Instructions to Authors
Politics and aims
The journal receives articles for publication under the following sections: Original Article, Review Article, Update Article and Case Report. The articles may be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The concepts and statements contained in the works are the sole responsibility of the authors. The articles published in the journal follow the uniform requirements proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, available at www.icmje.org.
There is no fee for submission and evaluation of articles.
Areas of Interest: Spine Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation and related areas.
Journal frequency: Quarterly
The online publication of Revista Coluna/Columna is continuous and an issue is completed every three months.
The abbreviated title of the journal is COLUNA/COLUMNA should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips.
Manuscript preparation
Peer Review
After the entire submission process, the editorial secretariat and preliminary analysis by the area editors (desk review), the articles may be sent for evaluation by the referees. The area editors together with the COLUNA/COLUMNA editorial board are mostly university professors, which allows for a thorough and rigorous peer review.
Following approval by the area editors, the evaluation process continues with all manuscripts being analyzed by two or more reviewers. Articles that do not have merit and do not fit the editorial policies of the journal will be rejected with no recourse. Reviewer comments will be returned to the authors for text changes or justification for maintaining it. Following reviewer approval, the articles will be forwarded to the associated editors for final approval.
Articles accepted for publication may undergo editorial revisions to facilitate their clarity and understanding without, however, changing the content.
Review process and additional information
Preprint
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal accepts Preprints.
A Preprint is a completed scientific manuscript that is posted to a platform by the authors. This is published after being accepted by COLUNA/COLUMNA on the SciELO Preprint platform (https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/user/register). A Preprint can be viewed for free, allowing scientists to have direct control of disseminating their work to the global scientific community. In most cases, a work published as a Preprint is also submitted to a journal for peer review. Thus, Preprints (not validated through peer review) and publication by journals (validated through peer review) function in parallel as a communication system for scientific research.
Posting a manuscript to more than one Preprint platform is not considered duplicate publication.
Starting in 2021, we will accept Preprints and the use of open science platforms as a way to encourage communication among authors.
Data sharing
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal encourages the sharing, quoting, and referencing of all data, program codes and other content underlying the text of articles in order to facilitate the evaluation of research, the replicability of studies, and the preservation and reuse of content. Data sharing must be published on the SciELO Dataverse platform (https://data.scielo.org/).
Citations should facilitate access to research content and when articles, books, and online publications are cited, the data should be cited in an appropriate place in the text and the source included in the reference list in accordance with the Vancouver Style standards. If there is an access link, it should be included. The author responsible for the submission must inform if the manuscript cites data, program codes and other materials underlying the articles. If so, the respective URLs must be informed; otherwise the author must offer a justification. Therefore, COLUNA/COLUMNA recommends the use of the Open Science Conformity Form available at the time of submission. This form will help ensure that the research data is an integral part of the submitted work and it must be submitted as a supplementary file to the manuscript and be accessible to the reviewers.
Bioethics of experiments with human beings
The conducting of experiments involving human beings must follow the specific resolution of the Brazilian National Health Council (no. 196/96) available at http://www.conselho.saude.gov.br, including the signing of an Informed Consent Form and protection of the privacy of the volunteers.
In experimental works involving human beings, the authors must indicate whether the procedures adhere to the ethical standards of the committee responsible for human experimentation (institutional and national) and the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975, revised in 2008. The declaration of approval by the local ethics committee must be sent via the Plataforma Brasil. Studies conducted in humans must comply with ethical standards and with the free and informed consent of the participants according to Resolution 466/2012 of the National Health Council of the Ministry of Health (Brazil), which addresses the Code of Ethics for Research in Human Beings, Authors outside of Brazil must be accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Bioethics of experiments on animals
The work described in the article must have been conducted in accordance with the ethical principles in animal experimentation articulated by Law 11,794/08, which establishes procedures for the scientific use of animals and addresses the mandatory submission of research projects to the research ethics committees of the institutions (http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2008/lei/l11794.htm).
For more information, consult the National Council for Control of Animal Experimentation (CONCEA) (http://www.mct.gov.br/index.php/content/view/310553.html) and the Brazilian College of Animal Experimentation (COBEA) (http://www.cobea.org.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=1).
Clinical Trials
COLUNA/COLUMNA supports the clinical trial registration policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), recognizing the importance of these initiatives for the registration and international dissemination of information about clinical studies in open access. As such, we will only accept clinical research articles that have received an identification number from one of the Clinical Trial Registers validated for the criteria established by WHO and ICMJE, the electronic addresses of which are available on the ICMJE page (http://www.icmje.org/abouticmje/faqs.clinical-trials-registration/).
Plagiarism
COLUNA/COLUMNA adopts a plagiarism detection system, Similarity Check/Ithenticate. However, all published article content is the sole responsibility of the authors.
In case of the detection of any form of plagiarism, the submitting authors will be contacted by the journal questioning their conduct and notifying them of their right to respond and present justification. In the event of publication of plagiarism in the journal, the published article will not be withdrawn from the edition and an addendum of plagiarism will be affixed to the cover page of the publication with a full-sized banner explicitly identifying the content at issue. The journal is not responsible for notifying the authors of the original content.
