Each manuscript submission must include the following:
1. Statement of originality and non-application signed by all authors who have contributed to the manuscript [download form here].
2. Text file including the complete content of the manuscript. The file must be anonymized or blinded, it is very important that the document does not show any data of the authors.
3. A separate Title page containing the following information:
1) Title, in English and Spanish. Avoid acronyms or abbreviations.
2) Full name of each author.
3) Information about each author: affiliation, country, and ORCID identifier.
4) Contact information for corresponding author (e-mail, full address, and telephone number).
5) Acknowledgements for collaborators who do not meet the requirements for co-authorship.
6) Sources of funding, if applicable.
7) Conflict of Interest Statement.
8) Artificial Intelligence Use Statement.
On another page will be the abstract, in both English and Spanish, written in the third person and of the past tense, and should not exceed 300 words. The main text of the manuscript should begin on a new page and the decided sections should be clearly marked with headings.
Tables and figures should be placed at the end of the manuscript file. All must be cited in the text in the place where they will be located. Tables titles should be placed at the top, and the explanation and captions at the bottom. It is preferable to use tables and figures only when the information cannot be clearly placed or summarized, or when it is a central element of the work.
FORMAT
Texts must be submitted in electronic format for word processing with 12-point Arial font, 1.5 line spacing, left justifications, 2.5 cm margins on letter-size paper, and with numbered pages. Tables and figures should be placed at the end of the document.
All citations must follow the Chicago Manual of Style. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and correct formatting of their references. The reference list should be placed at the end of the manuscript in alphabetical order.
Consult the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines, author-date system, to meet the requirements of the journal Bioética UNAM.
JOURNAL SECTIONS
ORIGINAL THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Articles that offer a significant theoretical or conceptual contribution to bioethical discussions will be considered, as well as interpretations, syntheses or novel criticisms of an existing experimental or theoretical work. Articles that address social, cultural or philosophical aspects of bioethics will be considered. Texts that make some contribution to empirical bioethics will also be considered, that is works that seek to integrate ethical (normative) research with empirical research in natural or social sciences. Empirical research articles must have the usual structure for their contents: title (English-Spanish), abstract (English-Spanish), keywords (English-Spanish), introduction, methodology, results, discussion, conclusions, and references. If necessary, these texts must be accompanied by the approval of an institutional ethics committee. Manuscripts of either of these two types of texts must contain a maximum of eight thousand to ten thousand words (not including references). These texts will be submitted to editorial evaluation and, if found to be relevant and to complay with the journal's requirements (including a similarity analysis) they will advance to double-blind peer evaluation.
CRITICAL NOTES OR DISCUSSIONS
Bioetica UNAM accepts critical notes and discussions of books of relevance to bioethics or articles that have been published in the journal. It also accepts discussion texts on cases of bioethical relevance or on jurisprudence that has implications in the area. Manuscripts must contain a maximum of three thousand to four thousand words (not including references). If they are pertinent and cover what is requested by the journal (including the analysis of similarity of texts), they will be submitted to the review of a member of the Steering Committee, who may accept or reject them. If they are relevant and cover what is requested by the journal, they will advance to a double-blind peer evaluation.
CRITICAL REVIEWS
Reviews of books on topics of bioethical interest published within the two years prior to the submission of the review will be considered. Only critical, not descriptive, reviews will be considered. Manuscripts must not exceed three thousand words. If they are pertinent and comply with the requests of the journal (including the similarity analysis), they will be submitted to the review of a member of the Steering Committee, who may accept them, reject them or, if appropriate, request an external double-blind evaluation.