1. Originality and Integrity

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not concurrently submitted to another journal.
• The submission of articles derived from theses or dissertations is permitted, provided that the manuscript presents an original scientific contribution.
• The content must respect the principles of academic integrity, with no plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation.

2. Open Science

• Prepublication of manuscripts in the form of preprints is permitted, provided that, at the time of submission, the author informs the repository used, the access link, and the DOI, when available.
• The full availability of the data and materials underlying the research results is encouraged, including datasets, software code, and other content underlying the manuscript, whether within the manuscript itself, as supplementary material, or in reliable and recognized repositories (such as SciELO Data, Deposita Dados, Zenodo, Figshare, and institutional repositories), prior to or at the time of publication, with the indication of the respective access links, persistent identifiers, and/or DOIs, when applicable.
• The opening of the peer review process may be carried out with the prior agreement of the authors and the reviewers.

3. Research Ethics

• In the Methodology section, authors must declare compliance with the ethical principles of research involving human participants, including approval by a Research Ethics Committee, indicating the responsible institution and the approval number.

4. Use of Artificial Intelligence

• In the Methodology section, authors must declare the use of artificial intelligence tools and the function performed (e.g., translation, language editing, data analysis, or code generation), when applicable.

5. Authorship and Identification

• Undergraduate or graduate students may submit manuscripts exclusively in co-authorship with holders of a master’s or doctoral degree.
• Holders of a master’s or doctoral degree may submit manuscripts as sole authors or in co-authorship.
• All authors must have an ORCID iD (Open Researcher and Contributor ID).

6. Editorial Process

• Preliminary editorial assessment (up to 15 days): verification of compliance with the Submission Guidelines, alignment with the journal’s scope, and textual similarity analysis using the CopySpider software.
• Peer review: manuscripts approved at the preliminary stage are forwarded to peer review under the double-blind review system.
• Editing and proofs: accepted manuscripts undergo language revision and editorial standardization and may be subject to a new textual similarity check, when necessary. The final proof is sent to the corresponding author for approval.
• Translation: the English version of manuscripts submitted in Portuguese is provided by the journal at no cost to the authors.
• Follow-up: editorial decisions are communicated by e-mail and recorded in the journal’s editorial system. Contact with the editorial office should preferably occur through the system or via the institutional e-mail: ciads@fiocruz.br

Submission Checklist (download here)

Updated on: 23 December 2025