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Submission Preparation Checklist

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.
  • I've read Editorial CSIC's Good Practice Code and comply with all its guidelines.
  • The Authorship, good publication practice and copyright transfer statement is filled and signed, and it'll be added to the submission.
  • The article has not been previously published, and has not been sent to another journal for consideration.
  • The submission is an original work and does not violate the copy and reproduction rights of other authored works. If necessary, the author has written permit for the reproduced work and a copy will also be submited.
  • The person making the submission has been authorized by all the article authors to submit and act as their spokesperson in front of the journal during the review, editing and publishing processes.
  • I have consulted and applied the journal's Research data policy.
  • The article is adapted to the Microsoft Word template provided by the journal.
  • The text adheres to the length, format, references, citation of figures, tables and equations (if applicable), and bibliography requirements outlined in the journal guidelines.
  • Each of the authors has been identified including the following data:
    - Given name (in full form) and family name(s).
    - Email contact address.
    - Country of professional activity.
    - Institutional affiliation.
    - Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID).
    - Role/roles according to the CRediT taxonomy.
  • TWO versions of the article are sent. The first one is a Microsoft Word, or compatible file, which includes all the information related to the authors as well as the images, tables and any other graphic content. A second file, in PDF format, includes the same content as the first file, but excludes any information that may help to identify the author(s): name and affiliation, CRediT role/roles, self-citations, personal notes, metadata of the PDF file, etc. The second version will be used for the peer review process; therefore, all contents will be exactly the same in these two files, except for the modifications necessary to anonymise the PDF file. For the removal of metadata you can use specific software or one of the many free tools available on the Internet.

Author Guidelines

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF

Scope of the Journal

Revista de Metalurgia welcomes original, unpublished manuscripts aimed to contribute to the metals materials science and technology, the main objective of which is to contribute to the dissemination of new scientific discoveries and technological development in this field. The journal mainly gathers work on the process of obtaining, producing, transforming and recycling metals and alloys, their properties and technological characteristics and the various applications of those materials.

Editorial policy

Manuscripts that do not fall within the scope of Revista de Metalurgia and those which do not strictly follow these Author Guidelines will be returned to the authors. After a first consideration by the Editorial Team or a Scientific Editor, manuscripts will be double-blind reviewed by two independent, external experts, and by a third one if considered necessary. Generally, there will be no more than two rounds of reviews. The Editor-in-Chief will decide to accept or reject the manuscript based on the reports and recommendations of the reviewers and the Scientific Editor. The authors of the submitted manuscripts will be notified about the initial acceptance for review or rejection of their paper within one month. The review process will routinely last between 2 to 3 months.
In exceptionally cases, invited contributions may be published under a less stringent review process.

Calendar

Revista de Metalurgia appears as one yearly volume, divided into four issues, formally published in March, June, September and December of every calendar year.

Format

Revista de Metalurgia is an Open Access, online Journal. Articles will be published online free of charge as HTML, XLM and PDF, and made freely available to readers without restrictions immediately upon online publishing. All articles published in Revista de Metalurgia are accessible, free of charge, to any potential reader at the following address: https://revistademetalurgia.revistas.csic.es

The CSIC reserves the right to distribute for sale the complete issues as an eBook, whether as PDF, ePub, or any other possible present or future electronic format, and/or under a print-on-demand paper format. These alternative formats will be identical in content, will retain the same copyright as the single articles in the online edition, and will be considered equivalent for all purposes.

Submission of manuscripts for review and approval

Contributions must be submitted in English. Submitted manuscripts will first be checked for language. Manuscripts substandard on this respect will be returned without review.

Submission of a manuscript implies that all co-authors have approved and agreed on the content of the submitted text, tables, graphic material, and any other supplementary materials provided. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author that all co-authors have the correct information on the submitted manuscript. All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter or text clearly expressing the original, unpublished content of the manuscript, and that the manuscript has not been simultaneously submitted for consideration to another journal.

