The journal Acta Paulista de Enfermagem was created in 1988 as an electronic technical-scientific publication of Escola Paulista de Enfermagem [EPE; Federal University of São Paulo, UNIFESP; ISSN (electronic version): 1982-0194].

“Acta Paul Enferm” is the abbreviation for Acta Paulista de Enfermagem. This abbreviation must be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references, and bibliographic captions. On this website, Acta Paulista de Enfermagem will be abbreviated as Acta.

Acta supports practices related to open science policy.

By definition: “Open Science is transparent and accessible knowledge, shared and developed via collaborative networks” (VICENTE-SÁEZ; MARTÍNEZ-FUENTES, 2018, p. 7).

“Open Science is the practice of science in a way that other people can collaborate and contribute, and research data, laboratory notes, and other research processes are freely available under terms that allow reuse, redistribute, and reproduce the research and its data and methods” (FOSTER, 2019, p. 10).

Combating Plagiarism

“This nefarious procedure infects research, producing irreparable damage in addition to the illegal practice of appropriating the work of third parties without authorization and due reference.” (National Commission for Institutional Relations and OAB/Ceará Section: 2010.19.07379-01; approved by the Federal Council of the Brazilian Lawyers Association; plenary session: 10/19/2010). All infractions are forms of “intellectual dishonesty”, regardless of ethical or legal issues; they are explained in additional detail below.

Definitions

Intentional or unintentional copying of words from another author. Whenever an author uses words from another author, they must be referenced in quotation marks by adding the corresponding citation. Readers of articles published in Acta should know whether the words in the text are from the author or someone else.

Copy by the author himself (self-plagiarism). If an author has published an article in journal A, he/she cannot submit the same manuscript to journal B, even with some adjustments. In addition, he/she should not take excerpts from the first article to use in a second manuscript without using quotation marks. Each manuscript must have its writing, even if there is nothing to report on the subject.

Inappropriate attribution of data or ideas: most authors report ideas and data from others. However, when an author does this without citing the source, this is a form of plagiarism. Copyright infringement occurs when an author uses (with or without attribution) significant portions of a previously published article (including tables and figures). If this plagiarized “writing” is published, the new editor will be guilty of violating the copyright held by the original editor. This is a legal topic that can be expensive for the publisher and author involved.

An author may think that juggling words in a sentence that was copied from one article and pasted into another manuscript is appropriate. This is not appropriate. The ordering of information presented in an article must be original, not following the ordering of a previously published work, even if closely.

Acta adopts an awareness and information policy on intellectual property, with specific procedures to prevent plagiarism.

The policy aims to inform authors about acceptable writing practices, thus defining a quality standard for publishing peer-reviewed articles. If plagiarism is detected (by reviewers or staff editors, before or after acceptance of the manuscript, during editing, or at any time before publication), the Acta team will alert the author, asking him/her to rewrite it and cite the source. If the plagiarism is extensive (≥25% of the original article), the manuscript will be rejected and the institution where the author works will be notified of the infraction. If plagiarism is detected after publication, Acta's editor-in-chief will notify readers and the institution where the author works about the infringement committed via an Editor's Note.

Resources: Plagiarism UNDERSTANDING and CITATION

1. There are several standard guidelines available such as the Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals: the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has published clear guidelines on when citation is required (Available: www.icmje.org).

2. Many renowned journals have published articles or editorials on the growing problem of plagiarism in biomedical publications. Below, some examples are given: 

