Ethical statement

The Revista Ciencias y Humanidades Journal stipulates the following criteria regarding scientific publication ethics.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

Declaration of Ethical Principles in Research Involving Human Participants

Authors must ensure the participants’ right to privacy and obtain their consent for publication before submitting to the journal. This consent must be included in the Declaration of Commitments and Authorship Certification.

Declaration of Ethical Principles in Peer Review

The journal conducts scientific evaluations through a peer review process (see "Double-Blind Peer Review Process"). We are committed to providing appropriate support to facilitate rigorous evaluation and encourage our reviewers to become familiar with and adhere to the Editorial Policies.

The editorial team is prepared to recognize warning signs of fraudulent or manipulative practices during peer review, following COPE’s guidelines. As a journal, we support our editors in investigating and taking action in cases of suspected fraud or information manipulation. We also commit to protecting the confidentiality of participants in the peer review process. We expect our authors and reviewers to maintain confidentiality agreements and ensure compliance with these practices.

Inclusive and Bias-Free Language

In the journal, we promote the use of language that references all people with inclusion and respect, free from biases related to disability, ethnicity, gender, or socio-economic status. We encourage authors to reflect on the role of language in fostering equity and building a more just society for all.

Our invitation is to highlight people rather than their characteristics when referring to them. Adjectives should not replace nouns. References to personal characteristics such as sex, ethnicity, gender, disability, or social status can influence how readers perceive the author or the person being written about, based on preconceived ideas, potentially distracting from the intended message.

As professionals in social and human sciences, we advocate for responding to contemporary changes that challenge traditional academic norms, including the ways ideas are constructed and communicated.

Based on sections of the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition, “5: Grammar and Usage: Bias-Free Language,” we believe that a careful author avoids language that could be found offensive or distracting (5.223 Other Biases). Additionally, our role as an editorial team is to identify and suggest alternatives for any biased terms found in submitted manuscripts, acknowledging that bias is often unintentional. We work with authors to ensure the most appropriate language is used (5.224 Bias and the Editor’s Responsibility).

In all our publications, we strive to avoid the generic masculine form, as it leads to the invisibility of women. This does not affect the grammatical gender of words or the use of both masculine and feminine grammatical forms.

We recommend that authors familiarize themselves with the text “Some Techniques for Bias-Free Expression,” available in the Chicago-Deusto Style Manual (2013 edition), which offers practical examples on how to apply this policy.

You can download it here.