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Three files are required for the submission of an article: Author agreement, Title Page and Manuscript.
Author agreement: Form on Open Science Compliance or Cover Letter in which the authors declare that the article has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published academic lecture or thesis); is not being evaluated for publication elsewhere; its publication has been approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the study was carried out; and, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright holder.
Title page (with author details): must contain the following information:
a) concise and informative title. Avoid unnecessary terms and abbreviations; also avoid references to the place and/or city where the study was carried out;
b) short title of not more than 50 characters including spaces to appear on the headers;
c) full names of the authors and ORCID. If any of the authors do not have this ID, they must register at https://orcid.org/register;
d) authors’ highest academic degree;
e) e-mail address of all authors;
if available, URL to the electronic curriculum vitae (“Curriculum Lattes” for Brazilian authors, ORCID etc.)
g) specific contribution of each author to the study;
h) statement of conflicts of interest (write “nothing to declare” or clearly disclose any financial or other interests which could cause embarrassment if revealed after the publication of the article);
i) institution or service with which the research is associated for indexation in the Index Medicus/MEDLINE;
j) author's name, address, telephone number and e-mail address of the corresponding author;
k) name, address, telephone number and e-mail of the author in charge of the pre-publication contact;
l) sources of financing, or name of institutions or companies supplying equipment and materials, if applicable;
m) word count of the main text, not including abstract, acknowledgments, references, tables and captions of figures;
n) word count of the abstract;
o) number of tables and figures.
Blind manuscript (no author details): The main body of the article (including references, figures, tables, and any acknowledgments) should not include any identification, such as the authors' names or affiliations. It is important that the file is saved in the original format. Use a single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Highlights such as bold, italic, subscript, superscript, etc. can be used. When preparing tables, use only one grid for each table individually, not one grid for each row. If no grid is used, use the tab, not spaces, to align the columns. Note that the source files of the figures, tables, and graphs will be required, regardless of whether or not you embed them in the text.
Abstract:The abstract should briefly state the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so references should be avoided, but if necessary, cite the author(s) and year(s). Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. The abstract should have no more than 250 words or 1,400 characters. Do not include words that could identify the institution or city where the study was performed, to facilitate blind review. The abstract should be structured as follows:
Abstract for original articles
Objective: State why the study was initiated and any initial hypotheses. Precisely define the main purpose of the study; only the most relevant secondary objectives should be listed.
Method: Describe the study design (if appropriate, state whether the study is randomized, blinded, prospective, etc.), setting (if appropriate, describe the level of care, i.e., primary, secondary or tertiary, private clinic or public institution, etc.), patients or participants (selection criteria, number of cases at the beginning and at the end of the study, etc.), interventions (include essential information, such as methods and duration of the study), and criteria used to measure the outcomes.
Results: Describe the most important findings, confidence intervals, and statistical significance of the findings. Conclusions: Only describe conclusions that reflect the purpose of the study and that are supported by your findings. Discuss possible applications of the findings, with equal emphasis on positive and negative findings that have similar scientific merit.
Abstract for Review Articles
Objective: Explain why the review was carried out, stating whether it focuses on a special factor, such as disease etiology, prevention, diagnosis, treatment or prognosis.
Sources: Describe all sources of information, defining databases and years researched. Briefly state the criteria used to select articles for review and to assess the quality of information.
Summary of the findings: State the main quantitative or qualitative findings.
Conclusions: State your conclusions and their clinical application, keeping generalizations within the scope of the topic under review.
Keywords:Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Use abbreviations sparsely. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes. Please use the terms listed in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html. When suitable descriptors are not available, new terms may be used.
Abbreviations: All abbreviations must be explained at their first mention in the text. Non-standard abbreviations in the field of pediatrics must be defined in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Avoid the use of abbreviations in the abstract; those that are unavoidable should be defined at their first mention.
Acknowledgements: Group acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before references. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.). Only individuals or institutions that contributed significantly to the study, but are not qualified for authorship, should be mentioned. Individuals cited in this section must agree in writing to the inclusion of their names, since readers may infer their endorsement of the conclusions of the study.
Funding sources:List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements.
Text:The main text in original articles should contain the following sections, indicated by a subtitle: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. The sections in review articles may vary depending on the topic.
Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system (SI) of units. If other units are mentioned, please give their equivalent in SI.
Please submit math equations as editable text and not as images. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Consecutively number any equations to be displayed separately from the text (if explicitly referred to in the text).
Footnotes should not be used. Instead, incorporate the relevant information into the main text.
In the case of an original article, include a statement about the approval of the research by an institutional ethics committee. Studies involving patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which must be informed in the text of the article. Relevant consents, permissions and releases must be obtained whenever an author wishes to include case details or other personal information or images of patients and any other individuals. Written consents must be retained by the author and copies of the consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained must be provided on request. Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin), personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission.
When submitting randomized controlled trials should be, authors must provide the CONSORT checklist accompanied by a flow diagram that illustrates the progress of patients through the trial, including recruitment, enrollment, randomization, withdrawal and completion, and a detailed description of the randomization procedure. The CONSORT checklist and flowchart template are available at http://www.consort-statement.org/.
Registration in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical trials in this journal in accordance with International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations. Trials should be recorded at baseline or prior to patient enrollment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will not require registration.
In line with the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the journal will not consider results posted in the same clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides to be prior publication if the results posted are presented in the form of a brief structured (less than 500 words) abstract or table. However, disclosure of results in other circumstances (e.g., investor meetings) is discouraged and may prevent acceptance of the manuscript. Authors should fully disclose all posting in registries of results of the same or closely related work.
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