Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia is the official peer-reviewed scientific journal of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology (Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia - SBD) and publishes articles related to Dermatology and associated specialties. Founded in 1925, the journal has been uninterruptedly published since then. ABD follows the Ethical Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics; the Code of Ethics of the American Educational Research Association; the Code of Good Scientific Practices of FAPESP; and the guidelines of the Council of Science Editors.

The journal is divided into the following sections: Continuing Medical Education, Original Article, Review, Letter (subdivided into Tropical/Infectious and Parasitic Dermatology, Dermatopathology, Therapy, Clinical, and Research) and Correspondence.

Contributions can be sent to our electronic submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/abd/, in accordance with the Guidelines and Specifications described below.

The journal welcomes submissions in English or Portuguese.

Manuscripts must be submitted through the online submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/abd/, according to instructions described below.

The font used should be Times New Roman, size 12.

The journal publishes articles classified into the following categories:

• Continuing Medical Education

  Articles written by invitation, aiming at updating the readers' knowledge. Uninvited authors who are interested in collaborating with this section should contact the Editorial Team before submitting their work, to discuss interest, feasibility and to receive detailed information about this type of article.

  The manuscript must have a maximum of 6,000 words and 12 illustrations. It is mandatory to provide updated bibliographic references, and a maximum of 100 references is suggested. It is recommended to divide the manuscript into sections, for instance: Introduction, Background; Epidemiology; Etiopathogenesis; Clinical Aspects; Classification; Clinical, Laboratory and Differential Diagnosis; Evolution; Prognosis; Treatment. The abstract must have a maximum of 250 words.

• Original article

  The following types of articles, not previously published, will be considered for this section: randomized clinical trials; cohort studies; case-control studies; cross-sectional studies; prevalence, incidence; accuracy; cost-effectiveness studies; series of cases (minimum number depending on the disease under study); studies on the pathophysiology of diseases and/or nosologic associations, studies on diagnostic and prognostic tests, basic research in dermatology (translational research) and systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis.

  The manuscript must have a maximum of 6,000 words, 40 references and 10 illustrations. The article must be structured into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. The abstract must be structured into the following sections: Background (current state of knowledge); Objective; Methods; Results; Study limitations and Conclusions (with a precise level of clinical statistics significance, to prevent speculations). The abstract must have a maximum of 250 words.

  The articles must follow the specific recommendations for each type of study:

  - Randomized clinical trials: CONSORT;

  - Systematic review with or without meta-analysis: PRISMA;

  - Observational studies: STROBE;

  - Case series report: CARE.

  Specifications for different types of studies not described above are available at the EQUATOR Network website.

  Clinical trials must be registered in a public database, of which options are listed on the website of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Examples are: Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clinicos ReBEC and ClinicalTrials.gov). The registration number must be informed in the submission archives.

  Systematic reviews must also be registered with the international Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews PROSPERO or similar database. The registration number must also be informed in the submission archives.

• Review

  This article is written by professionals with acknowledged experience. It aims to perform an in-depth analysis of the current state of knowledge on topics of clinical relevance, with emphasis on aspects such as the cause and prevention of dermatological diseases, their diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. It should preferably include critical analyses of the literature.

  The article must have a maximum of 6,000 words and 10 illustrations. A maximum of 100 references are suggested, which must be recent. The abstract must have a maximum of 250 words.

• Letters

  This section is destined to a faster publication of brief communications, and it is divided into the following categories:

  a) Letter - Tropical/Infectious and Parasitic Dermatology. Including but not limited to, Hansen's disease, fungal and parasitic infections, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. The manuscript must have a maximum of 700 words, 10 references, and 4 illustrations.

  b) Letter - Dermatopathology. Reports that highlight relevant dematopathological aspects. The manuscript must have a maximum of 700 words, 10 references, and 4 illustrations.

  c) Letter - Therapy. Reports that highlight therapeutic outcomes or new adverse drug reactions. The manuscript must have a maximum of 700 words, 10 references, and 4 illustrations.

  d) Letter - Clinical. Case reports of undeniable interest and well-documented. The manuscript must have a maximum of 700 words, 10 references, and 4 illustrations.

  e) Letter - Research. Less complex investigation studies, such as a small series of cases, disclosure of preliminary results from original research, and initial reports of therapeutic trials. The manuscript must have a maximum of 1,200 words, 10 references, and 4 illustrations.

  All letters must not be divided into sections nor include an abstract and keywords.

