(Updated: 2022/01/31)

About us

The Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial (ISSN 1676-2444), formerly the Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia, is produced by the Brazilian Society of Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine (Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica/ Medicina Laboratorial) located at R. Dois de Dezembro, 78 / Salas 909 and 910, Catete, CEP 22220-040, Rio de Janeiro- RJ, Brazil, on a bimestrial basis, on February 20th, April 20th, June 20th, August 20th, October 20th, and December 20th. This is the official publication issued by the Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica/Medicina Laboratorial, where papers on issues related to laboratorial medicine are published. Those interested in publishing any type of communications in this media will find the corresponding instructions given to authors in each number. The printing lay-out of the Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial has been designed by Editora Vega Publicações Científicas EIRELI, phone/ fax: +55 (21) 98375-9357, e-mail: vegaeditora@gmail.com.
The JBPML is indexed in the LILACS, Periódica and in the Chemical Abstracts, and integrates SciELO database. Its editorial policy is to promote the communication of scientific works related to Laboratorial Medicine (Clinical Pathology) that have technical quality approved by qualified peer reviewers, spreading medical knowledge. The manuscripts submitted to the JBPML are sent to one or more renowned peer reviewers with specific knowledge to evaluate the subject approached in the article. After the reviewer's decision, the Editor of the JBPML contacts the authors, communicating the rejection or the steps to be followed to definitely publish the work.

Indexers

Sponsor

Editorial Board

Editor - in-chief

Adagmar Andriolo (SP)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7355-8684

Editors

Editora – Silvana Maria Elói Santos
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8711-8858

Editor Adjunto - Leonardo de Souza Vasconcellos
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9456-8726

Editor Adjunto - Maria Elizabete Mendes
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9835-8761

Editor Adjunto - Marinês Dalla Valle Martino
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4801-7226

SBPC/ML - Executive board

Presidente: Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Ferreira (SP)
Vice-Presidente: Gustavo Aguiar Campana (SP)
Diretor Administrativo-Financeiro: Fábio Vasconcellos Brazão (PA)
Diretor Científico: Alvaro Pulchinelli Junior (SP)
Diretor de Comunicação e Marketing: Annelise Correa Wengerkievicz Lopes (SC)
Diretor de Ensino: Leonardo de Souza Vasconcellos (MG)
Diretor de Acreditação e Qualidade: Guilherme Ferreira de Oliveira (MG)
Presidente do Conselho de Ex-Presidentes: Wilson Shcolnik (RJ)

Editorial board

Alberto José da Silva Duarte
Alfredo José Afonso Barbosa
Carolina Prieto Castillo
Cecilia Helena Vieira Franco de Godoy Carvalhaes
Daniel W. Chan
David Sacks
Gustavo Arantes Rosa Maciel
Isabel Constança Pereira Jorge Cachapuz Guerra
José Eymard Homem Pittella
Karina Braga Gomes Borges
Lorin Jean Sokoll
Luís Eduardo Coelho Andrade
Luiz Antônio Rodrigues de Freitas
Luiz Martins Collaço
Manuel Sobrinho-Simões
Maria José Rego de Sousa
Nairo Massakazu Sumita
Paulo César Naoum
Rafael Molina

Instructions to authors

The Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial (JBPML), a continuation of the Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia, published continuously, is the official body of the Brazilian Society of Clinical Pathology Laboratory Medicine [Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica/Medicina Laboratorial (SBPC/ML)]. It is indexed in Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences [Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS)], in Periodica and in Chemical Abstracts, as well as being part of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) database. It is intended for the publication of scientific papers that contribute to the development of the of Laboratory Medicine area and accepts the following categories: original articles, review articles, case reports, brief communications and letters to editors. Papers can be submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish, but the full text will be published in English and Portuguese, with abstract in Portuguese and Spanish.

