Submissions

Author Guidelines

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Updated in December  2014.

GENERAL INFORMATION

- Articles for publication must be sent exclusively to “Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria-REUFSM”, not being able the simultaneous presentation to another journal, being it integrally or partially.

- Manuscripts can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

- REUFSM can publish articles written by experts in other areas, as long as the theme is of interest to Nursing.

- Articles submission is on-line in the site: http:// www.ufsm.br/reufsm - All authors must be registered in the REUFSM page and there are no submission fees for articles, being that, once an article is submitted, authorship can’t be modified.

- Forwarding a manuscript, attachments and filling all the data are responsibilities of authors who are submitting the manuscript.

- Also, it’s exclusively of authors’ responsibility, the opinions and concepts emitted in manuscripts, as well as the accuracy and precedence of quotations, not reflecting necessarily the position/opinion of Directors’ Board and Editorial Board of REUFSM. - The Journal doesn’t assume responsibility for grammar equivocations, and gives itself, therefore, the right to request for Portuguese review to authors.

METADATA

Full name of ALL authors (up to 6 autors), unabbreviated, as well as other data, biography resume (full affiliation and credentials), professional category, highest university title, name of department and institution of origin, electronic address, city, state and country must be completed on the moment of submission and informed only on metadata. Therefore, submitted manuscript in "doc" must contain only the scientific work and not present names or any other kind of identification to authors.

AKNOWLEDGEMENTS

- Acknowledgements through financial help, technical assistance and other help to execution of work should not be mentioned on the submission moment.

- When the work is accepted, authors will be guided about how to proceed to develop its insertion.

DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED

Authors of papers submitted to evaluation must sign their agreement to "Declaration of Authorship" from CREATIVE COMMONS, which is in the Step 1 to Submission. On clicking the icon to

CREATIVE COMMONS

(This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported License) will be open in a page that contains (in several languages, including Portuguese) conditions to attribution, non-commercial use, prohibited the creation of derivative works.

- Manuscripts resulted of studies that involve human beings must indicate adopted procedures to answer the constant of the Resolution 196/96 of National Health Consul and indicate the protocol number of research project approval and date of approval on the Research Ethics Committee (REC). For articles from other countries, adopted procedures will be the constant from Helsinki Declaration (1975 and reviewed in 1983). Approval letter from REC (digitalized and in pdf) must be attached to the moment of submission on “Step 4

–Transfer of additional documents”.

- Conflict of Interests can emerge when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that are not completely apparent, but can influence in judgments about what is published. Conflict of interests can be of personal, commercial, political, academic or financial order. When authors submit a manuscript, being an article or letter, they are responsible to recognize and reveal conflicts that might influence their work.

PROCESS OF JUDGMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS

- For publication, beyond compliance of standards, will be considered: actuality, originality and relevance to theme, scientific consistence and respect to ethical norms.

- Articles submitted will be first analyzed to Editorial Comission in relation to editorial thread and norms of the journal, being able to, including, present sugestion to authors to alterations that are judged necessary, through a checklist. In this case, the referred article will be re-evaluated. The decision of this analysis will be communicated to authors. Posteriorly, the evaluation of article is developed by two consulters, members of Editorial Board or Ad-Hoc, invited by the Editorial Board. Feedbacks are heard by this committee to deliver its final opinion, or in case of divergence between the feedbacks, requests a third one.

- Directors Board assures anonymity of authors on the process of evaluation by the peers, as well as the anonymity of evaluators and secrecy about the participation, that guarantees them freedom of judgment.

- Feedbacks from evaluators will be available on-line to the author responsible by the submission that will have the timeframe of 15 (fifteen) days to answer the requests. Otherwise, manuscript will be ARCHIVED, after sending a communication to all authors, for understand that there was not an interest in answer to adjustments’ request. However, if there is still interest in publishing it, the article must be submitted again, initiating a new judgment process by peers. Authors must maintain their e-mails updated to receive all the communications.

