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Author Guidelines
Salud Mental does not issue or receive payments for the sending, processing, or publication of texts.
- Nature of articles: Contributions received for publication must be original results derived from high-level academic work.
- Exclusivity: Since manuscripts must be unpublished and their authors must undertake not to submit them simultaneously for consideration by other publications, it is necessary to attach a carta de declaratoria de originalidad.
- Salud Mental (SM) publishes contributions in Spanish and English. However, due to our international scope, preference is given to articles in English to reach a broader international scientific community. It is the author’s responsibility to guarantee the content and translation of manuscripts submitted in English.
- Length and format: The complete manuscript (title, authors, affiliation, abstracts, body of the article, captions, and references) must have 1.5 line spacing, and be on letter size paper (21.5 x 28 cm) with 2.5 cm margins. It must be written in Word format, in 12-point Times New Roman font. The word processor must be Word (not PDF), including tables. The manuscript must not include abbreviations, only international symbols.
- Anonymity of the identity of the authors: Manuscripts should not contain any information revealing the identity of the authors to ensure anonymous evaluation by the academic peers who will undertake the review. Information on the identity of the authors should be provided on the cover page submitted as a separate file from the body of the article.
- Cover page contents: The following information should be included in a separate file from the manuscript.
- Article title: this should be brief and descriptive, ideally less than 15 words.
- Authors' names and surnames, in the order in which they should appear in the publication, with a hyphen between one surname and the next if two are used, and a comma between each author name.
- Author ID: It is essential for each of the authors to provide their standard ORCID identifier number. For more information, visit www.orcid.org
- Institution where the research was conducted. It is essential to indicate the institution to which each of the authors is affiliated, indicating only the main institution, without resorting using acronyms or translations of the name of the institution. The country where the institution is located must also be indicated.
- The corresponding author must be identified, with their name, address, telephone number and email.
- Abstracts: All abstracts must be written in comprehensible Spanish and English to provide the reader with a concise, adequate summary of the article (maximum 250 words).
- At the end of the abstracts in Spanish and English, three to five keywords will be noted, following the suggestions of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
ABSTRACTS
Must adopt the following format depending on the type of document in question:
- Original articles: abstracts must have a maximum length of 250 words and must include the following sections, in the same order, in both Spanish and English:
- Objective:
- Design, methodology or approach
- Results
- Study limitations or implications
- Originality or value
- Findings or conclusions
- Review articles: abstracts must have a maximum length of 250 words and must include the following sections, in the same order, in both Spanish and English:
- Objective:
- Results
- Study limitations or implications
- Originality or value
- Clinical cases: abstracts must have a maximum length of 250 words and must include the following sections, in the same order, in both Spanish and English:
- Description of the case presentation, its relevance, and clinical implications
- Results
- Study limitations or implications
- Originality or value
BODY OF THE MANUSCRIPTS
The body of the manuscripts submitted must contain the following sections:
- Original articles must contain the following sections:
- Introduction
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Funding Source
- Conflict of interest
- Tables (placed in sequential order, next to the references, never inserted in the text) with their respective headings and annotations at the bottom.
- Figures, numbered sequentially, with their respective headings and footnotes.
- Review articles must contain the following sections:
- Background
- Discussion
- References, with a maximum of 50, all recently published.
- Acknowledgements
- Funding Source
- Conflict of interest
- Tables (placed in sequential order, next to the references, never inserted in the text) with their respective headings and annotations at the bottom.
- Figures, numbered sequentially, with their respective headings and footnotes.
- Clinical cases will consist of the following sections:
- Clinical case description
- Discussion
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Funding Source
- Conflict of interest
- Tables (placed in sequential order, next to the references, never inserted in the text) with their respective headings and annotations at the bottom.
- Figures, numbered sequentially, with their respective headings and footnotes.
REFERENCES
References must adhere to the publication standards of the American Psychological Association (APA), seventh edition.
FIGURES
- Titles will be presented on the same page of the figure, at the top (header), indicating the number of the corresponding figure (with Arabic numerals) (e.g. Figure 1. Title).
- Abbreviations with their definition must be placed at the bottom.
- Figures must be sent separately as indicated by the electronic management system.
- Figures must be submitted in high resolution tiff or jpg format (300 dpi or more).
- Do not include any type of text inside the figure. All texts, whether headers or footers, must be noted at the end of the references.
- Photographs of anatomical pieces should preferably have a black background.
TABLES
- Tables must be drawn in a word processor; under no circumstances will they be accepted in image format.
- One table should be included per page.
- The heading will consist of the number of the table in Arabic, followed by the title according to the order of appearance in the text. (e.g.: Table 1. Title).
- Abbreviations with their definition must be provided below the table
METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Salud Mental (SM)adopts the conventional system of five percent as a value for statistical significance and does not consider trends for higher values. To provide greater clarity to readers and reviewers, it is necessary for manuscripts to adhere to the following standards, according to the type of study involved:
Privacy Statement
In fulfillment with the established for the Public Federal Law of Transparence and Access to information Governmental we inform you our politics of privacy and personal details handling and do the following commitment:
- The information that we request in the contact form will only be used to be able to establish contact with you about your request.
- The information that you deposit in the contact form will not be spread, distributed or commercialized.
- In case it wants to be removed of our database it will be able, in any moment, to request the fall of its information by means of e-mail to revistasaludmental@imp.edu.mx or in writing to: Revista Salud Mental, Department of Publications, Calz. Mexico Xochimilco 101, Col. San Lorenzo Huipulco, Alcaldía Tlalpan, 14370 CDMX, Mexico.
- Its personal details will be able to be provided to third in accordance with the definitely indicated in the art. 22 of the Public Federal Law of Transparence and Access to information Governmental.
If you need major information please send your request by email to revistasaludmental@imp.edu.mx.