Analysis of the articles

The received manuscript will be sent to at least two independent evaluators, well-known scientific pairs with expertise in the area discussed in the article. After their analysis, the chief editor of JBPML will contact the main author to inform the steps to be followed for publication or its ultimate rejection.

Copyright

The authors must send a term of responsibility formally stating the authorship of the text and the copyright transfer.
The publication management system of JBPML has a model of this document and the instructions to fill it in and send it.

Ethics

Studies carried out with human beings, including organs and/or isolated tissues as well as clinical records, must be according to the standards 196/96 of the National Health Council. In compliance with the Helsinki Declaration (1989), when it is required, the article must be followed by the patient's written agreement and a copy of the approval certificate of the ethics committee from the institution where the research was undertaken.
In the experimental investigations involving animals, the ethical principles of animal experiments stated by Colégio Brasileiro de Experimentação Animal (COBEA) and the standards established by the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1996) must be respected.
The drugs and chemical substances used in the research must be precisely identified.
Names or patient's initials, business names, companies and hospital records must not be used.

Autorship responsibility and conflict of interests

According to guidelines developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), updated in 2013, authorship must be validated for: a) work project and design or acquiring, analyzing and interpreting the data; b) initial essay writing or critical review of its content; c) final approval of the version for publication; d) responsibility for all aspects of the work, ensuring that issues related to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work are adequately researched and analyzed. All authors listed in the article must meet the four authorship validation criteria to be designated as such. Work participants who do not meet the four criteria should be included in the Acknowledgments section. The main author should specify the contribution of each in the different stages of the study.
Likewise, the lead author must declare or deny the existence of potential or actual conflicts of interest. If there is any conflict, it should be specified as a note at the end of the article.

Academic title

The names of the authors should be referred to as follows: first name and last surname will be written in full and middle names will be abbreviated. After the name of each author add their respective ORCID. Only the Institution where each author works should be included in the credits. The name of the Institution will be written in Portuguese or in the language of the host country of the Institution, related by number to the name of the matching authors.

Abstracts and key words

Regardless of the language in which the article was written, there must be two abstracts: one in Portuguese and another one in English. The abstracts must identify the objectives, procedures and conclusions of the research (maximum of 250 words for original, review and update articles; and maximum of 100 words for case reports and brief communications). If the article is in Spanish, there should also be an abstract in Spanish.

The key words, which represent the subject discussed in the article, must be within three to six, using controlled vocabulary Descritores em Ciências da Saúde (DeCS) of BIREME, with other terms when necessary. They must be presented in Portuguese and English. If the article is written in Spanish, the key words should also be in that language.

Acknowledgements

They must be brief, objective and directed to the person or institution that contributed considerably to the elaboration of the research. They must be included after the conclusion and before the bibliographic references.

Structure of the text

Original articles
They are intended to report the original unpublished research results that may be replicated and generalized. The articles may have a maximum of 4 thousand words. The formal structure must follow the presentation structure of this kind of article: Introduction, Objectives, Material and Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References.
The use of subtitles is recommended, particularly in Discussion. Clinical implications and study limitations must be clearly stated. The topic Material and Method should be thoroughly detailed. In these articles, a structured abstract in Portuguese and English is required with the formal presentation of the article: Introduction, Objectives, Material and Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References. The abstract in English must be preceded by the title in English. The references must be at the end of the text according to the following standards.
Brief communications
They are short reports that must present: 1) preliminary study data with suggestive findings that guarantee a more definite investigation; 2) replication studies; and 3) negative studies of important topics. These articles must have a maximum of 1,500 words, including non-structured abstract, one table or image at most, as well as the References.
Art in science
In this section, it will be accepted artistic manifestations related to science and scientific documentation that may be considered art. They include, but do not exhaust other possibilities, literary texts, poems, photographs, pictures and figures.
Review articles
Review articles will be accepted by means of an invitation.
They are systematized critical evaluation of the literature about a certain topic, which must state conclusions and have up to 5 thousand words. The organization of the article is up to the author, apart from Introduction, Discussion and Conclusion. A structured abstract of the text in its original language and another one in English are required. An extensive list of references must appear at the end of the text.
Update articles
They are descriptive and interpretative texts based on the recent literature about the global situation in which a certain topic is found. It must have a maximum of 3 thousand words. The structure of the text is decided by the author, but it must contai n a non-structured abstract in the original language and another one in English, as well as the references.
Case reports
They are original clinical-laboratory observations followed by analysis and discussion. They must have up to 1,500 words. The structure must present at least the following topics: Introduction, Case reports, and Discussion. Include a non-structured abstract in the original language and another one in English.
Letters to the editor
They are letters that aim at discussing the recent articles published in the magazine or reporting original research or relevant scientific findings. Brief letters with a maximum of 500 words (including bibliography, no tables and pictures) will be considered if the sentence "for publication" is explicit.

