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The Asociación de Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red (www.aibr.org) and Tech Science Press (TSP) are the publishers of AIBR. AIBR – Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana (Ibero-American Journal of Anthropology), issued electronically three times a year (ISSN 1578-9705) and in print (ISSN 1695-9752). It is a publication dedicated to the dissemination, presentation, and discussion of new theoretical and empirical contributions in Anthropology and the Social Sciences. Its scope is transnational, with professionals from across Ibero-America represented on its editorial board. This edition of its Authors’ Guideline marks a fundamental step toward making the journal a quality vehicle that helps streamline scientific communication within the discipline. This document sets out the journal’s style guidelines. Compliance with these style guidelines is mandatory for the submission of texts for publication. Failure to comply will result in manuscripts being returned to authors for revision in accordance with the requirements of this Style Manual. The journal accepts research articles, review articles, interviews, and book reviews (short commentaries or critical discussions of recently published works) addressing both classic themes in Anthropology and the Social Sciences and new trends in the treatment of traditional areas, as well as theoretical and empirical developments within them.

This guideline is intended to assist authors as they prepare their manuscripts. To avoid any delay and time-consuming restructuring, the journal asks and encourages authors to read the guidelines before writing the manuscript.

Expectations for Manuscripts

The journal publishes research articles, review articles, book reviews and interviews. All papers must be written in English or Spanish and follow a clear, concise style. The language editors may have to check the language and grammar of the submitted manuscript, and make editorial changes if deemed necessary.

The article must be a work of anthropology that is of interest to the journal's readers, and therefore relevant, timely, or original.

The manuscript must present content that is rigorous, reliable, and convincing. Whether the article is theoretical or the result of fieldwork, it must be grounded in serious research, including an in-depth review of the prior literature on the subject — not only in Spanish, but also in English or other languages. The research must have been conducted over a sufficiently extended period to yield meaningful results. The journal places particular value on articles based on extensive fieldwork.

Authors should bear in mind that reviewers of their article will verify the appropriate use of bibliographic sources through books and scholarly journal databases.

A good article should serve as a bibliographic reference for future work, whether published in AIBR or in any other social sciences journal.

Double-Blind Peer Review

AIBR continues to operate under a double-blind review model. Authors are therefore required to submit two versions of their manuscript at the time of submission:

(1) a complete version containing the full names, affiliations, acknowledgements, funding information, and any other identifying details of the authors, and

(2) an anonymized version from which all information that could reveal the identity of the authors has been removed. The anonymized version will be used for external peer review and should not contain author names, institutional affiliations, self-identifying acknowledgements, or references that would allow reviewers to infer the authorship of the manuscript. Authors should ensure that self-citations are phrased in a manner that preserves anonymity whenever possible.

For more information, please see “Double-Blind Peer Review” under “Editorial Policies”.

Policy on Non-Discrimination Based on Gender, Ethnicity, and Other Characteristics

AIBR – Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana is committed to not discriminating against any individual or group based on protected characteristics such as ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. In order to uphold this policy, AIBR refrains from asking about any of these categories in its forms. To the best of its ability, AIBR will protect gender equality, thus respecting the equal rights of authors, members of the editorial team, and other governing bodies of the journal, regardless of each person's origin with respect to the characteristics mentioned in the first part of this statement.

Article Types

For Research Article

A Research Article (Article) constitutes the core scholarly contributions to the journal and includes original research based on ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, comparative analysis, and other recognized anthropological methodologies, as well as theoretical and critical essays and other research-based studies. A Research Article should make a substantive contribution to anthropological knowledge and engage with relevant literature. Original research articles typically range from 3,000 to 6,000 words, with a maximum length of 9,000 words (including references).

For Review

A Review article (Review) is a paper based on other published research. It is a secondary source. It does not report original research but rather critically evaluates previously published material. Typically, a Review Article analyzes or synthesizes existing literature on a subject with the aim of expanding on its current understanding or sums up the already existing work to relate it to its present status and suggest new research directions.

For Book Review

A Book Review provides a critical evaluation of a recent publication of relevance to anthropology and related disciplines. A Book Review typically focuses on a single volume, assessing its arguments, methodology, and contribution to existing scholarship. Book Reviews typically range from 1,000 to 1,500 words.

For Interview

Interviews offer a platform for dialogue with scholars, practitioners, and other figures whose work and experiences contribute to contemporary anthropological debates. Contributions should present conversations of clear scholarly or public interest and, where appropriate, contextualize the discussion within relevant theoretical, ethnographic, or historical perspectives. Submissions may take the form of original interviews or edited transcripts accompanied by a short introduction to the interviewee and the significance of the exchange. Interview manuscripts typically range from 2,000 to 5,000 words, with a maximum length of 8,000 words (including references).

Guidelines for Cover Story

The journal selects Cover images for their scientific interest and aesthetic appeal. Authors may receive request emails for permission to use their images as cover story by us. Please send us your approval along with the electronic files, including a short legend concisely explaining the image (50-60 words).

The cover of the journal is editorial material, and as such the editors reserve the right to adapt it during the final design process or ask you to make changes to your suggestion. The editorial team will then select those images they consider most appropriate for the cover positions and contact the authors of the chosen images. No charge is required at present for Cover Story.

The cover image should be in an original, high-resolution format and editable vector graphic images are preferred.

Other requirements:

1. Image type: TIFF/PSD files are preferred

2. Design suggestion: A cover is a showcase for your research and the journal. It should be eye-catching and make people want to learn about your article.

3. Image layout: The image should have a full-page layout. Space should be available for the journal title and issue information at the top of the page, but aside from that, the full area is available for your image.

4. Copyright: Any cover must be a completely new design. It is not appropriate to use elements that are taken from third-party content, such as in previously published work, or any elements that are otherwise subject to copyright or licensing restrictions, as the license should be transferable to the journal.

Cover Letter

A submitted manuscript must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must clearly state that the manuscript is an original work with its own merit, has not been previously published in whole or in part, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. It should also include statements clearly indicating that all authors have read the final manuscript, have approved the submission to the journal, and have accepted full responsibilities pertaining to the manuscript’s delivery and contents. If there are any ethical, copyright, or disclosure issues that come with the manuscript, please reveal them in the cover letter. In the cover letter, authors need to declare that there is no conflict of interest or disclose all the conflicts of interest regarding the manuscript submitted.

