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Cuban Journal of Public Health
Approach and scope
The Cuban Journal of Public Health (RCSP, by its acronym in Spanish) is a periodical publication, and a follow-up of the Cuban Journal of Health Administration (1975-1987), the Bulletin and Archives of the "Ateneo Juan César García" (1993-2000) and the Cuban Journal of Nutrition and Food Hygiene (1987-2002).
Mission: Provide for scientific publication a space of reflection and critical debate, on theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary public health, as well as to be an informative vehicle for the development of Cuban public health thinking and tradition.
Vision: Become a consultancy body, with a scientific and critical approach to contemporary public health and a mandatory reference to know Cuban health thinking and practice.
The RCSP offers the opportunity for health professionals and related professionals to publish, subject to an expert arbitration process, the results of their researches, public health reflections on political, economic, social, epidemiological or other trends, and revisions of topics according to the journal's profile. We do not limit authorship to Cuban nationals. Our pages are open grandstands to every effort to defend and improve the health of peoples. It is also the purpose of the RCSP to promote health, contribute to the prevention of diseases and injuries and to the better management of sick and injured patient’s care, to prolong life and to improve the quality of life of individuals and human groups.
Frequency: quarterly
The journal is indexed in:
SCOPUS, SciELO, SciELO CitationIndex (WoS), LILACS, LATINDEX, Imbiomed. Redalyc, Ebsco, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), Dimensions, Google Scholar., Cumed, SeCimed
The journal publishes articles in Spanish in PDF and XML format.
All the content of the journal except where otherwise specified is under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Comercial Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) and follows the SciELO Publishing Schema (SciELO PS) publishing model for publishing in XML format.
The derivation of all or any of the works published in the Cuban Journal of Public Health must be communicated in advance to the editorial committee of the journal.
The authors are responsible for the opinions they express in their work.
The edition of the journal is done taking into account the recommendations of the International Committee of Directors of Medical Journals (IMCJE).
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Guidelines for authors
Instructions for authors for the publication of scientific articles in the Cuban Journal of Public Health. Version 2021
Update date: May 1, 2021
POLICIES AND RULES FOR THE PRESENTATION OF ARTICLES
GENERAL ASPECTS
The Cuban Journal of Public Health (RCSP) is a periodical sponsored by the Cuban Society of Public Health (SOCUSAP, by its acronym in Spanish) and the National School of Public Health (ENSAP, by its acronym in Spanish) and receives contributions related to theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary public health and Cuban health work.
The journal uses an online editorial management system (Open JournalSystem). The author, upon registration on the site (http://www.revsaludpublica.sld.cu ) must submit an article after declaring that a group of mandatory requirements has been met, the stipulated conditions has been accepted and the metadata associated with the article has been entered. From then the author can track the status of the submission, make corrections as directed and send the corrected version again.
At first, the corrections suggested by the evaluator pair will be recieved, and once the article is accepted, the corrections proposed by the style corrector (editor-writer) will be received. Subsequently, the submission goes to the editorial processes of quality control, design and translation; once these processes are completed, the author will receive the final version of the article to grant his approval to publish, at which time only minor typography and layout errors can be corrected.
The RCSP uses the peer review as a method of validation of the work, a process carried out by experts on the subject, who make their evaluation, offer proposals that may include: unconditional acceptance of the submission, acceptance with modifications, conditional or unconditional rejection of the manuscript. However, the role of these reviewers or arbitrators is consultative and non-binding. Their criteria are referred to the editor who makes the decision whether or not to publish the manuscript; the suggestions are sent to the author to improve the quality of the work, and this process can be repeated as many times as necessary.
The evaluation period will not take more than 90 days. In this period the authors will be informed about the editorial decision. If for any reason the author does not wish to publish the article, he/she must communicate it in writing to the managers of the journal in order to avoid an ethical conflict.
If accepted, the manuscript is sent to the editor-writer a request for correction of originals and the process of style editing, also known as originals correction, begins at that time. During this process, revisions are carried out with the aim of organizing the manuscript, according to the structure approved for publication, to give it textual coherence, added value and transparence. It is a process that goes beyond reviewing aspects related to grammar, orthography and writing; it also includes reviewing methodological elements, presentation of results, debate, and complying, in general, with the sections contained in a scientific article and the complementary information that accompanies it.