References

Bibliographic references must come at the end of the article, numbered in the order they are first mentioned in the text. They must follow the standards of Vancouver Style. The journal titles must be referred in the abbreviated form according to Index Medicus (List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus). If the references do not follow the adopted standards, the articles will be immediately rejected without content review.
The authors must make sure that the references quoted in the text are included in the bibliography with exact dates and authors' names accurately written. The preciseness of bibliography is the authors' responsibility. Personal communications, original or in progress texts may be cited when absolutely necessary, but they cannot be included in the references, just mentioned in the text or in a footnote. The references must follow the examples below.

Examples:
Journal articles (just one author)
Fry PH. O significado da anemia falciforme no contexto da 'política racial' do governo brasileiro 1995-2004. Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2005; 12: 347-70. PubMed PMID: 16353330.
Journal articles (up to six authors)
Barbosa AJA, Queiroz DM, Mendes EN, Rocha GA, Lima GF Jr, Oliveira CA. Immunocytochemical identification of Campylobacter pylori in gastritis and correlation with culture. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1988 May; 112(5): 523-5. PubMed PMID: 3282485.
Journal articles (more than six authors)
Rocha GA, Queiroz DM, Mendes EN, et al. Indirect immunofluorescence determination of the frequency of anti-H. pylori antibodies in Brazilian blood donors. Braz J Med Biol Res. 1992; 25(7): 683-9. PubMed PMID: 1342599.
On-line journal article
Polgreen PM, Diekema DJ, Vandeberg J, et al. Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: a case-control study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol [Internet]. 2006 Jan; 27(1): 34-7. Available at: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ICHE/journal/issues/v27n1/2004069/2004069.web.pdf.
Books (two authors)
Eyre HJ, Lange DP. Informed decisions: the complete book of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. 2nd ed. Atlanta: American Cancer Society; 2002.
Chapter or part of a book published by another author
Mendeenhall WM. Treatment of head and neck cancer. In: DeVita VT Jr, Lawrence TS, Rosenberg SA. Cancer: principles and practice of oncology. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2011. p. 729-80.
Part of a book on electronic media
São Paulo (Estado). Secretaria do Meio Ambiente. Tratados e organizações ambientais em matéria de meio ambiente. In: São Paulo (Estado). Entendendo o meio ambiente. São Paulo; 1999. v. 1. Available at: http://www.bdt.org/sma/entendendo/atual/htm.
Event on electronic media
Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza's computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-91.
Thesis or dissertation
Silva MAL. Estudo da identificação de haplótipos e a relação com as manifestações clínicas em pacientes com doença falciforme. 2008. [dissertation]. Programa de pós-graduação em Ciências Médicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; 2008.
Quotations in the text
They must be identified by Arabic numbers (index numbers). The author's name and the year may be included. References with more than one author must contain the first author's surname followed by the expression et al. For example: Higashi et al.

