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PURPOSE AND OUTREACH OF THE REVISTA CUBANA DE MEDICINA NATURAL Y TRADICIONAL [CUBAN JOURNAL OF NATURAL AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

The Revista Cubana de Medicina Natural y Tradicional is the official and scientific publication of the Sociedad Cubana de Medicina Natural y Tradicional [Cuban Society of Bioenergetic and Naturalist Medicine]. Its mission is to contribute with the development of science within the specialty, by means of the selection, evaluation and publication of scientific articles of proved quality, relevance, and novelty.

 

SUBMISSION

 

The articles should be sent exclusively by using the on line Management System of the Journal: www.revmnt.sld.cu

 

TEXT TYPES AND SECTIONS

The Journal publishes seven types of texts distributed into the same number of sections:

  1. Original article
  2. Review article
  3. Case presentation
  4. Editorial
  5. Letter to the Editor
  6. Brief contribution
  7. Information

 

COMMON METHODOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL TEXT TYPES

 

  • If the submitted text is not “unpublished,” the authors are obliged to communicate when it was published or, instead, where it is available (preprints…)
  • Title: In both Spanish and English, written without quotation marks or period at the end, and not using any initials or abbreviations. It should be informative, clear, and with a maximum length of 15 words. If mentioned, the names of institutions should be the official and updated ones.
  • Authors: The full names of all the authors should be included. No initials should appear in any case.
  • Every author will compulsorily manage to have his/her ORCID iD through www.orcid.org
  • Institutional membership: This part includes the work institution of the author, but no his/her teaching rank or scientific category. The order will be as follows: University, school, department. City and country. For example: Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Diez de Octubre, Departamento de Posgrado. La Habana, Cuba.
  • Acknowledgments: This should contain the declaration that every person appearing in this part has authorized his/her mentioning. The Acknowledgments are written in first person (plural or singular). They can be personal (to Dr. X, from University Z, for…) or collective (to the surgery group at the hospital…). What every person did which is worth mentioning should be expressed, avoiding adjectives such as immense, invaluable, decisive, or objective.
  • Bibliographic references: They should be written as superscripts, between parentheses, and after the punctuation. They should be mentioned consecutively in the text. For example: 14-17 is to be written (14,15,16,17). This Journal conforms to the standards described in the Recommendations for sending manuscripts to biomedical journals (Vancouver style): http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/vancouver_2012.pdf
  • Figures and charts: They should be shown in jpg format and, for the case of images, in 300 dpi. Graphs and diagrams should be editable. No charts, graphs or diagrams are accepted as images (jpg format). All must have the proper quality and not surpass 800 pixels in width.
  • Ethical considerations: The investigations presented should comply with all the ethical declarations for the types of studies, whether in humans or in animals, according to what is stipulated in the Declaration of Helsinki: http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/helsinki.pdf. The articles should not contain passages of texts that appear in previously published works, or works in process of being published in journals or other support, without due citation. Any ethical violation related with the document will be solved upon the base of the protocols established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): http://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdf
  • Clinical trials: The clinical trials should include the corresponding number in a clinical trial registry. This number should be verifiable, a reason why it is demanded that the source be mentioned. Also, the trials should conform to the assessment parameters included in the international CONSORT checklist: http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/CONSORT.pdf
  • Writing: The manuscript should be submitted without spelling errors. Also, it should be clear, coherent, and concise. The meaning of used abbreviations, initials and symbols should be described. However, the use of such forms should not be excessive, since they impede fluent reading and the understating of the text.
  • Submission of the texts: In a Microsoft Word document, font Times New Roman 12, 1.5 spacing. Files compressed in any format are not admitted.
  • Copyright: This Journal is available in open access without any restrictions, in conformity to the international policy about open access to information. The contents presented here can be used with no profitable aims, under the condition of always citing the primary reference.
  • Conflict of interests: The authors compulsorily declare the presence or not of conflict of interest related to the research presented.

 

THIS JOURNAL DOES NOT APPLY ANY CHARGES FOR PUBLICATION (APC).

