How To Publish

Researchers are invited to submit a preprint for publication on this server. All preprints will be moderated to determine if they fit the objectives and scope of this server. Those deemed suitable will be published and the author will be notified.

Before submitting a preprint, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to share any materials included with the preprint, such as photos, documents, and data sets. All authors identified in the preprint must give their consent to be identified as authors. Where applicable, the research must be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the country of the study.

All authors wishing to publish in LatArXiv are requested to take care in preparing their manuscripts according to these guidelines. Submissions to LatArXiv should be current and refereeable. Material that contains offensive language, unscientific content or is plagiarized may be removed. We only accept submissions from authors who are registered on our platform (https://preprints.latarxiv.org/index.php/latarxiv/user/register) and have ORCID (https://orcid.org/register).

When you are sure that your preprint meets these standards, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

• This submission meets the requirements set forth in the Author Guidelines and is in PDF format.
• The abstract and summary have a maximum of 250 words.
• I declare that I am the original author of the manuscript.
• I declare that I am solely responsible for the content of the preprint and that LatArXiv is only responsible for its preservation and dissemination.
• I declare to have the free and informed consent of the participants or patients in the research and, if applicable, to describe it in the manuscript.
• Experiments with animals, humans or plants are adequately reported and receive ethical approval.
• I declare that the preparation of the manuscript followed the ethical standards of scientific communication.
• I declare that I have adequately referenced the data, applications, and other content underlying the manuscript.
• I declare that the manuscript has not been published in a journal.
• If the article is being reviewed in a journal or prepared for publication, the authors declare that they have received authorization from the journal to make this deposit.
• I declare that all authors of the manuscript agree to the submission of the manuscript to LatArXiv.
• The distribution of this work by LatArXiv does not infringe the rights of any person or entity, including but not limited to copyright, patent, trade secret, privacy, or any other rights.
• The manuscript does not contain defamatory, obscene, or other illegal material.
• I agree to comply with all LatArXiv's editorial policies. Failure to comply with them may result in LatArXiv suspending access, deleting documents, or taking any other action it deems necessary.
• I have read and accept the terms of submission and use of the site as well as its privacy policy. 

LatArXiv Scope

 

Type of article

LatArXiv publishes original and refereeable articles, covering the following types: article, review, conference paper, data descriptor, essay, short report, case report, communication, short note, technical note or hypothesis.

Other types of articles may be accepted at the discretion of the editorial team. The following are not published: editorials, discussion papers, and coursework.

Sections

LatArXiv is a PrePrint server open to any author who wishes to make available a scientific article prior to or during peer review. For this reason, LatArXiv has a main section called Open where you can openly publish articles that meet the requirements and standards of the server. To publish in this section, it is essential to adapt the preprint to the format described here with the cover page template included.

Additionally, the server has exclusive sections for member journals or publishers where preprint articles will be published according to presentation and publication standards related to the final environment of the revised article, i.e. the publisher or journal.

Languages

Papers are accepted in the following languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Academic discipline

LatArXiv is a multidisciplinary platform that offers a preprints service, focused on disseminating and making citable early versions of research papers, from all areas, including Natural and Exact Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Social Sciences and Economics, Arts and Humanities, Environmental and Earth Sciences.

Geospatial coverage

LatArXiv is an open platform with the objective of disseminating and achieving early positioning of research conducted in the Latin American context. LatArXiv can also include preprints from a broader context such as Ibero-America and other geographic regions but with the Latin American context as the object of study.

Complementary data and archives

At LatArXiv we encourage open access, rapid dissemination of academic content, along with transparency and integrity, so authors are required to have access to all data associated with their submission, if there are no legal or confidentiality restrictions in doing so.

Updating and versioning

LatArXiv allows authors to update the version of their papers whenever they deem it necessary.

If a preprint is subsequently published in a journal, the journal version will be linked to the abstract page, ensuring that readers have access to the latest version. The author or editor is obliged to report the corresponding update.

Formatting guidelines

Preprint articles for the Open section must be uploaded in PDF format and the LatArXiv template cover page must be attached to the preprint PDF. It should not include institutional logos or visual elements of branding or marketing. 

The first page of the preprint for the Open section should contain the title, list of authors, abstract, keywords, contact information of the corresponding author and affiliations (complete, not in acronyms) of all authors. In addition, a cover page with the main metadata should be added.

Citation styles: Due to its multidisciplinary nature and working with different journals, LatArxiv accepts a variety of citation styles. Consistency in the choice and use of citation styles is evaluated. We recommend  APA 7th edition, MLA, Chicago or, in the case of associated journals, the specific citations used by the journal.

Manuscripts should contain the basic information of a scientific article, such as: title, authors, detailed institutional affiliation, ORCID, abstract, keywords, full text, references and other elements considered necessary.

LatArxiv requires the use of the following template for submissions. The format of the article is free or according to the requirements of the journal, but initially it must have the cover page with its respective metadata in the template of the language of the article. 

The following Templates should be downloaded, filled out, saved and merged with the article. They are editable PDFs that can be easily edited if you open them with Adobe Acrobat. Below we show you how to complete them.

Template in Spanish | Template in English | Template in Portuguese

How to complete the Template?

How to merge the Template with the PDF article?

How to submit an article to LatArXiv PrePrints?

Copyright Notice

Often, files found on publishers' websites or provided as evidence are owned by the publisher and often copyrighted and/or licensed for use by the publisher. Submissions of files with copyright statements that prohibit or impair LatArXiv's redistribution license will be rejected. If explicit permission is granted for open access redistribution, these are permitted. Users should contact our user support team if they have questions.

If you have permission from a publisher to upload content to LatArXiv, as long as you include a special copyright statement with the article, place that statement on the first page of the submission text. Copyright notices should not be included in separate metadata and will be removed.

If you have any additional questions about LatArXiv's licensing and copyright policies, please contact our user support team directly.

• The authors keep the moral and patrimonial rights of their works granting only the non-exclusive distribution right to LatArXiv. Consequently, authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the distribution of the article or text.
• The authors accept the Creative Commons Attribution License as the default distribution license for the entire site. Additionally, they may choose a different license in the submission process for their specific submission. See more in our policies.
• Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for dissemination in cases where the material uploaded to LatArXiv or part of it is subject to third party rights. At the moment of uploading the material, the author is the only responsible for the content he/she makes available and for the explicit or implicit permissions associated.