Submissions

Author Guidelines

1 – Preconditions - Authors are required to verify the compliance of the submission in relation to all items presented below.

Submissions that do not comply with the rules will be returned to the authors. Articles must be unpublished and must not be under review for publication by another journal.
Submission files must be in Microsoft Word format and no larger than 2MB.

2 - Writing - articles must be written in an objective manner, with appropriate language to the study, as well as emphasizing the appropriate scientific terminology.

They should avoid using the first person “my study...”, or the third person plural “we perceive...”, because in the scientific text the discourse must be impersonal, without value judgment and in the third person singular.

3 - Authorship - the concept of authorship is reflected in the substantial contribution of each person listed as AUTHORS (maximum of 6), with regard, above all, to the design and planning of the research project, obtaining or analyzing and interpreting data, writing and critical review.

4 - Formatting - manuscripts must be produced in a word:

    a) 20 pages (maximum), title page, abstract, abstract, abstract (all with descriptors), acknowledgments and references (Vancouver Style), typed on one side, on A4 paper (21cm x 29,7cm), double space .

    b) Arial font, size 11, justified, double spaced, 2cm margins.

    c) Pages numbered in the upper right corner from the identification page.

    d) Beginning of a paragraph with 1.25 cm each (or 1 TAB).

5 – Structure – Without prejudice to the different types of work that may be presented (e.g. note, informative, experience report, qualitative), the structure of the article is composed of the following aspects:

5.1 - Cover page - must respect the following aspects:

1. a) Title of the article in Portuguese, English and Spanish, centered, double-spaced, with only the first letter in capital letters (except for proper names. Do not use ACRONYMS).
2. b) Full name/s of the author/s, placing below the name, separated by dots: professional category, education, higher academic degree, institution to which they belong and e-mail.
   The author responsible for exchanging correspondence should add: full address, telephone and/or fax. In cases where applicable and convenient, you can add the type of assistance and name of the funding agency.
3. c) If prepared from a thesis, dissertation or monograph: title, year and institution where it was presented, and the name of the supervisor must be included as the author.

5.2 - Abstracts - presented in Portuguese, English and Spanish , between 150 and 200 words, double spaced. It should adopt the narrative style, starting the text after the following terms: 
Objective: Method: Results: Conclusion:

5.3 - "Descriptors" - placed after the respective abstract, between three (3) to five (5) terms that identify the topic, limited to the recommended descriptors in the Descriptors in Health Sciences [DeCS],
translated from the Medical Subject of Health MeSH, and presented free of charge by BIREME in trilingual form, on the page URL: http://decs.bvs.br , followed by a colon (:), with initials in lowercase and
separated by semicolons (;) .

5.4 - Text ― texts from original manuscripts, clinical case studies, systematic and integrative literature reviews must present: 1) Introduction; 2) Objective; 3) Method; 4) Results; 5) Discussion; 6) Conclusion; 7) Acknowledgments (optional); 8) References (Vancouver Style). The other categories of articles will have a free textual structure, however the REFERENCES are mandatory.

1) Introduction ― must be brief, clearly define the problem studied, highlighting its importance and knowledge gaps, providing strictly pertinent references.

2) Objective – refer in the summaries and introduction, starting with the verb in the infinitive.

3) Method – applies in particular to the following types of articles, with the necessary specifications.

1. a) Original Manuscripts and Clinical Case Reports - must describe the method and type of study, the population, the sample, the sample selection criteria, the data collection instrument, the procedures for data collection and analysis. Whenever possible, the name of the Ethics Committee to which the study was submitted should be indicated.
2. b) Systematic and Integrative Reviews of Literature - type of study, the procedures adopted for the review: the search strategies, selection and evaluation of articles, clarifying the delimitation and limits of the theme. (The results should contain a comparative analysis of the works in the area, which discusses the methodological limits and scope, allowing to indicate perspectives for the continuity of studies in that line of research and should contain conclusions).

4) Results - must describe the results found without including interpretations or comparisons and the text must complement but DO NOT REPEAT what is described in tables and figures.

4. a) Tables - must be prepared in black and white, inserted in the text, with the first letter of the caption in capitals described at the top, consecutively numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they were cited in the text, content in font 10 with the first capital letter, presented in size smaller than A4. Explanatory content should be placed in notes below the table, not in the title. Explain in notes all non-standard abbreviations used.
5. b)  Illustrations - photographs, drawings, graphs and tables are considered Figures, which must be prepared for reproduction in black and white. They must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order in which they were mentioned in the text, the first letter of the caption capitalized.
6. c) Citations― Citations will be identified in the text by their respective superscript numbering, without the identification of the author and year, without the use of parentheses and placed after the period, when appropriate (see example)*. Sequential numbers must be hyphenated; random numbers, by comma.
7. d) Testimonials: in the transcription of comments or responses, follow the same rules as for citations, but in italics, with the code that represents each interviewee in parentheses.

5) Discussion ― should contain comparison of the results with the literature, the limitations of the research and the authors' interpretation, highlighting the new and important aspects of the study.

6) Conclusion - relate the conclusions with the objectives of the work, avoiding statements not supported by the findings and include recommendations, when pertinent.

7) Acknowledgments - must be brief and objective, only to people or institutions that contributed significantly to the study.

8) References - APEO adopts the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals", published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ― Vancouver Style, available at: http://www.icmje.org or http:// www.bu.ufsc.br/ccsm/vancouver.html  (version translated into Portuguese).

6 -  Assessment - will be done on a scale from 0 to 10 converted into three possibilities:

0 - Favorable: the manuscript is accepted for publication without any changes or with minor changes, which can be made by the Editor of the Journal. The work will not need to be returned to the author. Small changes must be indicated in the opinion.

5 to 9 - Favorable, provided that the reformulations indicated in this opinion and/or noted in the text are met: the publication proposal must be reviewed by the author. The recommendations must be accompanied by detailed suggestions that guide the author on the elements to be observed to improve the presentation of the work.

0 to 4 - Unfavorable: the manuscript should not be accepted for publication. This is because it must be completely reformulated according to the justifications presented in the opinion. In any of these cases, the author will be notified. Rejected manuscripts can be resubmitted as a resubmission, starting another peer review process.