Ingeniare. Revista chilena de ingeniería, vol. 16 N^o 1, 2008, pp. 128-137

ARTÍCULOS

ALGUNAS PAUTAS PARA LA ESCRITURA DE ARTÍCULOS CIENTÍFICOS

 SOME HINTS FOR WRITING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Carlos M. Zapata¹                     Juan D. Velásquez²

1 Grupo de Lenguajes Computacionales. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Carrera 80 Nº 65-223. Medellín, Colombia. E-mail: cmzapata@unal.edu.co
2 Grupo de Estadística Computacional y Análisis de Datos. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Carrera 80 Nº 65-223. Medellín, Colombia. E-mail: jdvelasq@unal.edu.co

RESUMEN

El objetivo de este artículo es presentar, a aquellos investigadores neófitos, una serie de pautas que faciliten los procesos de escritura y publicación de manuscritos en revistas científicas de corriente principal. En la comunidad científica, una investigación sólo se completa cuando los resultados se socializan a través de artículos en revistas arbitradas que garanticen la originalidad, importancia y validez científica de los hallazgos reportados. Consecuentemente, es necesario que los investigadores desarrollen destrezas y habilidades en la escritura científica. Sin embargo, el proceso de preparación de un manuscrito, desde su fase inicial hasta su publicación final, suele ser largo y difícil, debido a algunos factores clave que tienen influencia sobre su calidad. Este artículo, suministra lineamientos generales sobre la preparación de manuscritos y entrega, también, pautas alrededor de las buenas prácticas de escritura de artículos con miras a facilitar la revisión por parte de los árbitros. En este sentido, este trabajo constituye aporte para quienes se inician en la difusión de la investigación científica.

Palabras clave: Escritura científica, revisión especializada, métodos de escritura.

ABSTRACT

The objective of this paper is to present, to those neophyte researchers, a set of hints that facilitate manuscript writing and publishing processes needed for high class scientific journals. In the scientific community, a research would only be completed when the results are shared through papers in peer-reviewed journals that guarantees the originality, importance and scientific validation of reported contributions. Consequently, researchers have the necessity to develop skills and abilities in scientific writing. However, the manuscript preparation process from the initial phase to the final publication is usually slow and difficult, due to some key factors having influence over its quality. In this paper, we present general guidelines about manuscript preparation and we give some hints about good scientific writing practices. The aim of these hints is easing the review done by the peer-reviewers in the evaluation process. In this sense, this work contributes to the newcomers in scientific research socialization. 

Keywords: Scientific writing, peer review, writing methods.

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Recibido el 14 de diciembre de 2006, aceptado el 19 de diciembre de 2007