Submissions

Author Guidelines

Shipping Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission meets all the requirements presented below.

• The submission has not been published previously or submitted for consideration in any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor). Declaration of Authorship template has been downloaded.
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word format, appropriate for the downloadable template for authors.
• Whenever possible, URLs or DOIs are provided for references.
• The text has single spacing; 12 point font size, Times New Roman; italics take the place of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables will be positioned at appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements summarized in the Author Guidelines, (Directrices del autor/a), which appear in “About the journal”.
• The file size in Word should not exceed 2 MB; in which case the figures should be sent as a complementary file.
• A proposal for four possible reviewers, who are not affiliated to the same institution, and have not collaborated with projects, should be named in a complementary Word file. They must have a doctorate degree, preferably be members of the SNII or equivalent (in the case of foreigners), and also be experts in the topic addressed by your research.
• If you use any artificial intelligence (AI) tools, please note that they must be privately accessible, not publicly accessible. Using these open tools makes the manuscript public and loses its status as an unpublished, original, and novel document. If you use this privately accessible tool, please state this in the review form.

Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors.

Authorship and contribution policy

Authors who publish in this journal accept the following conditions:

• The authors retain the copyright but transfer the right to the first publication, and the work is registered with the Creative Commons attribution license (CC Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internacional) to the journal Agriculture, Society and Development which permits third parties, to use what has been published, as long as they mention the authorship of the work and its first publication in this journal.
• The authors may make other independent and additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal, (e.g., 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
• The authors assume full responsibility for the opinions presented in the article and guarantee that they do not contain anything that violates the copyright, literary or property rights of third parties.
• The authors confirm that they have carefully read the Editorial Standards or Guidelines for Authors and comply with these.
• The authors and co-authors agree on the order and appearance and on the contribution that each one made, when writing the article.
• Authors are allowed and recommended to publish their work on the Internet (for example, on institutional or personal pages), once their article is published.
• All submitted works will be passed to the anti-plagiarism program (Turnitin) and those that have a maximum of 20% similarity will be accepted.

After being accepted and submitted to a blind peer review, articles must be corrected according to observations made by the referees (if any), and will then be sent to be edited. Should they deem it appropriate, the editor will send observations for improvement of the articles, however if these are not promptly addressed or if they deem that the article does not have what is required for publication in the journal, the editor-in-chief, together with the deputy editors and/or the editorial committee, will reject the article, before it has been translated and published.

Once the article is accepted by the editors, it will require translation and will enter the publication queue. Articles will be selected from this queue to create the next issue and sent to the layout process. The initial version of the article in Spanish (Early Access) will be published before the entire issue is published, once article lay out has been accomplished. Once we have the complete issue in English and Spanish, we will proceed to publish it with pagination and cover, in the first month of the corresponding quarterly period.

Once the issue has been published, it will be sent to third-party repositories where the journal "Agricultura, Sociedad y Desarrollo" is indexed to promote greater dissemination and citation of these articles.

Storage and Preservation

The journal "Agricultura, Sociedad y Desarrollo" safeguards articles with the PKP Preservation Network (PN), as well as LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.

Guidelines for Authors

The journal "Agricultura, Sociedad y Desarrollo" considers manuscripts originally written in Spanish or English on socioeconomic aspects of agriculture and rural development for potential publication, provided they have not been published or submitted for publication in other journals, book chapters, books, full conference proceedings, or any other medium. The journal accepts contributions from authors regardless of their nationality. All contributions, except those proposed by the Editorial Committee, will be peer-reviewed. Once accepted, the publication fee will be processed, and the translation team will contact the authors to agree on the cost of translation into English or, if the original is in English, into Spanish. It should be noted that the journal "Agricultura, Sociedad y Desarrollo" only charges for publication and translation, and charges no subscription or reading fees for the published articles, meaning it is Open Access.

Publication Cost

From January 2025 onwards, the journals from the Post-graduate College: Agroscience, Agroproductivity, Agrodissemination and Agriculture, Society and Development, request a fee of $8,000.00 MXN (Eight thousand pesos 00/100 MN) for each accepted article for editing, layout, and DOI.

Bank Account:

- Bank Name: BBVA
- Account Number: 0125326184
- CLABE: 012180001253261846
- SWIFT Code: BCMRMXMMPYM

- Account Name: COLPOS ING RECURSOS PROP

Translation into English or Spanish will be paid for by the authors, having received a quote from the journal's translator.

Payment for publication and translation are autonomous issues.

