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Objective:
Disseminate original technical research studies developed by national and international researchers to contribute to the scientific development of society. Scope:
The documents submitted for consideration by Maskay Journal may be of a theoretical, technical, or application nature. They must be the product of research, practical experience of the profession, or a review of a specific topic and must be framed within one of the following fields: To meet the criteria of scientific quality, the documents sent to the Editorial Committee of the Journal must meet one of the following typologies: For paper subbmission, authors must register in the journal. Interested authors should also review the journal's policies and form requirements before submitting the paper for evaluation. |
The work must be original and must be sent through the OJS platform of Maskay journal. The submitted file must be in PDF or Microsoft Word® formats and must be prepared according to the format defined by the journal (download here). You can include graphics, tables, photos, maps, plans, among others, as long as they are within the maximum page limit of the document. If your work includes an interactive application, it must be registered as an additional file. Articles may be sent in Spanish, Portuguese and English and will be published in the language in which it was sent. The length of the articles should be between 8 and 10 pages. The articles submitted to the journal should use for their structure and references the format defined by the IEEE for Conference Proceedings. An important variation of format in Maskay journal is the inclusion of the title, abstract, and keywords in two languages. If the article is written in Spanish or Portuguese, it is recommended that the additional language would be English. |
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. LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates can be downloaded here. |
This journal uses Open Journal Systems 2.4.8.0, which is an open-access journal manager and software developed, financed, and distributed free of charge by the Public Knowledge Project subject to the GNU General Public License. To access the submission system click here Registration and login are required to submit papers online and to check the status of recent submissions. |
The paper reviewing process of Maskay Journal is established as follows:
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Maskay is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, inspired by the code of ethics for publications developed by the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE). Editors Responsibilities a) Publication decisions b) Equity c) Confidentiality d) Conflicts of interest and disclosure Reviewer Responsibilities a) Contributing to the editorial decision b) Respect for review deadlines c) Confidentiality d) Objectivity e) Recognition of information sources f) Conflicts of interest and disclosure Authors Responsibilities a) Access and retention of data b) Originality and plagiarism c) Multiple, repetitive, and/or concurrent publications d) Source specifications e) Authorship of the work f) Conflicts of interest and disclosure g) Errors in published articles |
Maskay journal encourages the honesty of authors and their publications. In this sense, once the Editor-in-Chief receives the submission of a new article, it is in charge of passing it through the URKUND plagiarism detection system, a system that will analyze the complete content of each manuscript and generate a report about its originality. After this process, the Editor-in-Chief will analyze this report and according to these results (percentage of similarity) and always considering that the copyrights of third works are respected, will determine if the submitted article can continue with the peer-review process. |
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain the copyright and guarantee the journal the right to be the first publication of the work, as well as, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others share the work with an acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and the initial publication in this journal. Authors may separately establish additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (for example, placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work electronically (for example, in institutional repositories or on their own website) before and during the submission process, as it may lead to productive exchanges as well as further citation earliest and oldest of published works. |
The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this journal and will not be available for any other purpose or other person. |
This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create an archive distributed to participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes. |
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