Basic information
The journal Arquivos de Gastroenterologia (Archives of Gastroenterology), founded in 1964 by Prof. Dr. José Fernando Pontes, is a quarterly journal. The institution directly responsible for the periodical is the Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia e Outras Especialidades – IBEPEGE (Brazilian Institute for Studies and Research in Gastroenterology and Other Specialities). It is the Official Publication of the:
Committed to the ideal of stimulating scientific production and valuing medical literature, the journal is intended to publish unpublished scientific papers by Brazilian and foreign researchers. The abbreviated title of the journal is Arq Gastroenterol, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references as well as in strips. |
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Intellectual Property
All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY-NC. |
Sponsors
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Editors
Founding editor
Scientific editor
Editor in chief
Consulting editors
Editorial coordination and Publishing
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Associate editors
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Consultants - Brazil
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Consultants - International
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Editorial production
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Scope and policy
The Archives of Gastroenterology publishes originals and unseen contributions, from national and foreign researchers, compatible with the goals of the Journal and suited to the scientific and editorials standards. The submission of the manuscript implies that the work in full or part (s) it has not been published in another source or means of communication and not under review in another journal for publication. The goal of the Journal is to publish only Original studies, from clinical or surgical nature, new techniques, epidemiology studies in area of Endoscopy, Surgery, Hepatology, Digestive Motility, Clinical Gastroenterology, Experimental Surgery, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Gastroenterological Clinical Pathology, and Nutrition. It also publishes Editorials, Letter to the Editor, Consensus, Brief Communication, Supplements, Review articles and E-Video. The assessment work is done impartially and anonymous that is, omitting to the reviewers, any identification of its origin. Original Articles are evaluated by at least two reviewers (peer review). The estimated time process is 90 days from submission. The decision about acceptance for publication is taken by the Editorial Board. No fee is required from authors for submission, evaluation and publication of articles. The Archives of Gastroenterology is available online with an open and free access. It is not necessary to ask the journal for permission for electronic copy, provided that the proper credit is given to the original source. No any article processing charge are impose to the authors. The Archives of Gastroenterology is full available with an open and free access. |
Preparation of manuscripts
General rules The text must be in English language. The number of authors is limited to six for Original Articles and three for Brief Communication. Exceptions can be made in the case of multicentric studies. The word limit for Brief Communication recommended is no more than 2500; it may contain a figure and a table and the references do not exceed 15.
Articles of research involving human subjects must be marked in Methods section, expressly agreed with the ethical standards and with due informed consent of the participants. Research with human must bring the title page the number of the opinion of the Committee's approval of Research Ethics. Brazilian studies should be in accordance with Resolution 466/2012 of the National Health Council of the Ministry of Health (Brazil), which deals with the Code of Ethics for Human Research, and for studies outside Brazil, shall be in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. It is recommended a cover letter with the intention in publish on the Archives of Gastroenterology, highlighting the importance of this publication and research. This letter must be written in the “Author’s Cover Letter” field in the online submission.
Format The submitted manuscript must be sent in Microsoft Word format and organized as follows: 1) Title in English and Portuguese; for foreign authors the translation will be done. 2) Authors names; do not insert staff positions or similar adjectives. 3) For each author should be described his participation in the study. (i.e. data collection, survey execution, writing of text, statistical analysis and so on). 4) The department and institution where the work was performed. 5) Orcid from all authors. 6) Acknowledgement of grants and other financial support. Interest of conflicts must be declared or not if so. If so, sponsors must be declared. 7) Structured Abstract (Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion) - The papers should be sent in English and Portuguese (200 – 600 words); abbreviations, footnotes and references should be avoided; for foreign authors the translation will be done.
8) Keywords (3 to 10). Whenever possible use terms of Medical Subject Headings (MESH) list from MEDLINE. Information available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ 9) We strongly recommend this paper division: Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements. 10) All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship may be mentioned in Acknowledgments. 11) References - Archives of Gastroenterology adopts the Vancouver format. Complete text in: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html Cite references in the text using Arabic numerals in the order of appearance, within parentheses. For up to six authors, list all authors. For more than six authors, list first six authors followed by “et al.”. 12) Tables and Figures should be cited in the text in Arabic numerals. Preferably, attached separately in JPG or PNG. If they are inside the article, they should after the references. Please do not insert tables and figures in the middle of the text. 13) Tables (in Microsoft Word or Excel format) - Is called "Table" only when there are numeric results. Explanations and abbreviations should be placed in the footer of the table. 14) Figures - Named as "Figure" whenever it is: written questionnaire, photographs, graphics and drawings. They must be sent in high resolution digital format (2 mb). The Figures should contain a short text on the subject. |
Instructions for electronic manuscript submission
Submissions only through the ScholarOne interface, on SciELO Portal: http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ag-scielo
We reiterate that no fee is required from authors for submission, evaluation and publication of articles. Archives of Gastroenterology is available online with an open and free access: |
E-Videos
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Frequently Answered Questions
What is the ideal article length? What is the maximum and minimum number of pages or words? We do not limit the number of pages of the manuscript, or the number of characters, or the number of words in the abstract and text, as we understand that a suitable research for submission has as a principle the exposure of data in a revised form. We assume that the authors will not expose unnecessary information, as well as they will do their best not to forget key elements. If reviewers deem the amount of information to be excessive, they will recommend reviewing the text. Usually original articles are about 1500 or up to 3000 words in the main text (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion). But there is no rule.
