Preliminary Sections

The preliminary parts are the common parts of most scientific articles and they show a particular provision in these, they are:

Type of article (Section): defined by the author/s in accordance with what is expressed in Sections and types of contributions.

Title: one of the most important parts of the work, as it will be read by the entire community concerned. It must be chosen very carefully to be brief, clear and explicit, attractive but accurate. It will not exceed a maximum of 15 words and will not have excess prepositions. The use of subtitles, abbreviations, acronyms or jargons will not be allowed and will be ordered from the general to the particular, capable of expressing the content of the text and of being able to be recorded in the national and international indices.

Author/s: exact and complete names and surnames of those people who have made a substantial intellectual contribution and assume responsibility for the content of the article (See Authorship Criteria). Names will be separated by commas; each will have a superscript in Roman numeral to reflect institutional affiliation (helped by the Research Organization Registry), province, country, email and ORCID identifier. The academic degree and professional category of the authors shall not be indicated.

Abstract: text that guides the reader to identify the basic content of the article quickly and accurately, and to determine its relevance; it is the part of the article most read by most interested parties and is a miniature version where each of its main parts should be briefly summarized. Only those of structured type will be accepted, with a maximum of 250 words; with exception for Case Reports where the information type is allowed with no more than 150. It must be drafted in past time, except for the conclusions that will be in the present time. It will include objective, type of research, where and period of time was carried out, universe and size of selected sample, sampling selection technique used, how the primary data was obtained, analyzed variables, statistical techniques used, how the work was carried out, what were the main findings and most important conclusions. You must not contemplate abbreviations, no acronyms, or bibliographical quotations and their content must be intelligible without having to resort to any other text, table or figure.

Keywords: three to ten defined by the author/s and separated by semicolon (;). Such words help indexers classify the article for inclusion in databases, allowing search execution in broader or more specific terms or all terms belonging to the same hierarchical structure. At least three must correspond to the title of the article. The use of Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) is recommended.