The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal publishes articles related to the Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Degenerative Rehabilitation, Tumor/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation and related areas.

The journal welcomes articles for the following sections: Original Articles, Review Articles, Update Articles, Technical Notes, Case Reports and Preprints. Articles can be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The concepts and statements contained in the papers are the sole responsibility of the authors. Articles published in the journal follow the uniform requirements proposed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (https://www.icmje.org/)

Authors’ Contribution

The declaration of the authors’ contribution must be included on the title page of the article using two minimum criteria for authorship:

1. Conceptualization
2. Data curation
3. Formal Analysis
4. Acquisition of financing
5. Research
6. Methodology
7. Project Management
8. Resources
9. Programs
10. Supervision
11. Validation
12. Visualization
13. Writing – Original Draft
14. Writing – Proofreading and Editing

(CREDIT Taxonomy Structure https://casrai.org/credit/)

All authors must be included in the declaration, according to the model:
“Each author has made an individual and significant contribution to the development of this article. I define H: Methodology and supervision; Meves R: formal analysis and data curation; Menezes CM: Validation and writing – proofreading and editing. “

Presentation and submission of the manuscript

The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal uses the SciELO online publication and submission system (https://submission.scielo.br/index.php/coluna/index). Authors should follow the instructions on how to register and include their article in the system itself. The authors are solely responsible for the concepts expressed in the articles.  Articles may be reproduced in whole or in part, provided the source is acknowledged. The entire content of the journal, except where noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License CC-BY. . (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.pt)

The statements published in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors.

The article should be submitted on the SciELO submission platform (https://submission.scielo.br/index.php/coluna/index) and should be typed double-spaced, preferably using the Microsoft Word, with 3 cm margins and Times New Roman font, size 12, and should not exceed 20 pages, including title page, abstracts, text, acknowledgments, references and tables. PDF files will not be accepted. The article must contain:

Folha de rosto contendo:

• Type of article (Original Article, Review Article, etc.).
• Title of the work (concise and informative, preferably up to 90 words), in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• Full name of each author (without abbreviations);
• Institution (the hierarchical units should be presented in descending order, for example, university, faculty and department; to which each belongs (the names of institutions and programs should preferably be presented in full and in the original language of the institution or in the English version when the writing is not Latin [e.g. Arabic, Mandarin, Greek]); with numerical and sequential indication, using superscript Arabic numerals. If there is more than one institutional affiliation, indicate only the most relevant one; place where the work and/or research was carried out;
• Name of corresponding author with full address, telephone number, e-mail address.

Author identification:

The ORCID number (Open Researcher and Contributor ID (https://orcid.org/) of each of the authors must be given on the title page, below the name of the respective author with the full link.

Declaration of authors’ contributions:

All authors must be included in the declaration, according to the model:
“Each author has made an individual and significant contribution to the development of this article. I define H: Methodology and supervision; Meves R: formal analysis and data curation; Menezes CM: Validation and writing – proofreading and editing.”

Conflicts of interest:

They must be reproduced objectively when there is one, and when there isn’t, present the statement: “The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest in carrying out this work.” Access to the Conflicts of Interest form

Presentation of the text

Study design: It is original research that makes up the majority of publications in scientific journals. Ex: The design used an experimental, prospective controlled, randomized and pre-test / post-test study.

Abstract and Descriptors: abstract, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, preferably 250 words.

Original articles should be structured (Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions), highlighting the most significant data from the work.

For Review, Update and Case Report articles, the abstract should be unstructured.

Descriptors: Below the abstract, specify a minimum of three and a maximum of six descriptors that define the subject of the work. The descriptors should be based on DECS – Descriptors in Health Sciences (https://decs.bvsalud.org/) or MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/), with Portuguese, English and Spanish versions for each descriptor.

Level of Evidence and Type of Study: In addition, abstracts should include the Level of Evidence and the Type of Study (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E1ILDicYVTZDJMmdS45HLvAfgw0PcwVu/view?usp=sharing)
According to the ranking table attached at the end of this text*

Documents: Authors must attach the following to the SciELO online publication and submission system: a) Declaration of Conflict of Interest; b) Certificate of Approval of the Work by the Institution’s Research Ethics Committee when the research involves experimentation on human beings or animals; c ) Documentation regarding any sources of funding for the work; d) Declaration that the participants have signed a Free Informed Consent document, when it involves clinical research with human beings.

Introduction: The introduction should contain an objective justification for the study with references pertinent to the subject, without carrying out an extensive review, and the aim of the article.

Methods: should clearly describe the selection of the individuals involved in the research (patients or laboratory animals, including controls). Identify age, gender and other important characteristics of the individual. The definition and relevance of race or ethnicity are ambiguous. Authors should be particularly careful when using these categories. Identify the methods, equipment (give the name and address of the manufacturer in brackets) and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other researchers to reproduce the results. Indicate whether the study was approved by the Institution’s Ethics Committee (Institution of affiliation of at least one of the authors) and inform the respective identification number. It should also state whether the Informed Consent Form has been signed by all participants.

Results: should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables and figures. Not all the data in the tables or illustrations should be repeated in the text, and only the important observations should be emphasized or summarized.

