Journal Guide

To publish articles of clinical and experimental studies that foster the advancement of research, teaching and assistance in surgical, clinical, and endoscopic gastroenterology, and related areas.

The Ars mission is: (1) To qualify Brazilian cultural and artistic production in general; (2) To provide a privileged arena for the debate and exchange of knowledge, to both beginners and distinguished artists, art teachers and researchers, working in Brazil or abroad; (3) To bring about a locus of mutual criticism and strenghtening for both the academic and the artistic and cultural milieu, thus stimulating the University towards an assertive role in Brazilian society; (4) To pursue the level of academic excellence in the artistic, cultural and cientific areas of research; (5) To stimulate the dialogue between the visual arts and other cultural and scientific areas and (6). To build a public interested in the specific areas of art and culture, a task still to be consolidated in the Brazilian context.

To publish original scientific papers about Amazonia

DIRECCI N Flavia Freidenberg Universidad de Salamanca CONSEJO DE REDACCI N Elena Mart nez Barahona Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Amelia Brenes Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Patricia Marenghi (Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Fernando Pedrosa Univ. Argentina de la Empresa. Argentina Margarita C. Batlle Univ. Externado. Colombia Luc a Miranda Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Jorge Castillo Vaquera El Colegio Mexiquense. A.C.. M xico Daniela Paiva Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais. Brasil Araceli Mateos D az Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Juan Mario Solis Delgadillo Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Mar a Jos Cascante Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Santiago Basabe Serrano FLACSO. Ecuador Julieta Su rez Cao Northwestern University EE.UU. Oniel D az Jim nez University of Birmingham. Reino Unido An bal P rez-Li n Pittsburgh University. EE.UU. Idalina Arreola Atilano Univ. Aut noma de Tlaxcala. M xico CONSEJO CIENT FICO Manuel Alc ntara S ez Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Catalina Romero Pontificia Univ. Cat lica de Per Detlef Nolte GIGA-Instituto de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Hamburgo. Alemania Francisco Panizza (London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Gran Breta a Jonathan Hartlyn Univ. de Carolina del Norte. EE.UU. Olivier Dab ne SCIENCE PO. Francia Iv n Llamazares Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Salvador Mart Puig Univ. de Salamanca. Espa a Jos Enrique Molina Univ. del Zulia Venezuela Sim n Pachano FLACSO. Ecuador Ludolfo Paramio CSIC. Espa a Francisco Guti rrez San n Univ. Nacional. Colombia Fernando Rueda Junquera Univ. de Burgos. Espa a Philippe C. Schmitter Instituto Universitario Europeo. Italia Mario Serrafero Univ. Argentina de la Empresa. Argentina Pilar Domingo Univ. de Londres. Gran Breta a V ctor Alarc n Olgu n Univ. Aut noma Metropolitana. M xico Esther del Campo Univ.

Acta Botanica Brasilica (Acta bot. bras.) publishes original articles on all aspects of plant (including algae) and fungi biology. The submitted manuscript or its essential content must not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be substantial, written in English and show general interest. Manuscripts that report aspects of local interest are discouraged unless the implications of the findings are wide-reaching. Manuscripts with agronomic subjects are expected to contain a substantial amount of basic plant biology.

To publish original papers on basic and applied research in surgery, and biomedical sciences, new surgical techniques, reviews related to investigations in biomedicine, articles on teaching, advances in biomedicine and scientific communication.

To publish articles in the area of Ortopedia.

Acta Paulista de Enfermagem to publish original contributions in Sciences of the Health.Its abbreviated title is Acta paul. enferm., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips. The articles published in Acta Paulista de Enfermagem are indexed: * Comulative Index to Nursing and Allied Literature - CINAHL * Base de datos en Enfermería en Español, Sociological Abstracts - CUIDEN * Literatura Latina-Americana em Cincias da Saúde - LILACS * Base de dados em Enfermagem - BDENF * Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde - BVS * SCOPUS * ISI.

To publish original papers of scientific value in the area of Letters.

To encourage the dissemination of ideas, proposals and research findings related to different theoretical and methodological perspectives in the field of language studies, both in Brazil and abroad. Alfa´s regular issues (published twice a year) and special ones (published acoording to editorial interest) welcome papers, retrospectives, book reviews, interviews, and translations in any of the various branches of Linguistics.

The Almanack magazine is a quarterly academic journal, specialized in the history of the national State building in Brazil and around the world, between the 18th and 19th centuries.

To produce social environmental knowledge within interdisciplinary focus.