• Broome ME. Self-plagiarism: oxymoron, fair use, or scientific misconduct? Nurs Outlook. 2004; 52(6): 273-4. [AJN’s editor-in-chief responded to this editorial with a letter: Mason DJ.
• Letter to the editor. Nurs Outlook. 2005;53(4):171-2. Clamp down on copycats. Plagiarism is on the rise, thanks to the Internet. Universities and journals need to take action. Nature. 2005;438(7064):2.
• El-Deiry WS. Plagiarism is not acceptable in science or for Cancer Biology and Therapy. Cancer Biol Ther. 2005;4(6):619-20.
• Freda MC, Kearney MH. Ethical issues faced by nursing editors. West J Nurs Res. 2005; 27(4): 487-99.
• Hegyvary ST. Writing that matters. J Nurs Scholarsh. 2005;37(3):193-4.
• Logue R. Plagiarism: the Internet makes it easy. Nurs Stand. 2004;18(51):40-3.
• Mason, DJ. Stealing words. Am J Nurs. 2002; 102(7):7.
• Roig M. Re-using text from one’s own previously published papers: an exploratory study of potential self-plagiarism. Psychol Rep. 2005;97(1):43-9.
• Skandalakis JE, Mirilas P. Plagiarism. Arch Surg. 2004;139(9):1022-4.

3. The World Association of Medical Editors has published recommendations for medical journals on Ethics publication policies guiding journal editors on what constitutes plagiarism (in addition to other pertinent issues): www.wame.org

4. Acta follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Academic plagiarism is a crime at any level and violates Brazilian legislation (Penal Code, article 184; law 9.610-98, third paragraph, article 7) that regulates copyright. Thus, plagiarism is a civil and criminal matter.

If plagiarism is detected, editorial conduct must follow the guidelines of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Acta's mission is to communicate scientific knowledge generated within the rigor of research methodology and ethics. The objective of Acta is to publish results and conclusions of research bout the advancement of clinical, surgical, and managerial nursing practices, teaching, research, and information and communication technology. Articles are published using the continuous publication methodology. Acta follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Acta follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy of the SciELO Program.

Articles published in Acta are indexed on the following platforms:

• VHL - Virtual Health Library
• Cabell’s - Directory
• Cinahl
• Cuiden
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
• Web of Science - Web of Knowledge
• Journal Citation Reports
• Lilacs - Latin American Literature in Health Sciences
• Redalyc
• SCImago - SCImago Journal & Country Rank
• Scopus - Sci Verse
• SciELO

• Title of the journal: Acta Paulista de Enfermagem
• Short title: Acta Paul Enferm
• Publication by: Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
• Periodicity: Continuous publication
• Publication mode: Continuous publication
• Year of creation of the journal: 1988

• Home Page Acta Paulista de Enfermagem
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Acta accepts manuscripts that have been deposited on a non-commercial preprint server (as long as they have not also been subjected to peer review in another journal). A preprint is a manuscript made available open-access on a website (Preprint Server) before being published in a scientific journal. This is an option for authors to communicate their research quickly and formally (before or in parallel with submission to Acta) for review and publication when manuscripts are approved.

On the Title Page, the author responsible for the submission must inform whether the manuscript is deposited on a preprint server, and provide the corresponding DOI number (which will be published in the manuscript if it is accepted by Acta).

Upon submission to Acta, authors will be asked to complete the Open Science Compliance Form.

All manuscripts in preprint repositories submitted to Acta will be peer-reviewed.

Submitted manuscripts cannot contain references to articles published in non-scientific journals and, then, have not complied with the entire peer review process.

Acta accepts articles from the preprint repositories in the areas below (with the corresponding contents):

• bioRxiv

Life Sciences: Animal Behavior, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cellular Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Physiology, etc.

• medRxiv

Health Sciences: Allergy and Immunology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Hematology, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Nutrition, Pathology, Public Health, Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiotherapy, and Toxicology, etc.

• SciELO Preprints

Journals published by SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online): with an initial focus on publications about COVID-19.

• OSF Preprints

Various areas: Arts and Humanities, Business, Education, Law, Medical and Health Sciences, and Social and Life Sciences, etc.

• Researchsquare Preprints

Multidisciplinary repository.

• SocArXiv Preprints

Social Sciences: Education, Law, and Social, and Behavioral Sciences.

• PsyArXiv Preprints

Psychology: Clinical, Developmental, Cognitive, and Educational Psychology, Neurosciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Quantitative Methods, etc.

ScholarOne is the Acta platform for online submission. This is a complete workflow management system for scientific journals (submission, peer review, production, and publication); this system offers intelligent information that helps make strategic decisions.