The deposit or bank transfer receipt should be scanned and sent to [email protected] with copy to [email protected]. Articles which  are by professors or students from the Post-graduate College as the first author are exempt from the publication fee, but must pay the translation fee corresponding to their article.

After publication, articles and the full issue can be consulted at:               https://revista-asyd.org/index.php/asyd

Sincerely,

Consortium of Institutional Journals

Post-graduate College

Reception of originals

Contributions must comply with the format of the journal's Template for Authors, which can be downloaded from the platform. Articles should be submitted through the journal's platform in Microsoft Word format, adhering to the downloadable template. The file must not exceed the maximum size accepted by the platform. If it exceeds this size, we suggest removing the images from the file and attaching them as supplementary files in the same platform in jpg format at 300 dpi.

Authors must ensure that their article does not include names or author data in any part of the article, tables, or figures; nor should any information about identify be in the file name. The sections of the template should be maintained without excluding any or merging sections; so Introduction and Theoretical Discussion or Results and Discussion, etc.). Only the Acknowledgments section can be omitted. The length of the article should be a minimum of 6,000 and a maximum of 8,000 words, including tables, figures, and the Reference section.

Title

The title should adequately describe and reflect the essential content of the contribution and should not exceed 18 words.

Abstract

A single paragraph, consisting of a maximum of 250 words, should describe the most important aspects of the research: introduction, justification and importance, research objective, a brief description of the methodology used, and if applicable, the type of statistical analysis applied. The abstract should be clear and concise. The results section should refer to at least 50% of the abstract, highlighting the most relevant findings. The abstract should end with the conclusions. The abstract should be written only in the original language of the manuscript; translation will only be accomplished at the end of the editing process, if approved for publication. 

Keywords

At the end of the abstract, 3 to 5 keywords should be written, in simple or compound terms. The keywords should not form part of the title and must be in alphabetical order.

Introduction

This section should clearly indicate the importance of the topic, the reason for the research, and relevant background information that corroborates the stated objective. It should specify why and for what purpose the research is conducted, using published and updated bibliographic information. No specific subtopics being reviewed in the literature are required, as relevant aspects are presented in the introduction, which should be one to two pages long.

Theoretical Discussion

This section should explain the development of the theoretical perspective: to construct the theoretical framework, bibliographic sources should be consulted or reviewed, pertinent and recent literature should be cited (no older than 10 years). This will help construct the theoretical framework, which should align with a current philosophical perspective that will frame both the methodology and the results. This means the research will be analyzed according to a specific philosophical perspective. It should be two to three pages long.

Methodology

To answer the questions: where, when, and how research was carried out, the author(s) must describe the procedures, methods, and techniques used in the research, including descriptions of any questionnaires or interviews used. It should also mention how the study population was calculated, whether parametric or non-parametric, and include a description of the statistical analysis employed or used in the results. This section should describe the characteristics of the study area, such as location (with map, scale, and compass rose), population, marginalization, poverty, socio-economic data, etc.

Results

In this section, the author(s) should present the findings or results of their research. The results need to be clear and easily understood, without excess repetition of data from tables and figures. The results must correspond to the facts derived from applying the methodology, in logical and objective order, with minimal tables and figures (photos, graphs, or drawings).

Discussion

Discussion of the results should be clear and understandable, aiming to present and debate the findings with updated and relevant literature on the research topic. This should be comprehensive.

Conclusions

 This section should categorically, precisely, and briefly, indicate the specific contributions to knowledge based on the research results, while avoiding repetition. Conclusions should not be based on argument or assumptions. They should not be numbered, nor should abbreviations or acronyms (e.g., MS, RFLP, PV, EUA, REML, etc.) be used; instead, full terms should be used so that the reader does not need to refer to other parts of the text to understand them. This should not include references or bibliographic citations. Future research derived from the work should be mentioned, as well as any limitations encountered during the research.

Acknowledgments

This section should not be included in the first version of the article, as it may contain information about the authors; it should only be included if the article is accepted for publication. It should be appended to the article, optionally (this is not mandatory), prior to the References. Only persons or institutions that funded, advised, or assisted with the research should be acknowledged. Names should be written in full, and for individuals, the institution they belong to (if applicable) and the nature and extent of their contribution should be indicated.

References

This section comprises a list in alphabetical and chronological order of all references cited in the text. References should have complete information, including the total number or range of pages consulted, as well as the DOI or specific URL, with the date of access in the case of digital references. It is important to ensure that the year of publication not omitted or changed, as well as surnames or names of authors or journals, or titles of articles or books consulted. Further specifications should be provided, and examples given. It is very important that, during manuscript writing, an automatic reference list is not created in Word®, as this precludes each reference being treated, reviewed, and commented on, individually. The cited bibliography in the text must not include the page number of the cited work; only including the year of publication and the page number if the citation is textual. In cases of errors, reviewers, arbiters, or editors should annotate, correct, and comment on each reference individually. Please consult the References section for further details.

