Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

This material has not been published elsewhere and the paper is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
All authors have been actively involved in substantive work leading to the manuscript, and have read and agreed with submission of the final version.
All ethical requirements have been met in relation to the protection of human subjects.
The authors have no conflicts of interest or have declared them if any.

Author Guidelines

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales publishes articles on the prevention of occupational risks and all aspects of the protection of workers health and safety, including Occupational Medicine, Industrial Hygiene, Safety, Ergonomics, Occupational Health Nursing, Occupational Psychosociology, Labour Law, etc. Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (official version in English available at www.icmje.org), in line with the following instructions to authors. Failure to comply with these instructions will result in a delay in the editorial process and subsequent publication of the manuscript, and may also result in the article being rejected.

Types of articles

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales publishes the following types of articles:

Original papers. Empirical studies on any aspect of research in the field of occupational health in the form of scientific papers comprising the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. They must include a semi-structured abstract (maximum 250 words). The main text of the article (excluding abstract, acknowledgements, references, tables and figures) should not exceed 3,000 words (equivalent to ten sheets of typed, double-spaced DIN- A4) and should include no more than six tables and/or figures. The maximum recommended number of references is 35.

Short original papers. Empirical studies similar to original papers, but which, because of the specific nature of their objectives and results, may be published in a more succinct form. The maximum length of the text should be 1,500 words, including no more than two tables and/or figures. These articles must adhere to the same structure as original papers (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion), including an unstructured abstract of 150 words and no more than 15 references.

Reviews. Systematic reviews and updated reports on the available scientific knowledge on relevant, current topics in the field of occupational health. They should include the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, and Conclusions and Perspectives. The text should not exceed 7,000 words and should include no more than six tables and/or figures and 150 bibliographic references. A semi-structured abstract (maximum 250 words) must be included.

Case studies. Brief description of a problem or experience relating to professional practice in occupational health, the publication of which is judged to be of interest in terms of its novel and relevant content. The maximum recommended length of case studies is 900 words, with no more than two tables and/or figures and up to ten bibliographic references. An unstructured abstract (maximum 150 words) must be included.

Technical notes. This section includes brief reports on new techniques (measurement, data registering, data processing, etc.) of interest for professional practice in occupational health. The maximum recommended length is 900 words. Two tables and/or figures and up to ten bibliographic references may be included.

Letters to the editor. This section includes formally acceptable short scientific observations and opinions on articles recently published in the journal or on other current and important aspects of occupational health. The maximum length of letters is 700 words, and a maximum of one table or figure and up to five references are recommended.

Special articles, opinion articles and other sections. The journal also includes the following sections: special articles, opinion articles, glossaries, book reviews, bibliographical information, information on professional and scientific society activities, etc. Contributions appearing in the aforementioned sections may be commissioned. In the case of special articles, opinion articles and glossaries, an unstructured abstract (maximum 150 words) must be included.

Languages of publication

The journal publishes contents in Spanish, Catalan and English.

Submission of manuscripts

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Formal aspects of the manuscript

The manuscript must be submitted using the templates to create originals. Two template files (Title Page and Main Text) must be sent through the system enabled on this website (Open Journal Systems). If you already have a user account go to the login page. If you do not have a user account, you must register as a new user by completing the form on the Registration page.

Title Page (download)

Main text (download)

Abbreviations should be avoided, except in the case of standard units of measurement. The use of abbreviations is especially to be avoided in the title and the abstract. The full spelling of the abbreviated word must be given immediately before the abbreviated form the first time it is used in the text, except in the case of a standard unit of measurement. Units of measurement should be expressed according to the International System. A specific definition should always be given for all chemical, physical, biological and clinical units used in the text.

Accompanying Cover Letter and Reviewers suggested

All papers must paste, during the Step-1 of the submission process, a text into the form-field “Cover letter and Reviewers suggested” including:

1) A description of the type of article submitted (original paper, short original paper, review, special article, etc.).

