Basic information
Objectives: to encourage the submission of scientific papers that bring new concepts in the field of clinical and experimental surgery, as well as in educational and historical aspects, which contribute to teaching and development.
Background: The publication and dissemination of the scientific activities of its members is one of the objectives of Medical Societies. The Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões (College of Brazilian Surgeons – CBC) was founded in 1929, and its first statute provided for the existence of the "Boletim do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões" (Bulletin of the Brazilian College of Surgeons) as an official body, whose first issue was published in January 1930.
In 1967, the CBC National Directory changed the name of the publication to "Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões" (Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons – Rev. Col. Bras. Cir. or RCBC), which, however, began to be published without due regularity. As of 1974, the Journal began to be edited on a regular, bimonthly basis, until December 2019. Since January 2020, the journal has been edited in a single and continuous annual volume.
In these more than 40 years of uninterrupted publication, RCBC has gained importance and scope. Norms and criteria for the selection and publication of scientific articles in the different surgical and related areas follow international standards. |
Article review process
Peer review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area evaluate submitted manuscripts for originality, validity, and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal.
RCBC adopts the anonymous, double peer review process, which means that authors' identities are withheld from reviewers and vice versa. |
Open access policy
RCBC's mission is to support open science, which consists of transparent and accessible knowledge (free and immediate access to content) that is shared and developed through networks of collaborative work. RCBC aims to disseminate high quality research regarding innovation in all surgical specialties, as well as its impact on clinical and educational practices that allow the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge.
It accepts manuscripts in English (for submission by international researchers) and Portuguese (for submission by Brazilian ones). After review and acceptance of the manuscript, all articles will also be published in English. |
Intellectual property
Published content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license CC-BY 4.0 allows anyone to use the publication freely, given proper attribution to the author(s) and citing work published on RCBC. CC-BY 4.0 does not apply to third-party materials that display a copyright notice to prohibit copying. Unless third-party content is also subject to a CC-BY 4.0 license, or an equally permissive license, the author(s) must comply with any third-party copyright notices.
Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights. |
Important notes
RCBC follows and supports the guidelines and recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
All authors of any articles accepted for publication must have the updated ORCID registry.
In view of the high costs of publishing, RCBC charges a fee of R$ 2,000.00 (two thousand reais) or U$ 400.00 (four hundred dollars) for authors when they are not CBC members. Articles whose first or last author is a CBC non-defaulting member will receive a 50% discount. |
Source of indexation
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Sponsors
The Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons is sponsored by CBC through:
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Editor In Chief
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Deputy Editor In Chief
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President of the Brazilian College of Surgeons
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Publishing Assistant
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Graphic design
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Journalist
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Honorary Editors
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Associated Editors
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Board of Reviewers
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International Editorial Board
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1. Scope and Editorial Policy
The Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons (Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões – RCBC) is the open-access, peer-reviewed, official journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons (CBC), uninterruptedly published since 1974. As of January 2018, RCBC adopted a continuous publication model and, in January 2020, continuous publication became a single annual volume that allows for greater visibility and faster citation.
RCBC follows and supports the guidelines and recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Editors (ICMJE), the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
RCBC's mission is to support open science, which consists of transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. RCBC aims to disseminate high quality research regarding innovation in all surgical specialties, as well as its impact on clinical and educational practices that allow the advancement of scientific and technical knowledge.
It accepts manuscripts in English (for submission by international researchers) and Portuguese (for submission by Brazilian researchers), and encourages the submission of works that bring new concepts in the field of clinical and experimental surgery, as well as in educational and historical aspects. After review and acceptance of the manuscript, all articles will also be published in English.
The journal primarily accepts manuscripts in the following broad areas of research:
Other surgical specialties that are not listed above can submit articles of interest within general subjects (urgency, trauma, oncology, medical education, and management).
