Submissions

Author Guidelines

Memoria investigaciones en ingeniería is a biannual scientific journal, open access, indexed and peer reviewed, edited by the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Montevideo. It aims to publish a selection of research and innovation work in applied Engineering and Technology for a specialized audience. Issues are published on 1 June and 1 December each year. Publish works in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Commitment to the editor and copyright:

Only original content that is not committed to another publication and whose author(s) are in full possession of publishing rights will be published. The submission of the originals to the editor entails that the author or the authors of the collaborations give to Memoria investigaciones en ingeniería the reproduction rights of the admitted texts. In turn, cases of co-authorship must be expressly stated, as well as cases in which the author received collaborations, suggestions or comments from third parties.

Notice of copyright:

This Journal is published by the Facultad de Ingeniería of the Universidad de Montevideo.

The authors who publish in this journal accept the following terms:

The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of the work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows others to share and adapt the work with an acknowledgment of authorship and an acknowledgment of their initial publication in this journal. Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their work online (in repositories or on their website) after the presentation of this issue of Memoria, as this can generate productive exchanges, as well as a higher citation of the published work (see “The Effect of Open Access”).

Privacy statement:

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by the journal and will not be available for any other purpose or another person.

Arbitration system:

Considering the biannual periodicity of the journal, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal calls for articles. Articles will be received continuously throughout the year. After receipt, the texts will be submitted for evaluation by two or three academic peers, external to the institution. The arbitration system is double blind. Once the peer comments have been received, the Editor-in-Chief assessing them, establishes the priority of the articles to be published and communicates the decision to the authors within a maximum period of 6 weeks. Management decisions can be:

a) accept it without modifications,

b) impose modifications to the article previously sent,

c) reject it.

For those articles classified in category b), the author must send the corrected article and a letter to the editor explaining the changes made in a period of 3 weeks. Subsequently, the Editor-in-Chief will accept or reject the article.

Once the article has been approved for publication, the author must sign and send the Declaration of originality of the document.

Declaration of Originality:

The authors must accept and sign the Declaration of originality and send it to the following email address: memoria@um.edu.uy

Memoria investigaciones en ingeniería

Declaration of originality

Title of work presented: __________________________________________________________________________________

By means of this declaration I certify that I am the author of the work I am presenting for possible publication in Memoria investigaciones en ingeniería (the journal) and that its content is original and the result of my personal intellectual contribution. None of the data presented in this work has been plagiarized, invented, manipulated or distorted. I accept that the identification of plagiarism in the text is a reason for rejection by the journal and that if a plagiarism is detected, the reason will be communicated. All data, figures, tables, photographs and references to previously published materials are duly identified with their respective credits and included in the bibliographic notes and citations, as well as unpublished data obtained through verbal or written communication. I also have the proper authorizations of those who own the copyrights on these materials.

I declare to be aware that the journal adheres to the international standards and codes of ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE, to promote research and its publication. Therefore, I asume that all presented materials are completely free of copyright and, as a result, I am the only responsible for any litigation or claim related to intellectual property rights, exempting the Universidad de Montevideo and the journal.

I declare that this article is unpublished and that I have not submitted it to another serial publication, for its respective evaluation and subsequent publication. In the event that the article ____________________________________________________________________________is approved for publication, as author and owner of the author’s rights, I authorize the Universidad de Montevideo to include this text in the journal with no limits in time, so that it can be reproduced, edited, distributed, displayed and communicated in the country and abroad by print, electronic format, CD-ROM, Internet, in full text or any other means known or unknown. 

I declare to know that the published version of the article will be distributed on the Internet under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License. In the applicable cases, I leave personal evidence that the people who have worked on this article approved its final version and agree to its publication. I also acknowledge all sources of funding used for this work and expressly indicate, if appropriate, the funding agency, and any other commercial, financial or private link with persons or institutions that may have an interest in the proposed work and this is properly stated in the Observations section. 

For proof of the above, I sign this declaration on the _____ days of the month of ________of the year _________, in the city of __________________________.

Name, Signature and ID Document (if there are more than one author, every author needs to sign).

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Observations:______________________________________________________________________________________

Ethical codes and conflicts of interest:

Memoria investigaciones en ingeniería adheres to the international standards and codes of ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE (Guidelines on Good Publication Practice and Code of Conduct). As a summary the works must fulfill:

The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.

Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.

Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.

Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere.

Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.

The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’contributions to the work and its reporting.

Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

The authors acknowledge all sources of funding used in their work and expressly indicate, when appropriate, the funding agency and any other commercial, financial or private link with persons or institutions that may have interests with the proposed work.

See the complete Code of Ethics of the journal

Plagiarism Detection:

The identification of plagiarism in the text is a reason for rejection by Memoria journal. If plagiarism is detected, the author is informed of the reason for the rejection of his contribution, with the evidence of plagiarism clearly stated.

The journal uses Turnitin plagiarism detection and verification of originality service, https://www.turnitin.com/.

Charges for processing articles:

Memoria investigaciones en ingeniería, does not have charges or fees for the processing of articles (Article Processing Charge [APC]) sent by the authors. There is no fee paid for the presentation of the texts to the evaluation process either.

Sending the originals:

The articles must be sent to the Editor Editor via email memoria@um.edu.uy written according to the format of the Model Article, including data and affiliations of the authors.

They can be sent at any date of the year. The edition of the numbers is done in October of each year so it is necessary to send them four months in advance to enter the selection process corresponding to that number. There are no processing costs or for sending articles to the authors.

Each year, the reception of articles is until the second half of May. Those received later will become part of the selection process for the next number.

Guidelines for document structure:

The articles submitted must be unpublished and can be of the following types: scientific and technological research articles, reflection articles and literature review articles.

Authors must send 2 files:

The first file will have the authors' data including:

- Full name.

- Unique ORCID researcher identifier.

- Position and academic institution to which they belong.

- E-mail address.

- Author's contribution to the research.

Each author should mark their contribution according to the following list:
1. Study conception and design
2. Data acquisition
3. Data analysis
4. Discussion of results
5. Drafting of the manuscript
6. Approval of the final version of the manuscript

- One author must be chosen for correspondence.

- State the availability or non-availability of data.

Data availability:
Manuscripts should be submitted with a section called "Data availability", informing whether the dataset is available and, if so, where to access it.
In the event that the author has his/her research data on a server, this should be stated in the article.
The following sentence should be included within the text:
"The dataset supporting the results of this study is available at...".
Otherwise, you should include a sentence within the article stating the following:
"The dataset supporting the results of this study is not available."

In addition, the dataset should be cited.

The second file will contain the text of the article without the names of the authors in order to maintain anonymity.

The text should include:

1) Title of the paper in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

2) All articles must contain an abstract in Spanish, English and Portuguese of between 100-200 words, summarising the most important elements dealt with in the article. It should allow the reader to know the objective of the article.

3) Then, the articles should include between 3-5 keywords also in the languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.

4) The structure of the articles must include at least an introduction and conclusions.

5) The sections and subtitles will be in Arabic numeral as follows: 1. Introduction, 1.1. Subtitle; 1.1.1. Second level subtitle and so on

6) Although there is no express limitation on the length of the article, it is recommended that it does not exceed 5000 words (10 pages, Times New Roman, Source 10, Single Line spacing).

7) The initials in the text must be accompanied, on the first occasion they are cited, with their full meaning. Example: The first time that self-compacting concrete (HAC) is cited, the acronym to be used in the rest of the article must be included in curved brackets

8) Remember that the photos that are necessary to include in the article will be printed in black and white. You are inserted in the body of the article.

9) The figures must be numbered in Roman numeration (I, II, III, IV, ...) and the title must go to the bottom of the figure beginning with Figure ...

10) The tables must also be inserted in the body of the article, numbered in Roman numeration (I, II, III, IV, ...) and the title must go to the bottom of the table starting with Table ...

11) Full bibliographic references should only be included at the end of the article and only those that are cited in the text.

12) The style for bibliographic references will be for all "Numbered" articles following the IEEE citation model. This means that in the text, a number (in straight parentheses) appears for each cited bibliographic reference. The list of references must appear at the end of the article in order of appearance (that is, respecting the numbers previously placed).

13) Bibliographic references of books cited in the article must present the following structure: Author, Title (in italics). City: Editorial, Year. For example:

[Citation number] J. M. Gere y S. P. Timoshenko, Mecánica de materiales. México: International Thomson editores, 1997.

14) The bibliographical references of journals cited in the article must present the following structure: Author, “Title,” (in quotes) Title of the Magazine (in italics), vol., No., Pp. - ?, Abbreviated month. Year. For example:

[Citation number] G. Alcuri, “Los elastómeros en la construcción: aplicaciones y valorización medioambiental,” Memoria Investigaciones en Ingeniería, no. 16, pp. 1-19. 2018.

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