Submissions

Author Guidelines

TYPES OF ITEMS

Originals Works with original experimental or theoretical data will be accepted. The recommended length of the text will be between 1,500 and 3,000 words, not including the summary and the keywords, double spaced and a font size of 12 cpi. A maximum of 30 bibliographical references and up to 6 figures and 6 tables will be accepted. The originals should be structured in: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion and Bibliographic references. If there was data collection from individuals or institutions, information about obtaining informed consent should be reported.

Reviews: The revision works will be requested by the Editorial Committee. The possibility of submitting unsolicited reviews is accepted, after acceptance by one of the associated editors. Reviews should include the bibliographic search strategy, including search terms, periods included and criteria for article selection.

The summary should be 150 unstructured words and the entire manuscript will have a maximum length of 5,000 words without including the abstract; Up to 10 tables and 10 figures will be admitted, and should not exceed 80 bibliographic citations.

Letters to the editor: Should refer to objections or comments on articles published in the last two issues of the journal and have an extension of maximum 1,000 words, without a summary, without headings and a maximum of 5 authors and 10 bibliographical references. Only one table or figure can be included. Letters to the editor that are accepted may be accompanied by a response from the authors of the article on which the correspondence refers and will have the same limitations of space and references as the requesting letters. The letter and the reply will be published simultaneously.

FORMAL ASPECTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT

All manuscripts must be written in Spanish or English, double spaced in all sections, with lateral margins, top and bottom of 25 mm (Arial font 12). The use of abbreviations in the title and in the summary of the work should be avoided. The first time an abbreviation appears in the text, it must be preceded by the full term to which it refers. The use of the international metric system (points for thousands and commas for decimals) should be preferred for the units of measurement, but the use of the Anglo-Saxon system (commas for thousands and points for decimals) is acceptable, although in any case this must be consistent through the text. The chemical, physical, biological and clinical units must always be strictly defined. The manuscripts will consist of the following sections:

a) Title; in Spanish and English and with a short title of a maximum of 50 characters, one or both names and the full surnames of the authors (linked by a script), place of work (institution, department, city and country) and the full name , email and postal address of the author for correspondence, who will be responsible for correcting the evidence. The academic or professional position will not be included. It must include the declaration of funding and whether or not there are conflicts of interest. It will include the full name, telephone and fax number, email and full postal address of the author to whom the correspondence is addressed, who will be responsible for correcting the evidence. The first page should be presented in a separate file from the rest of the manuscript.
b) Summary and keywords: In Spanish and English. The summary will only be included in those sections that contemplate it and with the characteristics that are cited in the specific Rules for each Section.

The structured summary will have the following headings:

Objective, pointing out the fundamental purpose of the work.

Material and method, explaining the study design, the temporal direction (retrospective or prospective). The number and type of samples used will be indicated.

Results, the most relevant and significant results of the study will be recorded, as well as its statistical evaluation.

Discussion, the main findings of the study will be discussed in comparison with what was previously published in the literature on the subject.

Conclusions (as the last paragraph of the Discussion), those that are directly based on the data will be mentioned along with their clinical applicability. We will have to give the same emphasis to positive and negative findings with similar scientific interest.

At the end of the summary, there should be three to six key words according to DECS Bireme, Scielo's base or Environmental Thesaurus for Colombia.

From page three onwards. Main text of the article.

With the following subdivisions:

1. Introduction. The objectives of the work should be clearly stated and the basis of the work summarized without extensive review of the subject and elimination of historical memories. Quote only those strictly necessary references.
2. Methodology. In this section you must specify the place, time and population or nature of the samples used in the study. It must include necessary information about the design, describe the selection of the subjects or samples studied, describing the methods, devices and procedures in sufficient detail to allow reproducing the study to other researchers. The names and initials of the people should not be used. The ethical standards followed by researchers in both human and animal studies will be described briefly. In all cases, the minutes and date in which the ethics committee reviewed the project or work should be mentioned.
3. The results should be concise and clear, and include the minimum necessary tables and figures. They will be presented so that there is no duplication and repetition of data in the text and in the tables and figures.
4. Discussion. Emphasis is placed on the new and important aspects of the work and its conclusions. They must be explained, not repeated, the results obtained, their reliability, their limitations and their correlations with the results of other authors. The transcendence of the study and its future projection should be highlighted. The conclusions, if presented, will be few and concise. Any type of conclusion that is not clear from the results obtained will be avoided. These conclusions will be written as the last paragraph of the Discussion.
5. They will only be expressed to those people who have clearly contributed to making the work possible but who can not be recognized as authors. All persons specifically mentioned in Acknowledgments must know and approve their inclusion in said section.
6. Bibliographic references. It will appear on a separate sheet, at the end of the manuscript, before the tables and figures. Only those citations that are considered important and have been read by the authors will be included. All references must be cited in the text consecutively, according to the order of appearance, and identified by a call in parentheses with the surname of the first author, followed by the acronym in Latin: et al. and the year of publication. The references that are cited only in the tables must be numbered according to the sequence established by the first identification in the text of said table or illustration. In cases where the appointment is placed next to a punctuation mark, the appointment will precede the sign. References of communications in symposia or working papers or of publications not arbitrated should not be included. Items not accepted should not be included. Originals accepted and not published at the time of being cited may be included through your DOI appointment.