Submissions

Author Guidelines

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Evaluation and Publishing Fees:

For manuscript submission:

It is necessary to pay the evaluation fee of R$ 200.00 and the receipt must be attached to the system at the moment of submission.

After approval:

The publication fee of R$ 500.00 must be deposited in the banking account of the Universidade Estadual de Maringá and the diagramation fee of R$ 200.00 deposited directly to the designer’s banking account.

Expenses on review of the English language, translation of the full text into Portuguese and translation of the title/abstract into Spanish are the author’s full responsibility.

 

Required Documents:

1. Main document (article to be evaluated);

2. Identification page;

3. Statement of liability and copyright assignment;

4. Declaration of conflicts of interest;

5. Article checklist;

6. Proof of payment of the evaluation fee;

7. Proof of approval by the Research Ethics Committee (when applicable).

Templates (the files are standardized, so if the document does not open, please try another computer, or send an email to: revdenuem@gmail.com requesting support)

1. Declaration of conflicts of interest;

2. Declaration of responsibility and copyright assignment;

3. Identification page;

4. Standart checklist of the article.

 

Online Submissions:

System registration and subsequent access, by login and password, are mandatory for submission, as well as to follow-up the editorial process.

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General Submission Conditions:

1. The submission of manuscripts is made exclusively online at the site: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/CiencCuidSaude;

2. All authors must be registered on the journal’s website;

3. The metadata of all authors (and not only who is submitting) must be filled in: full name, URL of Lattes (national authors), ORCID ID, name of the institution of origin/affiliation, country, email and short biography (professional category and higher degree);

4. Once the manuscript is submitted, the inclusion/change of authors is not allowed, especially after the editorial committee decides on the evaluation;

5. On submission, send a Wors file as the main document – with the manuscript text and as supplementary documents: a) identification page in Word; and all others scanned in PDF format, namely: a) Declaration of Responsibility and Transfer of Copyright, elaborated according to the journal’s model (available on the journal’s website); b) Conflict of Interest Declaration; c) Copy of the Ethics Committee’s Opinion when the Research involves human beings; and d) Payment receipt of the evaluation fee.

 

Submission Guidelines:

1. The submitted manuscripts must comply with the editorial policy and authors’ guidelines, as well as the EQUATOR Network guidelines http://www.equator-network.org/.

2. Articles must be submitted exclusively to Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde, and simultaneous submission to another journal, either in full or in part, except for abstracts or reports published in event annals, is not acceptable.

3. The copyright of articles published on Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde is their exclusive copyright, through a Declaration of Transfer of Copyright signed by all authors and attached as a supplementary document at the time of manuscript submission.

4. Published articles will be licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt - The attribution adopted by Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde, as long as provided the authors and source, allows: a) Sharing - copy and distribute the material in any media or format; b) Adapt - remix, transform and build on the material for any purpose, even commercially.

5. The authors are responsible for declaring conflicts of interest, financial, technical, institutional, or personal support, related to the study; and acknowledgments.

6.The concepts, opinions and conclusions issued in the articles, as well as the accuracy and origin of the citations and references, are of total responsibility of the authors, not reflecting the opinion of the Editorial Board of Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde.

7. The manuscripts resulting from research involving human beings, must have clear information about the ethical precepts of the research, according to the guidelines and regulatory frameworks of each country. It is strictly not allowed to disclose the names of the research participants or in any way that could compromise the principle of anonymity.

8. Research carried out in Brazil must inform in the text the number of the Approval Opinion by the Research Ethics Committee, besides sending a copy of it as a supplementary document.

9. Research articles carried out in foreign countries must comply with the regulation of research ethics in the country of origin and send a copy of an approval document, as a supplementary document.

10. Clinical research articles should inform, at the end of the item “method”, the identification number in one of the Clinical Trials records, validated according to criteria established by the World Health Organization and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE - www.icmje.org).

11. Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde discourages the submission of original articles with datacollected more than five years ago.

12. Only review studies with data collection carried out no more than two years before submission will be considered for evaluation. However, the publication of the approved review is subject to updating the search.

13. Articles will only be considered submitted after full adaptation to the rules/guidelines for authors.

14. Before submitting, authors must attend the standard checklist, to check and adjust the manuscript.

15. If the manuscript or its data has previously been made available in a preprint repository, the authors must inform the name of the repository, the assigned DOI and the date of its availability in the file referring to the Title Page.