Templates

Use the Microsoft Word template to prepare your manuscript.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use Microsoft Word to prepare their manuscript. Using the provided template will significantly speed up the copy-editing and publication process for accepted manuscripts. The total file size for all submissions must not exceed 200 MB. If the file size exceeds this limit, please contact the Editorial Office. Accepted file formats are:

● Microsoft Word: Manuscripts prepared in Microsoft Word must be submitted as a single file. When using Microsoft Word, we recommend using the Microsoft Word template (each section has a predefined style, accessible via the “Styles” gallery in Word). Figures should be inserted into the main text immediately after the paragraph where they are first cited.

● Supplementary Files: These can be in any format, though it is recommended to use common, non-proprietary formats whenever possible.

General Format of Articles

Manuscripts should comprise:

Front matter: Title, Author list, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords.

Main text: The main text should be organized into sections and subsections appropriate to the subject matter, methodology, and argument of the study. Section headings may be thematic, analytical, chronological, or ethnographic in nature, provided that the manuscript presents a clear and coherent line of argument. Review articles may use a more flexible structure.

Back matter: Acknowledgment, Funding Statement (if any), Author Contributions (if any), Availability of Data and Materials (if any), Ethics Approval (if any), Conflict of Interests (if any), Supplementary Materials (if any), Glossary (if any), Appendices (if any), and References.

Front Matter

● Title

The title should be precise, clear, and directly related to the historical subject of the study, reflecting its chronological scope, geographical context, and thematic focus. Acronyms, running titles, or abbreviated forms are not permitted.

● Author Information

Please provide the full names of all authors, including first and last names, with middle name initials included if necessary. At least one author must be designated as the corresponding author. Authors not affiliated with any institution should indicate Independent Researcher, and changes to author names or affiliations after acceptance are normally not permitted. Equal contributions should be indicated with a superscript (#) and the statement “These authors contributed equally to this work.” Authors with equal contributions should, in principle, be listed consecutively in the author list. Additionally, equal contributions should be clearly detailed in the Author Contributions section. Please review the relevant criteria to ensure authorship qualifications are met.

● Author Affiliations

All authors must include their current affiliation as well as the institution where the majority of the research for the manuscript was conducted. The primary affiliation should typically reflect the institution that provided the most support or where the bulk of the research was performed, but authors are encouraged to confirm any specific requirements with their institution, particularly regarding contractual agreements.

Accurate author names and affiliations are crucial to ensure proper attribution, citation, and to avoid issues related to recognition, promotions, or funding. Once an article is published, requests for updates or corrections to author details, including affiliations, may not be accommodated.

● Abstract

Research articles should provide an abstract of 200–400 words, and review articles 150–300 words, written as a single continuous paragraph without references or footnotes. Abstracts should be written as a single paragraph and should not include reference citations. Abbreviations that appear only once in the abstract should be defined in full. If abbreviations appear more than once, the full definitions should be provided first before they can be used elsewhere. For articles written in Spanish, an abstract must be provided in Spanish and in English, with keywords in English. English abstracts and keywords are mandatory for all articles regardless of the language of the main text.

● Keywords

3–10 keywords that accurately reflect the content, chronological scope, and thematic focus.

Main Text

● Structure and Paragraphs

Articles should be clearly structured and may be divided into numbered sections and subsections (e.g., 1.; 1.1; 2.; 2.1), while reviews may adopt a more flexible structure provided the argument is coherent. Paragraph titles should be in italics and not followed by a full stop.

For research articles, authors are suggested to describe the methodology as clearly as possible. The following outline may serve as a guide:

Introduction (relevance and pertinence of the study, and theoretical considerations).

Method (means of access to the field, where applicable; description of participants/informants and their significance; data collection techniques used; chronology of the research; approach taken to the analysis of the information; and relevant theoretical frameworks…).

Analysis and Discussion of Results (including possible limitations and theoretical-methodological considerations).

Conclusions.

● Quotations and Punctuation

1. In-text quotations: enclosed in double quotation marks (" "), following standard English usage.

2. Quotations within quoted passages: enclosed in single quotation marks (' ').

3. Block quotations: quotations of 40 words or more are set as a freestanding block of text, indented 0.5 inches from the left margin, without quotation marks. The block quotation is double-spaced, consistent with the rest of the manuscript.

4. Omissions in quotations: indicated by an ellipsis in brackets [...].

5. Punctuation with closing quotation marks: periods and commas are placed inside closing quotation marks; colons and semicolons are placed outside. Question marks and exclamation points are placed inside the quotation marks only if they are part of the quoted material, and outside if they apply to the surrounding sentence.

6. In-text citations accompanying quotations: the author, year, and page number (e.g., Smith, 2020, p. 45) should immediately follow the quotation, before any closing punctuation of the sentence.

7. Emphasis added to a quotation: if a word or phrase within a quotation is italicized by the author for emphasis, this should be noted immediately after the italicized words with the parenthetical "[emphasis added]."

Examples for Block quotations (direct quotations)

Include a direct quotation within the body of the text if it consists of 40 words or fewer, using quotation marks to indicate its beginning and end.

… "To claim that illness is a foreign body to be expelled, an enemy presence that must be eliminated, an accretion of some evil thing that must be extracted, is to deliberately refuse the possibility that it may originate from within oneself" (Laplantine, 1999, p. 113).

If the excerpt exceeds 40 words of the original manuscript, format it as a block quotation in a separate paragraph. Introduce it while preserving the original formatting of the text as closely as possible. Do not use quotation marks at the beginning or end of the quotation.

The e-competent management team does not regard technological tools as an object of instruction in themselves, but rather as an educational, communicative, and administrative tool (…), and shows strong pedagogical leadership, which is a key factor in creating the ideal conditions to encourage teachers to use ICT. The exercise of this leadership does not necessarily imply possessing all the knowledge and digital competencies needed to carry out teaching practice through ICT. However, it does reflect a firm commitment to the need for such educational practices to be developed within the organization. (Valverde and Sosa, 2015, p. 48)

If you omit parts of the original text, indicate this by inserting three dots in brackets in the place of the omission.

