Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission guidelines

All manuscripts to be considered for publication in the Journal of Health & Biological Sciences - JHBS must be submitted electronically.

To submit articles, prior registration is required via the link: http://201.20.109.36:2627/index.php/medicina/user/register

For those who are already registered, only electronic submissions of articles will be accepted, at the following address: http://201.20.109.36:2627/index.php/medicina/author/submit/1

Through this service, authors can submit their articles and monitor their status throughout the editorial process. This form of submission ensures greater speed and security in the submission of their manuscript, streamlining the evaluation process.

The author must choose a category for the manuscript (Original Articles, Review Articles, Brief Communications, Case Reports, Images or Obituaries). The responsibility for the content of the manuscript lies entirely with the author and his/her co-authors.

During the article submission process, the authors must attach the following documents:

a) Statement of responsibility for the manuscript to be submitted, ensuring that the material has not been published or is under consideration by another scientific journal.

b) Statement of conflict of interests that may interfere with the results of the research.

c) Opinion of an ethics committee recognized by the National Health Committee (CNS) - for studies involving human and animal experimentation.

With regard to resubmission and revisions, the journal differentiates between:

a) Manuscripts that have been rejected;

b) Manuscripts that will be reevaluated after corrections requested from the authors have been made.

In the case of resubmission, the author is informed that his/her work has been rejected and if he/she wishes the editors to reconsider this decision, the author may make the changes he/she deems necessary and resubmit them. However, this will be a new submission, so a new number will be generated for the manuscript in the system.

In the event of a review, the author must redo and/or change his/her manuscript based on the recommendations and suggestions of the reviewers. The author must then return the file for a second review, not forgetting to provide the same number assigned to the manuscript, so that we can inform the final opinion (acceptance or rejection).

Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author so that the text can be carefully checked. Changes or edits to the edited manuscript will not be permitted at this stage of the editing process. Authors must return the corrected proofs within a maximum period of 5 (five) business days after they are received.

Accepted articles will be included in the journal issues according to the schedule in which they were submitted, reviewed and accepted, or at the discretion of the editorial board.

Publication Costs

There will be no publication costs.

Idioms

Articles can be written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. The journal, depending on the field of the article can provide the translation service for the English language, free of charge to authors. When translated into English it is suggested that the text be revised by someone who has English as his native language and, preferably, by an expert on the subject matter.

Types of formatting and manuscript

1. Original Articles: should report original research works which have not yet been published or submitted for publication in any other scientific journal. They must be the result of empirical research, conceptual or experimental. In the case of clinical trials, the manuscript must be accompanied by the registration number in the Institution at whichthe clinical trial was registered. These requirements are in accordance with the BIREME/OPAS/OMS and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org) and the ICTPR Workshop. The word limit is 3,500 (excluding abstract and references); a summary with up to 250 words, structured with the topics: Introduction, methods, results and conclusions is naturally required. Up to five illustrations (tables and figures) will be allowed. A minimum of three key-words must be provided, but they should not exceed a maximum of five. It must have maximum 30 references.

2. Review articles: review articles must include critical analysis of recent advances and not be mere literature review. Only review articles that are requested by the editor will be considered and these must include a structured summary with a minimum of 250 words(and  3,500 words at the maximum), five illustrations (tables andfigures) with the same formatting as the original article. A minimum of three key-words should be provided and a maximum of five. It must have maximum 40 references.

3. Brief Communicationnotes: brief communication notes must consist of brief reports about new interesting results within the service area of the journal. These must have no more than 2,000 words, with the same formatting of the original article, and must include summary and abstract structured with sub-items such as introduction, methods, results and conclusions, and 15 references at the most. Two illustrations (tables and figures) are allowed. Brief communication notes must include a summary with 100 words at maximum. At least three key-words should be provided and a maximum of five. The topics introduction: methods, results, discussion and conclusions must not appear in the structure of the manuscript.

4. Case reports: case reports shouldbe submitted in the format of short narrative with maximum length of 1,500 words, with up to three illustrations (tables and figures), up to 12 references, summary and unstructured abstract and with no more than 100 words. A minimum of three key-words should be provided and a maximum of five. The manuscript should be structured with the following topics: Introduction, Case Report, Discussion and References. It must have maximum 15 references.