• Correspondence

  This section admits questions and objective suggestions related to articles published in this journal, up to two previous numbers, whose text must be continuous and not exceed 400 words. Maximum of 5 references and 2 illustrations.

  Must not be divided into sections nor include an abstract and keywords.

• Special Article

  Articles written by invitation only, on specific topics, such as: guidelines, lucianaabbade consensus, protocols and similar; issues related to scientific publications; epidemiology and biostatistics applied to dermatology; photographic or imaging technique approach; memory with a historical approach to topics of dermatological interest, such as celebration of important events in the development of medicine or dermatology; biographies; obituaries and, tributes to relevant personalities of national and international dermatology.

  The specifications of the manuscript, such as structure and number of authors, will be defined according to the type of article, upon the invitation.

This journal follows a double anonymized review process. Your submission will initially be assessed by our editors to determine suitability for publication in this journal. If your submission is deemed suitable, it will typically be sent to a minimum of two reviewers for an independent expert assessment of the scientific quality. The decision as to whether your article is accepted or rejected will be taken by our editors. Read more about peer review.

Our editors are not involved in making decisions about papers which:

• they have written themselves.

• have been written by family members or colleagues.

• relate to products or services in which they have an interest.

Any such submissions will be subject to the journal's usual procedures and peer review will be handled independently of the editor involved and their research group. Read more about editor duties. Authors may submit a formal appeal request to the editorial decision, provided the it meets the requirements and follows the procedure outlined in Elsevier’s Appeal Policy. Only one appeal per submission will be considered and the appeal decision will be final.

The peer review process for special issues and article collections follows the same process as outlined above for regular submissions, except, a guest editor may send the submissions out to the reviewers and may recommend a decision to the journal editor. The journal editor oversees the peer review process of all special issues and article collections to ensure the high standards of publishing ethics and responsiveness are respected and is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles.

Ethics in publishing

The ABD journal adopts the principles of publication ethics included in the ABD code of conduct of the Committe on Publication Ethics COPE. Studies on patients or volunteers require the Informed Consent form and approval from the institution's Research Ethics Committee or relevant. The number of the research approval protocol by the Research Ethics Committee must be documented in the paper.

Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained whenever an author wishes to include case details, personal information or images of patients and any other individuals in an Elsevier publication. Written consent must be retained by the author but not be sent to the journal. When there is a photograph revealing the face and allowing the patient's identification, it is necessary to send the patient's consent document, when submitting the article, establishing the use of the photograph for scientific purposes. The author must provide copies of the consents or evidence that such consents were obtained only if specifically requested by the journal in exceptional circumstances (for instance, if a legal issue arises). For more information, see the Elsevier Policy on the Use of Images or Personal Information of Patients or Other Individuals (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/patient-consent). Unless you have written permission from the patient (or, where applicable, from close relatives), any patient's personal information included in any part of the article and in any supplementary material (including all illustrations and videos) must be removed before being sent.

Authors must follow other ethical guidelines set forth in Elsevier's Publication Ethics Policy.

When authors submit an article to an Elsevier journal it is implied that: the work described has not been published previously except in the form of a preprint, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or registered report. See our policy on multiple, redundant or concurrent publication. the article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. the article's publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out. if accepted, the article will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically, without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify compliance with our journal publishing policies, we may check your manuscript with our screening tools.

All authors must inform their substantial contribution on the Title Page according to the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT). Here are the options: (1) the study concept and design; (2) data collection, or analysis and interpretation of data; (3) statistical analysis; (4) writing of the manuscript or critical review of important intellectual content; (5) data collection, analysis and interpretation; (6) effective participation in the research guidance; (7) intellectual participation in the propaedeutic and/or therapeutic conduct of the studied cases; (8) critical review of the literature; (9) final approval of the final version of the manuscript.

Number of authors according to sections:

- Original Articles and Letter - Research - no limit on the number of authors.

- Continuing Medical Education, Review Articles and all Letters, except Letter - Research - maximum of 6 authors.

- Correspondence - maximum of 4 authors.

- Special Articles - discussion and definition according to the type of article, upon invitation.

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.

Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an online issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in a corrigendum.

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors should complete the declaration of competing interest statement using this template and upload to the submission system at the Attach/Upload Files step. Note: Please do not convert the .docx template to another file type. Author signatures are not required. If there are no interests to declare, please choose the first option in the template. Please also indicate if the study received any funding.

More information.

Each author is required to declare their individual contribution to the article on the Title Page. All authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation, so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included in the disclosure. More info can be found in the section "Authorship".

Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role of sponsors, if any, should be declared in relation to the study design, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the report and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission. List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to funder's requirements:

Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaaa].

It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants, scholarships and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.If no funding was received for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence on the manuscript's title page:

Financial Support: None declared.

Authors must declare the use of generative AI in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.

Elsevier recognizes the potential of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI Tools”), when used responsibly, to help researchers work efficiently, gain critical insights fast and achieve better outcomes. Increasingly, these tools, including AI agents and deep research tools, are helping researchers to synthesize complex literature, provide an overview of a field or research question, identify research gaps, generate ideas, and provide tailored support for tasks such as content organization and improving language and readability.

Authors preparing a manuscript for an Elsevier journal can use AI Tools to support them. However, these tools must never be used as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise and evaluation. AI technology should always be applied with human oversight and control.

Ultimately, authors are responsible and accountable for the contents of their work. This includes accountability for:

• Carefully reviewing and verifying the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and impartiality of all AI-generated output (including checking the sources, as AI-generated references can be incorrect or fabricated).

• Editing and adapting all material thoroughly to ensure the manuscript represents the author’s authentic and original contribution and reflects their own analysis, interpretation, insights and ideas.

• Ensuring the use of any tools or sources, AI-based or otherwise, is made clear and transparent to readers. If AI Tools have been used, we require a disclosure statement upon submission; please see example below.

• Ensuring the manuscript is developed in a way that safeguards data privacy, intellectual property and other rights, by checking the terms and conditions of any AI tool that is used.

Finally, authors must not list or cite AI Tools as an author or co-author on the manuscript since authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to, and performed by, humans.

The use of AI Tools in the manuscript preparation process must be declared by adding a statement at the end of the manuscript when the paper is first submitted. The statement will appear in the published work and should be placed in a new section before the references list.

An example:

• Title of new section:

  Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the manuscript preparation process.

• Statement:

  During the preparation of this work the author(s) used [NAME OF TOOL / SERVICE] in order to [REASON]. After using this tool/service, the author(s) reviewed and edited the content as needed and take(s) full responsibility for the content of the published article.

The declaration does not apply to the use of basic tools, such as tools used to check grammar, spelling and references. If you have nothing to disclose, you do not need to add a statement.

Please read Elsevier’s author policy on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies, which can be found in our generative AI policies for journals.

Please note: to protect authors’ rights and the confidentiality of their research, this journal does not currently allow the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies such as ChatGPT or similar services by reviewers or editors in the peer review and manuscript evaluation process, as is stated in our generative AI policies for journals. We are actively evaluating compliant AI Tools and may revise this policy in the future.

The ABD journal accepts the submission of preprints.

Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time in accordance with Elsevier sharing policy.

Sharing your preprints (e.g. on a preprint server) will not count as pre-publication (for more information, see "Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications".

A reliable preprint server must have a transparent moderation policy, offer DOI to the submitted preprints, allow changes to the preprint version, community comments and evaluation with researcher endorsement, and interoperability with other services and platforms. Only submissions of work that were previously deposited on public server platforms that meet these characteristics of reliability and transparency will be accepted. The following public platforms are recommended: Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI for open discussion before approval and publication in the journal.

In case of acceptance and publication of the article at ABD, it is the authors' responsibility to update the record on the preprint server, informing the complete reference of the publication in the journal.

Inclusive language acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, is sensitive to differences, and promotes equal opportunities. Content should make no assumptions about the beliefs or commitments of any reader; contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition; and use inclusive language throughout. Authors should ensure that writing is free from bias, stereotypes, slang, reference to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. We advise to seek gender neutrality by using plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as default/wherever possible to avoid using "he, she," or "he/she." We recommend avoiding the use of descriptors that refer to personal attributes such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition unless they are relevant and valid. When coding terminology is used, we recommend to avoid offensive or exclusionary terms such as "master", "slave", "blacklist" and "whitelist". We suggest using alternatives that are more appropriate and (self-) explanatory such as "primary", "secondary", "blocklist" and "allowlist". These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.

Reporting guidance

For research involving or pertaining to humans, animals or eukaryotic cells, investigators should integrate sex and gender-based analyses (SGBA) into their research design according to funder/sponsor requirements and best practices within a field. Authors should address the sex and/or gender dimensions of their research in their article. In cases where they cannot, they should discuss this as a limitation to their research's generalizability. Importantly, authors should explicitly state what definitions of sex and/or gender they are applying to enhance the precision, rigor and reproducibility of their research and to avoid ambiguity or conflation of terms and the constructs to which they refer (see Definitions section below). Authors can refer to the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines and the SAGER guidelines checklist. These offer systematic approaches to the use and editorial review of sex and gender information in study design, data analysis, outcome reporting and research interpretation - however, please note there is no single, universally agreed-upon set of guidelines for defining sex and gender.

