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All manuscript must be submitted through the online system at (http://submission.scielo.br/index.php/rsbmt/login). The cover letter must contain a statement assuring that the material has not been published or is under consideration by another scientific journal. The author must choose on the item Author Guidelines (3.7 Document Type) one manuscript category (Original Articles, Editorials, Review Articles, Short Communications, Case Reports, Technical Reports, Images in Infectious Diseases, Obituaries, Letters to the Editor, or Other, when it does not fit in any other category). The responsibility for the contents of the manuscript is entirely of the authors and co-authors.
Layout of Original Article
The manuscript should be prepared using standard word processing software and should be printed (font times new roman size 12) double-spaced throughout the text, figures captions and references, with margins of at least 3cm. The maximum of word count is 6,000 words with up to 5 insertions (figures and tables). Divide the manuscript into the following sections: Title page addressed to the chief editor, Structured abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions, Acknowledgements and References. Abbreviations should be used sparingly.
Title page: should include authors' names in direct order and without abbreviations, highest earned degrees, institutional affiliations with academic addresses of the corresponding author and all co-authors and grant support.
Title: should be as concise, clear and as informative as possible, it should not contain abbreviations and not exceed 200 characters, including spaces.
Running title: with up to 70 characters.
Structured Abstract: should summarize the results obtained and the major conclusions in such way that a reader not familiarized with the particular topic of the paper can understand the implications of the article. The abstract should not exceed 250 words (100 words in case of short communications) and the abbreviations should be avoided. Should be divided in: Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions.
Key words: 3-6 items should be listed immediately below the structured abstract.
Introduction: should be brief and set out the purposes for which the study has been performed. Any relevant previous studies should only be cited when essential.
Methods: should be sufficiently detailed so that readers and reviewers can understand precisely what has been done and permit to be repeated by others. Standard techniques need only be referenced.
Ethics: in case of reporting experiments on human beings, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional, regional or national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, as revised in 1975, 1983, 1989, 1996 e 2000. When reporting experiments on animals indicate whether a national research council's guide for, or any law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Results: should be a concise and impersonal account of the new information. Avoid repeating in the text the data presented in the tables and illustrations.
Discussion: should directly relate to the study being reported. Do not include a general review of the topic, avoiding that it becomes too long.
Acknowledgements: should be short, concise and restricted to those absolutely necessary. In case of sponsoring institutions, do not use acronyms.
Conflict of Interest: all authors should disclosure any type of conflict of interest during the development of the study.
References: should be numbered consecutively as they appear in the text. List all authors when there are up to six. For seven or more, list the first six, followed by "et al." Type the reference list with double spacing on separate sheet.
Numbered references to personal communications, unpublished data or manuscripts either "in preparation" or "submitted for publication" should not be listed on the references. If essential, such material can be incorporated at the appropriate place in the text following the examples: (AB Figueiredo: Personal Communication, 1980); (CD Dias, EF Oliveira: Unpublished Data). Citations in the text should be given by the respective reference number upon the correspondent word, separated by comma (Ex.: World,1,3,5 ; Life.30,42,44-50.
The references as at the end of the manuscript should accord with the system used in Uniform requirements for manuscript submitted to biomedical journals (Consult: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine).
The titles of the journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in the Index Medicus. Consult: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals&TabCmd=Limits
The following are sample references:
1. Russell FD, Coppell AL, Davenport AP. In vitro enzymatic processing of radiolabelled big ET-1 in human kidney as a food ingredient. Biochem Pharmacol 1998;55:697-701.
2. Porter RJ, Meldrum BS. Antiepileptic drugs. In: Katzung BG, editor. Basic and clinical pharmacology. 6th ed. Norwalk (CN): Appeleton and Lange; 1995. p. 361-80.
3. Blenkinsopp A, Paxton P. Symptoms in the pharmacy: a guide to the management of common illness. 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Science; 1998.
Figures: should ideally be submitted in high-resolution TIFF format. The figures should be placed in separate files, named only with the figure numbers (e.g. "Figure 1." ; "Fugure 2."). Please ensure figures have a minimum resolution of 300dpi.
• Photographs should be sent with good resolution (minimum of 300dpi) in the TIFF format, preferably prepared using Adobe Photoshop.
• Graphs created using Microsoft Word or Excel should be saved with the original file extension (.doc or .xls). They should not be copied or pasted from one program to another.
• Maps and illustrations should be vectorized (drawn) professionally using the CorelDraw or Illustrator software at high resolution, and their dimensions should not be more than 21.5 x 28.0cm.
• Images produced in statistics software should be converted to Excel or PowerPoint format. If this is not possible, convert the file into TIFF format with a resolution of 300 dpi and send together with the file in the original format.
Legends: the legends for figures should be typed together with double-spacing on separate sheet.
Colour illustrations: must be approved by the editors and the extra costs of the colour offsets reproduction will be of the author's responsibility.
Tables: should be typed with double spacing, with a short descriptive title and submitted online on separate file. Legends for each table should appear on the footer of the same page as the table. All tables must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and be cited in the text. Tables should not have vertical lines, and horizontal lines must be limited to a minimum, with footnotes underneath. Tables should have up to 17cm of width.
Process of Submission: from October 21st of 2009 on, Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical will be a fully electronic journal. All manuscripts should be submitted via the Internet to http://submission.scielo.br/index.php/rsbmt/login and follow the instructions at the top of each screen. From this date on the peer review process will also be completely online.
On resubmissions and revisions: the journal differentiates between: a) manuscripts that have been rejected and b) manuscripts that will undergo further consideration after requested changes have been made.
Resubmissions: if you have received a letter or rejection and wish the editors to reconsider their decision, you may resubmit your work. In this case, your file will be considered a new submission and you will receive a new manuscript number.
Revision: if it is necessary to make changes to your manuscript according to the recommendations of the reviewers, when sending it back for a second analysis, please forward the revised manuscript and inform the same manuscript number.
After acceptance: once a paper is accepted for publication, the authors must provide:
a) A copyright assignment form, provided by the Journal's Secretary, signed by the corresponding author.
b) Proofs: will be sent to the corresponding author to be carefully checked for typesetting accuracy. Changes or additions to the edited manuscript cannot be allowed at this stage of the editing process. The corrected proofs should be returned to the journal within 4 days after received.
c) The accepted articles will appear on the printed issues obeying the order that they were submitted, revised and accepted.
d) The remaining accepted articles at each journal issue will be made available online, while they wait the priority to be published on the printed version.
Reprints: the journal provides free PDF offprint's file of the article for authors via e-mail.
Page charges: there will be no page charges, except the costs that Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical has with the translation of articles from Portuguese to English. In this case, these costs will be paid by the authors. |
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