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 text follows the journal's formatting requirements according to the "Guidelines for Authors"found in the "Submissions" section.
Original Articles
Original articles are those that result from a research. In GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS there are more details on the rules for this type of article.Case Reports
Case Reports may include up to three cases, while a larger number features a Case Series. Case Reports require approval by a Research Ethics Committee, as well as Original Articles. See more details in GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS A maximum of five authors, which have participated effectively in the preparation of the report, are admitted.Review Articles
Currently, Scientia Medica is only publishing review articles invited by the journal's editorial staff. Nevertheless, even those invited articles will be submitted to peer-review, following the usual procedure.
Please see more details on the guidelines for this type of article in RULES FOR REVIEW ARTICLES
Education in Health Sciences
This section includes articles on Medical Education or other disciplines within the Health SciencesBrief Comunications
Brief Communications are short articles, with a limit of 1,500 words (excluding references and tables). The paper should follow the structured format of the original articles. A Brief Communication is justified only in special cases of a given research which data are very important to be disclosed, but are not yet complete.Copyright Notice
Copyright
The submission of originals to Scientia Medica implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Scientia Medica as the site of original publication.
Creative Commons License
Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.