Submissions

Author Guidelines

General Criteria for the Acceptance of Texts Submitted to Publication

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively by our online submission system (www.revistas.usp.br/jhgd). Under no circumstances will we accept submissions by email or any other means.
JHGD reserves the copyright to its content. The submitted texts and floppy disks should be sent with a letter in which the authors waive the copyright in favor of the Journal.

The opinions expressed by the authors belong to them and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editorial Board of the Journal.

Papers will be selected according to the following criteria: scientific solidity, originality, currentness, opportunity of information and adequacy to the Journal's publication norms. After the initial selection, performed by the editor, the material will be sent to two members of the Editorial Board. Within 30 to 90 days, they should give their opinions regarding accessibility for publication or not. This opinion will be expressed as follows:

a) Accepted for publication: the paper will be published in one of the next issues of the Journal, according to a chronological criterion (date when the article was approved by the Journal) and a pagination criterion.

b) Conditional Acceptance: one or more members of the Editorial Board suggest modifications so that the paper fits the Journal's norms, or make suggestions aiming at a better understanding of the text. In this case, the original is returned to the author together with the recommendations.

c) Rejected: in this hypothesis, the originals will be returned to the author, and the reasons for the refusal will be explained.

Processing Fees

The Journal of Human Growth and Development does not charge processing, submission or publication fees.

Screening of plagiarism

The JHGD has a policy of tracing plagiarism through authorized software.

Copyright, Licensing, Publishing Rights

The Journal of Human Growth and Development allows authors and readers to print or distribute published manuscripts. The other functions are of the JHGD's total right. Manuscripts submitted to JHGD will be exclusive and not published in other journals, and, during the submission process, be designated only to this journal.

Norms for the Elaboration of Papers:
The content of the JHGD may include: Editorial; Original research and current comments; Integrative and Systematic Reviews; Meta-analyzes; Case studies and Experience reports. Editorials that reflect the positions of the Journal will be written by the Editor or the members of the Editorial Board.

Preparation of Manuscripts:
Texts submitted for publication should limit the number of pages entered according to the following maximum parameters, tables and graphs included: Original research, Integral reviews, Systematics and Meta-analyzes: 25 pages; Editorials, Case Studies and Experience Reports: 10 pages.

Title page (This page should be included within the main file):
It should contain: a) Title of the article, which should be concise and complete, describing the subject with terms that can be adequately indexed by information retrieval services. The translation of the title into English (if article in Portuguese or Spanish) must be presented; b) Full name of each author; c) The institution to which each author is affiliated, together with the e-mail of each; d) Name of the Department and Institution where the research was carried out; e) Indication of the author responsible for the correspondence, with address, telephone, fax and e-mail; f) If the research was funded, the name of the funding agency and the file number should be indicated; g) If the work is based on a thesis / dissertation, the title, year and institution to which it was submitted should be indicated; h) If the paper was presented at a scientific meeting, the name of the event, place and date should be indicated.

Abstracts and Keywords:
Papers should have a summary in Portuguese and one in English containing no more than 250 words. When the text is written in Spanish, a summary in this language should also be provided. The recommendations of UNESCO should be followed, since the article should contain information on: objectives, basic procedures, most important results and main conclusions. New aspects should be emphasized, as well as those that deserve prominence. Up to six descriptors should be indicated in Portuguese and English, extracted from the vocabulary - DeCS (http://decs.bvs.br/) or MESH. If the authors can not find in this vocabulary descriptors to represent the theme of the manuscript, they can indicate terms or expressions extracted from the text itself.

Text structure
Research Articles and Reviews can be organized according to the formal structure: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion and Conclusions. Other types of articles, such as Editorials, Case Studies and Experience Reports, may follow other formats for organizing content. The consistency between content and presentation will be verified in all articles. Each part of the formal structure of the research article should contain the following information:

Introduction: presentation and discussion of the problem in the light of relevant and updated bibliography, without the intention of including an extensive review of the subject. It should contain the objective, in which the author affirms the object of research and justifies its elaboration and significance. The data or conclusions of the article being submitted should not be included.

Method: description of procedures. The search variables should be presented, with their definitions when necessary, and categorization. Scientific and statistical assumptions must be presented. The population and the sample must be determined, and the measuring instruments should be described and, if possible, evidence of validity and reliability. The article should contain information about data collection and processing. The methods and techniques used, including statistical methods, should be based on scientific articles. Modifications of methods and techniques introduced by the authors, or even comments on methods and techniques that have been published but are not widely known, should be adequately described.

Results: should be presented in a logical sequence in text, tables and figures. The text should not repeat all the data displayed in the tables and figures; only the most important observations should be highlighted, with little personal interpretation. Where necessary, numerical data should be subjected to statistical analysis.

Discussion: should focus on the data obtained and the results obtained, and should emphasize the new and important aspects that were observed, discussing whether they are similar or different from other findings that have already been published. Arguments and evidence disclosed in personal presentations or in restricted documents should not be included. Both document limitations and implications for future research should be clarified. Hypotheses and generalizations that were not based on article data should be avoided. The conclusions supported by the discussion and interpretation may be included in this section. In this case, there is no need to repeat them in another section.

Conclusion: all the most important conclusions should be presented, recovering the objectives of the work. Proposals that seek to contribute to the discovery of solutions to the detected problems or other necessary suggestions may be presented.

Thanks
They should be brief, objective and addressed to individuals or institutions that have contributed substantially to the writing of the article and included it after completion before references.