5. Images: up to five pictures with the best quality possible. Only four authors and up to five references (not cited in the text) are allowed. The maximum length is 300 words with emphasis on the description of the picture. The topics should involve some clinical lessons, containing title and description of the figures and should preferably focus on infectious diseases, molecular biology and genetics. It must have maximum 15 references.

6. Obituary: should be written preferably by a fellow performer and highlight the scientific profile and contribution of the deceased professional.

Preparation of manuscripts

The manuscripts must be typed in doc, .txt. or rtf, sourceTimes New Roman, size 12, with double spacing throughout the whole document (including abstract, acknowledgments, references, and tables), with margins of 2,5 cm. All pages should be numbered in the top right-hand corner. Avoid as much as possible the abbreviations and acronyms. In certain cases, it is suggested that the first appearance in the text be put in the long form of the words and the acronym in parentheses with the short form of the acronym in parenthesis. Example: Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).

Personal communications and unpublished data should not be included in the list of references, but merely mentioned in the text and in a foot-note on the page in which it is mentioned. If essential, they can be incorporated into the appropriate place in the text between brackets as follows: (DB Rolim: personal communication, 2011) or (Oliveira Lima JW: unpublished data).

Search ethical criteria must be respected. For that matter, the authors must explain that the search was conducted within the standards required by the Declaration of Helsinki and adopted by the Committee of ethics in research (CEP in Portuguese) of the institution where the research was carried out, with its respective approval number.

The manuscript must include:

Title: The title must be concise, clear and as informative as possible. It should not contain abbreviations and should not exceed 200 characters, including spaces. It must include the English version of the title.

Short title: Short titles must not exceed the maximum of 70 characters, for purposes of caption on the printed pages.

Authors: The manuscript must include the names of the authors in the direct order and without abbreviations, highest degree possessed, affiliations as well as registrations in Basis such as ORCID and ReserachID, in case they have them (the ORCID and ResearchID registrations may be obtained free of charge through the sites http://orcid.org and http://www.researcherid, respectifully; with the pertinent addresses together with contact information (phone, address and e-mail to the corresponding author) and all co-authors. Authors must ensure that the manuscript has not been previously published or is not being considered for publication in another journal.Authors are required to provide the names and contacts of three unbiased potential reviewers.

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Structured summary: This must condense the results achieved and the main conclusions in such a way that a reader unfamiliar with the subject matter which is presented in the text will be able to understand the main implications of the article. The summary should not exceed 250 words (100 words in the case of brief communication releases) and abbreviations should be avoided. Summaries should be subdivided into: introduction, methods, results and conclusions.

Keywords: These should be placed immediately below the summary, structured according to the type of article submitted, three to five descriptors (keywords) must be included as well as their translation into the Key-words (descriptors). The descriptors must be extracted from the “Health Sciences descriptors” (DeCS, in Portuguese): http:// decs.bvs.br, which contains terms in Portuguese, Spanish and English, and "Medical Subject Headings (MeSH): www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh, for terms in English only.

Introduction: The Introduction should be brief and highlight the purposes of the research, in addition to its relationship with other jobs in the area. An extensive review of the literature is not recommended; The opening section should contain strictly pertinent references that will lead to showing the importance of the issue and to justify the work. At the end of the introduction, the goals of the study must have been made quite clear.

Methods: These should be rather detailed so that readers and reviewers can understand precisely what was done and allow it to be repeated by others. -Technical standards need only be cited.

Ethical aspects: In the case of experiments involving human subjects, indicate whether the procedures being followed are in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible Committee for human experimentation (institutional, regional or national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, revised in 2000. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether they have been carried out in accordance with the proper guide from the National Research Council, or with any law relating to the care and use of laboratory animals. Approval from the Ethics Committee  must also be submitted.

Poll results: These must be registered with a concise account of the new information and avoid repeating in the text data presented in tables and illustrations.

Discussion:  Discussion must be strictly related to the study being reported. Do not include a general review on the topic, thus avoiding it to become excessively long.

Acknowledgements: These should be short, concise and restricted to those actually needed, and, in the case of organs of fomentation, should not bear acronyms. There must be express permission of nominees (see document Responsibility for Acknowledgements). There should be clearinformation  about all kinds of encouragement received from funding agencies or other funding bodies or institutions of the research. The existence of scientific initiation scholarships, masters or doctorate should also be referred.

