Submissions

Author Guidelines

PUBLICATIONS TYPES

The Journal of Multiprofessional Health Research - JMHR considers for publication any article that has concise and comprehensive text, in English or Portuguese. The manuscripts submitted must be original, not published in another journal previously or in the process of being reviewed for publication. The maximum number of authors is 10.

The main types of publication accepted by JMHR are:

• Original Articles: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all scientific research articles that are experimental or observational or qualitative studies and that provide new information for science. The quality and impact of the study will be taken into account during peer review. The text must contain up to 5,000 words.
• Reviews: This type of publication should contain concise and accurate updates achieved by a search area in recent times. Systematic reviews should follow the guidelines of the PRISMA protocol. The text must contain up to 4,000 words.
• Case reports: These reports should contain detailed information about symptoms, signs, diagnoses, treatments (including all types of intervention), and patient outcomes. It is interesting that the report describes a new or unusual condition that contributed to the improvement of health care. The text must contain up to 3,000 words.
• Experience reports: This has the purpose of describing a lived experience that can contribute to the construction of knowledge in the area of activity. The text must contain up to 3,000 words.
• Research protocols: Manuscript that cover step-by-step procedural instructions for a new method/technique, or for substantial modifications of existing methods/techniques. The text must contain up to 4,000 words and no more than 40 references.
• Brief communications: These are preliminary reports of original and significant search results. They should include no more than 1,500 words of text and no more than 20 references.
• Letters to the editor: They should provide substancial comments on articles published in the journal or on topics of broad interest. They must contain up to 500 words and no more than 10 references.

We suggest the use of the following recommendations, according to the category of the manuscript submitted:

CONSORT - checklist and flowchart for controlled and randomized trials;

STARD - checklist and flowchart for diagnostic accuracy studies;

MOOSE - checklist and flowchart for meta-analyses and systematic reviews of observational studies;

PRISMA - checklist and flowchart for systematic reviews and meta-analyses;;

STROBE - checklist for observational studies in epidemiology;

RATS - checklist for qualitative studies.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Manuscripts must be submitted for JMHR's review through the journalmhr.com. The author who will submit the text will be responsible for the entire process. This author should be sure that all co-authors were properly included in the list of authorship of the manuscript and that they read and approved the version to be submitted.

To perform the submission, you must register and log in the manuscript submission area of the site.

FILE FORMATTING

Authors must use the Microsoft Word processor or similar to prepare the manuscripts. The file size should not exceed 100MB.

The authors can send text files (. doc or . docx) following the guidelines below.

All manuscripts should generally contain the following sections: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Financing, Acknowledgements, Conflicts of Interest, References and Contribution of authors.

Case reports should contain: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, Conclusion, Financing, Acknowledgements, Conflicts of Interest, References and Authors' Contribution.

Narrative literature reviews may replace the Results and Discussion session with other sessions that are necessary at the authors' discretion.

The text should be prepared in Arial font, size 12 pt, with 1.5 linespacing, page size A4 and with margins of 2.5cm. The title of the manuscript must be centralized and bold. Session titles must be left-aligned and bold, unnumbered. The main text must be justified.

• Title: it should be concise, specific and relevant, in addition to identifying the type of study.
• Abstract: the abstract should contain a maximum of 250 words. It must be constructed in a single paragraph and follow the style of structured summaries containing: Introduction, Methods, Results (or Case Report, when applicable) and Conclusion.
• Keywords: Three to five keywords must be provided. We recommend using the Descritores em Ciências da Saúde (DeCS) or the Medical Subject Heading (MESH) found on the websites: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ or https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/.
• Introduction: the introduction should briefly contextualize the study in a broad scenario and highlight why the theme is important. It should define the objective of the work and its relevance and magnitude, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be carefully reviewed and the main publications cited. Please, highlight controversial and divergent hypotheses when necessary.
• Methods: they should be described in sufficient detail to allow other researchers to replicate the methodology used. New methods and protocols should be described in detail, while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used.
• Results: it should provide a concise and accurate description of the results.
• Discussion: the authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted from the perspective of previous studies and working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest possible context and the limitations of the work should be highlighted. Future directions fors new researchs can be mentioned.
• Conclusions: this section is mandatory and should provide readers with a brief summary of key conclusions in response to the proposed objectives.
• Funding: all sources of funding for the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate subsidies received, with the name of the institution and protocol number.
• Acknowledgement: it should be given to acknowledge the participation of individuals and institutions that helped in the construction of the work, but without participating in the authorship of the manuscript.
• Conflict of interests : authors must identify and declare any circumstances or personal interests that may be perceived as potential influencers in the interpretation of the research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please declare: "The authors do not declare any conflict of interest". Any role of funding sponsors in the choice of research project; study project; in the collection, analysis or interpretation of the data; in writing the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section.
• References: you must follow the Vancouver style. References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure captions) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing references with bibliography software such as EndNote, ReferenceManager, Mendeley, or Zotero to avoid errors and duplicate references. In the text, the reference numbers must be placed in brackets [ ] and before the periodo mark, for example: [1], [1-3] or [1,3].
• Authors' contributions: each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or revised substantively; and approved the submitted version.

For research articles with multiple authors, a short paragraph specifying individual contributions should be provided. The following statements should be used: "Conceptualization: X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology: X.X.; Software: X.X.; Validation: X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis: X.X.; Research: X.X.; Resources: X.X.; Data curation :X.X.; Writing - Original preparation of the draft: X.X.; Writing - Review & Edition: X.X.; Visualization: X.X.; Supervision: X.X.; Project Administration: X.X.; Acquisition of Financing: Y.Y.". Use the CRediT taxonomy to understand the terms.

FIGURES AND TABLES

The files of the figures, graphics and frames must be provided via JMHR's online submission system at as sufficiently high resolution (minimum width/height of 1000 pixels, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted, however, TIFF, JPEG, EPS and PDF are preferred.

All Figures, Graphs, Tables and Tables must be inserted in the main text next to their first citation and should be numbered following their number of appearances (Figure 1, Table 1, Figure 2, Table 2, Table 1, etc.).

All Figures, Charts, Frames, and Tables must have a short explanatory title or caption.

All columns in the table must have an explanatory title. To make it easier to edit larger tables, smaller fonts can be used, but not less than 8 pt in size. Authors should use the Microsoft Word Table option to create the tables.

ETHICS IN RESEARCH

Research articles involving human beings must ensure compliance with Resolution 466/2012 in Brazil and authors must declare that the investigations were carried out following the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/), revised in 2013. In the case of research in Human and Social Sciences whose methodological procedures involve the use of data directly obtained from participants or identifiable information, Resolution 510/2016 should also be considered. Manuscripts referring to research involving data production with human beings should submit opinion of the Ethics Committee in Research releasing the execution of the study.

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism are not acceptable in JMHR submissions and includes copying texts, ideas, images or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving any credit to the original source. The reuse of the text copied from another source must be in quotation marks and the original font must be cited. If the design of a study or the structure or language of the manuscript was inspired by previous works, these works should be explicitly cited. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If the plagiarism is detected after publication, we may publish a correction or withdraw the article briefly.

All manuscripts will be analyzed by the CopySpider software (available at http://www.copyspider.com.br/main/) to check for plagiarism. Up to 3% similarity with other documents is acceptable (or justified at higher levels).