Authors
Investigación e Innovación en Ingenierías is an online journal managed by peers using Open Access. It is published every six months, with the goal of publishing original, useful, and relevant research articles that present new knowledge concerning the theoretical and practical aspects of methodologies used in every field of engineering. Works written in Spanish, English, and Portuguese are accepted.
Specifications
Articles being submitted to this Journal should be submitted through OJS, using this registration link http://revistas.unisimon.edu.co/index.php/innovacioning/user/register. If authors have any queries, they can email revingenieria@unisimonbolivar.edu.co. The article must be accompanied with an assignment of property rights clause to Investigación e Innovación en Ingenierías Journal.
Writing
Articles must meet the following criteria:
- They must be typed on a computer using letter size paper, have 1.5 sentence spacing for abstract, tables, charts, figures, and references, among other sections.
- Articles should be unpublished and original and should not be simultaneously published in another journal.
- Articles must have high-quality writing and syntax, with no spelling or punctuation errors, have clear ideas, and must be accurate.
- Each table appearing on the Word document should be created on a Spreadsheet, if possible in Excel.
- Photographs in the documents should be in JPG format.
Structure
Articles submitted to Investigación e Innovación en Ingenierías should have the following structure:
Title: The title should be written in Arial font of 14-point font size. The title should be centered and should have initial capitalization. The research study’s title, group, and line of research should be referenced in the page footer. The title should be included in Spanish and English.
Full name of author(s): Authors’ names must be written using 12-point Arial font. Authors must include the academic degrees, institutional affiliation, ORCID code, postal address, email, and group and line of research. If it is a research article, then this should be included in the page footer.
Abstract: Abstract must be written in Arial font, size 12, with initial capitalization. This should be centered. It must be structured within 150 to 250 words and must cover the following points:
Objective and originality: an abstract must clearly express the main objective of the study and the hypothesis.
Methodology or method: all essential aspects of the methodology and materials used for the research must be described.
Results: the main results and the exact level of statistical importance must be presented. New results must be emphasized.
Conclusions: the primary conclusions and their implications must be clearly stated, and future research should be carried out, if appropriate.
Keywords: 5 to 8 keywords that represent the document’s content must be stated in 12-point Arial font.
The abstract should be written in third person and in past tense. Literal quotations, abbreviations, and bibliographical references should be avoided.
Abstract: The same content of the abstract in Spanish should be presented in English.
- Keywords: the Spanish keywords must be translated into English.
Document’s development: 1. Introduction. 2. Methodology, 3. Results and Discussion. 4. Conclusions, and 5. Bibliographic References.
Bibliographic references: These include the cited or referenced texts in the article and must appear at the end of the document. Each literal or indirect quote must be stated in Arabic numbers between brackets [ ] according to the order they appear in the text in compliance with IEEE regulations. Furthermore, authors are encouraged to use recent references on the topic and state the DOI number.
The information should be organized as follows:
- Books
[Assigned number] Initials of the author’s first name. Surname(s). Name of the book in italics, Edition no., City of publication, Country: Publishing House, year, chapter (optional), section (optional), pages consulted.
Example:
[1] R. G. Gallager, Principles of Digital Communication. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Periodical publications
[Assigned number] Initials of the author’s first name. Surname(s). “Name of the article in quotation marks,” in Name of the periodical publication, Vol. x, no. x, pages consulted, Abbreviation of the periodical publication (optional), month/period, year.
Example:
[2] C. Obando, “Influencia del agua en el desempeño de los pavimentos: lluvia acida,” [Influence of water on asphalt’s performance: acid rain] Investigación e Innovación en Ingenierias, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 190 – 207, 2017. DOI: 10.17081/invinno.5.2.2761
- Article from an online journal
[Assigned number] Initials of the author’s first name. Surname(s). (Year, month, day). Name of the article. Name of the journal in italics [Type of media]. No. Vol. (copy No.), pages consulted. Available at: http://www.website
Example:
[3] J. Areito Bertolín and A. Areito Bertolín. (2009, abr). Test de penetración y gestión de vulnerabilidad, estrategia clave para evaluar la seguridad. [Introduction test and vulnerability management, key strategy to assess security] Revista Española de Electrónica [Online]. (653), 1. Available at: http://www.redeweb.com/_txt/653/abril_2009.pdf
- Article presented at a conference
[Assigned number] Initials of the author’s first name. Surname(s), “Name of the article in quotation marks,” presented at Name of the conference, City of the conference, Abbreviation of the conference (optional), Country, month, year.
Example:
[4] H. Wells, “Transportación cuántica,” [Quantum transportation] Presented at the 2nd International Conference on Applied Quantum Mechanics, Boston, USA, February, 1954.
- If the conference publishes its reports online
[Assigned number] Initials of the author’s first name. “Name of the article in quotation marks” presented at Name of the conference. [Type of media]. Country, month, year. Available at: http://www.website.
Example:
[5] S. Ortega, “Descubrimientos en crimen electrónico,” [Findings in electronic crimes] presented at the 2007 International Conference for crime research. [Online]. March, 2001. Available at: http://www.iconocast.com/S00008/G6/News1.htm
- Degree theses, dissertations, and degree research projects
[Assigned number] Initials of the author’s first name. Surname(s), “Name of the thesis/dissertation/degree research project,” Doctoral dissertation (or M.Sc. or degree research project) program abbreviation, university abbreviation, University city, country, year.
Example:
[6] J. O. Williams, “Narrow-band analyzer,” Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Elect. Eng. Harvard Uni., Cambridge, MA, 1993.