Preparation of the manuscript

To assist authors in preparing their manuscripts a template is provided at the following address:

DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT TEMPLATE

The use of this template is not mandatory but it is highly recommended because it contains additional instructions and the format usually employed in the journal. When using the template, just substitute the provided text in each section by your text.

Manuscripts (maximum extension 6000 words, excluding tables and figures) will be typed, double-spaced, on A-4 sheets (210 x 297 mm) leaving 30 mm margins. Lines should be numbered. The various sections of the manuscript should be assembled in the following sequence:

Title and authorship (page 1)
Abstract and Keywords (page 2)
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Authorship contribution statement
References
Tables (each in a single page, with its legend)
Figure captions (all combined in one or as many pages as needed)
Figures (each in a single page)

All headings will be in bold capitals.

The title and authorship page will include the title of the paper, authors’ names, and name and address of the institution where research was done. In addition, the e-mail address of the corresponding author should be included in this page.

Authors must include a valid ORCID identifier along with the authors’ filiation. Authors without this personal identifier can register free of charge in https://orcid.org to complete this data. When the article is signed by several authors, it is required to include the ORCID of all of them.

The Abstract and Keywords page will include the title of the article, a 100-150 words abstract (written in third person), and 3 to 6 keywords for indexing and aiding the reader in literature retrieval. Translate this page to Spanish.

Tables and figures will be printed in separate A-4 sheets. Minimum required resolution for figures at the final reproduction size is 600 dpi.

The submission (including the title page, the abstract page, the other sections of the body of the paper, the tables, and the figures) should be in one file. Use of Microsoft Word 2016 or higher is preferred.

Symbols, units and nomenclature

The authors should follow the rules of the International System of Units (SI). Chemical nomenclature should follow as closely as possible the IUPAC rules. 

Tables and figures

Results must be presented in a maximum total of 12 figures and tables, not in both forms at the same time.

Tables and figures will be separately numbered in Arabic numbers, in the order that they appear in the text. Both should have an explanatory legend.

Graphics must be clear (avoid using grids as well as shades of gray on bars or lines). Their dimensions must be such that remain clear and legible after size reduction to 8, 12, or 16 cm width. For letters and numbers use Times New Roman characters 4 mm in height; line thickness must be 0.4 to 0.6 mm; broken lines or cycles should be 4 to 5 mm long after reduction.

Photographs, should have the greatest contrast possible as TIFF or EPS file.

All graphical materials will be submitted in TIFF or EPS file format, using one file for each graphic, image or photograph, all of them stored in a single ZIP or RAR compressed file.

Table of resolutions for graphics, images and photographs
Original Mode Final resolution Format
Colour RGB 600 dpi TIFF or EPS
Monotone Greyscale 600 dpi TIFF or EPS
B/W line drawing Line 900-1200 dpi TIFF or EPS

 

All figure legends should be combined in one list and typed on a separate sheet.

Sex and gender considerations in research

Authors of research involving the participation of population (both children, youth or adults) should consider the relevance of incorporating sex or gender as a variable of analysis in the research design and establishing whether it has had an influence on the results obtained.

Authorship contribution
This journal applies the CRediT taxonomy to research articles received as of 2024, in order to favoring recognitionand facilitating transparency of authorship. To this end, all signatories to the article will be identified by the roles that describe the contribution that each one has made.

This information will be provided to the journal by the corresponding author, who must guarantee that the assignment of roles is accurate, that no token authorships are included and that the roles indicated have been agreed with the other authors of the article.

This information will appear in the publication itself, before the bibliography of the article, and will be integrated in the metadata of the article according to different international standards.

The roles proposed by CRediT are:

Conceptualization
Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data curation
Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal Analysis
Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.

Funding acquisition
Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Investigation
Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology
Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration
Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Resources
Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

Software
Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Supervision
Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Validation
Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of
results/experiments and other research outputs.

