Submissions

Author Guidelines

Revista Bioética does not charge for submission, editing or publication of manuscripts. Unpublished manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish or English will be accepted only in online version and or previously made available on preprint servers recognized by SciELO: SciELO Preprints, arXiv, bioRxiv and medRxiv. Manuscripts of a conceptual, documentary nature resulting from research or experience in the field of bioethics or medical ethics and critical reviews related to these themes will be accepted. All articles approved for publication in our journal will receive a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier), which will ensure the permanent identification of the article in databases and digital repositories. The DOI will be assigned as soon as the article is published online, allowing it to be easily located, cited, and accessed globally.

Types of documents accepted

Manuscripts will be considered for review, research, and/or updating of a conceptual or documentary nature, resulting from research or experiences in the field of bioethics or medical ethics, as well as critical reviews related to these themes. Approved articles are made available in full in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Only online versions of unpublished manuscripts or those previously made available on SciELO-recognized preprint servers will be accepted.

Author Contribution

Following the SciELO specification, the CrediT taxonomy provides a means to represent information about the individual contribution of authors in XML documents. The purpose of this taxonomy is to provide transparency regarding the authors' contributions in scientific works, enabling improvements in attribution, credit and accountability systems. To this end, Revista Bioética now follows the Guide for Tagging and Publishing Author Contribution: CRediT Taxonomy regarding the participation of authors. To specify the different contributor roles and ensure greater transparency and compliance with the ethical practices established for scientific publishing, authors should refer to the document available at: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/credit.pdf

Manuscript Preparation 

Manuscripts must be submitted via the platform through the link: https://revistabioetica.cfm.org.br/revista_bioetica/about/submissions. Authors are required to verify if their submission complies with all items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the standards will be returned to the authors.

• The contribution is original, unpublished and is not under review for publication in another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the Editor." 

In case it has been deposited in preprint servers, it must be informed in "Comments to the Editor." 

• Manuscript of a conceptual, documentary nature resulting from research or experience and critical review related to the field of bioethics or medical ethics.
• The body text does not exceed 6,000 words, excluding references, and the abstract does not exceed 150 words. The keywords were obtained from Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS). The keywords were taken from the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS), with up to seven exact terms allowed.
• The manuscript follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Editorial Standards, in the About the Journal section. 
• Submitted papers must be posted, in the Word Rich Text Format (RTF), on the Revista Bioética page at: http://revistabioetica.cfm.org.br/index.php/revista_bioetica/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions.

Authors should also refer to the Guidelines for Authors available at: Editorial standards in English

Click here to download the submission template

Article Submission Format

• Title in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• Abstracts in Portuguese, Spanish, and English (Should abstracts be clear, easily readable, and provide an excellent comprehensive summary of the article with proper size);
• Keywords in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• Authors' names (when compound surname creates clear identification [uppercase, bold and/or hyphen]);
• Authors with full affiliation;
• Authors' ORCID;
• Author contact email;
• Article funding information;
• The body text does not exceed 6,000 words, excluding references, and the abstract does not exceed 150 words. 
• Statement informing that the research was approved by an institutional ethics committee.

Digital Assets

Each article can only contain three charts, tables or figures, formatted in the body text, open for review and not copied in image or PDF format. Non-editable figures must be submitted with .jpg or .tif extension, with minimum resolution of 300 dpi. They must be numbered sequentially and indicate the source of the information presented at the bottom. Charts must provide the statistical measures of variations, such as the standard deviation and the standard error of the mean.

Citations and References

• The references will mostly follow the standards proposed by ICMJE, in the Vancouver style with some adaptations: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html
• References must be indicated in superscript Arabic numerals (e.g., Potter 2) and numbered consecutively, in the order in which they are cited.
• All references must be listed, at the end of the article, in the corresponding numerical order. 
• All citations of sources presented in the text must be part of the references, including documents, treatises, reports, books and book chapters. 
• All electronic references used must also inform in the list at the end the link or DOI and the date of access.
• Literal citations, which reproduce ipsis litteris a text already published, must inform in the list of references at the end the page number of the original from which the excerpt was taken. 
• References cited only in charts or figure captions must be in accordance with the sequence established.
• In the references, articles with up to six authors must inform all names. When this number is exceeded, there must be the names of the first six authors followed by et al.
• Authors should always seek the original reference they want to note and avoid second-order reference, that is, when the cited author is referring to another author. If apud is unavoidable, this must be made explicit in the text. For example: “Analyzing Potter's work, Pessini 3 describes…”
• All references must be presented correctly and completely. Book titles, locations, and publisher names should not be abbreviated.
• Articles with references made through formatting functions of text editors, such as "Track Changes," "Footnotes," and/or "Endnotes," will not be accepted under any circumstances.
• Articles with references in alphabetical order will not be accepted.
• The veracity of information contained in the reference list is the responsibility of the authors. 

Supplementary Documents 

Open Science Compliance Form, author consent form, ethics committee approval form and other documents must be attached as Supplementary Documents.

Funding Statement

Inform sources of funding for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), in addition to explanations of the role of these sources.