Submission

Manuscript Submission

Manuscripts submitted to the Cadernos ESP Journal must be submitted exclusively through the journal’s electronic submission system. Before starting the submission process, authors must carefully read the instructions below, use the official template, and attach all required documents.

Submission implies the authors’ agreement with the Editorial Policy, the Peer Review Process, the journal’s ethical standards, and the publication conditions.

Table of Contents

  • Submission Documents
  • Thematic Areas
  • Manuscript Categories
  • Original Articles
  • Review Articles
  • Reflection Articles
  • Experience Reports, Updates and/or Technological Innovation
  • Brief Communications
  • Clinical Images and Photographs
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Author’s Reply
  • Manuscript Structure
  • Title
  • Author Identification
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion or Final Considerations
  • Funding
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Author Contributions
  • Data Availability
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Ethical Aspects
  • Registration of Clinical Trials and Systematic Reviews
  • Authorship, Responsibility, and Mandatory Declarations
  • Open Science, Preprints, and Research Data
  • Reporting Guidelines
  • Similarity Check
  • Submission Checklist
  • Submission through the System
  • Fees
  • Instructions Update

Submission Documents

Before starting the submission process, authors must prepare the following documents:

  • Manuscript with author identification;
  • Manuscript without author identification for double-blind peer review;
  • Declaration of Authorship, Responsibility, Copyright, Manuscript Origin, and Use of Artificial Intelligence;
  • Conflict of Interest Declaration;
  • Ethics Committee approval document, when applicable;
  • Supplementary materials, when applicable.

Files available for submission:

Thematic Areas

Manuscripts must be linked to one of the following thematic areas:

  • Education;
  • Public/Collective Health;
  • Technologies and Innovation.

Manuscript Categories

The journal accepts manuscripts in Portuguese, English, or Spanish in the following categories:

Original Articles

Original studies presenting relevant contributions to Public/Collective Health and related fields. This category includes clinical trials, observational studies, experimental or quasi-experimental studies, ecological studies, and evaluations of programs and public policies, among others.

Limit: up to 5,000 words, excluding references.
References: up to 30.
Structure: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion/Final Considerations, and References.

Review Articles

Systematic reviews, reviews with or without meta-analysis, integrative reviews, and scoping reviews. When applicable, protocols must be registered on recognized platforms such as PROSPERO or similar registries and follow appropriate EQUATOR Network guidelines.

Limit: up to 7,000 words, excluding references.
References: up to 50.
Structure: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion/Final Considerations, and References.

Reflection Articles

Theoretical, conceptual, or critical analyses addressing themes relevant to Public/Collective Health or related fields.

Limit: up to 3,000 words, excluding references.
References: up to 10.

Experience Reports, Updates and/or Technological Innovation

Analytical descriptions of practices, interventions, institutional experiences, or technological innovations in the health field.

Limit: up to 3,000 words, excluding references.
References: up to 10.

Brief Communications

Short texts intended to disseminate preliminary results or relevant findings from smaller-scale studies.

Limit: up to 1,100 words, excluding references.
References: up to 10.

Clinical Images and Photographs

Submissions containing images, photographs, or visual records accompanied by descriptions and analyses related to the health field.

Abstract: up to 300 words.
Images: up to five, high resolution.
References: up to 3.

Letter to the Editor

Short text addressing topics relevant to the journal’s scope or comments on previously published articles.

Author’s Reply

Reply or response to editorial comments or manifestations related to published articles.

Limit: up to 250 words.

Manuscript Structure

The manuscript must follow the journal’s official template and contain, according to the submission category:

  • title in Portuguese, English, and Spanish;
  • abstract in Portuguese, English, and Spanish;
  • keywords in Portuguese, English, and Spanish;
  • main text organized according to the manuscript type;
  • references in Vancouver style;
  • mandatory declarations, when applicable.

Title

The title must be clear, concise, and informative, presented in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

The main title must be in bold, Georgia font, sentence case, size 22, centered alignment, and 1.15 line spacing.

Titles in English and Spanish must use Georgia font, size 14, italic, sentence case, centered alignment, and 1.15 line spacing.

Titles should preferably contain up to 15 words.

Abstract

Abstracts must be presented in Portuguese, English, and Spanish immediately after the titles and author identification.

Each abstract must contain up to 250 words, in Georgia font, size 11, justified alignment, and 1.15 line spacing.

The main elements of the study must be structured with the following items highlighted in bold:

Introduction: brief contextualization of the theme or research problem.
Objective: main purpose of the study.
Methods: study design, setting, population/sample, procedures, and analysis, when applicable.
Results: main findings of the study.
Conclusion: synthesis of the main contributions and implications of the results.

The following headings must precede each version:

ABSTRACT

The use of undefined abbreviations, author citations, bibliographic references, mention of the specific study location, or year of data collection is not allowed in the abstract unless such information is essential for understanding the study.

Keywords

Three to five keywords must be provided in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Terms must be selected from the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS), available at:

https://decs.bvsalud.org/

Keywords must be presented according to the language of the abstract:

Descriptors: Descriptor 1; Descriptor 2; Descriptor 3.

Author Identification

All authors must provide:

  • full name without abbreviations;
  • complete institutional affiliation;
  • city, state, and country;
  • e-mail;
  • ORCID;
  • corresponding author identification.

ORCID is mandatory for all authors and must be informed in the following format:

https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000

All authors must be registered in the Cadernos ESP Journal submission platform. Submissions containing unregistered authors or incomplete author profiles may be returned to the authors or rejected during the initial editorial screening.