The editorial office receives and checks the documents deposited in the online submission. Non-compliance cases will be returned to the corresponding author for adjustment (deadline: 2 working days after submission).

The editorial office will forward manuscripts that meet the instructions to authors to the scientific editor; the first editorial decision may be: to continue the review process, request major revisions, or reject. If the manuscript is current and contributes new knowledge but requires additional revision, it will be returned to the authors with a deadline to submit the revised version (Deadline: ≤7 working days).

Manuscripts that will continue in the evaluation process will be forwarded to one of the associated editors on the submission platform. The associate editor will analyze the manuscript and may suggest its rejection to the scientific editor; he can appoint ad hoc consultants in the manuscript area for additional analysis as appropriate. The peer review process depends on the availability of editors and reviewers; thus, the editorial decision may take 30-120 days.

The associate editor receives the analysis from the ad hoc consultants, makes a critical assessment based on the consultants' opinions, and issues his opinion recommending (1) acceptance, (2) corrections, or (3) rejection of the manuscript to the scientific editor.

Note: In manuscripts accepted for publication, the name of the Associate Editor who approved the paper and the institutional affiliation and Orcid ID of the authors will be informed.

The scientific editor will make the editorial decision and manuscripts recommended for publication by the associate editors will be forwarded for analysis by the technical editor. After the opinion of the technical editor, the scientific editor will make the final editorial decision, forwarding the approved version of the manuscript to the corresponding author and requesting its translation into English (or Portuguese, as the case may be) in 7-20 days (with a certificate issued by the translator).

Acta has a team of accredited translators (including nurses) who issue translation certificates. Without this certificate, the manuscript will not be published.

Manuscripts accepted for publication are now called articles and then enter editorial production. You can celebrate when your manuscript is accepted and is in the production process!

Editorial production includes the stages of receiving the translated article, editing, layout of XML, PDF, and HTML, final reading by the scientific editor, final checking by the technical editor, and sending to the databases. This process must be completed within 45 days.

Acta adopts three types of peer review:

1. Double-blind peer review: authors and reviewers do not know each other's identities.

2. Single-blind peer review: authors reveal their identity but reviewers remain anonymous.

3. Open peer review: authors and reviewers know each other's identities.

The double-blind type is the standard evaluation type adopted by Acta. In cases of preprint, however, ensuring the authors’ anonymity is not possible; thus, the evaluation can be single-blind or open. The opening of the peer review process depends on the agreement between the associated editors and referees involved.

Editor-in-chief:

• Establishes the editorial office;
• Defines the editorial board;
• Defines the types of publication accepted by the journal;
• Establishes the authorship policy;
• Establishes the policy for submission, opinion, resubmission, peer review, and retraction of manuscripts;
• Establishes the journal's ethical standards;
• Establishes and maintains the editorial freedom;
• Develops policies and procedures to attract manuscripts of good scientific quality;
• Maintains the integrity and reliability of manuscripts received within the peer review process;
• Establishes the journal's financial and promotional policy;
• Provides financial monitoring of the journal production process;
• Determines the promotion and marketing policy;
• Ensures the journal's visibility.

Technical Editor:

• Establishes standards for publication in the journal;
• Checks and verifies the references and citations in the articles accepted for publication;
• Checks the journal's indexing, permanence, and maintenance criteria in the databases;
• Provides administrative supervision of the editorial process;
• Follows the schedule for each publication.

Scientific Editor:

• Establishes and maintains the manuscript evaluation system and the editorial decision-making process;
• Issues the final opinion on the manuscript (be published), gives his/her opinion on the publication, or forwards it for additional evaluation in case of contradictory opinions;
• Reads the journal proofs;
• Provides the final review of the journal content (doll) and approval;
• Evaluates the scientific quality of the publication concerning:
• Theoretical foundation;
• Thematic relevance;
• Document rigor;
• Methodological procedures;
• Originality;
• Scientific contribution;
• Ensures the scientific language and style of the journal.