Definitions

Sex generally refers to a set of biological attributes that are associated with physical and physiological features (e.g., chromosomal genotype, hormonal levels, internal and external anatomy). A binary sex categorization (male/female) is usually designated at birth ("sex assigned at birth"), most often based solely on the visible external anatomy of a newborn. Gender generally refers to socially constructed roles, behaviors, and identities of women, men and gender-diverse people that occur in a historical and cultural context and may vary across societies and over time. Gender influences how people view themselves and each other, how they behave and interact and how power is distributed in society. Sex and gender are often incorrectly portrayed as binary (female/male or woman/man) and unchanging whereas these constructs actually exist along a spectrum and include additional sex categorizations and gender identities such as people who are intersex/have differences of sex development (DSD) or identify as non-binary. Moreover, the terms "sex" and "gender" can be ambiguous--thus it is important for authors to define the manner in which they are used. In addition to this definition guidance and the SAGER guidelines, the resources on this page offer further insight around sex and gender in research studies.

We accept that authors sometimes need to adjust images for clarity but any manipulation of images for the purpose of deception or fraud will be seen as scientific ethical abuse and will be dealt with accordingly. Authors must adhere to this journal’s policy for graphical images: No specific feature within an image may be enhanced, obscured, moved, removed or introduced. Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable if, and only as long as, they do not obscure or eliminate any information present in the original image. Nonlinear adjustments such as changes to gamma settings must be disclosed in the figure legend. We do not permit the use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts. Please read our policy on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted tools in figures, images and artwork, which can be found in Elsevier’s GenAI Policies for Journals. To verify compliance with the above, this journal may send your images to a thirdparty service who screen for image irregularities. Our editors may ask you to provide original data or images if any questions arise as a result of the screening. The final decision as to whether images are acceptable will be taken by our editors. Authors are encouraged to carefully check all images before submission and to connect all the data in any figures to the original, unprocessed data.

Elsevier respects the decisions taken by its authors as to how they choose to designate territories and identify their affiliations in their published content. Elsevier’s policy is to take a neutral position with respect to territorial disputes or jurisdictional claims, including, but not limited to, maps and institutional affiliations. For journals that Elsevier publishes on behalf of a third party owner, the owner may set its own policy on these issues. Maps: Readers should be able to locate any study areas shown within maps using common mapping platforms. Maps should only show the area actually studied and authors should not include a location map which displays a larger area than the bounding box of the study area. Authors should add a note clearly stating that "map lines delineate study areas and do not necessarily depict accepted national boundaries”. During the review process, Elsevier’s editors may request authors to change maps if these guidelines are not followed. Institutional affiliations: Authors should use either the full, standard title of their institution or the standard abbreviation of the institutional name so that the institutional name can be independently verified for research integrity purposes.

If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans. The manuscript should be in line with the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) as per those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly.

The author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and have been approved by the appropriate institutional committee(s). This statement should contain the date and reference number of the ethical approval(s) obtained. Authors should also include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

The journal will not accept manuscripts that contain data derived from unethically sourced organs or tissue, including from executed prisoners or prisoners of conscience, consistent with recommendations by Global Rights Compliance on Mitigating Human Rights Risks in Transplantation Medicine. For all studies that use human organs or tissues authors must provide sufficient evidence that they were procured in line with WHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation. The source of the organs or tissues used in clinical research must be transparent and traceable. Authors of manuscripts describing organ transplantation must additionally declare within the manuscript:

1. that autonomous consent free from coercion was obtained from the donor(s) or their next of kin; and

2. that organs/tissues were not sourced from executed prisoners or prisoners of conscience.

All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Research Council's Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed. The sex of animals must be indicated, and where appropriate, the influence (or association) of sex on the results of the study.

Authors must document in the manuscript that ethics committee approval and informed consent have been obtained for studies involving patients or volunteers (including organ/tissue donors).

Key guidelines:

• Appropriate consents, permissions and releases must be obtained if case details, personal information and images of patients or any other individuals are included in a publication, even if anonymized.

• Patient and research subjects’ names, initials, hospital or social security numbers, dates of birth or any other personal or identifying information should never be used, even where consent has been provided.

