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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.
  • ORIGINALITY
    o The proposal must not have been previously published or be under consideration by another publisher.
    o Otherwise, an explanation must be provided in the “Comments for the publisher” section.
  • o Line spacing: single.
    o Font size: 12 points.
    o Italics should be used instead of underlining, except for URLs.
    o All illustrations, tables, and figures must be inserted in the body of the text, in the appropriate place.
    o The manuscript must comply with the Author Guidelines available on the publisher’s website.
  • FORMAL REQUIREMENTS
    o Each work must include: title, abstract, and keywords in Spanish and English.
    o The file must be submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word format.
  • COLLECTIVE WORKS
    o For works with more than three authors, the appointment of at least one coordinator is mandatory.
    o To adequately reflect each author’s contribution, a separate PDF must be submitted for each chapter.

  • BIBLBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
    o URLs for references must be provided whenever available.
  • ANONYMITY
    o In order to ensure an anonymous review, all direct references to the authors must be removed from the text.
  • COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS
    o The author guarantees that they have obtained the necessary permissions for the use of images or other materials subject to copyright
  • RESEARCH FUNDING
    o If the monograph results from funded research projects, the funding source must be indicated both in the “Supporting Agency” metadata and in the book credits
  • USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    o The drafting of any part of the manuscript using generative AI/LLM tools (including abstracts or literature reviews) is not permitted.
    o Such tools may only be used for editing or stylistic improvement, provided they do not replace the author’s original contribution.
  • LAYOUT AND PAGINATION
    o All blank pages must be removed.
    o Pagination must start with the cover page (counted as page 1) and continue sequentially.
    o The page numbers in the footer must match exactly the PDF navigation numbering (e.g. in Adobe Acrobat).

Author Guidelines

1. The layout of the PDF to be published is the responsibility of the authors, including the Cover, which is mandatory.

2. In the case of collective works (more than 3 authors), it will be necessary to have at least one coordinator. In order for the participation of each author to be reflected, it is necessary to send a PDF for each chapter.

3. Following Art. 12 of the Regulation on Open Science Policy of the UMA, the unique identification code of the author(s) (ORCID) must be included on the credits page.

4. We provide you with an ISBN and DOI

5. Texts laid out in Latex will be presented following the template of the Manuals collection available to authors.

6. The general index file must include all those elements (titles, epigraphs, subheadings, etc.) that facilitate the orderly composition of the book.

5. If there are onomastic and thematic indexes, it will be up to the author to prepare them on the version already compiled by the publisher.

6. If any special font is used (Greek, oriental languages, mathematical symbols...), the author will send the corresponding fonts compatible with Windows.

7. If you use graphic material (photographs, graphs, tables...) that is not original and subject to copyright, reproduction permissions must be presented. Every image must include a caption consisting of a brief explanatory text and the source (name of the photographer, illustrator, entity or image bank). Their text will be composed in a smaller body of the general text.

Quotes

It is essential, from a legal point of view and as researchers, to cite every source we use to justify our text. The citations, which must be systematized, can be of different kinds.

8.

Writing any part of an article using a generative AI/LLM tool, including generation of the abstract or literature review, is not allowed.

Generation or reporting of results using a generative AI/LLM tool is not allowed, and statistical reporting in the text using a generative AI/LLM tool is not allowed.
Editing an article using a generative AI/LLM tool to improve its language and readability would be allowed, as this mirrors the standard tools already employed to improve spelling and grammar, and uses existing material created by the author, rather than generating entirely new content, while the author(s) remain responsible for the original work.
Submission and publication of images created by artificial intelligence tools or large-scale generative models is not allowed.