● Language and Style

Foreign words and phrases not commonly used in English should appear in italics on first use. Names of people, ethnic groups, and nationalities are always capitalized (e.g., the Quechua, the Yoruba, the French). Authors are encouraged to use the terminology preferred by the communities discussed and to avoid outdated or contested ethnonyms; where such terms appear in historical sources or direct quotations, this should be noted for the reader.

● In-text Citations and References

Tech Science Press (TSP) recommends editors and authors to utilize professional reference management tools such as EndNote for academic writing and literature formatting. EndNote is a reference management software from Clarivate Analytics. It is designed to manage bibliographies and references and available for Windows and MacOS. For authors, EndNote offers a convenient and efficient way to format their references according to a particular journal's guidelines. For journals and publishers, EndNote can save editorial time, and also shortens production time potentially.

In-text Citation Format

All in-text citations follow the author-date format (APA 7th edition).

Basic format

Cite the author's surname and year of publication, e.g., (García, 2019) or García (2019) argued that... For direct quotations, include the page number: (García, 2019, p. 23). This format applies uniformly across source types, including journal articles, books, and websites.

Author identification

· Multiple authors: For works with three or more authors, cite only the first author's surname followed by "et al." (e.g., García et al., 2020).

· No individual or organizational author: Use a shortened form of the title in place of the author, in quotation marks for articles/webpages or italicized for standalone works (e.g., "Ethnographic Methods," 2020).

· No date available: Use "n.d." in place of the year (e.g., Smith, n.d.).

· Group or organizational authors: Spell out the full name at first citation, introducing the abbreviation in brackets, e.g., (World Health Organization [WHO], 2022). Subsequent citations may use the abbreviation alone, e.g., (WHO, 2022).

Multiple works

· Same author, same year: Distinguish with lowercase letters after the year, assigned in alphabetical order by title (e.g., 2020a, 2020b).

· Several works in one citation: List alphabetically by author within the same parentheses, separated by semicolons, e.g., (García, 2019; Nakamura, 2021; Smith, 2018).

Indirect (secondhand) citation

Avoid using "cited in" when referring to citations found within another work. Instead, use the work as it appears in the bibliographic references of that other work, and place the author's name outside the parentheses:

Use:

As Johnson states (as cited in Gordon, 1992, p. 18)

And not:

(Johnson, cited in Gordon, 1992)

It is important to add the page number so that, in this example, what Johnson says can be located.

Citations of primary sources

Given the enormous variety of recording styles, transcription formats, and ways of preparing materials (particularly in light of the difficulties involved in transforming records from one modality into another, such as presenting oral discourse in textual form), the journal will not specify a particular format that such materials must take. However, two recommendations are made:

a) That the criteria used in the treatment and preparation of materials (usually linked to underlying theoretical-methodological approaches) be made explicit, and that the relevant references be included.

b) That an effort be made to systematize the presentation of materials throughout the text. It may be useful to follow the practice adopted by some researchers who number their field notebooks (as well as their transcription sheets, tapes, and film reels…) according to a specified criterion (whether chronological or otherwise), and who include this numbering, in addition to all other information, within the citation itself.

● Abbreviations

p. / pp. = page(s)

para. = paragraph (used for sources without page numbers)

n.d. = no date

Ed. / Eds. = Editor(s)

Trans. = Translator

et al. = "and others," used for in-text citations with three or more authors

cf. = compare with

Back Matter

● Declarations

Please note that the 6 pieces of information (Acknowledgement, Funding Statement, Author Contributions, Availability of Data and Materials, Ethics Approval, Conflicts of Interest) need to be truthfully provided at the end of the article.

Acknowledgement

This section is intended for acknowledging any support not covered under the Author Contributions or Funding Statement sections. This may include administrative and technical assistance, as well as in-kind contributions such as materials or equipment provided for the research. Please be aware that the specific funding grant number should only appear in the Funding Statement.

Please do not include acknowledgments in the version submitted for review, in order to preserve the anonymity required for the evaluation process. Only if the text is subsequently accepted will you be given the opportunity to include acknowledgments, should you wish to do so. In that case, place them before the beginning of the main text. Do not include them as a footnote, but rather in the following format:

None of this would have been possible without the goodwill, patience, and invaluable help of our good friends and colleagues at UAM and UNED in Madrid, as well as our acquaintances — and increasingly less distant colleagues — in Barcelona, Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, and Denmark.

If there are no acknowledgments to be made, please use “Not applicable”.

Funding Statement

Authors should describe sources of funding that have supported the work, including specific grant numbers, initials of authors who received the grant, and the URLs to sponsors’ websites: “This research was funded by Name of Funder, grant number xxx” or “The APC was funded by xxx”. If there is no funding support, please write “The author(s) received no specific funding for this study”.

Author Contributions

The Author Contributions statement is mandatory for research articles, except for papers with a single author. It should represent all the authors and is to be included upon submission. All listed authors must have substantially contributed to the manuscript and have approved the final submitted version, which should include a description of each author’s specific work and contribution. We suggest the following format for the contribution statement:

“The authors confirm contribution to the paper as follows: Conceptualization, First-name Lastname1 and First-name Lastname2; methodology, First-name Lastname1; software, First-name Lastname1; validation, First-name Lastname1, First-name Lastname2 and First-name Lastname3; formal analysis, First-name Lastname1; investigation, First-name Lastname1; resources, First-name Lastname1; data curation, First-name Lastname1; writing—original draft preparation, First-name Lastname1; writing—review and editing, First-name Lastname1; visualization, First-name Lastname1; supervision, First-name Lastname1; project administration, First-name Lastname1; funding acquisition, First-name Lastname1. All authors reviewed the results and approved the final version of the manuscript”.

Please turn to the CRediT role descriptors—CRediT for the term explanation.

For more information, please see “Authorship and Contribution” under “Editorial Policies”.

Availability of Data and Materials

This statement should inform readers where the data supporting the findings can be accessed, or explain why access is restricted. Please select the most appropriate category from the list below and adapt the suggested wording.