Written consents must be retained. They should not be provided to this journal unless this is specifically requested in exceptional circumstances, for example, when a legal issue arises. Only then should you provide copies of the consents, or evidence that all relevant consents were obtained.

Personal details of any patient must only be included in your article or in any supplementary materials (including all images and videos) in cases where written permission has been given by the patient (or, where applicable, the next of kin).

We advise you to review Elsevier’s policy on patient consent prior to preparing your manuscript. Clinical Trials This journal follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

Registration in a public trials registry is a condition for publication of clinical trials in this journal in accordance with International Committee of Medical Journal Editors recommendations. Trials must register at or before the onset of patient enrolment. The clinical trial registration number should be included at the end of the abstract of the article. A clinical trial is defined as any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects of health outcomes. Health-related interventions include any intervention used to modify a biomedical or health-related outcome (for example drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioural treatments, dietary interventions, and process-of-care changes). Health outcomes include any biomedical or health-related measures obtained in patients or participants, including pharmacokinetic measures and adverse events. Purely observational studies (those in which the assignment of the medical intervention is not at the discretion of the investigator) will not require registration.

Authors are required to disclose all posting in registries of results of the same or closely related work. Editors will not consider results to be a prior publication if they have already been posted in the same clinical trials registry in which primary registration resides, as long as the results are presented in the form of a brief structured abstract (fewer than 500 words) or table.

Disclosing results in other circumstances, such as in an investors’ meeting, for example, is discouraged and may jeopardize consideration of your manuscript by this journal.

Authors are encouraged to follow CONSORT guidelines when presenting randomized controlled trials, and provide the CONSORT checklist at manuscript submission, with an accompanying flow diagram illustrating the progress of patients through the trial - including recruitment, enrolment, randomization, withdrawal, completion and a description of the randomization procedure.

Read the CONSORT guidelines.

Follow the CONSORT checklist.

File format We ask you to provide editable source files for your entire submission (including figures, tables and text graphics). Some guidelines:

• Save files in an editable format, using the extension .doc/.docx for Word files and .tex for LaTeX files.

• A PDF is not an acceptable source file.

• Lay out text in a single-column format.

• Remove any strikethrough and underlined text from your manuscript, unless it has scientific significance related to your article.

• Use spell-check and grammar-check functions to avoid errors.

We advise you to read our Step-by-step guide to publishing with Elsevier.

This journal uses double anonymized review process, which means the identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. More information is available on our website. To facilitate this, please include the following separately:

Title page (with author details):

Article title

Author(s) name(s), abbreviations, and ORCID ID

Affiliation(s)

Acknowledgments

Conflict of interest

Financial support

Authors' contributions

Study location

Corresponding author's address (full address required)

Corresponding author's email address (this will be published in the article)

The anonymized manuscript should contain the main body of your article, including:

Title

Abstract/Keywords

Text

References

Illustration titles

Illustrations in sequential order

Anonyomized manuscript (no author details):

It is important that your anonymized manuscript does not contain any identifying information, such as author names or affiliations. If there is any mention of the institution or location where the study was conducted in the manuscript, it should be replaced with "XXX." Learn more about peer review.

• Article title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

• Author names and affiliations, including ORCID iD. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. You can add your name between parentheses in your own script behind the English transliteration. List each author affiliation followed by city, state and country. Author's positions/roles in their institutes will not be published. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author listing and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author. The e-mail address and ORCID iD of each one of the authors must be inserted in the submission system. If an author does not have an ORCID iD, it can be registered at https://orcid.org/register.

• Please inform, on the Title Page, whether there is any conflict of interests or financial support. The name of the institution where the study was conduct should also be presented on Title Page (including city, state and country).

• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.

• Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.

• Author’s contributions. Each author must inform an accurate and detailed description of their diverse contributions to the published work. Please check the Authorship section.

A structured abstract, by means of appropriate headings, should provide the context or background for the research and should state its purpose, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), and principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations. Please check the "Types of paper" section for more information on abstract's parameters for each article type. The abstract must be sent alongside the manuscript without mentioning the institution where the study was conducted.

Immediately after the abstract, provide a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 7 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). These keywords will be used for indexing purposes. Please choose keywords that are included in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), of Index Medicus, available at www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh or in the Descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS), of Bireme, available at the URL http://decs.bvs.br.

Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their first mention there, as well as in the footnote. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article. Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.

This journal requires you to use the international system of units

Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Some guidelines:

• Place tables next to the relevant text or on a separate page(s) at the end of your article.

• Cite all tables in the manuscript text.

