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Author Guidelines

Preparing the writings

1.  The front page must include

• It should include, the article’s title written in Spanish, English, and Portuguese (a maximum of 15 words is recommended).
• List of authors, identified by their full name and last name, or both last names linked by a hyphen (e.g., Eugenio Colin-Barraza), and followed by their ORCID number and institutional affiliation. Affiliation data should be presented in the following order: Hospital / University, Faculty / Division or Department, Service, Unit / City, Province, and Country. Academic titles should not be written. An asterisk will be added to the correspondence author, and the related e-mail will be identified.
• ORCID registers can be obtained at https://orcid.org/
• In a maximum of 5 lines, the consensus, contradictions, or gaps in the knowledge regarding the issues related to the topic of the study, the contribution of the article to the overall knowledge, each author’s specific participation in the various study stages, should all be informed.

 

 2. Structured abstracts

Abstracts in Spanish, English, and Portuguese must be included in all articles.
Research and systematized review articles must be structured according to the following table:

Resumen	Abstract	Resumo
Título Introducción Objetivo Métodos Resultados Discusión Conclusiones Palabras clave	Title Introduction Objetive Methods Results Discussion Conclusions Keywords	Título Introdução Objetivo Métodos Resultados Discussão Conclusões Palavras chave

Narrative review, Essays, and Practice Innovation must be structured according to the following table:

Resumen	Abstract	Resumo
Título Introducción Objetivo Desarrollo Conclusiones Palabras clave	Title Introduction Objetive Development Conclusions Keywords	Título Introdução Objetivo Desenvolvimento Conclusões Palavras chave

Study Cases can adopt a format which best fits the needs.

All abstracts should:

• Be written in a comprehensible form so that the reader finds an adequate synthesis of the work. 
• Not include bibliographic cites.
• Be 250 words maximum.
• Include three to six keywords without acronyms at the end.

DeCS and MeSH terms can be checked at http://des.bvs.br/ and http://www.nim.nih.gov.mesh/MBrowser.html

 

3. Document Format

Research and systematized reviews, should include the following sections:

• Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References, Tables and/or Figures.
• Abbreviations should be explained just the first time they are used along all the document.

Narrative, historical, and/or practice innovation articles should preferably include the following sections:

• Introduction, Development (with corresponding subtitles), Conclusions, and References.

 

4. Section work-body

Editorial: Between 2 and 5 pages.

Research articles: A maximum extension of 20 pages and minimum of 25 references. Research articles should include:

• Introduction:
The introduction includes the objective and justification within fundamental theoretical and conceptual bases. In qualitative studies, the selected theoretical perspective must be identified.

• Methodology:
° Quantitative. In this section, descriptions of the population, sample size, sampling type, selection criteria, and missing data must be included. Operationalization and measurement of variables, analysis plan, and statistical methods must clearly and precisely be described. Validity and confidence tests, as well as the corresponding measurement instruments, should all be described. Statistical terms, abbreviations, symbols, and software programs must all be indicated. In studies involving human beings, a proof of compliance with the Helsinki Declaration should be provided. If it is the case, an informed consent letter and the ethical committee approval should be included.

° Qualitative. Information on the setting and context of the study, the sampling of participants, how data were obtained, the type of research, and the ethical issues related to the research should all be included. A description of the process of analysis and testimony selection, the triangulation methods (if they were used), and the equipment and participant analysis should all be described.

• Results:
° Quantitative. These results should be written in a logical sequence, highlighting and summarizing the relevant findings only. These texts should not be re-written in the data of boxes, figures and/or illustrations.

° Qualitative. These results should be displayed in an explicit form so that a meaningful image of the phenomenon under study is clearly portrayed.

• Discussion and conclusions:
New and relevant findings, with their corresponding explanations, should be highlighted. Results should be compared with other similar studies. Reflections and explanations on how the results contribute to the knowledge of nursing should be provided. All affirmation statements should be thoroughly data-supported, and in qualitative studies the corresponding theoretical connections should also be shown. Study limitations should be informed.

It is necessary to consult the Equator Network, review the guides and indicate which one is methodologically consistent with your writing.

Review Articles, which should be no more than 20 pages long.

• In Systematized Review Articles, at least one person with previous experience in the topic must be among the authors. The structure should be as follows: Introduction (including the explicit objective; Method (including the universe the review article considers, the periods, the consulted databases, and the selection criteria); and Results and Conclusions (including the contributions to the practice or research). Review articles must have at least 40 bibliographic sources. Boxes and figures can also be included.

• Narrative or Historical Review Articles should include: Introduction, Development along with the corresponding sub-sections, Conclusions and References with a minimum of 30 to support to the article´s arguments and thesis statements. Sources should have preferably been published within the previous five years..

Practice Innovation Articles. These should have a maximum of 20 pages and a minimum of 25 references, and can be:

• Original or novel proposals about the practice: The context, in other words, where does the information come from, to whom it is intended to, which norms, procedures, agreements, guide lines, etcetera, does it refer to?, should all be explained.

