Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The work is unpublished, is not in the process of being published in another journal and will not be sent to another publications while it is pending in publishing process for acceptance or rejection.
Send file is in Microsoft Word® for Windows® or any other word processor. It is not written in the first person (singular or plural), except for letters to the editor or publisher.
It respects the maximum limit of words allowed by the journal, without counting summaries, tables, figures and references: 8,000 for “Narrative and systematic reviews (qualitative and quantitative)”, 6,000 for “Original Articles”; 2,000 for "Clinical Cases" and "Essays", 1,500 for "Brief Communication", "Biographical and Institutional Reviews" and 1,000 for "Letter to the Editor", "In Memoriam" and "Editorial".
It includes a summary in Spanish and one in English of a maximum of 200 words each (50 for brief communications and clinical cases). 3 to 10 keywords are indicated, both in Spanish and English, taken from the DeCS descriptors of Bireme-LILACS. In the case of "Letter to the Editor", "In Memoriam", "Essays", "Biographical and Institutional Reviews" and "Editorial" no summary should be included.
Complies with all indications for submission and submission of manuscripts reported in the "Instructions to authors." In case of breaching 4 or more items the manuscript will be rejected.
It is organized according to the structure required for each type of document and established in the “Instructions to authors”.
References are strictly adjusted to the format required by the journal and were chosen as recommended in the “Instructions to authors”, including the web link, DOI, PMID and PMCID in cases where such identifiers exist.
It includes as reference material published in widely circulated journals, in books, official information available online and other types of citable information according to the standards of the journal. Abstracts of papers presented at congresses or symposia can only be referenced when they are published in journals of wide circulation. Citations belonging to predatory journals and pseudo-journals was avoided.
If this study compromised human beings or experimental animals, in “Methods” it has been explicitly stated that the ethical standards required at international level were met and that it was approved by the ethics committee of the institution or institutions where it was carried out, accompanying submission with the respective approval letter from the ethics committee.
Tables and figures are editable, their number is the minimum possible and they were made considering the amount of data they contain and the parameters established in the “Instructions to authors”.
If tables or figures already published are reproduced, the source of origin is indicated in the text of the work and the written and signed authorization by the authors or the owners of the publishing rights, as appropriate, to reproduce it attached to the submission.
Photographs, figures (radiographs, etc.) and data respect the anonymity and privacy of the people involved in them.
All submission data (author data, title, summary, keywords, references, etc.) are duly indicated. The ORCID identifier, scientific social networks (ResearchGate, Linkedin, Scopus ID, Publons, etc. and email of each author are included).
The Authorship Declaration of Responsibility format is completely filled out and signed by the authors and attached to the submission of the work
The form for the disclosure of possible conflicts of relations and activities proposed by the ICJME (http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/) has been filled out by each of the authors of the work and attached to the submission of the manuscript.
The letter of approval by the ethics committee or the body responsible for granting such guarantee is attached, failing that, if the guarantee is not available, the authors must indicate that the ethical standards in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki were respected (aspect included in the declaration of authorship).
The model of informed consent applied to the participants is attached.

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted for publication must comply with the following instructions, prepared considering the style and nature of the Journal and the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals”, established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE, www.icmje.org); as well as the principles proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE, https://publicationethics.org/).

Manuscripts Submission

The journal accepts manuscripts throughout the year, they can be sent by national or foreign authors, resident or not in Venezuela, written in Spanish or English. Manuscripts should be sent to the journal through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform of the University of Zulia institutional repository (http://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/kasmera); for submission, the correspondence author must register on the site and upload the files and additional information requested. The manuscript must be uploaded to the system using a file (Word for Microsoft Windows® or another word processor); everything related to correspondence, opinions and suggestions of the reviewers, requirements resulting from the peer-review and notification of the decision of the Editorial Committee, will be carried out through this platform, in case of doubts or difficulties you can write to the following email revistakasmera@gmail.com.

