Arbitration Process

The article evaluation process complies with the assignment process through the Open Journal System as shown in the following figure:

All announcements and interaction with authors are made through the journal portal, announcements are linked directly to email.

The process begins with the review of the submitted article. Within 15 days, the author receives information about the relevance of his or her article and compliance with the guidelines requested by the journal regarding content, format, and other editorial policies. The author makes the corrections and sends them again for review by the Editor of the BLC magazine within a maximum period of 15 days before the closing of the call. At this stage the work can be rejected without additional evaluation if it does not comply with the journal's policies or is accepted for peer evaluation.

The works may be rejected in this first evaluation because they do not meet the requirements of writing, presentation, structure or are not sufficiently original and/or relevant to the publication to be edited.

Peer Review.

The works accepted in this first stage begin the evaluation through the “double blind” process; the articles are sent to peer experts in the respective area, whose identities will not be known by the author and, in turn, the peer evaluators. nor will they know the identity(s) of the author(s).

Once the results of the evaluations have been received, the Editorial Committee meets and defines the response regarding the article evaluation process and communicates any of the following responses:

Accepted for publication without modifications: the article will be published as received and only spelling and style corrections will be made.

Accepted for publication with corrections: the work will be published once the authors make the corrections suggested by the evaluators. These will be reviewed by the editorial committee, who will decide whether they are accepted or not.

Rejected: The article is not recommended for publication.

If the work is accepted, but with the recommendation to make modifications, it will be returned to the author(s) along with the referees' recommendations so that they can prepare a new corrected version, for which they have the time indicated by the Committee. Editorial, within a maximum period of 15 calendar days.

The works are received by call, the works that arrive once the call has closed will be transferred to the next call and the initial review will be carried out once the next call has closed. Therefore, it is recommended that you adjust your submissions to the calls.

Unpublished works will be filed as rejected articles.