Submissions

Author Guidelines

Scope and editorial policy

The following is a compendium of publication standards. It is recommended to examine the full version on the website: http://www.vet.unne.edu.ar

The works, original and unpublished, must be related to veterinary sciences and be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. Works that have been exposed as free communications in congresses, conferences and scientific meetings are accepted. Manuscripts should not be simultaneously submitted to another journal/s.

Form and preparation of manuscripts

a. Please read the instructions carefully and follow them strictly, this will help the review and publication of the work to be as fast as possible.

b. Submit your manuscripts as documents in editable formats, preferably as a .doc or .docx file; written on A4 sheets (210 x 297 mm) numbered consecutively in the lower right corner, using Times New Roman font, size 12 p., justified text, one column, double spacing and 3 cm margins.

c. Manuscripts should not be simultaneously submitted to another journal/s.

d. Authors are recommended to examine a recent issue of the Revista Veterinaria in order to adapt to its style and format.

d. Manuscripts are pre-reviewed to ensure submission fits within the scope of the journal and that language and format requirements are met.

F. Manuscripts sent for publication are evaluated by two reviewers from to educational institutions and/or national and international research institutions.

g. The Editorial Committee decides on the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript when considering the criticisms received and the corresponding corrections suggested by rewievers.

h. You are invited to submit names and email contacts of 2 reviewers with experience and/or publications in the subject area and without conflict of interest (who must not be a member of your university, or someone you have published or collaborated with in the last 3 years).

Articles may be structured according to the following categories:

Research Article, Short Communications and Bibliographic Reviews.

Research Articles

They are original contributions that, due to the magnitude of the new knowledge generated, require extensive development, detailed methodological description, pertinent statistical treatment and adequate discussion of the results. The sections of the article will respond to the following ordering: title, authors, institution (with address), abstract, keywords, introduction, material and methods, results, discussion (or results and discussion), acknowledgments and references. The main subheadings (introduction, material and methods, results, discussion and references) will be written on the left margin (without indentation), in bold with an initial capital letter and the rest will be in lowercase. It is recommended that the number of bibliographical references does not exceed 30, a maximum number of 10 authors per paper and that the number of pages, including tables and figures, does not exceed 25.

Title

The title must be concise, but sufficiently informative of the content of the work, and must not exceed 150 characters, including spaces. Type in lowercase, except for the first letter (sentence type), bold highlighting, no abbreviations, no underlining, and centered. Genres and species, as well as Latin words, will be in italics. On the next line, provide an abbreviated title of up to 50 characters, including spaces.

The authors' last name will be entered in lower case, except for the first letter, followed by the initials of the name with a period. Separate co-authors by a comma. In the next line write the institution(s) to which the authors belong, including postal address, valid emails and ORCID numbers. Indicate with numbers (superscripts) the workplace of each author. Use an asterisk (*) to identify the sole author of correspondence and provide their email. It is recommended that the number of authors be consistent with the magnitude and importance of the research. It is recalled that international standards establish as authors those whose contribution was essential in the conception of the work, experimental design, interpretation of the results and writing of the article, for which they assume the scientific and legal responsibility of the contents poured into it. The people who have collaborated in taking samples, reviewing the manuscript, language correction and other collateral work should be mentioned in Acknowledgments, indicating the work done.

Abstract

Articles submitted in Spanish and English must include abstracts in both languages (Resumen and Abstract) and papers written in Portuguese will include abstracts in Portuguese (Resumo) and English. The abstracts must not exceed 300 words and will contain a synopsis of the objective, methodology, results and conclusions (with numerical expressions and statistical significance if applicable). Write in continuous form, without periods and asides. Head each abstract with the title of the work in both languages and, immediately after, up to six keywords or groups of words, separated by commas. Avoid the common use of technical terms with a restrictive meaning (significant, correlation, normal, random, sample, etc). Abstracts should not contain bibliographic citations, tables or figures.

Introduction

It will be brief and it will concisely detail the background, the origin of the researched problem and its importance, reserving the last paragraph to describe the objective of the work. The introduction should assume the logical foundation of the study, without incurring in extensive reviews on the subject. Each paragraph will start with an indentation of 12 mm. Any unusual acronym or abbreviation that is repeated in the text should be clarified when using it for the first time. Within the text, place citations in the name-year system, usually in parentheses, such as (Volkoff 2006). In case of multiple citations within a single parenthesis, order chronologically from oldest to most recent, and if multiple citations are from the same year, order them alphabetically. Two or more articles by the same author/s in the same year must be distinguished with letters (a, b, c, etc.) after the year. Two authors: use “and” between last names, and in case of three or more authors: use the last name of the first author followed by “et al.” (without italics and without separating the year of publication by a comma). Multiple citations within a single parenthesis will be separated by commas. Example: (Hernández et al. 2012a,b, Rovira 2012, Slanac et al. 2014, Mussart and Rosas 2022).

