INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Scope and policies
BioSCIENCE receives articles in a continuous flow of various types, described in the SUBMISSION icon – Types of studies accepted –, based on their originality, contemporary importance and interest to the journal's readers.
Does not charge submission and/or publication fees as it is Diamond and CC-BY
Accepts manuscripts already published in preprint , considered reliable by the editorial committee.
The average processing time for manuscripts, including the time between receipt, corrections and approval by peer review, is approximately 3 months and the average time for publication is up to 6 months .
All published articles will receive a DOI (Digital Object Identifier ) to provide greater reliability to the registered information and full access to the published article by researchers and readers in general
Types of Articles Accepted for Publication
Non-randomized controlled trial
Editorials (or Guest Comments)
International guidelines for scientific reporting
In order to ensure methodological rigor, transparency, and scientific quality, the journal recommends that authors follow recognized international guidelines for the preparation and reporting of their manuscripts, according to the type of study submitted.
Clinical Trial
BioSCIENCE adopts and supports ethical principles, good editorial practices, interoperability and transparency related to clinical research results. Articles must present the identification number in one of the Clinical Trials Registries validated by the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ( ICMJE ).
Clinical trials must follow the CONSORT STATEMENT rules in their presentation .
The identification number must be recorded at the end of the abstract in Methods and informed in the cover letter to the Editor.
Authors' contributions
Authors must submit an author statement file describing their individual contributions to the article.
Authorship credit must be given using the terms established by CRediT , namely: Conceptualization, Data curation, Data analysis, Receipt of funding, Research, Methodology, Project administration, Provision of tools, Software development, implementation and testing, Supervision, Validation of data and experiments, Design of data presentation, Writing of the original manuscript, Writing, review and editing.
There is no justification for including the names of authors whose contributions do not fit into what is established in the convention entitled CRediT .
Manuscript preparation
Title Page
- Title in Portuguese
- English Title
- Authors with full affiliation (Center, Department or Faculty/Course, City, State, Country)
- Authors' ORCID
- Contact Author Email
- Abstract: Abstracts must be clear. The abstract must contain a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 250. The use of acronyms, abbreviations or citations is not permitted. It must be structured as follows: Objective, Method, Results and Conclusion (except in review articles).
- Keywords or descriptors in Portuguese and English: must contain three to six, and they must be present in the area's thesauri, namely: Health Science - DeCS (Bireme) and/or MeSH ( PubMed )
It is recommended that the indicated keywords are not present in the title.
- Articles submitted in English must be accompanied by an abstract in Portuguese, in addition to the abstract in English.
- Authors' names (when compound surnames are separated with a hyphen)
- Inform about financing of articles
- DOI Registration
- Declaration stating that the research was approved by an institutional ethics committee.
Digital assets
The number of tables and/or figures is 5 for all types of articles except for Reviews, which is 8 (including CONSORT flow diagram, when relevant).
The author is responsible for the quality of the illustrations (above 300 dpi ), which must allow reduction without loss of definition and be a maximum of 16 cm wide.
Tables and charts must be generated in Word. Tables and charts in image format will be rejected; and figures must be generated in an MS Office program, sending the native file (Word, Powerpoint, Excel.
Each illustration should be given a concise title and numbered consecutively and independently, with Arabic numerals, according to the order in which the data is mentioned.
For Graphs, the title of all axes must be informed.
Inclusion of a figure or table that has been previously published must be accompanied by a document certifying permission for use, and the appropriate source must be cited.
Figures are not allowed to represent the same data as tables or data already described in the text.
Citations and References according to Vancouver style:
Citations and references should be numbered consecutively, following the order in which they were first mentioned in the text, according to Vancouver style. In references with up to six authors, all authors should be cited.
Citations in the text should be numbered progressively in the order in which they appear in the text, in Arabic numerals after the citation (examples: Cholecystopathy .... become symptomatic. 1 Patients were studied as follows. 2-5 ...), and should appear in the References list.
Up to 50 references may be included, in accordance with Vancouver style guidelines ( https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html ), as per the examples below.
The abbreviations of the titles of the cited journals must be in accordance with the Index Medicus .
Reference examples
Journal articles
Puccia R, Woodson BT. Palatopharyngoplasty and palatal anatomy and phenotypes for treatment of sleep apnea in the twenty-first Century . Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2020;53(3):421-9.
Article with more than six authors from the Internet
Miguel ID, Ranieri RA, Custódio P, Fattouch SBA, Biagini G, Galera R, et al. Osteomyelitis: epidemiological profile and outcomes observed in patients admitted to a public hospital in Curitiba. BioSCIENCE (Curitiba). 2023 [accessed 2023 4]; 81(1);3-6. Available at: https://bioscience.org.br/bioscience/index.php/bioscience/article/view/299/215
Article with DOI number
Thuler E, Rabelo FAW, Yui M, Tominaga Q, Dos Santos V Jr, Arap SS . Correlation between the transverse dimension of the maxilla , upper airway obstructive site, and OSA severity . J Clin Sleep Med. 2021;17(7):1465-73. https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.9226
Institutional electronic documents
National Cancer Institute José Alencar Gomes da Silva. Cancer statistics. 2022 [accessed 2023 Apr 15]. Available at: https://www.inca.gov.br/numeros-de-cancer
Dataset
Appel AL, Albagli S. The adoption of Article Processing Charges as a business model by Brazilian Open Access journals [ dataset ]. 2019 Feb 1 [ cited 2023 Aug 3]. Zenodo . 2019. 1 data set (3CSV, 2XLSX, 1TXT files). http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2555317
Preprint
Gorzoni ML. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: potentially inappropriate drugs for the elderly? 2020. EmeRI . https://preprints.ibict.br/handle/1618034/60
Book chapters
Tisi PV, Shearman CP. Systemic cons of reperfusion . In: Grace PA, Mathie RT, editors . Ischaemia-reperfusion injury . London: Blackwell Science; 1999. p.20-30.