Introduction

The introduction must present the study background, knowledge gap, justification, relevance, and objective.

The objective should appear at the end of the introduction and preferably begin with an infinitive verb.

The main text formatting must follow the official template:

Georgia font, size 12, justified alignment, first-line indentation of 1.25 cm, and 1.15 line spacing.

Methods

The Methods section must clearly and sufficiently describe the study design, setting, participants, eligibility criteria, data sources, variables, data collection procedures, analysis, and ethical aspects, when applicable.

Subheadings must follow the manuscript type and the recommended reporting checklists.

For review articles, authors must use the table model indicated in the corresponding checklist.

Studies involving humans or animals must provide Ethics Committee approval, opinion number, and CAAE registration, when applicable.

Clinical trials and systematic reviews must provide the registration number of the corresponding platform.

Results

Results must be presented objectively, clearly, and consistently with the study objectives and methods.

Illustrations include figures, photographs, graphs, tables, and charts.

Graphs, tables, and charts must be inserted within the original manuscript, properly identified, numbered, and in editable format.

The manuscript should preferably contain up to five illustrations in total unless editorial justification is provided.

Figures, photographs, and other images must also be submitted separately in high resolution, with 300 dpi, preferably in PDF format, and minimum width of 8 cm. Each image must be uploaded individually.

Tables, charts, graphs, and figures must contain a title above the illustration and source information below.

Example:

Table 1. Table title.

Source: Authors’ own elaboration.

Texts inserted in figures, charts, and tables must follow the typographic standard established in the journal’s official template.

Tables must follow IBGE tabular presentation standards.

Avoid abbreviations in titles and subtitles of tables, charts, graphs, and figures. When abbreviations are used, they must be explained in notes.

Discussion

The discussion must be presented separately from the results.

It must interpret the findings, compare them with the relevant scientific literature, present implications for the field, and discuss study limitations.

Citations must directly relate to the manuscript theme.

Conclusion or Final Considerations

The conclusion or final considerations must answer the study objective without fully repeating the results.

They must present the main contributions of the study to the field, its limitations, and possible implications for research, practice, management, or public policies.

Funding

Mandatory section.

Authors must inform the funding institution, call notice, grant, process number, or scholarship, when applicable.

If there was no funding, authors must state:

Funding: The study received no funding.

Conflict of Interest

Mandatory section.

Authors must declare the existence or absence of conflicts of interest.

If none exist, authors must state:

Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Mandatory section.

Authors must describe each author’s individual contribution, preferably according to the CRediT Taxonomy.

Example:

Author Contributions: Author A contributed to study conception and design, data analysis and interpretation, and manuscript writing. Author B contributed to data collection, critical revision of the intellectual content, and approval of the final version.

Data Availability

Authors are encouraged to inform whether the data used in the study are available and where they can be accessed.

When not applicable, authors must state:

Data Availability: Not applicable.

Or:

Data Availability: Data are available upon request from the authors.

Acknowledgments

Optional section.

Individuals or institutions that contributed to the study but do not meet authorship criteria may be acknowledged.

References

References must follow the Vancouver style according to the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Citations must be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they appear in the text and indicated by superscript Arabic numerals.

Only references cited in the manuscript must appear in the final reference list.

General guidelines:

  1. Create a numbered list.
  2. Use font size 10.
  3. Align text to the left.
  4. Check for duplicate references.
  5. Include DOI or access link whenever available.
  6. Do not exceed the maximum number of pages and references allowed for the manuscript type.
  7. Disable active macros from reference managers such as Mendeley, EndNote, or Zotero before final submission.
  8. Include, when relevant, at least one citation from an article published in the Cadernos ESP Journal.

Examples:

Journal Article

Patrício VC, Moreira FJF, Abreu LDP, Chaves MD. Doenças alimentares: relação vigilância sanitária-epidemiologia. Cadernos ESP. 2019;13(2):94-108.

Journal Article with More than Six Authors

Author AA, Author BB, Author CC, Author DD, Author EE, Author FF, et al. Article title. Abbreviated Journal Title. Year;volume(issue):initial page-final page.

Article with DOI

Author AA, Author BB, Author CC, Author DD, Author EE, Author FF, et al. Article title. Abbreviated Journal Title. Year;volume(issue):eLocator. doi:xxxxx.

Book

Tortora GJ, Derrickson B. Corpo humano: fundamentos de anatomia e fisiologia. 8th ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed; 2012.

Book Chapter

Marinho AMP, Carneiro FF, Almeida VE. Dimensão socioambiental em área de agronegócio. In: Rigotto R, organizer. Agrotóxicos, trabalho e saúde. Fortaleza: Edições UFC; 2011. p. 166-214.

Institutional Document

Ministry of Health (BR). Document title. Brasília: Ministry of Health; year.

Dissertation or Thesis

Moreira FJF. Entre o ser e o fazer: formação técnica em vigilância em saúde no estado do Ceará [dissertation]. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; 2016.

Legal Document

Brazil. Law No. 8,080, September 19, 1990. Provides for the conditions for the promotion, protection, and recovery of health. Official Federal Gazette. 1990 Sep 20.

Observations:

  • When there are more than six authors, list the first six followed by et al.
  • Journal titles should preferably be abbreviated according to recognized bibliographic databases.
  • References to online documents must include access date and electronic address when no DOI is available.
  • References must be carefully reviewed by the authors regarding accuracy, completeness, and standardization.