2) Explanation, consisting of no more than one paragraph, of the original contribution made by the study and its relevance to occupational health in our setting.

3) The names, surnames and emails of 2 reviewers that the authors propose to evaluate the article.

4) Statements that need to be made to demonstrate compliance with Ethical Responsibilities: redundant publication, conflicts of interest, or authorship requirements.

5) Any other information and comments that you wish to communicate to the Editorial Team.

Title Page template (download)

The first page of the manuscript shall contain a brief but sufficiently informative title of the article or paper.

Regarding names and affiliations:

The names and surnames of the authors will be written in initial capital letters and follow the usual spelling rules.

The authors' affiliations must be complete: including city, province and country.

Include the same number of affiliations as institutions, that is, several institutions should not be mixed in a single affiliation.

It is strongly recommended to include the name of the center or institute in the original language. Including the name of the center translated into English is a common practice among some researchers to facilitate the international visibility of their center. However, to avoid the proliferation of variants and non-standard names, it is recommended to do so only if the center has a standard name previously accepted by the institution and always accompanied by the acronyms corresponding to the name of the center in the original language to ensure its proper identification.

Incorrect example:

¹Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, Societat Catalana de Salut Laboral, Barcelona, Spain

Correct example:

¹Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, Barcelona, Spain

²Associació Catalana de Salut Laboral, Barcelona, Spain

Incorrect example:

¹APRL, Barcelona, Spain

²Departament de Salut Laboral, Academy of Medical Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

Correct example:

¹Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, Barcelona, Spain

²Departament de Salut Laboral, Acadèmia de les Ciències Mèdiques, Barcelona, Spain

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The title page must contain the full name and email of the correspondent author.

Main Text template (download)

The Main Text template will contain the title of the article and its translation into Spanish

Abstract and key words (in Spanish)

The original papers, short original papers, reviews, case studies, special articles, opinion articles and glossaries must contain an abstract in Spanish. Semi-structured abstracts (originals, reviews) must include the following headings and information: Objectives: a brief description of the rationale of the study, including a clear statement of its aims; Methods: including a description of the study’s design. Where appropriate, the period of time and the place to which the data refer will be indicated. A succinct description should be given of the population, individuals or phenomena studied, as well as the nature of the intervention, if appropriate. Details should also be given of the type of analysis carried out; Results: a summary of the principal findings of the study; Conclusions: the principal conclusions derived directly from the evidence presented in the manuscript. Particular care should betaken to avoid unfounded speculation or generalization. Equal emphasis must be given to positive and negative findings of equal scientific merit. A semi-structured abstract should not exceed 250 words. Unstructured abstracts (in the case of short original papers, case studies, special articles, opinion articles and glossaries) should include the same information as a semi-structured abstract, but without the headings, and should not exceed 150 words.

On the same template, following the abstract, a list of the key words (between three and eight) should be given. The purpose of the key words is to complement the title and to facilitate the identification of the article in databases. Where appropriate, Medical Subjects Headings, MeSH) from the Index Medicus (available at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html), should be used, the Spanish equivalents of which may be consulted at http://decs.bvs.br/E/homepagee.htm.

Title, abstract and key words (in English)

The manuscript shall include an exact English translation of the Spanish title of the article and, where appropriate, that of the abstract and the key words. Note that this information in English should be given exactly as it will appear in the principal bibliographic databases, the authors being responsible for ensuring that the spelling and grammar are correct.

Introduction

This section should present the framework and the main purposes of the study, without providing a detailed review of the topic. Use only those bibliographic references which are strictly necessary. The last paragraph of this section should contain a clear description of the aim or aims of the study.

Methods

This section should specify the time, place and population covered by the study. A description should be given of the process involved in the selection of the subjects or phenomena studied, including sufficient information on the design, procedures, measuring instruments and methods of analysis applied. The statistical and/or laboratory methods used, including a brief account of any novel or unique techniques, should be described. Additional information, when of particular interest, may also be included in the form of an appendix. When applicable, a brief description should be given of the ethical norms followed by the researchers in the case of studies carried out on persons or animals. Studies involving human subjects must have obtained the express approval of the corresponding institutional, local or national ethics committee, and a statement of that approval must appear in the manuscript (see “Ethical considerations”).

