated, or manipulated)
• Transparency and explicit explanation of the theoretical/methodological approach used
• Explicit attribution of the source of ideas, cited texts, and graphic resources (use of citations)
• Explicit explanation of the means or methods used to create original images
• Use of permissions when using resources from other authors (images, etc.)
• Submission of the manuscript to only one journal (no simultaneous submissions)

For more information, please refer to International Standards for Editors and Authors (COPE, 2018), available at https://publicationethics.org/node/11184
AUTHORSHIP
Authorship in scientific publications is a topic that can cause ethical dilemmas and controversies among colleagues, an aspect that has always been present since its origins. In fact, by creating Philosophical Transactions (1665), Henry Oldenburg sought to resolve authorship disputes among members of the Royal Society of London, ensuring the authorship of research results before making them public.

Although not a single, universally accepted term, according to Albert & Wager (2003), authorship informs readers who wrote or did what work, and it is essential to ensure that the right people receive credit and can take responsibility for the research.

According to widely accepted criteria recommended by COPE (2018) and the ICMJE (2017), among others, authorship is attributable to those who:
• Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work
• Draft the work or critically revise it, contributing significant intellectual content
• Approve, after review, the final text of the version to be published
• Ensure the integrity of the work and take responsibility for all aspects involved. Adherence to these criteria aims to ensure that all those who participated in the publication of a research work assume public responsibility for its content.

According to Albert & Wager (2003), individuals misrepresent authorship when they:
• include the names of those who had little or no involvement in the research, and 2) omit individuals who participated in the research. To avoid this, it is advisable to establish policies regarding contributions, so that information about the exact contribution of each participant is published (ICMJE, 2017). It is the responsibility of the authors to acknowledge the contributions of those who have participated in an article without being authors.

The ICMJE recommends adopting the following policies regarding authors:
• Adopt clear authorship criteria and explain them in the instructions for authors.
• Require corresponding authors to confirm that all co-authors meet the journal's authorship criteria and that no one was omitted.
• Request that authors provide a brief description of their contributions.
• Include those who do not meet the authorship criteria in an acknowledgments section.
• The corresponding author must confirm in writing that all co-authors agree to the publication of the article.
• Require confirmation that all co-authors