Authors must register with the journal before publishing or, if already registered, they can simply log in and begin the submission process. Remember that each author is responsible for the content of each of their articles.

 

General aspects

The Editorial Committee of the journal Tecnología Química reserves the right to publish the articles it considers of interest, to suggest the most appropriate form for a new presentation, to reject a manuscript for not complying with the publication standards, for the topic addressed not being of interest to the journal, for not meeting scientific criteria, or for any other difficulty that may arise. The decision of the Editorial Committee is final.

Contributions must be original and unpublished articles and must not be simultaneously submitted to other publications or editorial institutions. They must comply with the Guidelines for the presentation of manuscripts in order to be sent to reviewers. Up to five (5) authors are accepted per article. All authors must have an ORCID identifier.

 

Scientific writing

Scientific writing must be understood from the first reading by the average reader who knows the general discipline but is not a specialist in the specific topic of the research; therefore, clear, simple, non-redundant language and an adequate order in the presentation of ideas must be used.

• Use the impersonal style.

• Pay attention to the use of capital letters, as well as agreement in gender-number and subject-verb.

• Do not use jargon.

• Avoid the use of gerunds and adverbs ending in -mente.

• Avoid long sentences and excessive subordination; use appropriate punctuation marks to separate statements.

• Use rationally the means to highlight texts or important elements, such as boldface.

• Avoid the incorrect use of prepositions.

• Paragraphs must have a minimum of three sentences.

• Sentences must not be more than three lines long.

 

Review process

The article review process is external peer review, confidentially and anonymously (double-blind). For more information, consult the section "Peer review process" in "About the journal."

 

Types of articles

The articles submitted to the journal may be:

• Original articles: Contributions in which the results of R&D work or industrial experiences of interest are described and discussed. Maximum length: 15 pages and no more than 5 authors. They must have more than 10 bibliographic references.

• Short articles: These are shorter works but with the same scientific rigor as original articles. They are a brief but complete description of a research study on processes related to chemical engineering and food engineering; they contain preliminary or partial results of the same, which require rapid dissemination. They do not exceed 4 pages.

• Review articles: A document resulting from completed research that analyzes, systematizes, and integrates the results of published or unpublished research on processes related to chemical engineering and food engineering, in order to report on advances and development trends. They are characterized by presenting a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 references. Manuscripts must not exceed 25 pages including tables, figures, diagrams, etc.

 

Article structure

Presentation standards or format

Works must be presented on letter-size sheets, with 3 cm margins, pages numbered consecutively, Arial 12 font, and 1.5 line spacing.

The manuscript must be structured in the following order:

• Title and author information

• Abstract in Spanish and English

• Introduction

• Materials and methods

• Results and discussion

• Conclusions

• References consulted

• Conflicts of interest

• Author contributions

Title

The title must be written in Spanish and English (or vice versa) and in Portuguese and English (or vice versa). It must have only the initial letter capitalized, centered, in Arial 14 font, and the title in the main language of the article must be in bold. It must clearly and concisely reflect the content of the article, avoiding abbreviations, and must not exceed 15 words.

Information about the authors

The full name and surnames of each of the authors must appear, in the order in which they are to appear. Scientific categories (DrC, MSc, Ing., Lic., etc.) are not included. Surnames must be separated by a hyphen. The department or institution to which they belong, province, and country must be indicated, as well as the email address of the author designated for correspondence.

It is mandatory to include the ORCID number of the authors, which can be obtained at https://orcid.org/sign. Up to five authors are accepted per work. At the end of this section, the date on which the work was submitted must be included.

Abstract and Resumen

The abstract must be presented in Spanish and English and must not exceed 250 words. The words "Resumen" and "Abstract" must be in 12-point font and uppercase.

The abstract must indicate the exposition of the problem, the main objectives and scope of the research, describe the methods used, and summarize the main results and conclusions of the work. Avoid abbreviations and references. It is written in a single paragraph and in the past tense.

