Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- I read the instructions to authors located at https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/ASSN/normas
- The submission has not been previously published, including in another language, or is it in the process of being evaluated for another journal, or its content coincides with other published content.
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The file to send is a Microsoft Word document and fulfills the requirements stated in the instructions to authors.
- The entire URL into the text work and can be followed.
- Tables and/or figures fulfill the requirements stated in instructions to authors.
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The bibliographic references listed in References section fulfills the style requirements indicated in the Instructions to Authors; these requirements are located at
https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/ASSN/estilorefs - The first page of the manuscript must include all the elements listed under Manuscript structure / First page into instructions to authors.
- To ensure blind peer review, the text must be anonymized. You are advised to delete information regarding authorship and/or organization from the file; File / Information - Properties.
- The anonymized text of the manuscript is preceded by the abstract and keywords (in Spanish and English) and followed by the cited bibliographic references, whose accuracy has been verified.
- The verified files must be ready for uploading (step 2), along with the cover letter containing the data requested in the instructions for authors.
- In the third step you will be asked to complete the metadata of the submission. Spanish and English titles, abstracts prepared in Spanish and English, up to five keywords in both Spanish and English, along with personal data for each author (name, last name, e-mail, ORCID, affiliation) must be ready for copying and pasting into the appropriate fields.
Editorial
Contribution requested, and evaluated by, the Draft Board on a specific topic of interest and/or in relation to an article from the next issue. Unsolicited editorials will be evaluated by the editorial team and/or subjected to peer review before decide on their acceptance. They are limited up to: 2 authors, 20 references and 1,200 words; abstract not required.
Special Collaboration
These are manuscripts that do not fit into other sections, such as consensus documents or articles that provide original opinions, always on topics considered relevant by the editorial team. Up to: 6 authors, 2,500 words (not including bibliography, abstract or legends/footnotes to tables and figures), 30 references, and 6 tables and/or figures are recommended; the abstract will be unstructured of 150 words.
Research articles
Original research carried out with quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodology, of an observational or interventional type. Its content will be organized in the following sections: Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion and References. Up to: 6 authors, 30 references, 3,500 words (not including bibliography, abstract or legends/footnotes to tables and figures) and 6 tables and/or figures is recommended; The abstract will be structured with a maximum length of 250 words.
Short articles
This section will consider research papers that, due to their special characteristics (series with a small number of observations, research papers with very specific results, descriptive epidemiological studies, extensive series of cases studied with a specific objective whose data have been statistically analyzed, among others) can be published in an abbreviated form. The same rules apply as for original articles, except for a maximum of: 1,800 words, 15 references, 3 tables and/or figures; the abstract will be structured with a maximum length of 150 words.
Review article
Systematic reviews (mainly), with or without meta-analysis, on topics of interest are welcome. Up to: 6 authors, 5,000 words (excluding references, abstract, legends/footnotes to tables and figures), 60 references, 6 tables and/or figures is recommended; the structured abstract will have a maximum length of 150 words.
Clinical notes
Description of one or more cases providing relevant clinical knowledge to the reader. Its content is organized in Introduction, Clinical Case, Discussion and References. Up to: 4 authors, 1,800 words (excluding bibliography, abstract, legends/footnotes to tables and figures), 15 references, and 3 tables and/or figures is recommended; the abstract will be unstructured with a maximum length of 150 words.
Letters to the Editor
Comments on articles previously published in Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra are welcome, which will be sent to the author of the related article offering them the right of reply. Letters with unusual observations and opinions on topics of interest to the reader of the magazine are also welcome. Up to: 4 authors, 1,000 words, 10 references and 1 table and/or figure is recommended; abstract is not required. These letters will be reviewed by the editorial team and subject to peer review at the editors’ discretion.
Copyright Notice
Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra is published by the Department of Health of the Government of Navarra (Spain), which holds the copyright over the published content, which is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. 4.0.
Authors are allowed and encouraged to electronically disseminate the preprint (version submitted to the journal) and/or postprint (version accepted for publication) versions of their manuscripts. Likewise, they are allowed and encouraged to self-archive, deposit or include the published version of their manuscript in institutional, national or international repositories, explicitly indicating that the manuscript was published for the first time in Anales del Sistema Sanitario Navarra (year, volume and DOI identifier from the article).
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