ISSN 0120-2952
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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts
• Ethical considerations
• Sending of manuscripts

The “Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y de Zootecnia” publishes case reports as well as original, review, and opinion articles in all areas of veterinary medicine and animal science. Submissions accepted for evaluation will be sent to a minimum of two peer reviewers. In case of lack of consensus among the reviewers, the editor or editorial committee decides whether the contribution is accepted or not. When articles are accepted for publication the authors should revise them according to the peer’s observations within the timeframe given. Observations not taken into consideration shall be appropriately supported and will be evaluated by the corresponding editor. The editor and editorial committee reserve the right to accept or reject the contributions submitted.

For article submission to the editorial committee of the journal it is necessary to comply with the following requirements:

1. Contributions must be original and must not have been submitted to any other journal (except when they have been published as theses or as abstracts in a congress).

2. The authors transfer all publication rights to the journal, in both printed and electronic versions. Electronic versions include all databases where the journal has been indexed.

3. The article publication must have been approved by all coauthors and by the authorities where the research took place.

4. The submission must comply with all requirements described in the present document which can also be downloaded from the journal web site: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/remevez/index. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements will be returned to the authors without consideration for evaluation.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

The journal accepts the following types of original contributions:

• Scientific article: original scientific paper reporting the results of a research conducted under the scientific method. It typically contains four essential parts: Introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion (either individually or combined) and conclusions.

• Case report: report of clinical cases that become relevant and publishable due to their specific context.

• Review articles: critical review of a specific topic. This type of contribution is recommended only for authors with proved research experience in the topic. It should present not only a critical review of the state of the art of the topic but also a proposal of new areas to be investigated.

• Opinion article: critical thoughts about a specific scientific topic.

FORMAT
The article text must be submitted in MS-Word®, without tables or figures, which shall be sent in separate files. It is recommended that the text is not longer than 25 pages, letter size, numbered consecutively at the bottom right corner with margins of 2.5 cm on each side. Lines shall be numbered consecutively. Use Times New Roman 12 pt font.

Tables and figures shall be number consecutively in the text using Arabic numbers and shall be sent inserted in MS-Word® files as well as in its original format (e.g. jpg o MS-Excel®). All tables and figures must be mentioned in the text.

Title and authors
The article title must be written in English and Spanish, in bold, and centered. If scientific names are used, they must be written using the binomial system. The name of the authors must be written under the title as follows: given name initials (with periods) follow by the last name with no academic titles. Each author is separated of the next one by a comma. The corresponding author will be identified with an asterisk. Each author’s affiliation shall be shown as a footer including address, city and country as well as the electronic address of the corresponding author.

Summary and key words
Articles shall include a summary in English and another in Spanish which must contain up to 250 words. The summary shall include a brief description of all parts of the article including the objectives, materials and methods, results and discussion, and conclusions. The most important findings of the study should be highlighted in the abstract.

Key words (up to four) are terms for indexation of the article on databases and Internet search engines. They shall identify the article contents and. Key words shall be placed after the summary in each language. To select the key words it is recommended to consult the descriptors of the agricultural thesaurus AGROVOC of the FAO (http://aims.fao.org/website/Search/sub) and DeCS (http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh). These tools help select appropriate key words so that the article is more visible on the Internet.

Introduction
This section shall present a brief review of previous studies related to the topic of research and shall finish with a brief justification of the study and its objectives. The introduction shall not include data or conclusions of the study being described.

Materials and methods
This section must describe in clear, concise and logical form both the materials (animals, laboratory equipment, etc.) used as well as the detailed description of the techniques or protocols followed. This information given shall allow another research to be able to perform the same experiment(s) in detail. This section shall also describe the statistical treatment of the data and shall not include results or discussion of the results.

Results
This section shall describe the results in a logical order and in an objective and sequential fashion with the help of tables and figures. This section might include subheadings and shall not discuss the data presented.

Discussion
This section shall be a synthesis of the comparison of the observed data against published relevant literature with an interpretation of the similarities and differences found. It will focus on the interpretation of the experimental findings and shall not repeat information presented in the introduction or the results sections. In some cases it is possible to combine the results and discussion sections in one.

Conclusions
This section describes the most relevant findings of the research conducted, that is, those that make a significant contribution to the advancement of the specific topic investigated. It shall also point out towards future research needed.

Acknowledgements
When necessary, acknowledgements can be given in this section to people or institutions that helped with the satisfactory development of the study being reported.

Tables

• Too large tables shall be avoided. If there is too much information in a table it is recommended to split it in two or more.
• Each table shall have a short but explicative title on top (without abbreviations and with a period at the end).
• No vertical lines shall be included in the tables.
• Any additional explanation to the table shall be presented as a note at the bottom
• Column titles shall be short but explicative.
• Each table must be referenced in the text.

Figures

• Figures must be black and white with grayscale to show variations. The following symbols can be used for graphs: ▲, ■, ●, ♦, ◊, ○, □, ∆.
• Photographs or maps (either originals or scanned) must be sent as individual files, in tiff or jpg format and a minimum of 600 dpi of resolution. Additionally these graphs must be sent embedded in a MS Word® file with the title of the figure at the bottom.
• Figures shall be numbered with Arabic numbers, consecutively and each one must be referenced in the text.

