Authors guidelines

1. APA references
2. Template for new submissions
3. Letter of originality
4. Template for papers accepted for publication (final version)
5. Guide for Handwritten Signatures and Certified Digital Signatures

Last update: 14/03/2025

Paper submission platform

To submit an article you must do it through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) at the URL: https://revistatyca.org.mx/index.php/tyca/login

You must be registered in https://revistatyca.org.mx/ojs/index.php/tyca/user/register

If you are already registered, you must have a username and password.

If you are not familiar with how the OJS platform functions and how you should enter the metadata of your paper, we invite you to consult our "Manual para autores/as".

For questions regarding the use of the OJS platform you can write an email to tyca.ojs@gmail.com.

Your article file should be uploaded in WORD format.

 

Type of collaborations

Papers may be submitted in spanish or english.

The title to be registered in OJS must correspond to the language of the paper submitted; if it is a paper in English, the title must be registered in English; if it is in Spanish, the title must be registered in Spanish. Papers that do not comply with this requirement will be rejected.

When the paper is accepted for publication, authors can send the final version in both languages: spanish and english. The language in which the paper is accepted is obligatory.

Author registration

When submitting the paper via OJS, all authors of the paper should be added.

Consider that the ORCID of each author will be requested if the paper is accepted for publication.

Author information should not be included in the article due to the double-blind review process.

Responsibility of authors and editorial processes

Consult our Editorial Policy to learn about the guidelines that govern all the journal's processes and the duties of its participants.

 

Format

Font: Verdana throughout the document (body text, tables and illustrations).

Item	Font size	Alignment	Styles	Spacing	Comments
Original title	14 points	Centered	Bold	One blank line between original title and translated title
Translated title	14 points	Centered	Bold	One blank line between translated title and authors
Abstract	12 points	Aligned to the left	Bold	No blank line between the word abstract and the text
Abstract text	12 points	Justified	Normal	No blank line between text and keywords
Keywords	12 points	Aligned to the left	Bold	One blank line between the keywords and the abstract. Each of the keywords separated by a comma or semicolon
Resumen	12 points	Aligned to the left	Bold	No blank line between the word Resumen and the text
Palabras clave	12 points	Aligned to the left	Bold	One blank line between the Palabras clave and the Resumen. Each of the Palabras clave separated by a comma or semicolon
Resumen text	12 points	Justified	Normal	No blank line between the text and the Palabras clave.
Section headings	16 points	Centered	Bold	Two blank lines before the section title and two blank lines after it.
Section subtitles	14 points	Centered	Bold	Two blank lines before the section subtitle and two blank lines after it.	When there are second or subsequent subsections, format in size 13, bold and centered.
Body text	12 points	Justified	Normal	There should be NO line breaks between paragraphs. 1.25 cm French indentation
Mention of images in text	12 points		Respect the style of the body text		Initial capital letter
Image		Centered			Images such as figures, graphs, photos, maps, should be embedded after their mention at the end of the paragraph.
Title of images	12 points	Centered, under the image	Bold	No spaces	Images such as tables, charts and formulas should remain as text.
Image description	12 points	Centered, under the image	Normal	No spaces	All image footnotes should be centered.
Tables	10 to 12 points	Centered	Author's choice for the correct understanding of the information shown	They can occupy the entire width of the page, it is not necessary to respect the margin.	All tables must be editable, the font size is up to the author as long as it is in the mentioned range, they must be embedded after their mention at the end of the paragraph.
Title of tables	12 points	Centered, top of the table	Bold	No spaces	Images such as tables, charts and formulas will remain as text.
Description of tables	12 points	Centered, top of the table	Normal	No spaces	All tables must be editable
Acknowledgments	12 points	Centered	Bold	A blank line before and after
References	12 points	Justified	Normal	Line per reference	The word References in bold

 

Line spacing: 1.5

Subsequent paragraph spacing: 5 points.

Margins: normal (except for tables).

Page numbering: all pages should be numbered in the lower right margin.

Number of line: The entire document must contain number of line.

Columns: one column.

Page orientation: vertical throughout the document. Horizontal pages are not accepted.

Length

• Article: 30 pages (numbered), including figures and tables, from the title to the acknowledgements, without references.
• References will not be counted in the maximum number of pages allowed.

 

Content

Title

The title, written in Spanish and English, should be informative and should not exceed 12 words.

Abstract

Theabstract, written in Spanish and English, should be concise and provide a broad overview of the research (objective, method, results and conclusions), not exceeding 250 words.

Keywords

A list of eight key words or phrases (maximum) should be provided in Spanish and English to facilitate information retrieval.

Footnotes

Footnotes are not allowed. They should be incorporated into the text.

Acknowledgments

To be included after the text and before the references.

Equations

Equations must be formed with the word equation editor; other equation formats will be rejected. They should not be inside tables unless they are part of the content of a table that meets the requirements for tables.

Figures and tables

Figures and tables within the text, where they should appear. They should be cited one paragraph before their appearance.

The images of the figures must comply with the following size: occupy the width of the normal margins without leaving the lower margins if it is the case of a long image.

They must have a resolution that allows enlargement to 300% of the image without distorting it and, if they contain text, it must remain legible.

Note: it must be a single element per figure in PNG or TIFF format, figures composed of independent elements will not be accepted; the tables must not be images, but must be made by the Word tables tool. Please note that if your article is accepted you must send the figures individually in the indicated format in high quality (600 dpi or dpi).

References

In "APA” format, sixth edition 2017.

Within the text the APA author-date citation system will be used.

References at the end of the paper should be in alphabetical order.

Separation of numbers and use of decimal point

The division between thousands shall be marked with a blank space; to separate whole numbers from their fractions, when there are fractions, a period shall be used.

In this regard, the Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts, edited by the Royal Spanish Academy and the Association of Spanish Language Academies, in 2005, on numerical expressions, states: "the Anglo-Saxon use of the period is accepted, normal in some Latin American countries...: π = 3.1416.”.

 

Letter of originality

It is essential to send the Letter of Originality signed by handwritten and/or digitally certified by all the authors of the paper at the time of sending the paper; this is in step 4 during the submission "Upload additional files” in OJS.

Download here the letter: "Letter of Originality”.