References
1. If the quotes occupy less than three lines, they must be incorporated into the text in quotation marks ("").
2. On the other hand, if they occupy more than three lines, they will appear in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, with a larger paragraph indentation and a smaller font, in such a way that it is clearly distinguished that it is a quote.
3. Quotations must be reproduced verbatim even if they have errors; That is, any change or correction must be indicated in square brackets within the textual quote. Likewise, we will use the brackets that enclose ellipses to indicate omissions.
4. In these textual citations, the Harvard system will be used, which integrates the abbreviated bibliographic reference (author, year: pages), thus contributing to significantly reducing the number of footnotes.
5. When we indirectly cite an author's ideas, we must also indicate his name, the year of publication and, optionally, the page. Likewise, it is possible to add (cf.), (v.) or indicate the reference in the footer.

Footnotes page
1. Although it is recommended to integrate the reference of the publication into the text (see “Citations” section), the author may use the notes to include additional content that reinforces the argument.
2. The calls to notes in the text must be flown. To do this, the specific tool of the word processor must be used, so that the calls in the text appear as a superscript and the author can include the text of the corresponding note at the foot of that same page.
3. If there is any punctuation mark after this word, the call goes after the mark.

4. The inclusion of excessively long notes should be avoided. A note or set of notes should not occupy more than three-quarters of the layout page.

Bibliographic references
The bibliography, located at the end of the text, can be of various types: the primary bibliography (which includes the document on which a research is being carried out, for example); general (with the main works on the topic); consulted (resources that the author has resorted to) and cited (which includes the documents cited in the text); among others. Likewise, we must specify if any of the references have not been consulted despite being included in said list.
At UMA Editorial we have agreed that, by default, the bibliographic references of works that do not belong to a collection or that the collection does not indicate another standard, will be based on the APA 7th edition standard for bibliographic citations. Like it shows:

Book:
Surnames, Initials, author name. (Year of publication). Book title in italics. Editorial. Mankiw, N. G. (2014). Macroeconomy. Antoni Bosch.
Chapter of the book:
Surnames, Initials name of author of the chapter. (Year of publication). Chapter title. In Initials first name Last name editor (Ed.), Title of the book in italics (pages covered by the chapter). Editorial. Pedrós Esteban, A. (2008). Citizen sustainability. In J. Llaveria (Ed.), Urban Dialogues (265-278). Polytechnic university of Valencia.
Article in scientific magazine:
Surnames, Initials, author name. (Year of publication). Article title. Title of the magazine in italics, volume of the magazine (magazine number), pages covered by the article. DOI or URL of the resource.
Giachi, S. (2014). Social dimensions of tax fraud: trust and tax morale in contemporary Spain. Spanish Journal of Sociological Research, 145, 73-98. https://doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.145.73
Ebook:
Surnames, Initials, author name. (Year of publication). Book title in italics. Resource URL. Wayne Mondy, R.N. (2010). Human resources management. http://www.ingebook.com/ib/NPcd/IB_BooksVis?cod_primaria=1000187&codigo_libr o= 4475.

Use of AI in publications

UMA editorial joins the commitment of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to affirm that AI tools cannot be listed as authors of an article.

AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship, as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest or manage copyright and licensing agreements.

Authors using AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, the production of images or graphical elements of the article, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the article how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including the parts produced by an AI tool, and are therefore liable for any breach of publication ethics.

 

Copyright Notice

Open publication

The works that are published in this publishing house under the premise of open access are subject to the following terms:

1) The publisher retains the copyright of the published works, and encourages and allows their reuse under the use license indicated in point 2.

2) The works are published in the electronic edition of the magazine under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-4.0 Spain license: they can be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted and displayed publicly, provided that:

a) The authorship and the original source of its publication (publisher and URL of the work) are cited.
b) Are not used for commercial purposes.
c) The existence and specifications of this use license are mentioned.

3) UMA Editorial does not charge authors for publishing, that is, it does not have APC (article processing charges)

4) Authors whose contributions are accepted for publication will retain the non-exclusive right to use their contributions for academic, research and educational purposes, including self-archiving or depositing in open access repositories of any type.

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