Tables

Tables should be simple and concise. Each table should present data in an organized manner, facilitating comparisons, showing classifications, observing relationships, and saving space in the text. They should be created in Word, in an editable format. In the text, authors should not write "Table 1 shows...", but instead, for example; "The population in poverty and extreme poverty was... (Table 1)" at the end of the sentence(s), describing the most relevant results identified in the table.

Tables should be numbered and mentioned progressively in the text (e.g., Table 1; Table 2...). The titles of the tables should be labeled: Table 1. The title of the table, should be written above the table, and not form part of it; the title should not be included in a top cell but in a text paragraph, with lowercase letters except for the initial of the first word and proper names. The title should end with a period.

Tables should be placed immediately after the paragraph where they are first mentioned, provided they remain complete and not cut off. If they do not fit on the same page, they should be placed at the beginning of the next sheet where the text resumes, facilitating reading and analysis of information. The source or origin of the table should be included at the bottom of the table in Times New Roman 11 points. Tables should not be placed after CONCLUSIONS or at the end of REFERENCES.

Minimal use of tables is recommended, employing them only to make the text more concise and understandable.

Table 1. Estimators of the logistic regression model with the forward stepwise selection method (Wald).

Source: Self-elaborated from the survey data, 2018.

Figures

Figures refer to maps, graphs, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs. These should have adequate contrast for manipulation, in JPG or TIFF format, with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, adequate for reduction while maintaining quality; if the figure contains text, it must be legible. Clear indications of the figure number and its place in the text are necessary. Figure titles should be in separate paragraphs (not included in the image). Figures are specified in the text, labeled as Figure 1, Figure 2, ..., etc. They should be placed below the figure, just below the source. The minimum typographic or numerical character size is 3 mm, scaled for publication (page at 100%). The source or origin of the figure should be at the bottom of the figure in Times New Roman 11 points.

Should the article be accepted, the author(s), figures must be translated into English (or into Spanish if the original article is in English), including titles, content, and sources, as translators will not translate or quote these due to delicate elements often not in an editable format (maps, diagrams, graphs, etc.). The translator may translate words and place them below, but not modify the figures; this will be the author's responsibility. Authors should bear this in mind when preparing their tables or figures so they can edit them if the article is approved.

Source: Self-elaborated

Figure 1. Location of Huehuetla municipality, Puebla.

SYMBOLS AND UNITS

Units for variables, rates, and parameters should be written according to the International System of Units (BIPM; https://www.bipm.org/en/about-us/). Equivalences in symbols from any other system should be placed in parentheses in manuscripts originally in English, only the first time a unit is used. For example: Pa (lb sq-2).

Use of Acronyms and Abbreviations: where acronyms and abbreviations are used in the text, the first time they are mentioned, the full name should be written followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. For example: SEP (Secretaría de Educación Pública); thereafter only SEP.

Scientific Names: as with the previous case, the first time a species is mentioned, the common name followed by the scientific name and the classifier's abbreviation or initial in parentheses should be written. For example: tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.); thereafter only tomato. Authors should adhere to current taxonomic classification norms for species in all cases.

Figures and Abbreviations: abbreviations of measurement units should be separated from the quantity. 10 mm, 10 m, 10 ha, 10 ton, 10 lt, 10 km, etc.

Ordinal numbers from 1 to 9 should be written in words (e.g., first to ninth), whereas 10 and higher should be written as: 64°, 15ª.

Fractions within the text should be written out (e.g., two-thirds of the sample).

Numerical quantities should use a comma (,) to separate thousands and a period (.) for decimals. Percentages should be written together with the number (10%). For millions, separate the million with an apostrophe, the thousands with a comma, and decimals with a period.

2,545                  1’348,674                 654.2                  8,697.4                         $1,111.0

REFERENCES

We recommend preparing references with a reference manager, such as EndNote, ReferenceManager, or Zotero, to avoid typographical errors or duplication of references. If available, please include the digital object identifier (DOI) for all references.

Citations and references in supplementary materials are permitted as long as they appear in the reference list.

