Specific publication rules

All submissions must be original (unpublished) and should not be simultaneously under consideration by other journals or editorial bodies.

If an article is partially or fully published on event or conference websites, a preprint server (such as SciELO Preprints, PMC, PLOS, MedRxiv, etc.), or an academic social network (like ResearchGate), this should be disclosed to the editorial team.

Additionally, submissions must meet the following criteria:

  • - To be submitted in Microsoft Word file, in Times New Roman 12 point font and 1.5 line spacing.
  • - Adhere to the APA publication standards. (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7ª edición).
  • - In the area of Medical Sciences, Vancouver should be used (www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine or https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html )
  • - Include abstract and key words in Spanish and English of 150 and 250 words. Specify objective, relevance of the research, methodology, results and conclusions.
  • - Include Spanish title and English title.
  • The APC of this journal is 225 USD and 250 for health articles. Publication charges should only be paid by the authors once the articles have been accepted.
  • NOTE: When making a submission, in the "Citations" section, the bibliography cited in the text to be submitted must be inserted.

  • All publications in the journal will be open access and you will not need to pay to view them.

     

  • We receive:
  • - Original research papers.
  • - Review articles.
    • - Articles related to medicine and health sciences
    •         - Case report
    •         - Systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis

 

Download the format of the article by clicking on this link

 

The author defines the type of manuscript in the submission through the OJS system. The types of manuscripts received by the journal are:

  • Original Research Papers: Present original results of research projects. They respond to the IMRD structure (Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusions). Recommended length: From 3000 to 10000 words, up to 6 figures and 6 tables will be admitted, at least 15 bibliographical references in APA format should be included.

 

  • Review articles: Systematize and integrate the results of published or unpublished research on the state of the art of the subject matter. It must include at least 25 bibliographic references in APA format, preferably current and directly related to the subject matter, highlighting the existing academic debate.  The suggested structure for this type of article is as follows: introduction, development, practical applications or future lines of research, conclusions, acknowledgments, references, etc. Recommended length: From 4000 to 10,000 words. Up to 6 figures and 6 tables are allowed.

 

  • Health Science:
    • Original Research Papers: Present original results of research projects. They respond to the IMRD structure (Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusions). Recommended length: From 3000 to 10000 words, up to 6 figures and 6 tables will be admitted, at least 15 bibliographical references in Vancuover format should be included.
    • Case Report: Describe and analyze the results of one or more cases on how events of interest unfolded. To be published, it must contain a literature review. Or the retrospective analysis of more than three clinical cases. The suggested structure for this type of article is Introduction, Statement of the case, Discussion, Conclusions and Vancouver bibliographic references. The maximum length of the text will be from 3000 to 10 000 words. All articles submitted to this section must comply with the CARE guidelines.
    • Systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis: These are articles that include a critical analysis and a synthesis of the multiple publications on a given topic. It uses a systematic method to locate the studies on the subject, employs objective criteria to select the studies included in the review, rules are used to evaluate the quality of the original studies, a synthesis of the quantitative data is carried out, and a summary is made of the studies included in the review. It makes an objective interpretation of the results and may or may not use a mathematical method to evaluate results.  The suggested structure for this type of article is: introduction, development, practical applications or future lines of research, conclusions, acknowledgments, references. The maximum length of the text will be from 3000 to 10000 words and up to 6 figures or tables will be admitted. Authors should follow the recommendations proposed by: PRISMA (http://www.prisma-statement.org/).
  • Controlled clinical trials should follow the CONSORT guidelines (http://www. consortstatement.org/) and should be registered in a public registry of clinical trials in accordance with the regulations of the country of origin of the principal author. We suggest the CHEERS guidelines for the development of health and economic evaluations.
  • Vancouver (www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine o https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html ).

It should be taken into account that, according to the journal quality criteria assumed by our journal, the percentage of theoretical review articles, over the total published per issue, cannot exceed 25%, that is, at least 75% must be original articles that communicate research results. Likewise, at least 80% of the authors must be external to the editorial board and virtually external to the editorial organization of the journal.

 

Errata and retractions:  Errata may be published and we are responsible for the retraction of articles.

 

Formal aspects for the drafting of the common structural elements of the articles:

The title, abstract and keywords must be presented in English and Spanish. 

Title

It should be concise and informative, a maximum of 15 words is suggested.

