Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Editorial
They express positions and/or criteria directly related to a topic to be dealt with in the corresponding issue of the journal or some circumstantial or current or controversial scientific situation, related to any of the specialties that correspond to the Journal. They will be commissioned by the editorial committee to certain personalities or requested by the author, which must have the approval of the Editorial Committee. Their length should not exceed 1,500 words, with a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 15 references. It is preferable that only one or two authors are included. Abstracts, tables, charts or figures should not be included.
Original Research Articles
Original research articles: these are written reports that communicate the results of scientific research. They shall contain sufficient and available information to allow readers to evaluate the results and reproduce the experiments. They will consist of: Abstract structured with: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions, which are included at the end of the Discussion. The length should not exceed 4500 words (including title, abstract, tables, annexes, figures with captions and bibliographical references). Up to five figures/tables or diagrams, up to 20 references and up to five authors are allowed.
Review articles
Systematic review and meta-analysis articles will be accepted if their topics are considered up to date and of interest or respond to requests from the editorial committee. We recommend the use of PRISMA (Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis) criteria for this type of article.
These are papers on specific topics, in which already published information is gathered, analyzed and discussed. They consist of: Abstract, Introduction, Development (with subtitles, if the author considers them convenient), with the analysis and/or discussion of the subject; and the Final Considerations. The length of the text should not exceed 5000 words (not including bibliographical references). A total of five figures/tables or annexes are allowed. They should contain between 25 and 50 references and, exceptionally, more and up to four authors. Systematic reviews of the literature will be favored.
Perinatal medicine and obstetrics
Articles with original research results related to the care of women during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium.
Gynecology and reproductive health
Articles with original research results related to conditions of the female reproductive organs, damage to the sexual health of women during reproductive age and their possible consequences on their future child if they decide to become pregnant. It also covers articles related to the follow-up and treatment of couples with fertility disorders.
Case reports
Articles that, due to the infrequency of their presentation, or due to the relevance of the clinical, analytical, imaging or anatomo-pathological findings, are considered illustrative of clinical practice, will be admitted.
They are articles whose objective is to describe and analyze clinical manifestations, symptoms, signs, clinical and therapeutic conduct, unique findings and that are considered interesting for the development of science. They will include an Abstract, Introduction, Report or Presentation of the case, Discussion and Conclusions. Its length shall not exceed 3500 words, not including bibliographical references. A total of three figures/tables or annexes are allowed. The number of authors will not exceed three and will contain up to 10 references.
Obituarie
Obituaries (in memoriam), Acknowledgements, Reports, Calls for Papers and Announcements will have a maximum length of 1200 words. They do not include an abstract or bibliographical references. One figure is accepted.
Letters to the editor
Documents expressing the ideas, positions or disagreements of the authors in relation to some of the contents published in the journal or topics of the specialty will be received after evaluation by the editorial committee. Letters that comply with the ethical principles of scientific publication will be published. The arguments presented must have their corresponding bibliographic support according to the norms adopted by the journal.
Special collaboration
Special collaboration: contains topics of interest to professionals in the specialty and health in general. It will include: Introduction (with the explicit general objective), development (with the subheadings that the authors consider necessary) and, finally, development and conclusions. It includes an unstructured Abstract. Consensus reports, action protocols, among others, are accepted. The total length should not exceed 5,000 words (not including bibliographical references). Up to five figures/tables/annexes, up to 10 references and up to four authors are accepted.
Brief communication
Brief communication: include: abstract, introduction, subtitle(s) that give body to the development of the work and conclusions. They will not exceed 2500 words (including: title, tables and figures with their captions). They will contain up to 20 bibliographical references. Up to two figures and tables are allowed.
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