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Author Guidelines

In order to publish in the journal Universidad Médica Pinareña, authors must follow the "Uniform requirements for manuscripts sent to biomedical and health sciences journals", which are established by the International Committee of Medical Journals Directors (ICMJD); papers must be written following the publication arrangement established by the journal for each of the sections, otherwise the Editorial Committee reserves the right not to publish. The journal is open access, and does not require payment for the submission of articles or for their editorial processing.

Each article must be accompanied by the analyzed database, in a format modifiable for Excel (.xlsx or .xls) or SPSS (.sav), this being an indispensable requirement for publication.

For writing use the digital version in Microsoft Word language, spaced 1.15 along the entire manuscript, letter Trebuchet MS type 10, with 28 to 30 lines per page, without indents, tabulators or any other design attribute (centered titles, justifications, spaces between paragraphs or others). Receipt and registration of the article is only the initial step in the editorial process for selection and does not imply acceptance for publication.

The process of sending articles will be done completely online (from the Internet space of the journal) filling, the authors, all metadata available for this purpose. Electronic submission saves time and mailing costs and facilitates the handling of the manuscript in the different phases of the editorial process (for example, in sending to external reviewers). For the electronic submission of a manuscript, the instructions for the authors of the journal should be consulted and followed on the website of the Journal of Pinar del Rio Medical University.

Receiving the papers through the online submission system implies agreement with the journal's policy which, among other purely technical points, raises the following ethical and rigorous aspects:

1. The manuscript sent implies that it is original and that it has not been previously published and is not being evaluated for publication in another journal and complies with the publication standards of the journal of Pinar del Rio Medical University.

2. The article complies with the bibliographic and style requirements indicated in the standards for authors, which can be found under "About the journal".

3. The documents cited in the text are issued by authorized sources such as: prestigious organizations recognized by national or international bodies; national or international scientific journals that allow consultation of article data through the Internet, either in databases or directly on the site of the scientific journal itself; or books and other documents that offer elements that identify authors or editors responsible for the content in use.

4. The main author of the manuscript is responsible for all its contents and declares that there are no plagiarisms, conflicts of interest or ethical conflicts, releasing the Journal of Pinar del Rio Medical University from any such commitment.

5. This journal provides free and immediate access to its content under the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater exchange of global knowledge. This means that the authors transfer the copyright to the journal, so that copies and distribution of the contents can be made by any means, as long as the recognition of the authors is maintained, they do not make commercial use of the works and they do not make any modification of them.

GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE ARTICLES

First page, it will contain:

- Title not to exceed 15 words, in Spanish and English. Do not place the word "Title".

- Full names and surnames of all authors ordered according to their participation and include the ORCID number as a mandatory element (www.orcid.org)

- Institutional affiliations of each author (NO CHARGES OR DEGREES OF STUDY AND/OR SCIENTIFIC).

Following the scheme: University, Medical School or Hospital (or polyclinic) and City, Country. Example: Pinar de Río University of Medical Sciences. Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna School of Medical Sciences. Pinar del Río, Cuba.

NOTE: all these data must be added to the OJS when the manuscript is uploaded online.

- Structured abstract of no more than 250 words in Spanish and English, containing the purposes, procedures or methods applied, most important results and conclusions. Do not use acronyms or abbreviations.

- Keywords: they must be separated by semicolon (;). They must be concrete and representative of the semantic content of the document, both in the main and secondary contents. They must contain at least 3 key words or phrases. It is recommended to use the DeCs thesaurus. You can also consult the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) for English language.

- If the research is a clinical trial, the registration and verification number of the trial must be enclosed in the abstract.

At the end of the manuscript, add the contribution of each of the authors in the research and/or preparation of the article. Example: Pedro González Pérez: performed statistical processing, María Rodríguez Morales: selected the study sample, Alberto Pérez Gómez: developed the measurement instrument.

The declaration of conflicts of interest and of the source(s) of financing is included with mandatory character (This last one is not obligatory).

The editorial committee reserves the right to omit authors or reduce their number in consideration of the type of research, previously informing the submitting author. For example: after analyzing the statement of authorship, editors may suggest the omission of the number of authors to the principal author or issuer, in addition to the omission of one or more specific authors who are considered not to have authorship of the research.

Original Article

It will include: Summary-Introduction-Method-Results-Discussion-References (between 10 and 17 references, 75% of the last three years of the study, prioritizing its electronic accessibility for the availability of the interested reader). Up to 5,000 words including bibliographical references are allowed. It will have up to 5 authors

The sections will be written consecutively, placing the full and correct names of each author according to their participation and their metadata in superscript below (year of study, medical majors they belong to, teaching assistantship, occupational category, specialty as appropriate, scientific rank, research, honorific, teaching and full name of their institution, municipality, country and email address of each of the authors). The maximum length of the works will be up to 15 pages, adjusted to the methodology and extension of an original article.