To make a submission the author must explicitly declare what the conflicts of interest are, if they exist or inform otherwise that he/she does not have them. At the same time, documents submitted by authors are considered confidential throughout the evaluation process. Only if it is decided to publish it, the content will be communicated to third parties. Consequently, reviewers and editors should refrain from communicating to someone outside the editorial committee any aspect related to the work under their consideration.
The editorial committee reserves the right to make style modifications and to abide by the texts that require it, committing to respect the original content and consulting it with the authors, who must approve, in writing, their acceptance with the resulting document. The authors are responsible for the opinions they express in their work.
The RCSP adheres to the quality criterion related to editorial inbreeding. To achieve this objective, the journal takes into account that publishers, reviewers and editorial committee members who are authors of any submission are not included in the editorial process or in decisions about their manuscripts.
The Cuban Journal of Public Health has a plagiarism detection policy, which aims to ensure that the authors comply with the ethical standards necessary to ensure a process of transparence in the publication procedure. When plagiarism is detected, it is immediately rejected and the perpetrators and institutions are informed of the situation.
Similarly, reviewers are asked, during the evaluation stage, to report whether they detect in the submission any form that may be considered plagiarism.
TYPES OF ARTICLES AND SECTIONS
Other details on the sections of the journal can be found in Policies of the Sections. Available in:
http://www.revsaludpublica.sld.cu/index.php/spu/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies
The RCSP publishes the following types of articles:
- Editorial
- Original items
- Review articles
- Debate
- Brief communications
- Letters to the editor
Other types of articles may be included according to editorial committee considerations.
COMMON METHODOLOGICAL AND PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL TYPES OF ARTICLES
In the event that the manuscript is not "unpublished", the authors will have the obligation to communicate when it has been made public or, instead, where it is available (preprints...) The article must not contain fragments of texts from previously published works or in process of being published in journals or other mean without proper quotation.
First page will contain:
Title: must not include whether acronyms or abbreviations; if institution names are used, they must be the official ones and updated. In Spanish and English. It must not exceed 15 words
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Authors: The full name and surnames of the authors must appear, sorted by their participation, each in separate lines and identified in consecutive Arabic numerals in superscripts. For each author must be specified the ORCID number (https://orcid.org ) and institution to which he/she belongs to, province or department, country (not positions or study and scientific degrees), the scheme to follow is: Institution, (Faculty), department. City,Country. Example: National School of Public Health (ENSAP). Havana, Cuba.
The author in charge of the correspondence and his/her email address must be identified.
Second page, and subsequent, shall include:
Abstracts: in Spanish and English. The abstract will be structured in the case of original articles like this: Introduction, Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions; and in review articles like this: Introduction, Objectives, Methods and Conclusions. It should not include information that has not been addressed in the article. Do not use acronyms or abbreviations. They have a maximum limit of 250 words.
Keywords: The author will reflect the content of the document from 3 to 10 terms or phrases (keywords) at the bottom of the abstracts, in order of importance and separated by semicolons. At least one of these keywords must appear in the title. It is recommended to use the thesaurus DeCs (Descriptors in Health Sciences), available at: http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm For the English language it is suggested to consult the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), available at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Acknowledgement: Individuals, institutions or organizations that have collaborated for the performance of the work and do not meet the criteria of authorship, can be identified and recognized in the acknowledgements. The declaration of authorization of each person to be mentioned in this subheading shall be sent.
Collaborators who are not considered authors, who have contributed to the research, may also be included, but should be recognized in acknowledgements. The acquisition of funds, the supervision of a research group, administrative support, writing aid, technical editing, translation or correction of printing tests, without other input do not qualify a collaborator as an author.