Is there a limit on references? No. Usually original articles have around 30, 40 references. And the review articles, about 60. But it doesn't have a rule.
Is there a limit on tables/figures? No. There are articles that do not need to present any tables or figures, there are articles that need to present eight tables, others need five figures etc. That is, there is no rule, as it depends on the need.
Should tables and figures be submitted on the platform as individual files separate from the manuscript? Tables can be placed inside the manuscript, on the last pages, after the list of references, or can be sent as a single file. If a table has many columns and you need to use the "landscape" orientation (sheet horizontally), you can send it separately. It is very important that they are in editable format in Microsoft Word. Do not use Excel or photo of the table pasted as a picture in Microsoft Word. Don't worry about the design of the tables, they don't need (and shouldn't) resemble what we do in PDFs of published articles. We prefer that they contain apparent grid lines. Remember that values in English have decimal places separated by a dot, not a comma as it is in Portuguese. Send the pictures preferably in JPG or PNG format, or even in PDF, separated from each other. If the figure is a flowchart, it can be sent in an editable format in Microsoft Word.
After submission, how long does the article take to be published? It is not possible to predict the date of publication. After the article is submitted, it undergoes evaluation by at least two reviewers. They have 1 month to accept the task invitation and 1 month to return it. If they take 1 month to respond that they are unavailable, we will make new invitations to other reviewers. After we receive the experts' assessment, they may recommend review of the article (minor or major), immediate accept or rejection. If review is requested, authors have 2 months to return a 2nd version. If approved, the article enters the list of approved. From this moment on, we have an average of 180 days for publication. In other words, it may happen that an article that was approved 3 months ago is published together with another that was approved a week ago, as the published list is about 25 per issue.
I received a decision in which reviewers asked for improvements in English. Where can I attach the translation certificate? Attach the certificate in the Cover Letter field. It will not be sent to reviewers, as we need to keep the names of the authors and the institution confidential.
I made a submission and received the decision that I must review and resubmit. With a few days before the submission deadline expires, I received an email from the System informing me that I would have up to X days to send the review, however, I accessed the System and a notice appeared that the deadline had expired. Why? What should I do? When the System notifies that the author has until the 10th (for example) to send the review, it means that up to 23 hours and 59 minutes of the 9th, the submission is available. If the deadline has expired, DO NOT create a new submission to submit the revised article. Send an email to secretariaarqgastr@hospitaligesp.com.br and wait for our return so that we can change the term of the System and the review continue with the same record.
How should I write the affiliations within the article? We try to follow the SciELO guidelines as much as possible. Regarding affiliations, in their guide is: “The identification of institutional instances must, whenever applicable, indicate the corresponding hierarchical units. It is recommended that hierarchical units are presented in descending order, for example, university, faculty and department. Under no circumstances should affiliations be accompanied by the authors' titles or mini-curricula. These, when present, must be published separately from the affiliations as the author's notes. The names of institutions and programs must be presented in full and in the institution's original language or in the English version, when the writing is not Latin. See the examples: University of São Paulo, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. (...)" If the authors' affiliation is repeated, use the same number to designate the institution. Write the membership number next to each name. Below the authors' names, write the numbered affiliations. If an author is affiliated with more than one institution, they must receive different numbers, that is, each affiliation will have a number and these numbers must come next to the author's name.
What is the ideal model to submit the article? The ideal model follows this sequence of information:
Declared conflict of interest of all authors: none Disclosure of funding: no funding received
Please note that we do not ask authors to submit the article without identifiers; this work will be done by the editorial team when it is sent to the reviewers.
How should I fill in the submission fields? In the title field, put the title in English only. In the Abstract field, place the Abstract in English only. In the Cover Letter field, just write (it can be in Portuguese) within the field a cover letter of the manuscript addressed to the Editor-in-Chief. If you wish, you can attach a translation certificate. In the field of registration of authors, check if the author already has a registration, so that he does not have two accounts in the System. Try to leave the sequence of names the same as what you write inside the article. Don't worry if you can't link the orcid numbers of the authors, the important thing is that the orcid numbers are written inside the article. (In 2019 the Orcid Organization made an update in its program that affected the names that already had orcid. Therefore, each author needs to enter the ScholarOne System with their personal login and password to validate the orcid itself so that it is accessible to the registration of the submission). Again: it is not mandatory to present the orcid in the registration, it is only mandatory within the article.
My article received the “reject & resubmit” decision. I made changes and created a new submission. I would like to send an answer to the reviewers, but I have not found a field for this purpose. How can I proceed? When the article receives the decision of “minor revision” or “major revision”, the author finds within the new submission a field to write to the reviewers. However, when the decision is “reject & resubmit”, this field does not exist. Then, you can attach it to the Cover Letter field that we will forward to the reviewers. This is not to say that the evaluators will necessarily be the same. Please do not sign the letter.
I want to send a video, but there is no “E-video” option in the article type field. I found only: Original Article, Experimental Gastroenterology, Review, Short Communication, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Clinical Trial, Consensus, Letter to Editor. Which one should I mark? Original Article. |