Any manuscript submitted to Respirar with the intention of being published, whatever its nature, must include the Copyright Form and the Conflict of Interest Form (in which the funding sources are also declared). Only unpublished works will be accepted, manuscripts should not be submitted simultaneously to two or more journals. However, Respirar will accept submissions that come from reliable preprint servers, as well as it will be able to make use of them and allow their use by authors until the time of publication. 

Any manuscript submitted to Respirar will be processed by the iThenticate plagiarism detection system and will then undergo a single blind peer review process. Both policies are detailed in About the journal.

Respirar adheres to the principles of transparency and best practices in academic publishing (Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing) established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and the Singapore Statement on Research Integrity.

Papers that collect data on humans or animals: must be done in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (WHO code of ethics) and require the approval of a local ethics committee. The opinion of the ethics committee recognized by the Health Authority or National Health Council (or similar) must be submitted.  If applicable, the authors must also have the informed consent of the study subjects. The inclusion of any type of information that allows the identification of patients will not be accepted.

Clinical trials: must be registered with the Data Providers of the WHO International Clinical Trials Registries Platform (ICTRP), ReBEC (Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry) or similar ones when they have been approved by the national ethics committee and before the selection of patients for the investigation. The name of the database, acronym and/or number of the Clinical Trial must appear at the end of the abstract of the article. Purely observational studies do not require registration.

International guidelines for the presentation of research results: Respirar adopts these guidelines for each type of study according to the recommendation of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the EQUATOR network (Enhancing the QUALity and Transparency Of health Research): CONSORT for randomized controlled clinical trial, STROBE for observational studies, CARE for case reports, PRISMA or MOOSE for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and STARD or TRIPOD for diagnostic/prognostic studies, SPIRIT  or PRISMA-P for study protocols, AGREE or RIGHT for protocols/clinical practice guidelines, COREQ (checklist) or SRQR for qualitative studies, ARRIVE  for preclinical animal studies, SQUIRE for quality improvement studies, and CHEERS for economic evaluation.

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: should be registered in the Próspero database (International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews) preferably before the eligibility criteria application procedures are initiated. The registration number must appear at the end of the abstract of the article and in the material and methods area. 

Data deposit: Respirar adheres to all open access initiatives, among them, it supports the initiative of the Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas to require the supporting data of the investigations and their deposit according to ley 26,899, Institutional Digital Opem Access Repositories. This law establishes the obligation of public organizations and institutions that make up the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation (SNCTI), to "develop open access institutional digital repositories, their own or shared, in which the resulting scientific-technological production will be deposited. of work, training and/or projects, fully or partially financed with public funds, of its researchers, technologists, teachers, postdoctoral fellows and master's and doctoral students." After the corresponding deposit, the link must be inserted in the body of the article with the corresponding bibliographical reference.