Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
Brief Background
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In 1951, the Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia (RBA) was established as the official publication of the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology (Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia – SBA), and in 2019, the Editorial Board decided the journal would be renamed as Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (BJAN) in the journal internationalization process. The journal was internationally acknowledged in the editorial entitled "A New Journal is Born" by Howard Dittrick, editor-in-chief of the Current Researches in Anesthesia and Analgesia (1951;5[30]). From 1951 to 1969, the BJAN was published every three months, and since 1970, it has been published every two months. The BJAN was published in Portuguese and English from January 2001 to December 2020, and in Spanish between 2011-2015, electronically. In 2021, Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia (0034-7094) was merged into Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (0104-0014), adopting English as its main language. The abstracts can be read in Portuguese in the journal's official site. In 2024, the BJAN began to adopt the practice of continuous publication as a mechanism to accelerate the communication of research work. |
Open Science Compliance
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This journal follows the Diamond Open Access model. All articles published as open access will be immediately and permanently available for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute. The journal accepts articles previously deposited in renowned preprints such as: SciELO Preprints, bioRxiv and medRxiv. At the discretion of the Editorial board, preprints can be shared any time and will not count as prior publication; they must however be cited in the submission. The BJAN operates a double-blind review process. Reviewers will not know who is responsible for the work when they are reviewing, as well as the authors will not know who has reviewed their manuscript at any stage of the publication process. The BJAN give the reviewers the option to directly dialogue with the corresponding author without revealing their identities. Open Science Compliance Form: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Open-Science-Compliance-Form_en.docx |
Ethics in Publication
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Studies in animals All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and be carried out in accordance with local country regulation. It is fundamental to clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed and upload the guidelines’ checklist. It must indicate: the sex of animals and, when appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study; the genotype, strain, source, and number of backcrosses and age of the animals studied. Studies in humans If the article involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the research described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. Privacy rights must always be observed. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age, and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The manuscript must contain data on the age (mean with range), height (m), weight (kg), sex (male/female, with numbers and percentages), criteria for selection, health conditions, among others that are significant to study results. Complex information is better to be presented in a table to facilitate the understanding of the data. Informed consent and patient details: require Institutional Ethical Committee or Internal Review Board (IRB) approval and informed consent documented in the paper. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained when an author wishes to include case details, other personal information, or images of patients or any other individuals. Please indicate it was obtained, but there is no need to upload them, unless specifically requested by the journal. When using any type of patient image, it must be non-identifiable and anonymous, and a specific signed authorization for publication must be obtained from the patient, legal representative, or family member, and submitted along with the manuscript or case report. If there is no written authorization from the patient or the patient's relatives (where applicable), the personal details of any patient included in any part of the article and in any supplementary materials (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before submission. Authors must keep written consent before submitting the article and not send copies to BJAN. If specifically requested by BJAN in exceptional circumstances (eg in the case of a legal issue), authors must provide copies of consents or evidence that such consents have been obtained. The BJAN is followed recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). |
Focus and Scope
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The BJAN is devoted to publishing original scientific manuscripts on Anesthesiology and/or correlated areas by national and international researchers. Its target audience comprises anesthesiologists and other physicians interested in the area. The journal promotes the progress, improvement, and disclosure of anesthesiology, intensive care, treatment of pain, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program's Digital Preservation Policy. |
Indexing Sources
Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
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Preprints
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The BJAN accepts only original articles that are not under consideration by any other journal and that have not been published before, except as academic theses, preprints, or abstracts presented at conferences or meetings. A cloud-based intuitive platform is used to compare submitted manuscripts to previous publications, and submissions must not contain any instances of plagiarism. Authors must obtain and send the Editorial Office all required permissions for any overlapping material and properly identify them in the manuscript to avoid plagiarism. A preprint is a preliminary version of a scientific work that is publicly shared in online repositories (eg SciELO Preprints, bioRxiv e medRxiv) before undergoing peer review and eventual publication in a scientific journal. To ensure transparency and integrity in handling preprints submitted to BJCVS, authors are encouraged to provide the following information:
