Author Guidelines

Authorship

Authorship should be attributed to those who have actively and substantially contributed to the intellectual content of the article and to its data analysis or interpretation; therefore, the authors are responsible for the content of the submitted article. The list and order of authors must be reviewed before submission, since after submitting the article author changes are not accepted.

Assignment of patrimonial copyright to the Servicio Geológico Colombiano

The authors of an article approved for publication transfer the patrimonial copyright to the Servicio Geológico Colombiano for its subsequent dissemination, reproduction and distribution in the printed and digital media available to the Servicio Geológico Colombiano, as well as for its inclusion in national or international databases and indexes.

Author requirements

• Understand the editorial policy of the journal Revista Investigaciones y Aplicaciones Nucleares and the derived processes, and be in agreement with them.
• Include all the people who contributed to the preparation of the manuscript as authors.
• Abide by all ethical guidelines for authors.
• In the event that the reviewers of the article/publication suggest the need to make changes or adjustments before their approval, the authors agree to make those adjustments to continue with the process, in the time specified by the journal, until the editor takes the final approval or rejection decision on its publication. Failure to comply with this commitment will cause the manuscript to be rejected.

The obligations of the authors are included in the letter of authorship that can be find HERE or in the corresponding steps when submitting an article. Sending the completed letter of authorship is an essential requirement for the submission of an article.

• Presentation criteria

All articles submitted for consideration must meet the following presentation criteria:

• Only original and unpublished articles are accepted. The content of the articles must not have been published, totally or partially, in another journal or publication.
• They must be sent by in Microsoft Word format by this web page, in the “Submit articles” tab of the Instructions to authors.
• The title, provided in Spanish and English, should be brief and reflect the essence of the research.
• The information of the authors, which includes the most recent academic title, the complete institutional affiliation information of each author and the email of the corresponding author, must be included.
• The abstract and the keywords must be included in Spanish and English. The images must be attached as individual graphic files in .jpeg or .tiff format, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
• If acknowledgments, acknowledgments to entities, publication permits, etc., are required, they should be included at the end of the text and before the references.
• The text must comply the style and references requirements indicated in the editorial standards.

• Editorial standards

• Tables

The tables must be presented in an editable format, not as images, and accompanied by an explicit legend and the source. All tables must be referenced in the text and must be essential to explaining or expanding part of the argument of the article.

• Figures

The figures, such as diagrams, photographs or maps, must be provided in graphic files with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Each figure must be cited in the text and be accompanied by an explanatory legend that includes the source.

Images from sources other than the authors of the article must have the authorization of the author of the original image or be free of copyright conflicts or have a Creative Commons license (see the following link: https://co.creativecommons.org/). Maps, aerial photographs and satellite imagery should include a scale.

• Units, abbreviations and symbols

The International System of Units (m, kg, s, K) will be used. Only use generally accepted terms. Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are used in the text, even if they have been defined in the abstract. Do not use abbreviations in the title unless necessary.

• Citations

The use of references in the text must follow these rules according to the IEEE.

• References must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the document.
• Once a number has been assigned to a given reference, the same number must be used every time that document is cited in the text.
• Each reference number must be enclosed in square brackets [], for example “... the end of the investigation [12] ...”
• It is not necessary to mention the author in the reference unless it is relevant in the text.
• The date of the publication will not be mentioned in the body of the document.
• It is not necessary to include the word “reference”, for example “... in reference [27] ...”: just indicate “... in [27] ...”
• To cite more than one source at the same time, it is preferable to include each one of them with its respective brackets, for example, “as indicated by several studies [1], [3], [5] ...” instead of “as indicated various studies [1, 3, 5] ...”

• Quotes

When the textual quotation is less than forty words, it will be reproduced within the paragraph, between quotation marks and without italics. At the end of the quotation, its respective reference must appear.

When the textual quotation exceeds forty words, it will be written in a separate paragraph, with a left indent of 2.5 cm, without quotation marks and without italics, and the typography of that entire paragraph will be left one point smaller than normal text. At the end of the quotation, its respective reference must appear.

