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The articles sent to the
Herediana Medical Journal should deal with subjects related to the
Public Health and Biomedical area, and be original and unpublished.
ON THE PRESENTATION
The article should be
presented accompanied with a letter addressed to the Editorial Chief of
the Herediana Medical Journal, requesting the evaluation for publication.
The letter should include the title of the work, the full name of the
authors and type of work. The letter should be signed by one of the
authors.
A sworn statement signed by all the authors should be enclosed (according
to the established format), that the article presented is intellectual
property of the authors and that it has not been published nor presented
for evaluation to another journal, yielding the copyright to the
Herediana Medical Journal, once the article is accepted for publication.
An original printed version and the electronic version of the article on
diskette or CD-R should be delivered together with the letter of
introduction.
ON THE ARTICLE
The article should belong to one of the following categories:
- Original research
- Short communication
- Communication of clinical cases
- Letter to the Editor
Form and preparation of manuscripts
The article should be
written in Spanish, Portuguese or English, printed matter in ISOA4
(212x297 mm)white bond paper, single face, Times New Roman font, size
12, double-spaced, with 25 mm margins. The decimal fractions should be
separated from the whole numbers with decimal comma and the thousands
and millions should be separated by a simple space. In the text in
English, the decimal fractions are separated from the entire ones with a
period. Each part of the article should begin in a separate page,
numbered consecutively. In case of textual quotations, the corresponding
paragraph within the text will stand out placing it between quotation
marks or writing it with italics. The tables, figures, and graphics with
their corresponding title are placed at the end of the text in separate
pages; they should not be inserted within the text.
Page of the Title
The page of the title
should contain: Title of the article in the original language (Spanish
or Portuguese) and in English, full name of the author, or authors,
institution where the study was conducted and the address of the
correspondence.
The name of the author or authors should follow the following order:
Paternal surname, maternal surname, and names. The names of the authors
should be separated among themselves by a comma. The name of the author
should be placed after the Title or obtained Academic Degree and the
appeal for the institutional affiliation in Arabic numbers in
superscript.
The name of the institution or institutions to which the author has
affiliation, is placed after the last author and in a separate paragraph,
preceded by the corresponding number in superscript.
For the correspondence, the name of the author in charge, address,
postal code, and E-mail should be placed. The telephone number can be
placed in addition.
Page of Declaration of Financing and of Conflicts of Interests
The financial source should be placed in this page: Economic support
received in the form of grant, donation of equipment, or contribution of
drugs and another type of support, and the possible conflictss of
interests of the author or authors, whether of economic, institutional,
labor or personal order.
PRESENTATION SCHEMES
Original Research
They should be presented maintaining the following order:
- Page of the Title
- Page of Declaration of Financing and of Conflicts of Interests
- Summary
- Introduction
- Material and methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Bibliographic references
The total extension of the manuscript, including the bibliographic
references, should not exceed 14 pages, a single face (It does not
include tables, figures and figures). A maximum of ten tables, figures,
or graphics is accepted.
The summary should be presented in a separate sheet and with a maximum
length of 250 words. They should include the following subtitles:
Objective, material, and methods, results and conclusions. At the end 3
to 6 key words should be added, to help classify the article.
The key words should be descriptors in Health Sciences (DECS), which can
be consulted in:
http://wwwdecs.bvs.br/E/decswebe.htm and in English in MeSH of
PubMed.
The objective of the study is placed at the end of the introduction,
clearly and concisely.
The bibliographic references are placed in parentheses, in the same font
size and in order of appearance. The maximum number of bibliographic
references permitted is 40.
Short communications or clinical cases:
They should be presented maintaining the following order:
- Page of the Title
- Page of Declaration of Financing and of Conflicts of Interests
- Summary
- Introduction
- Material and methods or Contents (case or clinical cases)
- Discussion
- Bibliographic references
The total extension of the work, including the bibliographic references,
should not exceed six pages written in a single face (It does not
include tables, figures and figures) A maximum of six tables, figures or
graphics is accepted.
The summaries (in the original and English language) are presented each
on separate sheets, with a maximum extension of 150 words and should be
written in a single paragraph. 3 key words should be added at the en, to
help classify the article. Key words should be descriptors in Health
Sciences (DECS), which can be consulted in:
http://decs.bvs.br/E/decswebe.htm and in English in MeSH of PubMed.
Bibliographic references are placed in parentheses, in the same font
size and in order of appearance. The maximum number of bibliographic
references is 20.
Letters to the editor
They should be written
according to the following scheme:
- Letter
- Bibliographic references
The total length of the document should be two pages and as a maximum
two tables, figures or graphics will be accepted. Bibliographic
references are placed in parentheses, in the same font size and in order
of appearance. The maximum bibliographic references are 10.
ONTHE TABLES, GRAPHICS, AND FIGURES
Tables should have a brief and clear title and should be numbered
according to the order indicated in the text, for example Table N°1. The
title of the table should be written in Times New Roman size12.
No vertical lines should be used in Tables, only three horizontal lines:
one under the title, another one under the headings of the columns and
the third at the end of the table.
The figures, graphics, and photos should be presented in JPG, GIF, or
TIF format. If a scanner is used, a minimum printing resolution of 300
dpi is required, otherwise the photos or original figures should be
enclosed.
The journal will publish black and white iconography; if the author
prefers iconography in full color, a request for budget should be
attached.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
Bibliographic
references should be placed consecutively in order of appearance in the
text and should be included in the corresponding list with complete
bibliographic information at the end of the document. The bibliographic
references will be written in accordance with the Standards of
Vancouver. Immediately after citing, paraphrasing, or using any foreign
material, the source that appears in the bibliographic references should
be placed with an Arabic number in parentheses in the same size as the
text; example: (1) or (2.5), without placing hyperlinks for the
bibliographic references. The reference calls preceded by a space are
placed before the period, comma, or another punctuation mark.
In the bibliographic reference list, only the references cited in the
text of the article should be included. It is not allowed to mention
personal communications, unpublished documents, or in press.
In the bibliographic references, research articles carried out should
necessarily be included in the country or in Latin America, unless there
are no studies related to the subject.
In order to see examples of how to write the bibliographic references
they can access:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
Examples of:
Articles published in journals:
Rey de Castro J, Vizcarra D. Frecuencia de síntomas del Síndrome Apnea
hipopnea del sueño e insomnio en médicos de una clínica privada peruana.
Rev Med Hered 2003;14(2):53-58.
Rey de Castro J, Vizcarra D. Frecuencia de síntomas del Síndrome Apnea
hipopnea del sueño e insomnio en médicos de una clínica privada peruana.
Rev Med Hered 2003;14:53-58.
Books:
Author and/or coauthors as well as for the articles, title of the book,
number of edition, city where it was published, two periods, name of the
Editorial House, period and comma, year of publication, two periodss and
the pages in which the work appears.
Jiménez S. Interpretación clínica del electrocardiograma. 3ra edición.
Bucaramanga: Publicaciones UIS; 1995. p. 87.
Chapters of books, pamphlets or similar:
The article should have the author and/or coauthors’ surname, followed
by the initials of the names, without separation or periods among
themselves. Up to six authors, separated by commas, can be cited; if
there are more than six, the first three will be cited and "et al" will
be added; the authors should be separated among themselves by a comma
and a period should be placed at the end of the initial of the author’s
last name. The title of the article should be cited afterwards, in the
language of origin ending with a period and then the preposition "In"
followed by a colon and the title of the book (both in the language of
origin), period, city where it was published, name of the Editorial
House, year of publication, colon and the pages in which the work
appears.
Addison R, Blonsky E. Pain. En: Rakel E. Conn's Current Therapy.
Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company; 1988. p. 1-5.
Thesis:
The Author, as for the articles. Title of the work, followed by a period,
to specify the degree obtained, period. City and country where it was
defended, separated by a comma, colon, and the full name of the
University of origin, a comma, the year, followed by a period, then the
number of pages, followed by the abbreviation pp.
Duda F. Gota: Morbilidad y mortalidad: Estudio retrospectivo en
pacientes hospitalizados del Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia. Tesis
de Bachiller. Lima, Perú. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 1990. 59
pp.
Web pages:
Web pages mentioned in the bibliographic references should be
accompanied by the date in which they were accessed.
Luna F, Bertomeu M. Comités de ética en la Argentina. URL disponible en:
http://www.cfm.org.br/revista/bio2v6/cometicargentina.htm (Fecha de
acceso: 08 de septiembre del 2004).
Shipment of manuscripts
The articles can be submitted to the office of the Herediana Medical
Journal: Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia. Medical Journal Herediana.
Av. Honorio Delgado 430 Urb. Ingeniería San Martín de Porres, Lima ,
Peru or through E-mail to
rmh@upch.edu.pe
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