The BJAN peer review process of preprints differs from the method used for manuscripts submitted to the journal. While the BJAN adopts double blind peer review for the manuscripts, this is not practicable for preprint, thus both authors and reviewers are identified. |
The use of AI and AI-assisted technologies in scientific writing
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Where authors use AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, these technologies should only be used to improve readability and language of the work and not to replace key researcher tasks such as producing scientific insights, analyzing and interpreting data or drawing scientific conclusions. Applying the technology should be done with human oversight and control and authors should carefully review and edit the result, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased. The authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work. Authors should disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies and a statement will appear in the published work. Declaring the use of these technologies supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, reviewers, editors and contributors and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant tool or technology. Authors should not list AI and AI-assisted technologies as an author or co-author, nor cite AI as an author. Authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans. Each (co-) author is accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved and authorship requires the ability to approve the final version of the work and agree to its submission. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that the work is original, that the stated authors qualify for authorship, and the work does not infringe third party rights, and should familiarize themselves with our Ethics in Publishing policy before they submit. |
Peer Review Process
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The BJAN operates a double-blind review process, thus all data that can identify authors (names, affiliations, etc.) or institutions must be removed. Reviewers must not know who the authors are, and authors must not know who the reviewers are at any stage, including the publication process. The Editor-in-Chief defines the peer reviewers suitable for the journal, and manuscripts are typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of the articles. Identity opening The SciELO considers three options of advancement in openness. The BJAN adopts the second option, as it offers reviewers the option to directly dialogue with the corresponding author without opening identities. |
Open Data
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To foster transparency, we encourage you to state the availability of the data in your submission. If your data is unavailable for access or unsuitable to post, this gives you the opportunity to indicate why. If you submit this form with your manuscript as a supplementary file, the statement will appear next to your published article on ScienceDirect. BJAN encourages you to share data that supports your research publication in an appropriate data repository and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. If you are sharing data, you are encouraged to cite it in your manuscript and reference list. If you have made your research data available in a data repository, you can link your article directly to the dataset. BJAN collaborates with repositories to link articles on ScienceDirect and others, providing readers access to underlying data that give them a better understanding of the research described. To foster transparency, we encourage you to state the availability of the data in your submission. If your data is unavailable for access or unsuitable to post, this gives you the opportunity to indicate why. If you submit this form with your manuscript as a supplementary file, the statement will appear next to your published article on ScienceDirect. |
Fees
| The Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (BJAN) is the official journal of the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology (SBA), which supports the journal completely: the cost of publishing is on behalf of the SBA, with no charges to authors. |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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The Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology follows ethics guidelines for publication and combating scientific misconduct. The Editorial Board treats seriously any identified case of plagiarism, falsification of data, duplication of publications, undeclared conflicts of interest or other forms of scientific misconduct. The journal has the right to take the necessary measures, which includes, but are not limited to, manuscript rejection, prohibition of future submissions by the authors involved, and communication of infringements to the affiliated institutions. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other individuals or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, fees, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other types of funding. If there is no conflict of interest, then you must declare “Conflicts of interest: none”. Editors and reviewers must also declare any conflicts of interest directly to the journal before beginning the review process. |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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A cloud-based intuitive platform is used to compare submitted manuscripts to previous publications, and submissions must not contain any instances of plagiarism. Authors must obtain and send the Editorial Office all required permissions for any overlapping material and properly identify them in the manuscript to avoid plagiarism. (Crossref Similarity Check) |
Gender and Sex Issues
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Authors should refer to the Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER (SAGER) guidelines and the SAGER guidelines checklist. These offer systematic approaches to the use and editorial review of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, outcome reporting and research interpretation - however, please note there is no single, universally agreed-upon set of guidelines for defining sex and gender. |
Ethics Committee
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The approval of the institution Ethics Committee and Free Informed Consent must be indicated in the manuscript. Authors should cite a link or attach a copy of the declaration of approval from the Ethics Committee of the institution responsible for approving the research. Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained when an author wishes to include case details, personal information, or images of patients or any other individuals. Please indicate it was obtained; upload them only if specifically requested by the journal. |
