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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.
  • Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single spaced; 11 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which appear in About the Journal.

Author Guidelines

ESTRUCTURA DEL ARTÍCULO CIENTÍFICO

Para la publicación de los resultados de investigación en Revista Agrociencia, es óptimo contar una estructura eficaz y acorde con las necesidades concretas. Existen varios tipos, pero para esta publicación, se regirá con la estructura clásica del artículo científico.

Las normas de publicación incluyen tipo de letra, interlineado, idiomas del título y del resumen, situación de las palabras clave, formato de las citas bibliográficas. En este sentido, los apartados fundamentales que debe presentar un artículo científico son los siguientes:

Nombre de la investigación

Este componente describe el contenido (naturaleza del estudio, sujeto u objeto experimental y enfoque técnico) en forma específica, clara, exacta, breve, honesta y concisa, de tal forma que el lector identifique el tema fácilmente.

Se recomienda un promedio de 14 palabras para el título (9 mínimo a 20 como máximo), idealmente no debe contener abreviaturas, fórmulas químicas o nombres comerciales, salvo que sea muy necesario para la comprensión del mismo. Usar letra mayúscula únicamente en la primera letra (a menos que se trate de nombres propios). Si se incluye un nombre científico, es imperativo que el lector sepa de qué tipo de organismo se trata, por lo que se sugiere que le anteceda su nombre común.

Autores

Deberán colocarse los dos apellidos unidos por un guión. Cuando hay más de un autor estos deben estar separados por comas y los nombres de los autores colocando únicamente las iniciales. 

Después del nombre y apellido de cada autor, hay que colocar un número arábigo como superíndice en el documento a remitir, para indicar la institución a la que pertenece o su afiliación.

Resumen y palabras claves

El resumen debe ser lo suficientemente sucinto e informativo para permitir al lector identificar el contenido e interés del trabajo y poder decidir sobre su lectura. Debe estar escrito en el pasado y hacer referencia al lugar y fecha de ejecución; además, debe contener el procedimiento metodológico del trabajo, sus principales resultados y conclusiones.

Debe dejarse bien claro el hallazgo principal del trabajo y se deben presentar datos numéricos de los resultados sin incluir subtítulos, cuadros, figuras, abreviaciones, referencias bibliográficas. Además, indicar la probabilidad de la prueba estadística entre paréntesis por ejemplo (p ≤ 0.01) y cuando sea pertinente también el valor calculado (r = 0.9; X2 = 2). Evitar expresiones: “En este artículo se presentan o discuten...”

No debe superar las 250 palabras y debe incluir una traducción al idioma inglés (abstract).

Al final del resumen deben incluirse una serie de términos denominados “Palabras clave” (Keywords) por las que el artículo será incluido en las bases de datos. La búsqueda en los bancos de bibliografía suele realizarse precisamente por estas palabras clave, siendo importante elegirlas adecuadamente. Habitualmente se incluyen los taxones estudiados (de mayor a menor rango), el campo de estudio y las regiones geográficas estudiadas (de menor a mayor rango). El número indicado es de 3 a 8 palabras clave o frases cortas (lexemas). Colocarlas por orden de importancia.

1. introducción

Describe el interés que tiene el tema en el contexto científico del momento, así como una breve reseña del estado actual de los conocimientos en este campo, incluyendo las referencias bibliográficas más importantes. Además, se refiere a los trabajos previos que se han hecho sobre el tema. No necesariamente debe ser muy extensa y debe responder a la pregunta de “porqué se ha hecho este trabajo”.

Tener presente que el último párrafo se resuma el objetivo del estudio. La introducción hace las funciones de revisión de literatura, la cual debe incorporarse al texto según las normas técnicas vigentes del IICA.

2. Materiales y métodos

En esta sección se responde a la pregunta de “cómo se ha hecho el estudio” y es la escritura del diseño de la investigación la cual debe incluir la ubicación de la investigación en espacio y tiempo, condiciones climáticas y de suelo, las unidades en estudio, la toma de datos, estudios económicos, el análisis estadístico (variables en estudio, modelos y pruebas estadísticas).

Los métodos establecidos y bien conocidos se indican mediante citas bibliográficas. Se detalla el uso de productos químicos (nombres genéricos) y datos de dosis. Para los equipos de presión, se debe señalar tipo, marca y modelo.

3. Resultados y discusión

Es la presentación ordenada de los hallazgos. En esta sección, además de los textos, se pueden presentar cuadros, figuras o ilustraciones, para ello hay que utilizar el medio más claro, adecuado y económico, y deben citarse respectivamente.

La secuencia de redacción es la que permita una exposición más coherente y clara de los resultados obtenidos. Deben expresarse los resultados de los experimentos descritos en Materiales y Métodos sin repetir ambos elementos y ser vistos y entendidos de forma rápida y clara.

El primer párrafo debe ser utilizado para resumir en una frase concisa, clara y directa, el hallazgo principal del estudio. Esta sección debe ser escrita utilizando los verbos en pasado y se debe evitar el uso de voz pasiva. Las ideas deben ser concretas. Las unidades de medida deben estar claras según el Sistema Internacional de Unidades y las abreviaciones totalmente explicativas, según las normas vigentes del IICA.