At the end of the abstract, keywords (3 to 5) must be included, in Spanish and English, written in order of priority. They must describe the content of the article and facilitate its inclusion in indexes. They may be combined words or short phrases, and they are all written in lowercase.

Introduction

The word "Introduction" must be in bold, centered, and 16-point font. The context and relevance of the work, the nature and scope of the problem investigated, must be presented as clearly as possible; relevant publications must be reviewed to guide the reader on the state of the art of the topic. Specific background must be stated, as well as the justification and the knowledge gap that marks the need to investigate in a particular context, indicating the objective of the work clearly and precisely.

The theoretical foundation may be included in the introduction. Size 16, bold, and centered.

Materials and methods

The word "Materials and methods" must be in bold, centered, and 16-point font. The main purpose is to describe the methods used and the experimental conditions, the foundations of the design, the computational or analytical tools employed, the development methodology, the equations used, the calculation tools or software used, the design or selection criteria applied, and the operating conditions or restrictions considered, as appropriate to the type of research, thus guaranteeing the conceptual reproducibility of the work.

Regarding materials, technical specifications and exact quantities must be included, as well as the origin or method of preparation. Write in the past tense or simple past, with active voice when direct, and avoid interpretive comments or results.

Results and discussion

The word "Results and discussion" must be in bold, centered, and 16-point font. It is the logical presentation of the results that demonstrate the true contribution of the work, with such detail as to justify the conclusions. The previous parts (Introduction, Materials and Methods) serve to explain why and how the results are obtained.

In the discussion, the results, their meaning, achievements, and limitations are analyzed and interpreted; the novel aspects of the study, their practical applications, and the conclusions derived from them are highlighted; unresolved aspects are delimited. If necessary, recommendations may be proposed. It must be written fundamentally in the present tense, since it describes and interprets observed facts and trends that are considered valid and verified.

Conclusions

The word "Conclusions" must be in bold, centered, and 16-point font. Be concise, write your conclusions as clearly as possible. They must be consistent with the objectives of the work and written in the present tense, to convey the validity and solidity of the results obtained, stating the main findings, without introducing new data or references.

References consulted

The word "References consulted" must be in bold, centered, and 16-point font. References must comply with ISO 690:2010 standards and must be done manually, not with EndNote or with Word's automatic numbered list.

References in the text must be indicated by hanging parentheses and written after punctuation marks if any. The reference list at the end (no fewer than 10) must be ordered numerically, according to the order in which the documents have been cited for the first time in the text.

Conflicts of interest

A conflict of interest occurs when any aspect secondary to the primary interest (publication of an article) may bias the generation of a complete manuscript (whether research or not) and its quality. If there are no conflicts of interest, it must be specified: "The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest." This must be placed at the end of each article and after the bibliographic references, respecting the language in which the article is being presented.

Author contributions

After declaring that there are no conflicts of interest, the contribution of each author to the article must be stated in concrete tasks, not in percentages. The research tasks carried out by each author must be indicated, such as: conception of the research, performance of the experimental part, statistical analysis, preparation or revision of the manuscript, among others. Take into account the language in which the article is presented.

General guidelines

The title of the sections must be written with only the initial letter capitalized, 16-point font, centered, and in bold. Subsections with the same characteristics, but in 14-point font.

• The maximum length of articles will be 15 pages and authors must not exceed 5.

• Authors must respect international standards regarding abbreviations in publication articles, symbols, and units of measurement, which they must specify clearly. The International System of Units (SIU) will be used.

• Nomenclature must appear after the conclusions or preferably in the body of the work as it appears.

• Tables, figures, and equations must come as clear images. In equations, the number must be inside the image; in tables and figures, the titles must be outside them.

• Mathematical formulas and expressions must be numbered consecutively at the right margin and in parentheses ( ). Symbols from the Greek, Cyrillic, technical, and mathematical alphabets must be written in the nomenclature, putting their correct name.

• It must be clearly indicated when a sign is an exponent or subscript. Tables and figures will carry Indo-Arabic numbering and must be included in the text, in the corresponding place. Decimal numbers will be aligned by the comma.