• Number tables consecutively according to their appearance in the text.

• Please provide captions along with the tables.

• Place any table notes below the table body.

• Avoid vertical rules and shading within table cells.

We recommend that you use tables sparingly, ensuring that any data presented in tables is not duplicating results described elsewhere in the article.

Figures, images, artwork, diagrams and other graphical media must be supplied as separate files along with the manuscript. We recommend that you read our detailed artwork and media instructions. Some excerpts:

When submitting artwork:

• Cite all images in the manuscript text.

• Number images according to the sequence they appear within your article.

• Submit each image as a separate file using a logical naming convention for your files (for example, Figure_1, Figure_2 etc).

• Please provide captions for all figures, images, and artwork.

• Text graphics may be embedded in the text at the appropriate position. If you are working with LaTeX, text graphics may also be embedded in the file.

When your artwork is finalized, "save as" or convert your electronic artwork to the formats listed below taking into account the given resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations:

• Vector drawings: Save as EPS or PDF files embedding the font or saving the text as "graphics."

• Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): Save as TIFF, JPG or PNG files using a minimum of 300 dpi (for single column: min. 1063 pixels, full page width: 2244 pixels).

• Bitmapped line drawings: Save as TIFF, JPG or PNG files using a minimum of 1000 dpi (for single column: min. 3543 pixels, full page width: 7480 pixels).

• Combinations bitmapped line/halftones (color or grayscale): Save as TIFF, JPG or PNG files using a minimum of 500 dpi (for single column: min. 1772 pixels, full page width: 3740 pixels).

Please do not submit:

• files that are too low in resolution (for example, files optimized for screen use such as GIF, BMP, PICT or WPG files).

• disproportionally large images compared to font size, as text may become unreadable.

All images must have a caption. A caption should consist of a brief title (not displayed on the figure itself) and a description of the image. We advise you to keep the amount of text in any image to a minimum, though any symbols and abbreviations used should be explained. Provide captions in a separate file.

If you submit usable color figures with your accepted article, we will ensure that they appear in color online.

Please ensure that color images are accessible to all, including those with impaired color vision. Learn more about color and web accessibility.

Please read our policy on the use of generative AI and AI-assisted tools in figures, images and artwork, which can be found in Elsevier’s GenAI Policies for Journals. This policy states:

• We do not permit the use of Generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts.

• The only exception is if the use of AI or AI-assisted tools is part of the research design or methods (for example, in the field of biomedical imaging). If this is the case, such use must be described in a reproducible manner in the methods section, including the name of the model or tool, version and extension numbers, and manufacturer.

• The use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in the production of artwork such as for graphical abstracts is not permitted. The use of generative AI in the production of cover art may in some cases be allowed, if the author obtains prior permission from the journal editor and publisher, can demonstrate that all necessary rights have been cleared for the use of the relevant material, and ensures that there is correct content attribution.

We encourage the use of supplementary materials such as applications, images and sound clips to enhance research. Some guidelines:

• Supplementary material should be accurate and relevant to the research.

• Cite all supplementary files in the manuscript text.

• Submit supplementary materials at the same time as your article. Be aware that all supplementary materials provided will appear online in the exact same file type as received.

• These files will not be formatted or typeset by the production team. Include a concise, descriptive caption for each supplementary file describing its content.

• Provide updated files if at any stage of the publication process you wish to make changes to submitted supplementary materials.

• Do not make annotations or corrections to a previous version of a supplementary file.

• Switch off the option to track changes in Microsoft Office files. If tracked changes are left on, they will appear in your published version.

This journal accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance your scientific research. We encourage you to include links to video or animation files within articles. Some guidelines:

• When including video or animation file links within your article, refer to the video or animation content by adding a note in your text where the file should be placed.

• Clearly label files ensuring the given file name is directly related to the file content.

• Provide files in one of our recommended file formats. Files should be within our preferred maximum file size of 150 MB per file, 1 GB in total.

• Provide "stills" for each of your files. These will be used as standard icons to personalize the link to your video data. You can choose any frame from your video or animation or make a separate image.

• Provide text (for both the electronic and the print version) to be placed in the portions of your article that refer to the video content. This is essential text, as video and animation files cannot be embedded in the print version of the journal.

We publish all video and animation files supplied in the electronic version of your article.

For more detailed instructions, we recommend that you read our guidelines on submitting video content to be included in the body of an article.

