ISSN 0102-7638 printed version
ISSN 1678-9741 online version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Information for Authors
• General Information
• Manuscript Sections

The materials sent for publication by Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery – should deal with themes related to cardiovascular surgery and pertinent areas. All scientific contributions are revised by the Editor, Associated Editors, Members of the Editorial Board and Guest Reviewers and cover sections about Original Articles, Editorials, Review Articles, Updating, Case Reports, "How-to-do-it", Short Communications, Advance Notes, Clinical Surgical Correlations and Letters to the Editor. The acceptance is to be based on originality, relevance and scientific contribution.

All articles, letters and communications must be submitted, mandatorily, to our website: www.rbccv.org.br or www.bjcvs.org .If the authors have not yet registered, you must do so before submitting the manuscript, following the guidelines contained in the site. The text should be edited in Word and figures, photos, tables and illustrations should be in separate files. Figures should be in jpeg format and a minimum resolution of 300dpi. It is mandatory to send, in the submission, the Copyright, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Committee Opinion of the institution in which the study was done.

In the case of Doubled Publication, see specific topic below.

Norms

Revista Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular - Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery adopts the Vancouver Norms – Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, organized by the International Committee of Medical Editors – "Vancouver Group".
Peer review

All papers submitted to Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery will be submitted for peer review for at least three reviewers selected from among the Associate Editors and Editorial Board members. Reviewers respond to a questionnaire in which they will make the classification of the manuscript, its rigorous examination in all the items that compose a scientific work, giving one note to each item of the questionnaire. At the end will make general comments about the work and inform whether it should be published, corrected according to recommendations or rejected definitively. Armed with this data, the Editor will make the decision. In case of discrepancies between the reviewers may be requested a new trial for a better view. When changes are suggested, they will be forwarded to the author and then the reviewers to assess whether these requirements have been met. After publishing the manuscripts will be sent to the author for that check for errors.

The whole process will be conducted electronically and in each phase will be required strict deadlines for implementation. In case of delay, a new evaluator is chosen, the same is true if any of them refuse to examine the work.

In exceptional cases, when the subject of the manuscript so requires, the Editor may seek the assistance of a professional relationship that is not in the Associate Editors and Editorial Board to do the review.
Language

Articles should be made out in Portuguese (in the current spelling) and in English. In the case of material that does not have translation into English, or that for which such translation be considered inadequate by the Editorial Board, the journal will provide translation at the expense of author(s). The English version will be published fully in the Scielo site (www.scielo.br) and our site (www.rbccv.org.br) and remain "online" at the disposal of the international community, with specific links on the site of our society here in Brazil and on our website, hosted on CTSNet (www.ctsnet.org) in the United States of America.

Research with human beings and animals

Authors must mention in the Methods item, that the research has been approved by the Ethics Commission on Research, from its Institution, according to the Helsinki Declaration – see electronic  address http://www.ufrgs.br/HCPA/gppg/helsin5.htm . In experimental works involving animals, the norms set up by the “Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals” D.C., 1996) and ethical  principles on animal experimentation of the Colégio Brasileiro de Experimentação Animal  (COBEA) must be respected  (www.meusite.com.br/COBEA/etica.htm).

Articles should be made out in Word 97 text or superior (A4 format); type 12; space 1,5; font Times News Roman; paged and contain, successively:

Translation into Portuguese.
a) title in Portuguese and English;
b) author’s full name; Organization where the work has been done;
c)Abstract in Portuguese and English (maximum 250 words, each);
d) Introduction;
e) Method;
f) Results;
g) Comments;
h) Acknowledgments;
i) References;
j) Legends of illustrations;
k) Tables

Manuscript Sections
Opening. Should have the title of the material in a concise and descriptive way, in Portuguese and English, authors’ full name, name and address of the institution where the work has been made out. Following that, the name of the corresponding author, together with the address, phone, fax and e-mail. If the work has already been presented in a congress, its name, address and date of presentation should be mentioned. The number of words should be stated. The electronic counting of words is to include the initial page, abstract, text, references and figure legends.

Abstract

The abstract must be structured in four sections: Objective, Method, Results and Conclusion (s).
Abreviations must be avoided. The maximum number of words should follow the recommendations of the table. In the Case Reports ad “how-to-do-it”, the abstract is to be non-structured (informative or free)
Three to five descriptors (keywords) should also be included, as well as the corresponding translation to English. These can be called on in the electronic address: http://decs.bvs.br

Text

Should be divided into Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. References are to be cited numerically by order of appearance in the text, between brackets. If more than two References are mentioned in sequence, just the first and the last one should be keyed in, separated by a dash (Example [6-9]). In case of alternate citation, all references should be keyed in, separated by a comma (Example: [6,7,9]). Abreviations are to be defined when first appearing in the text.