The Cuban Journal of Natural and Traditional Medicine works under a license Creative Commons 4.0. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Atribución-No Comercial-Compartir Igual 4.0 Internacional

 

DESCRIPTION AND SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SECTIONS CORRESPONDING TO EACH TYPE OF ARTICLE

 

1-Original article

It will not exceed 4200 words, including bibliographic references. At the end of the text, and after the bibliographic references, a list of authorship contributions must appear, regardless of the number of participants. The journal's editorial committee reserves the right to consider the effects of authorship, according to the characteristics of the study.

Starting in January 2021, the original research articles will mention the contribution of each author, taking as a reference the taxonomy of the taxpayer's roles in Spanish, which covers 14 typologies through which an author can be recognized in the publication.

Namely, each role is defined as follows:

Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of the general objectives and goals of the research.

Data healing: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), clean data, and maintain the research data (including software code, when necessary, to interpret the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.

Formal analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize the data presented in the study

Funding acquisition: Acquisition of financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Research: Conducting an investigation and research process, e.g., developing experiments or collecting data/evidence.

Methodology: Development or design of the methodology; creation of models.

Project management: Management responsibility and coordination of planning and execution of research activity.

Resources: Supply of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources or other analysis tools.

Software: Programming, software development, software design, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components.

Supervision: Supervisory responsibility and leadership in the planning and execution of research activities, including mentoring external to the core team.

Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall reproduction of the results/experiments and other research products.

Visualization: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the visualization/presentation of data.

Writing the original draft: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically the writing of the initial draft, including substantive translation.

Writing, reviewing and editing: Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by the members of the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision, including the stages before or after publication.

This identification of authorship will be made exclusively for research articles. Roles will be identified in the order shown below, including each author(s) in the corresponding role(s). Roles that do not apply in each case will be omitted. The journal will name the authorship roles as follows, regardless of the numbering:

Mariela Collazo Rodríguez: Conceptualization.

Pedro Álvarez Meneses: Data healing.

Mario Zamora Fernández: Formal analysis.

Luisa Padrón Acuña: Acquisition of funds.

Juan Manuel García Ortega: Research.

Esperanza Monteagudo Vicente: Methodology.

Raúl Almeida Escalona: Project Administration.

Esther Pérez Díaz: Resources.

René Betancourt Palmero: Software.

Gabriel Santana Hernández: Supervision.

Fernanda Jiménez Sanabria: Validation.

José Luis Pacheco Heredia: Visualization.

Andrea Soto Carrazana: Writing the original draft.

Maribel Aquino Salazar: Writing, reviewing and editing.

Title: In both Spanish and English, written without quotation marks or period at the end, and not using any initials or abbreviations. It should be informative, clear, and with a maximum length of 15 words. If mentioned, the names of institutions should be the official and updated ones.

Abstract: Its maximum limit is 250 words. It offers a clear and summed up idea of the work’s topic. It is written using the past tense. It should be sent both in English and in Spanish.

Keywords: They should be representative of the secondary or principal contents of the work. Three keywords or key phrases, as minimum, are admitted. The recommendation is to use the thesaurus Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS): http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm

Introduction: The main antecedents of the investigation are summarized and presented, together with the justification of the scientific problem. The objective/s of the article are clearly presented.

Methods: Define the type of research, period, place, the study population, sample, as well as the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Describe the criteria and the justification for choosing sample selection, if required. The variables analyzed must be clearly described, as well as the methods used for collecting the information, processing data and for carrying out the analysis. The statistical method must be adjusted to the type of study. It must comply with the principle that it can be reproduced by other researchers. The ethical aspects must be declared.

Results: The findings are presented, with regard to the objectives of the work. Appropriate use of graphs (if required). Figures and charts show relevant results, without repeating information that was previously presented. Among charts, figures and graphs, the amount allowed is a maximum of five.

Discussion: In this part, a critical analysis is carried out of the study results after examining the works published by other researchers in the field nationally and internationally. The outreach and limitations of the results obtained are explained. The likely generalization of the results is described.

