Submissions

Author Guidelines

A recent Microsoft Word version must be used. The document should have a left and right margin of 3 cm, upper and bottom of 2.5 cm (see example of the attached article). Text and images, tables, etc. must be placed within these margins. At the beginning of each paragraph as well as at the end of each section no indentation will be applied. The Times New Roman font of 10 points size will be the normal style for paragraphs, justified and with simple spacing.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 

Headings

Headings on papers and abstracts must be written in 10 points Arial bold capitals fonts, centered and with no punctuation. In the attached example is indicated as Heading A. The names of the contributing authors are written in lower caps (except the initial letter) with Arial 10 point’s font, bold, centered and no endpoint.

The body text has four types of titles depending on its hierarchy. Their characteristics are depicted next.

First Order Headings

Should be written in Arial 10 bold centered without punctuation in capitals. In the attached example are indicated as Heading 1.

Second Order Headings

Should be left-justify, bold and capitals, Arial 10 points and without punctuation. In the attached example are indicated as Heading 2.

Third Order Headings

Left-justify, lower caps (except the initial letter and words with more than four letters which are not prepositions) in Arial fonts, 10 points, bold without punctuation. In the attached example are indicated as Heading 3.

Spacing

The body text must be written with simple spacing. Between paragraphs of the same section, one blank line must be set. Spacing between sections (first order headings) must be of two lines; between subsections (second and third order) must be of one line.

Tables and Illustrations

Illustration and images material must be adjusted to the margin limits. For a good resolutions and images management it is recommended to: (1) photos (150 pixels in a jpg format); (2) schemes in black and white or color (600 pixels in a jpg format).

Tables and Images numbering

Legends of images must be placed below them and should be numbered (see image 1). Arial 9 points font, bold italic and centered must be selected.

Table names should be placed above the table and must be numbered (see table 1). Arial 9 points font, bold italic and centered must be selected.

Table 1   Styles of equations, images and tables

* At least an Arial 8 points font.

EQUATIONS

The equations must be center-justify and right-justify numbered. To referrer to the equations in the body text, they should be indicated as “eq.1”or “eqs. 1, 2 and5”. The entire word can be used too: “equation 1” or “equations 1, 2 and 5”. Variables within the equations must be italic regular, numbers and functions (sin, cos, log, etc.) must be regular.

Citations, References and Bibliography 

The following format must be used: 

Contributing Author’s_surname_1 Initials, Contributing Author’s_surname_2 Initials. ... (Year), “Title of the document with an initial capital, in quotes, underlined in bold”, editorial or journal, volume or number of the magazine if any, place of publication, month of publication, consulted pages (pp. xx–yy) or total of pages in case of books (###  pp.). 

Notes:

1)  Should be alphabetically ordered according to the first contributing author’s surname. Should be: (Martinez, 1996). If there is more than one publication from the same author and in the same year, in the text reference and in the list of references should be: (Martínez, 1996a), (Martínez, 1996b).

2)  If there are two or more contributing authors should be: (Martínez and others, 1996) or (Martínez et al., 1996). In the abbreviation et al., al. refers to alter, therefore and endpoint must be used. In these cases, all the authors must be mentioned in the list of references.

Example:

Pessiki S.T. (1990), “Seismic behavior of beam-column joints”, Fourth U. S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering memories, vol. 2, Palm Springs, Cal., pp. 707-716.

Scott B.D., Park R., y Priestley M.J.N. (1982), “Strain-stress behavior of concrete confined by overlapping hoops at low and high strain rates”, ACI Journal, January–February, 100 pp.

GENERAL SYSTEM OF UNITS

The International System of Units must be considered; the most commonly units used today can be in brackets (metric system, or some English system magnitudes).For example: 0.49 MPa (5 kg/cm²) stress, or a 12.7 mm diameter bar (1/2 inch). 

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