Book chapter in electronic format
Baranoski MCR. Citizenship of homosexuals. In: Baranoski MCR. Adoption in homosexual relationships. 2nd ed. Ponta Grossa: UEPG; 2016 [accessed 2023 Aug 3]. Available at: http://books.scielo.org/id/ym6qv
Committee 's rules of Medical Journals Editors (Vancouver Group): http://www.icmje.org ; https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
Complementary documents
The documents below must be signed by all authors
- Cover letter for article submission
- Open Science Compliance Form
- Conflict of interest agreement
- Ethics Committee Approval Term
- Term attesting to permission to use illustrations (tables, photos, graphs and others)
- Each document must be attached separately within the OJS system.
Financing Statement
Provide sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources.
Privacy Policy
The names and addresses provided in this journal will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties. The authors retain the intellectual rights over the article (copyright).
General conditions
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items. Submissions that do not comply with all of these guidelines will be returned.
Articles must be submitted through the Journal's website, at the following electronic address: www.bioscience.org.br. When accessing it, the author responsible for submitting the article must identify himself/herself using a login and password.
Mandatory items:
- The contribution must be original and unpublished, and not be under consideration for publication by another journal. Presentations at conferences, as free themes, publications in proceedings or as preprints do not invalidate the submission and/or publication in BioSCIENCE .
- The text should be written in single space, in Arial 12 font, without underlined terms (except in URL addresses when applicable), with figures and tables inserted in the text in parentheses as close as possible to where they are referred to, and on A4 paper, in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format. The text must follow the style standards and bibliographic requirements described here.
- Authorship credit should be based on contributions established in the convention entitled CRediT
- The institutional affiliation must be informed at up to three levels. ( Ex : University, Faculty, Program, Center, School, Department). The indication of the corresponding author must be based on the highest degree of qualification and all authors must have and inform the ORCID® registration number. Registration is free and available at: https://orcid.org/
- Authors must explicitly declare, individually, any potential conflict of interest, direct and/or indirect, financial, and non-financial, etc., as well as any conflict of interest with ad hoc reviewers.
- Inform whether the article comes from a Dissertation or Thesis, indicating the title, author, institution and repository.
Specific conditions
- These guidelines follow international standards that can be found in detail on the website https://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf (pages 14 to 19).
- Manuscripts can be submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish.
- The job title limit is up to 150 characters.
- Mandatory suggestion of a short title for the header, not exceeding forty characters (including spaces), written in Portuguese (or Spanish) and English.
- For original articles, the maximum text limit should be 3000-3500 words (excluding: abstract, tables, graphs, figures and references) and for Review articles, up to 6 thousand words (excluding: abstract , tables, graphs, figures and references).
- The number of tables and/or figures is 5 for all types of articles except for Reviews, which is 8 (including CONSORT flow diagram, when relevant).
- The author is responsible for the quality of the illustrations (above 300 dpi ), which must allow reduction without loss of definition and be a maximum of 16 cm wide.
- Figures are not allowed to represent the same data as tables or data already described in the text.
- BioSCIENCE, in relation to AI systems, follows the guidelines of the "Guide to the use of AI tools and resources" in communicating research on the SciELO Network.
- Abbreviations and acronyms : should be used in a standardized manner, restricted to those used conventionally or sanctioned by usage, accompanied by the meaning, in full, when cited for the first time in the text. They should not be used in the title and abstract.
Innovations
BioSCIENCE , like the most important national and international medical journals, is adding short texts to their publications, called “Central Message” and “Perspective”, as well as an image (optional) that characterizes the theme. In addition, a Visual Abstract or Highlights may be included, at the authors’ discretion, to be shared on X/Twitter, Facebook and other social media. The words used in all these texts must be simple so that the medical/lay public can understand the scientific advancement that the article proposes and encourage them to read it in full. In detail: 1) the “Image” (optional) is representative of something interesting in the work, and may be histological, surgical or another that contextualizes the theme ( Figure 1 ); 2) the “Central Message” is not a brief summary of the results, but a summary of them in a simple way (maximum 100 words, Figure 2 ); The “Perspective” is to indicate the significance of the findings and how the authors anticipate their results will aid clinical practice (maximum 100 words, Figure 3 ). The “Visual Abstract” or “ Highlights ” present a brief graphical summary of the article ( https://mindthegraph.com/ ). They should indicate the topic being addressed and provide a summary of the results, most often using simple icons, figures, and graphs. One to three columns may be used ( Figure 4 ).
Contact
Medical Association of Paraná .
(41)3024-1415
Main Contact: Osvaldo Malafaia
Contact for Technical Support - Bruno Ariede
bruno.ariede@bioscience.org.br
BioSCIENCE is a continuation of the title Medical Journal of Paraná .