Acknowledgments

Must come after the text. 

References

The Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery adopts the Vancouver Norms. References should be numbered sequentially, as per appearance in the text, References cannot have indented paragraphs, but lined up on the left. Personal communications and data that have not been published, should not be included in the list of references, but just mentioned in the text and in the footnotes on the page where mentioned. To mention all authors of the material, if they are six or less pr just the first six followed by et. al., if they are more than six. The abbreviations of the journals must be in conformity with Index Medicus/MEDLINE. Examples:

Journal Article
Dallan LAO, Gowdak LH, Lisboa LAF, Schettert I, Krieger JE, Cesar LAM, et al. Terapia celular associada à revascularização transmiocárdica a laser como proposta no tratamento da angina refratária. Rev Bras Cir Cardiovasc. 2008;23(1):46-52.

Institution as Author
The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Clinical exercise stress testing. Safety and performance guidelines. Med J Aust 1996;116:41-2.

Without indication of Authorship
Cancer in South Africa. [editorial]. S Af Med J 1994;84-15.

Book Chapter
1. Mylek WY. Endothelium and its properties. In: Clark BL Jr, editor. New frontiers in surgery. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1998. p.55-64.

Book
1. Nunes EJ, Gomes SC. Cirurgia das cardiopatias congênitas. 2a ed. São Paulo: Sarvier;, 1961. p.701.

Thesis
Brasil LA. Uso da metilprednisolona como inibidor da resposta inflamatória sistêmica induzida pela circulação extracorpórea [Tese de doutorado]. São Paulo: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, 1999. 122p. A EPM virou Universidade em 20 de dezembro 1994, de lá para cá se faz necessário colocar Unifesp e EPM.

Events
Silva JH. Preparo intestinal transoperatório. In: 45° Congresso Brasileiro de Atualização em Coloproctologia; 1995; São Paulo. Anais. São Paulo: Sociedade Brasileira de Coloproctologia; 1995. p.27-9.
Minna JD. Recente advances for potential clinical importance in the biology of lung cancer. In: Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association for Cancer Research; 1984 Sep 6-10. Proceedings. Toronto: AMA; 1984;25:293-4.

Eletronic material
Journal article
Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1996 Jun 5]; 1(1):[24 screens]. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm

Book
Tichenor WS. Sinusitis: treatment plan that works for asthma and allergies too [monograph online]. New York: Health On the Net Foundation; 1996. [cited 1999 May 27]. Available from: URL: http://www.sinuses.com

Book chapter
Tichenor WS. Persistent sinusitis after surgery. In: Tichenor WS. Sinusitis: treatment plan that works for asthma and allergies too [monograph online]. New York: Health On the Net Foundation; 1996. [cited 1999 May 27]. Available from: URL: http://www.sinuses.com/postsurg.htm

Thesis
Lourenço LG. Relação entre a contagem de microdensidade vasal tumoral e o prognóstico do adenocarcinoma gástrico operado [tese online]. São Paulo: Universidade Federal de São Paulo; 1999. [citado 1999 Jun 10]. Disponível em: URL:http://www.epm.br/cirurgia/gastro/laercio

Figures Legends. Should be shown in double space, be in numbered and individual pages, ordered after the References, one page for each legend. Abreviations used in figures must be explained in the legends.

Tables and Figures. Should be numbered sequentially, as per appearance in the text, have a title and be in separated pages. Tables should not have redundant data already cited in text. Should be open in the sides and have a totally white background. Abreviations used in the illustrations must be explained in the legends in alphabetic order (see example below).
Tables and figures will only be published in colors, if the authors agree in paying for printing cost of the page in colors.
The manuscripts become property of Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery – their reproduction not being allowed without consent by writing from the Editor. The material approved and published by Brazilian Journal of  Cardiovascular Surgery will not   returned to authors. Those not approved will systematically be returned.
For the reproduction of any material previously published or available in electronic midia (including tables, figures or photos), a letter should be attached to permission in writing by Editor or by copyright holder.

Duplicated Articles. The Vancouver Convention sets up that duplicated articles, in the same or in other language, specially in different countries, can be justifiable and even beneficial. So, articles published by Brazilians authors in scientific journals from other countries, may be accepted, if the Editor takes into consideration the relevance and the need. In a footnote on the first page of the second publication, he must inform the readers, researchers, that the article has been published wholly or partially and present the reference of the first publication. The notice should say “This article is based on study previously in (title of the journal with complete reference)”.

Limits for type of article. With the aim to rationalize the space of the journal and allow for a higher number of articles per issue, the criteria below mentioned for type of  publication should be observed. The electronic counting of words is to include the inicial page, abstract, references and figures legends. The titles have a limit o 100 characters (counting spaces) for Original Articles and 80 characters (counting spaces) for the remaining categories.