Results

The results should be presented in a clear and concise manner, accompanied by a minimum of necessary tables and figures. The results should be presented in such a way as to avoid duplicating and unnecessarily repeating data already provided in the text, tables and figures. The appropriate measures of dispersion (standard deviation, confidence intervals, etc.) should be included.

Discussion

This section should present the main findings of the work, emphasizing its original and relevant aspects, and presenting the conclusions derived from the study. Detailed repetition of information or data already presented in the Introduction and Results sections should be avoided. The results obtained should be discussed in relation to those of previous relevant studies, interpreting the differences and similarities observed among the various sets of data available. The limitations of the study should be pointed out and their potential implications for the interpretation of the results should be discussed. The Discussion section should end with a paragraph stating the main conclusions of the study. The conclusions must be relevant to the aims and results of the study, avoiding any assertions for which there is insufficient basis in the observations and data available

Acknowledgements / Funding / Conflict of Interest

Acknowledgements should include the names of all those taking part in the study who do not fulfil the authorship criteria (see “Ethical considerations”). Acknowledgement of any financial and material support that has contributed to the study should also be included. All those persons specifically mentioned in the Acknowledgements section must be informed of and consent to their inclusion in thissection.

References

Bibliographic references should be identified in the text using consecutive superscript Arabic numerals enclosed in parentheses (See Main Text Template).

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales uses Vancouver style proposed by ICMJE (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/). Abbreviations of the titles of journals should adhere to those used in the National Library of Medicine (available at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals). In the case of a journal not included, the complete name of the journal must be given.

Examples of formats for bibliographic references

Journals (NOTE: a full stop should be used after the abbreviation or name of the journal):

STANDARD JOURNAL ARTICLE (cite all the authors if there are six or less; if there are seven or more, cite the first six and add “et al.”).

Rodríguez-Blanes GM, Lobato-Cañón JR, Sánchez-Payá J, Ausó-Pérez JR, Cardona-Llorens AFJ. Influencia de las medidas preventivas ergonómicas en el desarrollo de secuelas por patología no traumática del hombro. Arch Prev Riesgos Labor. 2020 abril;23(2):196-10.

Optional: If a journal carries continuous pagination throughout a volume (as many medical journals do), omit the month and issue number.

NOTE: Forthcoming articles accepted for publication but not yet published must follow this guidelines: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7240/#A42947

ORGANIZATION AS AUTHOR

Grupo de trabajo para la elaboración de criterios para la gestión de personas especialmente vulnerables y trabajadores/as especialmente sensibles frente al SARS-CoV-2 en las empresas de Cataluña (GTPSVTESSARS-CoV-2G). Criterios para la gestión de personas especialmente vulnerables y trabajadores/as especialmente sensibles frente al SARS-CoV-2 en las empresas de Cataluña en el contexto de pandemia. Arch Prev Riesgos Labor;23:234-52.

NO AUTHOR GIVEN

Noticias desde EU-OSHA, la Agencia de información de la Unión Europea para la seguridad y la salud en el trabajo. Arch Prev Riesgos Labor. 15 de octubre de 2021;24:420-1.

VOLUME WITH SUPPLEMENT

Cubí-Mollá P, Peña-Longobardo LM, Casal B, Rivera B, Oliva-Moreno J. Pérdidas laborales atribuibles a la mortalidad prematura por lesiones de tránsito entre 2002 y 2012. Gac Sanit. 2015;29 Suppl 1:79-84.

Books and other monographic works (NOTE: a semicolon must be used after the name of the publisher):

PERSONAL AUTHOR(S)

Checkoway H, Pearce N, Kriebel D. Research methods in occupational epidemiology. 2^nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2004.