- Author, identifying the need to request na erratum, must sent it to the Journal in a timeframe of maximum 15 days after the publication of the article, and it’ll be responsibility of the Journal the decision about it’s relevance and possible divulgation. MANUSCRIPTS

CATEGORIES

Editorial: of responsibily of the Directors Board of the Journal, that can invite authorities to write it. Ceiling of two pages.

Original Articles: are contributions destined to disclose results of a scientific, original, unpreceeded and concluded research. Ceiling of 20 pages. Minimum 10 and maximum 10 references.

Review Articles: comprehends critical, sistematized evaluation of the literature about specific themes. Must include a section that describes methods used to locate, select, extract and synthesize data and conclusions. Ceiling of 15 pages. No limit to references. Experience

Report: experience reports of academia, professional, care, extension, research, among others, relevant to health sciences. Ceiling of 15 pages. Minimum 10 and maximum 25 references.

Reflection article: discursive formulations of theorizing effect grounded on the global situation in which a subject is found. Mattering of opinion character or analysis of questions that can contribute to deepen themes related to health or nursing sciences. Ceiling of 15 pages. Minimum 10 and maximum 25 references. Reviews: spacem destined to synthesis or critical analysis of work recently published (last 12 months). Must not exceed three pages on the total analysis. Must present reference according to “Vancouver”, of analysed work.

Foreword: research forewords, containing unpublished data and relevant to nursing. Space destined to synthesis of Dissertation or Thesis in the final process of elaboration. It must contain all steps of study, following the same norms as original articles. Ceiling of three pages.

Letters to the editor: mail directed to editor about a manuscript published in the Journal in the last year or research report or meaningful findings to Nursing or other sciences and can be sent containing commentary and reflections about this published material. It will be published as Editorial Board criteria. Ceiling of one page.

Biography: it’s constituted in the history of life of a person that’s contributted to Nursing and other sciences. It must contain introduction, development and conclusion; and evidence the process of data collection that enabled to biographic construction. Ceiling of 10 pages.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPS

Works must be forward in a Microsoft Word 97-2003 document, font Trebuchet MS 12, double space in all text, will all pages numbered, configured in paper A4 (210 x 297 mm) and with four margins of de 2,5 cm. Written according in Vancouver style, norm elaborated through ICMJE (http://www.icmje.org).

AS TO WRITING

Objective writing, maintaining adequate language to the study, as well highlighting consistent scientific terms. It’s recommended that author(s) seek professional linguistic advice (reviewers or translators certified on the languages Portuguese, English and Spanish) before submitting manuscripts that may contain errors or morphological, syntactic, idiomatical or of style inadequacy. Must yet avoid the use of first person in singular "my study...", or the first person in plural "we perceive...", because in scientific text, speech must be impersonal, without judgment value. Titles of textual sections must be highlighted gradually, without numeration.

MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE

TITLES

Article title (unpublished, concise in til 15 words, but informative, excluding geographical location of research and abreviations) in the languages Portuguese (Título), English (Title) e Spanish (Título). In case of the manuscript being originated by thesis, dissertation, or discipline of the post-graduation program, must contain asterisk (*) by the end of the title and the respective information in footnotes in the first page. This indication must be informed only in the last version of the manuscript, avoiding identification of authorship.

Primary section heading and summary - uppercase and bold. Ex.: TÍTULO; RESUMO; RESULTADOS. Abstract and resumen in uppercase, bold and italic. Ex.: ABSTRACT; RESUMEN.

Secundary section heading – lowercase and bold. Ex.: Care principals in Nursing (secundary section). Avoiding the use of markers along the text.

ABSTRACT

Concise, until 150 words, elaborated in unique paragraph, with its version to English (Abstract) and Spanish (Resumen), starting by the same language of the work. It must be structured on items: aims, methods, results and final considerations or conclusions (all in bold). It must be considered new and more important aspects of the study that highlight advance of knowledge in Nursing.