Presentation and submission of the manuscript
Submission of the manuscript
The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal adopts the SciELO Publication and Submission System available at http://submission.scielo.br/index.php/coluna/index. Authors should follow the instructions for registration and inclusion of an article found there.
The responsibility for concepts shared in the articles is the sole responsibility of the authors.
Total or partial reproduction of articles is permitted as long as the source is mentioned.
The entire contents of the periodical, except where otherwise identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-type BY License.
Any statements published in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors.
The article to be sent must be submitted via the SciELO submission platform, at https://submission.scielo.br/index.php/coluna/about/submissions, accompanied by:
Cover page: title of the paper (concise and informative, preferably up to 90 words) in Portuguese, Spanish and English; full name of each author (without abbreviations) and their respective institution (The hierarchical units should be presented in descending order; for example, university, college, and department. The names of the institutions and programs should preferably be presented in full in the original language of the institution or in English when not in Latin script [e.g. Arabic, Mandarin, Greek]) with a numeric and sequential indication, using superscripted Arabic numerals (If there are multiple affiliations, indicate only the most relevant.); location where the work and/or research were conducted; name of corresponding author with complete address, telephone, e-mail.
Identification of the authors:
The ORCID number (Open Researcher and Contributor ID, http://orcid.org/) of each of the authors must be noted on the cover page, below the name of the respective author and including the complete link.
CONTRIBUTION OF THE AUTHORS DECLARATION
The contribution of the authors declaration must be included at the end of the article using two minimum authorship criteria, among them:
All authors must be included in the declaration, according to the model:
“Each author made significant individual contributions to this manuscript. Defino H: writing and performing surgeries; Meves R: data analysis and performing surgeries; Menezes CM: review and intellectual concept of the article.”
Conflicts of interest: These should be presented objectively if they exist, and if not, the following statement should be included: “All authors declare no potential conflict of interest related to this article.” Access the form: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/71667f_d470a408e3654acbae2bf7568dd20970.pdf
Presentation of the text
Study designs: These are the original investigations that comprise most publications in scientific journals. Ex. The design used an experimental, prospective, controlled, randomized, pre-test/post-test study.
Abstract: The abstract must be in Portuguese, English, and Spanish preferably 250 words. Original Articles should be structured (Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusions) to highlighting the most significant data from the work. For Review, Update or Case Report Articles the abstract should not be structured.
Descriptors: Below the abstract, specify at least three and no more than six descriptors that define the subject of the work.
The descriptors should be based on the DeCS – Health Sciences Descriptors – available at http://decs.bvs.br/ or MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html, with Portuguese, English and Spanish versions for each of the descriptors.
Level of Evidence and Type of Study: In addition, the Level of Evidence and Type of Study must be included in the abstracts, in accordance with the classification table attached at the end of this text.
Documents: Authors must attach the following as a supplementary document in the SciELO online publication and submission system: a) Conflict of Interest Declaration; b) Work Approval Certification from the Institutional Review Board of the institution when the investigation involves experimentation with humans or animals; c) documentation regarding the possible sources of financing for the work; d) when dealing with clinical research involving human beings, a declaration stating that the participants signed the Informed Consent Form.
Introduction: The introduction must contain an objective for the study, with relevant references to the subject, but without conducting an extensive review, and the purpose of the article.
Methods: This section must clearly the selection of individuals who participated in the research (patients or laboratory animals, including controls). Age, sex, and other important characteristics of the individuals should be identified. The definition and relevance of race or ethnicity are ambiguous. Authors should be particularly careful when using these categories. Identify the methods, apparatus equipment (include the name and address of the manufacturer in parentheses) and the procedures in sufficient detail to allow other researchers to reproduce the results. Indicate whether the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the institution (institution with which at least one of the authors is affiliated) and provide the respective identification number. You must also state whether the Informed Consent Form was signed by all participants.
Results: Results should be presented in logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. The text should not repeat all the data from tables or illustrations, but rather should emphasized or summarized the important observations.
Discussion: it should emphasize the new and most important aspects of the study and the subsequent conclusions. The data presented in the introduction or Results should not be repeated. New hypotheses should be established only when clearly justified.
Conclusions: Conclusions should be linked to the study objectives, avoid unqualified statements or those not fully supported by the data, and present a detailed conclusive argument based on the results.
Acknowledgements: When necessary, briefly thank the people who collaborated intellectually, but whose contributions do not justify co-authorship, or those who have provided material, technical or advisory support. The author must ensure that the people to be named authorize it. Financial support for the research and study grants should be recognized in this section by agency and concession number
References: References must strictly adhere to the instructions in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors or at the PubMed site. All authors and works cited in the text must appear in the references and vice versa. The numbering of references must be according to the order in which they were mentioned for the first time in the text and in superscripted form (e.g. 1,2,3). Cite all authors up to a maximum of six. If there are more, cite the first six followed by et al. Periodical titles should be abbreviated as per the Index Medicus journal list. All references from the current or previous five years must be in bold.
Examples:
Periodical articles:
Okashi OA, Du H, Al-Assam H. Automatic spine curvature estimation from X-ray images of a mouse model. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2017;140:175-84. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.12.010.