Conclusions: These must present an adequate degree of generalization, respond to the objectives of the study, and are in correspondence with the results and the discussion. The results are not repeated in this part. This is described, in a paragraph format, at the end of the discussion.

Bibliographic references: These should be necessary and presented correctly (as superscripts between parentheses and after the punctuation). 50% must be made up of works published in the last five years. National and international literature about the topic must be present.

Charts: Their respective titles must be in correspondence with their respective contents. The information presented justifies their existence, insofar as the information presented in the text is not repeated.

Figures: Only the necessary and relevant ones should be presented. Their foot should be in correspondence with their content. They should no surpass 1 Mb and up to a maximum of three are admitted.

Graphs and diagrams: The editor must work inside them without the need to remake them in case they would require any change. The space of any of those should not surpass 500 kB.

Other aspects: The submission proposal for publication should have a quality regarding writing and spelling, and conform to the ethical principles of researching.

 

2-Review article

Its length should not surpass the 5000 words, not including bibliographic references. It should have a maximum of three authors.

Title: In both Spanish and English, written without quotation marks or period at the end, and not using any initials or abbreviations. It should be informative, clear, and with a maximum length of 15 words. If mentioned, the names of institutions should be the official and updated ones.

Abstract: It should be informative and written in one paragraph only. It should be written using an impersonal style and contain the objectives of the work, the used methods, as well as a brief description of the main results and conclusions. These aspects should be implicit during the writing of the paragraph, without division among the parts. It should not surpass 250 words. Both in English and in Spanish, it should provide an adequate idea of the topic treated in the work.

Keywords: They should be representative of the secondary or principal contents of the work. Three keywords or key phrases, as minimum, are admitted. The recommendation is to use the thesaurus Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS): http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm

Introduction: The main antecedents of the investigation are summarized and presented, together with the justification of the scientific problem. The objective/s of the article are clearly presented.

Methods: They should include the criterion and the justification for the selection of the sources consulted. The search engines used should be mentioned, together with the period chosen for the review.

Development: The presentation should be in correspondence with the objectives of the work. Figures and charts show relevant results, without repeating information that was previously presented in the text. It should include the interpretation of the results highlighted in the consulted literature. Compare the differences and similarities with the studies analyzed. The results of the study are criticized in comparison with the works published by other researchers. The possible applicability and generalization of the results are described. New aspects are included to be considered, if necessary. The limitations and contributions of the review are provided or highlighted.

Conclusions: They respond to the objectives of the study, and present clear, concrete and relevant conclusions.

Bibliographic references: These should be necessary and presented correctly (as superscripts between parentheses and after the punctuation). 70% must be made up of works published in the last five years. National and international literature about the topic must be present.

Other aspects: The submission proposal for publication should have a quality regarding writing and spelling, and conform to the ethical principles of researching.

 

3-Case presentation

The length should not surpass the 3000 words, including bibliographic references. It may have a maximum of four authors. These are articles presenting an interesting case. Where there is a statistically significant number, an analysis is carried out of a group of patients with a specific disease, in view of describing new facts and findings of the symptomatological and physiopathogenic manifestations. This is justified when the case is rare; it’s all about an almost unknown disease or a frequent disease with a little common natural history. This should provide elements for the worldwide bibliography about the topic. Its structure varies according to the type of information that is presented, but should follow a basic order: Introduction (objectives), general information about the case, and conclusions.

Title: In both Spanish and English, written without quotation marks or period at the end, and not using any initials or abbreviations. It should be informative, clear, and with a maximum length of 15 words. If mentioned, the names of institutions should be the official and updated ones.

Abstract: It’s nonstructured, but should conform to the general standards of information regarding typical structure. It should contain the objective, general information about the case that is published, and the conclusions. It should not surpass the 150 words either in Spanish or in English.

Keywords: They should be representative of the secondary or principal contents of the work. Three keywords or key phrases, as minimum, are admitted. The recommendation is to use the thesaurus Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS): http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm

Bibliographic references: These should be necessary and presented correctly (as superscripts between parentheses and after the punctuation). They are cited according to what is indicated in the Vancouver style.

