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Title - Title should be as short and informative as possible. It should not contain non-standard acronyms or abbreviations, and should not exceed two printed lines. 
 
Authors - Initials and last name(s) of author(s) (matched with superscript numbers identifying institutions). 

Example:
A. Paranhos Jr.1,2, M.C. Lima1, S. Salim1, J. Caprioli3 and M.B. Shields1
 
Institutions -  Institution(s) (Department, Faculty, University, city, state, country) of each author 
(in Portuguese if authors are from Brazil). 

Example:
1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2Departamento de Oftalmologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
3Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
Financial support -  Acknowledgment of research grants and fellowships (agency and grant number). 
 
Key words -  A list of key words or indexing terms (no more than 6) should be included. 
 Capital letter should be used for the first letter of each key word, separated by a semicolon.
 The Journal recommends the use of medical subject headings of Index Medicus for key words to avoid the use of several synonyms as entry terms in the index for different papers on the same subject. Remember, key words are used by the Scielo Database (see search in home page) to index the article.

Example:
Optic nerve head, Confocal laser tomography, Intraocular pressure, Trabeculectomy, Glaucoma
 
Running title, to be used as a page heading, should not exceed 60 letters and spaces. 
 
References

References must be presented according to the norms of the journal.

The 5 items below must be followed: 

  1. References must be numbered in order of citation in the text.
  2. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the "List of Journals Indexed" in Index Medicus (www.nlm.nih.gov). List all authors, but if the number exceeds 6 give 6 followed by et al.
  3. Short communication - only 20 references.
  4. Full Paper - only 40 references.
  5. Review - only 60 references.

Tables

Tables must be presented as tables that can be edited in Word and not as images.
 
Author of correspondence (in Portuguese if authors are from Brazil).

Example:
A. Paranhos Jr.
Departamento de Oftalmologia
UNIFESP
Rua Botucatu, 824
04023-062 São Paulo, SP
Brasil



Email must be included (one or more)

 
Suggested Reviewers

Please send us the names of up to 5 SPECIALISTS that could be considered as reviewers of the paper. 
Please send the full names, e-mail and full postal address
 
Subject Sections (and subsections)

Authors must select either Biosciences or Clinical Investigation and one of their corresponding subsections

Biosciences

Clinical Investigation

 
Page Charges

The authors are responsible for "publication charges" of all accepted papers. Publication charges will be billed to the Corresponding Author when paper is accepted.

For papers submitted after January 5, 2009, the charge is R$1.250,00/paper for Brazilian authors and US$550,00/paper for authors outside Brazil and is independent of the length of the paper.

The Journal does not provide reprints to corresponding authors. They will receive a CD containing the issue in which the paper is published. There is no charge for figures in color.

Although we are not requesting payment now it is necessary that the corresponding author indicate the intention to pay the page charge if not the paper will not be processed.