Associate Editor:

• Helps the scientific editor with the tasks of:
• Receives and reads the manuscripts received (they can be divided by area):
• Recommends reviewers;
• Helps in preparing reviewers’ recommendations to authors;
• Captures work in teaching and research institutions;
• Publicizes the journal.
• Provides fairness to the review process with the journal's Board of Directors.

Authors:

• Organize the scientific manuscript while maintaining the rigor of scientific ethics and methodology in its writing;
• Meet the deadlines requested by the journal;
• Submit their  results on the submission platform;
• Comply with the rules and requirements of instructions to authors;
• Share the article when it is published;
• Respond to reviewers' requests in the peer review process.

At the time of submission, Acta recommends that all research data be public in repositories or made public when the article is published. If authors choose to keep research data closed, Acta will respect their decision. Acta recommends that the data repositories of the institution to which one of the authors is linked are preferably used (or other trusted data repositories).

TOP Guide: https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Guia_TOP_en.pdf

Research Data Citation Guide

https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/guia-de-citacao-de-dados_pt.pdf

List of repositories for depositing research data:

https://wp.scielo.org/wp-content/uploads/Lista-de-Repositorios-Recomendados_pt.pdf

SciELO Data

Adequacy and compliance fee: R$ 350.00

Note: In case of rejection of the manuscript, the fee will not be refunded.

Editing fee: R$ 1,600.00

Note: The editing fee must be paid after the acceptance email sent by the scientific editor is received.

Payment can be made by accessing: https://acta-ape.org/taxas-de-publicacao/

Acta's retraction policy follows the principles recommended by COPE.

Acta issues errata only to reconsider information related to the methods and results of the published article. Errata will not be issued for adjustments to the title, author name, institutional affiliations, author abbreviation, Orcid ID, acknowledgments, and collaboration sessions. This information must be checked by the authors when they receive both the editorial decision and the attached final PDF of the article.

Conflicts of interest may be of a personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial nature. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers, or editors have personal interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is still a potential conflict of interest, it must be informed by the author(s) on the title page. For more information, the authors can analyze the following: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.

Acta uses the CrossRef Similarity Check (iThenticate).

This software is used on articles accepted for publication. Checking is based on content similarity with previous publications. The analysis is carried out by checking paragraphs and their respective references.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Aiming to ensure the integrity and reliability of the results and conclusions presented in manuscripts where chatbots (such as Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT) were used and maintain the readers' confidence in the discoveries and advances presented, Acta supports the recommendations of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME, https://wame.org/page3.php?id=106 ) on the ethical considerations related to the use of these technologies:

Transparency: Authors must report the use of artificial intelligence applications and/or assistive technologies in the methods section.

Assignment: THE TOOL NAME and/or SERVICE and the REASON for using the tool must be informed.

Responsibility: The manuscript will be disregarded for publication if, during similarity analysis, it is found that the author used an artificial intelligence application and it was not informed.

Limitations: Authors should include the limitations and potential biases of using chatbots in the discussion of their manuscripts.

Acta's editorial team is attentive to the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex andGenderEquity in Research – SAGER) as well as the authors who publish in Acta. These guidelines guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, results, data analysis, and interpretation of findings. Consistently, Acta observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board.

Research involving human beings conducted in Brazil must present the project approval document by the Research Ethics Committee and/or National/Brazilian Research Ethics Committee as recommended by the Ministry of Health, National/Brazilian Health Commission (Res. 466/2012; ch. XII.2). In studies with human beings, all patients (or their legal representatives) must agree to their participation in the study, signing the Free and Informed Consent Form. Research involving human beings conducted in other countries must present the local ethical documentation. Research involving animals in Brazil must present the project approval document by the Research Ethics Committee in the Care and Use of Animals (according to the Normative Resolution of the National/Brazilian Council for the Control of Animal Experimentation 30/2016). Research involving animals conducted in other countries must present the local ethical documentation.

