Submissions

Author Guidelines

Current Midwifery Magazine will consider for possible publication original and unpublished works related to:

• Women's and their partners' sexual and reproductive health
• Neonatology
• Public and Community Health
• Basic Sciences and Humanities applied to midwifery
• Education

In addition to all those articles that address historical, ethical, epistemological, anthropological, and social aspects related to the profession of midwives. These can be:

• Original Articles
• Systematic Review Articles / Meta-analyses
• Case Reports
• Reflection Articles

AUTHOR GUIDELINES:

Works must be submitted in digital format in Word through the magazine's digital platform, first identifying the main author and then identifying co-authors, contact details of the main author and/or corresponding author. All authors must be registered on the magazine's platform, completing identification and contact fields, as well as their role in the publication according to the international NISO CRediT standard. Authors must responsibly declare the originality of the work, meaning it has not been published or simultaneously submitted to another journal for evaluation, potential conflicts of interest, and the existence of external funding. Authors must declare if the article is derived from an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral thesis or if it is from work conducted in a Midwifery Specialty or another discipline. Once submitted to the platform, the author will receive a confirmation email acknowledging the receipt of the article and its entry into the review process. After the article is reviewed, the magazine reserves the right to accept or reject the work, and may also require modifications for final acceptance. If accepted or rejected, the author will be notified within a maximum of three months from its receipt.

ABOUT SUBMISSION:

Submissions should use a 12-point Times New Roman font, 1.5 line spacing, with margins no less than 2.5 cm, and numbered pages.

Language: Articles should be written and submitted in Spanish. The content should be no older than 5 years. The first page should include, in this order, the following information:

A. Title of the article in Spanish and English

B. Full name and surname of each author (if both surnames are used for identification in international indexes). One main author (listed first) and a maximum of 9 co-authors (ordered by their contribution to the article) are accepted.

C. Affiliation of each author (profession or student, full name of the institution, department, workplace, full address, email of each author, ORCID*, and CRediT** role)

D. Name, professional affiliation, email address, and phone number of the corresponding author

E. Total or partial funding of the study, if any

F. Relationship, if any, between each researcher and potentially involved companies (conflict of interest)

G. If the article was presented as an oral communication or poster at a conference

H. Declaration if the article derives from an undergraduate, master's, or doctoral thesis, or from work conducted in a Midwifery Specialty or another discipline.

At the end of this first page, include word counts for the abstract and the main text, excluding references and tables.

Second page:

This should include the abstract and keywords.

Important: Keywords must be standardized descriptors from the Decs (in Spanish) and/or Mesh (in English) platforms.

Third page and subsequent pages:

The text or main body of the manuscript should be included with its different sections, according to the type of article. After the main text, include the references on the following page.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ORCID AND CRediT

To complete your ORCID profile, you can do so directly at: https://orcid.org/signin

To indicate the NISO-CRediT role, you can review the details at: https://credit.niso.org/

CRediT, a taxonomy of authorship roles that many scientific publishers are adopting for managing scientific publications. This identification of authorship contributions will be used exclusively in research articles.

Authorship roles will be identified in the following order, including each author in their respective role and omitting roles that do not apply:

• Conceptualization: xxxxxx
• Data Curation: xxxxxx
• Formal Analysis: xxxxxx
• Funding Acquisition: xxxxxx
• Investigation: xxxxxx
• Methodology: xxxxxx
• Project Administration: xxxxxx
• Resources: xxxxxx
• Software: xxxxxx
• Supervision: xxxxxx
• Validation: xxxxxx
• Visualization: xxxxxx
• Writing – Original Draft: xxxxxx
• Writing – Review & Editing: xxxxxx

Each role is defined as follows:

Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data Curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse.

Formal Analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Funding Acquisition – Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project Administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

Visualization – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – Original Draft – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – Review & Editing – Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.