IPH - Institute of Hospital Research

IPH Magazine Rules for Submission

  • The IPH Magazine is a technical-scientific journal that aims to publish articles produced by students, researchers and professionals related to studies, research, reviews and reflections in the area of architecture, engineering, administration and other disciplines related to healthcare settings
  • The means of participation accepted in the journal are detailed in the text Sections of the Magazine;
  • Publication in the IPH magazine is 100% free. Authors will not be charged the payment of publication fees and, likewise, there will be no remuneration to authors, all contributions will be considered voluntary and provided free of charge. 
  • By submitting an article, the author(s) declare that their work does not infringe the intellectual property rights or other rights of any individual or entity. 
  • The article must be original and unpublished, of an individual or collective authorship (with a maximum of six authors);
  • Previously published texts may be accepted, in special cases, as long as they are considered to be of scientific relevance by the Editorial Board and are not available on other platforms. Such texts must be properly identified as such by the authors at the time of submission.
  • Authors must obtain any necessary permissions to include copyrighted material in their articles before submitting them for consideration, and at any time must provide such information as soon as requested by the editorial board, such as disclosures of conflicts of interest or funding sources.
  • Texts must be sent in open format (Microsoft word or similar) to the e-mail revista@iph.org.br, printed articles, sent by mail or other means, will not be accepted.
  • All texts will be submitted to double-blind analysis by Ad-Hoc consultants or by members of the magazine's Editorial Committee, who will approve, approve with reservations, or reject the work.
  • The opinion regarding the first analysis will be issued between 30 and 60 days after submission, but this period may be extended in case of force majeure or request from the editors. 
  • Before sending the text, authors should remove all references to themselves from the body of the text, including bibliographic references and any appendices, to enable blind review. 
  • Authorship data (full names of authors, contact details and institutional affiliation) should be sent to the same email address informed in point 5 above, in a separate document.
  • In case of approval with reservations, the article must be reviewed by the authors and sent back to the Editor, to be analyzed again, within the deadline informed.
  • The texts must comply with the rules of formatting references and bibliography according to ABNT rules (see model below). Texts that do not comply with the norm may be summarily rejected.
  • The Editorial Committee and the Editor reserve the right to make all the formal changes necessary to fit the editorial and graphic project of the journal, duly communicated to the authors.
  • The copyright is automatically assigned by the authors to IPH, and the individual rights of each author are maintained, according to the current copyright legislation and the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial, No Derivatives 4.0 Unadapted license. Learn more here.

Sections of the Magazine

Section
Authorship
Number of pages min./max
Review / Approval
IPH Editorial and interview
Guest author
1/5 Publisher
Book reviews of the areas
Guest Author 1/3 Publisher
Research summary Students, researchers and professionals  3/8 Ad-Hoc Consultants and members of the Editorial Committee (double-blind review)
Scientific article
Students, researchers and professionals  5/15 Ad-Hoc Consultants and members of the Editorial Committee (double-blind review)
Case study Students, researchers and professionals 3/15 Ad-Hoc Consultants and members of the Editorial Committee (double-blind review)
Technical advice on materials and/or equipment Students, researchers and professionals 2/8 Publisher


Text Standardization


Chapter or Section Titles Times New Roman (TNR) 14, bold. Upper case in the first letter and lower case in the rest. Left-aligned in the form of a sentence (only the term that opens the sentence must be capitalized).
Author's name TNR 12 in italics Right-aligned, no bold.
Institution TNR 12 Right aligned, no italics or bold.
Abstract and Abstract TNR 10 From 5 to 10 lines. Paragraph justified with single spacing. It should indicate the field of research, the theme, the object of study and the methodology.
Keywords and Key words TNR 10 Minimum of 3 maximum of 6 words. Aligned to the left, occupying a maximum of two rows.
Subtitles TNR 12
1.5 spacing, left-aligned, highlighted words always in italics, never in quotation marks or bold, as well as foreign words.
Short quotes (up to 3 lines) TNR 12 (no italics, italics or underlining). In double quotation marks ("), at the end of the citation in parentheses: Author?s last name, year, publication page.

Ex: (COSTA, 2009, p. 567)

Long quotes (more than 3 lines) TNR 10 Highlighted from the paragraph with a 6 cm indentation and single spacing, without quotation marks, bold or italics.
Footnotes TNR 10 On the same page, only for comments, not for bibliographic citations.
Images
Formatos tif, gif, jpg, jpeg, bmp; 300 dpi.
Figures and tables
They should be inserted in the body of the text, not at the end.
References TNR 12 Lorem ipsum At the end of the text, containing references as complete as possible. Author's last name in capital letters, abbreviated name, title of the work in bold, city, publisher, date

Example:

KARMAN, J. Predictive hospital maintenance and safety. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, IPH Instituto de Pesquisas Hospitalares Arquiteto Jarbas Karman, 2011. 437 p. (ISBN: 978-85-7448-189-0).
Mini-resume and e-mail of the authors TNR 10 Between 3 to 7 lines. Left-aligned, single-spaced.



Privacy Policy

The names and addresses provided by the authors in the submission of papers to the journal will be used exclusively for communication with the editors and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

Information to Ad-Hoc Reviewers

Participation as an Ad-Hoc Consultant member of the IPH Magazine occurs exclusively by direct invitation of the Editor, and is reserved for PhD researchers with outstanding performance in the area of research on health environments.
The IPH provides a declaration of participation to the reviewers for the purpose of curriculum proof.

The reviewers are free to analyze the texts according to their criteria, however we suggest the careful observation of the following items:

  • Adequacy and relevance of the article to the field of healthcare settings;
  • Clearly defined object of study;
  • Explicit research objectives;
  • Clear methodology, appropriate to the object of the research;
  • Adequate and up-to-date bibliography in relation to the theme and object of the research.

Regarding the approval or disapproval of the materials, an opinion must be issued according to the model sent by the Editor, which must indicate:

  • Approved without reservations (proceeds to final revision of text, translation, and publication)
  • Approved with reservations (it is returned to the author for corrections and to the same reviewer for further evaluation until approval is obtained without reservations)
  • Failed (the author is informed of the reason for the failure)

About the participation of members of the Editorial Committee of the journal as authors:

Members of the Editorial Policy Committee, the Scientific Editorial Board, Editors and/  or Ad Hoc Consultants  may not participate as authors of scientific articles in the same issue in which they are part, except in the case of the journal's Editorial or if the texts are clearly indicated as institutional texts. 

If the author wishes to submit an article, he/she must ask the Editor in writing to temporarily dismiss him or her as a member of the Editorial Committee, to ensure the impartiality of the journal's evaluations.

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