The authors of articles published in Acta are the holders of their copyright, granting the right to use, reproduce, or disclose their article to any third party (under the terms of the CC BY license, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0). Acta is an open-access journal, and its content is freely available to academic readers or their institutions. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link the full texts of articles (or use them for any other lawful purpose) without prior permission from the editor or author.

All Acta content is licensed under the Creative Commons License BY license type (except where otherwise noted). Acta used the BY-NC license until Aug/2015. Later, the BY-type license was adopted.

The online journal has open and free access.

The authors assume full responsibility for the article's content. Acta encourages authors to archive their accepted manuscripts by posting them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, academic social media, and personal social media (as long as the citation is the same as that of the journal's website).

National/Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)

Support Foundation for the Federal University of São Paulo

Janine Schirmer

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0783-2961, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3721636964139813, E-mail: schirmer.janine@unifesp.br

Marcia Barbieri

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4662-1983, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9352140129630269, E-mail: mbacta5@gmail.com

Edna Terezinha Rother

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9453-3582, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3167510663248046, E-mail: ednarother@gmail.com

Alexandre Pazetto Balsanelli

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3757-1061, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1857033024402274, E-mail: alexandre.balsanelli@unifesp.br

Ana Cristina Vilhena Abrão

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6249-2467, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9986621531942283, E-mail: ana.abrao@unifesp.br

Ana Lúcia de Moraes Horta

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5643-3321, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6589995987863639, E-mail: analuciahorta18@gmail.com

Bartira de Aguiar Roza

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6445-6846, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9255434835123749, E-mail: bartira.roza@unifesp.br

Camila Takao Lopes

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6243-6497, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4904538541897667, E-mail: ctlopes@unifesp.br

Denise Miyuki Kusahara

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9498-0868, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2666393667209812, E-mail: dkusahara@unifesp.br

Edvane Birelo Lopes De Domenico

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7455-1727, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9590895567864681, E-mail: domenico.edvane@unifesp.br

Fabio D’Agostino

Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences, Roma, Itália. Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4641-604X, E-mail: fabio.d.agostino@uniroma2.it

Howard Karl Butcher

Florida Atlantic University, Flórida, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8394-516X, E-mail: hbutcher54@gmail.com

Juliana de Lima Lopes

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6915-6781, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1478157388713375, E-mail: juliana.lima@unifesp.br

Kelly Pereira Coca

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3604-852X, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8167230363189115, E-mail: kcoca@unifesp.br

Manuela Frederico-Ferreira

Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-1669, E-mail: mfrederico@esenfc.pt

Meiry Fernanda Pinto Okuno

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-1186, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6910164256304562, E-mail: mf.pinto@unifesp.br

Myriam Aparecida Mandetta

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4399-2479, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3111422210593688, E-mail: mpettengill@unifesp.br

Paula Hino

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1408-196X, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6815362006090017, E-mail: paula.hino@unifesp.br

Rafaela Gessner Lourenço

Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3855-0003, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1746446265812460, E-mail: rafaelagessner@ufpr.br

Sayonara de Fatima Faria Barbosa

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-3300, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9066226306974527, E-mail: sayonara.barbosa@ufsc.br

Sílvia Caldeira

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9804-2297, E-mail: caldeira.silvia@gmail.com

Thiago da Silva Domingos

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1421-7468, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2184168438993433, E-mail: t.domingos@unifesp.br

Tracy Heather Herdman

Boston College, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6526-1848, E-mail: editor@academiceditingfornurses.com

Cibelli Rizzo Cohrs

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3743-1034, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7498230850923062, E-mail: cibellicohrs@unifesp.br

Danila Cristina Paquier Sala

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3723-6706, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6367508233142381, E-mail: danila.paquier@unifesp.br

Neyson Pinheiro Freire

Conselho Federal de Enfermagem (COFEN), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9038-9974, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8245886201592431, E-mail: neyson.freire@cofen.gov.br

Donna K. Hathaway

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing; Memphis, Tennessee, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8920-4947, E-mail: dhathaway@utmem.edu

Dorothy A. Jones

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3679-9742, E-mail: dorothy@jones-law.ca