Material and methods

Describe the subjects or objects studied, as well as the procedures carried out, in such a way that another researcher can reproduce the experiment and obtain similar results. Only the new methods or the modifications introduced to pre-existing methods will be described in full, and the rest can be referred to with the usual name of the technique or a bibliographical citation. Subtitles may be used, for example: Experimental subjects, Sampling, Laboratory techniques. It is important to indicate the experimental design and the statistical analyzes performed, with the corresponding level of significance. When applicable, this section should indicate the Ethics Committee that evaluated the standards adopted for the maintenance and experimental treatments of animals.

Results

Express the results in a concrete, clear and sequential way, the use of tables and figures is advisable. Do not include data whose collection is not described in the methodology. Do not repeat in the text the data contained in tables and figures. If necessary, incorporate subheadings into the text. The numerical data and the units of magnitude may be expressed with their usual denomination (decimal metric system) or by applying the SI (international system of units). Remember that, with few exceptions, most units are written in lower case (except those derived from proper names), without a point and only in the singular. Decimals will be separated with a comma (Spanish, Portuguese) or a period (English). You may opt for the joint presentation of "Results and Discussion". Grammatically, the use of the indicative mood is suggested, both in the present tense (“this finding indicates that...”) and past tense in the passive voice (“the animals were examined...”), using the conditional mood when necessary (“the alteration found would be similar to that described by...").

Tables and Figures, of a size compatible with the Journal box, will be numbered consecutively in Arabic, with upper and lower legends respectively, inserted in the place where you want them to appear. They will be made with the same font used in the text, in black and white, without shading, without a frame. The number of tables and figures should not be excessive and will be related to the nature of the work. All must be cited in the text and their legends must be sufficiently explanatory of the content. The tables will be structured without interior vertical or horizontal lines, highlighting the significant differences and avoiding that the excess of data makes them confusing. For table footnotes, use superscript lowercase letters or asterisks to indicate statistical significance. The figures will be graphs, drawings or maps, as well as photographs with good contrast. Avoid isolated photographs by grouping them into figures. The figures will be sent as standard format files (TIFF, JPEG, GIF) and high quality (300 dpi). In the printed edition the figures will be reproduced in grayscale while in the online edition the figures will be reproduced in color.

Discussion

The discussion should revolve around the interpretation of the findings, without repeating data recorded in Results. It will focus exclusively on objectively confronting new knowledge in the context of previous antecedents, as well as making predictions that may give rise to new hypotheses. Conflicting findings should not be omitted or limitations of the study overlooked. The last paragraph must contain the pertinent conclusion, where the most important contributions of the research will be highlighted, which must be closely related to the proposed objectives. Do not draw conclusions that exceed the framework of the results.

Acknowledgments

The people or entities that collaborated in the development of the work (financial, technical or other support) will be mentioned, expressly indicating the type of help provided.

References

All the references mentioned in the body of the work must be cited in the bibliography, and this must not contain more references than those consigned in the text. They may list periodicals, books, theses, annals of scientific meetings, and online papers following the Citing Medicine standards (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/) and abbreviated names in the National Library of Medicine (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals/) or (https://academic-accelerator.com/Journal-Abbreviation-Search-Engine).

Examples of References:

Important: This is a change from our previous guidelines and will be effective from January 2023.

They will be listed in alphabetical order of authors.

Journal article:

Volkoff H. The role of neuropeptide Y, orexins, cocaine and amphetamine-related transcript, cholecystokinin, amylin and leptin in the regulation of feeding in fish. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. Part A Mol. Integr. Physiol. 2006; 144: 325-331.

Volkoff H. The neuroendocrine regulation of food intake in fish: a review of current knowledge. Front. Neurosci. 2016; 10: 1-31.

Volkoff H, Canosa LF, Unniappan S, Cerdá-Reverter JM, Bernier NJ, Kelly SP, Peter RE. Neuropeptides and the control of food intake in fish. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 2005; 142(1-2): 3-19.