1. Data Available in a Public Repository

Use when data are fully open and archived in a recognized repository.

Statement Template:

“The data supporting the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [DOI/URL].”

2. Data Available within the Article or Supplementary Material

Use when all data are included directly within the manuscript or its supplementary files.

Statement Template:

“All data supporting the results of this study are included within the article and/or its Supplementary Materials.”

3. Data Available upon Reasonable Request

Use when data can be shared with researchers on request.

Statement Template:

“The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.”

4. Data Not Available Due to Ethical, Legal, or Privacy Restrictions

Use when data cannot be shared due to participant confidentiality, legal agreements, proprietary issues, or other restrictions.

Statement Template:

“Restrictions apply to the availability of these data due to [ethical/legal/privacy/commercial] reasons. Data may be available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.”

5. Data Not Available Due to Third-Party Restrictions

Use when the study is based on datasets obtained from an external source.

Statement Template:

“The data supporting this study were obtained from [third party name]. Access to these data requires permission from [third party name].”

6. Data Not Currently Accessible (Restricted Availability)

For datasets that exist but cannot be shared at the time of publication because of ongoing research, incomplete processing, technical limitations, or planned future release.

Statement Template:

“The datasets supporting this article are not currently available due to ongoing analyses. Requests for access may be directed to the corresponding author.”

7. Data Under Embargo

Use when data will become available after a specified period (e.g., commercialization, pending patent).

Statement Template:

“The data supporting the findings of this study will be made available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI] after an embargo period ending on [date].”

8. Data Sharing Not Applicable (No New Data Generated)

Used for studies that produce no original dataset. This applies to theoretical papers, conceptual analyses, or reviews based solely on existing literature.

Statement Template:

“No new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable.”

9. Data Derived from Public Domain Resources

Use when the analysis is based on pre-existing publicly available datasets.

Statement Template:

“This study used publicly available data from [repository/resource] at [URL/DOI]. The dataset is accessible via reference number [number].”

Ethics Approval

A standard ethical approval statement usually includes:

1. Whether or not the study included human or animal subjects. In all cases, the ethical approval status of the work should be stated in the ethical approval statement.

2. The committee that approved the study.

3. The compliance documents. What policies, declarations, acts, etc.

4. Persistent identifier: reference or approval number. Include the registration ID/reference number if applicable.

5. “Not applicable.” for studies not involving humans or animals.

Conflicts of Interest

A conflict of interest (COI), also referred to as a competing interest, may arise when personal, professional, academic, financial, or other interests could influence, or reasonably be perceived to influence, the conduct or reporting of research, peer review, or editorial decision-making.

Authors, reviewers, editors, editorial board members, Guest Editors, and journal staff should disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest relevant to the publication process. The existence of a COI does not necessarily preclude submission, review, or publication, provided that it is fully disclosed and appropriately managed.

Potential COIs include, but are not limited to, employment, consultancies, stock or share ownership, honoraria, patents or patent applications, research funding, royalties, institutional affiliations, personal or academic relationships, recent collaborations, and editorial roles.

Relationships that ended more than two years before submission generally need not be declared unless they could reasonably still be perceived as influencing the work or publication process.

Authors

All authors should disclose any COIs that could reasonably be perceived as influencing their work or judgment. Relevant sources of funding and the role of the funder, where applicable, must also be disclosed.

Where a COI exists, it should be stated clearly in the manuscript. For example:

Conflicts of Interest: Author A has received research funding from Company A. Author B has received honoraria from Company X and holds shares in Company Y. Author C has served as a consultant for Company Z.

If no COIs exist, the authors should state:

Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Editors, Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, and Journal Staff as Authors

An editorial role does not preclude an individual from submitting work to the journal. However, editors, editorial board members, Guest Editors, and journal staff must not be involved in the peer review or editorial handling of manuscripts they have authored or co-authored.

Such manuscripts must be handled independently by another suitably qualified editor who has no relevant COIs with the authors or the manuscript. The editor-author must not participate in reviewer selection, editorial assessment, discussion, or decision-making, and must not have access to reviewer identities, reports, recommendations, or other confidential information relating to the peer-review process beyond that normally provided to authors.

A specific COI statement is required when:

1. an Editor-in-Chief, editor, or other editorial board member submits a manuscript to the journal; or

2. a Guest Editor submits a manuscript to a Special Issue for which they have editorial responsibility.

The published article must disclose the author’s editorial role and confirm that the peer-review and editorial process was handled independently.

The following statement may be adapted as appropriate:

Conflicts of Interest: Given their role as [AUTHOR JOURNAL ROLE TITLE] of this journal, [AUTHOR NAME] had no involvement in the peer review or editorial handling of this article and had no access to information concerning its peer review. Full responsibility for the editorial process was delegated to another independent journal editor. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest.

Where more than one author holds a relevant editorial role, all such authors and their respective roles must be disclosed. Any additional financial, professional, academic, personal, or other COIs must also be declared.

Reviewers

Reviewers must disclose any COIs that could affect, or reasonably be perceived to affect, the objectivity of their review. Reviewers should decline the invitation or inform the handling editor if a relevant conflict exists.

The handling editor will determine whether the reviewer may continue. Where impartiality could reasonably be questioned, an alternative reviewer will be appointed.

Editors

Editors must conduct editorial assessment and decision-making independently and impartially. They must disclose any COIs relating to the authors, reviewers, manuscript, institutions, funding sources, or other relevant parties.

An editor must recuse themselves from handling a manuscript where a COI could compromise, or reasonably be perceived to compromise, their impartiality. The manuscript must then be reassigned to another suitably qualified editor with no relevant COIs, who will independently oversee the peer-review process and editorial decision.

Where there is uncertainty as to whether an interest should be disclosed, disclosure is encouraged so that the journal can determine whether appropriate safeguards are required.

● Supplementary Materials

In addition to the data, computer code, and research materials transparency guidelines, TSP encourages authors to provide supplementary materials that complement their main articles and enhance the readers' understanding of the research. Supplementary materials may include additional data, figures, tables, multimedia content, or relevant information.