Figures, graphs and diagrams: A maximum of five are accepted. They should have good quality and be relevant. The data presented should not repeat the information already presented in the text. The dimensions should not exceed 800 X 600 pixels and the weight should not surpass 500 Kb apiece. Their corresponding figure foot accompanies the image. In each case, the meaning of abbreviations and symbols should be described.

The articles not complying with these conditions will be rejected immediately.

 

4-Editorial

  • This will be written under commission by the Editorial Committee.
  • Its length should not surpass the 1000 words.
  • It should include up to ten bibliographic references.
  • It contains considerations about a topic of interest and which, for its importance, relevance, level or outreach, deserves to be commented about.
  • It is characterized by brevity and gathers, in few lines, the essential ideas.

 

5-Letters to the Editor

  • Documents are received if they express ideas, stands or disagreements of the authors regarding any of the contents published in the journal or topics directly associated with the specialty, prior assessment by the Editorial Committee.
  • Letters are disclosed if the conform to the ethical principles of scientific publications. The fundamentals presented should have the corresponding bibliographic support according to the standards adopted by the journal.

 

6-Brief contribution

  • Its length is limited to 1500 words.
  • Includes no abstract.
  • It is a reflection about a topic within the specialty.
  • Contains development and subtitles according to the authors’ decision.
  • It may present bibliographic references or not. In the latter case, the author would support her/his criterion without citing any sources.
  • In case that the author cites other studies or books, the bibliographic reference should be included, in order to avoid plagiarism.
  • For its brevity, this type of text should be presented under the signature of a maximum of two authors.

 

7-Information

Information is given about events of the specialty and sessions of the Cuban Society of Bioenergetic and Naturalist Medicine.

 

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

All texts are object to a double-blind peer-review assessment process. The evaluators ignore any identificatory information regarding the articles’ authorship or institutional representation. Also, authors ignore who evaluates their works.

The assessment period may cover a maximum of 90 (ninety) days. Within this period, the authors will be informed about the decision. After peer-review in Editorial Ciencias Médicas, an assessment is carried out, by which the text is accepted with modifications or rejected.

If the author decides not to publish her/his text for any reason, this decision should be informed in written communication to the direction of the journal to avoid ethical conflicts.

 

General aspects about the bibliographic references:

These are enumerated following their mentioning order and using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3…) as superscripts between parentheses and after the punctuation mark.

Cites are included from relevant and updated documents that have been published. The reference of personal communications and unpublished documents should be avoided. If the latter case were necessary, this should be mentioned between parentheses within the text.

50% of the bibliographic references should be updated articles that have been published in the last five years. All the authors of the cited document are to be included. If the document was written by seven or more authors, the first six authors are mentioned followed by the Latin locution et al. It is recommended to abbreviate the names of scientific journals according to the Index Medicus: (List of journals indexed in Index Medicus).

No upper-case letters or underlined font should be used for highlighting any elements. It is necessary to pay attention to the mentioning order of the references and the proper usage of the punctuation marks and brackets, according to the Vancouver style.

Below, some examples are offered showing how to cite and present bibliographic references using the Vancouver style:

Individual author of printed book:

Roldán E. Fragmentos históricos de la Universidad de San Carlos y significado de sus escudos. 2 ed. Guatemala: Editorial Universitaria; 2002.

More than six authors of printed book:

Blacut JJ, Villagomez M, Chavarría JL, Flores M, González R, Lenz J, et al. Aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías en el entorno académico boliviano. 2 ed. Sucre, Bolivia: Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca; 1999.

Corporate author of printed book:

American Psychiatric Association. Guías clínicas para el tratamiento de los trastornos psiquiátricos. Barcelona: Ars Medica; 2004.

Chapter of a printed book with several authors or editors:

Tapson VF. Embolia pulmonar. En: Goldman L, Bennett JC, editores. Cecil tratado de medicina interna. 21 ed. Madrid: McGraw-Hill Interamericana; 2000: vol. 1 p. 481-90.

Chapter of printed book by the same author:

Madigán MT. Martinko JM, Parker J Brock. Biología de los microorganismos. 10 ed. Madrid: Pearson Educación; 2004. Capítulo 2. Perspectiva general de la vida microbiana; p. 21-37.