Butler JS, Lui DF, Malhotra K, Suarez-Huerta ML, Yu H, Selvadurai S, et al. 360-Degree Complex Primary Reconstruction Using Porous Tantalum Cages for Adult Degenerative Spinal Deformity. Global Spine J. 2019;9(6):613-18. DOI: 10.1177/2192568218814531
Books:
Pudles E, Defino HLA. A Coluna Vertebral. São Paulo: Artmed; 2013.
Book Chapters:
Zardo E, Abramczuk J, Ziegler MS. Embriologia da Coluna Vertebral . In: Pudles E, Defino HLA. A Coluna Vertebral. São Paulo: Artmed; 2013. p. 17-22.
Dissertations and Theses:
Giglio CA. Caracterização funcional e histológica de modelos experimentais de estudo do trauma raquimedular [tese]. Ribeirão Preto: Universidade de São Paulo; 2000.
Electronic material:
Author(s). Title of article. Abbreviated title of periodical [support]. Publication date [date accessed with the expression “accessed on:”]; volume (number): pages initial-final [or approximate number of pages]. Electronic address with the expression “Available at:”
Pavezi N, Flores D, Perez CB. Proposição de um conjunto de metadados para descrição de arquivos fotográficos considerando a Nobrade e a Sepiades. Transinf. [Internet]. 2009 [accessed on 2010 Nov 8];21(3):197-205. Available at: http://revistas.puc/campinas.edu.br/transinfo/search.php? op=search&query=metadados&limit. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-37862009000300003.
Data Sharing:
Pavezi N, Flores D, Perez CB. Proposição de um conjunto de metadados para descrição de arquivos fotográficos considerando a Nobrade e a Sepiades.
Transinf. [Internet]. 2009. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-37862009000300003.
Figures: illustrations (photographs, drawings, graphs, etc.) should be cited as figures and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order that in which they are cited for the first time in the text. The figures must be sent as large format tif or jpg at 300 dpi resolution. Figures must be sent in an editable file (World or Excel) together with the originals. Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holders to reproduce figures (or tables) previously published elsewhere. For all the open access values the authors must have permission from copyright holder if they wish to include images that have been published in non-open access journals. Permission must be indicated in the figure key and the original source must be included in the list of references.
Tables: Tables should be prepared in 1.5 spacing and should be planned for a width of one (8.7 cm) or two (18 cm) columns and up to 12 rows. Each table should have a succinct title. Explanatory notes will be included as footnotes. The tables should contain means and dispersion measures (standard deviation, standard error of the mean, etc.) and should not contain irrelevant decimal places. Abbreviations should agree with those used in the text and figures. Identification codes of items in the table should be listed horizontally in order of appearance and should be identified by the standard symbols. Charts and tables should be sent as the original editable files (Word, Excel) and not as images.
Abbreviations and acronyms: These must be preceded by the complete name when referenced for the first time. Their meanings must be included below tables and figures where they are used.
Videos: Submission of videos is optional and will accompany the online version of the article. It must be sent together with the article in a separate file and accompanied by a caption. Videos must be sent in MP4.
Types of articles
Original article: The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal accepts all types of original research in the areas of Basic Sciences, the Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degeneration, Tumors/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, among others, including research with humans and experimental research. The article must contain the following items: Structured Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions.
Review articles: The editor usually requests review articles from authors with proven experience in the areas of Basic Sciences, the Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degeneration, Tumors/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, among others. These express the author’s experience and should not only reflect a review of the literature. Review articles should address specific topics in order to update readers on topics, issues, or specific questions. The editorial board will evaluate the quality of the article, the relevance of the chosen theme, and the proven distinction of the authors in the specific area addressed. Inadequacy in any of the above items will result in the editors’ rejection of the article without being submitted to a peer review.
Technical Note: Intended for the disclosure of diagnostic method or experimental surgical technique, new surgical instruments, orthopedic implants. Must have: Title; unstructured abstract; Keywords; Explanatory Introduction, , Material and Methods or Technique Description, Final Comments and References.
Systematic review/update/meta-analysis: COLUNA/COLUMNA encourages authors to submit systematic literature review articles in the areas of Basic Sciences, the Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degeneration, Tumors/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, among others. The editorial board will evaluate the quality of the article, the relevance of the chosen theme, the bibliographical research procedure, the article inclusion criteria, and the statistical treatment used. Inadequacy in any of the above items will result in the editors’ rejection of the article without being submitted to a peer review.
Case report: Specific clinical cases that provide relevant and illustrative information about the diagnosis and treatment of a particular case that is rare in Sports and Exercise Medicine. The articles must be objective and precise, containing the following items: abstract, introduction, objective report containing the case history, the physical examination and the complementary examination findings, as well as the treatment and follow-up; a discussion explaining in detail the clinical implications of the case in question and comparing it with data from the literature, including similar cases reported there; and bibliographical references.
Levels of evidence for primary research questions
Levels of Evidence for Primary Research Questiona
[This chart was adapted from material published by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK. For more information, please see www.cebm.net.]
Type of Studies
Intellectual Property
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