1. Supplementary Materials Submission: Authors should submit supplementary materials along with their main article during the manuscript submission process. These materials should be in a separate section and clearly labeled as "Supplementary Materials.".

2. Content Relevance: All supplementary materials should be directly relevant to the main research article and provide valuable additional insights or data that support or expand upon the article's findings. Supplementary materials should not duplicate information already presented in the main text.

3. File Formats: Supplementary materials can be submitted in various formats, such as Word, PDF, Excel, CSV, images (JPEG or PNG), audio (MP3), video (MP4), or any other appropriate format for the content type.

4. Supplementary Data: Authors can provide raw data or additional data that support the article's findings but are not included in the main text due to space constraints. Data should be well-organized, properly labeled, and accompanied by clear explanations of the data's context and significance.

5. Supplementary Figures and Tables: Authors may include supplementary figures or tables to complement the main article, which should be clear, readable (with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi), and accompanied by accurate legends. These materials must be referenced in the main text using the prefix "S" (e.g., Fig. S1, Eq. (S2), Table S1) and should be submitted without tracked changes, highlights, comments, or line numbers.

● Appendices

The appendix is an optional section that can contain details and data supplemental to the main text. Authors that need to include an Appendix section should place it before the References section. Multiple appendices should all have headings in the style used for above. They should be ordered as such: A, B, and C, etc.

Appendix sections must be referenced in the main text. Within the appendices, figures, tables, and other elements should be labeled starting with “A”—e.g., Figure A1, Figure A2, etc.

● Reference List

References are listed alphabetically by author surname. General formatting rules apply across all source types unless otherwise noted below.

General Rules

· Author names are listed as surname followed by initials (e.g., García, M.).

· Up to 20 authors are listed in full, separated by commas, with an ampersand (&) before the final author. For works with 21 or more authors, list the first 19, insert an ellipsis (…), then the final author's name (no ampersand).

· The year of publication follows in parentheses.

· Titles of standalone works (books, reports) are italicized in sentence case (only the first word of the title and subtitle, and proper nouns, are capitalized).

Journal articles
García, M. (2019). Title of the article in sentence case. Journal Title in Title Case, Volume(Issue), page range.

· Journal titles are italicized and in title case.

· The volume number is italicized; the issue number (if applicable) follows in parentheses, not italicized.

· If the article has a DOI, include it at the end as a full URL (https://doi.org/...).

Books
García, M. (2019). Title of the book in sentence case. Publisher.

Edited volumes and book chapters
Nakamura, T. (2021). Title of the chapter in sentence case. In M. García & S. Smith (Eds.), Title of the edited volume in sentence case (pp. 23–45). Publisher.

· Editors are identified with "(Ed.)" or "(Eds.)" following their name(s).

· Chapter titles are in sentence case and not italicized; the volume title is italicized.

Websites and online sources
World Health Organization. (2022). Title of the page in sentence case. Site Name (if different from author). URL

· If no individual or organizational author is identified, begin the entry with the title in place of the author.

· If no date is available, use (n.d.).

· Include the full URL. A retrieval date is only needed if the content is likely to change over time (e.g., a continuously updated webpage).

Archival and unpublished sources (including oral history recordings, unpublished interviews, and archival documents such as mission or colonial records)
Cite with as much identifying detail as available, in this order: creator or interviewee name, date (or n.d.), a descriptive title or brief description of the item in square brackets, the type of material, and the name and location of the repository or archive.
Example: Mission Society of X. (1932). Correspondence regarding parish records [Letter]. Diocesan Archive, City, Country.

· If the same archive is cited repeatedly, a clearly defined abbreviation may be introduced at first mention and used thereafter.

Chemical Compounds

Chemical and Chemical Nomenclature and Abbreviations
Authors should provide the exact structure of the chemical compound, and if there are appeared as new chemical compounds, authors should submit the small-molecule crystallographic data to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and deposit relevant information to PubChem. The final version of the manuscript should contain the accession codes. When possible, authors should use systematic nomenclature to identify chemical compounds, and biomolecules using IUPAC is preferred. Standard chemical and chemical abbreviations should be used.

Combinatorial Compound Libraries

The authors should include standard characterization data for a diverse panel of library components when describing the preparation of combinatorial libraries in the manuscript.

Chemical Structures for Organic and Organometallic Compounds

Chemical structures for organic and organometallic compounds should be established through spectroscopic analysis. The authors should provide standard peak listings for both 1H NMR and proton-decoupled 13C NMR for all new compounds. Other NMR data, when appropriate, such as 31P NMR, 19F NMR, etc. should be reported. For the identification of functional groups, both UV and IR spectral data should be reported when appropriate. For crystalline materials, melting-point ranges should be included. For the analysis of chiral compounds, specific rotations should be reported. For known compounds, authors should provide detailed references.

Spectral Data

Detailed spectral data for new compounds should be provided in the Materials and methods section. The authors should explain how specific, unambiguous NMR assignments were made in the Materials and methods section.

Crystallographic Data for Small Molecules

For crystallographic data for small molecules, authors should provide a standard crystallographic information file (CIF) and a structural figure with probability ellipsoids. The authors should check the CIF using the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) checkCIF. For the structure, the structure factors must be included either in the main CIF or in a separate CIF. Crystallographic data for small molecules should be submitted to the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), and the accession number must be referenced in the manuscript.

Biomolecular Materials

Manuscripts reporting new biomolecular structures should contain a table summarizing structural and refinement statistics. If suitable, high-field NMR or X-ray crystallography may also be used. For new biopolymeric materials (e.g., oligosaccharides, peptides, nucleic acids, etc.), if it is not possible for structural analysis by NMR spectroscopic methods. Authors must provide evidence of the identity based on sequence (when appropriate) and mass spectral characterization.

Biological Constructs

Authors should provide sequencing or functional data that validates the identity of their biological constructs (plasmids, fusion proteins, site-directed mutants) upon request.

Polymers

For new materials, as well as 1H NMR and 13C NMR, the mass spectral analysis should be used to support the identification of molecular weight. Ideally, high-resolution mass spectral (HRMS) data are preferred.

Nanomaterials

The authors must provide a detailed characterization of both individual objects and bulk composition.