Guidelines for writing and submitting a manuscript

Home page: it begins with the title of the article, with up to 15 words. Two spaces and below the full name(s) and surname(s) of each author with the successive Arabic number in superscript that identifies it at the end of each one; then three spaces, the Arabic number in superscript will also be used as appropriate for each author indicating: year of study, medical majors he/she belongs to, teaching assistantship, occupational category, specialty as appropriate, scientific rank, research, honorific and teaching ranks along with full name of the institution, municipality, country and email address of each of the authors.

Author(s): designated authors are recognized as long as they complete the requirements corresponding to the right to authorship. The order in which the authors are listed is a combined decision of the authors and they must satisfy the known basic ethical criteria of authorship.

Each author must have participated in the work to a sufficient degree to assume public responsibility for its content and to respond in case of conflicts of interest. Up to five (5) authors are admitted.

In an article of collective authorship, it will be specified who are the main people who responds for the document, to the other individuals who collaborated in the work, if it is the intention of the main authors; the recognition will be recorded separately in the section "Acknowledgements" in the section "Discussion" after the conclusions.

Section "Discussion" after the conclusions.

ABSTRACT: it is an important part of the article; it is presented with extreme accuracy and synthesis of the data collected by the initial interest that should stimulate the reader and increase motivation to read the complete article. It should not exceed 250 words in length and structured with its sections: Introduction - Objective - Method - Results - Conclusions.

It should be written using the passive voice or impersonal tone, (e.g. "it has been done"), remember that it promotes it after the end of the study without abbreviations, references to the main text, footnotes or bibliographical references. The aim or purpose of the study or research should be indicated; the basic procedures (target group, sample and selection of study subjects; observation and analytical methods); the most important results (specific data and, if applicable, their statistical significance); and the main conclusions. Important: emphasize the novel aspects and contributions of the study or observations that justified the research.

Keywords: then add duly labeled, 3 to 6 key words or short phrases to help the indexers classify the article, which will be published along with the abstract. The terms from the DeCS "Health Sciences Descriptors" list or seek advice from a librarian who is available for this purpose.

In the case of newly-appeared terms not yet on the list, authors may propose current expressions.

 

Sections for the writing of a scientific article for publication

INTRODUCTION

 Summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Mention the strictly pertinent references, without making an extensive review of the topic for this type of work. Do not include data or conclusions from the work you are proposed. Be brief and provide only the necessary explanation for the reader to understand the text that follows. Explain the scientific problem, the originality and importance of the study, which will be clearly justified. It should not contain tables or figures. It should end with a last paragraph in which the objective of the work is clearly stated.

METHOD

Identify the classification of the type of study proposed. The target group and the sample with precision and the form of selection of the subjects (who observed or that participated in the experiments: patients or laboratory animals, including the witnesses). Mention the methods applied, if using tools, reagents or measuring equipment (name and address of the manufacturer in parentheses and its calibration or quality control standard), to validate what is being measured or weighed, and procedures with sufficient detail for other researchers to reproduce the results.

Provide references to accredited methods, including statistical methods only when it is a method not widely known to readers and briefly explain methods already published but not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, stating the reasons why they were used and evaluating their limitations. It is not necessary to state in the text if it was processed in Word or that the tables and graphs were made in Excel or another tabulator nor it is necessary to write that tables and graphs were used for better understanding.

ETHICS

When reporting experiments on human beings, laboratory animals or others, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee (institutional or regional) that oversees experimentation on human beings or with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, amended in 1983.

Detailed descriptions or photographs of individual patients, either of the entire body or parts of the body (including physiognomic features), are sometimes key documentation in medical journal articles. The use of such materials may lead to the revealing of the identity of patients, sometimes even indirectly, through a combination of apparently innocuous data. Patients and their families have the right to anonymity in published clinical documentation. Details that can identify patients should be avoided unless they are essential for scientific purposes. Covering the eyes in the photographs of patients may be insufficient protection from anonymity.

If identification of patients is unavoidable, their informed consent must be obtained and the notification of informed consent must be attached to the submission when the manuscript is uploaded to the system. Patient data will not be changed in order to protect patient anonymity.

RESULTS

It is an essential part in the publication of scientific articles. In some works a large number of results are obtained, which forces the author to select the most important ones according to their objectives. The first way to present them is the text. The tables, graphs and illustrations will be used as an alternative to express the results following a logical sequence and not beyond the necessary ones (maximum of five in totalities). Avoid repetitions in the text of tables or illustrations that the reader has at his/her disposal, highlight or summarize briefly and clearly only the most important observations without reading to the reader.

