Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published nor is it under consideration by any other journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).

  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF or WordPerfect format.
  • Whenever possible, URLs are provided for references.
  • The text is single spaced; 12 point font size; italics are used instead of underlining (except in URLs); and all illustrations, figures and tables are placed in the appropriate places in the text, rather than at the end.

  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines found in About the Journal.

  • If the research involves the participation of vulnerable populations and/or animals, ACVENISPROH requires the approval of the institutional Ethics Committee or equivalent body in accordance with the institutional ethics supervision policy.
  • Only the article accepted for publication should pay APC.

Author Guidelines

General aspects

  1. The publishing standards for Más Vita are the Vancouver Standards.
  2. All works carried out by national or foreign researchers, as long as they meet the required scientific quality criteria, may be published.
  3. Articles related to completed research, literature reviews, technological development reports, scientific essays, proposals for models and educational innovations, products of degree projects and doctoral theses, promotion works, or institutional projects will be included. The presented works must be a contribution to the field of health sciences.
  4. It is important to highlight that submitting the work does not imply any commitment to publication. This will only be effective through the approval of the Arbitration Committee and the author(s) will be notified via email with the publication certificate. Having an acceptance letter for the article does not exempt the authors from making modifications to the article at the request of the Editorial Committee.
  5. The article will be evaluated based on criteria of originality, social relevance, timeliness, contributions, scientific rigor, and compliance with the editorial standards established in this journal.
  6. It is recommended that the author(s) do not simultaneously submit the same article to other journals.
  7. If the Editorial Committee or the reviewers find evidence of plagiarism, the article will be returned to the author and they will be sanctioned for two years, during which time they will not be able to publish in this journal.
  8. Authors will be asked to transfer the proprietary rights of the published articles so that the journal can publish them in physical and/or electronic formats, including the Internet.
  9. The article can be submitted in OpenOffice or Microsoft Word formats.
  10. All articles will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. The system selected by the Editorial Committee of Más Vita. Journal of Health Sciences
  11. is the double-blind system. In the double-blind system (Double–blind review) reviewers do not know the identity or academic affiliation of the authors, and vice versa.
  12. It is suggested that the author or authors omit direct references to other publications of their own. This can hinder the evaluation (Double–blind review).
  13. It is recommended that the number of co-authors of the article does not exceed 4. In the case of a greater number of authors, a participation certificate in a research project from a Higher Education Institution (HEI), Research Center, Research Networks, or related entities that endorse the proposed number of authors must be submitted. If the article responds to a clinical or experimental case, it must be accompanied by the corresponding Bioethics certificate.
  14. The original article must include in the header: the name of the author(s), the academic degree achieved, the name of the institution they belong to, email(s), and the ORCID code of each one, and the corresponding affiliation institution. Up to two (2) institutional affiliations can be included.
  15. All authors must register in the journal's OJS.
  16. Please enter your ORCID ID registration number. It is mandatory. If you do not have it, you must register at: https://orcid.org/.
  17. If the author(s) have more than one identifier (Research Gate, Academia, Google Scholar, or other), it should be added both in the OJS registration and in the data sent by email (if that system is used to submit the article).
  18. The article must be accompanied by a certificate addressed to the Editorial Committee.

Manuscript format and preparation

Más Vita adheres to the Standards of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) version of the year 2016 available at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/translations/spanish2016.pdf and http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/translations/.

  • The article can be submitted in Open Office or Microsoft Word formats.
  • All articles must include in the header: the name of the author(s); the academic degree achieved, the name of the institution they belong to, phone numbers (home and mobile), address, email(s), and the ORCID code of each one.
  • It should also include a curriculum summary no longer than five (5) lines, referring to the most recent academic degrees and the institution where they work.
  • All titles of the works must be presented without abbreviations in Spanish and English.
  • All articles will include a structured abstract with a minimum of 200 and a maximum of 250 words. It must be accompanied by its version in Spanish and English. Authors are requested to avoid using electronic translators for the preparation of abstracts and titles in another language.
  • The abstract will be presented with the following elements: a) introduction; b) objectives or purposes; c) materials and method/methodology; d) results; e) discussion/development; and f) conclusions. The keywords (minimum 3 and maximum 6) should be placed at the end of each abstract both in Spanish and English; separated by semicolons, in lowercase.
  • For the selection of keywords, the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) (http://decs.bvs.br/cgi-bin/wxis1660.exe/decsserver/?IsisScript=../cgi-bin/decsserver/decsserver.xis&interface_language=e&previous_page=homepage&previous_task=NULL&task=start) or the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) should be used.
  • According to the nature of the work, the articles will have the following characteristics:

Original article: It is an unpublished study strictly based on the scientific method. The text length will be a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 20 pages. It is presented with the scheme title, abstract, introduction, materials and method, results, discussion, conclusions, and references. Up to a maximum of 5 figures and/or tables will be admitted.

Review article: It refers to a topic of general interest in which an updated literature review is conducted with an included analysis. The text length will be a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 20 pages. It is presented with the scheme title, abstract, introduction, topic development, discussion, conclusions, and references. Up to a maximum of 4 figures and/or tables will be admitted.

Clinical case: It consists of the description of new, rare, or difficult-to-treat pathologies and/or diagnoses. The text length will be a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 20 pages. It is presented with the scheme title, abstract, introduction, case description, discussion, conclusions, and references. Up to a maximum of 4 figures and/or tables will be admitted.

Essays: A topic in-depth related to the health area is exposed, in which the author analyzes and argues their opinion with consulted bibliography and highlights the most significant contributions of the addressed topic. The text length will be a minimum of 6 pages and a maximum of 20 pages. It is presented with the scheme title, abstract, introduction, topic development, conclusions, and references. Up to a maximum of 4 figures and/or tables (optional) will be admitted.

Other contributions: In the case of articles that do not fit the indicated schemes, the Editorial Committee will consider the aspects to be included, in agreement with the authors.

The non-accepted work will be returned to the author(s) with the corresponding observations. It cannot be peer-reviewed by this journal again.

It is understood that, once the article is submitted to Más Vita. Journal of Health Sciences and peer review has begun, the author accepts this process and, consequently, agrees to publish it only in this journal. Remember that under no circumstances should the article be submitted simultaneously to more than one journal.

Article submission

  1. The article must be sent to the following email address: masvitarevista@gmail.com
  2. It can also be submitted through the OJS of the journal Más Vita. Journal of Health Sciences, once registered as an author.
  3. Along with the article, the author must send the Originality Letter.