Published content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC‑BY 4.0). The CC‑BY 4.0 allows anyone to use the publication freely, given proper attribution to the author(s) and citing work published on the RCBC. The CC‑BY 4.0 does not apply to third-party materials that display a copyright notice to prohibit copying. Unless third-party content is also subject to a CC‑BY‑4.0 or an equally permissive license, the author(s) must comply with any third-party copyright notices.
Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights.
The journal publishes the following categories of articles: Original Article, Review (Integrative, Scoped, and Systematic), Study Protocols, Editorial, Letter to the Editor, Scientific Communication, Technical Note, Teaching, and Surgical Bioethics. |
2. Preprints
RCBC encourages open access and information sharing with the aim of generating knowledge among researchers who need it to support their work. Therefore, RCBC accepts manuscripts that have been self-archived in preprint repositories, such as arXiv, MedXiv, Peer J, OSF, among others, as long as the repository does not restrict copyright and author reuse rights.
The preprint consists of a complete version of a scientific work that has not yet been peer-reviewed. Preprints operate independently of the journal and publishing a preprint does not affect the peer review process.
RCBC requests the completion of the Single Author Declaration Form (which also states whether it is a preprint and its compliance with Open Science), which must be submitted as a supplementary file to the manuscript and will be accessible to reviewers.
RCBC requests that the preprint be listed in the Acknowledgments section and the full citation be included in the reference list. |
3. Data Availability and Sharing
RCBC endorses the Joint Statement FORCE11 of the Data Citation Principle and considers of fundamental importance that data generated in research should be considered legitimate and citable research products. Data citations should be of equal relevance in the academic record. Therefore, RCBC strongly encourages authors to share their research data, including, but not limited to, raw data, processed data, software code, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials, questionnaires, audio or video tapes, deposited in appropriate public repositories, where available (see: https://www.re3data.org/, SCIELO Data).
RCBC requests the completion of Single Author Declaration Form (including the declaration of compliance with Open Science). For manuscript authors who are sharing their data, RCBC encourages the insertion of a Data Availability and Sharing section in the manuscript after the Reference section, following the examples below:
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4. Ethical Considerations and Research Integrity
RCBC considers ethical integrity the cornerstone of scientific research and assistance to human beings. It thus recommends and supports the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Council of Science Editors (CSE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) regarding ethical publishing standards.
Material submitted to RCBC must adhere to the following policies to ensure ethical publication of scholarly work:
Plagiarism, fabrication of images and data, duplicate publication, among other conditions, are considered misconduct in research (more at FAPESP's Code of Good Scientific Practices).
Research misconduct does not include honest errors or differences of opinion.
Concepts, ideas, or opinions expressed in the manuscripts, as well as the origin and accuracy of the citations contained therein, are the sole responsibility of the author(s).
In cases where misconduct is identified, the RCBC editorial board will take the necessary steps in accordance with international recommendations (COPE) and publish a retraction.
a. Research with Humans and Experiments
All studies involving humans or human tissue must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and must have been approved by the Ethics in Research Committee of the local institution. Thus, in the Methods section, authors must identify the approval (CAAE number and opinion number for Brazil) and the ethics committee of the institution that reviewed the study.
Experimental work involving animals must comply with the rules established in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States) of 1996 and in the Ethical Principles in Animal Experimentation (Brazilian College of Animal Experimentation – COBEA), 1991. This information must be included in the methods section, according to the ARRIVE recommendation.
For all animal and human experiments, the sex of the animal used must be indicated. If males and females were used, the number of subjects of each sex must be informed, indicating whether the sex of the animal was considered a factor in the data statistical analysis. If only one sex was used, the justification must be stated. For cell culture experiments, the sex from which the primary cell or tissue cultures were obtained must be indicated. Authors are also encouraged to include the sex of cell lines. If cells or tissues of either sex were used, this should be indicated.
b. Clinical Trials Registration
RCBC supports initiatives to improve the communication of clinical trials. This includes the policies for clinical trial registration of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ICMJE, recognizing the importance of these initiatives for the registration and international dissemination of information about clinical trials in open access. Thus, RCBC will accept only clinical research articles that have received an identification number in one of the Clinical Trials Registries validated by the criteria established by the WHO and the ICMJE (Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry - REBEC or International Clinical Trials Registry Platform - ICTRP).