Research Data and Supplementary Materials

In addition to the data, computer code, and research materials transparency guidelines, TSP encourages authors to provide supplementary materials that complement their main articles and enhance the readers' understanding of the research. These supplementary materials may include additional data, figures, tables, multimedia content, or relevant information.

5. Supplementary Figures and Tables: Authors may include extra figures or tables that complement those in the main article. These should be numbered separately (e.g., Supplementary Figure S1, Supplementary Table S1) and referred to in the main text.

Data Sharing and Deposition

At Tech Science Press, we value open scientific exchange and believe in promoting transparency and reproducibility in research. To ensure consistency across TSP journals, authors are required to include a Data Availability Statement in all submissions. For examples of acceptable statements, please refer to the templates provided in the Availability of Data and Materials section above.

1. Data sharing may be inappropriate when ethical, legal, or privacy considerations arise. In such cases, authors must clearly outline any limitations in the Data Availability Statement during manuscript submission. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that any shared data adhere to the consent obtained from participants regarding the use of confidential information.

2. Data Repositories

Authors are strongly encouraged to deposit their research data in reputable and discipline-specific data repositories. Preferred data repositories should be recognized and indexed by organizations like DataCite, re3data, or other relevant repositories in their respective fields.

3. Data Citation

Research data should be cited in the main article to give proper credit and acknowledge the efforts of data creators. Authors must properly reference the deposited data in their reference list, including the dataset's persistent identifier (DOI, accession number, etc.).

Analytic Methods (Code) Transparency

For work where novel computer code was developed, authors should release it either by depositing it in a recognized, public repository such as GitHub or uploading it as supplementary information to the publication. The name, version, corporation and location information for all software used should be clearly indicated. Please include all the parameters used to run software/program analyses.

1. Code Availability

Authors are strongly encouraged to share the computer code and software used to generate results presented in their articles. The availability of code enhances research reproducibility and allows other researchers to build upon the work.

2. Code Repositories

Authors should deposit their code and software in well-established and reputable code repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or other relevant platforms. Providing a link to the code repository should be included in the Data Availability Statement.

3. Code Documentation

Authors must ensure that the deposited code is well-documented, readable, and easy to understand. Sufficient comments and explanations should be provided within the code to facilitate its usage by others.

4. Citation

Authors must provide a citation for the code in the article's reference list. Include the code's persistent identifier (e.g., DOI or URL) to facilitate proper acknowledgment and citation by other researchers.

Data Deposition and Suggested Repositories

Prior to manuscript submission, please choose the appropriate repository, below are recommended data repositories for your research:

Dataverse, Dryad, figshare, GigaScience, Mendeley Data, Zenodo

You may also visit DataCite, re3data to identify registered data repositories for your data sharing.

For journals with health research subjects, the deposition of sequence information to the community-endorsed, public repository is necessary. Accession numbers and other relevant, unique identifiers provided by the database should be included in the submitted manuscript.

DNA and RNA Sequences: GenBank, European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), DDBJ, Protein DataBank, UniProt

DNA Sequencing Data: Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), ArrayExpress, NCBI Sequence Read Archive, ENA Sequence Versions Archive

New microarray: Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), ArrayExpress

Genetic polymorphisms: dbSNP, dbVar

Linked genotype and phenotype data: dbGaP, European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)

Protein sequences: UniProt

Flow cytometry: FlowRepository

Chemical Compound Screening and Assay Data: PubChem

Suggesting Reviewers

Authors are welcome and encouraged to suggest reviewers when they submit their manuscripts by using the submission system. Authors should make sure they are totally independent and without conflicts of interest in any way. When suggesting reviewers, the Corresponding Author must provide an institutional email address for each suggested reviewer.

English Editing Service

Clear and concise language enables both the journal editors and reviewers to concentrate on the scientific content of your manuscript. In order to facilitate a proper peer-review process and ensure that submissions are judged exclusively on academic merit, the journal strongly encourages authors to prepare the language of their manuscripts with the utmost care. The use of the recommended language polishing service on your manuscript does not indicate the acceptance of your manuscript for publication in the journal.

If you are an author whose native language is not English—or you have any concerns regarding the language quality of your manuscript—we recommend having your manuscript professionally edited by a qualified English-speaking researcher in your field prior to submission.

Tech Science Press offers paid language editing services, or you may choose to use an alternative service that provides a confirmation certificate.

Double-Blind Peer Review

AIBR employs a double-blind peer-review process, in which the identities of both authors and reviewers remain confidential throughout the evaluation. To ensure the integrity of this process, authors are required to submit two versions of their manuscript:

(1) The full author version, which includes the author's (or authors') full name(s), institutional affiliation(s), contact information, and any acknowledgments. This version is used for internal editorial records and, upon acceptance, for publication.

(2) The blinded version, prepared for external review, from which all identifying information must be removed. This includes, but is not limited to:

· Author names and affiliations in the title page, headers, footers, and file properties (document metadata)

· Self-referential citations that reveal authorship (e.g., "as I have argued elsewhere" should be rephrased as "as has been argued elsewhere [Author, Year]," or otherwise anonymized in a manner that preserves the integrity of the citation)

· Acknowledgments, funding sources, or references to specific fieldwork sites or institutional affiliations that could identify the author(s)

· Any personal information embedded in the document's metadata (file properties, comments, or track-changes history)

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the blinded version does not inadvertently disclose their identity. Manuscripts that fail to comply with these anonymization requirements may be returned to the author(s) for revision prior to being sent for review.

The blinded version will be the one distributed to external reviewers, who will likewise remain anonymous to the author(s) throughout the review process. Reviewer comments and evaluations are treated as confidential and will only be shared with the author(s) in a manner that preserves the reviewer's anonymity, unless the reviewer explicitly consents to disclosure of their identity.

Authorship and Contribution

Authorship

Tech Science Press follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines regarding authorship and contributions. Authorship should be based on the following 4 criteria:

1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND

2. Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND

3. Final approval of the version to be published; AND

4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged in the acknowledgement section.