16. The manuscripts may be submitted in the Portuguese, English or Spanish languages and have professionals from other areas as authors, as long as the theme is of interest to the health area.

17. The publication of the manuscript will depend on the fulfillment of the Journal’s guidelines and on the appreciation of the Editorial Board, which has full authority to decide on its acceptance, and may even present suggestions to the authors for changes that it deems necessary.

 

Author Contribution:

According to the criteria established by the ICMJE, available in: http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html, the authors and contributors must record the type of their contribution in producing the article.

Four minimum authorship criteria are considered:

a. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the study; or acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of study data;

b. Elaboration and critical review of the intellectual content of the study;

c. Approval of the final version of the study to be published;

d. Responsible for all aspects of the study, ensuring issues of accuracy or integrity of any of its parts.

 

Categories of Manuscripts Considered:

• Editorial: a theme of the Editorial Board’s responsibility or papers of invited authors. Opinion paper on a subject of interest for the current historical moment or the production of knowledge, with repercussions for Nursing and Health. It may include up to two (2) pages, and up to five references.
• Original article: contributions aimed at disseminating results of scientific, original, and completed research, which adds new information or corroborates the available knowledge about the research object related to the scope of Nursing and Health areas. Included in this category are randomized clinical trials, case-control, cohort, prevalence, incidence, accuracy studies, case study and qualitative studies. It must include the following: Introduction: present the theme, describe the problem and its relevance, literature review, and objective. Method/Methodology: describe clearly, objectively, and completely the method employed, the population/sample studied, participants in the study or data source, data collection period, the place where the research was carried out (without saying the institution’s name), data collection technique, selection criteria, among others. Include the number of the approval report of the Research Ethics Committee and report that the research was conducted according to the required ethical standards. Results: must be presented in a logical sequence. If there are tables, graphs or figures, the information must be complementary. Discussion: should follow the logical sequence of the results, comparison with the pertinent and updated literature in the area and the interpretation of the authors. Conclusion or Final Considerations: they should highlight the most important findings, refer to the limitations and implications for future research. It should be limited to twenty (20) pages, including the abstract, a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 30 references and up to seven authors (except in cases of multicenter studies after deliberation by the editorial board).
• Review Articles: systematic, integrative, and bibliometric reviews will be accepted. Astudy that combines, in an orderly and synthetic way, research results on a specific theme, helping to explain and understand differences found between primary studies that investigate the same problem, to deepen the knowledge about the investigated object. The reviews use systematic methods and specific criteria to identify, select and critically evaluate relevant research, and to collect and analyze data from the studies included in the review. It should include a section describing the methods used to locate, select, extract, and synthesize the data and conclusions. Review articles must contain a maximum of twenty (20) pages, including an abstract, a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 30 references, in addition to those included in the review, and up to five authors.
• Reflection Articles: reflective text or analysis of topics that contribute to the deepening of knowledge related to the nursing and health area, establishing analogies, presenting, and analyzing different points of view, theoretical or practical. The reflections should minimally include Introduction, development, and conclusion. Maximum of twelve (12) pages, including abstract, minimum of 10 maximum of 25 references and up to five authors.
• Experience Report: study describing situations of practice and/or innovation (teaching, assistance, research, or administration/management), intervention strategies and the assessment of their effectiveness, of concern to professional performance. It should include: Introduction presenting a problem and the purpose of the report; Methodology with a description of the place, period, participants, or sources of information, with a detailed description of the actions carried out and experienced, details of information and informants that guarantee a representation of the experience. It should include some type, even if informal, of the final evaluation of the experience. The discussion should include, possible facilities and difficulties found in the process, impacts on practice and changes to be made. A conclusion with summary of experience, recommendations, and further studies. Maximum of twelve (12) pages, including the abstract, minimum of 10 and maximum of 25 references and up to five authors.

 

Notice: Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde considers for publication articles that meet the quality standards established by the guidelines to produce health research - Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research Network (EQUATOR) (https://www.equator-network.org/). It is required to declare in the method which instrument from the Equator was used to guide the research (https://www.equator-network.org/toolkits/selecting-the-appropriate-reporting-guideline/).