This journal encourages you to share data that supports your research publication in an appropriate data repository, and enables you to interlink the data with your published articles. If you are sharing data, you are encouraged to cite the data in your manuscript and reference list. Please refer to the "References" section for more information about data citation.

Research data refers to the results of observations or experimentation that validate research findings. To facilitate reproducibility and data reuse, this journal also encourages you to share your software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials related to the project.

For more information on depositing, sharing and using research data and other relevant research materials, visit the research data page.

To foster transparency, we encourage you to state the availability of your data in your submission. This may be a requirement of your funding body or institution. If your data is unavailable to access or unsuitable to post, you will have the opportunity to indicate why during the submission process, for example by stating that the research data is confidential. The statement will appear with your published article on ScienceDirect. For more information, visit the Data Statement page.

Linking to the data underlying your work increases your exposure and may lead to new collaborations. It also provides readers with a better understanding of the described research. If your research data has been made available in a data repository there are a number of ways your article can be linked directly to the dataset: Provide a link to your dataset when prompted during the online submission process. For some data repositories, a repository banner will automatically appear next to your published article on ScienceDirect. You can also link relevant data or entities within the text of your article through the use of identifiers. Use the following format: Database: 12345 (e.g. TAIR AT1G01020; CCDC: 734053; PDB:1XFN).

Learn more about linking research data and research articles in ScienceDirect.

Article sections

Please check the "Types of paper" section for more information on the structure of each article type published by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia.

Divide your article into clearly defined sections. Each subsection is given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line. Subsections should be used as much as possible when cross-referencing text: refer to the subsection by heading as opposed to simply 'the text'.

Please provide definitions of field-specific terms used in your article, in a separate list.

Include any individuals who provided you with help during your research, such as help with language, writing or proof reading, in the acknowledgements section. Include acknowledgements only in the title page since this journal follows a double anonymized peer review process. Do not add it as a footnote to your title.

We ask you to use the following format for appendices: Identify individual appendices within your article using the format: A, B, etc. Give separate numbering to formulae and equations within appendices using formats such as Eq.

References within text

Any references cited within your article should also be present in your reference list and vice versa. Some guidelines:

• References cited in your abstract must be given in full.

• We recommend that you do not include unpublished results and personal communications in your reference list, though you may mention them in the text of your article.

• Any unpublished results and personal communications included in your reference list must follow the standard reference style of the journal. In substitution of the publication date add "unpublished results" or "personal communication."

• References cited as "in press" imply that the item has been accepted for publication.

Linking to cited sources will increase the discoverability of your research.

Before submission, check that all data provided in your reference list are correct, including any references which have been copied. Providing correct reference data allows us to link to abstracting and indexing services such as Scopus, Crossref and PubMed. Any incorrect surnames, journal or book titles, publication years or pagination within your references may prevent link creation.

Reference links

Increased discoverability of research and high quality peer review are ensured by online links to the sources cited. In order to allow us to create links to abstracting and indexing services, such as Scopus, Crossref and PubMed, please ensure that data provided in the references are correct. Please note that incorrect surnames, journal/book titles, publication year and pagination may prevent link creation. When copying references, please be careful as they may already contain errors.

As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given.

This journal encourages you to cite underlying or relevant datasets in your manuscript by citing them in your text and including a data reference in your Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article.

Where a preprint has subsequently become available as a peer-reviewed publication, the formal publication should be used as the reference. If there are preprints that are central to your work or that cover crucial developments in the topic, but are not yet formally published, these may be referenced. Preprints should be clearly marked as such, for example by including the word preprint, or the name of the preprint server, as part of the reference. The preprint DOI should also be provided.

Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.

Text: Indicate references by superscript numbers in the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.

List: Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.

Examples:

Journal Article:

1. Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV infected patients. N Engl J Med 2002;347:284-7.

Reference to a specific book:

2. Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology, 4^th ed. St. Louis: Mosby;2002.

Book chapter:

3. Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

Dissertations or theses:

4. Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans [dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002.

Homepage or Website:

5. eatright.org [Internet]. Chicago: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; c2016 [cited 2016 Dec 27]. Available from: https://www.eatright.org/.

Preprints and in press:

6. Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Forthcoming 2002.

7. Alvarez R. Near optimal neural network estimator for spectral x-ray photon counting data with pileup. arXiv:1702.01006v1 [Preprint]. 2017 [cited 2017 Feb 9]: [11 p.]. Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01006

Author listing:

When there are more than 6 authors, please list the first 6, followed by "et al". More info can be found at: "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" (J Am Med Assoc 1997;277:927 -34).

Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations.