The manuscript must be an unpublished research, the sending to the edition of the journal implies that the manuscript has not been published, nor is it in the process of being published in another journal, partially or totally. Together with the manuscript, must be send the Authorship Declaration of Responsibility, available on the journal's website (Download), where desire to publish in the journal is expressed. This format must be signed by all the authors, who must have reviewed and approved the submitted manuscript, if any of them have difficulties in filling out and signing the form, they must send a written communication via email (revistakasmera@gmail.com) to the Editor of the journal. Modifications in the name of the authors (exclusion and inclusion) will not be accepted once the article has been delivered to the editorial board of the Journal. The Journal when accepting its publication is not responsible for the content expressed in the published manuscript.

The authors of the manuscript must have actively participated in its execution. Authorship should be based on: 1) substantial contribution to the conception and design of the study, obtaining data or its analysis and interpretation, 2) critical review of the article and 3) approval of the final version to be published. Obtaining funds, data collection or supervision of the research group, alone, do not justify authorship. Those group members who do not meet the criteria to be authors must be mentioned, with their permission, in the "Acknowledgments" section. For a more extensive consultation of the authorship regulations, review the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals”, established by the ICMJE (www.icmje.org). The regulations on authorship and collaboration in scientific writing of the journal adapted from the ICJME standards are available on the website of the Journal (Download).

Those manuscripts that do not comply with the indicated conditions, the instructions for sending manuscripts, or that because of their content do not constitute an original scientific contribution or a relevant technical advance, will be returned to the author.

Correction and Review

The originals manuscript will be submitted in principle to review by the journal´s editorial committee and then to double-blind peer-review by expert reviewers in the subject. Once the author(s) know the suggestions and corrections to be made, they must make them and send again the corrected manuscript, which will be reviewed again by the reviewers to confirm the modifications and issue their agreement or disagreement with the publication of the manuscript. Based on the response of the reviewers in the second review, the editorial committee makes the decision to publish the manuscript or not. Finally, the author receives the letter of acceptance or rejection of the manuscript; In the case of being accepted, you will subsequently receive the galleys or page tests for proof correction before the final publication. Once the manuscript is approved it will be published in the digital media of the journal.

Checklist for manuscripts submission

It is suggested to use the journal´s checklist (Download) to comply with all the requirements demanded by it and send all the necessary information for the publication of your manuscript. Papers that do not meet all the requirements will be returned to their authors and will not be accepted for review until all requirements are met.

Availability and consultation

All volumes and numbers of Kasmera Journal can be consulted through the institutional repository of Zulia´s University based on Open Journal System available at http://produccioncientificaluz.org/index.php/kasmera and on the Journal´s alternative website on Google Sites, available at www.sites.google.com/view/revistakasmera. Additionally, the latest volumes of the Journal can be consulted in full text in the RedALyC and Amelica databases.

For more details, consult the Manuscript Preparation Instructions.

Letter to Editor

Text in which critical, analytical or interpretative positions are expressed on the documents published in the Journal that, in the opinion of the Editorial Committee, constitute an important contribution to the discussion of the subject by the reference scientific community. The structuring of the text is free. Maximum words allowed 1000, not counting titles, summaries, tables, figures and references.

In Memoriam

Section dedicated to the publication of obituaries of personalities related to microbiology and infectious and tropical diseases. It will have a maximum length of 1000 words and will not be subject to peer evaluation, the publication decision will be taken by the editorial board of the Journal.

Original Articles

Original research focused on the area of specialty of the journal: Maximum allowed words 6,000 without counting titles, abstracts, tables, figures and references. The abstract can have 200 word maximum.

Clinical Case

Document that presents the results of a study on a particular situation in order to announce the technical and methodological experiences considered in a specific case; It includes a brief review of the relevant literature. For the presentation of clinical cases, the guidelines of the Case Report Guidelines (CARE) (http://www.care-statement.org/) must be followed. The structure and presentation of the case reports must comply with all items on the CARE guidelines checklist for case presentation (https://data.care-statement.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/CARE-checklist- English-2013.pdf). The submission must be accompanied by the patient’s informed consent or their legal representatives. Maximum words allowed 2000, without counting titles, summaries, tables, figures and references.

