Volumen 79 Número 1 - Sociedad Argentina de Oftalmología

have any financial interest in a company related
to the product or that of competitors; whether
they are employees or consultants of said
company or have been in the past three years,
or of a competitor company. Similarly, they must
mention any financial aid received from any
company involved in the research, providing
details thereof
If none of the above fits the
circumstances, the authors must state that they
do not have any commercial interest and have
not received financial support.
The final phrase shall be: «The
author/s certify that this article has not
been published or is being considered for
publication in another journal. In addition,
they transfer the property rights (Copyright)
to the Sociedad Española de Oftalmología»¸
followed by the signature of all authors in the
order of appearance in the publication.
o Abstract and key words
The abstract must appear first in
English and then in Spanish, both versions
having the same content. The abstract must
not exceed 250 words and it must present the
purpose of the research or study (Objective);
the basic procedures (selection of individuals
or animals for experimentation, observation
and analysis methods) (Methods); the main
findings (providing specific data and statistical
significance if possible) (Results), and the main
conclusions (Conclusions). Also, the Abstract
must emphasise the novel and most relevant
features of the study or the observations.
«It must be taken into account that the
Abstracts must be intelligible and consistent with
the article they head, i.e., must include the basic
information of the article in the same style, as
concise as possible, respecting at the same time
the content of the text and refraining from quoting
secondary information or including information
which is not referred to in the document.»
After the Abstract, 8 key words or short
phrases must be included and identified as such,
which must likewise be in English and Spanish. It
is very important to take into account that terms
from the «Medical Subject Headings» of Index
Medicus should be used. If the appropriate terms
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are not yet in said MeSH due to being of recent
introduction, current terms can be used. The use of
words recognised in a controlled and specialised
vocabulary such as MeSH makes it much easier to
access published articles from the Bibliographic
Databases. To facilitate the use of MeSH terms,
Archivos has set up a link in its website, http://
www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
o Text
Length as indicated above. Any
quotes or contributions by other authors must
be specified by an Arabic number in brackets,
supported by the corresponding bibliographical
reference. If the same literature is repeated in
successive quotes, the number of the first shall
be used.
The text will comprise the following sections:
· Introduction
· Subject, material and method
· Results
· Discussion
· Acknowledgements
· Introduction
It should be brief, concise and directly
related to the work, omitting extensive reviews
of literature and quotes, clearly setting the
objective and hypotheses of the work.
· Subject, material and method
Specify the patients, animals or
vegetables on which the work was carried out. For
presentations involving human beings, indicate
if the procedures complied with the ethical rules
of the committee in charge of experiments with
humans (institutional or regional) or with the
197 Helsinki Declaration (revised version 1983).
Names of patients, initials or hospital numbers
must be omitted, particularly in illustrations.
Mention must be made of the material,
specifying brand and model, when this can have
an influence on the results. Briefly describe the
research procedure, detailing only the inhouse
or unusual methods, mentioning methods of
others by reference only.
Statistics: Describe the statistical
methods in sufficient detail to allow a
wellinformed reader, with access to the original
data, to verify the results. The findings should
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