La discusión de los resultados es el examen de los resultados, su significado y limitaciones, enfatiza los aspectos nuevos e importantes de la investigación. Determina la coherencia o contradicción de los datos encontrados.

Se sugiere comenzar la discusión con la respuesta a la pregunta de la Introducción, seguida inmediatamente con las pruebas expuestas en los resultados que la corroboran. Comentar claramente los resultados anómalos, dándoles una explicación lo más coherente posible. Se contrastarán con los resultados obtenidos en otras publicaciones sobre el tema.

4. Conclusiones

Las conclusiones deben recapitular en forma lógica los resultados obtenidos. Deben ser independientes, concretas y no redundantes. Deben estar basadas en los hallazgos del trabajo, no ser especulativas, ni provenir de la literatura. Deben de estar en concordancia con los objetivos que se plantearon en el proyecto de investigación. No deben mencionarse cuadros o figuras. No deben confundirse con recomendaciones. No usar números o viñetas.

5. Citas y Referencias

Citas

Las citaciones constituyen una parte importante del artículo científico enviado para publicación en la Revista, no solo por cuidar los créditos científicos de otros autores, sino también porque proporciona las evidencias del diálogo entre saberes. La normativa para citaciones de la Revista son las Normas del IICA-CATIE 2016.

Ejemplo:
Citación con un autor (Scarpa 2004), dos autores (Playton y Kerans 2018) y más de dos autores (Toscano et al. 2020).

Referencias

En Revista Agrociencia únicamente se admite relacionar bajo este epígrafe, aquellas referencias que han sido directamente citadas en el texto. Las fuentes citadas deben hacerse de acuerdo a las normas del IICA-CATIE 2016.

Si hay citas de internet, deberán ser de revistas o textos reconocidos por la comunidad científica internacional y escribirlas según normas del IICA-CATIE 2016. No usar números o viñetas en las referencias, ni separar por tipo de publicación.

Ejemplo:

Playton, TE; Kerans, C. 2018. Architecture and genesis of prograding deep boundstone margins and debris-dominated carbonate slopes: Examples from the Permian Capitan Formation, Southern Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas. Sedimentary Geology 370:15-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.12.021.

Scarpa, GF. 2004. Medicinal plants used by the Criollos of Northwestern Argentine Chaco. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 91(1):115-135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2003.12.003.

Toscano, AR; Piñeres Castillo, AP; Mojica Herazo, JC; López, RL; Restrepo, RR. 2020. Management and Control of Variables for the Generation of Biogas from Pig Zungo. Procedia Computer Science (Serie The 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2020) / The 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH 2020) / Affiliated Workshops) 177:261-266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.10.036.

 6. Agradecimientos (opcional)

Es aplicable a instituciones que apoyaron la investigación.

7. Redacción de cuadros, figuras y texto

Cuadros:

Deben tener un título breve y claro de manera que indique sin dificultad qué es lo que se informa en él y deberá estar en la parte superior del cuadro. Para los cuadros que llevan notas al píe, se hacen con letras más pequeñas que las del texto.

Las siglas y abreviaturas deben escribirse según las normas técnicas vigentes del IICA, de lo contrario deberán ser acompañadas de una nota explicativa al pie del mismo. Los cuadros no deben tener un tamaño mayor de tres cuartos de la página y demasiada información estadística que se tornan incomprensibles y confusos. Se sugiere usar dos números decimales.

Figuras:

Se denominan figuras a los gráficos, diagramas, mapas, fotografías, dibujos manuales e impresiones fotográficas. Los títulos deben ser concisos y explicativos y se colocan arriba de la figura. Los mapas y dibujos deberán llevar una escala en el Sistema Internacional de Unidades. Las fotografías deben de ser de buena calidad, buena resolución y excelente contraste, y se sugiere cargarlas como archivos adicionales, en formato jpg o png, bien identificadas. La figura deberá ser de alta trascendencia para el artículo, y se identificará con números arábigos según el orden de aparición en el texto.

Texto:

El texto deberá escribirse en un documento de Microsoft Word a una columna, en fuentes Arial o Times New Roman, tamaño 11, a espacio sencillo. El margen izquierdo deberá ser de 3.0 cm. y el derecho, superior e inferior de 2.5 cm. Se recomienda no unir el número con la abreviación. Los números del cero al nueve se escriben con letras, excepto en unidades de medida.

Los textos académicos que la revista admite son los siguientes:

  • Artículos científicos
  • Notas técnicas
  • Estudio de casos
  • Revisiones bibliográficas

Artículo científico

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Los autores que publican en la Revista Agrociencia acuerdan los siguientes términos: Los autores continúan como propietarios de sus trabajos, cediendo únicamente los derechos de difusión a la Revista Agrociencia bajo los estándares de la Licencia Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0). Esta licencia permite que otros mezclen, adapten y construyan sobre el trabajo para cualquier propósito, incluso comercialmente, y aunque los nuevos trabajos también deben reconocer al autor inicial, no tienen que licenciar los trabajos derivados en los mismos términos.

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