Submissions

Author Guidelines

Persona y Bioética accepts primarily scientific research articles that are consistent with what is proposed in its theme and scope.  Articles are to be submitted through this platform, for which registration is required by clicking here.  Authors must use this form to submit a complete résumé, including information such as institutional affiliation and address, mailing and email addresses, in addition to the minimum data required for the organization and to ensure indexing of the original text. This is a requirement of the indexing systems for scientific publications.

Articles and texts that pass the initial screening to determine if they meet the aforementioned criteria and are consistent with the journal’s theme and scope are then subject to an academic peer review. Once the outside peer reviewers have given Persona y Bioética their opinion, a decision is made to reject the material, to accept it with changes, or to accept it as submitted. The author is informed accordingly within a period of no more than 60 days as of the date the original manuscript was received. If an article is accepted and published, Persona y Bioética will send the author three copies of the edition in which it appears. In the case of an article by more than one author, the principal author will receive two copies and each co-author will receive one. The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by its contributing authors; they alone are responsible.  All articles are to be accompanied by a respective declaration of originality and a waiver of rights signed by each of the authors.  Otherwise, the article will not be submitted to the final publishing process even if it has been approved by the peer reviewers. The form that appears immediately after these instructions must be filled out for that purpose. It also is available on our website: http://personaybioetica.unisabana.edu.co

Format

The original text is to be submitted in digital format (.doc or .docx in MS Word), letter-size, double spaced, in Times New Roman 12, with 3 cm. margins. The material may not exceed 25 letter-size pages in length. The pages are to be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals located in the upper right hand corner of each page.  The text shall be free of attributes such as tabs, the use of different fonts, decorative icons, grey highlighting or any other addition that is not part of the final design and layout of the article. The author is advised to keep a copy of the original text, as the journal does not return material submitted to it for publication. Graphic material must comply with the following specifications, at the very least, so as to ensure clear visibility on the Web and in the printed version. If the Word file contains a figure that has been “pasted” or imported, the same figure also must be attached in a separate document in Excel or PowerPoint.  The same applies to complex tables. Files prepared with special digital publishing software are preferred.  As to resolution, digital images submitted for publication should be at least 300 DPI in.JPG format.

Contents

Texts are to be submitted in full; that is, with an introduction, a bibliography or reference list, an abstract in Spanish and English, captions for the illustrations, and any other material that constitutes part of the work. An abstract of no more than 120 words, in Spanish and English, describing the purpose of the article, essay or study, the methodology used and the more relevant conclusions must be included as well. If an English version of the abstract cannot be provided, Persona y Bioética’s official translator will do so.  A list of at least six, but not more than ten key words must be provided, in Spanish and English, to help classify the work.

Publishing criteria

Persona y Bioética applies its own publishing criteria with respect to capitalization, abbreviations, acronyms, copy editing, use of symbols and figures, words with double writing, and consecutive marking of tables and graphs, among other aspects.  All texts submitted for publication are subject to these criteria.

Footnotes are exclusively for comments, clarification or additional details (e.g. “emphasis added,” when the text of a quotation is highlighted) and to supplement the information on a particular citation (v. g. page or pages where the information may be found). References are marked by superscript numbers in the text, before the punctuation mark and after the reference, if such be the case. When the note does not refer to the text, it should be specified, in parenthesis at the end, if it is an editor’s note or a translator’s note, with no abbreviation.

Statistical and graphic information falls into two categories: tables, which are to be numbered consecutively and presented in a way that is understandable, and figures, which include graphs, diagrams, drawings, maps, photographs and the like, and are used to add information. The titles of all illustrations shall be as concise as possible. If the illustration is from another publication, the source must be identified. Photographs must include the source and date.

All words defined or explained in the glossary, with the exception of proper names, are to be written in lower case. The words being defined or explained are to be written in italics, with small capital or bold type. The definition is to be written in rounded fonts or normal type. The defined word is separated from its definition by two spaces, with no punctuation mark.

CITATIONS

With respect to citation style and bibliographic entries, Persona y Bioética follows the rules established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (known as the Vancouver style). This is the style used by most international scientific journals and is available for mandatory use, free of charge, at: http://www.icmje.org/, Part IV (Manuscript Preparation and Submission), Point 9 (References), which includes 41 examples of how to reference journal articles, books, other texts and electronic material.

Journal Articles:

A.    Standard journal article

Vega KJ, Pina I, Krevsky B. Heart transplantation is associated with an increased risk for pancreatobiliary disease. Ann Intern Med. 1996;124(11):980-3. Disponible en: https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/709685/heart-transplantation-associated-increased-risk-pancreaticobiliary-disease?volume=124&issue=11&page=980

Parkin DM, Clayton D, Black JR, Masuyer E, Friedl HP, Ivanov E, et al. Childhood leukaemia in Europe after Chernobyl: 5 year followup. Br J Cancer. 1996;73:1006-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1996.197

B.    More than six authors

Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02471-X

C.    Organization as author (author is a group)

Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension. insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/01.HYP.0000035706.28494.09

D.    No author given

21st century heart solution may have a sting in the tail. BMJ. 2002;325(7357):184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184 