Emiko Yoshikawa Egry

Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0974-0315, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1345735545670360, E-mail: emiyegry@usp.br

Ester Christine Gallegos-Cabriales

Universidad Autónomo de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3619-2596, E-mail: esther.gallegosc@gmail.com

Geraldyne Lyte

University of Manchester, Manchester, Reino Unido, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8222-0124, E-mail: geraldine.lyte@manchester.ac.uk

Helen M. Castillo

College of Health and Human Development, California State University, Northbridge, California, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-3546, E-mail: helen.castillo@csun.edu

Heimar de Fátima Marin

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9729-9923, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5458785300394469, E-mail: hfmarin@unifesp.br

Ivone Evangelista Cabral

Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1522-9516, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7561708512534413, E-mail: icabral444@gmail.com

Jane Brokel

The University of Iowa, Iowa, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0584-1741, E-mail: brokelj@trinity-health

Kay Avant

University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-2985, E-mail: kayavant@austin.utexas.edu

Leila Maria Geromel Dotto

Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6315-5403, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0659813806442727, E-mail: leiladotto@uol.com.br

Luz Angelica Muñoz Gonzales

Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-8322, E-mail: lmunoz@unab.cl

Margaret Lunney

Staten Island University, Staten Island, New York, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0327-4800, E-mail: margaret.lunney@csi.cuny.edu

María Consuelo Castrillón Agudelo

Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colômbia, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9248-8204, E-mail: concastri@epm.net.co

Maria Helena Costa Amorim

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4252-7092, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2520838143870302, E-mail: mhcamorimap@gmail.com

Maria Helena Palucci Marziale

Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2790-3333, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/9226065950792831, E-mail: marziale@eerp.usp.br

Maria Márcia Bachion

Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brasil, Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8503907944360635, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5044-6148, E-mail: maria_marcia_bachion@ufg.br

Maria Müller Staub

Institute of Nursing, ZHAW University, Winterthur, Suiça, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-6160, E-mail: muellerstaub@me.com

Martha Curley

Children Hospital Boston, Boston, New York, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5228-6694, E-mail: curley@nursing.upenn.edu

Patricia Marck

University of Alberta Faculty of Nursing, Edmonton Alberta, Canadá, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8118-4195, E-mail: patricia.marck@ualberta.ca

Shigemi Kamitsuru

Shigemi Kamitsuru, Kangolabo, Tokyo, Japão, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9843-3856, E-mail: kamitsuru@kangolabo.jp

Sue Ann P. Moorhead

The University of Iowa, Iowa, Estados Unidos, Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9517-9909, E-mail: sue-moorhead@uiowa.edu

Escritório Editorial

Bruno Henrique Sena Ferreira

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (EPE-UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil, E-mail: actapaulista@unifesp.br

Authors should carefully read the instructions and consult the Publishing Standards before submitting any manuscript to Acta.

Submitted manuscripts must have the structure below:

Title (≤12 words)

Abstract (≤250 words)

Text from Introduction to Conclusion (≤3000 words; characters are not counted)

(Tables, charts, and figures (≤3)

References (≤35; in review articles: ≤50).

There are no requirements related to font type and size and paragraph spacing, as publishing standards are used.

When writing, respecting the spelling and grammatical rules is necessary. Manuscripts that do not respect these rules may be rejected immediately after submission. We suggest that authors forward their manuscripts to one of the indicated professionals for proofreading and editing before the first submission.

Academic plagiarism is a crime (at any level) and violates Brazilian legislation (Penal Code: art. 184; Law 9.610-98: § 3°, art. 7°) that regulates copyright. Thus, plagiarism is a civil and criminal matter.

In case of detected plagiarism, the editorial conduct follows the guidelines of the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE). 

Submitted manuscripts are the sole responsibility of the authors, regardless of the opinion of Acta editors. Any manuscript submitted to Acta cannot have simultaneously been published or forwarded to another journal; the manuscript will be rejected if this is identified. The veracity of information and bibliographic citations is also the responsibility of the authors. Acta follows the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Manuscripts can be submitted to Acta in the Portuguese, English, or Spanish languages. In the case of those written in English or Spanish, their final approved version must also be translated into Portuguese.