To be the main scientific journal in the field of Built Environment Technology in Latin America, assumindog the roles of forum of providing in-depth discussion on the results of research and development activities, as well as a means of formal recognition for high quality scientific work.

To publish original papers of scientific value in the field of dermatology and similar areas.

To publish the results of original research in the broad range of scientific areas represented in the Academia Brasileira de Ciências.

Publish theoretical and monographic articles that focus on social practices mediated by materiality and treated as historical issues.

This journal publishes original and review articles on geology and related sciences, in Spanish or English, in three issues a year (January, May and September). Articles or notes on major topics of broad interest in Earth Sciences dealing with the geology of South and Central America and Antarctica, and particularly of the Andes, are welcomed. The journal is interested in publishing thematic sets of papers and accepts articles dealing with systematic Paleontology only if their main focus is the chronostratigraphical, paleoecological and/or paleogeographical importance of the taxa described therein. Descriptions of new species or genera and, only if necessary, complementary descriptions of already known species are acceptable. The already known species mentioned in the article can also be illustrated.

Publishing original papers of scientific value in the field of Clinical Psychiatry and similar areas.

Publish and make available to the medical and scientific community national and international clinical and basic scientific contributions in the field of endocrinology and metabolism and related sciences.

Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria is published by the Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile.Archivos de Medicina Veterinaria publishes, in both spanish and english, original scientific contributions containing the latest developments and discoveries in Veterinary Sciences, covering topics such as Animal Health and Production, Animal Welfare, Preventive Medicine, Zoonosis, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, methods of diagnosis and other areas related to Veterinary Science.The journal was founded in 1969 and has 40 years of uninterrupted publishing. Since 2006 it publishes 3 issues per year.The abbreviation of its tittle is Arch Med Vet which must be used in references, footnotes and figure legends.

The article inquires about the cultural goods of the ways of dwelling in order to propose a research agenda of thesymbolic construction of the cultural heritage of such ways. As the relationship between habitable space and urban culture is established, cultural goods we talk about are the artifacts involved in modes of inhabiting, so that interest is centered on how urbanactors produce a symbolic meaning as a way of generating cultural identity artifacts. The diversity of symbolic contentsgenerated by the differences and divergences, typical of thecontemporary society?s heterogeneous condition, are incorporated into the analysis. Finally, as the relationship between daily life and habitable space is established, the proposal of a classification of cultural goods for both collective and domestic daily life is formulated as a first draft for a research agenda of such goods.

The surubim catfish, Pseudoplatystoma coruscans (Spix, Agassiz, 1829), also known in the Sa~o Francisco River Valley as "moleque", belongs to the order Siluriformes and also occurs in the Parana´, Paraguai and Uruguai rivers (Fowler, 1951). In other regions, its spotted body has earned the popular name of "pintado". The surubim catfish is an essentially piscivorous species (Marques, 1993), and its corporal weight can exceed 100kg (Sato, 1999). As a result of constant changes in the environment of the Sa~o Francisco River, the capture of this fish has declined from 86.3% in 1987 to 27% in 1999 (Godinho et al., 2001). The high commercial value of the surubim catfish is due to the excellent quality of its meat, its high marketability, and its marked participation in commercial fishing (Marques, 1993). The possibility of inducing spawn by hypophysation has created promising prospects for the artificial breeding of the surubim catfish (Sato, 1999). The zootechnical indexes and carcass characteristics of this species confirm that it has a high potential for commercial production (Ribeiro, Miranda, 1997). The objective of this work is to study the reproductive biology of the wild surubim catfish in the Sa~o Francisco River.

To publish scientific works on veterinary medicine, food technology and inspection, as well as related areas.

To publish articles on cardiovascular topics, including new investigations, clinical or surgical experiments, or other original contributions.

Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia (ABE&M) is the official Scientific Journal for the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabologia - SBEM) which is affiliated with the Brazilian Medical Association (Associação Médica Brasileira).The Journal provides a collaborative working space for the following medical organizations and associations of interest in the fields of Endocrinology and Metabolism: Brazilian Diabetes Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Diabetes - SBD), Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity (Associação Brasileira para o Estudo da Obesidade - ABESO) and Brazilian Society of Studies on Bone and Mineral Metabolism (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos do Metabolismo Ósseo e Mineral - SOBEMOM).The Journal is published on a regular basis, with nine printed issues published a year (ISSN 0004-2730) in addition to an online version which can be accessed at (http://www.abem-sbem.org.br and http://www.scielo.org, ISSN 1677-9487).The abbreviated title of the Journal is Arq Bras Endocrinol Metab, which should be used in footnotes, references and bibliographic strips. .