Nomenclature

• Units must be expressed in the International System of Units (SI).
• Authors must follow the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
• All living organisms must be identified with the binomial system, except for common domestic animals.
• Drugs, biocides and all substances of commercial use shall be named by the active chemical ingredient or generic name (not the commercial name).
• For chemical notation authors must follow the rules of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature.

References
For referring publications in the text, the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style must be used: “author(s) year” system shall be used for one or two authors (Jiménez 2009), (Pineda y Rodríguez 2010); if the publication has three or more authors the last name of the first author is cited with the latin expression et al. in italic: (Bernard et al. 2003). When more than one reference is cited they shall be organized in alphabetical order, separated by a semicolon (;): (Hänsel and Gretel 1990; Hergé et al. 1983). When the author is cited within the sentence the same notation shall be used but with the year in brackets: Wagner (1982) found out that water wets but Vivaldi and Pergolessi (1988) do not agree; the researchers Magendie et al. (1845) discovered that dogs have four legs. The complete references shall be included at the end of the article according to the format described below. When two or more references of the author are cited they shall be listed in chronological order starting with the oldest one.

Contributions that do not comply with the references’ requirements will be returned to the authors without consideration for publication.

For more information about the Council of Science Editors (CSE) style:

http://www.scientificstyleandformat.org/Tools/SSF-Citation-Quick-Guide.html

• Book

Gilman AG, Rall TW, Nies AS, Taylor P. 1990. The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. 8th ed. New York: Pergamon Press. 1811 p.

• Book chapter

Diaz GJ. 2001. Naturally occurring toxins relevant to poultry nutrition. In: Leeson S, Summers JD editores. Scott’s Nutrition of the Chicken. 4th ed. Guelph: University Books. p. 544-591.

• E-Book

Rollin, BE. 1998. The unheeded cry: animal consciousness, animal pain, and science [Internet]. Ames(IA): Iowa State University Press. [Citado 2008 agosto 9]. Available in: http://www.netlibrary.com.

• Journal article

Hepworth PJ, Nefedov AV, Muchnik IB, Morgan KL. 2010. Early warning for hock burn in broiler flocks. Avian Pathol 39:405-409.

Please note that the initials of all author’s given names must be included.

• Journal article published only online

Leng F, Amado L, McMacken R. 2004. Coupling DNA supercoiling to transcription in defined protein systems. J Biol Chem [Internet]. [citado 2007 July 24]; 279(46):47564-47571. Available in: http://www.jbc.org/cgi/reprint/279/46/47564.

Other

• Congress/Symposium abstracts or chapters

Cheeke PR. 2010. Agricultural and pharmaceutical applications of Chilean soapbark tree (Quillaja saponaria) saponins. In: 8th International Symposium on Poisonous Plants; 2009 mayo 4-8, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil, p. 38.

• Thesis:

Murcia HW. 2010. Identificación funcional de citocromos involucrados en la biotransformación in vitro de aflatoxina B1 por medio de sustratos modelo e inhibidores específicos en cuatro especies de aves. [Tesis de maestría]. [Bogotá, Colombia]Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Italic font must be used for Latin names (binomial system) and words or expression written in a different language.

• The meaning of abbreviations must be explained in full the first time they are used. Afterwards use only the abbreviation.

• Abbreviations do not have a plural form: one NGO, two ELISA.

• SI abbreviations shall not have a period at the end or be written in plural or upper case letters: 1 kg, 25 g, 10 cm, 30 m, etc. The abbreviations must commonly used in this journal are:

km       kilometer
m         meter
cm       centimeter
mm      millimeter
µm       micrometer
nm       nanometer
kg        kilogram
g         gram
mg       milligram
µg       microgram
ng       nanogram
l          liter
ml        milliliter
µl        microliter
m        mol
M        molar
mM      millimolar
µM       micromolar
N         normal
ppm     parts per million (1 x 10-6)
ppb      parts per billion (1 x 10-9)
cpm     counts per minute
dpm     disintegrations per minute
s          seconds
min      minutes
h          hour
sc        subcutaneous
im        intramuscular
ip         intraperitoneal
iv         intravenous
po        oral

• Always insert a space between the numeric value and the symbol: 35 g (not 35g), p > 12 (not p>12); except for the signs %, +, - (these last two when meaning positive and negative). For example: 99%, +45, -37.

• In a series of measurements the symbol goes at the end. For example: 3, 6 and 9 m (except for the percentage sign which is always written: 14%, 16% and 18%).

• The slash bar (/) is a linguistic sign used sometimes instead of the word per: ten chicks /pen, 4 tablet/d, 10 fruits/branch. This symbol can be used in a non linguistic context to express quotients of measurement and unit magnitudes: 80 km/h, 10 ml/min, 10°C/h.

• The sign period can be used in a non linguistic context to indicate multiplication. In this case it is used separated and in the middle: 6 · 3 = 18; 2 · (x + y) = 30.

• En English language the period (.) is used to separate decimals and the comma (,) to separate thousands.

• Name-based units must be written in lower case (for example: one siemens), except when they are derived from a proper name: °C, degrees Celsius.

Contributions may be submitted in Spanish, English or Portuguese through the e-mail address rev_fmvzbog@unal.edu.co or revistafmvzun@gmail.com.