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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and editorial policy
• Presentation of originals
• Sending originals

2. The works sent for publication should be unpublished. The simultaneous presentation of a manuscript to other journal is not allowed.

3. The Revista reserves all the copyrights of the published works, including the translation, but allows their posterior reproduction as a transcription provided that the required citation of the source is given.

4. The journal will accept works for publication written in Portuguese and / or in English.

5. The Revista de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo reserves the right to submit all originals for the evaluation of the Commission of publication and of the Editorial board, that hold full authority to decide on the convenience of the acceptance of a work. Those boards can also re-present a work to the authors with suggestions in such a way that necessary alterations in the text are made, and / or in order that the work be adapted to the editorial standards of the journal. In such a case, the work will be re-evaluated by the Commission of publication and the Editorial board. The works not accepted for publication will be returned to the authors. The referees' names will remain confidential. In the same way, the authors' names will be omitted to the referees.

6. The concepts expressed in the published works will exclusively be responsibility of the authors, not reflecting necessarily the opinion of the Commission of publication and of the Editorial board.

7. The dates of receipt and acceptance of the work will be published obligatorily at the end of it.

8. The journal will supply ten reprints to each published work. Additional reprints can be supplied at a cost. Requests from authors should be communicated at the time of the presentation of the originals.

2. An original submitted for publication should contain at the end of it the complete address and telephone number of at least one author to whom correspondence should be sent by the Commission of publication.

3. The originals and illustrations accepted for publication will not be returned to the authors, with the exception of the expressed request from the authors at the time of the publication of the work.

4. Coloured photographs will not be published, except in case of absolute necessity and on the recommendations of the Commission of publication.

5. The originals destined to the Revista de Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo should be written in agreement with the following standards (based on NB/61 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards – ABNT, 1978):

a) The originals should follow the official spelling and should be typed or computer printed double-spaced with margins of three centimetres on paper size A4 (21 cm x 29,7 cm), and should not exceed 15 pages, including the illustrations (graphics, tables, photographs etc.). The authors should keep a copy of the original for possible eventualities.

b) The illustrations (photographs, graphics, drawings etc.) should be limited to the strictly indispensable, presented in separate sheets and numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. The respective legends should be clear, concise and placed below of the illustrations, preceded of the corresponding order number. The graphics, drawings and formulas that serve to the preparation of the clichés should be made in Indian ink on white paper. Authors are required to avoid squared paper (unless it is printed in clear blue). The illustrations should be presented in sufficient size to allow reductions to the minimum of eight centimetres in width. The approximate position of each illustration in the text should be indicated in the margin.

c) Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, and cited in the text by those numerals. The legends should be placed on their top. Tables should follow the presentation standards to tabulate, established by the Conselho Nacional de Estatística (National Council of Statistics), published by the IBGE in 1979.

d) The footnotes should be indicated with a high asterisk and kept to a minimum.

e) The journal recommends the use of the composed names and the names of the elements in the text, instead of their formulas or symbols; the journal also recommends that: the periods of time be written out in full, instead of numbers; the binomials of the zoological and botanical nomenclature be also written out in full and underlined, instead of using abbreviations; the mathematical and physical symbols be used according to the internationally accepted rules, and the metric symbols be applied in agreement with the Brazilian legislation into operation.

f) In the preparation of the original, it should be observed, insofar as possible, the following structure:

Header:

• Title and subtitle of the article (when the article is written in Portuguese, the title and subtitle should appear both in Portuguese and English; when the article is written in English, the title and subtitle should appear both in English and Portuguese).

• Name of the authors – this should include a footnote pointing out the university titles or positions that demonstrate their authority on the subject of the article.

Bibliographical reference of the article (in the language of the article)

Abstract

• It is a concise presentation (250 words) written by the authors themselves, describing the substantial issues of the text, and pointing out its main conclusions. It allows the evaluation of the interest of the article without reference to the complete text. The abstract should be centralized in the sheet with larger margins than those of the text. There is no need to include the title "Abstract". For the redaction and presentation style of the abstract, the authors should observe the rule NB/88 of the ABNT, 1978, as well as the Guide for the preparation of author's abstracts for publication, UNESCO, 1968.

Keywords

• The keywords are the words or expressions that identify the content of the article. The journal recommends the use of the Descriptors list in Health Sciences (DECS) of the BIREME.

Text

• Introduction

• Material and methods

• Results

• Discussion

• Conclusions

• Acknowledgments

Reference material

• Bibliographical reference of the article (in Portuguese or English, according to the language of the text).

• Abstract: the English version of the abstract.

• Keywords: the English version of the keywords.

• Bibliographical references: They should follow the rule NBR/6023 of theABNT, 1989, and should be ordered alphabetically by the author's last name and numbered consecutively. The citation of the references in the text should obey that order. The abbreviations of the titles of periodicals should follow the lndex to Dental Literature - IDL.

• Address of the authors.

g) Examples of bibliographical references:

Book with an author

BHASKAR, S. N. Synopsis of oral pathology. 5. ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1977. 684 p.

Book with two authors

SELTZER, S.; BENDER, I. B. The dental pulp: biologic consideration in dental procedures. 2. ed. Philadelphia: Ljppincott, 1975. 356 p.

Book with more than two authors

All the authors' last names should be cited and followed by the abbreviation of their first names.

Chapter in book

STAHL, S. S. Marginal lesion. ln. GOLDMAN, H. M.; COHEN, D. W. Periodontal therapy. 5. ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1973. p. 94-98.

Thesis

LIMA, N. Localização dos forames ovais através de algumas medidas cranianas (BI-Euryon, Bi-auriculares e Bi-tuberculares): aplicação em anestesiologia. Bauru, 1971. 734 p. Tese (Doutorado) - Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru, Universidade de São Paulo.

Article in periodical

VARELLA, J. A. F. Fatores biológicos no preparo da cavidade. Rev Assoc Paul Cir Dent, v. 15, n. 3, p. 149-154, maio/jun. 1961.

Citation of a citation: reference to a work of which it was not possible to obtain the original or it was only possible to read its abstract.

SOGNNAES, R. F. A behavioral courses in dental school. J Dent Educ, v. 41, p. 735-737, Dec. 1977 apud Dent Abstr, v. 23, n. 8, p. 408-409, Aug. 1978.

The accuracy of the bibliographical references is responsibility of the authors. Personal communications, works in progress and unpublished materials should not be included in the list of bibliographical references, but only mentioned in footnotes.

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