Before
submitting your article, please see Pharmacy
Practice bibliometric statistics, and compare your manuscript
with the average article we publish. You may know more about Pharmacy
Practice peer-review process.
Papers must
be submitted in English. After being accepted, they can also be
submitted in authors' mother tongue.
Follow strictly
the ICMJE
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals:
Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication:
Ethical
Considerations; Publishing
and Editorial Issues; Manuscript
Preparation and Submission
Submission
process should start by reviewing the Submission
Checklist, where specific instructions are provided
(only electronic submissions are accepted). In
addition, all authors must sign the Authorship
and accountability form. Both forms should be sent
by fax or scaned by email.
Highly
considered:
Keywords
based on NLM
Medical Subject Headings are preffered.
Tables
must appear at the end of the text, formated in simple grid form.
Figures
are prefered pasted as Microsoft Objects. Colour use (avoid if
possible) should take into account that papers can be printed
in black&white.
Up to three
peer-reviewers should be suggested by corresponding
author (provide full contact details of the referees)
For non-native
English authors, a scientific editing service could be
important. See below a list of some of these scientific editing
providers. Authors using this service should include a sentence
in the acknowledge section.
American
Journal Experts (10% discount thorugh this link)
BioScience
Writers, LLC
Blue
Pencil Science
English
Manager Science Editing
SM
Editors and Reviewers
Write
Science Right
Some other
recommendations for all the manuscripts:
- Avoid the
use of abbreviations. Use only those commonly
accepted. Do not create new abbreviations.
- Avoid the
use of non common Roman characters. Do not
use Greek letters into the text (they can be used in equations).
Do not use special characters like ± ½ ¼
or arrows
- Present
standard deviations as (SD=2.34), and confidence intervals as
[95%CI 2.36:4.23]
- For currency
abbreviations, use the ISO
4217 codes
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