Tables and images

The tables must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numbers and headed with a title. The same data should not be repeated. The tables should follow the standards of tabular presentation established by the National council of Statistics and published by Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, 1993).
The illustrations (graphs, photos, drawings, etc.) must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numbers and cited as figures. They should be sufficiently clear to allow reproduction. The graphs must be prepared in a graph processing system. The approximate places where the illustrations will be intercalated as figures in the text must be indicated.
We accept tables, images and graphs in the following electronic file formats: jpg, gif, psd, tif and png.

Abbreviations and medicine names

The abbreviations must be indicated in the text. Use the generic name of medicines and indicate the source of substances not available for prescription.
The units of measure as well as abbreviations must be expressed in the decimal metric system and, if the author wishes, in the International in parentheses.

Contact with JBPML

Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica/Medicina Laboratorial
Tel.: (21) 3077-1400
e-mail: jbpml@sbpc.org.br

How to submit an article to JBPML

How to submit an article to JBPML
1. Enter the site www.scielo.br/revistas/jbpml/www.jbpml.org.br.

2. If you have already registered, type your login and password and click on "Enter SGP".
If you have not registered yet, click on "I want to register".

3. First step: in the field "Inform your e-mail" register the e-mail that will be used to receive news and information about SGP.
Click on "Continue registration".

4. Second step: fill in the registration fields.
Note: The fields with an asterisk are obligatory.
Click on "Continue registration".
The message "Your registration at SGP has been successfully concluded" will appear.
You will receive an e-mail with your login and password at your registered e-mail address.
Click on "Back" at the same page.

5. You will return to the initial page of SGP with login and password.
On this page enter your login and registered password and click on "Enter SGP".
Note: your login and password are in the e-mail SGP sent to you by the end of your registration.

6. On the initial page of SGP there is a message informing you this is the first time you access the system. Otherwise, the message will inform you how many times you accessed the system, date, time of your last access and if you have access with author status.

7. Observe the menu on the left side of the screen. If you have not submitted any articles to SGP, all the items of the menu will be indicated with a "Zero".

8. To submit an article, click on "Submit new article to Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial".

9. Window "Step 1": inform the classification of your article (manuscript):

Review article
Original article
Letter to the editor
Brief communication
Case report

Click on the option corresponding to your article classification. For example: Original article.

10. Window "Step 2": include the images and/or graphs used in the article. All images and/or graphs must be in one of the following formats: jpg, gif, png, pdf or tif.
After including images/graphs, click on "Send images". If the article has no images, click on "I do not need to send images".

11. In this window the author can check the images he sent and send more of them. If he had not sent any images, the message "No image has been sent" will appear.
Click on "Next".

12. Window "Step 3": insert/edit/exclude new co-authors. For each new co-author, the fields "Name", "Title, "Position" and optionally "ID card" (for subsequent Copyright Statement) must be filled in.
The order of importance of authors may be changed by clicking on the yellow arrows (up and down). The first name will be regarded as the main author and the others as co-authors.
After insert/edit/exclude new co-authors, click on "Record" and "Next".
If there are no new co-authors, click on "Next".

13. Window "Step 4": fill it in with the title of the article and key words. These pieces of information must be written in the author's mother-tongue (for example: Portuguese or Spanish) and in English.
Click on "Next".

14. Window "Step 5": fill it in with the abstract. The author may also include further information such as the institution, name and mailing address, and if he has received any financial support grants.
It is also possible to write a Letter to the Editor containing relevant additional information. Only the Editor will have access to it.
Click on "Next".

15. Window "Step 6": write the article itself. A text editor is provided with the necessary commands to formatting.
It is possible to paste a text that had already been written and formatted in MS Word.
Click on "Next".

16. Window "Step 7": Copyright Transfer Statement. Fill in the required fields, print it and send it to SBPC/ML by fax (21) 2205-3386.

17. Window "Step 8": visual format of the article (html or pdf). In this window the author decides if he will submit the article or exclude it and give up on submitting it.

18. Window "Concluded": it shows you have finished the article submission process.

19. You will receive an e-mail stating your article has been submitted to evaluation.

There is no fee for submission and review articles.