Submission Guidelines

We accept unpublished articles in the following categories: research, updates, case reports, and institutional interest. You may include translations of scientific articles published elsewhere, with prior approval from the editorial committee. Odontoestomatology will consider preprints registered on preprint servers for acceptance.

Submission Requirements

Please send the following documentation to the email address unipubli@odon.edu.uy :

I. Cover Letter

The cover letter must include the following points: article title in Spanish, English, and Portuguese; full names of each author listed one per line with superscript numbering indicating their ORCID number and current institutional affiliation; name, postal address, and email of the corresponding author; declaration of conflicts of interest; funding source and approval from the Ethics Committee if applicable.

Additionally, the authorship contribution should be specified using the CRediT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/) to highlight each co-author's role in the research, detailing individual contributions and enhancing academic participation.

1. Project Administration: Responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of research activities.

2. Funding Acquisition: Securing financial support for the project leading to this publication.

3. Formal Analysis: Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

4. Conceptualization: Ideas, formulation, or development of research objectives and goals.

5. Data Curation: Activities related to annotating (producing metadata), cleaning, and maintaining research data, during usage and reuse phases (including software code writing, where necessary to interpret the data itself).

6. Writing - Review & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the research group, specifically critical review, comments, or revisions, including pre- or post-publication stages.

7. Research: Development of a research process, specifically experiments or data collection/tests.

8. Methodology: Development or design of methodology, creation of models.

9. Resources: Provision of study materials, reagents, materials of any kind, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computer resources, or other analysis tools.

10. Writing - Original Draft Preparation: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically initial draft writing (includes, if relevant to the volume of translated text, translation work).

11. Software: Programming, software development, design of software programs, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components.

12. Supervision: Responsibility for oversight and leadership in planning and executing research activities, including external tutoring.

13. Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the general replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research findings.

14. Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically data visualization/presentation.

It is recommended to present this information in the cover letter as follows:

II. Manuscript

The manuscript should be submitted in Word format, A4 size paper, with 25 mm margins, Arial or Verdana 11 or Calibri 12 font; double-spaced; pages numbered consecutively starting from the title page; not exceeding 18 pages for reviews, 15 for research articles, and 12 for case reports (excluding references); author names and affiliations should not be included in this manuscript (they should be provided in the cover letter).

Articles must be original and not have been previously published in another journal or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors are permitted to archive the final published version (PDF) of the article in open-access repositories as "post-prints". Authors must acknowledge that the article was published in Odontoestomatology.

Authors must include real and reliable data from their research and cite only those articles that support their claims in the references. Additionally, authors must declare any associations that could pose a conflict of interest related to the submitted article. Authors must agree that all articles will undergo a double-blind review process, analyzed by editors and designated referees, who may accept it with or without changes, send it for further review, or reject it.

Manuscript Characteristics

Articles should be written in clear and concise Spanish, using academic, simple, and direct vocabulary, without footnotes or appendices. The basic elements are described as follows:

• Initial Page: Title: in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, avoiding abbreviations, and may include a subtitle. Abstract: (Spanish, English, and Portuguese) up to 150 words, highlighting objectives, methods, most important results, and main conclusions. Keywords (Spanish, English, and Portuguese) using terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and Health Science Descriptors (DeCS). For research, the location where the research was conducted should be mentioned.

• Structure: Research articles will include the following sections: introduction and background, methods, results, discussion, conclusions, and references. Additionally, at the end of the manuscript, before the references, there should be a section titled "Data Availability", indicating if the dataset is available and, if so, where to access it. If the research data is hosted on a server, it should be declared in the article as: "The dataset supporting the results of this study is available at..."

If the data are within the article, include this statement: "All data supporting the results of this study are included in the article." Otherwise, include a statement before the references stating: "The dataset supporting the results of this study is not available."

Literature review or update articles will include: introduction, review and method used for data collection, development, discussion, conclusions, and references. Case reports will be organized as: introduction, background, description, discussion, conclusions, and references.

Data Availability: Authors must indicate if the dataset used in their manuscript is available and clearly state where the repository is and how to access it. A reference should also be made, in addition to the note.

Illustrations: Schemes, graphs, tables, drawings, or photographs should be included in the manuscript, in the space considered appropriate by the author and in an editable format. They should also be numbered sequentially and accompanied by concise explanatory captions. Reproduction of illustrations already published in books or journals without explicit author permission is prohibited.

References: The Vancouver style should be used; bibliographic sources should be numbered consecutively in the order they appear in the text, identified by Arabic numerals in superscript and parentheses: (1), (2-5). It is important to cite only those works that have been read in their entirety and contribute to the ideas presented.

Examples: Journal Article: Wilbur O. Alternate occlusal schemes. J. Prosth. Dent. 1991; 65 (1): 54-5. Books: Dawson P. Evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of occlusal problems. 1st ed. Barcelona: Salvat; 1991. 506p Book Chapter: Carranza FA. Diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. In: Clinical Periodontology by Glickman. 7th ed. Mexico: Interamericana, 1993. p31-75 Congresses, Conferences, Seminars, Round Tables: Dartora PC, Watcher HF, Campomanes RM. New alternative for PVC separation in PET recycling performance. [DVD]. In: XVII Young Researchers Conference, Montevideo Group Universities Association. Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. October 27-29, 2009