When a citation is from the same author and year, it should be distinguished by “a” and “b”. Example:

Example:

Article

Author 1 (First surname) AB (First names), Author 2 CD, & (y in case of Spanish) Author 3 EF. Year. Title of the article. Name of the journal. Volume(issue): Pagination. DOI or URL

Alarcón MG, Santoyo VH, Altamirano JR & Muñoz M. 2024. Lessons from the development of certified coffee suppliers promoted by an international trader in Veracruz, Mexico. Agricultura, Sociedad Y Desarrollo. 21(2): 186–206. https://doi.org/10.22231/asyd.v21i2.1584

Book Chapter

Author 1 A & Author 2 B. Year. Chapter title. In: Title of the book, 2nd ed.; Editor 1, A. & Editor 2, B., Eds.; Publisher: Publisher location, country; Volume 3, pp: 154–196. DOI or URL

Valseca R, López CA, Cesín JA, Valadez M, & Ramírez B. 2023. The reproduction process in the livestock sector of Mexico 2003-2018. In: Current issues and emerging problems in livestock. A perspective from socioeconomic and environmental research. Cavallotti BA, Ramírez B, Cesín JA & Perea M. Coords. Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico; pp. 49-62. https://www.consocpec.com.mx/assets/files/2023_Temas-actualesyproblemasemergentesdelaganadera-Protegido.pdf

 Book

Author 1 A & Author 2 B. Year. Title of the book, 3rd ed.; Publisher: Publisher location, country; pp: 196. DOI or URL

María A, Ramírez B & Zagoya J. 2021. Ideas and experiences related to environment and sustainability in neoliberal Mexico. El Colegio de Tlaxcala y Colegio de Postgraduados: Tlaxcala, Mexico; pp. 152. https://revistacoltlax.mx/omp/index.php/repositoriocoltlax/catalog/book/7

Thesis

Author 1 AB. Year. Title of the thesis. Thesis grade, University granting the degree, country. Available at the following URL

Lima M. 2021. Analysis of short marketing circuits of small producer specialty coffee. Master's thesis. Colegio de Postgraduados Campus Córdoba, Mexico. http://hdl.handle.net/10521/4728

Conferences

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD & Author 3 EF. Year. Title of the presentation. In: Title of the complete work (if available), Proceedings of the Conference Name, Conference Location, Country, Conference Date; Editor 1 & Editor 2, (eds) (if available); Publisher: City, Country, Year (if available); Abstract Number (optional), Pagination (optional). URL.

Luis S, García RC, García R, Arana OA & Ramírez B. 2021. Effect of high-fructose corn syrup price on honey (Apis mellifera L.) price in Mexico. In: IV International Congress of Agronomic and Veterinary Sciences. “Health in production systems in the face of climatic effects”. Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Mexico, October 5, 2021. Cigarroa FF, (ed.). Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas: Chiapas, Mexico, 2022; 14, 56-59. https://www.cicav.unach.mx/images/cicav22/Memoria_CICAV_2022.pdf

Governmental or Non-Governmental Agency

Author 1 AB and Author 2 CD, or the name of the issuing governmental or non-governmental agency. Year. Name of government regulation, URL

WHO - World Health Organization. 2006. WHO Child Growth Standards: Length/height for age, weight for age, weight for length, weight for height, and body mass index for age. Methods and development, https://www.who.int/es/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight

Citations

Direct quotes consisting of more than 40 words should be written independently in the text with an indentation to the left of the entire paragraph, with no quotation marks.

Indirect or paraphrased citations employ the ideas of an author, but written in the writer's own words.

 Author-based citations should be written as: Pérez (2021) states…

Text-based citations should be written as: Text (Pérez, 2021).

When citations have two authors, write the last names of each author, separated by “y” in Spanish, but “&” in English.

Pérez y Sánchez (2022)…

Hill & White (2022)

(Pérez y Sánchez, 2022)

 (Hill & White, 2022)

When citations have more than three authors, only write the last name of the first author, followed by “et al.” in italics.

Pérez et al. (2019)

Hill et al. (2019)

(Pérez et al., 2019)

(Hill et al., 2019)

When citing two or more works by different authors in the text, they should be separated by a semicolon (;)

Text…. (Pérez et al., 2019; Hill, 2021).

Footnotes

Should be reduced to the essential minimum. They will be placed at the bottom of the page and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.

Authors

The names of the authors and their institutions should not appear anywhere in the article, as the review is double-blind. Therefore, the names of authors and institutions should be entered on the platform in Step 3, along with their details when uploading the article. Names in Spanish should be presented in full (with both last names); however, by mutual agreement with the authors, they can be abbreviated in the final version. The main author will invariably appear first in the credits. To add more authors of your article on the platform, in Step 3, click on Add Contributors on the right side, just after the Abstract.