Submissions

Author Guidelines

Onco.News Journal meets the criteria of a magazine with international dissemination, indexed and published in the physical document and electronic format in several national and international databases. The authors' interest in submitting quality scientific articles gives prestige to the Journal, so we pay the most significant attention to the review processes to safeguard scientific and ethical principles of editing and dissemination.

The Journal follows the rules of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and, therefore, uses the Vancouver bibliographic style for citation and referencing. The content of the articles is the exclusive responsibility of their authors. They are responsible for respecting the ethical principles of research and complying with the norms and guidelines for editing the Journal. When publishing in the Journal, the authors keep the copyright.

The rules of the new orthographic agreement are considered, so the Editor safeguards its right to change terms from Brazilian Portuguese to Portuguese from Portugal. The articles are organized according to the Vancouver bibliographic style of the ICMJE standards, according to a specific category (Research Articles; Theoretical/Review; Literature Reviews, etc.) or Literature Reviews (Systematic or Integrative). Systematic Reviews to be published in the Journal must comply with the evidence synthesis requirements implemented by the Portugal Center for Evidence-Based Practice, in line with Cochrane policies; Cochrane – Reviews:

Here, authors have a guide to assist them in the manuscript submission process.

Article Structure

Authors have two templates available to submit to the journal:

• Title page identifies the authors and contains the primary information of the article. The template is available here.
• Article: ensures blind review, as it removes all data that can identify the article's authors. The template is available here.

The article template is based mainly on the following items:

– Type of Article: They must be original articles and cover topics of Oncology, Nursing and Education, structured according to the guide below, appropriate to their typology.

– Title: It should be informative and concise, written in the affirmative, in Portuguese or Spanish (maximum of 15 words), without abbreviations or indication of the research location. All works must have a translated title in English.

– Abstract: The abstract of the work must be presented in Portuguese or Spanish and in English. It must not exceed 150 words. It must be structured according to each article's specific critical analysis topics.

– Keywords: The article must have a maximum of 5 keywords, transcribed according to the MeSH descriptors, in Portuguese or Spanish, English (Search at: http://decs.bvs.br/.) Find a descriptor for a keyword considered relevant in the study. The decision of the author can include it.

– Text: Text structure:

Research Articles must contain the following sections: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Background/Theoretical Foundation, Research Questions/Hypotheses, Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.

Theoretical Articles must contain the following sections: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Development/Dissertation and Conclusion.

Note: Exceptionally, in qualitative studies, to facilitate the work of comprehensive analysis, the Results and Discussion sections may be merged.

Articles of Systematic Review must contain the sections: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Method of Systematic Review, Presentation of Results, Interpretation of Results and Conclusion.

Integrative Review Articles must contain the sections: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methodological Procedures for Integrative Review, Results and Interpretation, and Conclusion.

Non-research articles must contain the following sections: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Development and Conclusion.

Editorials must contain: Open text of 1500 words, not including the list of references and notes if applicable.

Case studies must contain: Title, Abstract, Keyword, Introduction, Conclusion and Bibliographic References if applicable.

– Format: Must follow the structure of the template provided here. The article should not exceed 15 pages, including bibliographic references, tables and figures (graphs, images, etc.).

NB: Authors should pay the most significant attention to the morphological and syntactic aspects of the speech, avoiding errors, redundancies, jargon…

– Tables and figures (graphs, images, etc.): Only those necessary for understanding the article should be included. They must be referred to in the text and be numbered in order of inclusion, depending on each type. When the authors do not construct them, they must contain the Source.

– Citations: Citations can be direct or indirect. In the direct or textual citation, the literal transcription of the original text must be presented in quotation marks and accompanied by the author, publication date and page number. The indirect citation, or paraphrase, must accompany the author and publication date. In-text citations should follow the Vancouver bibliographic style. All cited authors must appear in the list of bibliographic references.

– Bibliographic references: The selected references should preferably be primary. They should highlight the most representative publications of the State of the Art, particularly those of the last five years. The sources must be located, favouring the search in databases of indexed national and international journals. Bibliographic references must prepare following the Vancouver bibliographic style. All references must mention in the article.

CRedit – Taxonomy for Author Contributions

Onco.News follows the guidelines on authorship established by the ICMJE in the Statement on Authorship and Contribution, available here.

Only those who meet the four criteria for authorship identified below are considered authors:

1) They have a substantial, direct intellectual contribution to the design and preparation of the article;

2) They participate in the analysis and interpretation of the data;

3) Participate in writing the manuscript, reviewing versions and critically reviewing the content and approving the final version;

4) Agree that they are responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the entire work.

All other actors who have contributed to the study or the article and who do not meet the above criteria must be acknowledged in the Acknowledgements section and their contribution must be specified.

Artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT cannot be identified as authors, as they are not legal entities and cannot state the presence or absence of conflicts of interest or establish copyright and license agreements, as can be seen here.

If artificial intelligence tools or technologies are used (e.g. Large Language models, chatbots, etc.), the authors must inform this in the body of the article and in the "comments to the editor" field at the time of submission.

Information on the individual contribution of each author to a scientific production must be placed on the title page of the article, according to the template provided here. For this, authors must use the methodology called “Contributor Roles Taxonomy” (CRedit) – https://credit.niso.org/

The CRedit taxonomy came about because most conventions on individual authors' contributions do not represent researchers' various roles in articles. In this way, CRedit is a taxonomy representing each author's contribution in 14 specific functions. The 14 functions are as follows:

1- Conceptualization: ideas, formulation or evolution of comprehensive research objectives and goals;

2- Data curation: management activities regarding the production of metadata, cleaning and maintenance of research data (including software code) for initial use and reuse;

3- Formal analysis: application of statistical, mathematical, computational or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize the study data;

4- Acquisition of financing: acquisition of financial support for the project;

5- Research: carrying out a research process, explicitly carrying out experiments and collecting data/evidence;

6- Methodology: development or design of methodology and/or creation of models;

7- Project administration: management and coordination responsibility for the planning and execution of research activities;

8- Resources: supply of study materials, materials, laboratory samples, instruments, computing resources or other analysis tools;

9- Software: programming, software development, design of computer programs, implementation of computer code and support algorithms, testing of existing code components;

10- Supervision: supervision and leadership responsibility for the planning and execution of the investigation activity, including external guidance to the central team;

11- Validation: verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replicability of results and experiments and other research results;

12- Visualization: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work;

13- Writing of the original draft: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specific writing of the initial draft (including substantive translation);

14- Writing – review and editing: preparation, creation and/or presentation of the work published by people from the original research group, critical review, comment, or review, including the pre- or post-publication stages.

This information must appear on the article's title page, in front of the name of the authors and the ORCID identifier, as indicated in the template available here.