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Revista Bioética is an open-access scientific journal that publishes double blind reviewed bioethics and medical ethics articles in Portuguese, Spanish and English in full. It is published quarterly on solstices and equinoxes. Conceived by the Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) to foster multidisciplinary and plural discussions, it focused on academic training and the continuous improvement of health professionals. The composition and work of its Editorial Board, as well as its editorial line are completely independent of the CFM plenary. The authors are responsible for the information disclosed in their articles, which do not necessarily express the council’s official position.
Criteria for publication
Revista Bioética does not charge for the submission, editing or publication of manuscripts. Unpublished manuscripts, only in their online version, of a conceptual, documentary nature resulting from research or experiences in the field of bioethics or medical ethics, as well as critical reviews related to these topics will be for publication. All manuscripts will be subject to the scrutiny of the editors, Editorial Board and ad hoc peer reviewers in a double blind review process and must receive two approval recommendations.
Revista Bioética will refuse manuscripts that contradict the Fundamental Principles of the Brazilian Constitution, particularly articles 1, 3 and 4, which guarantee human rights and the repudiation of racism.
After submission, the manuscript is checked for text (maximum of 6,000 words) and abstract size (up to 150 words), as well as formatted and checked for originality using the plagiarism detecting software Plagius (Professional Plagiarism Detector). The results indicated by Plagius are carefully analyzed to identify whether notes refer to citations or copies. At this stage, references are also checked, making sure that they are complete, correctly numbered and in Vancouver Style, in accordance with the editorial policies – which can be found at http://revistabioetica.cfm.org.br in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Editorial adequacy, orthographic and grammatical aspects are observed, and the keywords checked in the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) database. The manuscript will return to the authors for adjustments and they will have 15 days to do them, otherwise the work will be removed from the editorial agenda.
If the number or characteristic of the changes identified is considered significant, the manuscript may be refused with notice of possible resubmission by complying with the indicated specifications. After receiving the version revised by the authors, if no changes are needed at this stage, the manuscript enters the next editorial phase.
At this stage, the reviewers – members of the Editorial Board and ad hoc reviewers – have 15 days to inform if they can review the article. If those initially designated cannot perform this voluntary task within the stipulated period, other reviewers will be selected from the registered collaborators and the peer-review process will restart. When three reviewers accept the task, each one will have 15 days to issue an opinion.
The criteria used for evaluation are content, editorial adequacy, originality of the ideas, topicality, text clarity, language adequacy, relevance of the information, coherence and conceptual and methodological logic. Besides these aspects, the title, abstract, indication and name of the parts of the manuscript, indication of the objectives, method, presentation of results, discussion and final considerations are analyzed. We also check if references are adequate and up to date.
The criterion for selecting reviewers seeks to contemplate the widest possible analytical diversity, in line with the interdisciplinarity of bioethics. Each article is sent to a reviewer with training in the specific area of the work (specialties in health and biology, law, philosophy, social sciences, etc.), or a reviewer who studies or has already discussed the topic (health inequities, human rights, abortion, dysthanasia, genetics, research ethics, etc.) and also to a bioethicist with bioethics training (either specialization or graduate degrees) to evaluate the use of ethical concepts and categories. Further revision or reformulation of parts of the article, title or references as recommended may be required for final approval, to which authors must respond within 20 days.
At any stage, the editors reserve the right to perform normative, orthographic and grammatical changes in the texts, to maintain the standard language and the better understanding of the articles, respecting, however, the authors’ style. If the authors decide not to publish the manuscript after the initial revision, the version edited by Revista Bioética will belong to it and cannot be sent to another journal. The final edited version, with orthographic and grammatical revision will be submitted to the authors for approval. However, the final revision of the article in the three languages and the galley proofs will not be sent to the authors, as well as its English and Spanish translations, published online on the journal’s website and in SciELO.
Requirements for submitting manuscripts
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Unpublished manuscripts will be accepted in Portuguese, Spanish or English language. Works archived in institutional repositories are not considered unpublished.
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Current orthographic rules must be followed in each language
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The manuscripts presented must be uploaded to the Revista Bioética webpage in Word Rich Text Format (RTF).
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Works in PDF format will not be accepted under any circumstances.
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Manuscripts in which the use of the “track changes” tool is identified can be withdrawn after submission.
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Manuscripts cannot have been concomitantly submitted to other journals.
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The opinions and concepts presented in the manuscripts, the origin and accuracy of the citations are the responsibility of the authors.
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Manuscripts that reproduce in whole or in part, without proper reference, works of other authors as well as an article, or a substantial part of it, already published by the authors themselves, will be summarily refused.
Identification of articles
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Manuscripts must, MANDATORILY and by the new requirements of SciELO, be accompanied by an cover page, containing:
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Article title (up to 10 words);
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Full name of each author, accompanied by an e-mail address;
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Highest academic title (undergraduate or graduate; specialist; master; PhD);
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Institutional link;
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Course or program, department and college/university (MANDATORY for students and professors);
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Orcid of each author;
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City, state, country.
Note: manuscripts lacking such information at the initial stage will not advance in the editorial process.
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Manuscripts should provide, as a separate item, the full name of the first author and their postal address, which will be published in the footer of the articles’ first page. A telephone number, which will not be published and will be used exclusively for exchanging information with the editorial team on an emergency basis, should also be provided.