To register the scientific output in Ophthalmology, to promote the study, enhancement, and actualization of the professionals of the specialty.

To publish scientific papers by national and foreign researchers who are in agreement with the aim of the journal as well as with its editorial policies.

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria will provide clinical neurologists and other neuroscientists with sigfnificant peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews and clinical reports to improve neurological practice, education, clinical research, professional expertise and to promote the international visibility of the Brazilian neurology.

Publish, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, original articles and scientific communications, as well as review articles, which contribute to the development of the agricultural sciences.

Disclose scientific production concerning relevant topics from Audiology, Human Communication Disorders and related fields, aiming to improve and update professionals.

To contribute to the development of studies and research on higher education, especially those related to the evaluation of higher education, trends and perspectives in higher education, higher education and science and technology policies.

To contribute to the deeper understanding of Business Theory and its managerial implications by means of the international dissemination of relevant papers in theoretical development and empirical research produced by the Brazilian academia as well as by researchers from other countries.

To promote and to publicize discourse studies researches, with emphasis on the dialogic studies.

BIOCELL welcomes articles reporting research on Cell and Molecular Biology, and on the suborganismal and organismal aspects of Vertebrate Reproduction and Development, Invertebrate Biology and Plant Biology. Brief reports are also accepted for publication under special circumstances. Review papers will be considered only after invitation by the Editorial Board.Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Editor-in-Chief (Professor R. S. Piezzi, biocell.journal@gmail.com) as .doc or .rtf files. The accompanying figures (in separate files) should be in uncompressed .tif files.All manuscripts are peer-reviewed before acceptance, which is based upon significance and originality of results, and of validity of conclusions. A high q uality of figures (and the requested resolution, see below) are also essential for acceptance. The corresponding author is invited to suggest (on the body of the email message) up to four names and email addresses of possible reviewers.Receipt will be acknowledged to the corresponding author, indicating the identification number which should be mentioned in all future correspondence. As a rule, no correspondence with the other authors is entertained.Manuscripts are considered on the understanding that their content is not already published or being offered for publication elsewhere.

BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH (former title, "Archivos de Biología y Medicina Experimentales") is the official journal of the Chilean Biology Society. This journal, founded in 1964 and renamed in 1992, is a quarterly publication that covers the broad spectrum of experimental biological research.BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH is an open access journal which publishes original articles and invited reviews in the diverse fields of experimental biology such as biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, genetics, genomics, immunology, marine biology, molecular biology, plant biology, physiology, and systems biology. Upon special requests to the Editor, manuscripts outside of these fields may also be considered for publication, Manuscripts should be presented as full-length papers, short communications, or review articles (invited by the editors).In an attempt to continually improve the impact and competitively of this journal, manuscripts will receive immediate attention upon their arrival. The entire editorial board of Biological Research is committed to processing manuscripts rapidly. Submitted manuscripts will be critically refereed by at least two independent reviewers who are either members of the Editorial Board or ad hoc referees. Reviewers, experts in the area to which the manuscript pertains, will critically analyze the manuscript in a timely manner. Acceptance is based upon scientific content, originality and presentation of the material. Accepted manuscripts will be published within 3 months of their final approval date.The official abbreviation of Biological Research is Biol Res., and it should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips. .

To disseminate the results of original research work, associated or not to the program, concerned with characterization, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity within the Neotropical region.

The objective of BOLEMA journal is to disseminate scientific knowledge in Mathematics Education and related fields. The content can include results of empirical research, essays, and other standard forms in this domain of knowledge.

To publish original papers in in the field of Geodetic Sciences and correlated ones.

Publish original works in Anthropology, Archaeology, Indigenous Languages, and in related fields.

Es la publicación oficial de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, a través de la cual se editan trabajos científicos originales, revisiones y recensiones en todas las ramas de la biología vegetal.

The journal is devoted to the publication of original scientific papers, prepared by experts in the Agricultural Sciences.

Disseminate the scientific production in the areas of Engineering, Biology and Technology, publishing original articles (online format), contributing for the advance of Science, Technology and innovation nationally and internationally.

To spread the Brazilian Odontology research to the world.

To publish original articles in all fields concerning Biological Sciences.

The aim of the journal is to publish representative works related to the cardiovascular surgery, including original papers, research results, actualizations, case reports, as well as papers presented at the Congresses of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery