Regarding the use and promotion of preprints

This journal will accept manuscripts that have previously been published on recognized preprint servers such as SciELO preprints, Zenodo, HAL, OSF, and all supported groups, among others. Preprints can also be available in institutional repositories or open-access repositories such as Internet Archive or any other recognized repositories for this purpose. The requirement is that it is deposited in a server that provides a persistent link, such as a DOI, ARK, or handle. Authors who have published a preprint must include the persistent link where the deposited document is located. This journal encourages the publication of preprints.

A preprint is a final manuscript that has not undergone peer review and that the author has directly published before it appears in a journal or any other type of medium involving editing. Preprints are useful for the community to provide feedback on the manuscript. They allow the community to observe the changes the document has undergone throughout the editing process in cases where it is published by a journal. It allows the author to have evidence that they are studying the addressed problem and can be used as evidence in cases of intellectual property disputes.

A preprint is not a previous publication in a journal or any other medium or format. The preprint does not have the endorsement of the servers that host it. When citing a preprint, the preprint server cannot be mentioned as its publisher. Instead, it should be referred to as "Preprint" along with a persistent link.