| Originals should be typed on one side of the paper with no more than 20 pages (30 lines each), double-spaced with all margins of at least 3 cm. Except for the title page, all other pages should be numbered.
The title page should contain:
a) the title of the work, with a english version too;
b) name, surname of the authors;
c) name and address of the institution where the work was carried out;
d) abstracted title (not exceeding 50 letters and spaces);
e) a presentation letter, with all the authors' signature, taking the responsibility for the content of the work, but only one should be indicated as responsible to receive the correspondence. It should contain telephone, fax, and address for contact;
f) ethical aspects, the authors' letters revealing eventual conflicts of interest (professionals, financials and benefits directs or
indirects) that can influence the results of the research. In the letter it should still have the date of approval of the work for the
Committee of Ethics in Research of the institution where authors are working.
Footnotes. Only the unavoidable footnotes should be indicated in the text, and presented in a separate sheet following the abstract page under the subtitle footnotes.
Original articles
Original articles should mandatorily contain Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Bibliographical References.
References to "unpublished results" and "personal communications" should appear within parentheses following the citation of the respective authors in the text. Example: Oliveira AC, Silva PA and Garden LC (unpublished results). The original's author is responsible for requesting permission to reproduce "personal communications".
Review articles
Only articles requested through invitation of the Associated Editors of RAMB will be published. Maximum size of 25 pages; it is not necessary to have abstract or summary but should contain, Uniterms and Keywords.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be restricted to those who have significantly contributed to the work, and appear before the Bibliographical References..
Abstract
The summary, with at the most 250 word, should contain objective, methods, results and conclusions. After the summary should be indicated, at the most, six Uniterms (the structured vocabulary of "DeCS - Health Sciences Descriptors" is recommended, published by BIREME (The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information). The summary aims to make articles fully understandable. It should be presented in a separate sheet, and follow the same model of the abstract: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Articles wriote in Portuguese, should contain, in the second page, two summaries: one in Portuguese and another in English (Summary). Articles wrote in Spanish should present summaries in English (Summary) and Portuguese. The summary should identify the objectives, methods, results and conclusions of the work and should be structured.
Bibliographical references
Bibliographical references should be consecutively numbered in the order they appear in the text.
All authors up to five should be cited; when there are more than six, only the first six should be cited followed by the expression et al. Journal title should be abbreviated in accordance with the Cummulated Index Medicus, or the rules of the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT). Examples:
1. Parkin DM, Clayton D, Black RJ, Masuyer E, Friedl HP, Ivanov E, et al. Childhood leukaemia in Europe after Chernobyl: 5 year follow-up. BR J Cancer 1996;73:1006-12
2. Vega KJ, Pina I, Krevsky B. Heart transplantation is associated with an increased risk for pancreatobiliary disease. Ann Intern Med 1996;124:980-3
3. The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Clinical exercise stress testing. Safety and performance guidelines. Med J Aust 1996;164-282-4
4. Cancer in South Africa [editorial] S Afr Med J 1994;84:15
5. Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brener BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995.p.465-78
6. Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on line] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1996 Jun 5]; 1(1):[24 screens]. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm
Bibliographical citations
The bibliographical citations in the text should be numbered with superscript Arabic numbers, in the order in that appear in the text. Example: Even in situations of normoglicemia6 ...
Figures and tables
Only the unavoidable figures and tables should be included for effective comprehension of the data and the text.
a) All figures should be black and white originals, and printed on good quality paper. Letters and symbols should appear in the legend.
b) All legends should make figures and tables understandable without reference to the text.
c) All tables, including titles and legends, should be presented in separate sheets.
d) Using a soft pencil, write on the back of each figure the name of the first author and the number of the figure, and identify the top with an arrow. Figures and tables should be numbered using consecutive Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. If used, they must be defined at the first mention. Abbreviations used in tables or figures should be defined in the respective legends. Only the generic name of the used drug should be cited in the work.
Sections
Bedside Manners: questions with objective answers on practical conducts.
Update: reports on applicable progresses in the clinical practice in its respective areas. Characteristics of the text: maximum of 120 lines in size 12 in up to 70 touches.
Comments: section only destined to the comments on original articles. It can be written by an invited professional or by the Editorial Board members. Characteristic of the text: maximum of 29 lines in size 12 and up to 70 touches.
Correspondences: Letters with suggestions, comments on published works, opinions, doubts, questions, in order to count with the reader's participation. They should contain at most 40 lines.
Guidelines: Summaries or spaces of norms or recommendations regarding the medical practice, For example: consents and guidelines elaborated by Societies of Specialty, followed by comments.
Editorial: space dedicated to the discussion of important subjects, approaching or not articles published in the same edition. They will be written by members of the editorial board of RAMB or other professionals under invitation. Characteristic of the text: maximum of 40 lines in size 12 up to 70 touches.
International Panorama: Summaries of recent articles and of relevance practice, followed by comments
Seeking to turn them practical and objective, the articles/letters of the sections cannot contain illustrations or graphs. Only the necessary ones, the references or citations can be included, should be disposed at the end of the article. | 
