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	Objetives and Editorial Politicy Preparation of originals Asignation of rights

Objetives and Editorial Politics
 

Objetive is: It publishes original works, articles of revision, fast communications, reports of  cases, letters to the publisher, notes of the director, editorials and related subjects of medical, psychological interest, medical forense, social, psiquiatric physician, psiquiatric forense, of medical right, penal and labor right as well as of right of the victims.  The manuscripts that are put under the Publishing Committee for their publication must original and be prepared in agreement with the "Requisite Uniforms 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 Acta Médica Costarricense 1998; 40(3):53-60. Manuscripts prepared in inadequate form will not be reviewed and single they will be returned to the author when this it sends the postal cost. The articles accepted for publication will happen to be property of Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense      and they must not partially be published total or in any other magazine, although it              is in another language (except in summary form).  The manuscripts must be put under in quadruplicated, that is 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, in a single face of the leaf, numbered in consecutive form (including figures and tables). A maximum of 15 leaves is recommended, but works of greater length will be considered in very special cases. The authors will have to along with fill and to give to the manuscript the "list of revision of authors" and the transference of rights and liberation of responsibilities. All it copies of the manuscript will have to be given in the office of the Publishing Committee of Association the Costa Rican Forense Medicine in the building of the Complex of Forenses Sciences, in San Joaquin de Flores, the headquarters of  Department Forense the Medicine, or to be sent to Section 187-3007, San Joaquin de Flores, Heredia, Costa Rica.  The magazine is published in form quarterly printed and Internet

Preparation of originals
 

The manuscript will be ordered of the following way: Title page, abstract, text, gratefulness and collaborator, references, pictures, legend of the figures and figures. Title page: 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: it 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 the department and institution to which the work is due to attribute.  Descriptors: to write down 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 subtitles : justification and objective, methods, results and conclusion. Nodeben to be used abbreviations, references or notes on footer.  Work body: Introduction: Express the intention of the article. Locate the subject within the present knowledge and raise its 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 experiment 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 genetic name, dose and via of administration. Describe clearly the used statistical analyses. Use approved conventional units of measurement (Ul or SI).  Results: present the results in logical sequence in the text. 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 lndex Medicus. At the most list 6 authors, of being more after sixth uses ET to. 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: Vargas E. Ramírez J. Nisman M. Bonilla R. Intoxicación sistémica por mercurio elemental depositado en el organismo.  Medicina Legal de Costa Rica 1996:13(1):36-40 Book: Goss Ch.  Gray anatomía.  España Salvat 1976. Book Article : El transplante de órganos En: Giraldo C. , de.  Medicina Forense.  Bogotá: Jurídicas Antioquía, 1994: 169-180. 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 figures: they must imagine printed double-spaced aside 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.  Figure: 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 somentan, 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 in original and three copies without exceeding 3000  words and 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 of other aspects of the process and which they offer to material and information of importance for future investigation. The maxim extension of the text will have of 5 pages of 30 lines and a maximum of 3 figures or tables will be admitted.  Letters to the publisher and/or director: concerning letters mainly with articles published in the magazine Medicina Legal de Costa Rica will be considered for publication and will have to promote scientific discussion in interest 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 a figure or table and they will not have to contain more than 500 words, to include not more than 5 references, and to be signed by his authors who will have in addition to brief with clarity their number of certificate or passport. The publishers reserve the right to publish letters with the purpose of being brief or          classifying their content  Final Version: The works for publication will have to appear in their final in diskette 3.5', DOS 6,0 or superior version.  List of Review for authors Please, it completes this list before sending its manuscript.  Presentation Letter Four complete copies of the manuscript, including tables and figures.  Page of Title Title Short Title, nongreater of 45 characters Authors and  affiliation Descriptors and abbreviations Direction, telephone, electronic direction and number of Fax of the author to              whom all correspondence is due to direct.  Article (to double-spaced) Gratefulness and collaborator English and Spanish summary structured in Introduction Materials and methods Results Discussion Reference 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 idiomáticamente correct Spanish and who the errors of type have been eliminated all carefully.

Asignation of rights
 

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 author or of the down signatory authors, in form (as it corresponds) unique or it combines and unanimous, we transferred and we assigned all surrounded right, title or interest, to Asociación Costarricense de Mediciana Forense Responsibility of participation: I, the author, down signatory, point out that I have participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, the information analysis, if to be applied the writing of the manuscript, to take public responsalidad by him. I have reviewed the final version of, written by hand 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 by my previously, nor  it is including in another manuscript or it 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 publishers require lá information. original on which this manuscript is based, I will give it for revision  Declaration of financing: 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:  the down signatory author, point out that my institution approved the protocol of investigation for any investigation that I involve human beings or animals and that all experimentation was  conducted in accordance with the ethical and human principles of investigation.  Manuscripts must be sent or be given a:  Comité Editorial - Revista Medicina Legal de Costa Rica Asociación Costarricense de Medicina Forense Edificio Complejo de Ciencias Forenses jefatura del Departamento de Medicina Forense Apartado 1 87-3007, San Joaquín de Flores, Heredia, Costa Rica.