Unpublished articles are accepted: research, updates, case reports, and articles of institutional interest. Odontoestomatología will evaluate the acceptance of preprints registered on preprint servers. Articles that comply with Vancouver Standards and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) are accepted. Submissions are open year-round, and manuscripts can be sent to unipubli@odon.edu.uy.

Articles must be original and must not have been previously published in another journal or be under review for another publication simultaneously. Authors may archive the final published version of the article (PDF) in open access repositories as "postprints." Authors must mention that the article was published in Odontoestomatología.

Odontoestomatología adheres to the philosophy of open access journals and double-blind peer review.

There are no subscription fees or payment to view full-text publications, nor is there a publication fee. The content of the publications in Spanish and English is free of charge. The costs of editorial production and translation are not transferred to the authors.

Authors must be familiar with the journal's regulations, detailed in the "About the Journal" section.

Submission

Submissions must be made by sending the following files to unipubli@odon.edu.uy :

1. Publication Request

The request must fully address the following points:

• Title of the article in Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
• Full names of each author, one per line, with their ORCID number and current institutional affiliation. Regarding the latter, refer to the legally established institution related to the development of the article (it may also be another type of entity such as a program, project, network, etc.); up to three hierarchical or programmatic levels may be included in its specification, for example: University, Faculty, Department. The names Institutions and programs must be submitted in full, in the institution's original language. The institution's geographic location (city, state, and country) must also be included. For example:
• Universidad de São Paulo, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Pediatría, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. 
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas. 
• Departamento de Pediatría, Ciudad de México, México
• Name, postal address, and email address of the corresponding author.
• Declaration of conflicting interests.
• Source of funding. If the study received funding, it must be stated as follows: “This study was supported in part or in full by XXX [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy].” If no funding was received, it must be stated as follows: “This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or nonprofit sectors.”
• Approval by the Ethics Committee, where applicable, with the protocol number confirming Institutional Review Board approval in the "Materials and Methods" section of the manuscript.
• Data availability. This section applies to research papers; this section must specify whether the dataset is available and, if so, where.
• When all the data were included in the article, this section will include the following sentence: "The dataset that supports the results of this study are published in the article itself."
• When all the data are not found in the article, but are available on a server, the following sentence will be specified: "The dataset that supports the results of this study are available at..."
• Otherwise, if they are not available, the following sentence will be used: "The dataset that supports the results of this study are not available."
• Authorship contribution according to the CRediT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/) with the aim of giving greater visibility to the way in which each co-author collaborates by specifying their participation in the following activities:

1. Project administration: responsibility for managing and coordinating the planning and execution of the research activity.
2. Funding Acquisition: Acquisition of financial support for the project that led 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 overall research objectives and goals.
5. Data Curation: Management activities related to annotating (producing metadata), deleting, and maintaining research data, including the use and reuse phases (including writing software code, where these activities are necessary to interpret the data itself).
6. Writing - Reviewing & Editing: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of published work by those in the research group, specifically critical review, commentary, or revisions, including pre- or post-publication stages.
7. Research: Development of a research process, specifically experiments or data collection/testing.
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, computing resources, or other analytical tools
10. Writing - original draft: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically, writing the initial draft (including, if relevant to the volume of translated text, translation work)
11. Software: Programming, software development, software design, implementation of computer code and supporting algorithms, testing of existing code components
12. Supervision: Responsibility for supervising and leading the planning and execution of the research activity, including external mentoring
13. Validation: Verification, either as part of the activity or separately, of the overall replication/reproducibility of the results/experiments and other research outputs
14. Visualization: Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically, data visualization/presentation

It is suggested that the application form be presented as follows:

2. Article

Articles must be written in Spanish, clearly and concisely, using simple, direct, and academic vocabulary, without footnotes, appendices, or annexes. The requested submission format is as follows: Word document, A4 size, with 25 mm margins on all sides. The recommended font is Arial 11, Verdana 11, or Calibri 12. Line spacing must be double-spaced. Pages must be numbered consecutively, starting from the title page. Review papers should not exceed 18 pages, research papers 15 pages, and clinical cases 12 pages, excluding references. Furthermore, in order to maintain double-blind peer review, the authors' names and affiliations must not appear in this file.

• Initial Page

1. Title: in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, avoiding abbreviations, and may include a subtitle.
2. Abstract: Spanish, English, and Portuguese, with a maximum length of 250 words, highlighting objectives, methods, results, and main conclusions. Abbreviations should be avoided (except for well-known acronyms such as WHO, AIDS, etc.). References should not be included in the abstract. In the case of research papers, the place where the paper was conducted must be stated.
3. Keywords: Spanish, English, and Portuguese, minimum three and maximum five. Their selection should consider the terms in the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) and Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) lists.

• Structure

Research papers should include the following sections: introduction and background, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions, data availability, and references.

Literature review or update articles should be organized as follows: introduction, review and methodology used to obtain the data, development, discussion, conclusions, and references.

Case reports should be organized as follows: introduction, background, description, discussion, conclusions, and references.

• Illustrations

Diagrams, graphs, tables, drawings, or photographs must be inserted into the article itself, in the space deemed appropriate by the author and in an editable format. They must also be numbered consecutively and include concise explanatory captions. Illustrations must be the property of the authors or properly cited. Illustrations that have already been published in books or journals may not be reproduced without the express authorization of the author. 

• References

Vancouver style should be used. Bibliographic sources should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text, identifying each with superscript Arabic numerals in parentheses: (1), (2-5). It is important to keep in mind that only works that have been read in their entirety and that contribute to the ideas expressed should be cited.

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: Glickman's Clinical Periodontics. 7th ed. Mexico: Interamericana, 1993. pp. 31-75

Congresses, conferences, seminars, roundtables: Dartora PC, Watcher HF, Campomanes RM. New alternative for PVC separation in PET recycling performance. [DVD]. In: XVII Conference of Young Researchers, Montevideo Group Association of Universities. Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina. October 27, 28, and 29, 2009