Bibliographic references: they must be placed in superscript, in parentheses and after the punctuation mark that precedes it and should be mentioned consecutively; for example: from 1-5 you type:(1,2,3,4,5)
Quotations of relevant and up-to-date published documents will be included. No capitalized or underscored items will be highlighted, only URLs. The mention of personal communications and unpublished documents should be avoided as far as possible; they will only be mentioned in the text in parentheses if necessary. References to articles approved for publication shall be included indicating the title of the journal and the "forthcoming" clarification in parentheses. All authors of the quoted text shall be related; if it hqs 7 or more authors, the first 6 will be mentioned, followed by the Latin phrase et al.
Between 50% and 70% of bibliographic references should show relevance in relation with what has been published on the subject in the last 5 years, depending on the type of article.
Journal titles will be abbreviated by the IndexMedicus (List of Journals indexed in Index Medicus) (https://home.ncifcrf.gov/research/bja/journams_m.html )
The bibliographic references used in each of the scientific communications that have a source in scientific journals, websites, other resources or books, from 2015 up, must necessarily be accompanied by their electronic location (DOI or URL). DOIs do not need to have an access date.
Both the order of bibliographic elements and the use of punctuation marks will be done in the Vancouver style, as recommended in the Uniform Requirements for Preparing Manuscripts proposed for publication in biomedical journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors:
http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/vancouver_2012.pdf
In the case of personal communications or other bibliographic elements that do not have a location for reference, it shall be placed as unpublished work as follows:
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UNPUBLISHED WORKS
Author(s). Title of the article. Journal title. forthcoming (Forthcoming if it is in English) year (if it is known the date it will be published).
(The term 'Forthcoming' is preferred over ''In Press'' because not all items will be printed).
Models and annexes: they will be presented at the end of the article, after bibliographic references, and in vertical form numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, and mentioned in the text.
Last page at the end of the manuscript will contain:
Conflict of interests: Authors must declare the existence, or not, of conflict of interests during planning, implementation, writing, peer review, editing, and publishing of the submission. There is a conflict of interest when primary interests may be influenced by secondary interests. Economic interests are not the only ones, there may also be personal relationships, academic competitiveness, intellectual beliefs, rivalries, among others.
Authors' contributions: The authorial contribution statement must appear after the conflict of interests’ statement, depending on the roles taxonomy of CRediT contributor for the original articles, although some roles may be adapted to the other accepted article types. For more information, see the following addresses: http://www.ecimed.sld.cu/2020/06/27/taxonomia-credit/ and
The editorial committee reserves the right to omit authors or decrease their number in consideration of the type of research, previously informing the author who submits, and as described in the guidelines for authors.
http://www.revsaludpublica.sld.cu/index.php/spu/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Funding: The institutions that financed the research should be declared, where appropriate, at the end of the manuscript.
Requirements to consider:
Figures and tables:
Figures: Photographs, graphics, drawings, schematics, maps, computer outputs, other graphical representations and nonlinear formulas, will be called figures, they will be inserted in the corresponding position in the text. If any image of another publication is used, the author must request the corresponding permissions from the publisher that owns the images and enter the source. The figures bear a caption, must be quoted in the text and they will be numbered with Arabic numerals, consecutively according to their first mention, the detailed explanations will be included in their captions, the graphics and schematics must be sent in editable format (avoid the presentation of them in image formats (JPG, GIF, others), they should not repeat information that appears in the text or tables, and the photographs in JPG format mush have a resolution of 300 dpi. In case the articles have images or figures, it is mandatory to present them in high resolution as complementary files.
Tables: they will be inserted at the corresponding position in the text after their mention, they are titled, and they will be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, there will be no empty cells in the column headers, which will be written in bold. They will not be presented as a photograph; the notes will be displayed at the table foot. They may be modified if they have technical difficulties. They should not repeat information that appears in the text. They must be presented tabulated (each data in a cell). They must be self-explanatory, i.e. contain enough data so that the reader can understand it without reading the text.
Abbreviations, acronyms and symbols: their use should not be excessive. They will be preceded by their full name or meaning the first time they appear in the text. They shall not appear in titles or abstracts. International use ones will be used.
International System of Units (SI): All clinical laboratory results will be reported in SI units or the ones allowed by it. If you want to add traditional units, they will be written in parentheses. Example: glycoemia: 5.55 mmol/L (100 mg/100 mL).
