Rules and instructions for submitting manuscripts

Manuscripts that do not meet the formatting set forth in Texto & Contexto rules can be submitted for initial evaluation. However, initial submission of the manuscript must follow the scientific article standard and include all the submission files necessary for review. The articles reviewed or with final acceptance will be formatted by the authors according to Texto & Contexto specific requirements (standards for the references, tables, figures, etc.).

Manuscript preparation: manuscript and structure of texts

For manuscript submission, the authors must compose two documents: 1) Identification page; and 2) Main document:

 

1) Title page (Model 1)

should contain title of the manuscript (short but informative, maximum of 15 words in bold uppercase), in the original language only; full name of each author, and active ORCID identification number institutional affiliation, city, state, country, e-mail; name, full address, and e-mail of the corresponding author.

Original text of the manuscript: extracted from thesis, dissertation, thesis, research projects, informing the title of the work, linked program and year of the presentation.

Acknowledgements: include institutions that somehow made possible the development of the research and/or people who contributed to the study but did not fulfill the criteria to serve as co-authors.

Contribution of authorship: The criteria should correspond to the deliberations of the ICMJE, to the following aspects: 1. Conception and project, collection analysis, interpretation of the data and active participation in the discussion of the results; 2. Writing of the article or relevant critical review of the intellectual content; 3. Revision and Final approval of the version for publication. These four conditions should be fully attended to.

Financing Sources: Inform the name of public or private institutions that have provided financial support, technical assistance and other aid.

Approval of Ethics Committee in Research: to inform the Ethics Committee's Research opinion number and the Certificate of Presentation for Ethical Appreciation (CAAE), when research involving human beings.

Conflict of interests: relate, if any, conflicts of interest of all authors.

 

2) Manuscript (Main Document) (Model 2)

The manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal’s editorial standards, written in accordance with official spelling standards and typed on numbered A4 pages with interlining of 1.5 cm, margins of 2 cm. The font used should be Arial size 12, elaborated in Word or a compatible word processor.

Structure/sections
- Title in manuscript language only
- Structured abstract in manuscript language only
- Descriptors in manuscript language only
- Introduction
- Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References

Observation: The manuscript should be forwarded in the primary author’s language of origin. If the manuscript was written in English and the authors are Brazilian, the manuscript should also be forwarded in Portuguese for the editorial team of Texto & Contexto Enfermagem to assess the quality of the translation.

 

Abstract: the abstract must be presented on the first page, only in the manuscript language, with a maximum length of 250 words. The following headings should be used: objective(s), method, results and conclusion. Clinical trials and systematic reviews must present the registration number of the respective protocol at the end of the abstract. Prohibited items in the abstract: acronyms and citations of authors.

Descriptors: Below the abstract, include five to eight descriptors in the original language. In order to determine the descriptors, consult the list of Descriptors in Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS), prepared by BIREME and available on the Internet at http://decs.bvs.br or the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of Index Medicus available on the https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html.

 

Headings: the text should be organized without progressive numbers for titles and subtitles, which should be distinguished by means of the font size. For example:
Title = THE ROUTES LEADING TO CURE
First subtitle = Routes followed
Second subtitle = The cure through prayer

 

Illustrations

Tables, charts and figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, in the order they are cited in the text, being limited to five in a set. Configured in the same text font, with single spacing between lines, bold only in the header, upper box only at the beginning of the variable, except tables and charts, all other illustrations should be designated as figures.

Tables

Tables should be displayed according to the Standards for Table Presentation of the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics Foundation (IBGE), available from: http://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/livros/liv23907.pdf

  • must present numerical data as central information;
  • informative, concise and clear title, containing “what”, “from whom”, city, acronym of the state, country, year of data collection, followed by a full stop. Next, the size of the study sample should be displayed between parentheses, preceded by the letter N.
  • example: Table 1 – Distribution of female victims of domestic violence according to age, color, marital status and education. Salvador, BA, Brazil, 2014. (N=209)
  • the data should be separated correctly using lines and columns, so that each piece of information is displayed in one cell;
  • gridlines only below and above the heading and at the bottom of the table. No gridlines at the sides of the table;
  • not allowed: line breaks using Enter, indents using Tab, spaces to separate the data, underlines, markers from Microsoft® Office Word and colored cells;
  • avoid long tables, extending over more than one page;
  • short tables should be converted into text;
  • Explanatory notes should be placed at the bottom of the table, using the symbols in the sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||, ¶, **, ††, ‡‡.
  • legends should be located after the bottom line of the table, restricted to a minimum, without using bold, displaying the term in capital letters, separated from the descriptors by a colon (e.g.: VCM: volume corpuscular médio). Between the legends, a semicolon should be used. Font Arial, size 10.
  • the statistical test used should be mentioned in the legend;
  • Title results should not be displayed in the body of the table, but in the heading, using %, n, average, median, p-value, among others;
  • cite the source in a footnote to the table, below the legend (if any) or below the bottom line of the table. E.g.: Source: DATASUS12.

