Submissions

Author Guidelines

POLICIES AGAINST PLAGIARISM AND BAD CONDUCT IN RESEARCH

We would like to inform collaborators on editorial improvements that foreground the integrity of articles published by the Journal of Health & Biological Sciences - JHBS. Following guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) stimulating the identification of the practice of plagiarism, bad practices, frauds, possible violations in Ethics and indicting, we would like to recommend the following:

1. Authors are invited to visit the COPE website http://publicationethics.org for information on authors and editors on Ethics in research;

2. Prior to submission of scientific articles, authors should follow the criteria below:

- articles that contain data acquisition or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications should refer to the latter explicitly and directly;

- articles with a critical review on the intellectual contents of other authors should duly quote the latter authors;

- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;

- the definite approval of the article is the role of the respective editors and of the editorial board.

3. So that the above criteria could be complied with, the following procedures will be taken:

a)  Editors will evaluate manuscripts by Plagiarism detect or Plagium system immediately after submission. Contents of the scientific articles will be evaluated to identify any sort of plagiarism, double submissions, already published articles and possible frauds in research;

b)  With these results in hand, the editors and the editorial board decide whether the manuscript is sent for the review of peers, who will also make their own evaluations;

c) After acceptance and prior to publication, the article may again be assessed.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Only electronic submissions will be accepted articles at the following address:http://201.20.109.36:2627/index.php/medicina/author/submit/1. Through this service the authors can submit articles and track their status of that throughout the editorial process. This submission form ensures a quick and safe submission of your manuscript, streamlining the evaluation of the process.

Submission guidelines

All manuscripts to be considered for publication in the Journal of Health & Biological Sciences (JHBS) must be submitted electronically via the online submission system in the address:http://201.20.109.36:2627/index.php/medicina/author/submit/1.

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 is entirely pertinent to the author and his co-authors.

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

a) Declaration of responsibility for the manuscript being sent, ensuring that the material has not been previously published or whether it is under consideration by another scientific periodical.

b) The copyright transfer statement must be sent to the Editorial Office (secretaria.jhbs@fchristus.edu.br) only after the acceptance of the manuscript for publication in the journal.

At the end of the article, stating whether there is or not a conflict of interest.

With respect to resubmission, and reviews, the journal distinguishes between:

a) manuscripts that have been rejected;

b) manuscripts that will be re-evaluated after carrying out the corrections which may have been required by the authors.

In the event of a new submission, the author will be informed whether his work has been rejected or not. In case the author may wish to requirethe editors to reconsider their decision of rejecting his manuscript, the author can make the necessary changes and resubmit it. Then, a new submission number for the manuscript will be generated in the system.

In the event of revision, the author must remodel his manuscript and change it according to the reviewers’ recommendations and suggestions. Then the author is expected to return the manuscript for a second analysis, not forgetting to inform the new number assigned to it, so that we can reach the final opinion (acceptance or rejection).

Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for the text to be carefully checked. Changes or edits to the manuscript will not be allowed at this step of the editing process. The authors should return the proofs duly corrected within the maximum period of 5 (five) days after they have received them.

The accepted papers will make up the future issues of the journal according to the timeline which they were submitted, reviewed and accepted or at the discretion of the editorial staff.

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).

Examples:

Article (Printed journals)

Zamboni CB, Suzuki MF, Metairon S, Oak MDF, Sant'Anna OA. Investigation of whole blood of miceusing neutron activation analysis SJLJ. J Radio analytical Nucl Chem 2009;281(6):97-99.

Articles on the internet

Alves WF, Aguiar EE, Guimarães SB, da Silva Filho AR, Pinheiro PM, Soares GSD, et al. I-Alanyl – Glutamine preoperative infusion in patients with critical limb ischemis subjected to distal revascularization reduces tissue damage and protects from oxidative stress. Ann Vasc Surg [Internet]. 2010 Apr 5 [cited 2011 Feb 3];24(4):461-7. Available from: http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0890-5096/PIIS089050961000018X.pdf.

Article on the internet with DOI:

Correia LL, Silveira DMI, Silva AC, Campos JS, Machado MMT, Rocha HAL, et al. Prevalência e determinantes de obesidade e sobrepeso em mulheres em idade reprodutiva residentes na região semiárida do Brasil. Ciênc Saúde Coletiva [Internet]. 2011 Jan 2 [cited 2012 Feb 3];16(1):133-145. Available from: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232011000100017&lng=en. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-81232011000100017.

Articles  with indication for PubMed:

Cavalcanti LP, de Paula FJ, Pontes RJ, Heukelbach J, Lima JW. Survival of larvivorous fish used for biological control of Aedesaegypti larvae in domestic containers with different chlorine concentrations. J Med Entomol. 2009 Jul;46(4):841-4. PubMed PMID: 19645286.

Books

Personal author

MCS Minayo. Social research: theory, method and creativity. 22th ed. Petrópolis: Vozes; 2003.

Author (s) editor (s), Coordinator (s), among others

Silva AC, Carvalho HMB, Campos JS, Sampaio TC, coordinators. Family doctor's book. Fortaleza: Christus College; 2008. 558 p.

Book with editing information

Silva Filho AR, Leitão AMF, Bruno JA, Sena JIN. Text-Atlas of human anatomy. 2nd ed. Fortaleza: Christus College; 2011. 251 p.

Book chapter

Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

Silva Filho AR, Leitão AMR, Barreto JA, Freire TL. Anatomy applied to gynecological examination. In: Magalhães MLC, Medeiros FC, Pinheiro LS, Valente PV, coordinators. Gynecology problems based. Fortaleza: Christus College; 2011. p. 23-34.

Congress proceedings

Ilias I, Pacak K. Anatomical and functional imaging of metastatic pheochromocytoma. In: Pacak K, Aguilera G, Sabban E, Kvetnansky R, editors. Stress: current neuroendocrine and genetic approaches. 8th Symposium on Catecholamines and Other Neurotransmitters in Stress; 2003 Jun 28 - Jul 3; Smolenice Castle, Slovakia. New York: New York Academy of Sciences; 2004. P. 495-504.

Rice AS, Farquhar-Smith WP, Bridges D, Brooks JW. Canabioids and pain. In: Dostorovsky JO, Carr DB, Koltzenburg M, editors. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Pain; 2002 Aug 17-22; San Diego, CA. Seattle (WA): IASP Press; c2003. P. 437-68.

Academic  works

Rocha JLC. Effects of Mitomicine-C topical burn mice [dissertation]. [Fortaleza]: Ceará Federal University; 2010. 53 p.

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.

Examples:

According to Pamplona et al (2010), Dengue hemorrhagic fever has been bringing great public health challenges for Brazil. The impact of a health problem can be measured by its severity and by the social value that it represents for society, i.e., by its actual or potential impact and its repercussion on socioeconomic development^9.

The hospital lethality rate due to DHF in Recife was 6.8%, with progression to death in around 11 days after the first symptoms³. This was close to the data found in the present study. In the studies conducted in Recife and Cuba^3,11…

For more examples, see also:http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/vancouv.pdf

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.