Most Elsevier journals have their reference template available in many of the most popular reference management software products. These include all products that support Citation Style Language styles, such as Mendeley. Using citation plug-ins from these products, authors only need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article, after which citations and bibliographies will be automatically formatted in the journal's style. If no template is yet available for this journal, please follow the format of the sample references and citations as shown in this Guide. If you use reference management software, please ensure that you remove all field codes before submitting the electronic manuscript. More information on how to remove field codes from different reference management software.

Submission checklist

Before completing the submission of your manuscript, we advise you to read our submission checklist:

• One author has been designated as the corresponding author and their full contact details (email address, full postal address and phone numbers) have been provided.

• All files have been uploaded, including keywords, figure captions and tables (including a title, description and footnotes) included.

• Spelling and grammar checks have been carried out.

• All references in the article text are cited in the reference list and vice versa.

• Permission has been obtained for the use of any copyrighted material from other sources, including the Web.

• For gold open access articles, all authors understand that they are responsible for payment of the article publishing charge (APC) if the manuscript is accepted. Payment of the APC may be covered by the corresponding author’s institution, or the research funder.

You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details and also this Box that recaps all information on the article types and mandatory submission items.

Ensure that the following items are present:

One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

• E-mail address

• Full postal address.

All mandatory submission documents templates, including the Conflict of Interest Statement, the Copyright Transfer Agreement Form, the Consent for Publication of Patient Images, can be found at the journal website

All documents must be signed by all the authors and uploaded to the submission system, following the submission process.

The Consent for Publication of Patient Images is needed solely for images that may identify the patient.

Please check if all needed information has been submitted, as described in the Box

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Our online submission system guides you through the process steps of entering your manuscript details and uploading your files. The system converts your article files to a single PDF file used in the peer-review process.

Editable files (e.g., Word, LaTeX) are required to typeset your article for final publication.

All correspondence, including notification of the editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by email. Please follow this link to submit your paper.

Pre-Review: All manuscripts submitted to the ABD will be forwarded to the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board will be responsible for reviewing and verifying the suitability of the publication's potential for the journal's scope. Manuscripts that meet the journal's requirements will be assigned a responsible editor and will proceed to technical review. Those rejected in the initial phase will be returned to the authors with a justification.

Technical Review: Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract, published lecture, or academic thesis). To verify originality, the journal offers the Crossref Similarity Check service. This stage verifies compliance with the publication and documentation standards required for manuscript submission by the ABD. If the instructions do not comply, the manuscript will be returned to the authors for revision. Only after the required documentation has been completed will the manuscript be assigned to a reviewer on the Review Board, whom the editor responsible for the article will designate based on the manuscript's main thematic area.

Peer review: This journal uses double-blind peer review: the authors' identities will be hidden from reviewers and vice versa. To facilitate the process, the journal requests that authors' identification data be presented only on the title page, separately from the manuscript text. If there is anything in the text that identifies the institution or location, it must be replaced with XX by the end of the peer review. The reviews are assigned to the editor in charge, who will forward them to the authors if they agree with the reviews. After the authors have made corrections, the manuscript returns to the editor in charge, who will forward it to the same reviewers, if necessary. This process is repeated until the reviewers and the editor in charge approve it.

Final decision: The editor will decide on final approval of the manuscript.

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Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (see more information on this) to assign to Brazilian Society of Dermatology Publishing agreement Authors will be asked to complete a publishing agreement after acceptance. The corresponding author will receive a link to the online agreement by email. We advise you to read Elsevier's policies related to copyright to learn more about our copyright policies and your, and your employer’s/institution’s, additional rights for subscription and gold open access articles. Copyright Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (see more information on this) to assign to Brazilian Society of Dermatology.

Author rights

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If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included in your article, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) within your article using Elsevier’s permission request and license form (word).

To ensure a fast publication process of the article, we kindly ask authors to provide us with their proof corrections within two days. Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to our online proofing system, allowing annotation and correction of proofs online. The environment is similar to MS Word: in addition to editing text, you can also comment on figures/tables and answer questions from the Copy Editor. Web-based proofing provides a faster and less error-prone process by allowing you to directly type your corrections, eliminating the potential introduction of errors.

If preferred, you can still choose to annotate and upload your edits on the PDF version. All instructions for proofing will be given in the e-mail we send to authors, including alternative methods to the online version and PDF.

We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.

We encourage you to share and promote your article to give additional visibility to your work, enabling your paper to contribute to scientific progress and foster the exchange of scientific developments within your field. Read more about how to responsibly share and promote your article.

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