Discussion: should emphasize the new and most important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow. The data presented in the introduction or results should not be repeated. New hypotheses should only be established when they are clearly justified.

Conclusions: should be linked to the objectives of the study, avoiding unqualified statements that are not fully supported by the data. Presenting a detailed conclusive argument with supporting data.

Acknowledgments: when necessary, briefly thank people who have collaborated intellectually, but whose contribution does not justify co-authorship, or those who have provided material, technical or advisory support. The author must ensure that people, names, agree to be called that. Financial support for research and scholarships must be acknowledged in this section (agency and grant number).

References: must be strictly in accordance with the instructions: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, updated in October 2007. Or on the Pubmed website (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). All authors and works cited in the text must appear in the references and vice versa. References should be numbered in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text, in superscript format. “(“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. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the Index Medicus list of journals. All references from the current year or five previous years should be in bold.

Examples:
Journal 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.

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

Books

Pudles E, Defino HLA.   The spine. São Paulo: Artmed; 2013.

Book chapters

Zardo E, Abramczuk J, Ziegler MS. Embryology of the Vertebral Column. In: Pudles E, Defino HLA.   The spine. São Paulo: Artmed; 2013. p. 17-22.

Dissertations and Theses:

Giglio CA. Functional and histological characterization of experimental models for the study of spinal cord trauma [thesis]. Ribeirão Preto: Universidade de São Paulo; 2000.

Electronic material:

Author(s). Article title. Abbreviated journal title [support]. Date of publication [date of access with the expression “access on”]; volume (number): initial-final pages or [approximate number of pages]. E-mail address with the expression “Available at: “Pavezi N, Flores D, Perez CB. Proposal of a set of metadata for describing photographic archives considering Nobrade and Sepiades. Transinf. [Internet]. 2009 [access in 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. Proposal of a set of metadata for describing photographic archives considering Nobrade and 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 in Arabic numerals according to the order in which they were first cited in the text. Pictures must be sent in tif or jpg format with 300 DPI resolution, in large format. Figures should be sent in an editable file (Word or Excel) along with the originals. Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures (or tables) that have been previously published elsewhere. For all open access figures, authors must have permission from the rights holder if they wish to include images that have been published elsewhere in non-open access journals. Permission must be indicated in the figure legend, and the original source must be included in the list of references.

Tables: Tables should be spaced 1.5 and should be designed to be one (8.7 cm) or two (18 cm) columns wide and with up to 12 lines. Each table should have a short title. Explanatory notes will be included in footnotes. The table should contain averages and measures of dispersion (Standard Deviation, Standard Error of the Mean, etc.), with no irrelevant decimal places. Abbreviations should match those used in the text and figures. The item identification codes in the table must be listed in the order in which they appear horizontally and must be identified by the standard symbols. Charts and tables should be sent as original editable files (Word, Excel) and not as images.

Abbreviations and acronyms: must be preceded by the full name when cited for the first time in the text. Figures and tables must contain their meaning below the figure or table.

Types of articles

Original article: The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal accepts all types of original research in the areas of Basic Science, Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degenerative, Tumor/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation and related areas, including research with human beings and experimental research. The article must contain the following items: Structured abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion and conclusions.

Review articles: Review articles are usually commissioned by the editor from authors with proven experience in the areas of Basic Science, Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degenerative, Tumor/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation and related areas. They express the author’s experience and should not just reflect a review of the literature. Review articles should address specific topics with the aim of updating readers on specific themes, topics or issues. The Editorial Board will assess the quality of the article, the relevance of the chosen topic and the proven prominence of the authors in the specific area covered. Failure to comply with any of the above will result in the article being rejected by the editors, without undergoing peer review.

Systematic review/update/meta-analysis: The COLUNA/COLUMNA journal encourages authors to submit systematic literature review articles in the areas of Basic Science, Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degenerative, Tumor/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Biomechanics and Rehabilitation and related areas. The Editorial Board will assess the quality of the article, the relevance of the chosen topic, the bibliographic search procedure, the criteria for including the articles and the statistical treatment used. Inadequacy in any of the above items will result in the article being rejected by the editors of the area, without undergoing peer review.

Case report: Specific clinical cases that provide relevant and illustrative information on the diagnosis or treatment of a particular case that is rare in Basic Science, Spine, Spinal Pathologies, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Rehabilitation, Degenerative, Tumor/Infection, Minimally Invasive Surgery and related areas. Articles should be objective and precise, containing the following items: abstract; introduction; objective report containing the history, physical examination and complementary examination findings, as well as treatment and follow-up; discussion explaining in detail the clinical implications of the case in question, and comparing with data from the literature, including similar cases reported in the literature; bibliographical references.

Technical Note: It is intended to disseminate a diagnostic method or experimental surgical technique, a new surgical instrument, an orthopaedic implant.  Must have: Title, Abstract (unstructured), Descriptors, Explanatory Introduction, Materials and Methods, Technique, Final Comments and References.

Table Level of Evidence and Type of Study*

Levels of evidence for primary research questionsa

[This table was adopted from material published by the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, Oxford, UK. For more information, visit www.cebm.net.]

Types of study

Supplementary Documents

A publicação recebe financiamento de:

• Conflict of Interest Statement
• Open Science Compliance Form
• Table Level of Evidence and Type of Study

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