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If the first author listed is not the person responsible for contacting the other authors about reviews until the final approval of the work, then the name, telephone number and e-mail address of the person in charge must be specified.
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The individual collaborations of each author in preparing the manuscript must be specified at the end.
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If the work has been previously submitted to another journal but not published, the publisher must be identified and, if necessary, proof that the work will not be published in that journal must be presented.
Article formatting
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Articles must be formatted as A4 page using Calibri font, size 10, space 1.5, in 2.5 justified margins.
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Titles must be highlighted in green and written in the current form, i.e., only the first letter of the sentence and the given names are capitalized. There should be no paragraph indentation or any other formatting tag that increases or decreases the distance between them.
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The text should have up to 6,000 words. The word limit does not include references, work identification and abstracts in the three languages, which are considered separately.
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Articles in Portuguese must contain a concise abstract (resumo), with a maximum of 150 words, as well as Spanish and English versions (resumen and abstract).
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The title should also be concise and explanatory (up to 10 words), written in the three languages.
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Each abstract must be accompanied by at least three and at most seven keywords, describing the work’s content and assisting its multiple indexing. The keywords must be taken from the DeCS database and listed at the end of the abstracts in Portuguese, Spanish and English, written with initial capital letters and separated by periods.
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The texts must be divided into sections, with titles and subtitles, when necessary. Each of these parts or subparts must be highlighted in green, never by progressive numbering. To emphasize a subtitle within a title, the italic feature must be used.
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When an author is quoted in the body of the text, place only the reference number at the end of the quotation, in superscript. Example: Potter 1.
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International treaties mentioned in the body of the text should be written in italics (e.g.: Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights or the Declaration of Helsinki).
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Manuscripts with footnotes will not be accepted. Any explanation or consideration must be included into the body of the text.
Research articles
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The publication of research papers involving human beings is the responsibility of the authors and must comply with the Normas e Diretrizes para Pesquisa Envolvendo Seres Humanos (Standards and Guidelines for Research Involving Human Beings – Resolution CNS 466/12), Resolution CNS 510/16 on the standards applicable to research in Human and Social Sciences whose methodological procedures involve the use of data obtained directly from participants, or identifiable information, or that may entail greater risks than those of everyday life. The principles of the Declaration of Helsinki developed by the World Medical Association (1964 and subsequent versions, prior to 2008) must also be considered, in addition to compliance with the specific legislation of the country where the research was conducted.
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Studies conducted in Brazil must inform the number of the approval opinion in the CEP/Conep System, in addition to attaching a copy of the approval opinion to the submission platform.
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Revista Bioética supports the policies for registration of clinical trials of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), recognizing the importance of these initiatives for registration and international open access to clinical trial information. Therefore, we will only accept research articles on clinical trials that have received an identification number listed in one of the Clinical Trial Registries validated by the criteria established by the WHO/ICMJE, which should be at the end of the abstract.
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The description of the research method must be complete and detailed. It is essential to identify the research subjects and how, where and when the study was conducted as well as which data collection and analysis techniques were employed, including the name of the software used and measurement methods adopted.
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When approving research articles, authors must submit a statement of responsibility regarding the content of the work, including a declaration of no conflict of interest that may have influenced the results.
Authorization to publish
Revista Bioética considers that submitting the manuscript to the analysis of the editors and the Editorial Board characterizes acceptance for publication. All authors must send the authorization for publishing the final version by electronic means when their article is accepted; the main author must also do so in written form, by a signed letter addressed to Revista Bioética according to the model sent by the editors. Published articles will be under the care of Revista Bioética, which must be cited in case of total or partial reproduction in any medium, printed or electronic.
Tables and illustrations
Each article can be accompanied by only three tables or figures, formatted in the text, open for revision and not copied in image or PDF format. They must be numbered sequentially and indicate the source of the information presented at the bottom. In the tables, statistical measures of variations such as the standard deviation and standard error of the mean must be identified.
References
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References, for the most part, will follow the standards proposed by ICMJE, using the Vancouver style.
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References must be indicated in superscript Arabic numerals (e.g., Potter 2) and numbered consecutively in order of citation.
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All references must be listed at the end of the article in the corresponding numerical order.
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All citations from sources presented in the text must be on the references, including documents, treaties, reports, books and book chapters.
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All electronic references used must also inform the link and the date of access.
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Literal references, which reproduce ipsis litteris a text already published, must inform in the list of references the page number in the original from which the excerpt was withdrawn.
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References cited only in tables or figure captions must conform to the established sequence.
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In the references, articles with up to six authors must inform all names, as shown below. When this number is exceeded, the first six authors must be named followed by et al.
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The original reference for a citation should always be preferred over references of second order, that is, when the cited author is referring to another. If the use of apud is unavoidable, this must be made explicit in the text. For example: “Analyzing Potter’s work, Pessini 3 describes…”.
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All references must be presented correctly and completely, according to the examples below. Book titles, location, and publisher names should not be abbreviated.
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Articles with references made using formatting features of text editing software, such as “Track changes,” “Footnotes” and/or “Endnotes” will not be accepted – under any circumstance.
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Articles with references in alphabetical order will not be accepted.
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The veracity of the information contained in the list of references is the responsibility of the authors.
Examples of references
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