Presentation and Language
The text submitted will have no presentation page or cover, and there will be no divisions or page breaks or sections. It will be received in Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx), Letter size sheet, with Calibri font size 12, interlined 1.5; a space between words throughout the article and with Normal margins (2.5 cm). You will not have any design, no pagination, indents, tabulators, hyperlinks (except for online references) or any other attribute, such as header and footer, frames, etc.
Accurate, clear, simple, concise, non-redundant language and an appropriate order in the approach of ideas will be used. Some of our suggestions are:
- Use the impersonal style (it was done, identified, concluded).
- Take care of the use of the capital letter, as well as the concordance between gender-number of the nouns and subject-verb.
- Do not use slang (blood sugar from blood glucose, cardiomyopathy from cardiomyopathy, blood pressure from blood pressure, etc.).
- Avoid the use of participles and gerundios (Example: -ando, -including, among others) except cases where it is essential.
- Rationally use the means to highlight important texts or elements (black and italic letters).
- Avoid improper use of prepositions, abuse of adverbs, and conjunctions.
- Avoid unnecessary extensive sentences and excessive subordinations.
The consultation of the book How to Write and Publish Scientific Papers by Robert A. Day.
