Submissões

Diretrizes para Autores

General structure of the journal

JBMEDE publishes Editorials, Original Articles, reviews for the Emergency Physician, Review Articles, Case Reports, Letter to the Editor, and Brief Communication.

The Editorials are prepared by invitation of the editorial board of the journal, and the spontaneous submission of this type of manuscript will be refused.

The contribution must be unpublished and original and cannot be evaluated for publication in another journal.

The journal receives manuscripts for evaluation in Portuguese and English, but the publications are only in English and available in electronic format. If a manuscript initially submitted in Portuguese is approved, the author must arrange for the translation of the content for publication.

Text files must be submitted in Microsoft Word (.docx) format. Manuscripts should be typed in Arial 12 font, with 1.5 spacing, justified, with margins of 2.5cm on each side, on page A4.

All types of manuscripts must mention whether there has been a conflict of interest and, except for editorials and letters to the editor, they must also state whether or not there was a source of funding – if so, the state which one.

In Original Articles, Reviews for the Emergency Physician, Review Articles, and Case Reports, it is necessary to detail the contribution of each author in the following items: conception and design of the study; data collection; data interpretation; composition of the text and approval of the final version to be published.

At the time of submission of Original Articles and Case Reports, documentation must be sent that proves the evaluation/waiver and approval of a Research Ethics Committee.

The table presents the main characteristics of each type of manuscript. The maximum number of pages excludes titles, abstracts, descriptors, references, tables, and illustrations. Different formatting must be justified through a Cover Letter attached to the manuscript during submission.

General items of the manuscript

The presentation page must contain the title of the manuscript; authorship, linkage, and orcid of each author; the name of the corresponding author with e-mail; and an indication of the existence or not of a source of funding and conflict of interest. If any author does not have orcid, register at https://orcid.org (will not be published without).

The authorship of the manuscripts consists of the effective participation in the items of the contribution of the authors: conception and design of the study; data collection; data interpretation; composition of the text and approval of the final version to be published. All authors should ensure that issues related to the accuracy or integrity of the work are investigated and determined. Entries that do not meet the contribution criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgments item. The inclusion or exclusion of authors' names during the review process can only be done after approval by the editor and upon the signature the consent of all authors. Such changes are not allowed after the approval of the article.

The binding institution to be published consists of the one to which the work must be attributed/credited.

The title of the manuscripts must be up to 20 words long and be submitted in Portuguese and English.

For original articles, Review for the Emergency Physician, Review Articles, and Case Reports, the presentation page must also include the abstract in Portuguese and English, with up to 250 words, and be sent in Portuguese and English. Original Articles should have the abstract structured in objectives, methods, results, and conclusion.

The author should select from three to five descriptors of the Health Sciences Descriptors (https://decs.bvsalud.org).

Illustrations, such as charts, photographs, exam images, etc., are considered figures and should be numbered with Arabic numerals. All should be with the title and mention the source. If it has been prepared by the authors of the manuscript, indicate "Source: prepared by the authors". If it has been removed from any other manuscript, even if of the same authorship, send the authorization for publication from the copyright holder. Illustrations composed of more than one image should use letters (A, B, C etc.) to identify them, and the title should describe part by part of image.

Photographs must be submitted in the original color and scanned in .jpg or .tiff format with at least 300 dpi.

The author is responsible for the accuracy and pertinence of the references listed at the end of the manuscript.

Citations should be identified with superscript Arabic numerals in ascending order, in the body of the text, according to the Vancouver Standards prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). It is requested not to cite as references personal communications, abstracts, and oral presentations at congresses, as they cannot be retrieved by readers.

TYPES OF MANUSCRIPT

Original Articles

Studies with an unprecedented theme and approach. They can be randomized, observational, registries, or basic research with experimental animals. This manuscript must present an introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion.

Review Articles

Critical, detailed, and orderly evaluations of the literature on topics of contemporary interest. The author selects his sources according to the theme, according his perspective.

For narrative review, it is suggested to follow the BMC guideline (https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-019-0064-8); for systematic review, PRIMA (https://www.prisma-statement.org).

Theme Reviews

It is characterized as the Review Article, with the difference being made on demand of the Editorial Board.

Case Reports

Descriptions of special and/or rare cases, as well as innovative approaches for diagnosis or treatment. The data come from day-to-day practice in the emergency room. They should contain an introduction and a discussion, in addition to the presentation of the cases.

For the composition of the report, it is suggested to follow the CARE guideline (https://www.care-statement.org).

Letter to the Editor

It is the communication between the reader and Editor, which is given to comment on an article published or not by JBMEDE, on the theme of Emergency Medicine.

Brief Communication

It presents initial data from small series from relevant original experiments or partial data from clinical trials.