Authorship Criteria

Persons designated as authors must have contributed substantially to the preparation of the manuscript. In this sense, REUFPI adopts authorship criteria according to the deliberation of the Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest (ICMJE), regarding the following criteria: a) substantial contributions in the idea or design of the work; b) in the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data; c) writing of the article or its critical review; d) final approval of the version to be published. The maximum number of authors is seven. Exceptionally, for multicentric studies, the possibility of including more authors will be examined, considering the relevance of the justifications.

Submission procedures

The corresponding author must have all the necessary documentation (checklist) and follow the following steps:

- STEP 1 (Home):

  • Choose the appropriate section for submission. For more information, click here.
  • Submission language (Portuguese, Spanish or English);
  • A Cover letter should be presented to the Editor justifying why his manuscript should be published in REUFPI, highlighting the contribution of the results presented to the progress of knowledge and its referral to practice.

- STEP 2 (Manuscript upload)

  • The manuscript must be presented in the following format

- IN THIS SAME STEP THE SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS ARE INSERTED

  • Page title (Template)
  • Declaration of Responsibility and Assignment of Copyright, signed by all authors and addressed to the editor-in-chief, according to Template;
  • Research involving human beings in Brazil, according to CNS Resolutions No. 466/2012 and 510/2016 must present the supporting documentation of approval of the project by the Research Ethics Committee and/or CONEP, when necessary.

- STEP 3 (Metadata inclusion)

Filling in metadata information is mandatory, without it will not be possible for the manuscript to proceed to the first stage of evaluation. All requested information must be filled in correctly:

  • Author(s): Full names without abbreviations, email, ORCiD, LATTES URL, institution/affiliation, country, biography summary (major academic degree and institutional bond) must be presented.
  • Title: up to 15 words and in the language of the manuscript (Do not use capital letters);
  • Summary: Limited to 200 words in the language of the manuscript. It should be structured: Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusion. For studies in the protocols section the structure will be: Objective and methods.
  • Keywords: must be three to five descriptors in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The keywords in Portuguese and Spanish should be extracted from the Descriptors in Science and Health (DECS), available at: http://decs.bvs.br/ and the English keywords must be extracted from The MeSH Vocabulary / Finding Keywords for Publications, available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
  • Contributors and funding agencies: it is optional to include thanks to the people who contributed to the study, but are not authors. In case of funding the authors should cite the funding agency.
  • References: must follow the Vancouver Style, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, available at: icmje.org.

- STEP 4 (Confirmation of submission)

In this step the author must review the documents inserted in the system and then finalize the submission.

Presentation of manuscripts

REUFPI recommends that manuscripts follow the guidelines described in detail below:

Preparation of manuscripts

It should be typed using Microsoft Word application with the following page configuration: A4-sized paper, 2.5cm margins, Times New Roman font, size 12, 1.5-line space across the text, with page numbering in the upper right corner. In frames and tables use simple spacing.

The manuscript should start with the title (up to 15 words, centered, bold and should not be in capital letters). Then the abstract (limited to 200 words, structured: Goal, Methods, Results and Conclusion. For studies in the protocols section the structure will be: Objective and methods). It is noteworthy that both the title and the abstract should be presented only in the language of the manuscript.

Keywords: must be three to five descriptors in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The keywords in Portuguese and Spanish should be extracted from the Descriptors in Science and Health (DECS), available at: http://decs.bvs.br/ and the English keywords must be extracted from The MeSH Vocabulary / Finding Keywords for Publications, available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

REUFPI requests after the keywords the authors present the highlights of the study." The authors should highlight at least three points of each of the following questions: What is known about the theme?  What does the study add to the theme?

Manuscripts must present the following items continuously: Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; and References.  With the exception of the studies "Protocols" and "Letter to the Editor". The Protocols do not need to present results, discussion, and conclusion.

In the Introduction should be presented brief and clear delimitation of the subject, explanation of the concepts used, justification of the study, gaps of knowledge and finalizing with the objective.

In the Method should be presented a complete description of the methodological procedures that allowed the achievement of the objective. Subdivisions must obey the guideline of each method, as described in https://www.equator-network.org/.

  • For Clinical Trials use CONSORT
  • For observational studies, STROBE
  • For qualitative studies COREQ
  • For case reports CARE
  • For Systematic Reviews PRISMA
  • For clinical trial protocol SPIRIT
  • Systematic Review Protocol PRISMA P
  • For Protocol and Scope Review PRISMA-ScR
  • Reflection studies and experience reports can follow their own description.

Results should be limited to describe the findings found, without interpretations, comparations or personal comments. To facilitate understanding, it can be supported by graphs, tables, figures, photographs, etc. Tables, Graphs and Figures, a maximum of five, must be inserted in the body of the manuscript text, always in original format. 

