ISSN 0121-4004
Printed version

ISSNe 2145-2660
Electronic version

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Classification of articles
• Manuscript submissions
• Originals revision
• Publishing Costs
• Licensign works

Journal VITAE is an official publication of the Facultad de Química Farmacéutica, with quarterly periodicity, and has as mission the dissemination of scientific thinking and investigative task level in the various fields of pharmaceutical sciences, food and related industries. It publishes original and unpublished manuscripts, which are selected by the Editorial Board and evaluated by national and international referees. The opinion of the Faculty front the various issues of interest is put through its editorial pages. The responsibility for the judgments, opinions and views expressed in published articles rests solely with their authors.

The review and selection of items sent by partners are in charge of the Editorial Board. Receipt of a work does not imply acceptance or publication thereof, or the commitment of the journal on its release date. Likewise, it reserves the right to make editorial changes necessary for publication of the journal.

Journal VITAE publishes the following types of articles:

• Complete Articles
• Short Articles
• Reviews

All Complete Articles will be classified in any of the following sections:

• Foods: Science, Technology and Engineering
• Pharmaceutical Care
• Biotechnology
• Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Natural Products

Manuscripts are accepted preferably in English. You must submit a hard copy, double spaced, with font Times New Roman 12, in sheets of letter size paper, with margins of 3cm symmetrical. Then, will include an electronic copy in Word ® 2007, together with article and authors information forms and open access licence agreement. Articles submitted to the journal VITAE shall have a maximum length of 25 pages, including tables and figures.

Title Information
On the first page of all articles should appear: Title in Spanish and English, full names of authors and institutional affiliations, including city and country. The lead author must indicate the email to which correspondence should be directed. (See last journal issue).

Abstract
It must include an abstract, in Spanish and English, with a maximum length of 200 words, written in past tense, in one paragraph. Do not include abbreviations or acronyms, or used references. The abstract of articles should contain:

• Introduction
• A hypothesis
• One or two arguments
• Results
• Conclusions

Keywords
Include up to five key words in both Spanish and English; at least two of them must be included in the Health Sciences descriptors (DeCS) in the web address: http://decs.bvs.br/

They are documents which analyze and integrate research findings on a field in science or technology, in order to give account of progress and development trends. They are made by guests selected by the Committee Editorial and experts in the field, which present an overview of the field in question, with a critical assessment of their development.

They show, in detail, the original results of completed research projects, which have not been previously published. When it comes to standardization of analytical methods, these must be validated under international standards. The full article should submit the following paragraphs:

Introduction: Presents a context or background of the study, referring to any work previously published by the same authors or others, if knowledge of these is essential to place the reader in developing the paper presented. This section will detail the aims and objectives of the article.

Materials and methods: It should include information and procedures necessary for the reproduction of the experiments, indicating the methods established in the literature and indicating significant changes to them.

Results and discussion: Results should be presented in a logical sequence, using charts and graphs to synthesize information. This section should include interpretations and analyzes the data presented.

Conclusions: They should link to work goals, omitting those that are not supported by the results. Avoid economic conclusions, except when the article includes the testing.

These show the original preliminary or partial results of a scientific or technological research, which requires a quick diffusion, about a work related to pharmaceutical and food sciences, which interest justifies information on the subject. They have a maximum of 15 pages, preserving the structure of the full articles.

Tables and figures: Each article should be supplemented with tables and figures, previously referred in the text (Ex: In table 1, etc.), with a different row for each category, in Arabic numerals, in which specified information should not be duplicated in the text and should be placed immediately after the paragraph in which they are cited for the first time. These rules must be taken into account:

• The tables include tables, with results or not, used to synthesize or organize information, complete with borders drawn.
• Figures include graphs, illustrations, photographs, drawings, maps and structures, limited in number and trying to juxtapose those which, without prejudice of clarity may relate to the same coordinate system.
• The use of colors in the graphic is subject to additional publication costs generated in the editorial process.
• You must indicate the source from which were taken those figures and tables are not created by the author, using similar references to the text.
• Figures and tables should use the font Times New Roman.
• The title of the figures is typed as one paragraph out of it, at the bottom, and the tables at the top.

