Submissions

Author Guidelines

Scope and Editorial Policy

Manuscripts must be original and unpublished, related to veterinary sciences, and written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. Papers previously presented as free communications at scientific congresses, conferences, or symposia are accepted. Manuscripts must not be submitted simultaneously to other journals.

Manuscript Preparation

As part of the submission process, authors must ensure that their manuscript meets all the requirements listed below. Submissions that fail to comply with the standards will be returned to the authors.

Read these instructions carefully and follow them rigorously, as this will help ensure that the review and publication process is as fast as possible.

• Submit manuscripts in editable formats, preferably in .doc or .docx files, written on A4 paper (210 × 297 mm) with 3 cm margins, page numbers placed consecutively at the bottom right, using Times New Roman font size 12, justified text, single column, double spacing, and continuous line numbering.
• Manuscripts must not be submitted simultaneously to other journals. See Letter to the Editor: Request for Article Publication.
• Authors are advised to examine a recent issue of Revista Veterinaria to ensure alignment with its style and format.
• All manuscripts are subject to a preliminary review to confirm that the presentation aligns with the journal’s scope, meets language and format requirements, and passes anti-plagiarism screening.
• Submitted manuscripts are evaluated by two reviewers affiliated with national or international educational and/or research institutions under a single-blind review system (reviewers remain anonymous). Reviewers do not receive compensation.
• The Editorial Committee reserves the right to reject manuscripts that are not relevant to the journal’s thematic scope or that do not comply with the current style guidelines. Reviewer feedback and corresponding author responses will also be considered in editorial decisions.
• Authors are invited to provide names and email addresses of two potential reviewers with experience and/or publications in the relevant subject area, free from conflicts of interest (i.e., not members of the same institution and without co-authorship or collaboration within the last three years). The Editorial Committee reserves the right to select reviewers at its discretion.
• Reviewers are invited by email and have one week to accept or decline the invitation. If they accept, reviewers must submit their report within three weeks.
• All manuscripts undergo the same review process, with four possible editorial outcomes: Accepted, Minor Revisions, Major Revisions, or Rejected. If both evaluations are unfavorable, the manuscript is rejected and returned with reviewers’ reports.
• For manuscripts requiring revision, authors must submit the new version within 30 days. Changes should be highlighted in a different font color to allow reviewers to easily identify modifications. Additionally, authors must provide a point-by-point response document explaining how each reviewer comment was addressed. The revised manuscript will then be re-evaluated.
• If the reviewers’ opinions are contradictory, the Editor will assign the manuscript to a third reviewer. Once accepted, authors will be informed of the volume and issue in which their article will appear. Review time: approximately 12 weeks.
• Articles may be submitted under the following categories: Research Articles, Short Communications, and Review Articles.

Research Articles

These are original contributions whose scope and scientific relevance justify a full-length format, detailed methodological descriptions, appropriate statistical analyses, and comprehensive discussion of the results.

The article should be structured in the following order: Title, Authors, Affiliation (with address), Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion (or Results and Discussion), Acknowledgments, and References.

Main section headings (INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, REFERENCES) should be aligned to the left margin (no indentation), written in uppercase and bold.

It is recommended that the number of references not exceed 30, the number of authors not exceed 10, and the total length (including tables and figures) not exceed 25 pages. At least 70% of the references must be recent (within the last 5 years).

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 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 the excess of data that makes them confused. 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 contrasts. 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

These are reports that require rapid publication (e.g., first records or discoveries), short investigations, project progress reports, descriptions of new techniques, or case data. They aim to disseminate new findings that can be summarized concisely. Whenever possible, they should follow the structure of a research article, though without section headings (except for abstracts in both languages and references). They may contain one table and one figure only. The number of references should not exceed 15, the number of authors 10, and the total length 3,000 words.

 

Review Articles

Review Articles are comprehensive and updated syntheses that discuss different viewpoints on a specific topic. They must include a thorough examination of all relevant published knowledge and provide original conclusions through critical analysis. At least one author must demonstrate extensive experience in the subject area. They must include abstracts in both languages, and be organized into sections such as: Objectives, Thematic Subsections, Conclusions, and References (minimum of 60 citations). They may include up to 5 tables and 5 figures, and must not exceed 50 typed pages. All tables and figures must be original; otherwise, written permission from the copyright holder is required for reproduction.

 

Manuscript Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted via email to: revista@vet.unne.edu.ar. Each submission must include a Request for Publication Form, signed by all authors, and a Checklist (Copyright Form), through which the work becomes the property of the journal. Authors are advised to keep a copy of all submitted materials, as the Journal is not responsible for any damage or loss of submitted files. If you encounter any difficulties, contact the Administration of Revista Veterinaria at: secadm@vet.unne.edu.ar.

Authors must pay close attention when reviewing the final proof (galley proof), since it will be published verbatim. Copies may be obtained from the aforementioned website.

Works involving animals that do not comply with current ethical standards will not be accepted. The statements and opinions expressed in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors.

 

Processing and Publication Costs

Each manuscript is subject to a Processing Fee. If accepted for publication, authors must also pay a Publication Fee, which does not include reproduction of color figures or photos in the printed version (see applicable rates).

 

Privacy Statement

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