Conditions for submission

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check the submission compliance considering all of the items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with these rules will be rejected.

Authorship Criteria
Acta Fisiatrica receives manuscripts with up to eight (8) authors. Authorship criteria follow the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be published;
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Those who meet the four criteria above should be considered authors. Contributors who do not meet the four criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgments.

Acknowledgments
Whenever it is worthwhile and appropriate, it is recommended to name, at the end of the manuscript, those who actively collaborated with the study, even without meeting the authorship criteria. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from these people before naming them in their acknowledgments. Acknowledgments may also be given to institutions for financial or logistical support.

Funding
Authors must acknowledge all sources of funding or support, institutional or private, received to conduct the study and refer to any number or identification that allows for tracking the funding processes. This information must also appear on the “Cover Letter” of the manuscript.

Conflict of Interest
Conflicts of interest are conditions in which the authors have interests, apparent or not, that may influence the process of preparing the manuscripts, especially the research results and interpretation. These conflicts may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial to which anyone may be subject. For this reason, if there are any conflicts, authors must acknowledge and reveal them in the signed Exclusivity, Conflict of Interests, and Responsibility Statement when submitting their manuscript for publication.

The authors must state the existence or absence of conflicts of interest during the conduction of the study. Conflicts of interest may occur when an author or institution has relations of any kind with organizations or individuals that may influence the study results. Information about conflicts of interest must be included in the Cover Letter.

By signing the Exclusivity, Conflict of Interests, and Responsibility Statement, the first author assures all co-authors' participation in elaborating the manuscript and declares, publicly, to be responsible for its content. To access the form, the corresponding author is requested to be logged into the system and have an active "Author" profile in their registration.

During manuscript submission, authors must download, complete, sign, scan, and send the Exclusivity, Conflict of Interests, and Responsibility Statement, in PDF format, as a supplementary document.

Ethical Issues for Research with Humans
The agreement with ethical ordinances regarding the conduction and the research report is the authors' sole responsibility and should be understood under the ethical recommendations embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki (2000). For research conducted with human beings in Brazil, the authors must fully observe the regulations of the National Health Council Resolutions (Resoluções do Conselho Nacional de Saúde) (CNS) No. 466, of December 12^th, 2012 and No. 510, of April 7^th, 2016 or any complementary resolutions, for specific situations.

The ethical procedures adopted in the research must be described in the last paragraph of the Methods section, and, whenever suitable, the research protocol approval by an Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) or Ethics Review Board (ERB) must be informed. Clinical trials must indicate the identification number in one of the clinical trial records validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). For systematic reviews, it is suggested that the authors inform the protocol registration number in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) database.

Ethical Approval
The authors should comply strictly with the Conselho Nacional de Saúde (CNS) regulations if the research is conducted in Brazil. The study protocol must have the approval of an Institutional ERB or an IEC accredited by the Comissão Nacional de Ética em Pesquisa (CONEP).