• Randomized clinical trial: CONSORT (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/consort/);
• Revisão sistemática e metanálise: PRISMA; ENTREQ and for qualitative research syntheses: http://www.prisma-statement.org/statement.htm;
• Epidemiological studies: STROBE (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/strobe/);
• Qualitative studies: COREQ (https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/srqr/).

 

Authorship:

The number of authors is defined by the type of contribution. Up to six authors are allowed for original articles and up to five authors for review articles, reflection and experience reports. Original articles developed in a multicenter environment may have ilimited authors, upon deliberation by the editorial board.

Authors are those who make public their responsibilities for the content of the article, agreeing that the writing and intellectual content have been critically reviewed by all authors. Each author must approve the final version to be published and agree to take responsibility for all aspects of the work ensuring that concerns on the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are properly investigated and solved. Furthermore, each author declares the type of substantial intellectual contribution, according to the criteria established by the ICMJE.

 

Copyright:

Copyrights are the journal’s exclusive property, transferred through the Declaration of responsibility and transfer of copyright signed by the authors. To use the articles, the journal adopts the Creative Commons License, CC BY-NC Non-commercial attribution. With this license, access, download, copy, print, share, reuse and distribute the articles are allowed, if for non-commercial use and with the citation of the source, granting the proper copyright to the journal. In such cases, no permission is required from the authors or the editors.

 

Manuscript Preparation:

- Articles must be typed in “Word for Windows” 98 or a more recent version, Times New Roman font size 12, page layout: A4 size, margins of 2.5 cm on the four sides, and double-spaced, except for abstracts, references, direct citations, speeches, tables, and charts that should be single-spaced.

- For further information, verify the journal’s standard checklist.

a) Identification page:

- The title should be in bold, uppercase (only in the language in which the article was written);

- Author’s full name, right below the title, with mention to professional training (undergraduate - without specifying the institution), the institution in which you are pursuing a stricto sensu postgraduate degree or higher degree (never specify the institution), the institution of current work and e-mail address in a footnote;

- The specifications of the author’s contributions in the elaboration of the article according to the criteria of authorship of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. The authorship contribution must be based on a substantial contribution related to the following aspects: 1. Conception and design or data analysis and interpretation; 2. Writing of the article or relevant critical review of the intellectual content; 3. Final approval of the version to be published.

- Acknowledgements if the work was funded by any agency or institution;

- Indicate if the manuscript originates from a dissertation or thesis;

- Indicate if the manuscript has already been discussed in a scientific event or published in a foreign journal;

- Inform the section the text is intended for (Research Article; Review; Reflection; and Experience Report).

- Inform the corresponding author’s full address.

b) Manuscript:

- The title should be in bold, uppercase (only in the language in which the article was written);

- Should not have footnotes;

- Structured abstract (Objective, Method/Methodology, Results and Conclusion/Final considerations) in Portuguese with a minimum of 150 and a maximum of 200 words;

- Keywords in English, Portuguese, (Palavras-chave) and Spanish (Palabras clave): from three to five words or expressions that identify the theme, using terms listed in the “Descritores em Ciências da Saúde- DECS-LILACS” (Health Sciences Descriptors) prepared by BIREME.

- The text itself (Introduction, Methods/Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion/Final considerations, Acknowledgments and References). 

- In qualitative studies, at the preference of the authors, the presentation of results and discussion can be combined or separate. In quantitative studies, however, they must be presented separately.

Observations:

- The speeches of the subjects must be presented in simple space, italic, with a 4 cm indentation of the left margin, font size 10, without quotation marks and with their identification coded at the choice of the author, in parentheses. Obliterations must be indicated by the use of the ellipsis between square brackets [...], and interventions to what has been said must be enclosed in braces { }.

- “ipsis literes” quotes with up to three lines, use quotation marks; if more than three lines, use single space, with a 4 cm indentation to the left, font size 10. In both cases, refer to the page number from which the passage in question was extracted. i.e.: ^(19:6).

- Figures and tables must not exceed five in total, inserted in the text of the article and editable format. Use font size 10 and single space.

- Refer to figures and tables in the text, using the respective number (do not use expressions in the table above or the figure below).

c) References:

- Do not exceed the limit of 30 (thirty) for research articles and 25 (twenty-five) for reflection and experience report. In review articles, the number of articles included in the review can be added to the 30 references allowed.

- The list of references should be formatted with space 1.0, and 0.6 pt between them. Font size 12, aligned to the left, without paragraph, indentation, or displacement of the margins. 

