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Author Guidelines

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There are no charges for submission, revision, editing, or publication, and all published works have free access.

FILES

For the first submission, we request two files, “Cover” and “Manuscript”, and both must be attached as “Article text”.

The two files must be in Microsoft Word format (*.doc, *.docx). We ask for a document with minimal formatting. We suggest, for the text body, Times New Roman or Arial, size 12, spacing 1.5, and justified paragraph.

Cover

Identification document. This file will not be shared with the Reviewers.

It must contain the following information:

1. Title (up to 20 words);
2. Section (Bioscience, Health, or Innovation – more information in About);
3. Full name of the authors (up to nine), informing highest degree (Ph.D., M.Sc., B.Sc., Lic., etc.), affiliation (name of the institution with address), e-mail address, and ORCID;
4. One author identified as “corresponding author”;
5. Brief description on how each author contributed to the work;
6. Conflicts of interest statement (if there are no conflicts of interest, write “the authors have no conflicts of interest to declare”);
7. Funding agencies, if present.

Manuscript

The content of the work, without information that can lead to the identification of the authors. This is the file that will be shared with the Reviewers.

It must contain:

1. Title

- Up to 20 words.

2. Abstract

- Do not exceed 300 words. 

3. Keywords

- 3-5 keywords corresponding to DeCS/MeSH. 

4. Título, resumo e palavras-chave

- Repeat items “1”, “2”, and “3” in Portuguese, following the same instructions.

5. Text body

- Do no exceed 5000 words, excluding tables and legends;

- If highlighting is needed, use only italics.

5.1. Sections and subsections

- For original articles and systematic reviews, structure the manuscript with the sections “Introduction”, “Material and Methods”, “Results”, “Discussion”, and “Conclusion”;

- Case reports must be structured as “Introduction”, “Case”, “Discussion”, and “Conclusion”;

- Structuring of narrative reviews is flexible;

- If subsections are needed, avoid using more than two levels;

- For better legibility, we suggest using bold letters for section titles and italics for subsection titles. We also suggest the use of Arabic numbers for sections (1, 2, 3...) and subsections (1.1., 1.2., 1.3...).

5.2. Ethical considerations

- In the “Material and Methods” section, all works involving humans (directly or indirectly), or animals must present the approval protocol number of the ethics committee in research.

5.3. Figures and tables

- Must be inserted in the text document accompanying their respective legends, where pertinent (i.e., following the paragraph where they were first mentioned);

- In case of acceptance, high resolution versions of the figure files might be requested, in PNG or TIFF format;

- Tables must be added in editable format, not as figures;

- The location of these elements, in the published version, might be altered.

6. References

- Citations must use the Vancouver superscript format;

- Aiming for practicality and better results, we recommend the use of citation managers (Zotero, Mendeley, JabRef...). The CSL file for Vancouver superscript can be downloaded here.

6.1. Citations along the text

- The numbers must always be positioned after periods (.) and commas (,), but before colons (:) and semicolons (;);

- In case of multiple citations, separate using commas (e.g., ^1,2). However, if there are three or more consecutive citations, use a hyphen (e.g., ^1-3). Both possibilities can be combined (e.g., ^1,2-4);

- For narrative citations, when the name of the author is included within the text, cite the name of the author followed by the reference number (e.g., Smith¹). In case of two authors, present both names (e.g., Smith and Jones¹). If there are three authors or more, use “et al.” (e.g., Smith et al.¹).

6.2. Reference list

- The reference list must be included in the section References, added after the Conclusion section;

- Use left alignment;

- References must be presented in the same order of citation in the text;

- In cases where there are more than six authors, use “et al.” after the sixth;

- Journal names must be in their abbreviated form.

6.2.1. Examples

- Article:

1. Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(7):284–7
2. Hanahan D, Weinberg RA. Hallmarks of cancer: the next generation. Cell. 2011;144(5):646–74.

- Book:

3. Hofmeyr GJ, Neilson JP, Alfirevic Z, Crowther CA, Gulmezoglu AM, Hodnett ED et al. A Cochrane pocketbook: Pregnancy and childbirth. Chichester (United Kingdom): John Wiley & Sons; 2008.
4. Guyton AC, Hall JE. Guyton and hall textbook of medical physiology. 14th ed. Philadelphia (USA): Elsevier; 2020.

- Book chapter:

5. Jackwood MW, Wit S. Infectious Bronchitis. In: Swayne DE, Boulianne M, Logue CM, McDougald LR, Nair V, Suarez DL, et al., editors. Diseases of Poultry. 1st ed. Wiley; 2020. p. 167–88.
6. Rowlands TE, Haine LS. Acute limb ischaemia. In: Donnelly R, London NJM, editors. ABC of arterial and venous disease. 2nd ed. West Sussex (United Kingdom): Blackwell Publishing; 2009. p. 123–140.

7. Supplementary materials

- If needed, add a section with supplementary materials after the References section;

- Cite the supplementary materials along the text in the same way as figures or tables, but with a capital “S” before the number. For example: Figure S1 or Table S1.

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