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The Memórias' content is freely accessible to readers and no publication fees are charged to authors. The Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz has decided to simplify the requirements regarding the format of submitted manuscripts. From now on, all manuscripts may be submitted in any text format as long as the common subdivision of scientific articles are followed, e.g. introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and references. For Reviews, Perspectives and similar articles, authors may use the sections that best suit the structure and content of the proposed manuscript. All manuscripts should contain, besides the title and abstract, full details of authors and institutions, acknowledgements of any technical or financial assistance and authors must disclose any conflict of interest related to their research work. This flexible text format will be used for the initial analysis and peer review. the manuscript is accepted, authors will be requested to edit the text in accordance with the publication style of the Memorias.
All authors should declare any competing interest, financial or not-financial that might have influenced their manuscript. Authors from pharmaceutical companies, or other commercial organizations that sponsor clinical trials, should declare these as competing interests on submission and ensure the adherence to the Good Publication Practice guidelines for pharmaceutical companies (GPP3).
Upon acceptance, the manuscript should be arranged in the following format:
The manuscript should be prepared using standard word processing software and should be printed (font size 12) double-spaced throughout the text, figure captions, and references (must be up to 30 references), with margins of at least 3 cm. The figures should come in the extension tiff, with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Tables and legends to figures must be submitted all together in a single file. Figures, must be uploaded separately as supplementary file.
Running title: not required
Title: with up to 250 characters
Author's names: without titles or graduations
Institutional affiliations: full address of the corresponding author only
Abstracts: Provide an abstract up to 200 words (100 words in case of short communications, technical notes or reviews). Abstracts of original articles should be structured into 5 sections as follows: BACKGROUND, OBJECTIVES, METHODS, FINDINGS and MAIN CONCLUSIONS, each section addressing respectively the problem, the aim of the study, the main methodological approach, the most important findings and the conclusions of the study.
Key words: 3-6 items must be provided. Terms from the Medical Subject Headings (Mesh) list of Index Medicus should be used.
Sponsorships: indicating the sources of financial support and change of address.
Introduction: should set the purpose of the study, give a brief summary (not a review) of previous relevant works, and state what new advance has been made in the investigation. It should not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.
Materials and Methods: should briefly give clear and sufficient information to permit the study to be repeated by others. Standard techniques need only be referenced.
Ethics: when reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution's or a national research council's guide for, or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Results: should be a concise account of the new information discovered, with the least personal judgement. Do not repeat in text all the data in the tables and illustrations.
In case of describing New Species, should follow:
Name of the new species, authors (when it is the case), sp. nov., (Figs x-y)
[Ex: An. (Nyssorhynchus) atacamensis González and Sallum, sp. nov. (Figs 1-4)]
Previous reference to the new species (when it is the case)
[Ex: An. pictipennis of Rueda et al. (2008): 448.]
Diagnosis (or Description; all stages are described);
Type host (when it is the case);
Site of Infection (when it is the case);
Type-locality;
Type data and depository;
Other material examined (when it is the case);
Distribution;
Host-parasite data (such prevalence and other important data, when it is the same case);
Bionomics;
Etymology;
Taxonomic discussion (or simply DISCUSSION as internal title).
Discussion: should be limited to the significance of the new information and relate the new findings to existing knowledge. Only unavoidable citations should be included.
Acknowledgements: should be short and concise, and restricted to those absolutely necessary.
Author's contribution: During article submission process, authors are encouraged to detail each of their contribution to the work.
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