Books:

Martin M. Small animal ECGs: an introductory guide. 3rd ed. Oxford (UK): John Wiley & Sons; 2015. p. 156.

Book chapter:

Brooks M. von Willebrand disease. In: Feldman BF, Zinkl JG, Jain NC, editors. Schalm's veterinary hematology. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; c2000. p. 509-15.

Doctoral or Master's Thesis:

Gutiérrez JE. Acciones de la leptina sobre la absorción de galactosa en el intestino del ternero. Tesis Doctoral (o PhD o MSci), Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina. 2003. p. 80-91.

Proceedings of congresses and conferences:

Gómez HF, Candia RJ. Efectos del ácido metacresol sulfónico en las úlceras granulomatosas del caballo. XXIII Sesión de Comunicaciones Científicas, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias UNNE, Corrientes, Argentina. 2002. p. 72-73.

Internet resources:

Villagran EN. Estrategias de venta del ganado bovino de los pequeños y medianos productores ganaderos del Dpto. Chamical. Tecnoárido. 2022; 4 (6): 57-61. Disponible en: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/12759. Último acceso #### 2022.

Short Communications

They are reports that require rapid publication (first finding), or short investigations, project progress reports, description of new techniques, casuistry data and -in general- they will cover the dissemination of new knowledge that can be summarized.. The organization of Short Communications will have the same structure as that of Research Articles although the titles of the different sections may be avoided (except for the abstracts in both languages, as well as references). It can contain up to a table and a figure. It is recommended that the number of bibliographical references does not exceed 15, a maximum number of 10 authors per paper and that the maximum length does not exceed 3000 words.

Bibliographic Reviews

They are updated compilations where different opinions on the same subject are contemplated, implying an exhaustive examination of all the knowledge published in this regard and the elaboration of their own conclusions from a critical discussion, requiring that the author or authors have extensive experience in the subject. They will contain summaries da a los autores examinar algún ejemplar reciente de la Revista Veterinaria con el fin de adecuarse a su estilo y formato.

Cuando el resultado es "correcciones", el manuscrito es devuelto al autor para que considere los cambios sugeridos por los revisores. El envío de la nueva versión debe cumplirse en un plazo no mayor a treinta días. Al remitir nuevamente el manuscrito revisado, se solicitará que las modificaciones sean realizadas en otro color de fuente para que los revisores puedan identificar rápidamente los cambios realizados. Además, se solicitará un documento adicional indicando cómo han tenido en cuenta los comentarios de los revisores (punto por punto). Luego, el trabajo se pone nuevamente a consideración de los revisores.

Cuando los dictámenes fueran opuestos, el Director se encargará de enviar el manuscrito a un tercer revisor.

Una vez aceptado el trabajo, se informará a los autores el volumen y el número en el cual será publicado.

Tiempo de evaluación: el proceso de revisión tiene una demora aproximada 12 semanas.

Los artículos podrán estructurarse acorde a las siguientes categorías:

Trabajos de Investigación, Comunicaciones Breves y Revisiones Bibliográficas.

Trabajos de Investigación

Son aportes originales que por la magnitud de los nuevos conocimientos generados requieren amplio desarrollo, detallada descripción metodológica, pertinente tratamiento estadístico y adecuada discusión de los resultados. Las secciones del artículo responderán al siguiente ordenamiento: título, autores, institución (con dirección), resumen, palabras clave, introducción, material y métodos, resultados, discusión (o resultados y discusión), agradecimientos y referencias. Los subtítulos principales (introducción, material y métodos, resultados, discusión y referencias) se escribirán sobre el margen izquierdo (sin sangría), en mayúscula y en negrita. Se recomienda que el número de referencias bibliográficas no exceda las 30, que el número de autores no supere los 10 y que el número de páginas, incluidas tablas y figuras, no sea superior a 25. Además, por lo menos el 70% de la misma debe ser actualizada (últimos 5 años).

Título

El título debe ser conciso, pero suficientemente informativo del contenido del trabajo, no debiendo superar los 150 caracteres, incluidos los espacios. Escriba en minúsculas, excepto la primera letra (tipo oración), resaltado en negrita, sin abreviaturas, sin subrayar y centrado. Géneros y especies, así como vocablos latinos, irán en cursiva. En el siguiente renglón, proporcione un título abreviado de hasta 50 caracteres, incluidos los espacios.

