Author Guidelines

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences is published under the Open Access model and is therefore free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 policy. 

APCS (ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES) AND SUBMISSION CHARGES

Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences is free of any kind of submission/publication fees, thus the authors are not charged to publish with us.

POLICIES AGAINST PLAGIARISM AND BAD CONDUCT IN RESEARCH

In the wake of our tradition in excellence, we would like to inform collaborators on editorial improvements that foreground the integrity of articles published by the Acta Scientiarum. Following guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) stimulating the identification of the practice of plagiarism, bad practices, frauds, possible violations in Ethics and indicting, we would like to recommend the following:

1. Authors are invited to visit the COPE website http://publicationethics.org for information on authors and editors on Ethics in research;

2. Prior to submission of scientific articles, authors should follow the criteria below:

- articles that contain data acquisition or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications should refer to the latter explicitly and directly;

- articles with a critical review on the intellectual contents of other authors should duly quote the latter authors;

- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;

- the definite approval of the article is the role of the respective editors and of the editorial board.

3. So that the above criteria could be complied with, the following procedures will be taken:

a)  Editors will evaluate manuscripts by CrossCheck system immediately after submission. Contents of the scientific articles will be evaluated to identify any sort of plagiarism, double submissions, already published articles and possible frauds in research;

b)  With these results in hand, the editors and the editorial board decide whether the manuscript is sent for the review of peers, who will also make their own evaluations;

c) After acceptance and prior to publication, the article may again be assessed.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1. Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, ISSN 1807-8648 (online), is published twice a year by the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá PR Brazil.

2.  The journal publishes original papers in Health Sciences, such as Clinical Analyses; Physical Education, Nursing, Pharmacy; Pharmacology, Phoniatry and Audiology, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Medicine, Nutrition, Dentistry and Public Health Policies.

3. Author(s) should state that the manuscript, reporting original work, was not sent, in part or in whole, for publication to another scientific journal. This statement may be found at http:// periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHealthSci/about/submissions

4.  Author(s) is/are accountable for data, ideas, concepts and preciseness of references in the scientific articles. Eventual mentioning of commercial products and trademarks does not imply in any recommendation for use by the Editorial Board.

5.  Reports are expected to be based on the most advanced techniques appropriate for the experiments. When applicable, a certificate by the Committee for Ethics and Bio-security is mandatory.

6.  Articles may be written in Portuguese or in English. In the former case,  if accepted for publication, translation into English is mandatory.

7.  Articles will be reviewed by three peers acknowledged for their scientific production and research, from higher institutions in Brazil and abroad. After due corrections and insertions of possible suggestions, the article shall be accepted for publication when there are two favorable opinions on the article; it will be rejected when two referees give unfavorable opinions. In case of ties, the article shall be sent to another referee. In this case, the Editorial Board’s decision will be final.

8.  Articles are to be sent via Internet through the ACTA homepage at http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/

9.  Conflict of interests may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. Conflict of interests occurs when authors, referees or editors have vested interests that may affect the writing or the evaluation of unpublished papers. Authors are requested that on submitting a paper for possible publication they should acknowledge or disclose financial conflicts or others that may have affected their scientific work. Authors should identify all financial funding given during the execution of their work and other personal bonds with regard to the above. The referee should inform the editors on any conflict of interests that may influence the manuscript's analysis and should declare him/herself ineligible for this particular task.

10. As from 2010 authors are accountable for the revision of the text in Portuguese or for its translation into a foreign language. Text revision and translation should be paid for by the authors to the authorized translators who will forward a certificate to this end. (http://periodicos.uem.br/ ojs/index.php/ActaSciHealthSci//announcement/ view/61).            