 

Charts: They should present the information in discursive form and should be displayed as follows:

  • informative, concise and clear title, expressing the content and located at the top part of the picture;
  • differs from the tables mainly because they contain textual data, are closed at the sides and gridlines;
  • avoid long tables extending over more than one page;
  • when the picture was taken from another authorship, the source should be cited in a footnote. If any legend is included, use the same format as in the tables and place the legend before the source of the picture, on a different line.

 

Figures: should not repeat the data shown in texts or tables. In addition to being included in the text, they should be sent separately and in necessary quality for publication. If they are extracted from another source, published or unpublished, the authors must send written permission for their use. They must contain a legend, and when necessary a source, when it is extracted from published work, which must be included in the references.

  • Informative, concise and clear title, expressing the content and located at the bottom part;
  • Should be completely readable, clear and self-explanatory;
  • Several graphs in a single figure will only be accepted if the joint display is fundamental to interpret the figure;
  • should be displayed in high resolution (minimum 300 dpi) and be fully readable and clear;
  • black-and-white or colored;
  • photographs of people should be treated to impede identification;
  • if the photograph is protected by copyright, a letter authorizing publication should be provided;

Photographs should be mentioned in the same form as the tables and the title follows the same orientations as for the pictures.

 

Citations in the text

Indirect citations should contain the number of the reference they were taken from, esxluding the name of the author. The punctuation (point, comma or semicolon) should appear after the number in superscript, without any space between the final stop and the citation number. Example: the workers also use non-verbal language7.
When the citations from two or more authors are presented sequentially in the reference (for example, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), superscript should be used, separated by a hyphen. Example: established the principles of good administration, adopting the classical view of the manager’s functions1-5.

Direct citations (textual transcription) should be displayed in the body of the text between inverted commas, indicating the reference number and citation page, independently of the number of lines. Example: [...] “the West emerged in front of us like this infernal machine that crushes men and cultures for unwise purposes”1:30-31.

Verbatim citations from qualitative research are displayed in italics, in the body of the text, identifying authorship between parentheses and respecting anonymity. The identification of authorships should be displayed without italics. Example: [...] involving students and professionals more in social projects, getting to know the community problems more (e7).

Footnotes: the text should contain three footnotes at most, indicated by: * first note, ** second note, *** third note.

 

References

The references should be consecutively numbered in the order in which they appear in the text for the first time, in accordance with the Uniform Requisites of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - ICMJE. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus.

The number of references in the manuscripts is limited to 30, except in Literature Review articles.

Special attention is needed to: recent references (preferably from the last five years); priority of references to articles published in scientific journals; citations in English of references available online in that language; restrict the use of references the reader cannot recover in the original version and/or whose scientific impact cannot be measures (dissertations, theses, course conclusion monographs, handouts, annals, decrees and official publications) or works of limited scientific expression.

All references should be displayed correct and completely. The author(s) is(are) fully responsible for the veracity of the information in the reference list.

In case any bibliographic reference management software is used (e.g.: EndNote), the authors should convert the references into text.

Gray literature: citations of unconventional, non-indexed, non-indexed, non-ISBNs, ISSN, ISAN or DOI publications should be avoided (theses, dissertations, course papers, handouts, official publications).

Manuscripts extracted from theses, dissertations and TCCS should not cite the original work in the references. This information should be entered on the identification page.

Note: Unpublished works should not be included in the references but inserted in a footnote. For other examples of references, see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html. For abbreviations of titles of periodicals in Portuguese, consult: https://ccn.ibict.br/busca.jsf

Errata: after article publication, if the authors identify the need for an erratum, they should send it immediately to the Journal's Secretariat by e-mail.