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REBEn considers for publication only articles that meet the quality standards established by the guidelines for health research production – Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research Network (EQUATOR). It is mandatory to indicate in the study design method which EQUATOR instrument was used to guide the research (https://www.equator-network.org/toolkits/selecting-the-appropriate-reporting-guideline/, https://clinical-trials.ai, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3164, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3210, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3505, and systematic reviews should follow updated guidelines in the PRISMA guide. Failure to comply with this rule will result in the manuscript being archived.
[1] Liu X, Rivera S C, Moher D, Calvert M J, Denniston A K. Reporting guidelines for clinical trial reports for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the CONSORT-AI Extension BMJ 2020; 370:m3164. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3164
[2] Rivera S C, Liu X, Chan A, Denniston A K, Calvert M J. Guidelines for clinical trial protocols for interventions involving artificial intelligence: the SPIRIT-AI Extension BMJ 2020; 370:m3210. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3210
[3] Wynants L, Smits L J M, Van Calster B. Demystifying AI in healthcare BMJ 2020; 370:m3505. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3505
[4] Page MJ, McKenzie JE, Bossuyt PM, Boutron I, Hoffmann TC, Mulrow CD, et al. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ. 2021;372(71). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n71
Types of articles considered:
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Editorial: text on a subject of interest for the historical moment or the production of knowledge with repercussions for nursing and health. It can contain up to two (2) pages, including up to four references, if any.
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Original articles: studies that add new information to nursing and health. Included in this category are randomized clinical trials, case-control studies, cohort, prevalence, incidence, accuracy studies, case studies and qualitative studies. Original articles must contain a maximum of fifteen (15) pages, including abstracts, 50 references and up to eight authors.
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Review: uses systematic methods and explicit criteria to identify, select and critically assess relevant research, and to collect and analyze data from studies included in the review. Included in this category are systematic review with and without meta- or meta-synthesis and scoping review. Reviews should contain a maximum of twenty (20) pages, including abstracts, 50 references and up to six authors.
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Reflection: in-depth discursive formulation, focusing on a concept or theoretical construct of nursing or a related area, or discussion on a specific topic, establishing analogies, presenting and analyzing different points of view, theoretical or practical. It must contain a maximum of ten (10) pages, including abstracts, ten references and up to four authors.
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Experience report, update and/or technological innovation: study describing practical situations and/or technological innovation (teaching, assistance, research or management), intervention strategies and assessment of their effectiveness, of interest for professional performance. It should contain a maximum of ten (10) pages, including abstracts, ten references and up to four authors.
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Letter to the editor: maximum of one page.
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Author’s answer: maximum of 250 words
Manuscript category – checklist
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Manuscript (number of pages)
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Authors (number)
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References (number)
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Original articles
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15
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8
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50
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Review
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20
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6
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50
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Reflection
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10
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4
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10
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Report of experience, update and/or technological innovation
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10
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4
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10
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Letter to the editor
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1
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Editorial
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2
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4
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Registration of clinical studies, systematic reviews and other reviews
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REBEn supports the policies for registering clinical trials of the World Health Organization (WHO) and ICMJE, recognizing the importance of these initiatives for the registration and international dissemination of information on clinical trials, in open access. Therefore, only clinical research articles that have received an identification number in one of the Clinical Trial Registries validated by the criteria established by the WHO and ICMJE (Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials – REBEC) will be accepted for publication (http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/ or http://apps.who.int/trialsearch/default.aspx). The registration identification number must be entered in “Methods”;
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Randomized studies must follow the CONSORT guidelines. This statement provides an evidence-based approach to improving the quality of clinical trial reporting. All manuscripts describing a clinical study must include the CONSORT Flow Diagram showing the number of participants in each intervention group, as well as a detailed description of how many patients were excluded at each step of data analysis. All clinical trials must be registered and made available on a freely accessible website. The clinical trial protocol (including the complete statistical analysis plan) must be submitted together with the manuscript (https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1745-6215-11-9);
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REBEn encourages the registration of observational studies, such as cohort and case-control studies in REBEC Platforms – or similar with Clinical Trial. For more information visit: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2960148-1/fulltext;
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Systematic reviews must follow the PRISMA protocol and must provide the protocol registration number in the PROSPERO database;
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Articles presenting clinical studies or systematic reviews without registration protocols will be promptly rejected without peer review;
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Scope reviews must follow the guidelines (http://www.prisma-statement.org/Extensions/ScopingReviews) and encourages protocols to be made available in freely accessible repositories, such as Open Science Framework (OSF).
Authors’ contributions
Authorship confers credit and has important academic, social and financial implications. Authorship implies responsibility for the published work. For all authors who had intellectual and substantial contributions to the manuscript, REBEn requires each author to specify their contributions to the work. The corresponding author or author who forwarded the work will indicate, during the submission process, the guarantee and accuracy of the integrity of all data reported in the manuscript (Statemet Model – forward as supplementary file).
REBEn follows the ICMJE recommendation, which is based on the criteria described below:
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study/research conception or design;
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data analysis and/or interpretation;
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final review with critical and intellectual participation in the manuscript.
All contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria must be listed in the Acknowledgments section as well as financial support from funding agencies.
For manuscripts previously published on preprint servers, it is recommended that the same authors be maintained, based on the criteria already described.
Manuscript preparation
Manuscripts will only be accepted for evaluation if they are strictly in accordance with the model available in templates and prepared as follows:
Microsoft Office Word file, with mandatory configuration of pages on A4 paper (210x297mm) and 2 cm margins on all sides, Times New Roman, font size 12, 1.5 pt spacing between lines, paragraphs with 1.25 indentation cm.
Article submission format
Title page (Template 1)
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Article title: up to 15 words, maximum, in the language of the manuscript. It is recommended that the title be composed using at least 3 descriptors;
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Authorship: full name of authors. The affiliation of each author must contain the information: university, city, country and ORCID (all authors must have the identifier ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID;
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A corresponding author must be indicated with the email address and photo.
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Abstract: abstract limited to 150 words in the same language as the manuscript. It must be structured into Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions or Final considerations;
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Descriptors: must be inserted just below the summary. Include five descriptors in the three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish). Descriptors in Portuguese and Spanish must be extracted from the DeCS and in English from MeSH (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh ourhttps://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand);
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Funding and Acknowledgments: inform the funding institution. Acknowledgments are optional for participants not considered authors
Text structure
Abbreviations should not be used in the title and subtitles of the manuscript and in the abstract. For tables and figures with abbreviations, it is mandatory to insert them in a footnote to the table or figure. In the text, use only standardized abbreviations. In the first citation, the abbreviation is presented in parentheses after the full term.
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Footnotes must be restricted to the minimum necessary.
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Appendices and annexes will be disregarded.
Main document (Template 2)
The main document, without identifying the authors, must contain:
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Article title: up to 15 words, maximum, in the language of the manuscript. Compose the title using at least 3 descriptors;
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Abstract and descriptors: abstract limited to 150 words in the same language as the manuscript. It must be structured (Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions or Final considerations);
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Descriptors: must be inserted just below the abstract. Include five descriptors in the three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish). For descriptors in Portuguese and Spanish, they must be extracted from DeCS: http://decs.bvs.br and in English from MeSH: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh or https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand;
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Body of the text: consists of the body of the manuscript itself. The structure of the manuscript in the research and review categories is Introduction, Objective, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions (for quantitative research) or Final considerations (qualitative research). All subtitles must be highlighted in bold in the text;
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Subtitles: subtitles of Method and Discussion must be highlighted in bold as recommended by the CHECKLIST;
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Data Availability and Material: only provide the link, preferably DOI, of the dataset where the material is deposited;
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Funding and Acknowledgments must be cited before the references chapter and inserted in the final version after acceptance. In Funding, it is mandatory to cite the source of research funding (if any). Acknowledgments are optional for people who contributed to the study but are not authors
Digital assets
Illustrations: tables, charts and figures, such as photographs, drawings, graphs, among others, must be presented in the body of the manuscript and be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, in the order in which they are inserted in the text, and cannot exceed the number of five.
- Figures and tables: must have captions, and for figures the caption must be at the bottom and the identification of tables and charts must be at the top, followed by the order number of their occurrence in the text, in Arabic numerals, a dash and the respective title (e.g., Table 1 – title).
* The font size of letters can be reduced up to 10.
*The source consulted must be included below the images only if it is secondary data.
* Tables must be standardized according to recommendations from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística). Tabular presentation standards. rd ed. Rio de Janeiro, 1993, available at http://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/livros/liv23907.pdf
Illustrations must be sent in their original editable files from the source programs, or exported vectorized in EPS or PDF formats.
Abbreviations must be inserted in full in a footnote to the table and/or figure
Citations and references
Italics will only be applied to highlight terms or expressions relevant to the object of the study, and in author citations, ipsis litteris:
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With up to three lines, use quotation marks and insert them in the normal sequence of the text;
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In the case of speeches by deponents or research subjects, highlight them in a new paragraph, without quotation marks, Times New Roman, font size 11, single spacing between lines and 3 cm indentation from the left margin.
In author citations, ipsis litteris, with more than three lines, highlight them in a new paragraph, without quotation marks, Times New Roman font size 11, single spacing between lines, without italics and indentation of 3 cm from the left margin.
Author citations in the text must be numbered consecutively, in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text;
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Arabic numbers must be used, in parentheses and superscripts, with no space between the citation number and the previous word, preceding the punctuation of the sentence or paragraph [e.g., care(5)].
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When dealing with sequential citations, the numbers will be separated by a dash [e.g., care(1-5)]. When interspersed, they are separated by a comma [e.g., care(1,3,5)].
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References: the number of references is limited according to the category of the manuscript. References, presented at the end of the work, must be numbered, consecutively, according to the order in which they were included in the text and according to the style indicated by the International Committee of Scientific Editors of Biomedical Journals (ICMJE). Examples of the Vancouver style are available through the National Library of Medicine (NLM) website at Citing Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/. At least 50% of references must preferably be productions published in the last 5 years and of these, 20% in the last 2 years. REBEn suggests that 40% of references come from Brazilian journals, from the SciELO and RevEnf collections.