The trial registration number (TRN) and the registration date must be included in the last line of the manuscript abstract.
c. Conflict of interest
Authors must disclose any conflicts of interest that may exist regarding the research or article publication. Failure to state any conflicts of interest is a form of misconduct. Conflicts of interest can be financial or non-financial in nature. All authors must complete the Single Author Declaration Form, which includes the declaration of potential conflicts of interest, based on the recommendations of the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. The completed form must be submitted together with the manuscript as a Supplementary File.
d. Author(s) Contribution
RCBC follows the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) author statement. To qualify for authorship of a manuscript, CRediT offers authors the opportunity to share an accurate and detailed description of their various contributions to published work.
CRediT statements must be provided during the submission process on the digital platform, as shown below:
Reprinted from Brand et al. (2015) Those who contributed to the work but do not qualify for authorship should be listed in the acknowledgments.
Any changes to the author list must be approved by all authors, including removals from the list. The corresponding author must act as the contact between the editor and other authors and must keep co-authors informed and involve them in major decisions about the publication. We reserve the right to request confirmation that all authors meet the conditions of authorship.
The Author’s Contribution Statement is included in the Single Author Declaration Form.
e. Peer Review Policy
Peer review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity, and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript must be published.
RCBC adopts the anonymous, double peer review process, which means that authors' identities are withheld from reviewers and vice versa. |
5. Manuscript Category
RCBC strongly encourages authors and manuscripts to meet the quality standards set by the guidelines for health research production – Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research Network (EQUATOR). EQUATOR is a directory that provides guidelines aimed at improving the reliability of published health research literature and promoting transparent and accurate reporting.
RCBC requires that each manuscript include the properly completed EQUATOR checklist (identify the manuscript page where each item can be located) as a Supplementary File, in accordance with the study design.
Manuscripts that do not meet this requirement will be returned.
Checklist – Category of Manuscripts
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6. Preparation of Manuscripts
Enabling the as many readers as possible to access your article is extremely important to increase the visibility of your research and of our Journal. For this purpose, we must use a robust strategy of search engine optimization and search for articles from Google and other specific search sites. There is an active need to ensure that all content of the articles published in Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons be visible and highly rated. For this, authors must also play a crucial role in optimizing search results, making their article discoverable.
The manuscript must be in single-column format, keeping the formatting as simple as possible (prefer Times New Roman or Arial fonts, size 10 to 12, with double space between lines, and top, bottom, and side margins at 2.5 cm). The acceptable word processor file formats are Microsoft Word (DOC and DOCX) or Rich Text Format (RTF).
RCBC adopts the anonymous, double peer review process, which means that authors' identities are withheld from reviewers and vice versa. Therefore, the following documents must be included separately:
Do not include any identifying information, such as authors' names or affiliations.
Checklist – Manuscript Structure
DecsFinder and Mesh on Demand, which allow the identification of descriptors by finding terms in the manuscript abstract. Keep in mind that the greater the scope of the keywords, the greater the possibility that the article, if accepted, can be found on scientific search platforms. Keywords: use between 3 and 10 keywords, previously verified in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms. Think of a sentence using at least five words that a searcher might use to find your article. RCBC suggests tools like
Abstract: Use your article's keywords throughout the abstract in a natural and contextual way, in three to four sentences, but don't exaggerate in repetition, as search engines may de-index your article as a result (following the same format as the article structure), direct, and easy to read. The abstract must contain a maximum of 250 words, without characters
Abbreviations and Terminology: Abbreviations should be as few as possible and limited to terms mentioned repeatedly, as long as they do not alter the understanding of the text, and should be defined at first use. RCBC adopts the Official Universal Anatomical Terminology, approved by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists (IFAA).