Conflicts of interest: All authors must disclose any kind of conflict of interest while developing  the study.

Nomenclature: The use of standardized nomenclature in all fields of science and medicine is an essential step for the integration and connection of scientific information in the published literature. We recommend the use of correct and established nomenclature wherever possible:
We encourage the use of the International System of Units (SI). When not used exclusively this one, please provide the SI value in parentheses after each value.The names of species should be in italics (e.g., Homo sapiens) and must be written in full the full name of the genus and species, both in the title of the manuscript as well as the first mention in the text of an organism. Thereafter, the first letter of the genus followed by the full name of the species may be used. Genes, mutations, genotypes and alleles should be indicated in italics. Use the recommended name by consulting the database of appropriate genetic nomenclature. For human genes suggest database HUGO. It is sometimes advisable to indicate the synonyms for the gene the first time it appears in the text. Prefixes genes, such as those used for oncogenes or cellular localization should be shown in roman: v-fes, c-MYC, etc. To facilitate the identification of substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients is recommended to use the International Nonproprietary Names - INN (also known as rINN). Each INN is a unique name that is globally recognized, moreover, is publicly owned.

References: The references cited should be listed at the end of the article, in numerical order, following the General Rules of the Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals (http://www.icmje.org). See also: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine.

The names of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus(http://www2.bg.am.poznan.pl/czasopisma/medicus.php?lang=eng ou http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).

Citations in the text: Must be accompanied by the corresponding number in superscript or exponent, following the numerical sequence of the quote in the text that appears for the first time. They should not be used parentheses, brackets and similar. The citation number may be accompanied or not by name of author and year of publication. When there are two authors, both are linked by the conjunction "and". 
Cite all authors of the work until they are six. If more than six (6) authors, cite the first six followed by et al. Abbreviations of journals should be in accordance with the Index Medicus / MEDLINE (See: http://www2.bg.am.poznan.pl/czasopisma/medicus.php?lang=eng or http://www.ncbi.nlm .nih.gov / nlmcatalog / journals). Only Citations of journals indexed, or, in the case of books, holding registration ISBN (International Standard Book Number).

The editors encourage citation of articles published in the Journal of Health & Biological Sciences.

The accuracy of the references and citations included in the manuscript are the authors’ full responsibility, and theirs only.

Pictures: The illustrations (photos, drawings, graphics, etc.), must be cited as figures. They should preferably be submitted in TIFF format at high resolution, be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals (e.g., Figure 1), in the order in which they are cited in the text; should be identified outside the text, by number and short title of work. Captions must be presented at the end of the figure; the illustrations must be sufficiently clear, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. If there should be any figure drawn from another work, previously published, authors must apply for permission in writing for its reproduction. These commitments must accompany the manuscript submitted for publication. It is preferable that the figures used be produced by the authors themselves.

Graphics must be saved with the extension .xls or doc. They ought not be copied or pasted from one program to another. No graphics displayed with gridlines will be accepted and the elements (bars, circles) should not display volume (3-D). In captions, symbols, arrows, numbers, letters and other signs must be identified and their meaning clarified.

The maps should be vectorized (drawn) professionally using Corel Draw or Illustrator, in high resolution and its dimensions should not exceed 21.5 x 28.0 cm.

The photos and some more complex images must be sent with good resolution (at least 300 dpi) TIFF format, preferably prepared using Adobe Photoshop. They must be sent in the form of additional document and should not exceed 2 MB.

The captions sent as an attachment should be placed, with the respective number at the end of the main text of the article, after the references, and also in the product supplement document according to the instructions which will be provided at the time of submission. Captions should be succinct, but self-explanatory, with clear information, in order to dispense consultation to the text.

Tables: tables with their legends should be typed double-spaced, with a short title and descriptive and submitted in a separate file as a supplement. All tables should be numbered in order of appearance in the text. The caption should appear in its upper part, preceded by the word table, followed by the serial number in the text, in Arabic numerals (e.g. Table 1, table 2, and so on). They must preferably show information on statistical processing. The titles of the tables should be self-explanatory, so that tables are understood without consulting the text. More detailed or specific explanations should be provided in foot-notes, identified by symbols in the following sequence: *†, ‡, §, ¶,** †, ‡, ‡. No underlining or drawing of lines withinthe tables should be done, and no space to separate columns should be use. No space should be left on either side of the ± symbol.