Symbols and units: The author must take into account in drafting the International System of Quantities (ISO/IEC 80000), in terms of units, symbols and abbreviations.

Trade names and marks: Avoid the use of trade names, but instead be used to generics, but if unavoidable, is indicated by the symbol ® or TM.

Names of equipment, instruments and software: Should indicate the precise values for the replication of the experiment, describing specific details to facilitate their identification.

Scientific names: Scientific names should be shown in italics, with initial capitalization, optionally complemented with the ''authority''. You should identify the strains and variations of the species, if relevant to the job.

They should be indicated in the text by an Arabic numeral in parentheses after the order of appearance. The full bibliographic references must be at the end of the article under the heading References, according to the rules of ICMJE (Vancouver), which can be consulted in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=citmed.

The models for some references are included below:

Scientific articles: Authors. Article title. ISI abbreviation of Journal name. Date of publication, Volume (Issue): Pages.

Restrepo A, Cortés M, Márquez CJ. Uchuvas (Physalis peruviana L.) mínimamente procesadas fortificadas con vitamina E. Vitae. 2009 May-Aug; 16 (2): 19-30.

Keyzers R, Daoust J, Davies-Coleman M, Van R, Balgi A, Donohue E, et al. Autophagy-modulating aminosteroids isolated from the sponge Cliona celata. Org Lett. 2008 Jul 17; 10 (14): 2959-2962.

Printed Books and monographs:
Authors. Title. Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages.

Gibaldi M, Perrier D. Farmacocinética.Barcelona, España: Reverte; 2008. 352 p.

Thesis and degree work: Authors. Title. [Document type]. [Place of Publication]: Editor. Date. Pages.

Monsalve AF, Morales SP. Aumento de capacidad del recurso restricción en la empresa Laproff S.A. [Trabajo de pregrado]. [Medellín, Colombia]: Universidad de Antioquia: 2009. 39 p.

Electronic Material: Authors. Title. [Type of Medium]. Place of Publication: Publisher: Date.

ASME. Aseptic Fill & Finish for Biopharmaceuticals. [CD-ROM]. San Diego (CA): ASME: 2007.

Website: Authors. Title. [Type of medium]. Place of Publication: Publisher. Publication. [Date of Citation]. Available from: URL.

Habib MAB, Parvin M, Huntington TC, Hasan MR. A review on culture, production and use of spirulina as food for humans and feeds for domestic animals and fish. [Internet]. Rome, Italy: FAO. 2008 [Consulted: 18 august of 2009]. Available from: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/011/i0424e/i0424e00.pdf

The Editorial Board will review the originals, be advised as required, by appropriately qualified personnel and returned to authors whose content does not conform to these rules, seeking, in any case, any necessary changes.

Selection. The Editorial Committee shall forward all items that meet the editorial standards at least to two referees, who must give their written concept in the format established for this purpose. If referees suggest corrections, the authors should send the new version accompanied by magnetic media within a maximum of twelve days, limit time in which the manuscript will lose the turn of publication. In the correction of final proofs, to be realized with great care, authors cannot modify the original text.

Once they are published in the Journal Vitae, scientific articles and reviews will be available freely to the public consultation, both on the website and in the different indexing systems and databases where the Journal is submitted, under a Creative Commons License, in the way Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works, the version that is adopted in Colombia.

Also, the authors give, with no right to financial compensation, to the University of Antioquia, Revista Vitae, copyrights on the publication and its various media by the time set in the current regulations, by filling the format of Open Access License.

The documentation for presenting the articles, formats and a copy of these instructions could be downloaded from website: http://www.udea.edu.co.