Discussion, separated from the results, should be restricted to the data obtained (without repetition of the results), highlighting its relationship with the national and international literature, emphasizing new and important aspects observed and agreements and divergences discussion with other studies already published. At the end present limitations and contributions of the study.

The Conclusion should be written in clear, simple, direct sentence and respond to the objective, based on the results and consistent with title and method.

For indirect citations, a numerical system should be used to identify the authors mentioned, according to the order in which they are mentioned in the text, without mentioning the authors' names. The numbers that identify the authors should be indicated overwritten in parentheses and after the end point. If they are sequential, the first and the last, separated by hyphen (e.g. (1-4)); when interleaved, the numbers must be separated by comma (e.g. :( 1-2.4)).

Direct quotations should be presented in the body of the quoted text, indicating the reference number and the quote page, regardless of the number of lines (e.g. :( 1:30-31)).

The statements should be cited without italic font, font size 11, single spacing, without quotation marks, with indentation of 2cm, highlighted from the paragraph of the text. Its identification must be encoded at the author's discretion and in parentheses at the end of each. Suppressions should be indicated by the use of ellipsis between bracket.

Illustrations include tables, charts, and figures. The number of illustrations should be a maximum of five per manuscript. All must be inserted in the text, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, in the order in which they are quoted in the text, with their respective subtitles and fonts. Each illustration must have a title, containing location, state acronym, country and year of data collection. You should use lowercase letter, simple space and without author's emphasis. The illustrations, when not elaborated by the authors, should indicate a source from which they were extracted. Tables should be prepared with the Microsoft Word tables tool, opened sideways, and should not contain internal rows, with simple spacing between rows. They should not contain empty cells and each column should be identified. The inner lines should be inserted only below and above the header and in the last line.

The references should be gathered at the end of the work, cited only the works used in the text, in numerical order and ordered according to the sequence of appearance (Vancouver Style).  Meet the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors – Vancouver Style (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html). The references are in accordance with the ICMJE Recommendations regarding the titles of journals that should be abbreviated according to NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases - U.S.  National Library of Medicine (Catalogue of the main Journals in the field of international health), available in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals or according to portal of Scientific Journals in Health Sciences - VHL (Catalog of national journals and Latin America and the Caribbean), available at: http://portal.revistas.bvs.br/ . It is recommended that authors consider the following requirements:

  • At least 50% of the references should preferably be published in the last 5 years and of these, 30% in the last 2 years. At least 30% of the references are from journal articles indexed in international databases; REUFPI suggests that 40% of the references are from Brazilian journals, from the SciELO and RevEnf collection.
  • The references cited must be in the English language whenever available;
  • Avoid citations of gray literature (official documents, theses, dissertations, books, manuals, legislation, norms, non-scientific journals, etc.), except when indispensable;
  • REUFPI encourages citation of manuscripts using DOI;
  • For articles or texts published on the Internet that do not contain the DOI, you must indicate the address of the full URL and the date of access on which it was consulted;
  • Up to 3 preprint references will be accepted.

 Appendices and annexes should be avoided.

Most common examples of references:

Articles with the DOI identifier:

Ex: Silva MDF, Gouveia MTO, Fernandes MA, Costa RS. Estratégias de enfrentamento do estresse utilizados por enfermeiros em maternidade. Rev Enferm UFPI. [Internet]. 2020;9(1):178-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.26694/reufpi.v9i0.9153

Electronic Articles

Silva Júnior FJG, Santos LCS, Moura PVS, Melo BMS, Monteiro CFS. Processo de morte e morrer: evidências da literatura científica de enfermagem. Rev bras enferm. [Internet]. 2011;64(6):1122-6. Disponível em: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672011000600020&lng=pt.

Preprint

Santos-López M, Jaque-Ulloa D, Serrano-Aliste S. Métodos de Desinfección y Reutilización de Mascarillas con Filtro Respirator Durante la Pandemic de SARS-CoV-2.  Int J Odontostomat. 2020;14(3):310-5.  doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-381X2020000300310

Institution as author

Ministério da Saúde (BR). Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Departamento de Vigilância Epidemiológica. Guia Vigilância Epidemiológica. 7a ed. Brasília: Ministério da Saúde; 2009.

Books

Nunes BMVT, Santos AMR, organizadores. História da Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem seção Piauí: 50 anos de responsabilidade ético-social. Teresina (PI): ABEn; 2009.

Book chapter

Moreira ICCC, Monteiro CFS, Magalhães RLB, Oliveira ADS, Melo BMS. O enfermeiro diante de situações de violência contra a mulher. In: Leite MMJ, coordenação-geral; Martini JG, Felli VEA, organizadores. Programa de Atualização em Enfermagem: saúde do adulto (PROENF). 1a ed. Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem - Porto Alegre (RS): Artmed/Panamericana; 2010. p. 87-105.