DESCRIPTORS

After the abstract, include 3 to 5 descriptors according the index of Health Science Descriptors- DeCS (http://decs.bvs.br) or Medical Subject Headings – MESH (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html). Each used descriptor will be presented with the first letter in uppercase, being separated by dot and comma (;). Do not use terms: Palavras-chave, Keywords e Palabras-clave. Use: Descritores, Descriptors e Descriptores, respectively in Portuguese, English and Spanish.

INTRODUCTION

It must be succint, presenting research question, justification, literature review (pertinant and relevant) and aims coherent to the study proposal.

METHOD

Indicate appointed methods, studied population, source of data and selection criteria, in which must be descripted in an objective and complete form. Insert the number of protocol and date of approval of the research project in the Research Ethics Committee. It’s also needed to refer the research that was conducted according to required ethical standards.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Results must be descripted in a logical sequence. When presenting tables and illustrations, text must complement and not repeat what’s descripted in them. Discussion that can be written together with the results must contain comparison between results with the literature and interpretation by authors. As for literature, it’s suggested the use of updated articles mostly (last five years) and it’s suggested, still, to use articles published in REUFSM.

CONCLUSION AND FINAL CONSIDERATIONS

Conclusions or final considerations must highlight the most important findings, commenting the limitations and implications for new research.

QUOTATIONS

Use numeric system to identify quoted work. Represent them in the text with correspondent numbers without parentheses and overwritten, after dot, without space and without mentioning authors’ names.

Sequential quotation – separate numbers with hyphen. I.E.: Researches evidence that... 1-4

Interspersed quotation – must be separated by comma. I.E.: Authors refer that... 1,4,5

Transcription of words, sentences or paragraphs with the author’s words (direct quotation) – must be used in quotation marks in the sequence of the text, maximum three lines (without italic) and reference according the exemple: 13:4 (author and page); with more than three lines, use retreat 4 cm, font number 12 and double space between lines (without quotation marks and italic), following of indication of number correspondent to author and to page, in overwritten. Supressions must be indicated by the use of ellipsis between brackets "[...]". it is recommended the careful criteria of these resource. I.E.: "[...] when impossible to self-care".5:27

Testimonials: transliteration of comments or responses, follow the same rules of quotations, but in italics, with the code to represent each witness in parentheses after the point. The contributions of authors to what was said by the participants should be given in brackets.

ILLUSTRATIONS

May be included up to five (graphs and tables), in black and white or color, as the following specifications:

Tables – must elaborated to direct reproduction by the editor of layout, insert in text, with the first letter of the superscription in uppercase descripted in the superior part, enumerated consecutively with Arabic figures in the order that were quoted in the text, content in font 12 with the first letter in uppercase, presented in the maximum size of 14 x 21 cm (journal standard) and length can’t exceed 55 lines, including title. Do not include horizontal or vertical internal lines. Use in each column a short or abbreviated title. Put explaining material in notes below the table, not with the title. To explain in all notes the abbreviations not standardized used in the table. In Case of using data of another source, published or not, obtain permission and indicate the full source.

Figures (pictures, drawings, graphics and charts) – must be prepared to reproduce the layout editor according to the format of REUFSM, inserted in the text, with the first letter capitalized described in the legend at the bottom and without italics, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order they were cited in the text .Figures should be prepared in Word or Excel and not be converted into the figure of the type JPEG, BMP, GIF, etc.

Symbols, abbreviations and acronyms - Use only standard abbreviations. Except in the case of standard units of measure, all abbreviated terms should be spelled out, followed by its abbreviation in parentheses in the first time they appear in the text, even if you have been told in the abstract.

- Must be avoided the presentation of appendices (prepared by the authors) and attachments (only included, without intervention from the authors).

- Use italics for foreign words.

REFERENCES

REUFSM adopts "Requisitos Uniformes para Manuscritos Submetidos a Revistas Biomédicas", published by the publicado pelo International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Vancouver style, available in the site: http://www.icmje.org or http://www.bu.ufsc.br/ccsm/vancouver.html (translated version to Portuguese).