• References

In the IEEE standard only the initial of the first names of the authors is provided. In case the two surnames are recorded, they should not be separated by hyphen. Bibliographic references should be single spaced and without indentation. If the documents have Doi, this information should be included at the end of the reference.

• Books

Initials and Last name of the author, Title of the book in italics. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. DOI.

Examples:

[1] W. K. Chen, Linear Networks and Systems. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1142/0676

[2] R. Hayes, G. Pisano, & S. Wheelwright, Operations, Strategy, and Technical Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.

[3] J. A Prufrock, Ed., Lasers, 2nd. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

• Journal articles

Initials and last name of the author, “Title of the article in quotation marks”, Title of the journal in italics, volume (abbreviated vol.), Abbreviated number (no.) Pages (abbreviated pp.), Month Year. Doi.

Examples:

[4] K. A. Nelson, R. J. Davis, D. R. Lutz, y W. Smith, “Optical generation of tunable ultrasonic waves”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 53, no. 2, Feb., pp. 1144-1149, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.329864

[5] S.-Y. Chung, “Multi-level dirty paper coding”, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 456-458, June 2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080278

• Paper published in conferences

Initials and Last name of the author, “Title of the conference paper”, in Full name of the conference, City of the conference, Abbreviated conference status (if applicable), year, pages (abbreviated pp.)

Examples:

[6] J. Smith, R. Jones, y K. Trello, “Adaptive filtering in data communications with self improved error reference”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications ’04, 2004, pp. 65-68.

[7] G. Caire, D. Burshtein, y S. Shamai (Shitz), “LDPC coding for interference mitigation at the transmitter”, in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Allerton Conference in Communications, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, pp. 217-226, October 2002.

• Unpublished paper presented at conference

Initials and Last Name of the author, “Title of the conference paper”, presented at the Full title of the conference, City of the Conference, Abbreviated State, Year.

Example:

[8] H. A. Nimr, “Defuzzification of the outputs of fuzzy controllers”, presented at 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Cairo, Egypt, 1996.

• Technical reports (reports, internal documents)

Initials and last name of the author, “Report title”, Company name, Company headquarters, Type of abbreviated report, Report number, Date of publication.

Example:

[9] N. Asokan, V. Shoup, & M. Waidner, “Optimistic fair exchange of digital signatures,” IBM: Zurich, Switzerland, Rep. RZ 2973, 1997.

• Master's thesis or doctoral thesis

Initials and Last name of the author, “Title of the thesis or project”, Type of document (doctoral thesis, final master's thesis, etc.), Department, Academic Institution (abbreviated), City, Abbreviated State, Year.

Examples:

[10] H. Zhang, “Delay-insensitive networks”, M.S. thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canadá, 1997.

[11] J.-C. Wu. “Rate-distortion analysis and digital transmission of nonstationary images”, Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 1998.

[12] E.A. Sloat, “Case Studies of Technical Report Writing Development among Student Engineers”, Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University, Montréal, QC, 1994. Available: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, http:// www.proquest.com [Accessed 20 Feb. 2009].

• Private communications

Initials and Last name of the person with whom the communication is maintained (private communication), Year.

Example:

[13] T. I. Wein (private communication), 1997.

• From Internet

Initials and Last name of the author (year, month and day). Title (edition) [Type of medium, usually Online]. Available: Url

Example:

[14] Structural Engineering Society – International. [On-line]. Available: http://www.seaint.org

NOTE: Internet resources can have a very varied typology (journals, monographs, entity websites, databases, etc.). In general, they are cited as the printed document of the type to which they belong by adding the indication [Online] or another type of medium by which they are transmitted, and the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) ​​or url.

• Catalogs

Catalog No. Catalog Code, Product Name, Company, City, State (abbreviated)

Example:

[15] Catalog No. NWM-1, Microwave Components, M. W. Microwave Corp., Brooklyn, NY.

Suggested Links

- Keywords in geosciences: https://www.americangeosciences.org/georef/georef-thesaurus-lists

- IEEE Author Center http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/

- Creative Commons: _https: //co.creativecommons.org/