Brief Communications

Brief document that presents important final, preliminary or partial original results of a scientific investigation or modifications of techniques already described that, in general, require immediate diffusion. It must include abstract and comply with the general structure required by the journal. If studies are carried out on or with data from humans or animals, the ethical principles of investigation of Helsinki Declaration and the national regulations that apply (duly referenced) must have been taken into account, indicate that it was approved by the institutional ethics committee and accompany submission with the committee approval letter. Maximum words allowed 1500, not counting titles, summaries, tables, figures and references. The abstract can have a maximum of 50 words.

Sistematic Review and/or Metaanaliysis

Document result of an investigation where the results of published or unpublished research on a specific topic are analyzed, systematized and integrated in order to account for the progress and development trends in this field. It is characterized by presenting a careful systematic review of the medical literature of at least 50 references, the maximum words allowed is 8000, without counting titles, abstract, tables, figures and references. The review should include a critical analysis of the literature and authors' own data. The development of the subject is at the discretion of the author, but it is advised that it include tables, diagrams and figures that make the text agile and offer a faster understanding of its content. It must include abstract and comply with the general structure required by the journal. It should be structured as follows: Introduction, with the objective of the revision at the end of this section (question to be solved in the systematic or literature review); Methods, where you should indicate in detail the search performed (inclusion and exclusion criteria, search terms, databases, period, languages, etc.) and add a flowchart of the search and selection of articles (format PRISMA http://prisma-statement.org/); Results of the review (include only what was found in the search by characterizing these results, for example: total number of documents classified by languages, region/place of study, population studied, type of document (book, article, etc.), typology (report, review, investigation, etc.), and other data that are considered pertinent to make a classification of what was found; a table (PRISMA format), should also be included that accounts for the most relevant studies in the study in which brief information of each one is given (year, authors, title, population/condition studied, place of study, type of article) and, if relevant, the most important findings in relation to the objective of the review); Discussion (remember that Discussion is not the same as Results, because in this section they are discussed, therefore they are different sections), and Conclusion. Minimum references to include 50.

Systematic reviews are a form of research that collects and provides a summary on a specific topic (aimed at answering a research question); They must be done according to a pre-established design. In these, the study center is not the patients or cases but the clinical studies available in electronic resources such as databases and metasearch engines, gray literature such as; PhD theses, conference proceedings, research reports, projects, patents, standards, scientific translations, among others. There are two types of systematic reviews (qualitative and quantitative/meta-analysis).

· Qualitative Reviews: present the evidence in a “descriptive” way and without statistical analysis, also known as systematic reviews (systematic reviews without meta-analysis).

· Quantitative Reviews: they can also present the evidence in a descriptive way, but the big difference versus the qualitative review lies mainly in the use of statistical techniques to “numerically” combine the results against a point estimator, also called “meta-analysis”.

The systematic reviews, in addition to the requested structure, must comply with the guidelines for PRISMA reviews (http://www.prisma-statement.org/ and with all the items on the checklist for submission of PRISMA review articles (http://www.prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/Checklist.aspx). Additionally, the review must be registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) available at: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, the registration number obtained must be included in the methods section of the Review, this requirement is indispensable.

Copyright Notice

Kasmera journal is registered under a Creative Commons an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en; which guarantees the freedom to share-copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and adapt-remix, transform and build from the material, provided that the name of the authors, the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Zulia´s University and Kasmera Journal, you must also provide a link to the original document and indicate if changes have been made.

The Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Zulia and Kasmera Journal do not retain the rights to published manuscript and the contents are the sole responsibility of the authors, who retain their moral, intellectual, privacy and publicity rights. The guarantee on the intervention of the manuscript (revision, correction of style, translation, layout) and its subsequent dissemination is granted through a license of use and not through a transfer of rights, which represents the Kasmera Journal and Department Infectious Diseases, University of Zulia are exempt from any liability that may arise from ethical misconduct by the authors.

Kasmera is considered a green SHERPA/RoMEO journal, that is, it allows self-archiving of both the pre-print (draft of a manuscript) and the post-print (the corrected and peer-reviewed version) and even the final version (layout as it will be published in the journal) both in personal repositories and in institutional and databases.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses shown in the journal will be used exclusively for the purposes established therein, that is, to encourage communication between the authors and members of the scientific community of the area, in no way will this information be provided to third parties. or for use for other purposes.

Update January 2020