Acta Médica Portuguesa Author Guidelines
Normas de Publicação da Acta Médica Portuguesa
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
1. AIMS
The aim of Acta Médica Portuguesa is to publish original research and review articles in biomedical areas of the highest standard, covering several domains of medical knowledge, with the purpose to help doctors improve medical care.
In order to accomplish these aims, Acta Médica Portuguesa publishes original articles, review articles, case reports and editorials, among others, with a focus on clinical, scientific, social, political and economic factors affecting health. Acta Médica Portuguesa will be happy to consider manuscripts for publication from authors anywhere in the world.
2. VALUES
Our principles are to promote:
Scientific quality.
Knowledge and state of the art scientific expertise.
Editorial independence and impartiality.
Ethics and respect for human dignity.
Social responsibility.
3. PERSPECTIVES
To be acknowledged as a Portuguese medical journal with a relevant international impact.
To promote a scientific publication of the highest quality, giving priority to original research work in the field of clinical, epidemiological, multicentric studies and basic science.
To remain a publication forum of guidelines.
To enhance international dissemination.
Our motto “Primum non nocere, Acta Médica Portuguesa in the first place”.
4. GENERAL INFORMATION
Acta Médica Portuguesa is the Portuguese Medical Association
(Ordem dos Médicos) scientific journal with peer review.
It has been published continuously since 1979, being indexed in PubMed / Medline from the first issue. Since 2010 it has an Impact Factor attributed by the Journal Citation Reports - Thomson Reuters.
Acta Médica Portuguesa does not charge APCs or submission charges.
Acta Médica Portuguesa follows a free access policy.
All manuscripts are available in full, in an open and free form since 1999 at www.actamedicaportuguesa.com and through Medline with a PubMed interface.
The rate of acceptance of Acta Médica Portuguesa during 2014, was approximately 20% of the more than 700 annually received manuscripts.
The manuscript must be submitted online through “Online Submissions / Submissões Online” at http://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions.
Acta Médica Portuguesa follows the good practice
guidelines of the biomedical edition of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the EQUATOR Network Resource Centre Guidance on Good Research Report (study design).
Our publication editorial policy inserts in the revision and publication process the Recommendations of Editorial Policy (Editorial Policy Statements) issued by the Council of Science Editors, available in http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3331, covering responsibilities and rights of the editors of publications with scientific peer review.
The proposed manuscript should not have been object of any other kind of publication. The views expressed are those of the Author(s). The published manuscript will remain a joint ownership of the Acta Médica Portuguesa and of the Author(s).
The Acta Médica Portuguesa reserves the marketing right of the manuscript as an integral part of the journal (for instance, for reprint purposes). The Author(s) should add to the submission letter a copyright declaration for commercial purposes.
Regarding the use by third parties, the Acta Médica Portuguesa is governed by the license Creative Commons ‘Attribution – Noncommercial - NoDerivatives (by-nc-nd)’.
After publication in Acta Médica Portuguesa, the Authors are free to provide their manuscripts to their original institutions, as long as publication in Acta Médica Portuguesa is acknowledged.
5. AUTHORSHIP CRITERIA
The journal follows the authorship criteria of the “International Committee of Medical Journal Editors” (ICMJE).
In order to be designated as an Author, there should be significant participation in the work, so that the Author must assume responsibility for its content and authorship credits.
An Author is someone:
1. Having had a substantial and direct intellectual contribution on the design and preparation of the manuscript
2. Having participated in data analysis and interpretation
3. Having participated in the writing of the manuscript, making a revision of the drafts; critical content review or approval of the final version
4. Having acknowleged responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the whole work.
Conditions 1, 2, 3 and 4 have to be met.
Authorship requires a substantial contribution to the manuscript. It is required that the contribution of each Author to the work is specified in a presentation letter.
Being listed as an Author, while not meeting eligibility criteria is considered as a fraud.
Everyone who has contributed to the manuscript, but who does not meet the authorship criteria, should be referred in the acknowledgements.
Every Author (i.e. the Corresponding Author and each of the Authors) has to fill and sign the “Authorship Form” with the authorship responsibility, criteria and contributions; conflicts of interest and sponsorship, including the Authors’ copyright transfer (template available at http://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/info/AMP_Author-Statements-for-Publication.docx).
The Corresponding Author should be the intermediary, on behalf of all the co-authors, in all contacts with Acta Médica Portuguesa during the whole process of submission and revision. The Corresponding Author is responsible for ensuring that any potential conflict of interest is correctly referred. The Corresponding Author should also testify, on behalf of all the co-authors, the originality of the work and obtain the written authorization of each person mentioned in the section “Acknowledgments”.
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