El apellido de los autores se consignará en minúsculas, excepto la primera letra, seguido de las iniciales del nombre con punto. Separe a los coautores por una coma. En el renglón siguiente escriba las institución/nes a la que pertenecen los autores, incluyendo dirección postal, correos electrónicos válidos y números ORCID. Indique con números (superíndices) los lugares de trabajo de cada uno de los autores. Use un asterisco (*) que identifique al único autor de correspondencia y proporcione su correo electrónico.

Autores

Se recomienda que la cantidad de autores sea coherente con la magnitud e importancia de la investigación. Se recuerda que las normas internacionales establecen como autores a aquellos cuya contribución fue esencial en la concepción del trabajo, diseño experimental, interpretación de los resultados y redacción del artículo, por lo cual asumen la responsabilidad científica y legal de los contenidos vertidos en el mismo. Se considera autores quienes cumplen con los siguientes requisitos: hizo contribuciones sustanciales a la concepción o diseño del trabajo; o la adquisición, análisis o interpretación de datos; colaboró en la redacción del trabajo o lo revisó críticamente; da la aprobación final de la versión a publicar y acepta ser responsable de todos los aspectos del trabajo. La Revista Veterinaria se adhiere al código de ética de “International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors” (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html) y a las recomendaciones para la realización, presentación de informes, edición y publicación de trabajos académicos (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/).

Las personas que hayan colaborado en la toma de muestras, revisión del manuscrito, corrección idiomática y otros trabajos colaterales deben consignarse en Agradecimientos, con indicación de la labor realizada.

Los nombres y direcciones proporcionados en esta revista se utilizarán exclusivamente para los servicios proporcionados por esta publicación, y no estarán disponibles para otros fines ni para terceros.

Resumen

Los artículos presentados en español e inglés deberán incluir resúmenes en ambos idiomas (Resumen y Abstract) y los trabajos escritos en portugués incluirán resúmenes en portugués (Resumo) e inglés. Los resúmenes no deben exceder las 300 palabras y contendrán una sinopsis del objetivo, metodología, resultados y conclusiones (con expresiones numéricas y significación estadística si correspondiere). Escriba en forma corrida, sin puntos y aparte. Encabece cada resumen con el título del trabajo en sendos idiomas y, a renglón seguido, hasta seis palabras clave (key words, palavras chave) o grupos de palabras, separadas por comas. Evite el uso corriente de términos técnicos de significado restrictivo (significativo, correlación, normal, aleatorio, muestra, etc). Los resúmenes no deben contener citas bibliográficas, Tablas o Figuras.

Introducción

Será breve y en ella se detallará en forma concisa los antecedentes, el origen del problema investigado y su importancia, reservando el último párrafo para describir el objetivo del trabajo. La introducción debe asumir el fundamento lógico del estudio, sin incurrir en revisiones extensas sobre el tema. Cada párrafo se iniciará con una sangría de 7,5 mm. Toda sigla o abreviatura inusual que se repita en el texto deberá ser aclarada al usarla por primera vez. Dentro del texto, coloque las citas en el sistema nombre-año, generalmente entre paréntesis, como (Volkoff 2006). En caso de citas múltiples dentro de un solo paréntesis, ordene cronológicamente a partir de la más antigua a la más reciente y si varias citas son del mismo año, ordénelas alfabéticamente. Dos o más artículos del mismo autor/es en el mismo año deben distinguirse con letras (a, b, c, etc.) después del año. Dos autores: use “y” (“and” en textos sometidos en inglés) entre apellidos, y en caso de tres o más autores: use el apellido del primer autor seguido de “et al.” (sin cursiva y sin separar el año de publicación por una coma). Citas múltiples dentro de un solo paréntesis serán separadas por coma. Ejemplo: (Hernández et al. 2012a,b, Rovira 2012, Slanac et al. 2014, Mussart y Rosas 2022).

Material y Métodos

Describa los sujetos u objetos estudiados, así como los procedimientos efectuados, de tal manera que otro investigador pueda reproducir el experimento y obtener resultados semejantes. Solo se describirán in extenso los métodos nuevos o las modificaciones introducidas a métodos preexistentes, pudiendo los restantes referirse con la denominación usual de la técnica o una cita bibliográfica. Podrán utilizarse subtítulos, por ejemplo: %3olicitud. En caso de aceptar, los árbitros deberán emitir su dictamen en un plazo no mayor de tres semanas.