Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission of a manuscript to “Actualizaciones en Osteología” is regarded as a tacit declaration that has not been submitted at the same time or accepted for publication elsewhere. In the guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts, “Actualizaciones en Osteología” follows the requirements of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in the most recent version available in http://www.icmje.org.

Manuscripts should be prepared using Word on A4 paper with margins of at least 20 mm, simple spacing, in letter font type Arial 10, or other of a similar size. The manuscript -in Spanish or in English- should be submitted by email to actualizaciones@osteologia.org.ar. Pages must be consecutively numbered starting with the title page. Units of measurement: metric units should be used, with decimal points. Abbreviations and Symbols: only standard abbreviations should be used, avoiding them in the title and abstract.

Manuscripts that do not conform to “Actualizaciones en Osteología” requirements, including requirements for manuscript organization, format, and figure will be returned to the authors without review.

The first page must contain: (a) title of the work in Spanish and English, (b) abbreviated title for running head, (c) complete name of the authors -the latter must be underlined-; (d ) name of the institutions in which they work, (e) address and email of the corresponding author, (f) section of the journal to which paper corresponds; (g) conflict of interest.

The journal sections include: Original Articles, Reviews, Brief Communications, Case Reports, Editorials, Letters to the Editor.

Original Articles should be divided into Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion. Titles must be written in bold type. The recommended maximum text length is 5,000 words and up to 5 figures and 5 tables will be accepted. It is suggested not to include more than 50 references. Reviews have a recommended maximum text length of 6,000 words and up to 5 figures and 5 tables will be accepted. It is suggested not to include more than 60 references. Brief Communications and Case Reports should have a recommended maximum of 3,000 words of text extension and up to 4 figures and 4 tables will be accepted. It is suggested not to include more than 30 references. Case Reports should be divided into Introduction, Clinical Case and Discussion.

For all type of article described previously, a 250-word Abstract in Spanish and in English, not including tables or figures, must also be included. Also, 3 to 6 key words in English and Spanish are required. Authors who are not fluent in Spanish and, therefore, are not able to include the abstract and keywords in this language, can submit the manuscript without them.

In Original papers and Case Reports record informed consent by patients. Ethical standards and guidelines followed will be indicated and statistical methods will be described (in Originals). Letters to the editor and Editorials have a recommended maximum of 1000 words and for Letters to the editor up to 2 figures or tables will be accepted. It is suggested not to include more than 10 references. Acknowledgments: technical assistance, financial support, and contributions that do not justify authorship may be listed. Conflict of interest: authors must disclose any financial relationship that could lead to a conflict of interest in relation to the published article.

References should be numbered consecutively. Use superscript numerals for references in the text. References should be mention according to the following examples:

Journals: All authors will be included if they are six or less; if more than six, the third one will be followed by “et al”. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus (also available in http://www.nlm.nih.gov). The names of journals should be in italics. Example: Diab T, Wang J, Reinwald S, Guldberg RE, Burr DB. Effects of the combination treatment of raloxifene and alendronate on the biomechanical properties of vertebral bone. J Bone Miner Res 2011; 26:270-6. Books chapter: Rigalli A. Euthanasia. In: Rigalli A, Di Loreto VE (eds). Experimental Surgical Models in the Laboratory Rat. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC press, 2009, p. 31-2. Web sites: World Health Organization (WHO). The Stop TB Web Alert. (2000, Dec 6) http://www.stoptb.org/updates/index.html

Tables and its legends will be presented al the end of the manuscript numbered in Arabic numerals. They should be indispensable and comprehensible by themselves. No vertical lines between columns and horizontal lines will be used, except in general three lines: one separating the Table title, another for the headings of the rest, and the last one indicating the end of the Table. The manuscript text will indicate the approximate location with the legend “Insert Table here”.

Figures should be submitted separately from the text. The manuscript text will only include an explanatory legend. The required format of images is “.jpg or .tif” no less than 300 dpi resolution. Images in Word files will not be accepted. In the micrographs the scale or magnification used must be indicated. Take into account that while in the online version the image is shown in color, in the printed version it will be presented in grayscale. The manuscript text will indicate the approximate location with the legend “Insert Figure here”

All articles published in Actualizaciones en Osteología are subject to peer review. The review is made by an Editor and at least two reviewers with extensive experience in the particular subject. The identity of the authors and reviewers is kept confidential. The Editor will return to the authors, without going through the arbitration process those manuscripts that do not conform to the standards of preparation or that do not match the purposes and orientation of Actualizaciones en Osteología. Evaluation time takes between 30 and 60 days. The corresponding author will be notified by email on the acceptance (with or without corrections) or rejection of the manuscript. This decision is final. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to introduce, to the authors’ knowledge, all editorial changes required by grammatical rules and layout needs. Accepted papers will be returned with modifications to authors for any corrections and they will be granted a return period of not more than 30 days. After acceptance and layout, authors will be awarded 72 hours to review the galley proof.

Editorial policies

Actualizaciones en Osteología is an Open Access Journal.

Page Fees: No charge for publication is required except for color figures if requested by authors.

Copyright. Actualizaciones en Osteología is the official journal of the Argentinean Association of Osteology and Mineral Metabolism (AAOMM), which holds copyright to all material published in the Journal.

Ethical responsibilities.When experiments performed in humans are described, authors must indicate whether the procedures performed followed ethical standards of the (institutional or regional) committee on human experimentation, and in accordance with the World Medical Association and the Declaration of Helsinki. Authors must also send the informed consent model used for the study. When animal experiments are described, it should be indicated whether guidelines of an institution or research council on care and use of laboratory animals were followed.

Duplicate/Redundant Publication. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript -including all data, figures, tables, and supplementary materials- has not been previously reported or published. Further, it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that the manuscript has not been, and will not be, submitted to another journal while under review by Actualizaciones en Osteología. Original Articles providing new data from studies that have been the subject of previous publications must avoid data overlap and authors must provide information on all previous publications to the Editor-in-Chief.