ISSN 0103-2100 printed version
ISSN 1982-0194 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and Mission
• Formats and preparation of manuscripts
• Submission of manuscripts

The editors of Acta Paulista de Enfermagem welcome papers from nurses, nursing students and other healthcare professionals, written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The content of the manuscripts is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not reflect the editors’ opinion. The manuscripts submitted for consideration are assumed to be original, not previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should follow the instructions for manuscript preparation presented below and observe the features required for one of the following sections of the journal

Original Articles: research and scholarly papers with unprecedented results that are supposed to aggregate value to Nursing Science, presented with a maximum of 14 pages. Their structure is conventional: introduction, methods, results, discussion and conclusion or final considerations. Subtitles can be accepted in this structure, when appropriate.
Review Articles: papers that agglomerate available knowledge about a special subject, based upon pertinent literature and containing both a critical and systematic analysis of it and a conclusion, with a maximum of 12 pages.
Experience Reports: papers that describe analytically the nursing performance into diverse fields, with a limit of 8 pages.
Actualization: current information about interesting themes related to nursing care and considered with potential for future research studies, with a maximum of 5 pages.
Summaries: one page critical reviews of scientific literature edited in books, providing the reader with information concerning their characteristics and potential uses. It must present the complete reference of the book.
Letters to the editor – readers’ comments about articles published by Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, that may express their agreement or disagreement on the subject presented. The letters must obey the limit of one page.

Peer review
Manuscripts submitted must be accompanied by: a) letter to the Scientific Editor, signed by all authors, giving the editors authorization to publish the paper and transferring the copyrights to the journal; b) Authors and sponsors contribution; c) declaration of exemption from interests’ conflicts; d) for original articles, authors must present a copy of the approval by the Ethics Committee of the institution in which the work has been done done; e) for research involving human subjects, authors must present a declaration stating that the subjects’ written informed consent has been obtained. 

Departamento de Enfermagem

Acta Paulista de Enfermgaem

R. Napoleão de Barros, 754
Vila Clementino - São Paulo - SP - Brasil - CEP 04024-002
Tel.: 55 11 5082.3287
Fax: 55 11 5082.3287

ape@unifesp.br