E.    Volume with supplement

Geraud G, Spierings EL, Keywood C. Tolerability and safety of frovatriptan with short- and long-term use for treatment of migraine and in comparison with sumatriptan. Headache. 2002;42(Suppl 2: S93-9). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1526-4610.42.s2.7.x

 F.     Part of a volume

Abend SM, Kulish N. The psychoanalytic method from an epistemological viewpoint. Int J Psychoanal. 2002;83(Pt 2):491-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1516/EPM9-WQAV-5L37-X3T1 

G.    Part of an issue 

Ahrar K, Madoff DC, Gupta S, Wallace MJ, Price RE, Wright KC. Development of a large animal model for lung tumors. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2002;13(9 Pt 1):923-8. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/S1051-0443(07)61776-X

H.    Issue with no volume

Banit DM, Kaufer H, Hartford JM. Intraoperative frozen section analysis in revision total joint arthroplasty. Clin Orthop. 2002;(401):230-8. Disponible en: https://journals.lww.com/clinorthop/Fulltext/2002/08000/Intraoperative_Frozen_Section_Analysis_in_Revision.26.aspx

I.      No volume or issue

Outreach: bringing HIV-positive individuals into care. HRSA Careaction. 2002 Jun: 1-6.

J.     Pagination in roman numerals

Chadwick R, Schuklenk U. From the Editors.Bioethics. 2002;16(2):iii-v. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2002.00272.x

K.     Type of article indicated as needed

 Tor M, Turker H. International approaches to the prescription of long-term oxygen therapy [letter]. Eur Respir J. 2002;20(1):242. 

Lofwall MR, Strain EC, Brooner RK, Kindbom KA, Bigelow GE. Characteristics of older methadone maintenance (MM) patients [abstract]. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2002;66(Suppl 1):S105. 

Books and Other Monography

A.    Personal Author(s)

Ringsven MK, Bond D. Gerontology and leadership skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): Delmar Publishers; 1996.

B.    Editor(s), compiler(s) as author

Norman IJ, Redfern SJ, editors. Mental health care for elderly people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.

C.    Chapter in a book

Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW. editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

D.    Organization(s) as author

Royal Adelaide Hospital; University of Adelaide, Department of Clinical Nursing. Compendium of nursing research and practice development, 1999-2000. Adelaide (Australia): Adelaide University; 2001.

E.    Conference proceedings

Kimura J, Shibasaki H, editors. Recent advances in clinical neurophisiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophisiology; 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1996.

F.     Electronic Material

Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on line] 1995 Jan-Mar [cited 1996 Jun 5]; 1 (1): [24 screens]. Disponible en: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.html

In case of textual citations

Do it through a footnote. Add the number of the reference and the page.

e.g.:

"La confluencia de la biología y la tecnología, la biotec-nología, ha impulsado una profusión de procedimientos y tratamientos médicos que hacen posibles vidas más saludables y prolongadas"¹.

¹ (1), p. 4.

For publication and indexing purposes, full details on the authors, titles and publishers must be provided in all bibliographic references noted in the reference list at the end of the article. This is extremely important. These references must be cited as a Reference list of numbers, pursuant to the order they appear in the text, making sure the citation does not have two numbers (the page or pages are specified in the text or in a footnote). When a work edited in a foreign language is cited, the author’s name, the title of the book, and the publisher are noted in the original language. A bibliography lists sources not cited in the text. It is to be arranged pursuant to the criteria for the reference list, without numbering and in alphabetical order.

All references must be provided in full. Otherwise, the article will not be submitted to a peer review and will be returned immediately to the author for completion of the references.

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Anti-plagiarism software

Persona & Bioética journal, since 2019, uses Turnitin to check the papers before they go in the peer-review process.

Archived manuscripts ("Archived" status)

If your article is rejected for any reason, you will receive an email regarding this and your manuscript will automatically be filed on our platform as an "Archived" submission.

The archived status does not mean that your article is no longer unpublished or that it is in an active process with the journal. Therefore, it can be sent to another publication. The rejection email is proof of this.

If you have a specific request on this subject, we request to email us to persona.bioetica@unisabana.edu.co

Author Contribution Statement according to CRediT

According to the authorship declaration policy outlined in the “About the Journal” section, we remind you that we use the CRediT taxonomy for authors to declare in advance their contributions and roles in the production of the manuscript being submitted.

This is done by completing the “Author Contributions (CRediT)” document, which is available in the submission preparation checklist and must be uploaded along with the submission files.

Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Manuscript Preparation

The journal requires authors to disclose any use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools—particularly generative models such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Copilot (Microsoft), or similar systems—during the conceptualization, writing, data analysis, or information processing stages of their manuscripts. This applies to all types of submissions and must be clearly stated in the “AI Disclosure” section, which is part of the documents required for submission.

Specific Guidelines:

• Disclosure: If any generative AI tool was used, its name and specific purpose in the manuscript must be stated.
• Human responsibility: AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Full responsibility for the content lies solely with the individuals signing the article.
• Review and verification: Authors must carefully review AI-generated content to ensure accuracy, avoid bias, and preserve the originality of the text.
• Ethical transparency: The use of AI does not exempt authors from scientific integrity standards. Practices such as plagiarism, fabrication of sources or results, and unacknowledged use of third-party ideas must be strictly avoided.

Failure to comply with these guidelines may result in rejection of the manuscript after due correspondence.