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Figures and/or tables may be placed anywhere on the page and in the manuscript, but they may be moved during the typesetting stage following the JCOM América Latina style and therefore margins, spacing, etc. may slightly differ from those of the submitted version.
For instance, for typographical reasons, figures and/or tables may be moved during the typesetting stage at the bottom or top of the page where they are first cited or, if not possible, at the top or bottom of the same page or on the next page.
Authors should place figures and/or tables that are particularly big at the end of the manuscript, above the list of references. During the typesetting stage these will then be moved to the appropriate place in the text according to the guidelines described above.
Figures may be provided in a separate file, but always referenced to in the text, as during typesetting the above guidelines will be implemented to move them as close to their reference as possible on the appropriate page.
JCOM América Latina's style of citation is: author-year. Therefore, citations may be made as follows: "Author [year]" or "[Author, year]". Page numbers may be added as follows: "Author [year, pg.]" or "[Author, year, pg.]" or "[see, for example, Author, year, pg.]".
While listing your references, make sure all the necessary information are provided, without worrying about the layout, which will later be taken care of by the typesetters. Whenever available, please include a DOI of your references.
The required information to be provided for each reference is as follows:
Please check that every reference is correctly cited in the text.
Please check that for every citation in the text an entry is provided in the References section.
Co-authors should always be listed during submission in the appropriate field of the on-line submission form. They must also be all registered to the JCOM América Latina website and selected by the corresponding author once the manuscript has been uploaded. If your file has been submitted correctly, you will see a "Submission accepted" page, at the bottom of which you will find two buttons, "Upload file" (which you may use to upload attachments containing supplementary material) and "Back to preprint".
Please use the latter to go back to your submitted manuscript status page, at the bottom of which you will find a "Select coauthor" button. Please use this as many times as necessary to select your coauthors one by one (in order to do this, they must previously have been registered to the website).
This will speed up the publication process once the article has been peer reviewed and accepted.
Preprints submitted to JCOM América Latina will be reviewed by referees through a double-blind review process, which means that anonymity of both authors and referees is crucial.
For this reason, it is mandatory for authors NOT to include their names anywhere in the submitted files. Authors' names and biographies shall instead be provided only in the appropriate box in the on-line submission form.
No. Filling in the "master file name" field is mandatory only when submitting an archive that contains more than one .docx file.
Yes, accepting the copyright statement once the contribution has been accepted is mandatory in order to be typeset and sent to you for proofreading.
JCOM América Latina articles are published on open access terms, with Creative Commons CC-BY-ND-NC 4.0 license and the copyright is retained by the authors.
JCOMAL strongly encourages posting data files and similar supplementary material to publicly-accessible, discipline-specific, community-recognised repositories that comply with the FAIR principles as much as possible.
In cases where a suitable discipline-specific resource does not exist, such files may be submitted to a generalist repository (for example, Zenodo), including any such repositories provided by universities, funders or institutions for their affiliated researchers.
Authors may also wish to explore repository registries such as FAIRsharing.org and re3data.org
Supplementary material should conform to the FAIR principles as much as possible.
