Self-Archiving Policy

This journal recognizes self-archiving as a legitimate and desirable practice within the open access scientific communication ecosystem. Wide dissemination of published works contributes to increasing their visibility, impact, and citations, while reinforcing the principle that knowledge generated with academic and institutional support should be available to society to the greatest extent possible.

This policy establishes the conditions under which authors may deposit, share, and disseminate their work published in this journal, in accordance with the journal's license and international open access standards.

Manuscript versions
For the purposes of this policy, the following versions of an academic work are distinguished:
Preprint or draft prior to evaluation. Version of the manuscript prior to the start of the peer review process. It does not incorporate the observations of the peer evaluators or the technical edition of the magazine.
Postprint or accepted version. Final version of the manuscript approved for publication, once the corrections derived from the peer review have been incorporated, but before the final layout and editorial style correction.
Published version (editorial version). Final version of the article as it appears published in the journal, with the layout, typographic design, pagination. It is the reference version for academic citation.

Self-Archiving Conditions

Preprint
Authors can freely deposit and disseminate the preprint of their work in institutional repositories, thematic repositories, preprint servers and personal or institutional websites, at any time, even before submission to this journal. It is recommended to indicate, at the time of final publication, that there is a later version published in this journal.
Postprint
Authors can deposit and disseminate the postprint of their work once the article has been accepted for publication. It is recommended to accompany the deposit with a clear reference to the published version.

Published version
Once the article is published, the authors have complete freedom to disseminate the editorial version in PDF format, as provided by the journal, through any medium or platform, without restriction of time or distribution channel. This version is recommended for self-archiving, as it is the reference for academic citation and because it incorporates all the identification and editing elements that guarantee the integrity of the scientific record.

Channels enabled for self-archiving of the published version include, but are not limited to:
1. Institutional repositories of universities and research centers.
2. Open access thematic repositories.
3. Academic networks and scientific dissemination platforms.
4. Personal, institutional or research group web pages.
5. Storage and academic collaboration platforms.

Publication Format

This journal publishes its contents in open and interoperable electronic formats, in accordance with international standards of accessibility, digital preservation and scientific communication in open access.

Each published article is offered in the following version:

PDF (Portable Document Format). Fixed typographic presentation format that accurately reproduces the editorial version of the article, including layout, pagination, visual styles and persistent identifiers. It constitutes the reference version for academic citation and self-archiving. Its portable nature and its wide compatibility with readers and devices make it suitable for downloading, printing and distributing the definitive scientific record.

The open availability of this format responds to the journal's commitment to maximum dissemination, recoverability and interoperability of published works, in congruence with the open access principles that guide the editorial policy of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.

Policy Review

This policy will be reviewed periodically by the editorial team in order to ensure its adaptation to the evolution of international open access standards, the requirements of the indexing systems and the current institutional regulations of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.