- At least 75% of references must be dated from the last five years;

- At least 75% of references must be from national and international journals.

- Must be numbered consecutively in the order that they appear in the text for the first time. References must be listed in the same order as cited in the text, ignoring the alphabetical order of authors.

- Must be identified in the text by superscript Arabic numerals, without mentioning the authors, except when strictly necessary for the sentence. In this case, besides the name (without the year), the corresponding number must appear.

- When citing authors sequentially, separate them with a dash, i.e.: ^{(4,5,6 and 7)} replace with ^(4-7); when interspersed use comma, i.e.:^(6,8,12). When the sequence is only two numbers, use comma, i.e.:^(5,6).

- List the name of the first six authors and only then use the expression “et al.”.

- The accuracy of the references is the responsibility of the author(s) and should be referenced in Vancouver style.

- Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the official website of the journal or in the National Collective Catalog: http://ccn.ibict.br/busca.jsfl.

Examples:

Books: Marcondes E. Pediátrica básica. 8ª ed. São Paulo: Sarvier: 1999.

Book chapter: Centa ML. A família enfrentando a infertilidade. In: Elsen I, Marcon SS. Silva MRD. O viver em família e sua interface com a saúde e doença. Maringá: Eduem; 2002. p.121-40.

Dissertation/Thesis: Silva RLDT. Avaliação da implantação da assistência às pessoas com hipertensão arterial em município do estado do Paraná. 2013. [tese]. Maringá (PR). Programa de Pós-graduaçãoem Enfermagem. Universidade Estadual de Maringá – UEM. 2013.

Journal articles: Gvozd R, Haddad MCL, Garcia AB, Sentone ADD. Perfil ocupacional de trabalhadores de instituição universitária públicaem pré-aposentadoria.  Cienc. cuid. saúde. 2014 jan/mar; 13(1): 43-48.

Newspaper article: Silva HS. Estatuto do idosoem estudo. Jornal do Brasil. 2003 Jul 6; Caderno B: p. 6. Ministério proíbe fabricação de uso de agrotóxicos à base de organoclorados. Folha de S. Paulo. 2002 Set 3; p. 25.

Federal, state and municipal documents: Rio de Janeiro. Secretaria de Estado de Educação e Cultura. Programa Estadual de Educação Física - 1987/1990. Rio de Janeiro: ECEF/SEEC - RJ; 1987. Mimeografado. Brasil. Ministério da Saúde. INCA / Comprev. Estimativa de incidência e mortalidade por câncer no Brasil. Rio de janeiro; 2006.

Electronic documents: Godoy CB. O Curso de Enfermagem da Universidade Estadual de Londrina na construção de uma nova proposta pedagógica. Rev Latino-Am Enfermagem [on-line]. 2002 jul/ago. [citado em 28 abr 2006];10(4):596-603]. Available from: URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php? script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-1169200200400018&lng=pt&nrm=iso..jcn.co.uk/journal%202001/4_03_03.htm.

For other examples of references check the website:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

For abbreviations for journal titles in Portuguese check the website: http://www.ibict.br; and in other languages: http://www.nbci.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals.

 

Evaluation Flow:

1. The articles received exclusively by the system will be initially appreciated by the Editorial Committee of the journal Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde. At this time, the following items will be observed: scope, timeliness, relevance, ethical issues and method used to carry out the research. At this stage, the manuscript may be rejected or sent for technical review (within 30 days);

2. In the technical review of the article, the adequacy to the standards of the journal Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde will be evaluated and the article will be analyzed for plagiarism (for more information on Integrity in Scientific Dissemination, click here). At the end of this stage, the article may go directly to the third stage or be returned to the authors for readjustment of the norms (within 60 days);

3. Manuscripts will be forwarded to at least two ad hoc evaluators external to the journal Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde for the peer review process. At this time, the journal's evaluation instrument will be forwarded so that considerations and suggestions for the article can be made. If there is disagreement between the consultants' opinions, the text will be sent to a third consultant (within 120 days).

4. After reviewing the reviewers and the final version, the article may be: Accepted, Accepted with mandatory revisions or Rejected, according to the deliberation, the result being communicated to the corresponding author by e-mail informed in the submission process (within 60 days). The Editor-in-Chief manages all flow between the consultants and the corresponding author. During the entire process, the identification of consultants and authors is omitted.