Authorship:

Authors' names and institutional affiliations must be verified correctly, ORCID and email are mandatory. Indicate all affiliations with an Arabic numeral in superscript at the end of each author's last name. In the journal format you will find examples of the affiliations and presentation of the ORCID code.

Structured summary:

The abstract should be no longer than 150 to 200 words and should be structured as follows: Introduction; Objective; Methods; Results; Conclusions.

Keywords:

Include 3 to 6 keywords after the abstract.

Measurement units

The units of measurement must be according to the International System of Units (SI). If you mention other types of units, please provide their SI equivalent.

Acknowledgments

In this section, thanks are given to the study collaborators, i.e., people who made important contributions to the article, including clinical trial participants. Specific mention should be made of who and what type of research collaboration is being thanked. The authors declare that they have the authorization for the publication of their names to mention the collaborators mentioned in this section.

Examples to include in the Acknowledgements: persons who collaborate only by providing technical assistance, collaborations in the drafting of the manuscript, department heads whose participation is of a general nature.

Conflict of interest statement

Authors must declare any personal or business relationship that may imply bias and therefore a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. Conflicts of interest can be direct or indirect, including financial interest of the authors by the company sponsoring the study; as well as employment, scholarships, per diem payments, travel, consultancies, etc.

If the author holds shares in the company or is employed by the company on either a full or part-time basis, this should be indicated in the conflict-of-interest statement. Failure to do so may result in sanctions.

Funding

Announcing the sources of financial support for the study does not imply a conflict of interest.

Authors should declare the details of institutions that have provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or the preparation of the article, as well as briefly describe the role played by the sponsors in the design of the study, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, the writing of the article or the decision to submit the article for publication. If there was no involvement of any kind, please indicate this as well.

Abbreviations and symbols

Use only ordinary abbreviations; non-standard use of abbreviations may be confusing to readers. Avoid abbreviations in the title of the manuscript. The detailed abbreviation followed by the abbreviation in parentheses should be used in the first mention unless the abbreviation is a standard unit of measurement.

Manuscript submission

Ethics of scientific publishing: see the code of ethics section

Contribution of authorship according to the Taxonomy of Contributor Roles (CRediT)

The role contributions of each author are subject to the CRediT taxonomy (https://casrai.org/credit/). The Taxonomy of contributor roles in Spanish is a tool that distributes the roles of participation in 14 typologies through which an author can be recognized in the publication. 

Each role is defined below:

  • Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of general research objectives and goals.
  • Data healing – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain research data (including software code, where necessary to interpret the data itself) for initial use and subsequent reuse.
  • formal Analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
  • Fund acquisition – Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.
  • Research – Conducting an investigation and research process, specifically conducting experiments, or data/evidence collection.
  • Methodology – Methodology development or design; modeling.
  • Project management – Management and coordination responsibility for the planning and execution of the research activity.
  • Resources – Supply of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources or other analytical tools.
  • Software – Programming, software development; design of computer programs; implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
  • Monitoring – Supervisory and leadership responsibility for the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.
  • Validation – Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replicability/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research products.
  • Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of published work, specifically the visualization/presentation of data.
  • Editing – original draft – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation).
  • Editing – proofreading and editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision - including pre- or post-publication stages.

Authors must fill out the table of authorship contribution, which is found in the journal format

Referencias bib Bibliographic references

References should be as recent and relevant as possible, and carefully written in the following format.

The use of bibliographic managers for the management of bibliographic references, especially Zotero or EndNote, is recommended.

Access rights

All articles published in open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User rights

Permitted reuse by third parties is defined by the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es).

Charge for publication of articles: see under APC

Some final considerations

The first comment refers to the fact that each section of an article should be written in a specific verb tense, as recommended by the APA norms. The information on the recommended verb tenses is illustrated in Table 1. 

Table 1  

 

 

Recommended verb tenses in document writing

Article section

Recommended time

Example

Introduction

 Past 

 Pérez (2020) showed...  

 

 Present perfect *  

 Some researchers have use...  

 Methodology  

 Past

 Participants completed a survey...  

 

 Present perfect*  

 Others have used similar approaches...

 Results  

 Past

 The results were significant …

 Discussion

 Present

 The results indicate...  

 Conclusions in present: The limitations of the study are... Note. *: the present perfect verb tense is also known as the preterite perfect tense in the Spanish language.  
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