Author Guidelines

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off the compliance of their submission with all of the items described below. It is important to note that in the case the submission does not adhere to these guidelines, it may be returned to author(s).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements that are summarized in https://revistas.unilibre.edu.co/index.php/avances/instrucciones, in About the Journal.
  • The article has a complete analytical abstract (introduction, methodology, results, and conclusion or contribution to the discipline) and includes keywords that are standardized in the thesauruses that are specialized in the area of knowledge.
  • The Letter of Submission and Declaration of Originality is attached.
  • The article has not been previously published or submitted for consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the comments to the editor).
  • The file to be sent is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.
  • Whenever possible, URLS and DOI are provided for references.
  • Text has simple line spacing; font size is 12 points; italics are used instead of underlining (except URL’s); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed in the appropriate locations within the text instead of at the end.
Author Guidelines
Avances: Investigación en Ingeniería, is the means of dissemination of the Faculty of Engineering at Universidad Libre in Bogotá. Its objective is to show research results to national and international scientific and academic communities, without any profit on the part of the university or any annual periodicity. The journal presents several contents in the fields of engineering, basic sciences, and applied statistics. The articles that are published are original in any language, preferably in Spanish or English.
According to the classification that has been established by Colciencias, the articles must be framed within one of following categories:
  1. Scientific and technological research article: Document that presents, in detail, the original results of completed research projects. The structure that is generally used contains four important parts: introduction, methodology (materials and methods, experimental part), results, and conclusions.
  2. Reflection article: Document that presents the results of a research on a specific topic from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective by author, using original sources.
  3. Review article: Document that presents the results of an investigation where the results of a published or unpublished research are analyzed, systematized, and integrated into a field of science or technology, in order to account for progress and development trends. It is characterized by a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 articles.
  4. Short article: A short document that presents original partial results of scientific or technological research, which, due to its importance, require early dissemination.
Once the work has been approved, the authorization for its publication in a printed and electronic way is implicit for dissemination both by electronic  access and print media or other publishers. In the same way, Avances: Investigación en Ingeniería may give use of the intellectual property rights of the author or authors in the personal and voluntary act of submitting articles to the journal, provided that they have been selected by the Editorial Board for publication, retaining the moral and patrimonial rights.
In order to submit an article, you must register at: https://revistas.unilibre.edu.co/index.php/avances/user/register or write to us to the following email address: avances@unilibre.edu.co, in order to resolve your questions or concerns.
 
Target Audience
Researchers in the area of Engineering, statistics, exact sciences, multidisciplinary