Visualization
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – original draft
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review & editing
Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Example of an authorship contribution statement
Name and Surname author 01: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing.
Name and Surname author 02: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing –review & editing.

References

References should be cited in the text by the authors’ names and year of publication (Harvard system). Thus, they can appear as “according to García-González et al. (2007)”, if the name of the author is cited in the text, or “(García-González et al., 2007)” at the end of a sentence.

Use a letter after the year if more than one reference for the same authors and year is given. They should be ordered by the publishing year if several references are used at the same time.

The full list of references should be typed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order, according to the following examples:

Journal articles:
Djurdjevic, M. B., Vicario, I., 2013. Description of hypoeutectic Al-Si-Cu alloys based on their known chemical compositions Rev. Metal. 49, 340–350. (Use journal abbreviated titles). doi: 10.3989/revmetalm.1238. If the article is accessible online and has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), always include the DOI, but not the URL and the accession date.

Book chapters:
Mondolfo, L.F., 1979. Aluminum Alloys, Structure and Properties, Ed. Butterworths, London, England, pp. 213-614.

Books:
Davis, J.R., 1992. ASM Handbook Vol. 3, Alloy Phase Diagrams, The Materials Information Society, EE.UU.

Patents:
Sniderma Zachary N., Ibarra, A. Olive polyphenols concentrate. Patent no. WO 2006/005989

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Below you will find instructions for the following procedures:

- How to register at Revista de Metalurgia

- How to send an original manuscript to Revista de Metalurgia

- How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

 

How to register at Revista de Metalurgia

1.- On the journal's website, click on the link "Register":

 

2.- On the registration page you will have to fill in all the fields (the "Family name" field is optional, although highly recommended) using lower case only for your email, username and password. After reading the Privacy Statement you will need to consent to the collection and storage of your data and complete the Captcha. Receiving notifications of new publications and notices is optional.

 

3.- You will receive a message with a link to activate your account at the provided email address. Once activated, you will be able to log in to your account with the credentials you created.

 

How to send an original manuscript to Revista de Metalurgia

1.- On the magazine's website, log in by clicking on "Login":

 

2.- Enter your username and password. Once you return to the magazine's homepage, click on the "Make a Submission" button:

Before submitting, please review the "Submission Preparation Checklist" and read the "Author Guidelines", the "Copyright Notice" and the "Privacy Statement". When you have all the required documents ready, click on the link "Make a new submission".

In subsequent logins, you will be taken to your user dashboard. There press the ‘New Submission’ button to submit a new article. You will be shown any articles received and in process under the ‘My Queue’ tab):

 

3.- As you will see on the new submissions page, submitting a manuscript is a four-stage process, in addition to a final section with information on follow-up:

3.1.- "1. Start"

At this stage you must select the language in which the article is written and the section of the journal in which you think it would fit, you must indicate that you have prepared all the items on the "Submission requirements" list and, optionally, you may send comments to the editor. You must comply with the terms of the Copyright Statement and the collection and storage of your data as the author of the article in accordance with the Privacy Statement of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Then press the "Save and continue" button.

 

3.2.- "2. Upload submission"

In this phase, the files that make up the article and its additional documentation will be uploaded to the management module.

There are three parts to upload each file. In the first one, we will select which component of the article we are going to contribute and we will upload the corresponding file. Once uploaded, click on the "Continue" button. In the second part we will see the file metadata, with the possibility to edit them, but we will click "Continue" without making this edition.

In the third part, select "Add Another File", going back to "1. Upload file" and, without modifying the default option "This is not a revision of an existing file", select the new "Article Component" identifying what it is and uploading the file. Click "Continue" until you reach, once again, step "3. Confirm". This process must be repeated until all the files have been sent, and only when all the material has been uploaded should the "Complete" button be selected.

If after "Completing" the submission we realise that we have forgotten to upload a file, we can do so by selecting the "Upload File" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the "2. Upload Submission" tab:

Once all the submission files have been uploaded, we will press the "Save and continue" button.