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For articles available in Portuguese and English, the English version must be cited, with the corresponding pagination.
Avoid citations from theses, dissertations, books and chapters, newspapers or non-scientific journals (Magazines) and in press, except when dealing with theoretical references (Ex: Handbook Cochrane).
REBEn encourages the use of DOI, as it guarantees a permanent access link to the electronic article. For articles or texts published on the internet that do not contain the DOI, indicate the full URL address as well as the access date on which it was consulted.
Up to 3 preprint references will be accepted (optional).
Suggestion: REBEn accepts preprint references as long as they are extremely necessary. We strongly suggest that during the peer review process and the press test, authors check whether the cited version has already been published and update it with the corresponding journal reference.
Most common examples of references:
Articles with DOI identifier
Lavorato Neto G, Rodrigues L, Silva DARD, Turato ER, Campos CJG. Spirituality review on mental health and psychiatric nursing. Rev Bras Enferm. 2018;71(suppl 5):2323-33. https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167- 2016-0429.
Electronic articles
Polgreen PM, Diekema DJ, Vandeberg J, Wiblin RT, Chen YY, David S, et al. Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: a case-control study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol [Internet]. 2006 [cited 2018 Jan 5];27(1):34-7. Available from: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ICHE/journal/issues/v27n1/2004069/2004069.web.pdf
Articles in another language
Cruz MSD, Bernal RTI, Claro RM. [Trends in leisure-time physical activity in Brazilian adults (2006-2016)]. Cad Saude Publica. 2018. 22;34(10):e00114817. https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00114817 Portuguese.
Book
Jenkins PF. Making sense of the chest x-ray: a hands-on guide. New York: Oxford University Press; 2005. 194 p.
Book on the internet
Higgins JP, Green S, editors. Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions [Internet].Version 4.2.6.Chichester (UK): John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2006 [cited 2018 Oct 15]. 257 p. Available from: http://www.cochrane.org/resources/handbook/handbook.pdf
Preprint
Lavorato Neto G, Rodrigues L, Silva DARD, Turato ER, Campos CJG. Spirituality review on mental health and psychiatric nursing. Medrxiv. 2018. Preprint(v.2) [cited 2019 Oct 12]. https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0429.
Videos
On YouTube: Viseu Now. Entrevista Marco Machado, enfermeiro em Londres [Internet]. Viseu Now; 2020 Mar 24. [cited 2020 Apr 12]. Video: 7 min 18 seg. Available from: https://youtu.be/bJ9fDzVWOz4
On Figshare: Plessis-Faurie, Alida S. A Mother and Preterm Infant in a South African Informal Settlement [Internet]. Visualise Your Thesis. Presentation; 2019 [cited 2020 Nov 13]. Video: 1 min 13 seg. Available from: https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/A_Mother_and_Preterm_Infant_in_a_South_African_Informal_Settlement/9992606 doi: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9992606.v1
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Citation and reference of research data and other content: REBEn encourages citing data files, program codes, and other underlying or relevant content in your manuscript, citing in the text and including the data reference in References. REBEn endorses FORCE 11 Data Citation (https://www.force11.org/datacitationprinciples) principles, which indicates that all publicly available datasets are fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI). For more information, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7273/#A57722
E.g.,
Research data: Coin L. Genomics of development and disease [dataset]. 2014 Jun 1 [cited 2017 Jun 9]. The University of Queensland. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2016.583.
Repository data: Global Health Observatory Data Repository [Internet]. Geneva: WHO. [cited 2019 Jul 3]. Available from: http://www.who.int/gho/database/en/.
Data deposited in repositories: Zimmermann B, Tkalčec Z, Mešić A, Kohler A. Characterizing aeroallergens by infrared spectroscopy of fungal spores and pollen [dataset]. 2015 Apr 27 [cited 2019 Jul 3]. Dryad Digital Repository. Available from: https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.f4v0s. Referenced in doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0124240.
Data described in articles: Mann C, Kane L, Dai M, Jacobson K. Description of the 2012 NEMSIS public-release research dataset. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2015;19(2):232-40. https://doi.org/10.3109/10903127.2014.959219.
Supplementary documents
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Statement of Responsibility for Authorship and Acknowledgment of REBEn instructions to authors (Statement Model);
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Cover letter;
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Proof of approval of the research project by the Ethics Committee;
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Proof of compliance fee payment with payer’s name and payment date visible (https://reben.com.br/revista/pagamento/);
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Open Science Compliance Form.
Financing statement
Provide sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources.
During submission and reviews, keep funding information on the title page.
Additional information
When the article is accepted, the author will receive an email from the editorial office with instructions on:
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Translators and proofreaders certified by REBEn listed in this document;
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The documents to be sent in the final template (available only by the office).
The return of the manuscript in translated, proofread and certified versions as well as proof of payment of the publishing fee with payer’s name and payment date visible must be sent to reben@abennacional.org.br within up to 30 calendar days. This missed deadline and non-compliance with the model (Final Template sent by the office) will result in the manuscript being archived.
Contact
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Email: reben@abennacional.org.br
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