In the list of references, references must be numbered consecutively in the order they are first mentioned in the text. Therefore they should be numbered and normalized according to the Vancouver Style.  It refers the author(s) by last name, only the first letter in uppercase, followed by the abbreviated name(s) without the dot.

- When the document has of one to six authors, quote all authors, separated by comma. When it has more than six authors, quote all the first six authors followed by the latin expression “et al".

- The titles of journals should be referred abbreviated according to Index Medicus: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals. For abbreviations of journal titles in national and Latin American, please visit: http://portal.revistas.bvs.br eliminating points of the abbreviation, except the last point to separate the year.

- In relation to abbreviation of months of journals – in English and German, months are abbreviated initiating by uppercase; in Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian, in uppercase. Both will be without dot as it’s recommended by Vancouver Style.

EXAMPLE:

1 Standard article

Costa MCS, Rossi LA, Lopes LM, Cioffi CL. Significados de qualidade de vida: análise interpretativa baseada na experiência de pessoas em processo de reabilitação de queimaduras. Rev Latinoam Enferm. 2008;16(2):252-9.

2 Article with more than six authors

Brunello MEF, Ponce MAZ, Assis EG, Andrade RLP, Scatena LM, Palha PF, et al . O vínculo na atenção à saúde: revisão sistematizada na literatura, Brasil (1998-2007). Acta paul enferm. 2010;23(1):131-5.

3 Intitution as author

Center for Disease Control. Protection against viral hepatitis: recomendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP). MMWR. 1990;39(RR-21):1-27.

4 More than one institutions author

Guidelines of the American College of Cardiology; American Heart Guidelines of the American College of Cardiology; American Heart Association 2007 for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Part VII. Kardiologiia. 2008;48(10):74-96. Russian.

5 Article with private and organizational authorship

Franks PW, Jablonski KA, Delahanty LM, McAteer JB, Kahn SE, Knowler WC. Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Assessing gene-treatment interactions at the FTO and INSIG2 loci on obesity-related traits in the Diabetes Prevention Program. Diabetologia. 2008;51(12):2214-23. Epub 2008 Oct 7.

6 Article without authorship

Best practice for managing patients' postoperative pain. Nurs Times. 2005;101(11):34-7.

7 Article with author name including family designation (Jr, 2nd, 3rd, 4th...)

King JT Jr, Horowitz MB, Kassam AB, Yonas H, Roberts MS. The short form-12 and the measurement of health status in patients with cerebral aneurysms: performance, validity, and reliability. J Neurosurg. 2005;102(3):489-94. Infram JJ 3rd. Speaking of good health. Tenn Med. 2005 Feb;98(2):53. Note: If Brazilians, the degree of relatedness should be added immediately after the surname. Eg Amato Neto V.

8 Article with subtitle

Vargas, D; Oliveira, MAF de; Luís, MAV. Atendimento ao alcoolista em serviços de atenção primária à saúde: percepções e condutas do enfermeiro. Acta Paul. Enferm. 2010;23(1):73-79.

9 Volume with supplement

Travassos C, Martins M. Uma revisão sobre os conceitos de acesso e utilização de serviços de saúde. Cad Saúde Pública. 2004;20 Supl 2:190-8.

10 Issue with supplement

Glauser TA. Integrating clinical trial data into clinical practice. Neurology. 2002;58(12 Suppl 7):S6-12.

11 Part of a volume

Jiang Y, Jiang J, Xiong J, Cao J, Li N, Li G, et al. Retraction: Homocysteine-induced extracellular superoxide dismutase and its epigenetic mechanisms in monocytes. J Exp Biol. 2008;211(Pt 23):3764.

12 Volume in Parts

Rilling WS, Drooz A. Multidisciplinary management of hepatocellular carcinoma. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2002;13(9 Pt 2):S259-63.

13 Issue without volume indication

Ribeiro LS. Uma visão sobre o tratamento dos doentes no sistema público de saúde. Rev USP. 1999;(43):55-9.

14 Article in journal without issue and volume indication

Outreach: bringing HIV-positive individuals into care. HRSA Careaction. 2002 Jun:1-6.