 

3.3.- "3. Enter Metadata"

In this phase the author will enter the metadata of the article according to the journal guidelines. These are:

- Title in Spanish and English.

- Summary or abstract in the same languages as the previous item.

- List of contributors. Although it was not necessary when registering as a journal user, in this section it is compulsory for authors to have their ORCID identifier and affiliation correctly indicated. If necessary, the information of additional authors will be added using the link "Add contributor":

- Keywords. The article keywords will be inserted in Spanish and English. The entire list cannot be copied, must be entered one term at a time pressing "Enter" after each one.

- Funding data. The entities that have supported the research published in the article must be indicated. After selecting "Add funder", the name of the funder should be inserted again, which will trigger an internal search that will return the institution standardised name and DOI. If the institution does not have a DOI, it will not be able to register in this field. After entering the grant numbers, click on "Save".

To finish this phase of entering metadata, click on the "Save and continue" button.

 

3.4.- "4. Confirmation" y "5. Next steps"

In this last phase we will confirm the submission metadata recording linked to the uploaded files. Before clicking on the "Finish Submission" button, we can go back to the previous phases and review the information and files provided to check that they are all correct.

Once we click on the "Finish Submission" button, the article will be sent to the journal and its staff will contact you to continue with the process, as indicated in the "5. Next Steps" section.

 

How to check a revision report and submit a revised version of a manuscript

Once your submission has been reviewed, the journal's staff will send you a review report. Once received, you must log in to the journal and, in the "Submissions" section of your dashboard, you will be able to check that your submission is in the Review phase and, if the editorial staff has requested, whether it is necessary to make any modifications or revisions to the manuscript:

By clicking on the title of your submission, you will be taken to the workflow of your submission and you will be able to check the information related to its review. You will find the notifications that the editorial staff has sent you, the attachments that the reviewers may have attached and, if requested, the possibility to provide a new version of the manuscript with the requested modifications by clicking on the "Upload file" button:

 


Research data policy

We recommend authors depositing data obtained from the research developed for the preparation of their article in repositories of recognized prestige, specific to the discipline or of a generalist nature. In any case, it must be a FAIR repository (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), preferably in open access.

There are several repositories destined to conserve and disseminate concrete data such as results of surveys, observations, interviews, simulations, automatically collected data, samples, models ... If necessary, authors can consult the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data taking into account that each repository has its own deposit rules.

Those CSIC authors who would like to deposit their datasets in Digital.CSIC may do so by following these guidelines. They can use the Servicio de Archivo Delegado made available by the Technical Office of DIGITAL.CSIC and the Red de Bibliotecas CSIC.

DIGITAL.CSIC generates DOIs for datasets and associated software and is certified as data repository in re3data and Repository Finder. More information at Política de datos en Digital.CSIC.

If the author has deposited datasets in a repository, he should mention it in the article providing a brief description of the type of data deposited, the name and URL of the repository, the identification code and the data of the license for use and distribution. This information must be included at the end of the article, immediately before the bibliographic listing, under the heading "Data availability".

Download HERE the Good Practice Code in PDF
Download HERE the Authorship Form in PDF

Privacy Statement

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has a record of data processing activities. Data collected through this form will be incorporated and processed in the “Gestión de las actividades de producción y distribución de las publicaciones del CSIC” treatment activity of Editorial CSIC, in order to manage the requested service. It is the responsibility of Editorial CSIC to manage this record. If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us through the contact address Vitruvio, 8, 28006 Madrid, Spain, e-mail address publ@csic.es. Data processing is legitimized by the consent of the affected. The data may not be transferred to third parties except in the cases provided for in current regulations on the protection of personal data. You have the right to file a claim with the Spanish Data Protection Agency. You have the right to withdraw your consent. In the event that you wish -or want to exercise the rights of access, deletion, rectification, limitation or portability- you can do so through the following form. You can also contact the CSIC Officer for Data Protection via email: delegadoprotecciondatos@csic.es