Practical guide for publishing a scientific article in latin american magazines

Abstract

The process of investigation only finish when the researcher publish an article with the results of the investigation. Latin American people believe this is a hard work, that's why there are few people who make research and a little less who ends publishing it successfully. We made a systematic revision on the principal available databases (Pub-Med, Ovid, Cochrane, etc) using as keywords "scientific articles", "how to write" and "scientific papers", 50 articles published between 2.000 and 2.009 were chosen to obtain the correct information to describe the most important elements of a scientific paper, the correct way to do it and the most common mistakes people makes frequently. This article offers to students, residents and physicians, practical advises for a successful publishing and at the end, acquire local, national and international recognition as an expert researcher.