ISSN 2309-5806
online versión

ISSN 0004-0622
Print version

INSTRalanIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and editorial policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición is the official journal of the Latin American Society of Nutrition (SLAN) and has been published since 1966, when the National Institute of Nutrition (INN) transferred the journal Archivos Venezolanos de Nutrición, published by the INN since 1950, to the newly created Latin American Society of Nutrition.

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición is an Ibero-Latin American journal (Arch Latinoamer Nutr, ISSN 0004-0622 / ISSN-e: 2309-5806), which publishes editorials, original articles, brief articles, systematic and narrative reviews, special articles, and letters to the editor on topics of food, human nutrition, applied nutritional biochemistry, clinical nutrition, public and community nutrition, nutrition education, food science and technology, food microbiology, among others.

Publication Frequency

The journal Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición is published quarterly, four issues per year, in the months of March, June, September, and December, respectively, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. Original articles must not be under simultaneous consideration in another publication and must not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person, research group, or organization. All information previously published by the authors themselves, individuals, groups, or entities must be cited in the proposed article.

Peer Review Process

Once the manuscript is received, the corresponding author is notified of the receipt. The editorial committee will review the manuscript within two weeks to determine the relevance of the topic and if it complies with the journal's publication standards. If the article meets the established standards, the external arbitration process will begin. Otherwise, it will be rejected or returned for formal deficiencies that the author can correct before starting the external arbitration.

All published articles go through an external arbitration process, in which they are reviewed in a double-blind peer review modality by at least two evaluators, specialized in the work area and with extensive research and publication experience related to the manuscript topics.

Anti-Plagiarism Policy

Authors are requested not to commit plagiarism, defined as the appropriation of texts from other authors without their consent and without citing the source, even if permission has been expressly given by the latter authors. Likewise, they commit not to include in the submitted texts other texts already created by themselves, avoiding more than 20% similarity between a previous text and the submitted one. Editors check each article with anti-plagiarism software, and if detected, the work is rejected. The software used for this review is Similarity Check [https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/] by Crossref.

Code of Ethics

Conflicts of interest of authors: In case of any commercial, financial, or personal relationship that may affect the results and conclusions of a work, authors must accompany the article with a statement indicating the mentioned circumstance. The editorial team will evaluate the provided information and decide on the acceptance of the manuscript.

Conflicts of interest of reviewers: Reviewers must decline review proposals if there is a conflict of interest due to any affinity, contractual, or direct collaboration relationship. During the evaluation process, they must expressly declare the absence of conflicts of interest.

Any ethical violation related to the manuscript will be resolved using the protocols established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) [http://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdf]. The Editorial Committee is not responsible for the concepts expressed in accepted articles.

The journal Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición adheres to the recommendations for manuscripts published in the biomedical area of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which all manuscripts must comply with. Detailed information can be found at http://www.icmje.org/icmjerecommendations.

Open Access Policy

The journal strongly supports the open access initiative to its content, as offering free public access to knowledge helps a greater global exchange of knowledge. It is an open-access journal, meaning all content is freely available to all users and their institutions (no payment required to read).

It uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0) [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/] which allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full text of any articles, or any other lawful use, without asking permission from the author, society, or publisher, as long as it is for non-commercial use and the original work is properly cited. This statement complies with the DOAJ definition of open access.

Acceptance of Preprints

This journal accepts documents previously published on recognized preprint servers (SciELO Preprints, Medxiv, ArXiv, bioRxiv, Plos, and others considered by the editorial committee).

If an article is published in whole or in part on the web pages of an event or conference, on a preprint server (SciELO Preprints, PMC, Plos, MedRxiv), or academic social network (ResearchGate), authors must mention in their submission the availability of the document on any of these servers and its exact location.

Archiving and Digital Preservation

This journal uses the CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) [https://clockss.org/] system through Scielo to create a distributed archive among participating libraries, allowing these libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

The journal uses persistent identifiers DOI [https://www.doi.org/] (for articles) and ORCID [https://orcid.org/] (for authors).

In addition to the usual procedures of multiple and versioned backups, the journal's content is replicated in the institutional repository SABER of the Central University of Venezuela (SABERUCV) [http://saber.ucv.ve/ojs/index.php/rev_alan/issue/archive], based on DSpace.

