Article Submission Checklist	                                                                                  Manuscript ID                                                                                                                                                                                          Manuscript title                             ______________________________________________________________________________
Date of revision                             _______________________________________________________________________________

Percentage of compliance            ___________/20________________________________________________________________

No.	Item	Complies	Comment	
1	•	Organization and presentation of manuscripts. Full-text papers in Spanish, Portuguese or English, in Microsoft Word, letter size, single-spaced (1.5 line spacing), with no additional spaces between paragraphs and headings. Font: Times New Roman; size: 12; with 2.5 cm margins on all four sides.
•	The first page must be attached separately in an independent file.			
2	•	Originality and authorship format Publication (available in the right column of the journal page)			
3	•	Format of Ethical and Bioethical Principles for Publication. (available in the right column of the journal page) Metadata - Identifiers:			
4	•	Title: Must be short, maximum 12 words, use capital letters only at the beginning of the sentence and be in 3 languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English. It should not contain abbreviations, parentheses or formulas.			
5	•	Authors' names: full names and surnames, institutional affiliation, city, country, email, ORCID and Cvlac link (authors from Colombia).			
6	•	Specify author of correspondence.			
7	•	Declaration of Conflicts of Interest in the text			
8	•	Financing in the text (in case of not having financing, please mention it)			
9	•	Title in 3 languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English.			
10	•	Abstract: The paper should include a structured abstract (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions) in 3 languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English, each of no more than 250 words.			
11	•	Keywords: Three to five keywords; in 3 languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English, registered in Bireme's Health Sciences Descriptors (Decs). (http://decs2020.bvsalud.org/cgi-bin/wxis1660.exe/decsserver/?IsisScript=../cg i-bin/decsserver/decsserver.xis&interface_language=e&previous_page=homep age&previous_task=NULL&task=start)
o MeSH (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh)			
12	•	Relevant sentences - Highlights - four self-authored sentences that represent aspects that the author considers to be the highlight of the publication (between 15 to 30 words per sentence).			
13	•	Text or body of the paper: The development and structure of the article depends on the type of article and section to which it will be destined. Papers submitted for publication, especially Research and Innovation articles, should follow the IMRED format: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusions.			

No.	Ítem	Cumple	Comentario	
14	•	Maximum length 5,000 words for original articles and 3,000 words for review articles including references and excluding abstracts, tables and figures.			
15	•	Tables and Figures. A maximum of six (6) tables and/or figures. They must be numbered, have a short, precise title above and cite the source if not self-authored. Verify that they are cited in the text. In the footnotes of the table or figure all the necessary explanations (abbreviations, symbols, statistical test used for the calculation of the p-value). In the percentage data, for decimals (present two decimals and the "n" in parentheses) if the text is in Spanish, use the comma, e.g.: 23.27%(74) and if it is in English, use the period, e.g.: 23.27%(74). They should be as self-explanatory as possible.			
16	•	Figures must be submitted in an original format that allows their subsequent layout (not as an image).			
17	•	Impersonal wording throughout the text (third person)			
18	•	Similarity less than 20%.			
19	•	Abbreviations explained in the text the first time they are mentioned.			
20	•	Bibliographic references in Vancouver format and according to the standards of the journal.
•	They are cited with consecutive numbers in superscript according to the order of appearance in the text in blue color.
•	All articles published in electronic format that have a DOI should be attached, and if they do not have a DOI, the URL should be included.
•	The name of the journal or publisher (books) in italics and preferably in its abbreviated form.