• Table and figure titles must be in 11-point font and centered. When mentioned in the text, the full word must be written in lowercase; however, in the title of figures, they must be indicated abbreviated as Fig. 1-, and in the case of tables, in the title it must be written as Table 1-. The content of tables must be in 9-point font and figures must be separated by commas, not by decimal points. Figures with more than four digits must be separated by a space every three digits, both in the integer and decimal parts.

 

Guidelines for the use of ISO 690 – 2010 Standards

General guidelines for writing bibliographic references

• The data for writing references will be taken from the original document to which they refer and will be extracted mainly from the title page. Data extracted from a source other than the document itself will be placed in square brackets.

• Personal names may be abbreviated by putting only the initials.

• In the case of anonymous works, the first element of the reference will be the title.

• If the author is an entity, the name of the entity must be indicated, as it appears in the source.

• To write the title, the criterion of use of capital letters of the language in which the information is given must be respected.

• Subtitles may be included after the title, separated by a colon and space (: )

• If no date appears in the document, we can give an approximate date (preceding it with the abbreviation circa). Example: ca. 1957.

• If the publication presents two or three authors with the same status, all must be included in the reference. The name of the first author must appear following the model SURNAMES, Name. The rest of the authors may appear, if desired, in direct order.

Below, the way to write bibliographic references for some types of documents is explained in more detail and with some examples. The punctuation and typographic style indicated are given only as a sample.

MONOGRAPHS

References for monographs and printed books will contain the following elements:

These references are prepared following the following general scheme:

SURNAMES, Name. Title of the book in italics. Edition. Place of publication: publisher, year. Standard identifier (ISBN, etc.).

Example:

DERNIE, David. Drawing in architecture: techniques, types, places. Barcelona: Blume, 2010. ISBN 978-84-9801-488-4.

It will only be necessary to record the edition in case it is not the first.

CHAPTERS OF MONOGRAPHS, ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS, AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES

Bibliographic references for a part of a monograph (a chapter of a book, a paper in conference proceedings, etc.) will contain the following elements:

These references are made according to the following general scheme:

SURNAMES, Name. Title of the part. In: Name SURNAMES, Title of the work in italics. Edition. Place of publication: publisher, year, page range. Standard identifier (ISBN, etc.).

Example

PEDRAZUELA FUENTES, M. The Institute of Philology of the University of Buenos Aires. In: Alonso Zamora Vicente: life and philology. San Vicente del Raspeig: Publications of the University of Alicante, 2010, pp. 233-266. ISBN 978-84-9717-066-6.

DOCTORAL THESES AND END-OF-STUDIES WORKS IN UNPUBLISHED PRINTED FORMAT

References follow the following general scheme:

SURNAMES, Name. Title of the work in italics. Type of unpublished thesis. Academic institution at which it is presented. Place, year.

Example

SEVILLA RUIZ, D. Development of the distributed component model Corba Lightweight Components (CORBA-LC). Unpublished doctoral thesis. A. F. Gómez Eskarmeta and J. M. García Carrasco (dir.). University of Murcia, 2008.

Remember:

The place is only necessary if it is not implicit in the name of the institution.

If the thesis, dissertation, etc. has been published, the bibliographic reference will correspond to the scheme followed for a monograph.

ARTICLES IN PRINTED JOURNALS

References will be prepared according to the following scheme:

SURNAMES, Name. Title of the article. Title of the journal in italics. Place: Publisher, date of publication, volume (number), page range. ISSN.

Example

KELCHTERMANS, G. Teacher vulnerability: Understanding its moral and political roots. Cambridge Journal of Education. Cambridge: University. Faculty of Education. 1996, 26(3), pp. 307-323. ISSN 0305-764X.

Remember

In the description of serial publications, the term "volume" or its abbreviation ("vol.", "v.") and the terms of smaller parts "number" or its abbreviation ("no.", "n.") may be omitted, distinguishing typographically the volume in bold and the number –if any– in parentheses.