References
a) JHGD adopts the Uniform Requirements of Vancouver, available at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html.
b) References should be numerically discarded, following the order in which they were cited in the text.
c) If more than six authors collaborated in a publication, all are cited until the sixth author, followed by the Latin expression et al.
d) The titles of the journals should be indicated in abbreviated form, according to Index Medicus.
e) Personal presentations, unpublished or ongoing research can be cited when absolutely necessary, but should not be included in the list of References. They should be indicated in the text or in a footnote.
f) Non-conventional publications whose access is restricted may be cited as long as the authors tell the reader where to find them.
g) The accuracy of the references is the responsibility of the authors;
h) All references must include the DOI number (where applicable).

Examples:

Book
Rogoff B. A Natureza Cultural do desenvolvimento humano. Porto Alegre: Artmed; 2005.
Chapter in a Book
Phillips SJ, Whiosnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995. p. 465-78.
Article in a Journal
Martell R. New prescribing powers mooted for 10.000 nurses. Nurs Times. 2000;96(44):7-15.
Conference Paper
Sawara BB. A liberdade criativa no processo de participaçao política na era da globalização [abstract]. In: Anais do 2º Seminário Nacional sobre Comportamento Político; 1995 Nov 16-20; Florianópolis, Brasil. Florianópolis: UFSC; 1995. p. 20.
Thesis and Dissertation
Santos AO. Representações sociais da saúde e doença no Candomblé Jejê-Nagô do Brasil [thesis]. São Paulo: Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo; 1999.
Electronic Material
London AJ. Justice and the human development approach to international research. Hastings Cent Rep [online journal]. 2005 Jan/Feb [cited 2005 Jun 5];35(1):24-37. Available from: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com /hww/results/external_link_maincontentframe.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.8.

Tables

The tables are typed in double space and presented in the main text, consecutively numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are mentioned. They should have a title above them and the same data should not be repeated in charts. Vertical or inclined lines should be avoided. The footnotes referring to the tables should be restricted to the smallest possible number. The maximum number of tables per article is 10. Above that number, the additional expense will be the responsibility of the authors. Very large tables, even if they contain important data, may not be acceptable. In this case, the possibility of providing the data to the reader should be informed in a footnote. If there are tables extracted from published works, the authors must have written permission to reproduce them, and this authorization must be sent to the Journal together with the manuscripts submitted to the publication.

Figures

Illustrations (photos, drawings, graphics, etc.) should be consecutively numbered in Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text and inserted in the main manuscript. They should be indicated as figures, and must be identified within the text by means of the number and abbreviated title of the article. Subtitles should be displayed. The illustrations should be clear enough to allow reproduction on 13cm (page width) plates. If there are figures extracted from other previously published works, authors must have written permission to reproduce them, except documents in the public domain. This authorization must be sent to the Journal together with the manuscripts submitted for publication.

Abbreviations:
A list of the abbreviations used in the text should be provided after the acknowledgments, before the references.
Abbreviations should not be used in the title and abstract of the submitted work

Ethics and consent

Ethics approval

Study involving human subjects, human material, or human data, must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. A statement detailing this, including the name of the ethics committee and the reference number where appropriate, must appear in all manuscripts reporting such study. If a study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval, this should also be detailed in the manuscript (including the name of the ethics committee that granted the exemption). Additional information and documentation to support this should be made available to the Editor on request. Manuscripts may be rejected if the Editor considers th’at the study has not been carried out within an appropriate ethical framework. In rare cases, the Editor may contact the ethics committee for additional information.

Consent to participate

For all study involving human subjects, informed consent to participate in the study should be obtained from participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) and a statement to this effect should appear in the manuscript.

Study involving animals

Experimental study on vertebrates or any regulated invertebrates must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines, and where available should have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. The Basel Declaration outlines fundamental principles to adhere to when conducting study in animals and the International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) has also published ethical guidelines.

A statement detailing compliance with relevant guidelines (e.g. the revised Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in the UK and Directive 2010/63/EU in Europe) and/or ethical approval (including the name of the ethics committee and the reference number where appropriate) must be included in the manuscript. If a study has been granted an exemption from requiring ethics approval, this should also be detailed in the manuscript (including the name of the ethics committee that granted the exemption and the reasons for the exemption). The Editor will take account of animal welfare issues and reserves the right to reject a manuscript, especially if the study involves protocols that are inconsistent with commonly accepted norms of animal study. In rare cases, the Editor may contact the ethics committee for additional information.

For experimental studies involving client-owned animals, authors must also document informed consent from the client or owner and adherence to a high standard (best practice) of veterinary care.

Field studies and other non-experimental study on animals must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines, and where available should have been approved by an appropriate ethics committee. A statement detailing compliance with relevant guidelines and/or appropriate permissions or licences must be included in the manuscript. We recommend that authors comply with the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the IUCN Policy Statement on Study Involving Species at Risk of Extinction.

Study involving plants

Experimental study on plants (either cultivated or wild), including collection of plant material, must comply with institutional, national, or international guidelines. Field studies should be conducted in accordance with local legislation, and the manuscript should include a statement specifying the appropriate permissions and/or licences. We recommend that authors comply with the Convention on the Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Voucher specimens must be deposited in a public herbarium or other public collection providing access to deposited material. Information on the voucher specimen and who identified it must be included in the manuscript.

Consent for publication

For all manuscripts that include details, images, or videos relating to individual participants, written informed consent for the publication of these must be obtained from the participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) and a statement to this effect should appear in the manuscript. If the participant has died, then consent for publication must be sought from the next of kin of the participant. Authors can use the consent form to obtain consent for publication from the participant(s), or a consent form from their own institution or region if they prefer. This documentation must be made available to the Editor if requested, and will be treated confidentially. In cases where images are entirely unidentifiable and there are no details on individuals reported within the manuscript, consent for publication of images may not be requested. The final decision on whether consent to publish is requested lies with the Editor.