The final text to be submitted as a book chapter can be uploaded to this platform until 15 February 2026 (non-extendable date)*.

It should be remembered that participation is optional.

The publication of the collective volume is planned for mid-2025 by Dykinson. All authors will be duly notified of the publication.

You have a mandatory style template in Word format that you must use to edit the text. It is necessary to edit it with Microsoft Word as the template contains internal metadata for the platform to identify the documents. We recommend replacing the example texts with your own, respecting and using the proposed styles. This will facilitate all subsequent layout work by the conference organisers and compliance with the publication deadlines.

The maximum length of the chapters, including all the sections, will be 20 pages. This will include the bibliography, footnotes, tables and graphs.

This text will include a summary and keywords.

You can change the title of the final text with respect to the title of the defended paper as long as the proposed structure is maintained.**.

The structure of the text should be articulated as follows:

1. If it is a research paper, an experiment or a literature/systematic review, it should contain information on: introduction, objectives (with or without hypotheses), method, results and conclusion.
2. If it is a theoretical review or reflection, the structure to be followed will be: introduction, objectives, development of the topic and conclusions.

The mandatory citation system is APA 7th edition.

You can consult the rules of the APA 7th system in this link. 

However, it is advisable to use a bibliographic reference manager to avoid citation errors, duplications, etc. Some examples of bibliographic reference managers: Zotero, Bibme, EasyBib, Mendeley, Endnote, Refworks, Bibcitation or Bibtex.

It is recommended to include the DOI in those articles or book chapters that have it.

The maximum file size that can be uploaded to the platform is 10 Mb. If your document is larger than this, please check the resolution of the images (100dpi for example is sufficient for digital editing).

Book chapters will be reviewed by members of the scientific committee who may accept the chapter, propose major or minor changes or reject the chapter.***.

Once your chapter has been reviewed by blind peer review, a certificate of participation in the chapbook will be available in the "certificates" section of your work desk.

Important warnings:

Submission of proposals for publication as book chapters implies acceptance of and compliance with the above-mentioned rules and deadlines.

Ethical aspects. The UCAV and the Digitalization and Business Conference aim to ensure compliance with ethical standards in scientific research. Therefore, the following points are non-negotiable:

1. Maintain an ethical commitment to the academic community and society, inspired by international agreements taken from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors must take into account the indications of this Committee.
2. Proposals for papers must be original (zero tolerance for plagiarism), scientific or professional in nature. They cannot be papers that have already been published or presented previously or simultaneously at another conference. To this end, various specific anti-plagiarism tools will be used, setting reasonable margins and analysing cases that exceed these margins (20% max.). The following are considered as plagiarism: self-plagiarism, errors in the wording of attributions, the nature of the text, quotations, etc. In the event that any of these cases are detected, the papers will be rejected and there will be no right to a refund of the amounts paid to the organisation.

The Scientific Committee will reject and, therefore, will not publish (informing those concerned) all papers that do not meet the above requirements.

* Failure to deliver the book chapter by the author/authors on the indicated date will result in their exclusion from the final work, without the right to a refund of the amounts paid to the organisation. Also, the delivery of a file on time that is not the final version or does not correspond to the work, with the aim of gaining time and making changes, will lead to their exclusion from the final work, without the right to a refund of the amounts paid to the organisation.

** Under no circumstances may the contents or the object of the research be modified. This situation will lead to their exclusion from the final work, without the right to a refund of the amounts paid to the organisation.

*** If the chapter, once modifications have been requested, does not meet the minimum quality standards, it will be definitively rejected for publication, resulting in its exclusion from the final work, without the right to reimbursement of the amounts paid to the organisation.