Submissions

Author Guidelines

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy adheres to the submission of contributions: "your manuscript, your way"

Authors can submit their manuscript (text, figures and tables) in two files. The first file contains the initial page with the identification of the authors and the second file is the anonymous manuscript. It can be a Word or PDF file in any format or design, and figures and tables can be placed inside the text.
Figures should be of sufficient quality for review.
There are no strict format requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements necessary to evaluate a manuscript (Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Conclusions, Figures and Tables).
References can be in any style or format as long as the style is consistent. Name(s) of the author(s), journal title/book title, article title (when necessary), year of publication, volume and chapter/book number and pagination must be present. DOI is recommended.

These are all of the guidelines you need for your initial submission.

LANGUAGE

Every manuscript should be written in English. Medical terminology should follow the latest version of Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Saunders). Abbreviations should be entirely written in the text's first appearance and should be abbreviated in parentheses. After that, the abbreviation can be used instead of the full term. Numbers should be in Arabic numerals. Weight and other measurements should be written in the unit's CGS (centimeter-gram-second) system.

STYLE

The file must present the following: Abstract, Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments, Bibliographic references and tables and/or illustrations. The complete final file must be sent only in DOC format (Microsoft Word).

INITIAL PAGE

Title: Authors must provide the titles of the manuscript (maximum 15 words). The title should be concise, reflect the study design or type of article (e.g., randomized controlled trial, systematic review), and contain key terms to help electronic searches locate the article.

Heading title: Must also have a running title (maximum of 8 words).

Authors: List of the authors' data, corresponding author's data (full name, address and email), identification number/approval of the Research Ethics Committee, if applicable. Each author's individual contribution in the manuscript's development must also be specified.

Funding must be reported on the initial page. The authors must state if institutional and/or private resources did not fund the study.

KEYWORDS

Authors must submit at least three and at most six keywords that they consider as descriptors of the content of their work. These descriptors should be standardized according to MeSH (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh).

TEXT

Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy strongly recommends that authors follow the recommendations of international consensus reports for specific types of articles such as:

STROBE guidelines for observational studies (www.strobe-statement.org)

CONSORT for clinical trials (http://www.consort-statement.org/

STARD for studies of diagnostic tests (http://www.stard-statement.org)

PRISMA for meta-analysis (http://www.prismastatement.org/

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Recognize only people who have contributed to the scientific content or provided technical support. Authors must obtain written permission signed by all those listed in the acknowledgments section. The correspondent author must also state that he has listed all those who contributed significantly to work in the acknowledgments section.

ILLUSTRATIONS

They should be included at the end of the manuscript and are not allowed to be sent in separate pages. They must be sufficiently clear to allow their reproduction in a reduced form when necessary. Include them after the references at the end of the manuscript (in a single file).

REFERENCES

References should follow the standards outlined in "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals," published by the "International Committee of Medical Journal Editors" at http://www.icmje.org/.

They should be inserted in the text, listed according to their order of appearance and specify:

The authors' last name followed by the initial of the first name, separating them with a comma, up to a maximum of six; if there are more than six, only the first six are cited and the expression et al is added. Period.

Work title. Period.

Abbreviated name of the journal according to conventions published in: List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus: http: // www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals

Year of publication. Semicolon.

Volume. Colon.

The initial and final page of the text. Period.

Examples:

• Rodríguez L, Alva A, Coronel J, Caviedes L, Mendoza-Ticona A, Gilman R, et al. Implementación de un sistema de telediagnóstico de tuberculosis y determinación de multidrogorresistencia basada en el método Mods en Trujillo, Perú. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica. 2014;31(3):445-53.
• Garcia-Pinzas J, Wong JE, Fernández MA, Rojas-Espinoza MA. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: diagnosis in primary care. Rev Paul Pediatr. 2013;31(1):124-8.

Accepted bibliographic references that have not yet been published can be cited by adding the phrase: in press.

References obtained from the Internet that do not correspond to electronic versions of periodic publications indexed in Index Medicus / Medline must include the chapter name or text heading, complete electronic address, and date of access to the information.

To quote book chapters, the following order must be respected: author(s) of the chapter, name of the chapter, name of the author(s) of the book, title of the book, edition, city of publication, publisher, year, initial pages and end of the chapter.

• Musher DM. Chapter 200: Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, editors. Mandell, Douglas and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 7th ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2010, p. 2623-2642.

TABLES

List tables using Arabic numerals in the order in which they appear in the text. Tables should have titles that concisely describe the table's contents so that the reader can understand the table without consulting the text. Tables may contain abbreviations, but they must include a footnote that explains the abbreviation. Provide the units of measure for all numeric data in a column or row. Place the units of a measure under a column heading or at the end of a side header only if those units are applied to all the numeric data in the column or row.

IMAGES

List figures with Arabic numerals in the order in which they appear in the text. Each figure must have a figure caption that starts with a short title. Explain all abbreviations and symbols in the figure, even if an explanation appears in the text. For histological slide images, provide staining and magnification data at the end of the caption for each figure part. If a scale marker does not appear in the figure, provide the original magnification used during the observation, not that of the photographic impression.

ABBREVIATIONS

When they are cited for the first time, they must be printed immediately after the complete term. Abbreviations should not be used in the title or in the abstract.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively to Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy, and their simultaneous submission to another journal is not allowed. The opinions and concepts issued in any of the sections of Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy are the entire responsibility of their authors.

The submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been previously published, except in the form of a summary or an academic thesis, in which case, this should be mentioned in the CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST statement.

AUTHORSHIP

All authors must have made substantial contributions in each of the following aspects: (1) the conception and design of the study, the acquisition of data, or the analysis and interpretation of the data, (2) the draft of the article or the critical review of the intellectual content, (3) the final approval of the version presented.

Authors are advised to carefully review the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript for the first time. Any addition, deletion or reordering of the names of authors after the manuscript has been submitted will not be permitted.

Author Contributions Section for Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy

At Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy, we endorse the “CRediT” taxonomy of contributor roles and encourage authors to use this taxonomy when providing an Author Contributions section for research papers. Below, we provide the taxonomy as well as an example of a recent Author Contributions section reorganized to use this format.

CRediT Taxonomy Terms and Definitions

• Conceptualization: Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
• Methodology: Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
• Software: Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
• Validation: Verification, whether as part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
• Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
• Investigation: Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
• Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
• Data Curation: Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.
• Writing – Original Draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
• Writing – Review & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.
• Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
• Supervision: Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
• Project Administration: Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
• Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Sample CRediT author statement

Juan Perez: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software Ana Garcia.: Data curation, Writing- Original draft preparation. Jorge Lopez: Visualization, Investigation. Maria Rodriguez: Supervision.: Miguel Hernandez: Software, Validation.: Sofia flores: Writing- Reviewing and Editing

For single authors, use the following wording:

The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

The authors must inform the editors of any financial or personal relationship with other individuals or organizations that could possibly have negatively influenced their work in any way. They must also notify the editors if the research has received funding.