In the case of manuscripts written in Spanish (or English), the author must provide their translation into Portuguese and English (or Spanish). In this case, the article will be published in all three languages. If the authors of manuscripts written in Portuguese or English wish to publish the approved version also in Spanish, the Editorial Office must be consulted about this and the authors must provide its translation.

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically according to the instructions published on the website: http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ape-scielo

Original article: Complete prospective, experimental, or retrospective works. In this modality, authors must comply with the guidelines in the Preparation Guide for original articles in addition to presenting the checklist related to the study design.

Scope review: This type of manuscript explores the main concepts of the topic, verifying the dimension, scope, and nature of the studies, condensing and publishing the data, and pointing out the gaps in existing research. In this modality, authors must follow and present the JBI Scoping Review Network's Template for Scoping Review, registering the document in OSF.

Integrative review: Manuscript with a broad analysis of the literature, aiming to obtain a complete understanding of a given phenomenon based on previous experimental or non-experimental studies.

Systematic review: This is a review designed to answer a specific question using a systematic methodology to critically identify, select, and evaluate published studies, and analyze the data to be included. Meta-analysis: Statistical methods (meta-analysis) may (or may not) be used in the analysis and synthesis of the results in the included studies. In this modality, authors must follow and present the PRISMA checklist and register the document at the PROSPERO.

1. Documents for online submission

a) Cover letter: in this letter to the editor-in-chief, the author must explain why his/her manuscript should be published in Acta, summarizing the contribution of its results and conclusions to the current knowledge, and pointing out their applicability [File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: supplemental files not for review];

b) [In case of Original Article] Research conducted in Brazil involving human beings must present a project approval document by the Research Ethics Committee and/or CONEP as applicable (Ministry of Health, National/Brazilian Commission of Health: Res. CNS 466/2012, ch. XII.2). In studies with human beings, all patients (or their legal representatives) must agree to their participation in the study, signing the free and informed consent form (Ministry of Health, National/Brazilian Health Commission, CNS, Res. 466 /2012). Research involving human beings conducted in other countries must present local ethical documentation;

Research conducted in Brazil involving animals must present a document proving approval of the project by the Research Ethics Committee in the Care and Use of Animals, as applicable (CONCEA Normative Resolution, 30/2016). Research involving animals conducted in other countries must present a local ethical document (File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: CEP or CONEP Approval);

In the case of an Integrative and Systematic Scope Review Article, authors do not need to present the document mentioned above. However, authors must attach their statement informing that presentation of the ethical proof document is not necessary as it is a review article [File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: CEP or CONEP Approval];

c) Invoice of payment of the adequacy and compliance fee (File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: Payment voucher);

d) Attach the tax invoice related to the adequacy and compliance fee. The tax invoice must be requested at the link https://acta-ape.org/taxas-de-publicacao/; authors must click on Electronic Tax Invoice, fill out the form, and wait for contact from the Editorial Office (File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: Payment voucher);

e) Manuscript (see Main Document below) (File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: Main document);

f) Title Page (File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: Title Page);

g) Open Science Compliance Form (Template: File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: Copyright letter);

h) For the clinical trials below, authors must attach the corresponding checklist: randomized clinical trial (CONSORT); observational study in epidemiology (STROBE); qualitative study (COREQ); scope review [JBI Scoping Review Network Template for Scoping Review (File Name ScholarOne Manuscripts: Title Page)], and systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA).