CHAPTER IN A BOOK.

Kogevinas M, Sala M. Protocolos de investigación. En: Ruiz-Frutos C, Delclós J, Ronda E, García AM, Benavides FG. Salud laboral: conceptos y técnicas para la prevención de riesgos laborales. 3rd ed. Barcelona: Elsevier-Masson; 2007. p. 391-8.

PhD and Master Thesis

Soler Font, M. Prevention and management of musculoskeletal pain at work in the nursing staff. Design, implementation and evaluation of a multifaceted intervention in the workplace. [tesis doctoral]. Barcelona: Universidad Pompeu Fabra; 2021.

Other published material:

LEGAL MATERIAL

Ley de Prevención de Riesgos en el Trabajo. L. Nº 31/1995 (8 Nov 1995).

HOMEPAGE/WEB SITE

Instituto Nacional de Salud y Seguridad en el Trabajo. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Salud y Seguridad en el Trabajo [actualizado 26 Jul 2019; citado 18 Ene 2022]. Disponible en: https://www.insst.es/el-instituto

Tables

Tables must be consecutively numbered (using Arabic numerals), following the same order in which they appear in the text. Tables must be double-spaced, on separate pages, and identified by a number and a short but sufficiently explanatory title at the top of the page. Do not use internal horizontal or vertical lines, shading or any other stylistic effects. Each column of the table must contain a brief heading. Lower-case superscript letters in alphabetical order (^a,b,c...) should be used for any necessary explanatory footnotes beneath the table.

Figures

Figures must not repeat data already presented in the text or in the tables. Figure legends should be double-spaced. Figures must be identified by means of Arabic numerals which coincide with their order of appearance in the text. For explanatory footnotes in figures, lower-case superscript letters in alphabetical order (^a,b,c...) should be used, the notes containing only the information necessary for a correct interpretation of the figure without having to refer to the text. Figures presenting central estimates (mean values, relative risks, etc.) must include the corresponding measures of dispersion (confidence intervals, standard deviation, etc.).

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Permission for publication. Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission for publication from any institution or institutions which have funded the work.

Protection of persons and research animals. When results of experiments involving human subjects are presented, the manuscript must indicate that the study has adhered to the ethical guidelines of the corresponding ethics committees (institutional, local or national) and the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 in its revised version of 2000. No images, names, initials or any other data should be included which might allow the subjects of the study to be identified. When unavoidable, the authors must obtain the corresponding informed consent of the persons concerned and include a statement about this situation in the manuscript. When experiments using animals are described, the manuscript must indicate that the institutional and national recommendations regulating the care and use of laboratory animals have been followed.

Informed consent Authors must mention in the Methods section that the procedures used on persons participating in the study have been carried out after having obtained the appropriate informed consent.

Redundant or duplicate publication. Authors must inform the editor of the journal of any previous submissions or publications of the same work, whether in whole or in part, which may be deemed redundant or duplicate publication. Bibliographic reference(s) of any such prior publications must be cited and included in the new manuscript. In such cases, a copy of the prior publication of the work which might conceivably be considered as a redundant publication should be submitted together with the manuscript. Authors are also responsible for obtaining permission for the partial reproduction of any material (text, tables or figures) which has previously been published. Permission must be sought both from the author responsible and the publisher of the publication.

Conflict of interests. Authors must disclose any financial or other interests which may have had a bearing on the execution of the study and/or the preparation of the report for publication. The editor of Archivos de Prevencion de Riesgos Laborales reserves the right to publish this information together with the article if he/she considers it of interest to the readers of the journal. Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales declines all responsibility concerning any possible conflicts deriving from the authorship of the articles published in the journal.

Responsibilities and contributions of authors. All the signing authors of an article are publicly responsible for the corresponding parts of the article’s content. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales encourages authors to identify the person or persons responsible for the manuscript (guarantor) and to accept overall responsibility for the article in its entirety, as well as to describe the specific contribution of each of the authors to the article (contributors). The editor of Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales reserves the right to publish this information together with the article. All those who have contributed to the study but do not fulfil the authorship criteria describedabove should be named in the Acknowledgements section, together with the corresponding description of their contribution to the study.