Manuscript Submission

The manuscript submission is via email to Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición: info@alanrevista.org. All submitted works must be accompanied by a letter signed by all authors, expressing their consent for publication and indicating the corresponding author's details and their respective email address.

The manuscript should be written in Word, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (12 points), with a maximum length of 23 pages (4500 words), including tables, figures, and illustrations, which should be placed at the end of the text. The brief article length is five pages plus two tables or figures. All pages and lines should be numbered with double-spaced line spacing, including tables and figures. The manuscript should be written in the third person singular, without footnotes.

Cover page. Title of the manuscript in Spanish, English, and/or Portuguese, names, surnames, institutional affiliation of the authors, and the ORCID registration number of each author. (If you do not have this personal identifier, register on the page https://orcid.org/ and select the option “Sign in/Register”). Short title in the article's language and the corresponding author's name, email address, and ORCID number.

Title. The article title should be short (200 characters or less), specific, and accurately describe the topic. Abbreviations and acronyms should not be used. Avoid phrases like “the evaluation of,” “the use of,” “the treatment of,” and “a report of,” among others.

Abstract and Abstract. The abstract of the original article should contain the sections: introduction, objective, materials and methods, results, and conclusion, in 250 words. The abstract for the narrative review and brief studies is not structured. Three to five keywords in Spanish, English, or Portuguese that correspond to the health sciences descriptors (http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm).

The body of the original article will include the sections: 1) Introduction/background; 2) materials and methods; 3) results; 4) discussion; 5) conclusion; 6) acknowledgments, 7) conflict of interest statement, and 8) references. Review articles and essays should contain an introduction, topic development, discussion, and conclusions.

Introduction/background. Describe the most important and recent background of the study. State the specific purpose or objective of the research, or hypothesis tested by the study or observation. Cite only specific references.

Materials and methods. Indicate the objective and design of the study, place and date, selection criteria of the population and sample, techniques and methods used, equipment, and procedures. Identify reagents and chemicals without trade names. Describe the statistical processing of the data. Authors must ensure that the research complies with ethical principles and the revised Helsinki Declaration of 2013. Indicate the evaluation and approval of the research protocol by the ethics committee.

Results. Present the results of the statistical analyses. Do not duplicate information in the text, tables, and/or figures, describe in simple, precise, and concise language the most important findings verified by statistical analysis. Tables and figures should be self-explanatory, with titles describing the content and numbered in order of appearance. Numbers with decimals in English articles are written with periods (e.g., 40.8) and in Spanish articles with commas (e.g., 40,8). Tables and figures, edited in Word or Excel, images, and photographs in tiff or jpg format with a resolution of no less than 300 dpi.

Discussion. It is appropriate to begin the discussion with a brief summary of the main findings and propose possible explanations for those findings. Highlight new and important aspects and contrast with other studies showing relevant evidence. Indicate the limitations of your study and explore the implications of your findings for future research and clinical practice.

Conclusions. Link the conclusions to the study objectives and avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not well supported by the data. Propose new well-identified hypotheses when justified. Do not cite references.

Acknowledgments. Mention the source of support received in the form of grants (equipment, reagents, drugs) and the funding institutions of the study, dependencies, and institutions that supported its execution, as well as people and collaborators.

Conflict of interest. Authors are required to ensure that their manuscripts reflect the highest standards of scientific and ethical integrity. For a complete reading of this version, authors should refer to the following site: http://www.icmje.org.

References. A minimum of 30% of the references should correspond to the last five years. References should be numbered sequentially in the first appearance in text, tables, and figures and identified by Arabic numbers in parentheses. When citing a series of consecutive numbers, provide the first and last with a hyphen between them (e.g., 5-7). When referring to a group of authors in the text, it should be cited as follows: e.g., “Carrera et al.” References cited only in figure or table legends should be numbered according to the first mention in the text and cited in the text at that time.

Include the full DOI (digital object identifier) number of scientific articles, complete journals, etc. The DOI is the alphanumeric code that identifies the reference on the web. For example: https://doi.org/10.37527/2022.72.3.003

This journal follows the Vancouver Style Manual for references and citations, which can be consulted at: http://www.icmje.org. For each citation, sufficient information should be provided for the reader to know where the material appeared and access the information. Please list all authors if there are six or fewer; for seven or more authors, list the first three followed by “et al.”

The journal Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición has a printed version distributed in Ibero-America and an electronic version. It is an open-access journal, meaning the content is freely available to all users and their institutions.