Copyright
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The authors of articles published by the BJAN keep their work’s copyright, licensing them under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed with no restrictions, as long as the original is correctly cited. The authors transfer the right of first publication to the Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology (BJAN). |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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Users rights Permitted reuse is defined by the following user license(s): Creative Commons (CC BY): allows users to copy and redistribute the Article in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially; and adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the Article for any purpose, even commercially, provided the user gives the appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI, and indicate if changes were made). The user may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Also, the user may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Author’s rights For open access publishing, this journal uses a copyright transfer agreement. Authors will transfer the copyright to the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology (SBA) but will have the right to share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights. As the author, you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. Access the link for details: https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/copyright/permissions Data, opinions and concepts in the articles, as well as bibliographic references are sole responsibility of the authors. The BJAN encourages the authors to file the accepted manuscripts, publishing them in personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media, as well as posting them in their personal social media accounts as long as it is cited the complete version published on the journal’s website. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia (SBA) |
Editor-in-Chief
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Co-Editor
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Associate Editors
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Editorial Committee
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Previous Chief Editors
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Types of Documents Accepted
The BJAN accepts only original articles that are not under consideration by any other journal and that have not been published before, except as academic theses, preprints (which are permitted and encouraged), or abstracts presented at conference or meetings, which must be specified in the cover letter. |
Authors' Contribution
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The BJAN adopts International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship. Each author is required to declare his or her individual contribution to the article and must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation. The authors should have made substantial contributions to the research and/or article development; thus, each author’s role must be described in the cover letter. The affirmation that all the authors have approved the final version must be real and included in the conflict of interests declaration. All the authors must have substantially contributed to the following aspects: conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; final approval of the version submitted. |
Manuscript Preparation
The submissions must be in English and contain the following elements: Cover Letter, Title page, Abstract with Keywords, Manuscript without author’s details (blind), Tables + Figures, and BJAN's Unified Private Copyright and Author’s Agreement Term signed by the corresponding author. In case of acceptance, the same term must be submitted with the signatures of all the authors.
Focus on the novelty and value of the author’s work, the relation to the scope of BJAN, and stating why the editor should consider the article for publication. Specify that the article was not previously published (or if it was published as preprint or academic work). The cover letter will not be part of the final published manuscript. Also, please indicate the count of words, tables, figures, and references of the manuscript submitted.
Submission of an article indicates that the work described has not been previously published other than in abstract form, as part of a published academic lecture or thesis, or as an electronic preprint. It also means that the manuscript is not being considered for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and, tacitly or explicitly, by the authorities responsible for where the work was carried out.
The actual title and the running title. The title must be concise and informative, as it is often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae if you can. Write the title in the simplest way possible, thinking, “how would I search for this subject in a database or on the internet?”. It must include the study design.
An abstract, with the headings background, methods, results, and conclusion, should provide the context for the research and state its purpose, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and main conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations.
Provide a maximum of six keywords in alphabetical order and separated by commas to represent the content of the article. The descriptors or keywords should be based on DECS or MeSH.
Manuscript (Article structure)
Provide adequate background and avoid a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Specify the hypothesis that justifies the study. State the objectives of the trial.
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published in detail elsewhere should be indicated by a reference citation describing the methods concisely, as the reader might not have access to the original protocol publication, especially if it is not open access. Describe all changes from the study protocol.
Results should be clear, concise, and contextualized. Avoid repeating data shown in tables and/or figures.
Explore the significance of the results without repeating them. Confront your data with previous findings avoiding extensive citation and discussion of published literature. Discuss the limitations of the study and critically justify them. Emphasize the importance of the study for the current state-of-art as well as future perspectives related to it.
Present shortly the main conclusions of the study.