15 Article with category indication (review, abstract etc.)

Silva EP, Sudigursky D. Conceptions about palliative care: literature review. Concepciones sobre cuidados paliativos: revisión bibliográfica [revisão]. Acta paul enferm. 2008;21(3):504-8.

16 Article with page numbers in Roman numerals

Stanhope M, Turner LM, Riley P. Vulnerable populations [preface]. Nurs Clin North Am. 2008;43(3):xiii-xvi.

17 Article with retraction

Duncan CP, Dealey C. Patients' feelings about hand washing, MRSA status and patient information. Br J Nurs. 2007;16(1):34-8. Retratação de: Bailey A. Br J Nurs. 2007;16(15):915.

18 Article with published errata

Pereira EG, Soares CB, Campos SMS. Proposal to construct the operational base of the educative work process in collective health. Rev Latinoam Enferm. 2007 nov-dez;15(6):1072-9. Errata en: Rev Latinoam Enferm. 2008;16(1):163.

19 Article with electronic publication ahead of print

Ribeiro AM, Guimarães MJ, Lima MC, Sarinho SW, Coutinho SB. Fatores de risco para mortalidade neonatal em crianças com baixo peso ao nascer. Rev Saúde Pública. 2009;43(1). Epub 13 fev 2009.

20 Article with DOI

Barra DCC, Dal Sasso GTM. Tecnologia móvel à beira do leito: processo de enfermagem informatizado em terapia intensiva a partir da cipe 1.0®. Texto Contexto Enferm. [internet] 2010 Mar [acesso em 2010 Jul 1];19(1): 54-63. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-07072010000100006&lng=pt doi: 10.1590/S0104-07072010000100006.

21 Article in print

Villa TCS, Ruffino-Netto A. Questionário para avaliação de desempenho de serviços de atenção básica no controle da tuberculose no Brasil. J Bras Pneumol. No prelo 2009. J Bras Pneumol.

Books and other monographs

1 Individual as author

Waldow, VR. Cuidar: expressão humanizadora da enfermagem. Petrópolis (RJ): Vozes; 2006.

2 Book edited by an author/editor/organizer

Cianciarullo TI, Gualda DMR, Melleiro MM, Anabuki MH, organizadoras. Sistema de assistência de enfermagem: evolução e tendências. 3ª ed. São Paulo: Ícone; 2005.

3 Book edited by an organization

Ministério da Saúde (BR). Promoção da saúde: Carta de Otawa, Declaração de Adelaide, Declaração de Sunsvall, Declaração de Jacarta, Declaração de Bogotá. Brasília (DF): Ministério da Saúde; 2001.

4 Book chapter

Batista LE. Entre o biológico e o social: homens, masculinidade e saúde reprodutiva. In: Goldenberg P, Marsiglia RMG, Gomes MHA, organizadoras. O clássico e o novo: tendências, objetos e abordagens em ciências sociais e saúde. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fiocruz; 2003. p. 209-22.

5 Book chapter, that the book author is the same

Moreira A, Oguisso T. Profissionalização da enfermagem brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan; 2005. Gênese da profissionalização da enfermagem; p. 23-31.

6 Book with indication of a series

Kleinman A. Patients and healers in the context of the culture: an exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine and psychiatry. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1980. (Comparative studies of health systems and medical care; 3).

7 Book without responsible author/editor

HIV/AIDs resources: a nationwide directory. 10th ed. Longmont (CO): Guides for Living; c2004. 792 p.

8 Book with edition

Modlin IM, Sachs G. Acid related diseases: biology and treatment. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; c2004. 522 p.

9 Book with unknown and/or estimated publication date/editor

Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Recursos Humanos da Secretaria Geral (BR). Capacitação de enfermeiros em saúde pública para o Sistema Único de Saúde: controle das doenças transmissíveis. Brasília: Ministério da Saúde; [199?]. 96 p.