The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer review, and publication process. The corresponding author typically ensures that all the journal’s administrative requirements, such as providing details of authorship, ethics committee approval, clinical trial registration documentation, and disclosures of relationships and activities are properly completed and reported, although these duties may be delegated to one or more co-authors. The corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer-review process to respond to editorial queries in a timely way, and should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the paper arise after publication.

When the work has to be conducted by a large multi-author group, it is advised that the list of authors be decided before the work starts and confirmed before the manuscript submission. All members of that group listed as authors should have met all the above four criteria for authorship with final approval of the manuscript, and should be able to take public responsibility for the work with full confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the work of all group authors. As such, they will be required as individuals to complete conflict-of-interest disclosure forms.

Submissions by any individual other than one of the listed authors will strictly not be considered. All authors will take responsibility for the content of the manuscript they submitted, and ensure they are familiar with the other authors' individual contributions.

Non-author Contributor

Contributors who meet fewer than all 4 of the above criteria for authorship should not be listed as authors, but they should be acknowledged. Examples of activities that alone (without other contributions) do not qualify a contributor for authorship are acquisition of funding; general supervision of a research group or general administrative support; and writing assistance, technical editing, language editing, and proofreading. Those whose contributions do not justify authorship may be acknowledged individually or together as a group under a single heading (e.g. "Clinical Investigators" or "Participating Investigators"), and their contributions should be specified (e.g., "served as scientific advisors," "critically reviewed the study proposal," "collected data," "provided and cared for study patients," "participated in writing or technical editing of the manuscript").

Alteration to Authorship

Requests made for an authorship change after submission must be made to the editorial office with an explanation for the change, include the signature of all authors, and be submitted by the corresponding author.

TSP places significant importance on maintaining the integrity and transparency of authorship contributions, and TSP journals do not accept any requests to change the first author or corresponding author during any stage of manuscript processing. Any insistence on altering the first author or corresponding author will result in the rejection of the manuscript without further review or consideration.

Please note that if you have changed affiliation during the course of the research, your new affiliation could be acknowledged in a note. TSP does not normally take requests for changes to affiliations after the acceptance of manuscripts.

Authorship issues found after publication may result in a correction. If and when the authors are unable to resolve among themselves an authorship-related dispute, TSP may raise the issue with the authors’ institution(s) and abide by its/their guidelines.

Please turn to the CRediT role descriptors—CRediT for the term explanation.

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies (collectively, “AI tools”) are increasingly used in research and scholarly publishing. While these technologies may provide useful support, they must be used responsibly and transparently, in accordance with the principles of research integrity, confidentiality, intellectual property, and data protection.

For complete requirements, please refer to the Tech Science Press Generative Artificial Intelligence Policy for Journals.

Use of AI Tools by Authors

Authors may use AI tools to support manuscript preparation or research. Such tools must not replace the authors’ own expertise, critical analysis, interpretation, or judgement. Authors must maintain meaningful human oversight and remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and compliance of the submitted and published work. All AI-assisted content, including citations and references, must be carefully reviewed and verified.

Disclosure and Authorship

Any material use of AI tools must be disclosed in the manuscript at the time of submission. The disclosure should identify the tool used, explain its purpose, and describe the authors’ review and oversight.

AI-assisted changes that substantially affect the wording, sentence structure, organization, or other content of the manuscript must be disclosed in the Acknowledgement section. Routine spelling, grammar, or punctuation checks and specialist assistive technologies used solely for accessibility purposes do not require disclosure.

Suggested acknowledgement statement:

Acknowledgement: During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [NAME OF TOOL/SERVICE] for [PURPOSE]. The author(s) subsequently reviewed and revised the relevant content and accept(s) full responsibility for the article.

Use of AI Tools in Research

When an AI tool forms part of the research design or methods—including data collection, image acquisition or interpretation, data analysis, or predictive modelling—its use must be described in sufficient detail in the Methods section. Authors should identify the tool or model, its version, and its provider or developer, as applicable, and explain how it was used.

Authors remain responsible for verifying the validity, accuracy, and reliability of all AI-assisted methods and outputs. AI tools must not be used to fabricate, manipulate, or misrepresent research data or findings.

Figures, Images, and Artwork

AI tools may assist in preparing explanatory images, such as flow charts, decision trees, timelines, conceptual schematics, and experimental workflow diagrams. Each affected image caption should identify the tool and version, and the use should also be disclosed in the Acknowledgement section.

AI-assisted data visualizations are permitted only when generated directly from the underlying data through reproducible analytical, computational, or statistical procedures. These procedures should be described in the Methods section.

AI tools must not be used to invent or alter data, fabricate findings, generate observations not obtained through the research, or alter the content of primary research images, including microscopy, histology, western blots, radiological scans, and patient images.

General-purpose generative image tools may not be used to create graphical abstracts. AI-generated or AI-assisted journal cover artwork may be considered only with advance approval from the journal editor and TSP.

Responsible Use

Authors should protect unpublished manuscripts, confidential information, personal data, intellectual property, and third-party rights when using AI tools. Before using a tool, authors should review its terms of use and privacy practices, including how submitted content is collected, retained, reused, or shared and whether the provider claims any rights over submitted material or generated output.

Editors and Journal Staff as Authors

In the circumstances where Editors or editorial staff of the journal submit their own studies to the journal, they shall not be involved in the reviewing process, and the review process must be made transparently and rigorously. Submissions authored by editors or editorial staff of the journal will be handled by another editor who has least COIs with the authors to minimize the bias.

Copyright and Licensing

AIBR – Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana is an open-access journal, providing immediate free access to its content under the principle of making research freely available to the public, thus fostering greater global knowledge exchange.

The journal follows TSP’s Copyright and Licensing Policy, which applies to all articles unless stated otherwise.

For articles submitted by non-members of Association AIBR, the Version of Record is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Authors (or their employer) retain copyright and grant TSP a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive license to publish and identify itself as the original publisher.

In accordance with the BOAI definition of open access, users are authorized to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or author. Reuse of the work is permitted under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license; the informative summary and full legal text of the license are available here.

The above is compatible with the possibility of taking appropriate measures to protect, prior to scientific publication, the rights to the results of research, development, and innovation activities, in accordance with national and European regulations on intellectual and industrial property, plant varieties, and trade secrets.