Example

26(3)

PATENTS

References are prepared according to the following general scheme:

SURNAMES, Name/ENTITY (Holder or applicant of the patent). Title of the patent. N. SURNAMES of the inventor (in the case that the inventor is not the applicant). Date of publication. Name or code of the country. Date of application. Official designation of the series in which the patent is numbered. Classification.

Example

UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE. Device for incorporating insoluble pulverulent solid additives into tobacco. BELTRÁN RICO, M. I. et al. March 20, 2013. ES1078301 (Y). IPC: A24B15/18. European patent application ES20120000725U 20120806. European Patent Office.

Remember:

If the nature of the resource is not clear in the reference, it should be mentioned that it is a patent.

BOOKS IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT

Bibliographic references for books in electronic format (CD-ROM and DVD) are prepared according to the following scheme:

SURNAMES, N. Title of the book in italics [support designation]. Edition. Place: publisher, date. Standard identifier. Other additional information will be added in the most appropriate place.

Example

LAU, J. International guidelines for information literacy [online]. Mexico: Universidad Veracruzana. [Consulted September 13, 2012]. Available at:

http://bivir.uacj.mx/dhi/DoctosNacioInter/Docs/Directrices.pdf

JOURNALS IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT

Bibliographic references for journals in electronic format (CD-ROM and DVD) are prepared according to the following scheme:

Title of the journal in italics [support designation]. Place: publisher, date. Standard identifier.

Other additional information will be added in the most appropriate place.

Example: Archaeological Yearbook of Andalusia [CD-ROM]. Seville: Junta de Andalucía. Ministry of Culture, 2003. ISSN 2171-2174.

Remember:

In the case of serial publications, if different editions are published in different countries, the country of publication should be mentioned after the title.

Databases in electronic format.

ARTICLES IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

References for articles in electronic journals are prepared according to the following scheme:

SURNAME(S), Name. Title of the article. Title of the journal in italics.

Year of the issue in which the article is included, volume and/or number of the issue in which the article is included, first and last pages of the article. [Date of consultation: day month year]. ISSN. Availability and access.

Examples:

DÍAZ-NOCI, Javier. Media on the Internet: some trends.

El profesional de la información [online]. 2010, November-December, 19 (6). 561-567. [Consulted September 13, 2012]. ISSN 1386-6710. DOI: 10.3145/epi.2010.nov.01

DATABASES

Bibliographic references for databases in electronic format are prepared according to the following scheme:

ENTITY / SURNAMES, N. Title of the database [support designation]. Edition. Place of publication: publisher. Date of publication. Temporal coverage (start year-end year). Other additional information will be added in the most appropriate place.

Example

HERRERO MEDIAVILLA Víctor, dir. IBEPI: Biographical Index of Spain, Portugal and Ibero-America [CD-ROM]. 3rd ed. corrected and enlarged. München: K.G.Saur, 1997.

WEBSITES

Bibliographic references for websites are prepared according to the following scheme:

SURNAMES, N./ENTITY. Title of the website in italics [online]. Publisher, date. [date of consultation]. Availability and access. Other additional information will be added in the most appropriate place.

Example:

Institutional Repository of the University of Alicante [online]. [Consulted September 11, 2012]. Available at: http://rua.ua.es/

Bibliographic references for parts of a website are prepared according to the following scheme:

SURNAMES, N. Title of the part of the website. In: Title of the website in italics [online]. Place: publisher, date [date of consultation]. Availability and access. Other additional information will be added in the most appropriate place.

Example:

BIBLIOTECA DE AUTOR MANUEL ALVAR. In: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes [online]. Alicante: Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2014. [consultation: November 17, 2014]. Available at: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib/bib_autor/manuelalvar/

STANDARDS:

ENTITY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STANDARD. Title, number or code of the standard. Edition. Place of publication: publisher, year of publication.

Example

AENOR. R&D&I Management. UNE 166000 EX, UNE 166001 EX, UNE 166002 EX. Madrid: AENOR, 2002.