Units of Measurement: values of physical quantities must be reported according to the standards of the International System of Units.
Funding: all sources of research support (if any), as well as the project number and the responsible institution, must be declared. The role of funding agencies in the study design and data collection, analysis, and interpretation and manuscript writing should be stated in Acknowledgments.
Acknowledgments: should be made to people who have made an important contribution to the research.
References: must be predominantly from works published in the last five years, easily accessible to the reader (preferably with a DOI number, as it guarantees a permanent access link to the electronic article), and formatted according to the Vancouver Style. If there are works with similar content previously published in RCBC, we suggest evaluating such citations. References must be listed in numerical sequence, as they are cited in the text. Personal communications and unpublished data should be cited in parentheses in the text, and not included in the numbered reference listed at the end of the article. Such quotes from someone other than the author (eg, personal communication) may only be published if there is a signed permission letter. Authors are strongly encouraged to verify the accuracy of each reference against the original source.
Avoid citing conference proceedings, personal communications, and theses in the manuscript. Citations from books and book chapters are discouraged. The authors of the manuscript are responsible for the veracity of the references.
Exa mples of references:
Items with DOI: Zhang M, Holman CD, Price SD, Sanfilippo FM, Preen DB, Bulsara MK. Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for adverse drug reactions in older adults: retrospective cohort study. BMJ 2009 Jan 7; 338: a2752. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a275
Preprint: Bar DZ, Atkatsh K, Tavarez U, Erdos MR, Gruenbaum Y, Collins FS. Biotinylation by antibody recognition – A novel method for proximity labeling. BioRxiv 069187 [Preprint]. 2016 [cited 2017 Jan 12]. Available from: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/069187v1
Citation and Reference of Research Data and Other Content: RCBC encourages citing data files, software code, and other underlying or relevant content in the manuscript, and referencing the data in the References section. RCBC endorses the FORCE 11 Data Citation Principles, which state that all publicly available datasets should be fully referenced in the reference list, with a number access code or unique identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI). For more information, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7273/#A57722
Reference example:
Kraemer MUG, Sinka ME, Duda KA, Mylne A, Shearer FM, Brady OJ, Messina JP, Barker CM, Moore CG, Carvalho RG, Coelho GE, Van Bortel W, Hendrickx G, Schaffner F, Wint GRW, Elyazar IRF, Teng H, Hay SI. The global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence [dataset]. 2015 Jun 30 [cited 2015 Oct 23]. Dryad Digital Repository. Available from: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.47v3c. Referenced in doi: 10.7554/eLife.08347
Tables and Figures: When preparing tables, if using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not one grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, without spaces, to align columns. To avoid unnecessary errors, it is recommended that the word processor's 'spell check' and 'grammar check' functions be used. Tables must be sent in .doc or .docx file, so that they can be edited. Figures must be sent in separate files, in .JPG, .GIF, or .TIF formats (minimum 300 dpi), and with reference of the insertion location in the text. |
7. Article Processing Fee
Open access publishing is not free of cost.
If the manuscript is approved, it will cost BRL 2,000.00 (two thousand reais) / U$ 400.00 (four hundred dollars) to be charged to the corresponding author.
Articles whose first or last author is a CBC non-defaulting member will receive a 50% discount.
For more information about the Article Processing Fee, contact revista@cbc.org.br. |
8. Submission Process
The submission of manuscripts to RCBC can only be done through the online platform, which must be accessed on the CBC website or directly on the website.
At the time of submission to RCBC, authors must submit the following documents:
In case of manuscript approval, authors must also submit proof of payment of the publication fee in the amount of BRL 2,000.00 / U$ 400.00. If the first or last author is a CBC non-defaulting member, there be a 50% discount. |