For full details on author rights, self-archiving, embargo periods, copyright ownership categories, third-party material, and supplemental data, please refer to TSP’s Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Repository Policy

Tech Science Press allows authors the use of the published version, accepted version and submitted version of an article for self-archiving and/or archiving in an institutional repository (on a non-profit server) without embargo time. The published source must be acknowledged. For articles, a link to the journal home page or articles' DOI must be set.

Corrections & Retractions

TSP journals will issue corrections, and/or retraction statements, when deemed proper.

Corrections

CMES aims to publish every article online in its final form. Upon receiving the proofs of their accepted manuscripts, authors will have an opportunity to check for errors and oversights. Occasionally, a mistake is pointed out in a published article, necessitating the issuance of a correction statement. A correction is a statement rectifying an error or an omission, Authors or readers may submit such a statement either through the journal’s online manuscript submission system (https://www.techscience.com/cmes), or by sending an email, along with the submission ID, to the CMES’s editorial office (cmes@techscience.com). A correction notice, published and linked to the corresponding article, is freely accessible to all readers.

When making corrections to the original articles, the original article both in PDF and XML versions are corrected and bi-directionally linked to and from the published amendment notice that details the original error. Any changes made to the original articles affect data in figures, tables or text, the amendment notice will reproduce the original data. If it is not possible to correct the original article in both PDF and XML versions, the article will remain unchanged but will contain links that direct to and from the published correction notice.

Author’s Correction: An Author’s Correction may be published to correct an important error(s) made by the author that affects the scientific integrity of the published article, the publication record, or the reputation of the authors or the journal. The Managing Editor of that manuscript will be responsible for handling the correction process.
Publisher’s Correction: A Publisher’s Correction may be published to correct an important error(s) made by the journal that affects the scientific integrity of the published article, the publication record, or the reputation of the authors or of the journal.

Retractions

A retraction is a notice that a previously published paper should no longer be regarded as part of the published literature. The primary purpose of a retraction is to ensure the integrity and completeness of scholarly records by withdrawing any manuscript which is found to contain infringements of professional ethical codes, major errors, or where its main conclusion is seriously undermined as a result of new evidence coming to light.

Violations of professional ethical codes include multiple submissions without proper citations or permission, redundant publications, fake claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, etc. Major errors cover any or all miscalculations or experimental errors, intentionally or due to honest mistakes.

The retraction will be referred to the Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and the Managing Editor who have handled the paper. Retracted articles will not be removed from the printed copies of the journal (e.g., from libraries) nor from the electronic archives. Their retracted status will be indicated as clearly as possible. Bibliographic information about the article will be retained to ensure the permanence and integrity of the published scientific record. When an article is retracted, in most of the cases, the original manuscript is corrected and is bi-directionally linked (to and from) the published retraction notice which details the original error. For the purpose of transparency, when corrections made to the original article affect any data, figures, tables or texts, the retraction notice will display the original data alongside the corrected version. When a correction is not possible, all existing versions of the article will remain unchanged but will contain the bi-directional links, to and from, the published retraction notice.

The notice of retraction is permanently linked to its corresponding retracted article and is freely available and accessible by all readers.
Articles may be retracted by their Author(s), by the Journal Editors, or by the Publisher, i.e., Tech Science Press. In all instances, the retraction should indicate the reason for the action as well as the entity behind the decision. A retraction made without the unanimous agreement of the authors is feasible and indicated as such.

Article Withdrawal

Article Withdrawal is only used for articles in press, which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, an articles may contain infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, and fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles that include errors or are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published article(s), or are determined to violate our publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors (such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), may be “Withdrawn” by the article author or the journal editor.

Removal of Published Content

Under special circumstances, TSP reserves the right to remove an article, book or other content from TSP’s website and submission system. Such action may be taken when:

There are evidence indicating that the published content is defamatory, infringes on intellectual property rights, privacy rights, other legal rights, or is plainly unlawful;
A court or government order requires removal of such content;
The content, if acted upon, would pose an immediate and serious risks to health. Removal may be temporary or permanent. A statement will be published explaining the decision behind the removal.

Addressing Post-publication Issues

TSP is fully committed to maintaining the integrity and completeness of the scientific record and recognizes its importance to researchers and the academic community at large. As such, TSP will thoroughly investigate concerns that are directly raised with us by authors and/or readers. Authors are strongly encouraged to address any raised issues. In the course of our investigation, we may request original raw data, and consult with experts and other scholars in the field. Depending on the seriousness of the issues, the following outcomes may ensue:

A manuscript still under consideration may be rejected and returned to the author.
A published online article, depending on the nature and severity of the issues, may result in a correction notice or a retraction notice.
Issues deemed to be serious may prompt TSP to inform the authors’ institution and related affiliations.

Our actions are driven by our dedicated aim for transparent notification to our readers and unabated commitment to the integrity of the published record, and not by any motivation to sanction individuals or attribute responsibility to specific named individuals. We may refer readers to the institutional investigations’ reports if they are publicly available. While we are committed to addressing post-publications issues and correcting the record swiftly, investigations typically take some time to reach resolutions given the complexity of the discussions, the diligence in our process and the need to obtain original data and consult with experts. We will issue and regularly update relevant Editor’s Notes and/or Editor’s Expression of Concern as interim notifications to alert our readership of any of concerns with published material.

Appeals and Complaints

TSP’s appeal and complaint procedures pertain to grievances against editorial decisions, discontent with procedural inaccuracies (such as tardiness in manuscript handling), and complaints regarding publishing ethics.

Queries of appeal and complaint must be accompanied by comprehensive justifications, and authors are requested to submit appeals and complaints in writing to TSP Feedback Center at https://ijs.tspsubmission.com/user/feedback. The editorial office will provide a prompt response upon receipt of a formal appeal or complaint, and endeavor to resolve the matter within a reasonable time frame.

Concerns regarding ethical misconducts may also be reported to TSP’s Editorial Integrity Team (https://www.techscience.com/ndetail/contact). The Editorial Integrity team adheres to COPE Guidelines, and subsequently determines a suitable course of action, authorizing editorial offices to furnish the complainant with feedback.

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