DISCUSSION

The author will discuss the results of the research in logical order to its objective, with emphasis on the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions derived from them. Do not repeat in detail the data or other information already presented in the Introduction and Results sections. Show the relationships between each outcome and the facts you presented. State your own views on the topic.

Explain in the discussion the meaning of the results and their limitations, including their consequences for future research. Relate observations to those of other relevant studies using current citations. Link conclusions to the objectives of the study, but refrain from making general statements and drawing conclusions that are not fully supported by the data.

Do not claim any kind of attribution or mention unfinished work. Propose new hypotheses when there is justification for the work, but clearly identifying them. In this section are included next to the discussion, the conclusions that you will summarize about the particularity of the work, which should be inferred in the discussion. The conclusions are presented as part of the discussion, generally at the end, which are only presented as a section in the summary at the beginning of the article.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

They are not essential. It is possible to specify, among other reasons, the collaborations that need to be recognized but that do not justify the condition of authorship, such as the general support of the head of the department, the recognition for the technical assistance received or for the material support, specifying the nature of the same, and the financial relations that may give rise to a conflict of interest.

Persons who intellectually collaborated on the article but whose participation does not justify authorship may be cited by name, adding their function or type of collaboration; for example, "scientific advice," "critical review of the study proposal," "data collection," or "participation in the clinical trial. These persons must give permission to be appointed or at least to know and agree to it. It is the responsibility of the authors to obtain the written permission of the persons named in the acknowledgments, as readers may infer that they endorse the data and conclusions, and will assume mutual responsibility for any conflicts.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

Vancouver Rules will be used for the referencing of bibliographic citations, using the style Numeric System in order of appearance, using Arabic numerals, in superscript and in parentheses. Abstracts are not accepted as references, nor are unpublished observations, personal communications, or texts that cannot be made available to a reader.

In the field of Social Sciences, references to written, non-verbal communications may be inserted in the text between parentheses in the case of articles. Original papers should not exceed 15 citations. Citations will be accepted from published documents and with more than 70 % of updating (last three years of the study) of the total referred to.

Bibliographic references consulted on-line must contain the URL, dates of publication and access to the consulted bibliography, which will allow editors, first of all, and readers in due course, to be able to access the article in question.

Brief Originals

The Brief Originals are not very extensive scientific articles, with the objective of making known a hypothesis, or partial results of a research, that needs to be made known to the scientific community. They include Abstract, Introduction, Objective, Method explaining the essential elements for the development of the work, Results if any, a Discussion that should not be too long expressing its essential elements, Conclusions and between 12 and 15 bibliographical references.

Special article

It will be a short article presenting novel aspects related to the medical-scientific field in which the readers and authors of the journal are positioned. If it includes bibliography, it must present the characteristics described in the original articles.

Review article

This type of article offers a critical evaluation of the published works, in which the current state of a particular topic is compiled, analyzed and synthesized. It should indicate the purpose of the review, sources and methods of searching for references.

The article should include: Title, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Development, Conclusions and Bibliographic References. Optionally, the work may include tables and figures. The review articles should be elaborated with the most updated bibliography possible of the topic that is tackled and its access in networks.

The introduction should be broad. The method section will include the methods used, the databases and the search strategies; as well as the criteria used for the selection of the articles cited (in the case of using selection criteria). It does not require results, but it should extend the discussion as a secondary article that is.

Its fundamental characteristic is to use a greater quantity of bibliographical references of the greatest possible actuality, it must contain from 20 to 30 citations, and (more than 60 % of update) they tend to be long, between 10 and 25 pages or up to five thousand words not including the bibliographical references.

The review article, although it sometimes contains new data, is intended to examine the bibliography previously published and place it in a certain perspective, offering a critical assessment of the object of study and should state important conclusions for the reader, based on the work analyzed.

Case report

These are articles that describe one or several clinical cases of exceptional observation, or novel aspects of a disease or syndrome previously known, which represents a contribution of special interest for the knowledge of the subject or the process described in the world today. Before writing a case report or presentation, it should be checked in the international literature whether it is of value as a publication. Briefness will be the elementary characteristic of this type of article. Its structure includes Abstract-Introduction-Case Presentation-Discussion and Bibliographic References.

The maximum length of the text will be up to 3,500 words and between 10 and 15 bibliographic references will be cited with their corresponding URLs and current relationships (see original article). They will include up to 3 authors.

Copyright Notice

Authors who have published with this journal accept the following terms: authors will retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will be simultaneously subject to the Creative Commons recognition license that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author is indicated and its first publication is this journal. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for the distribution of the version of the published article (e.g., deposit it in an institutional telematic archive or publish it in a monographic volume) provided that the initial publication in this journal is indicated. Authors are permitted and encouraged to disseminate their article using Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their website) before and during the submission process, which may lead to interesting exchanges and increased citations of the published work. (See The Effect of Open Access).

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