Ethical considerations: the researches submitted must comply with all ethical statements for the types of study, whether in humans or animals (Helsinki Declaration). Any ethical violation related to the document will be resolved using the protocols established by the International Ethics Committee in scientific publication (COPE). (https://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdf)
Clinical trials: Clinical trials should shpw the number of registration obtained in a Clinical Trials Registry. This number must be verifiable, so the font will appear. In addition, they shall conform to the evaluation parameters expressed in the CONSORT international guide. http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/recursos/CONSORT.pdf
Writing: The document presented must have clarity and coherence in the writing, syntax and orthography. The meaning of the abbreviations, acronyms and symbols used will be described.
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION AND INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SECTIONS OF EACH TYPE OF ARTICLE
I - Editorial
It shows positions and criteria directly related to a topic to be addressed by the journal or circumstantial scientific situations. Certain personalities may be commissioned by the editorial committee. They shall bear the expression of authorship of the author who has drafted it, or of the editorial committee, when it is the result of collective reflection. Its extension will not exceed 1000 words. It can include up to 5 bibliographic references.
II - Debate
They are articles that, because of the content they deal with, can generate some controversy or reflection, and the editorial committee proposes them to readers with the aim of encouraging debate among researchers. It is a document where the author(s) express their positions or criteria, the arguments on which they are based and the conclusions they reach, but which are not based on a specific research or review, and yes on results of these types of work of their own or other authors. Controversial content is a characteristic. Its extension will not exceed 4000 words, not including bibliographic references.
Bibliographic references should be up to 35 and properly quoted (with superscript, in parentheses and after the punctuation mark). It must contain 70% of works published in the last five years.
III. Research
Original research articles are included. Its extension will not exceed 4500 words, not including bibliographic references. At the end of the text, and after bibliographic references, a list of authorship contribution should be recorded, by the taxonomy of contributor roles (CRediT), regardless of the number of contributors. The editorial committee of the journal reserves the right to consider, depending on the characteristics of the investigation, the effects of authorship, which will be communicated to the authors during the evaluation process.
Abstract: structured by sections. In this case you should follow the following structure: Introduction-Objectives-Methods-Results-Conclusions.
It has a maximum limit of 250 words. It offers a proper idea of what the work is about. It's written in past tense. It must be submitted in Spanish and English.
Keywords: Located at the end of each abstract and in the presentation language of the abstract.
Introduction: this should identify the problem, briefly show the most relevant works and highlight the contributions of other authors to the subject under study, justify the reasons for the research, and formulate the hypotheses. It must not contain tables or figures. At the end of the introduction, the objective of the research is defined, whenever possible it should be explained through a general objective and not specific objectives.
Methods: it is written in past tense, it defines the type of research or study, and in general it explains how the research was carried out. This location validates the study through the procedures used and the accuracy of the observations made. It expresses the duration and place where the research was carried out, the criteria for the selection of the studied population, as well as the criteria for inclusion, exclusion and elimination. It clearly describes the analyzed variables and methods of information collection and processing and analysis that were used. The ethical basis gof the study should be specified, and justify the selection of techniques and procedures. Methods used, including statistic ones that are known, will be referenced. Unknown, unreleased methods or the ones that have been used with large modifications will be described in detail (as the case may be, the instruments applied for data and information collection should be indexed). The software used for information analysis should be specified. In general, the necessary details should be provided so that the investigation can be repeated on the basis of this information.
Results: they are written in past tense. The findings and new knowledge gained in the research are communicated in logical order, including the results negative or contrary to the expected. It can include a total of 10 among tables and figures, which, on their own, must be able to clearly express the results of the study and should be quoted in the text, where only the most relevant data will be commented on, so as not to repeat information. Do not use decimals with periods (.), use commas (,), % will go with a space between the number and the symbol, for example: 10 %
Debate: it is the core of the article and is written in present tense, a critical analysis of the results of the study is carried out in the light of the work published by other researchers in the national and international area. Explain the scope and limitations of the results achieved. Describe the possible applicability and generalization of the results. The novel and relevant aspects of the study and the conclusions derived from them should be highlighted. Authors have to express their own opinions on the subject. It is important to highlight: 1) the meaning and practical application of the results; (2) considerations of a possible inconsistency of the methodology (limitations of the study) and the reasons why the results may be valid; 3) the relationship with similar publications and comparison between the areas of agreement and disagreement, 4) the indications and guidelines for future research. On the other hand, no priorities should be set or premature conclusions drawn from works still under way, the discussion should be prevented from becoming a review of the topic and a repeat of the concepts that have appeared in the introduction. Nor should the results of the work be repeated. In the end, the limitations of the study must be declared.
