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Author Guidelines

Manuscript Submission for Brazilian Journal of Dentistry (BJDOR)

When submitting a manuscript to BJDOR, the authors must ensure that their work is original, unpublished, and not being considered elsewhere. The submission indicates that all co-authors have consented to the publication. BJDOR emphasizes that the accountability for the content lies with the authors, and the publisher will not bear legal responsibility for any compensation claims.

Online Submission

Authors should utilize the Submit manuscript hyperlink for uploading their manuscript files, following the on-screen instructions. Ensure that the manuscript is anonymized to facilitate blind review. Author details, including full names, affiliations, and ORCID iDs, must be provided separately during the submission process. BJDOR requires ORCID iDs for all authors to support research integrity and dissemination. The submission process involves confirming ORCID registration, including iDs in the form, and our system's verification for authenticity. Submissions lacking ORCID iDs will not proceed. BJD accepts manuscripts in English and Portuguese.

Authorship Guidelines

BJDOR adheres to the ICMJE guidelines for authorship, which require significant involvement in the work's creation, critical revision for intellectual content, final approval of the version to be published, and accountability for the work's integrity. Contributors who do not meet these criteria should be acknowledged separately. The clarification of each author's contribution is essential.

Research and Publication Ethics 

BJDOR maintains a dedicated section on its platform outlining the ethical guidelines for research involving human subjects. These guidelines are essential for ensuring the integrity and ethical conduct of the research published in our journal. Please see the ethical guidelines hyperlink.

Text Formatting

For BJDOR manuscript submissions, use Word in a 12-point Palatino font, applying italics for emphasis. Ensure automatic page numbering is active, avoid field functions, use tabs for indents, create tables with the table function, and save documents in doc. format (Word 2010 or higher). No standard format is required initially; formatting will be refined by BJD's copy editing team upon acceptance.

For all manuscript types submitted to the BJDOR, include the following sections: Title, Author list and affiliations, Corresponding author information, Research Ethics Committee Approval (if needed), an unstructured Abstract of up to 200 words, and Keywords. For keyword selection, it's recommended to use Health Sciences descriptors (DeCS) available at https://decs.bvsalud.org/. These elements should adhere to the specific article template provided by the journal.

Key-words: Maximum of 5 keywords (separated by semicolons) based on MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) from the National Library of Medicine.

All figures and tables must be included in the main manuscript.

Tables

All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals and should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order. For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.

Figures

All figures should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and must be inserted in the body of the text (in the template file). 

References

Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets (ie. [1]). The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively. If available, please always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list. All references must be inserted in the list in NLM format.

Authors must follow the following reference styles for their manuscript (do not use "et al."):

Journal article (without DOI): Costa MB, Farias IR, da Silva Monte C, Filho LIPF, de Paula Borges D, de Oliveira RTG, Ribeiro-Junior HL, Magalhães SMM, Pinheiro RF. Chromosomal abnormalities and dysregulated DNA repair gene expression in farmers exposed to pesticides. Environ Toxicol Pharmacol. 2021 Feb;82:103564.

Journal article (with DOI): de Oliveira RTG, Cordeiro JVA, Vitoriano BF, de Lima Melo MM, Sampaio LR, de Paula Borges D, Magalhães SMM, Pinheiro RF. ERVs-TLR3-IRF axis is linked to myelodysplastic syndrome pathogenesis. Med Oncol. 2021 Feb 17;38(3):27. doi: 10.1007/s12032-021-01466-1.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section after the references section.

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of interest must be disclosed in a distinct section following the acknowledgments. Guided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, authors are advised not to engage in agreements with sponsors that could restrict their access to data or impede their ability to analyze, interpret, and independently publish their findings. Authors are required to declare any relationships or interests that might unduly influence their work.

Funding: All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed in a separate section after the conflict of interest section.

Plagiarism is expressly prohibited in BJDOR submissions. Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving any credit to the original source. BJDOR reserves the right to hire a plagiarism check service if it identifies textual or data abnormalities in the manuscript submission.

The BJDOR recommends the use of statements, checklists and flowcharts for awareness of authors in relation to the development of your study (e.g., CARE,  CONSORT, STARD, STREGA, PRISMA, SQUIRE, COREQ, ENTREQ, CHEERS, and SAMPL).

More structural details of each article type are described in the sections below (last modified January 2022).

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

Copyright Notice

When submitting the manuscript to the Brazilian Journal of Dentistry and Oral Radiology (BJDOR), the authors confirm to assign to the BJDOR the copyright in the manuscript and any tables, illustrations or other material submitted for publication as part of the manuscript in all forms and media (whether now known or later developed), throughout the world, in all languages, for the full term of copyright, effective when the manuscript is accepted for publication.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

  •  Licença Creative Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional License.
  • Authors assign copyright to the journal, including the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (cc-by), which allows sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this magazine.
  • Authors are authorized to assume additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, to publish in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (eg, in institutional repositories or on their personal page) after initial publication in the journal.