2. Title Page must contain:

• Manuscript title (≤12 words; do not use capital font);
• The full names (without abbreviations) of the authors (≤8) and the Institutions to which they belong (required);
• Specification of the contributions of each author in preparing the manuscript according to the criteria of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: recognition based on substantial contribution concerning the following:

1. Conception and design or analysis and interpretation of data;

2. Writing of the manuscript or critical review of relevant intellectual content;

3. Final approval of the version to be published. These three conditions must be fully met; 

• Acknowledgments: The authors must thank all institutional or private sources of funding or support to carry out the study. Suppliers of free or discounted materials or equipment can be thanked including their origin (city, state, and country). In the case of a development agency, it can be specified that author AB received a grant, e.g.: To the National/Brazilian Council of Science and Technology, CNPq (or Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, CAPES, etc.); scholarship (research productivity, master's degree, etc.) for AB. In the case of a study carried out without institutional and/or private financial support, the authors must declare that the research received no funding for its completion.
• Conflicts of interest: authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest, including political and/or financial interests associated with patents, ownership, provision by manufacturers of materials and/or inputs, equipment, etc. used in the study;
• Clinical trials: studies conducted in Brazil containing partial or full results must present proof of clinical research registration or submission to the Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC) database. In cases before the date of publication by the Health Surveillance Agency (RDC 36; 06/27/2012) or studies conducted in other countries, proof of registration on other platforms (International Clinical Trials Registration Platform, ICTRP/OMS) will be accepted;
• In the case of systematic and scope review manuscripts (PROSPERO);
• Corresponding author: full name and email;
• The Orcid ID of all authors must be included.

3. Abstract

The abstract is an abbreviated presentation of a study. Its purpose is to facilitate communication with readers. It should provide the context or basis of the study, basic procedures, main results, and conclusions, emphasizing new and important aspects of the study. This is the most read part of the article after the title. The abstract must be written in the same language as the manuscript with ≤250 words and structured as follows:

• Objective: a sentence containing the main question and/or hypotheses to be tested;
• Methods: describe the study design, population, and basic procedures;
• Results: present the main result in a concise sentence. Levels of statistical significance and confidence interval, only when necessary;
• Conclusion: simple and direct phrase in response to the objective question based on the results.
• Five descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) that represent the study (list of descriptors in the LILACS Database, Bireme, available at http://decs.bvs.br/); the Nursing Thesaurus (International Nursing Index) or MeSH Keywords (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html) can be consulted as a supplementary list if necessary.

4. References

References to printed and/or electronic documents must follow the Vancouver Style, as developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.icmje.org). References must be aligned to the left margin. Periodical titles must be abbreviated according to the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus and International Nursing Index.

References contribute to convincing readers about the validity of the facts and arguments presented. They give credibility to the report when appropriately chosen. Therefore, only references from scientific journals indexed in international databases (which were fully consulted by the authors and have a direct and relevant relationship with the manuscript subject) should be cited. In the list of references, studies such as theses, dissertations, course conclusion works, handouts, annals, etc. should not be included. They cannot be retrieved in the original by readers, have not been published in scientific journals, and did not fully comply with the peer review process, thus having a reduced scientific expression.

The currentness of references must be considered as the citation of recent works (less than five years) is essential in original articles.

• In the text, citations must appear after the period at the end of the sentence (not in the middle of the sentence, if possible) being consecutively numbered (superscripted Arabic numerals, in parentheses) without mentioning the name of the authors. Citation numbers must be separated by a hyphen when the citations are sequential (3-7) or by a comma if they are interspersed (1,4,6,9) or sequential with two citations (3,4). In the final list, References must be numbered in the same order as the citation in the text. References to articles with full text in Portuguese (or a language other than English) must have the title in English (within square brackets), indicating the text language at the end of the reference (examples are available below). All references must be presented without any highlights (bold, italics, or underlined).
• References must be carefully checked so that readers can consult the material referenced in the original. Isolated publications or supporting materials (dictionaries, statistics, etc.) should not be referenced.

Acta's publishing standards should be consulted.

Up to six authors, cite all authors

More than six authors, list the first six followed by et al

Organization as Author

No specific of authorship

Volume with supplement

Fascicle with supplement

Volume in parts

Fascicle in parts

Fascicle without volume

No fascicle or volume

Article with published erratum

Article in press

Editorials

Documents in eletronic format

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem
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04024-002, São Paulo, SP, Brasil 
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