As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
Author Guidelines
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
The journal Health Management and Policies (RGPS) posts unpublished and original works that contribute to the study and reflection on public health, health systems, health policy and health service management.
It Accepts contributions in Spanish, English or Portuguese.
Preparation of submission checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission meets all the elements shown below. Works who do not comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors:
The work has not been published and has not been submitted for evaluation or for publication to any other journal. It does not have conflicts of interest or any problems of authorship.
A letter addressed to the editor is included in which the unpublished nature of the writing is clarified; all authors know and agree with the content and permission is granted to reproduce the text, graphics or any other material that has reserved rights.
The user license duly signed by the main author is attached as an additional file. (Check and download the Partial Use License form).
To guarantee the anonymous evaluation, the text does not have the name of the authors. The author's name has also been removed from the properties of the document. (See the File menu in Microsoft Word.)
The information about authors is included in the independent file including: title of the article, name of the authors, brief resume of each author's sheet indicating institutional affiliation and email (maximum one paragraph) and ORCID.
In the same file can be included additionally: pertinent information if it is a research project, presentations at events, acknowledgments, collaborations, clarifications, conflict of interests.
The manuscript is sent in .DOC or .DOCX format with file identified with the title of the article.
The text has a maximum length of 8,000 words and includes an abstract (maximum of 250 words in the original language of the article), keywords, text, tables or tables and bibliography.
The text does not contain figures, graphics, illustrations, images or formulas. These are sent separately as attachments in the original version, identified with the title of the article and consecutive numbering.
The text meets the citation requirements described in the guidelines for authors about the journal.
The author/s should mention the category of work they are applying for.
Categories of works
RGPS accepts contributions in the following categories:
Research article: document that presents in detail the original results of research projects.
Review article: document that analyzes, systematizes and integrates the results of published or unpublished research, in order to account for the progress and development trends on a particular issue or problem in the areas of interest of the journal. It is characterized by presenting a clear indication of the method and a careful bibliographic review of at least 50 references.
Bibliographic review: descriptive and critical presentation of recent publications of interest on the topics of the journal.
Presentation and articles extension
General features
The document must have a maximum of 8,000 words including: abstract, text, tables or tables (excluding graphics, figures, illustrations and formulas) and bibliography. In the case of book or journal reviews, the maximum length is 700 words.
The document must be sent in Word, font Times New Roman 12 pts., Line spacing 1,5, letter size (margins of 2.5cm lower and upper, 3 cm left and right) and vertical orientation.
In an independent file the article is presented including: title; names of the authors with their institutional affiliation indicating contact details, email, curriculum and ORCID.
If the article is the product of an investigation, it is necessary to mention the objective of the project, the financing entities, the number and date of the contract, the execution time of the project and the institutions involved. If it was presented at an event, the full name of the event, the sponsoring institutions, as well as the city and the date on which it took place should be specified (make sure that the document has not been published in abstracts of the event printed or on the web). Include, if relevant, acknowledgments, collaborations, clarifications and declaration of conflict of interest.
Title
Only the title of the work should appear on the first page of the text. It should have an extension between 20 and 25 words and be descriptive, cover the content of the work and make reference to time and place.
Abstract and keywords
The manuscript must have an abstract in the original language of maximum 250 words, which should provide information about the context of the study, specify the objective, the methodology and basic procedures, relevant results and main conclusions. A maximum of six (6) keywords must be included.
For the selection of keywords in Spanish or Portuguese, use the descriptors in health sciences (DECS) of BIREME (http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm).
For the selection of keywords in English, use the Medical Subject Heading (MESH), Index Medicus (http: //www.nlm.nih.gov/ mesh / meshhome.html).
Note. RGPS offers the translation service of the original language abstracts to the other two languages of the journal.
Structure
The articles will have the following structure, which can change according to the nature of the work: introduction that includes the problem, the justification, the objectives and the theoretical foundations; a section of materials and methods in which the type of study, the sources of information, the universe, the population and sample, the categories and variables, the processing and the analysis of the information are indicated; a results section; a final section of discussion and conclusions; cited references.
The documents must be written in clear and fluent language. The footnotes are not desirable. If they are required, they should be used only for clarifications and not for bibliographic references, and be included as endnotes.
Pictures and graphics
Tables, graphs, figures, illustrations and formulas should be restricted to those strictly necessary (maximum 8); go with their respective legends (title and sources), indicate the units of measurement and number consecutively.
The tables are included in the text at the end of the document in separate pages. The data to which it refers must be presented in an organized manner, explained by themselves and their content must not repeat the information in the text.
In the body of the document will indicate where to locate tables, charts, graphs, illustrations, figures, images and formulas.
Tables, graphs, figures, illustrations, images and formulas must be submitted as independent files, taking into account the guidelines shown in the following table:
GRAPHIC ELEMENT
VALID FILE TYPE
NON VALID FILE TYPE
Table
DOC, DOCS, XLS, XLSX, PDF
JPN, PNG, BMP
Figure (bar graph, lines, cakes, rings or surfaces)
XLSX, XLS, PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX (JPG, PNG, PDF not very recommended)
BMP
Figure (photographs, illustrations, maps or digitalized images)
JPN, TIFF, GIF, EPS, PNG with minimum 300dpi (dots per inch)
BMP, DOC, DOCX
Figures (logos of institutions and other vector images)
EPS, SVG, AI, PDF
JPN, PNG, BMP, DOC, DOCX
Formulas (formulas and equations)
JPG, PNG, PPT, PPTX, PDF
DOC, DOCX
Bibliographic references
The journal adheres to the Vancouver bibliographic standards. References should be numbered in sequence according to their order of appearance in the text, by means of Arabic numerals placed in parentheses.
The list of references begins on a separate sheet at the end of the document, following the indications of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Uniformity requirements for manuscripts sent to biomedical journals, for which you can consult the following links:
The main authors must submit their articles through the OJS platform (Online Submissions System) and complete the 5 steps for their submission. They must attach backup of all the files to the journal´s email revistagpsalud@javeriana.edu.co
The authors are responsible for the contents, judgments and opinions of their manuscripts.
Copyright Notice
Copyright notice
The Journal Management and Health Policies is registered under the Creative Commons Recognition 4.0 International license. Therefore, this work can be reproduced, distributed and publicly communicated in digital format, provided that the name of the authors and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are recognized. It is allowed to quote, adapt, transform, autoarchive, republish and create from the material, for any purpose (including commercial), provided that authorship is properly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided and if changes have been mad. The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not retain the rights over published works and the contents are the exclusive responsibility of the authors, who preserve their moral, intellectual, privacy and publicity rights.
The endorsement of the intervention of the work (revision, style correction, translation, layout) and its subsequent disclosure is granted through a license to use and not through a transfer of rights, which means that the journal and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana disclaims any liability that may arise from ethical misconduct on the part of the authors. As a result of the protection provided by the license for use, the journal is not obliged to publish retractions or modify the information already published, unless the erratum arises from the process of editorial management. The publication of contents in this magazine does not represent royalties for taxpayers.
Privacy Statement
Privacy Statement
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