Author Guidelines
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL
The Advances in Health Journal of the Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia, is oriented to the area of Health Sciences, with different disciplines that deal with the doing of healthy environments. Where the scientific community is involved in the field of health. The periodicity, regularity and especially the gear with the authors that generate knowledge in the field of public health and related areas.
Keep in mind that all articles published in this scientific journal have their respective DOI, so they will always be available on the web. In addition, the Universidad de Córdoba has a repository in which all the scientific production generated in the institution can be found.
INDEXED
The Journal is Indexed and listed in REDIB, LILACS, AmeliCA and Google Académico.
The submit of articles must be done by this means Send manuscript and/or our official correspondence: revistaavancesensalud@correo.unicordoba.edu.co
THE JOURNAL EDITORIAL POLICY
Advances in Health accepts and complies with the guidelines established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (www.icmje.org), Equator Network (http:// www.equator-network.org/), and by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http:// publicationethics.org/) This is a way to ensure the quality of scientific publications, their transparency, integrity, and proper safeguards of the ethical principles regulating biomedical research.
The authorship policy of Advances in Health adopts the guidance of the ICMJE. This Committee points out that the authorship credit must be based only on:
- Substantive contributions to conception, manuscript design and acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of
- The writing of the manuscript or critical review of important intellectual
- The final approval of the version to be published.
- The responsibility for all aspects of the
The allocation of funds, data collection or general supervision of the research group by themselves, do not justify authorship.
ARTICLE TYPES
Advances in Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Córdoba publish scientific publications, written in Spanish and English, in the following categories:
1. Original article: An article reporting in detail on the original results of research projects in health or related areas. The structure used should contain an introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, and references. The minimum number of references is 20.
2. Review article: An article resulting from research in which the results of an investigation in the field of science or technology are analyzed, systematized and integrated to publish progress and development trends. The article includes a careful bibliographical review of up to 50
3. Reflection article: An article presenting the results of an investigation carried out from an analytical, interpretative or critical perspective of the author, on a particular theme, using original It is based on an bibliographical revision of up to 50 references.
4. Short article: A short article presenting original preliminary results or revealing the technical and methodological experiences considered in a particular case. This article includes a review of the literature on similar This type of material requires up to 15 references.
5. Topic review: An article resulting from the critical examination of the literature on a particular subject. It can be of two types:
(a) Requested from experts in the field by the Editorial
(b) Submitted by professionals interested in a particular topic. In this case, the proposed article should first be sent to the Editorial Committee, indicating why the topic chosen is relevant to the readers of the Also included should be a brief description of the content, key references, authors’ (mandatory requirement), the unpublished data of the authors (a mandatory requirement), the probable extension of the article and the approximate number of illustrations. This article requires up to 50 references.
6. Case report: An article presenting the results of a study on a particular situation in to publish the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific instance. The report includes a review of the literature on similar cases.
7. Letters to the editor: A type of communication in which the author defends a critical, analytical or interpretative position concerning the articles published in the journal that, according to the Editorial Committee, constitute a significant contribution to the discussion of the topic made by the scientific community of
8. Editorial: A leading article written by the editor, a member of the Editorial Committee or a guest researcher on orientations related to the thematic domain of the
9. Images of biomedical importance: This is an illustrated piece of writing containing photographs that show and explain in a didactic way a concept, structure, a disease or a biomedical It should include a short comment highlighting the importance of the illustrated topic.
PREPARATION AND ARTICLE SUBMISSION
The authors will prepare the document taking into account the following recommendations:
- Letter size paper
- Black ink
- Printed on one side of the sheet
- 5 line spacing
- Arial type
- Font size: 11 points
- Use italics instead of underlining, except for
- Margins of not less than 3 cm
- Pages listed consecutively including all material. Use general requirements for biomedical journals listed in Vancouver Standards.
This journal does not accept the inclusion or the withdrawal of authors after having begun the editorial process of the manuscripts. In exceptional cases, it must be duly justified and have the written consent of the authors whose names are to be deleted or added to the document.
