Editorial Process

All manuscripts submitted for publication to Biomédica will be reviewed by the Editorial Board and sent for peer review to at least two experts. To facilitate this process, authors must suggest and send via the journal on-line platform the names, institutional affiliation and e-mail addresses of four national and four international reviewers whose names should not be included in the manuscript.

Once the authors receive the reviewers’ comments, they must address each comment, in addition to incorporating the corresponding modifications in the text. The authors must reply to the reviewer comments within two weeks after receiving them; if Biomédica has not received the authors’ reply during the following four weeks, the paper will be withdrawn.

Once the paper has been accepted for publication, the Editorial Board will not accept modifications in its content, and it will request a copyright transfer statement signed by all authors. Additionally, authors should certify the quality of the English language in the manuscript or in the abstract on a document signed by an expert and sent to the journal before two weeks.

The original manuscripts of articles accepted to be published will remain in the journal files for a minimum of one year after publication. Once the paper has been accepted for publication, and after editing and style correction, authors will receive the galley proofs, which must be carefully reviewed and returned to the editors within 48 hours after receipt by the authors.

Biomédica is an open access journal and it includes citation metadata for all references in published articles, all of which are deposited in CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).