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Norms of publication
Acta Médica Costarricense (amc)
it is the official scientific publication of the Colegio de Médicos
y Cirujanos de Costa Rica. The magazine publishes original works, articles
of revision, fast comunications, reports of cases, publishing letters to
the publisher as well as related to any subject of the medicine and the
biociencias. The manuscripts that are put under the Publishing Committee
for publication in Medical Act must original and be prepared in agreement
with Requisitos Uniformes for Manuscripts Submissive Biomedical Magazines.
developed by the Committee the International of Publishers of Medical
Magazines (N Engl J Med 1991; 324:424-8).
In order to obtain additional data
it is recommended to consult amc 1998; 40(3):53-60. Manuscripts prepared
in inadequate form will be returned to the author without being reviewed.
The articles accepted for publication in amc will happen to be property
of the Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos and must not partially be
published total or in any other magazine, although he is in another language
(except in summary form).
Instructions to the
authors
The manuscripts must be put under
in quadruplicated, original and 3 complete copies (including all the figures).
The work will have to appear on paper printed to double-spaced bond so
large letter, a single side of the leaf and with all the leaves numbered
in consecutive form (including figures and tables). A maximum of 15 leaves
is recommended, but works of greater length will be considered in special
cases. The authors will have to along with fill and to give to the manuscript
lista of revision of authors. and the transference of rights and liberation
of responsibilities. All the copies of the manuscript will have to be given
in the office of the Publishing Committee amc in the building of the Colegio
de Médicos y Cirujanos or shipments to Apdo. 548-1000, San
Jose, Costa Rica.
The manuscript will be ordered
of the following way: title page, summarizes, text,
gratefulness and collaborator,
references, pictures, legend of the figures and figures. Page of title:
it includes Title: it must be concise but informative, be limited 125 characters
and without abbreviations. In case of animal studies it must mention the
species.
Authors: he includes first
full name of all the authors and their institutional affiliation (the authors
must limit themselves whom contributed substantially in the design of the
study, the analysis of information or writing of the manuscript).
Name of department (s) and institution
(it is) to which is due to attribute the work.
Descriptors: to write of 3 to
10 key words.
Abbreviations: list in alphabetical
order of all the used abbreviations in the text (in general the use of
abbreviations is not recommended).
Short title: limit of 45 characters.
Correspondence: name and mailing dress,
telephone number and of facsimile of the author to whom all correspondence
is due to direct.
Summary: nongreater of 250
words, in English Spanish and, structured using the following subtitles:
justification and objective, methods, results and conclusion. Abbreviations,
references or notes on footer do not have to be used.
Body of the work: Introduction: express
the intention of the article. Locate the subject within the present
knowledge and raise his objective in clear form and need.
Materials (subject) and method:
describe with clarity the method of selection of subjects, instruments
and procedures used with sufficient detail like so that he is reproducible
by the reader. Manuscripts reporting data obtained in human beings must
include a note in the section of methods that assures that consent informed
into each patient was obtained in writing and who the protocol of the study
fulfilled the requirements of the committee of ethics of the corresponding
center. The manuscripts that report experiments using animals must include
a note where it makes sure that they were fulfilled the general recommendations
for the taken care of handling and of experimentation animals.
Identify used medicines and chemistries
accurately, including generic name, dose and via of administration. Describe
clearly the used statistical analyses. Use approved conventional units
of measurement (UI or SI).
Results: present the results
in logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations. It does not
repeat in the text data presented/displayed in tables or illustrations.
It does not comment any result in this section.
Discussion: Information given in some
other section does not repeat (introduction, results or materials); mention
the new and important aspects contributed by the study and the conclusions
that can be obtained from the results. Relate to other reports in Literature.
Indicate the limitations of the study and include the repercussions
on other present or future investigations and propose new hypotheses. Avoid
to draw to conclusions from studies nonfinalized or conclusions nonbased
on the obtained results.
Gratefulness and Collaborator: all
the economic support or of another nature
received for the accomplishment of
the investigation is due to enumerate here.
Reference: they must follow the recommended
system for biomedical magazines (to see second paragraph). They must go
numbered in consecutive form following the order in which they are mentioned
for the first time in the text. The title of the magazines must follow
the abbreviation mentioned in the Index Medicus. At the most list 6 authors,
of being more after sixth uses Et al. All the articles in the list of references
must be mentioned in the text and all reference mentioned in the text must
appear in the list. Not to use appointments of personal communications
or material nonpublished (they are possible to be written down
within the text in parenthesis). The revision articles must include 35
bibliographical appointments at least and original at least the 15. Example:
Article: Apéstegui A, Deliyore
J. Digoxinemia. Acta Med Costarric 1996; 38(1): 1-4.
Book: Hernández R. Fernández
C, Baptista P. Metodología de la investigación. México:
MacGraw-Hill, 1991.