11. Formatting and conventions are as below:

a) On submission, the full name(s) of the author(s) (six at the most), her/his/their institutional address(es) and the e-mail of the author for correspondence should be inserted

b) Articles should be subdivided into the following sub-headings: Abstract; Keywords; Introduction, Material and methods/Methodology, Results/ Discussion; Conclusion/Final Considerations; Acknowledgements (optional) and References. Above items should be in bold and unnumbered.

c) The title, with no more than 20 words, in Portuguese and in English, must be precise. A more concise (running) title with no more than six words may be provided. The abstract (not exceeding 200 words) should contain information about the objective of the investigation, experimental materials, methods, results and conclusions. Abstract should not be overloading with numbers and quotes. Up to six key words must be provided at the end of both abstracts in Portuguese and in English. Terms should be those listed in DECS-LILACS elaborated by BIREME.

d) Article should not exceed 20 pages, including figures, tables and list of references. Pages should be numbered and main text in 1.5 line spacing throughout. Article should be edited in Word for Windows, Times New Roman or Arial 12pt font.

e) Paper format should be A4, with all page margins at2.5 cm.

f)  File containing the article to be transferred during submission should not exceed 2MB, and should have no identification label of the author, including in the option properties of Word.

g) Tables, figures and micrographs must be set on the text after being quoted.

h) Figures and Tables should be preferentially7.65 cm wide, not exceeding16 cm.

i)  Digitized Figures should have 300 dpi resolution and preferentially recorded in jpg or png. Illustrations in color are accepted.

j)  The International System of Measures should be used.

k) Equations should be edited by Math Typeor inserted in jpg or png.

l) Variables should be identified after equation.

m) Review of articles will be published when authors are invited by the Editorial Board or by the Chief Editor of Eduem.

n) Eighty percent (80%) of the references should have been listed on the database ISI Web of Knowledge or Scopus during the last 10 years. Preference to international citations of articles is recommended. Citations from theses, dissertations, monographs, proceedings, abstracts, expanded summaries, newspapers, magazines, technical bulletins and electronic documents will not be accepted.

o) Citation should follow the examples below based on norms of the American Psychological Association (APA). For citation within the text, insert surname and year: Ramos (2003) or (Ramos, 2003); for two authors: Balbinotto and Silva (2008) or (Balbinoto & Silva,  2008); for three or more authors, insert only the first author followed by et al.: Araújo et al. (2007) or (Araújo et al., 2007).

REFERENCE MODELS

References should be organized in alphabetical order, with left alignment, according to the following examples, based on the norm of the American Psychological Association (APA). List all authors. Titles of journals must be given in full, without the place of publication.

ARTICLES

One author

Ramos, L. R. (2003). Fatores determinantes do envelhecimento saudável em idosos residentes em centro urbano: Projeto Epidoso, São Paulo. Caderno de Saúde Pública, 19(3), 793-798. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-311x2003000300011

Two to twenty authors

Balbinotto, G., Nt., & Silva, E. N. (2008). Os custos da doença cardiovascular no Brasil: um breve comentário econômico. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 91(4), 217-218. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0066-782x2008001600002

Sousa, T. F., Fonseca, S. A., & Barbosa, A. R. (2014). Regular and negative self-rated health in students from a public university from Northeastern, Brazil: prevalence and associated factors. Acta Scientiarum. Health Sciences, 36(2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihealthsci.v36i2.19171

Araújo, J. A., Lima, J. S., Moreira, J. C., Jacob, S. C., Soares, O. S., Monteiro, M. C. M., Amaral, A. M., Kubota, A., Meyer, A., Consenza, C. A. N., Neves, C. D., & Markowitz, S. (2007). Exposição múltipla a agrotóxicos e efeitos à saúde: estudo transversal em amostra de 102 trabalhadores rurais, Nova Friburgo, RJ. Ciência e Saúde Coletiva, 12(1), 115-130. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1413-81232007000100015

Twenty-one or more authors

Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., Gandin, L., Iredell, M., Saha, S., White, G., Wollen, J., Zhu, Y., Chelliah, M., Ebisuzaki, W., Higgins, W., Janowiak, J., Mo, K. C., Ropelewski, C., Wang, J., Leetmaa, A., … Joseph, D. (1996). The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(3), 437-472. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077%3C0437:TNYRP%3E2.0.CO;2

BOOKS

Dias, A. A. (2006). Saúde bucal coletiva: metodologia de trabalho e práticas. Santos.

Ferreira, A. B. (2006). O uso do teste ergométrico nas valvopatias. In M. Grinberg, & R. O. Sampaio (Ed.), Doença valvar (p. 26-27). Manole.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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