EDITORIAL AND EXTERNAL PEER REVIEW PROCESS

All articles submitted to Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales are initially screened by the editor and/or the associate editors of the journal. The majority of articles selected in this initial triage are then sent to a minimum of two external referees. The guidelines for external evaluation of manuscripts submitted to Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales are available at www.archivosdeprevencion.com . The external peer review process is blinded, i.e., the identity of the authors of the manuscript is not disclosed to the referees. Following the external peer review, the article may be accepted or rejected for publication, or it may be provisionally rejected, pending revision by the authors and further peer review. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales reserves the right to make changes or introduce modifications in the text of manuscripts that are accepted for publication in order to improve their readability, without modifying their intellectual content. Manuscripts accepted for publication in the journal will remain the possession of Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales and may not be reproduced either in whole or in part without the permission of the journal.

PRESS RELEASES

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales reserves the right to communicate through press releases a summary of the contents published in the journal that it may consider of greatest interest for dissemination in the media. In this process, we will limit ourselves to sending a summary to the media, facilitating contact with the author responsible for the correspondence. In the event that the media has additional interest in the communication, it will be the sole responsibility of the corresponding author to expand the information in everything related to their work. It is the interest of the magazine that in case of publication of the press release or comment, an express record is made of the publication of the work in the journal Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales acknowledges receipt of all the manuscripts
Proof correction. Once an article has been accepted for publication, in due course galley proofs of the article will be sent to the corresponding author. These proofs must be carefully checked and any possible errors marked, and they must be returned with corrections to the editorial office of the journal within a period of 48 hours. At this stage, only minimal changes regarding the spelling, syntax or readability of the text will be accepted. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales reserves the right to accept or reject the corrections made by the authors on the
The ideas and opinions expressed in the articles and communications published in the journal are those of the authors, and they do not necessarily coincide with those of the journal. Archivos de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales and the Editorial Committee decline all responsibility with respect to the aforementioned opinions. Neither the journal nor the Editorial Committee guarantee or endorse any product or service advertised in the journal, nor do they guarantee claims made by the manufacturer or supplier in respect of the said product or

Original Papers

Empirical studies on any aspect of research in the field of occupational health in the form of scientific papers comprising the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. They must include a semi-structured abstract (maximum 250 words). The main text of the article (excluding abstract, acknowledgements, references, tables and figures) should not exceed 3,000 words (equivalent to ten sheets of typed, double-spaced DIN- A4) and should include no more than six tables and/or figures. The maximum recommended number of references is 35.

Short original papers

Empirical studies similar to original papers, but which, because of the specific nature of their objectives and results, may be published in a more succinct form. The maximum length of the text should be 1,500 words, including no more than two tables and/or figures. These articles must adhere to the same structure as original papers (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion), including an unstructured abstract of 150 words and no more than 15 references.

Review Papers

Case Studies

Brief description of a problem or experience relating to professional practice in occupational health, the publication of which is judged to be of interest in terms of its novel and relevant content. The maximum recommended length of case studies is 900 words, with no more than two tables and/or figures and up to ten bibliographic references. An unstructured abstract (maximum 150 words) must be included.

Technical notes

This section includes brief reports on new techniques (measurement, data registering, data processing, etc.) of interest for professional practice in occupational health. The maximum recommended length is 900 words. Two tables and/or figures and up to ten bibliographic references may be included.

Letter to the editor

This section includes formally acceptable short scientific observations and opinions on articles recently published in the journal or on other current and important aspects of occupational health. The maximum length of letters is 700 words, and a maximum of one table or figure and up to five references are recommended.

Special papers

Contributions appearing in this sections may be commissioned. In the case of special articles, opinion articles and glossaries, an unstructured abstract (maximum 150 words) must be included.

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