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article, before the references, listing people who provided help during the research (e.g., help with language, writing assistance, proofreading the article, etc.).
All references must be presented according to the Vancouver Style. Make sure the data provided in the references are correct and cited in the same order in which are cited. Check out the maxumim number of references for each type of manuscript.
Check that all references cited in the text are in the list of references (and vice versa). References cited in the abstract must be complete. We do not recommend including unpublished results and personal communications in the list of references, but they may be mentioned in the text; If these references are included in the list, they must follow the journal's standard reference style, presenting, instead of the publication date, “unpublished results” or “personal communication”.
Links to cited sources ensure greater research discoverability and high-quality peer review. In order to create links to abstracting and indexing services – such as Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed – make sure that all data indicated in references is correct. The use of the DOI is recommended and can be adopted for citations and as a link to electronic articles that are already online, but in press, without complete details for citation. A DOI never changes, so it can be used as a permanent link to any electronic article. |
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Article Submission Format
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Submissions must have the following elements: Cover Letter, Title Page, Abstract with Keywords, Blind manuscript (without authors data), Tables and Figures, and BJAN's Unified Private Copyright and Author’s Agreement Term. Authors must submit the manuscripts electronically via Editorial Manager (editorialmanager/bjan), the online submission system. The platform guides the authors step by step though the process to include the manuscript’s details and files upload. The manuscript must be uploaded in an editable text file (preferably Word). The system converts the different files into an unique PDF file to be used in the review process. All the messages, including the notification of the editor’s decision and revision requests, are sent via e-mail through the system. |
Digital Assets
Authors sometimes need to edit images for clarity. Editing with the aim of deceiving or defrauding, however, will be seen as a violation of scientific ethics and appropriate measures will be taken. Adjustments to brightness, contrast, or color are acceptable as long as they do not confuse or eliminate any information in the original. No specific features within an image can be highlighted, covered up, removed or introduced. Furthermore:
When your electronic artwork is finalized, save or convert the images to one of the following formats:
Do not: supply files that are optimized for screen use or that are too low in resolution; submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Videos and animation sequences are accepted to support and enhance your scientific research. Authors who wish to send this type of file are strongly encouraged to include links within the body of the text. All files submitted should be properly labelled in a way to directly relate to their content. |
Citations and References
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All references must be presented according to the Vancouver Style, with journal names abbreviated as shown in the List of Title Word Abbreviations. Make sure the data provided in the references are correct. A DOI is guaranteed never to change, so you can use it as a permanent link to any electronic article. All references must be numbered (superscript) in the same sequence as they are cited in the text. Please check the maximum number of references for each type of article. |
Supplementary Documents
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The use of Supplementary material can support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary material offers the authors additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips, among others. Such items are published online exactly as they are submitted, without editing. Upload the material separately in the submission site and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Make sure to provide an updated file and to switch off the “Track Changes” option in any Microsoft Office file, as they appear in the published supplementary file. |
Financing Statement
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Identify who provided financial support and briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s). If the funding source had no such involvement, it should be stated as well. List funding sources in a standard format to facilitate compliance to funder’s requirements. (i.e., This work was supported by the CNPq [grant number xxxx] and FAPESP [grant number xxxx]). It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided it. If no funding has been provided for the research, please include the following sentence: “This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors”. |
Additional Information
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Reporting guidelines The BJAN mandates the use of an appropriate reporting guideline for any health research manuscript. Guidance on each type of study and how to choose the correct reporting guideline can be found on the EQUATOR website, and authors must upload completed checklists (and flow diagram, if applicable) for the reporting guideline they followed. It ensures the reporting guideline was used correctly and helps editors and reviewers to grant it. If the checklist indicates an item that was not addressed, explain in the manuscript why this information is not relevant to your study and/or add relevant information. For more on this topic, read the article Reporting guidelines: tools to increase the completeness and transparency of your anesthesiology research paper. |
Contact
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Secretaria | Escritório da BJAN
Escritório editorial
Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia (SBA)
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