On-line book:

Moraga Llop FA, coordinador. Protocolos diagnósticos y terapéuticos en dermatología pediátrica. Madrid: Asociación Española de Pediatría; 2003 [Access 19/12/2005]. Available at: http://www.aeped.es/protocolos/dermatologia/index.htm

Thomson K, Tey D, Marks M, editores. Pediatric Handbook. 8 ed. Oxford, UK: Willey Blackwell; 2009. [Access 05/03/2013]. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/978144430805

Chapter of an on-line book by the same author:

Serra Alias M. Trastornos del comportamiento alimentario. Enfoques preventivos. Barcelona: UOC; 2015. Capítulo I, ¿Qué son los trastornos del comportamiento de tipo alimentario?; [Access 29/03/2016]; p. 15-17. Available at: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uscgsp/reader.action?docID=11126594&ppg=20

Book in CD-ROM:

Best CH. Bases fisiológicas de la práctica médica [CD-ROM]. 13 a ed. Madrid: Médica Panamericana; 2003.

On-line dictionary:

Cambridge dictionariers online [en línea]. Cambridge University Press; 2006 [Access 26/02/2013]. Available at: http://dicctionary.cambridge.org

Article from on-line journal:

Nazer HJ, Cifuentes OL. Estudio epidemiológico global del síndrome de Down. Rev Chil Pediatr. 2011 [Access 15/02/2013]; 82(2):105-12. Available at: http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/rcp/v82n2/art04.pdf

Article with Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

Zhang M, Holman CD, Price SD, Sanfilippo FM, Preen DB, Bulsara MK. Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for adverse drug reactions in old adults: retrospective cohort study. BJM. 2009 Ene [Access 05/03/2013];338:a2752. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjm.a2752

Hamamy H. consanguineous marriages: preconception consultation in primary health care Settings. J Community Genet. 2012 Jul [Access 10/04/2013];3(3):185-92. doi: http://10.1007/s12687-011-0072

Thesis:

Contreras Ayala JG. Factores de riesgo asociados a cáncer de testículo: estudio realizado en pacientes que asisten a consulta externa de Oncología del Hospital General del IGSS en la ciudad de Guatemala de enero a junio de 2004 [tesis de Maestría]. Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas; 2006.

Velásquez Paz R. Lavado peritoneal selectivo en el manejo de pacientes comatosos y con signos de trauma cerrado de abdomen [tesis Médico y Cirujano]. Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas; 1990.

On-line thesis:

Jiménez López MI. Determinación de anticuerpos contra el virus de hepatitis A por el método Elisa, utilizando orina y saliva como muestras clínicas. [tesis en Internet]. Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia;2010. [Access 26/02/2013]. Available at: http://biblioteca.usac.edu.gt/tesis/06/06_2900.pdf

On-line newspaper:

Álvarez L. Gas, sol y viento proporcionarán energía. El Periódico. 26 Feb 2013 [Access 27/02/2013]; Economía. Available at: http://www.eleperiodico.com.gt/es/20130226/economia/225260

Carey B. Psychiatrists revise the book of human troubles. New York Times. 17 Dec 2008 [Access 26/02/2013];Health. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/health/18psych.html?_r=1&em

Blogs:

Espinoza VH. Infectología pediátrica [Blog]. México: Victor H. Espinoza. Dic 2010 [Access 26/02/2013]. Available at: http://www.infectologiapediatrica.com/blog/

Berstein M. Bioethics discussion blog. Los Ángeles, California: Berstein Maurice. Mar 2013 [Access 05/04/2013]. Available at: http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2013/03/job-description-of-clinical-ethicist.html

Youtube videos:

Castro de Reyes A, Calvillo de García C, Leiva HL; USAC, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Unidad Didáctica de Investigación. Taller de análisis y síntesis [Archivo de video]. 2 Feb 2016. [Access 03/03/2016][18:57 min.]. Available at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FOIM2LRJe8M

 

For the elaboration of the bibliographic references, the authors are recommended to consult the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.

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