Conclusions are mandatory, must be accurate and they have the function of taking a final account of the research, so they should not constitute a repetition of the results and should provide the new knowledge obtained with the research. Hence, the dividing line between the Discussion and the Conclusions is very subtle, so they do not need a section within the article.
Recommendations: If the author deems it necessary, he/she can express some recommendations.
Bibliographic references: 50% must be from the last 5 years.
IV. Review
Its extension will not exceed 5000 words, not including bibliographic references.
It must not exceed 3 authors.
Abstract: it is structured by sections, in this case it must comply with the following structure: Introduction-Objective- Methods-Conclusions. It offers a proper idea of what the work is about. It has a maximum limit of 250 words. They should be in Spanish and English.
Keywords: Located at the end of each abstract and in the presentation language of it.
Introduction: it states the scientific problem that led to the review and its justification, presents the background and the main points of the state of knowledge with its bibliographic references. It defines the goal of the review.
Methods: It must include the selected methods for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing the data. It proposes the referenced sources (experts, institutions, databases, summaries brochures, conference minutes, books, magazines, manuals, and others) and the criteria for their selection, the search engines used and the main terms used in the search; and also the time period of items used for review.
Development: logical presentation of the subject. It should not be titled "Development" and may include subtitles that the author deems necessary. It synthesizes, analyzes, interprets, criticizes and contrasts the data obtained from the revised literature. It can include a total of up to 5 tables and figures, which are necessary for a better understanding of the information, as long as they do not repeat the above mentioned in the text. It can identify new lines of research. It shows the limitations or contributions of the review.
Final conclusions or considerations: They should be clear, concrete and respond to the objective of the study.
Bibliographic references: they should be up to 50 and well dimensioned. They should contain 70% of works published in the last five years and the relevant national and international literature on the subject should be represented.
V- Letters to the editor
They must include who the letter is addressed to. The ideas, positions or disagreements of the authors should be expressed in relation to some of the contents published in the journal or topics of the specialty, after evaluation by the editorial committee. Letters that comply with the ethical principles of scientific publication will be published. The ground given should have their corresponding bibliographic support according to the standards adopted by the journal. Its extension will not exceed 1000 words, not including bibliographic references. Bibliographic references should be up to 5 and properly quoted (with superscript, in parentheses and after the punctuation mark). It must contain 50% of works published in the last five years.
VI. Short communications
Abstract: Unstructured. It provides an adequate idea of what communication is about. It has a maximum limit of 250 words.
Keywords: Located at the end of each abstract and in the presentation language of it.
It is a short article, usually to report on a preliminary research result, a novel method or technique. Up to 2500 words (including title, tables, figures minus bibliographic references that are allowed up to 10 and properly quoted (superscripted, in parentheses, and after the punctuation mark) are accepted. It must contain 50% of works published in the last five years.
Up to 2 figures and 2 tables are received.
Authors who have publications with this journal, accept the following terms:
1. Authors shall retain their copyright and guarantee the journal the right of first publication of their work, which shall be simultaneously subject to the International Non-Commercial Attribution- License (CC BY-NC 4.0) which allows third parties to share the work provided while its author and first publication is indicated.
2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive licensing agreements for the distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., putting it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) always providing the data of initial publication in this journal.
3. Authors are allowed and recommended to disseminate their work over the Internet (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase quotes from the published work. (See The Effect of Open Access ). In that case, we request that the header of the manuscript statex: "This is a pre-publication version (preprint) sent to the Cuban Journal of Public Health http://www.revsaludpublica.sld.cu/
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