Authorship policy (copyright, contributions, and funding)

The authors retain the copyright and assign the right of first publication to the journal, which will publish the article on the internet on the journal's website (www.tecnologia-ciencia-educacion.com), under the terms of the usage and distribution license of the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Authors must sign the letter of originality and granting of right of first publication which is available on the publication's website.

Authors are and remain primarily responsible for the content and statements made in their article in order to avoid conflicts of interest between the Tecnología, Ciencia y Educación journal and any third parties or institutions.

In the event that an article has been written by several authors, the author who is listed as responsible for the work must ensure that none of the signatures of those responsible for the work has been omitted, nor added others that are not, avoiding fictitious or gift authorship, which is a bad scientific practice. Likewise, he/she must also guarantee that those who sign it have reviewed and approved the final version of the work and that they give their approval for its possible publication.

In the list of authors signing the article, only those individuals who have contributed intellectually to the development of the work should be included. In other words, merely participating in data compilation or being involved in a technique is not sufficient criteria for being listed as an author of an article. In general, to be considered an author of an article and to be listed as such, three minimum requirements must be met:

• Participation in the conception and execution of the work that has resulted in the final article.
• Involvement in manuscript writing, as well as any subsequent revisions that have taken place.
• Approval of the final version that will be published.

The authors must appear in the article in strict order of importance based on their specific contribution to the work. If any changes occur during the review process, they must be communicated to the editor in writing. This document must be signed by all authors involved.

Authors must include information about their specific contribution to the article in the curriculum vitae they attach at the end of the document (see section «8. CURRICULUM» of the publication standards).

Authors must declare the exact origin of the content of the work (doctoral thesis, research project, teaching experience, etc.).

Authors must disclose to the editor any possible conflict of interest. When there is a commercial, financial or personal link that may affect the results and conclusions of their work, the text of the work must be accompanied by a statement of these circumstances (described in section 1 of heading 5), which will appear in the published version of the article.

Authors must indicate, in a clear and concise manner, all sources of financing granted for the study, stating the private or public entity responsible for said financing and the identification code of such financing, when it exists. This information will appear in the published version of the article and in the journal´s metadata.

Authors must ensure that their manuscripts contain original results, data, ideas and/or interpretations, and that they have not been copied, invented, distorted or manipulated. In addition, they have an obligation to review and ensure the accuracy and validity of the results before submitting the manuscript to the journal.

Any author who uses artificial intelligence tools to prepare their article must include a «Statement of Use of Artificial Intelligence» at the end of the manuscript, immediately following the «Author Contributions» section.

Authors undertake not to send articles that have been previously published or are in the process of being evaluated by another publication or medium. Articles resulting from papers presented at scientific congresses that have not been published or are only accessible in proceedings books may be submitted, specifying at the time of sending the paper to the journal, its origin.

Authors shall undertake not to plagiarize or appropriate the texts of others without the prior consent of their creators and without citing the source, even if the permission has been expressly granted by the latter authors.

Authors must also commit themselves to submit other texts already produced by themselves, ensuring that there is no more than 20 % coincidence between a previous work and the one submitted. Editors of the journal will check each article with anti-plagiarism software (iThenticate). If they detect coincidences of more than 20 %, they will review the sources of the text in depth and will send a report to the author indicating the definitive rejection of the work or the possibility of rewriting it, properly citing the sources.

Authors will be legally responsible for not infringing copyright by requesting the necessary permissions for the reproduction of cited texts, figures, graphs, tables, photographs, etc., which must bear their corresponding source of origin. When images are included as part of the research, an appropriate explanation of how they were created or obtained shall be provided, insofar as this is necessary for their comprehension.

Excessive self-citation, citing sources without having consulted them, adding cited texts that do not contribute to the content of a manuscript with the sole purpose of increasing the citations of an author or a journal, making erroneous interpretations of other works consulted, releasing scientific results before peer review, hiding data and methods that allow reproduction of the experiments used, including privately obtained information that cannot be verified, etc., will be considered to be irregular practices.

In those articles that contain data from studies or research in which individuals have participated, or those based on clinical trials, authors will ensure that the privacy rights of the participants are respected. To comply with this requirement, authors will have to attach a written statement that they obtained the informed consent (free and voluntary) from the individuals involved in the study for experimentation with human subjects. Privacy rights must always be respected. Appropriate consents, permissions and authorizations must be obtained when an author wishes to include case details or other personal information, or images of patients or any other person in this publication. Authors are required to retain written consents and, upon request, editors may ask for copies of consents or proof that consents have been obtained.

If the article involves the participation of individuals or is based on clinical trial reports, authors must ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects and will have to include in the article a statement that all procedures were performed in accordance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines.

When the author discovers a serious error in his/her work, he/she must communicate it to those in charge of the journal as soon as possible, in order to modify his/her work, withdraw it, retract it or publish a correction or erratum. If the possible error is detected by any of the members of the publishing team, authors will be obliged to prove that their work is accurate.

Authors may make other independent and additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (for example, including it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book) as long as they clearly indicate that the work was published for the first time in this journal.

Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work on the Internet (e. g., on institutional or personal pages) after publication, as this may lead to productive exchanges and to wider and faster dissemination of the published work.