• Case studies: These should include: Introduction, Development (description of the case, ethical considerations, assessment, diagnostic, intervention plan, implementation, and evaluation), Results, Conclusions, and References.

• Essays: These should include: Introduction, Development, Conclusions, and References, including those necessary to support the thesis and arguments; preferably, no older than five years.

Letters to the Editor: These should be no longer than two pages.

 

5. Ethical Responsibility

• Protection to the persons and animals: In case experiments or interventions on persons or animals had been carried out in the study, how these persons and animals were protected and under which ethical foundations should be informed.

• Confidentiality: How the anonymous status of the participants and the confidentiality of their information were protected should be informed.

• Conflict of interests: The existence of interests should be declared. If there are no interests involved, the following phrase should be included: “Authors declare they do not have any conflict of interest”.

• Funding: The type of funding received should be specified. If no funding was received, the word “None” must be specified.

• Acknowledgements: Persons who participated and/or supported the study but who were not included as authors, can be mentioned here.

 

6. References

References should strictly follow the Vancouver model which is used by the majority of the bio-medical journals. Bibliographic references should be consecutively identified in the order they appear in the text, using Arabic numbers in superscript and without parentheses. These numbers assigned become the unique identifiers for the reference sources and should be re-used each time the same reference is cited along the text. Here are some examples:

• Journal articles:
1) Last name(s) and initial(s) of the authors - maximum six, should there be more, the legend et al (period), should be added
2) Title of the article (period)
3) Name of the journal in abbreviation format (period)
4) Year (semicolon)
5) Volume
6) Number within parentheses (colon)
7) Initial and final page linked a hyphen, if there is just one page, the legend "just one page" should be added. If the document has a DOI, it should be included.

Example:
Miller SM, Tagai EK, Wen KY, Lee M, Hui SA, Kurtz D, et al. Predictors of adherence to follow-up recommendations after an abnormal Pap smear among underserved inner-city women. Patient Educ Couns. 2017; 100(7):1353-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2017.01.020

• Books:
1) Last name(s) and initial(s) of the first six authors, if there are  more,  the legend "et  al"  (period) should be added
2) Title and sub-title (period)
3) Edition - if it is not the first (period)
4) City of publication (colon)
5) Editorial (semicolon)
6) Year of publication (period)
7) Number of page if corresponds (p. #.)

Examples:
Burke MM y Walsh MB. Gerontológica: cuidados integrales del adulto mayor. 2ª ed. Madrid: Harcourt Brace; 2000. p.650.

Domingo Roget A, Gómez Serés MV. La práctica reflexiva. Bases, Modelos e Instrumentos. Madrid: Narcea; 2014.

• Book Chapter:
1) Last name(s) and initial(s) of the first six authors, if there are  more, the  legend "et  al" (period) should be added
2) Title of the chapter (period)
3) In: Editors, Coordinators or book compilers (period)
4) Title of the book (period)
5) Number of edition (period)
6) City of publication (colon)
7) Editorial (semicolon)
8) Year of publication (period)
9) Initial and final pages of the chapter joined by a hyphen.

Example:
Stern C,   Menkes   C.   Embarazo   adolescente  y estratificación social. In: Lerner S y Szasz I. Salud reproductiva y condiciones de vida en México. México: El Colegio de México; 2008. P. 347-396.

• Internet Journal Article
1) Last name(s) and initial(s) of the authors, maximum six,  if   there  are  more, the  legend "et  al"  (period) should be added
2) Title of the article (period)
3) Name of the journal in short form [Internet] (period)
4) Year (semicolon)
5) Volume
6) Number within parentheses (colon)
7) Initial and final pages joined by a hyphen (period)
8) [Date of consultation] (period)
9) Available in: article’s URL and/or DOI.

Example:
Morales GM, Del Valle CR, Soto AV,     et al. Factores de riesgo cardiovascular en estudiantes universitarios. Rev. chil. Nutr. 2013; 40(4): 391-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-75182013000400010

Ailinger RL, Nájera RM, Castrillón MC, et al. Nursing Research in Latin America:  1988-1998. Rev Lat Am Enfermagen. 2010; 13(6): 926-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692005000600002

Regarding the international short-codes for the journal titles,  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog or https://www.latindex.org should be consulted.

For more information, consult the uniformity requirements for writings for bio-medical journals at https://bit.ly/2Q2wfNr

7. Tables and figures

While designing and presenting boxes, tables, figures – including drawings, graphs, photographs, etcetera, the proper size fit should be considered.
The titles of Boxes, tables and figures should be understood without references to the text. They are identified with Arabic numbers according to the article sequence. Boxes, tables and figures should be displayed in the order which they are referenced (e.g., Table 2; Figure 4), in separate pages. Graphs should be in high-resolution JPG files. The maximum number of both tables and figures is six.

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