ISSN 1850-1168
online version
ISSN 0327-358X
printed version

Instructions to authors

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Sending of manuscripts

The Journal of the Argentine Physics Society (Anales AFA) is an Open Access publication through the web page: (http://anales.fisica.org.ar/journal/index.php/analesafa).

Anales AFA publishes original articles in the field of physics, in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Articles may deal with research, instrumentation or review by invitation (minimum of 4 pages). The journal is addressed to the whole scientific community, mainly to physicists of all the areas, both theoretical and experimental.

Publication is quarterly (4 issues per year) and appears on the web on the 28th March (N.1), 28th June (N.2), 28th September (N.3) and 28th December (N.4).  Evaluation and publication of each article takes around four months. The collection includes publication of special numbers dedicated to congresses of certain specialities of physics or anniversaries of physical societies recognized by AFA.

The cost of publication per page appears in the Announcements. The journal is financed exclusively by the authors and the Argentine Physics Association and counts on the support of the Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas para la Defensa y de la Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Publication ethics

Anales AFA is committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. Anales AFA follows the actions recommended by the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE http://publicationethics.org/). Below is a summary of its key expectations of editors, peer-reviewers and authors.

Editors’ Responsibilities

• To contribute to the decision-making process, and to assist in improving the quality of the published paper by reviewing the manuscript objectively.

• To maintain the confidentiality of any information supplied by author.

• To be aware of any potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative or other relationships between the reviewer and author).

• Not take advantage of the data of an article under review

• To give authors a reasonable opportunity to respond to any complaints. All complaints should be investigated no matter when the original publication was approved.

• To honor any request by an author that a particular colleague should not be consulted as a

• To preserve the identities of reviewers.

• To treat fairly any author's request for reconsideration of a rejected manuscript.

Authors' responsibilities

• To maintain accurate records of data associated with their submitted manuscript, and to supply or provide access to these data, on reasonable request.

• To confirm/assert that the manuscript as submitted is not under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere. Where portions of the content overlap with published or submitted content, to acknowledge and cite those sources. Additionally, to provide the editor with a copy of any submitted manuscript that might contain overlapping or closely related content.

• To confirm that all the work in the submitted manuscript is original and to acknowledge and cite content reproduced from other sources. To obtain permission to reproduce any content from other sources.

• To declare any potential conflicts of interest (e.g. where the author has a competing interest that could be considered or viewed as exerting an undue influence on his or her duties at any stage during the publication process).

• To notify promptly the journal editor or publisher if a significant error in their publication is identified. To cooperate with the editor and publisher to publish an erratum, addendum, corrigendum notice, or to retract the paper, when necessary.

• To ensure that all co-authors had the opportunity to revise the manuscript, had agreed to its submission to Anales AFA and had accepted responsibility for the work reported.

• To not breach any copyright. When reproducing figures, significant portions of text and/or schemes from previous publications, it is the authors' responsibility to seek appropriate permission from the relevant publishers. Authors must declare all sources of funding for the work in the manuscript, and also to declare any conflict of interest.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

• To treat the assigned manuscript as confidential. In the case that a reviewer wishes to seek opinion from a colleague, approval from the editor in charge of the manuscript has to be obtained in advance and the name of the person to be consulted informed.

• To inform with no delay if she/he is unable to do the review timely.

• To inform the editor if any conflict of interest exist or can be foreseen. Reviewers must not accept to review manuscripts of close collaborators.

• Not to take advantage of the data reported in a manuscript while it is under review or if the manuscript is not published.

• To give an objective justified report written in a respectful style in a timely manner. Foreseen delays have to be informed to the editor in charge of the manuscript.

• To inform the editor in charge of the manuscript if: (i) there is a suspicion of plagiarism, (ii) there are indications of fabricated or manipulated data, (iii) there seem to exist an unusual text recycling (copy from the author's previous work).

 Peer review process

Articles submitted to Anales AFA are subjected to a process of peer review by specialized independent referees suggested by the authors and/or by the specialist of the Editorial Committee, avoiding in all cases conflicts of interest. The refree’s anonymity is respected.

 The referees receive a form where they must state whether the work is or is not publishable in Anales AFA. The analysis will consist of the following:

1. Establishing whether purposes, starting points, methodology and results of work are described in the text in a way understandable for a researcher working on the subject or related topics.

2. Detecting the possible presence of insurmountable errors, that is, such as to nullify the validity of the work exposed in a whole or in essential parts.

3. Establishing if the work contributes sufficient volume of news that deserves its publication.

 In the form the referees will indicate, when the work is publishable: it does not require changes; minor changes are required (typographical errors or similar) or needs a review by the authors. For works considered non-publishable, they should clarify if there is plagiarism or if the text is obscure / ambiguous / inconsistent or if it is not clear: purposes / starting points / methodologies / results or if there are insurmountable errors that invalidate the work or essential parts or finally if there is absence of new contributions not trivial with respect to what has already been published.

 In case of controversy the editors will decide the steps to follow, being able to consult the Editorial Committee to choose another evaluator. The final decision on publication of a manuscript is the sole responsibility of the editors. 

Papers which, in the opinion of the referees appointed by the Editorial Committee, are considered original must be submitted in "Camera Ready" form according to the instructions provided Camera ready  for Word or Camera Ready Latex for Latex, and PDF in both cases.

All works will be put through plagiarism control through different programs on the web. In case of plagiarism being detected, the editors will notify the authors to explain and resolve this situation, otherwise the work will not be considered original or the process of publication will not be carried out.

There is no limit for the number of pages but the size of the accepted paper file should be lower than 10 Mb. The cost of publication of the accepted final version is found in the announcements.

Authors are suggested to include in the References the works on related topics, previously published in Anales AFA. This would make it easier for interested readers to access the information, thereby obtaining a complete and up-to-date picture of the degree of development of the project. On the other hand, it is useful for reviewers to quickly access the background of the work under consideration. In addition, the authors will benefit from a more efficient spreading of their research results.

It is necessary to submit the form available on this page, which includes the agreement of payment when the paper is accepted for publication, and asks authors to suggest the names of potential reviewers. Form for authors 

Processing of articles takes around four months.

Privacy Statement

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

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• Declaration of Privacy
  Names and e-mail addresses introduced into this journal will exclusively be used for the journal's scopes and for no other purpose or person.

• As part of the submission process, authors are required to indicate that their submission complies with all of the following elements, and to accept that submissions that do not comply with these guidelines may be returned to the author.

• The content has not been previously published nor submitted to another journal (or an explanation provided in Comments to the editor).

• Web addresses have been added for references where possible.

• The text follows the indications on this page and all illustrations, figures and tables, are within the text in the place that corresponds to them and not at the end of the article.

• The text meets the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the following instructions.

• It is necessary to send the form available on this page where the payment commitment is assumed, when the publication has been accepted, and invites to suggest names of possible reviewers.

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