Hoobler S. Adventures in medicine: one doctor's life amid the great discoveries of 1940-1990. [place unknown]: S.W. Hoobler; 1991. 109 p.

10 Book in a series, with indication of number

Malvárez, SM, Castrillón Agudelo, MC. Panorama de la fuerza de trabajo en enfermería en América Latina. Washington (DC): Organización Panamericana de la Salud; 2005. (OPS. Serie Desarrollo de Recursos Humanos HSR, 39).

11 Book published in periodical as well

Cardena E, Croyle K, editors. Acute reactions to trauma and psychotherapy: a multidisciplinary and international perspective. Binghamton (NY): Haworth Medical Press; 2005. 130 p. (Journal of Trauma & Dissociation; vol. 6, no. 2).

12 Dictionaries and similiar reference books

Souza LCA, editor. Dicionário de administração de medicamentos na enfermagem 2005/2006: AME. 4ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: EPUB; 2004. Metadona; p. 556-7.

13 Paper presented at a meeting

Peduzzi M. Laços, compromissos e contradições existentes nas relações de trabalho na enfermagem. In: Anais do 53º Congresso Brasileiro de Enfermagem; 2001 out. 9-14; Curitiba. Curitiba: ABEn-Seção-PR; 2002. p. 167-82.

14 Paper presented at a meeting and published in a periodical

Imperiale AR. Obesidade, carne, gordura saturada e sedentarismo na carcinogênese do câncer do cólon. II Congresso Brasileiro de Nutrição e Câncer – GANEPÃO; 2006 maio 24-27; São Paulo, BR. Anais. (Rev bras med. 2006;63(Ed esp):8-9).

15 Thesis and dissertation

Nóbrega MFB. Processo de Trabalho em Enfermagem na Dimensão do Gerenciamento do Cuidado em um Hospital Público de Ensino [dissertação]. Fortaleza: Universidade Estadual do Ceará; 2006. 161 p.

Bernardino E. Mudança do Modelo Gerencial em um Hospital de Ensino: a reconstrução da prática de enfermagem [tese]. São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem; 2007. 178 p.

Obs.:

Para Mestrado [dissertação], Tese de doutorado [tese], Tese de livre-docência [tese de livre-docência], Tese PhD [PhD Thesis], para Especialização e Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso [monografia]. At the end of the reference may be added the degree and area of knowledge. Ex: Specialization in Personnel Management.

Legal documents

Brasil. Ministério da Saúde. Portaria n. 399/GM, de 22 de fevereiro de 2006. Divulga o pacto pela saúde 2006 - consolidação do SUS e aprova as diretrizes operacionais do referido pacto. Diário Oficial da União, Brasília, 23 fev. 2006. Seção 1, p. 43-51.

Ministério da Educação (BR). Conselho Nacional de Educação, Câmara de Educação Básica. Parecer Nº16, de 5 de outubro de 1999: Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais para a Educação Profissional de Nível Técnico. [internet] 1999 [acesso em 2006 Mar 26]. Disponível em: http://www.mec.gov.br/cne/parecer.shtm.

Electronic Documents

1 Internet article based on print source

Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis. [internet] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1996 Jun 5];(1):[24 screens]. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/incidod/EID/eid.htm

2 Article published on web site

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Censo 2002. Rio de Janeiro; 2002 [acesso em 2006 jun. 12]. Disponível em: http://www.ibge.gov.br.

3 CD-ROM e DVD

Bradshaw S. The Millenium goals: dream or reality? [DVD]. London: TVE; C2004. 1 DVD: 27 min., sound, color, 4 3/4 in.

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

*Expressions contained on references that determine the edition and the type of material should be registered in the original article language. For exemplo: 2ª ed., 2nd ed., [dissertation], [review].

*For national authors, eletronic document access is registered between brackets [accessed in...], followed by the access date in year, month and day format and eletronic address preceded of "Available in:"

* For foreign authors, we indicate the following structure: [cited 2009 Feb 13] and the eletronic address preceded of “Available in:”

*Dates are always in the format: year, mouth and day, according Vancouver style.