Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
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.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- Complete details of the author or authors of the article to fill out the Metadata of the article. ALL authors must be entered. The duly completed Author Information Form> must be sent for each of the authors.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- Text written in Word Arial or Verdana 12 double-spaced, not exceeding 6000 words for research articles. Systematic reviews and/or meta-analyses should not exceed 7000 words and 80 references. The maximum length of review Articles (Topic Reviews), including tables, figures and references will be 4,000 words and 40 references.Clinical cases should not exceed 3500 words and 50 references and letters to the editor should not exceed 1.000 words. For management guidelines and/or consensus, 10,500 words and a maximum of 100 references are recommended.
- The title of the work should be concise but informative about the central content of the publication. In Spanish and English. The ideal length is 75 to 100 characters, and 10 to 15 words.
- Summary in Spanish and English, no more than 250 words containing basically: Introduction, methodology, results and conclusions. (Applies only to research articles)
- Original articles must contain: Introduction, Materials and Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References and Acknowledgments, if any.
- Only subject reviews written by Experts or requested by the Editor or members of the Editorial Committee will be received.
- A maximum of 5 tables may be included, considering tables, charts and graphs in this category. The tables must be included in text format and incorporated in the body of the work. They should not be sent independently or in image format.
- RECTIFY THAT ALL THE CHECKLIST HAS BEEN SENT, OTHERWISE THE ARTICLE WILL NOT CONTINUE THE EDITORIAL PROCESS
- Include the 3 to 5 key words, indexed in Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) of the Index Medicus. See at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
- Number the tables in consecutive order and give them a title that explains their content. Do the same process for figures.
Editorial
Editorials shall be always submitted by the Editor of the Journal or by other author at the express request of the Editorial Committee. Editorials must report the opinion of an expert about a topic of interest, scientific or research trends, or the state of the art of a gastroenterology topic, or about one of the works included in the issue of the Journal in which the Editorial is intended to be published. Editorials and editorial notes are not subject to external peer review.
Originals articles
Original articles (clinical and/or experimental or laboratory research): these manuscripts present in detail the original results of research projects designed to answer a specific scientific question (evaluation of diagnostic tests, treatments, disease prognoses, etc.) and are supported by statistical analysis. In addition to epidemiological studies (cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, etc.) and controlled experiments. Case series (more than 6) and natural history studies are also included. In general, original articles should be organized with the following sections: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, references, tables and figures. This type of work is submitted for evaluation by two external peers. They must contain a structured abstract in Spanish and English language whose maximum length should not exceed 300 words. Maximum number of words for the manuscript including tables, figures and references: 6,000, Maximum number of references: 60.
Review articles
Review Articles (Topic Reviews): They must fulfill the purpose of being a very adequate compilation of information, updated and duly analyzed, on topics of interest to readers. They are requested directly by the Editorial Committee from experts on the subject. This type of article has the following purposes: to update and inform on the state of a particular topic, to communicate new knowledge, to inform and evaluate published literature, to compare information from different sources, to describe and define research trends, to propose new lines of research or ideas for future work.
The maximum length of review articles, including tables, figures and references will be 4,000 words. Abstracts of manuscripts reporting topical reviews will be prepared in a structured format according to the following sections: Background, Topic, Conclusions. Abstract of no more than 250 words. The text or body of the article should be divided into: Introduction, Topic Development and Conclusions. These papers are submitted to the evaluation of two external peers.
Case report
Case Reports: are manuscripts that report one or several cases and make a short review of the literature on that clinical condition. It is strongly recommended that, when preparing the manuscript of a case report or case series, authors adhere to the internationally recommended CARE guidelines (http://www.care-statement.org/index.html).
They should contain an abstract in Spanish and English in a structured format with the following sections: background, summary of the case and conclusions (no more than 250 words). The text should be divided into introduction, case description, discussion and conclusions. This type of article is submitted to at least one external peer review. We suggest a maximum word length for the manuscript of 3,500 words and a maximum of 40 references.
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor: brief comments on a paper published in the Revista Colombiana de Gastroenterología. They should be accompanied by a title and the topic should be treated in a very specific way; their length should not exceed 1000 words and bibliographic references should be included. The decision on the publication of the letters received is at the discretion of the Editor and the Editorial Committee.
Guidelines
Letters to the Editor: brief comments on a paper published in the Revista Colombiana de Gastroenterología. They should be accompanied by a title and the topic should be treated in a very specific way; their length should not exceed 1000 words and bibliographic references should be included. The decision on the publication of the letters received is at the discretion of the Editor and the Editorial Committee.
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