Article in the book: Piel G ¿Qué
es un artículo científico? En: Day Ra, ed. Como escribir
y publicar trabajos científicos. Washington: oms, 1990: 8-14.
Pictures: they must be autoexplicativos,
consecutively numbered in the text with Arabic numbers and each one presented/displayed
in individual form in a separate leaf with the number of the table and
the title trims on the table and any explanatory note in the inferior part
of the same one, everything to double-spaced.
Legend of the figures: they must appear
aside printed to double-spaced in a leaf. They must be numbered according
to the order in which they are mentioned in the text. They are due to offer
sufficient information to allow the interpretation of the figures with
no need to talk about to the text.
Figures: 4 complete groups of figures
are due to give to the work along with. All illustration must come noticeable
in reverso with the corresponding number, the direction (above) and the
name of the author. The illustrations must be numbered with Arabic numbers
in consecutive form in agreement with his first mention in the text.
It is recommended that the graphs and other figures generated in computer
are printed in a laser printer of high quality
Fast Communications: when manuscripts
for fast publication are put under, the authors must include a letter where
they justify porqué consider that its article must be published
quickly. Single concise, original works in their definitive version, of
great scientific importance will be considered for this section. These
manuscripts also will have to be put under in original and three copies,
will not have to exceed 3000 words and they will not include more than
2 tables and 2 figures.
Report of Cases: single the description
of one or more clinical cases of exceptional observation will be accepted
that suppose an important contribution in the knowledge of the fisiopatología
or other aspects of the process and that offers to material and information
of importance for future investigation. The Maxima extension of the text
will have to be of 5 pages of 30 lines and a maximum of 3 figures or tables
will be admitted.
Letters to the Publisher: concerning
letters mainly with articles published in Costa Rican Medical Act will
be considered for publication. The letters to the publisher will have to
promote scientific discussion in medical subjects. These will have to go
to the publishing committee indicating that they are for considering itself
like correspondence and not like original article. They can contain 1 figure
or table and they will not have to contain more than 500 words, to include
more than 10 references, nor to be signed by more than three authors. The
publishers reserve the right to publish letters with the purpose of being
brief or classifying their content.
Final version: the works
accepted for publication will have to appear in their final in diskette
3,5, DOS 5,0 or superior version.
Allocation of Rights, Responsibility
of Participation, Declaration of Financing, Approval by Scientific Committee
/ Committee of Protection Local Animal.
Allocation of Rights: in consideration
to the revision and edition of the manuscript
presented/displayed on the part of the Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos
de Costa Rica, the down signatory authors, in joint and unanimous form,
we transferred and we assigned all surrounded right, title or interest,
including nobody and all right of author in any type of form and means
to the Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos de Costa Rica. Of not publishing
itself in work in AMC, these rights they will be released.
Responsibility of Participation: I,
the author, down signatory, point out that I have participated sufficiently
in the intellectual content, the information analysis, if she is applied,
and the writing of the manuscript, to take public responsibility by him.
I have reviewed the final version of the manuscript and consider that she
represents valid work and approve his publication. Like author of this
article, I point out that nothing of the material in him including has
been published previously, is including in another manuscript or is at
the moment being considered for publication in another place. Also I point
out that this article has not been accepted for publication in some other
place and that I have not assigned to no right or interest to any third
person. If the AMC publishers require the original information on that
this manuscript is based, I will give it for revision.
Declaration of financing: I, the down
signatory author, point out that I do not have commercial associations
that can mean a conflict of interest with the article submissive valuation,
except as I aside specify it in note. All institutional and corporative
source of financing and affiliations have been indicated in the corresponding
section of the manuscript.
Approval by the Scientific Committee
/ Committee of Protection Local Animal: I, the down signatory author, point
out that my institution approved the protocol of investigation for any
investigation that involves human beings or animals and that all experimentation
was conducted in accordance with the ethical and human principles of investigation.
Title of the article:
All the authors must sign and date
this document
List of Review for authors:
Please, complete this list before sending
its manuscript.
Letter of
presentation
Four complete
copies of the manuscript, including tables and figures
Page of title
Title
Short, nongreater
title of 45 characters
Author and
affiliation
Descriptors
and abbreviatures
Direction,
telephono and fax of the author for the correspondence
Article (a doble space)
Gratefulness
and collaborator
Structure abstract in English and spanish
Introduction
Materials and methods
Results
Discussion
References
Tables, legend of the figures, figures
Permission to reproduce all material
previously published and permission of
patients to publish photographies.
Kindly one asks for the authors to
them who make sure that their articles have been written in correct Spanish
and who the errors of type have been eliminated carefully.
Manuscripts must be sent or be given
a:
Comité Editorial - Acta Médica
Costarricense
Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos
de Costa Rica
Apdo 548-1000, San José, Costa
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