The Loja Medical Journal accepts scientific articles in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, with the aim of expanding the dissemination of biomedical knowledge and strengthening its national and international reach.

When the same manuscript is published in more than one language, the different versions will be considered equivalent linguistic versions of a single scientific work, provided they fully preserve the academic content, authorship, data, results, discussion, and conclusions of the approved manuscript.

Multilingual publication will not be considered redundant or duplicate publication, provided there is editorial transparency and it is expressly stated that the English and Portuguese versions correspond to translations or equivalent versions of the article originally accepted by the journal.

The journal will establish a single editorial and scientific evaluation process for each manuscript, regardless of the number of languages ​​in which it is published. Consequently, the versions in different languages ​​will result from a single editorial decision and a single review process.

Each article published in multilingual format must include a clearly visible editorial note identifying it as the same scientific work presented in different languages. The journal will also endeavor to include the title, abstract, and keywords in Spanish, English, and Portuguese in its metadata to improve the visibility, retrieval, and indexing of the content.

Authors are responsible for the quality, terminological accuracy, and scientific correspondence of the translations, without prejudice to any linguistic and editorial review the journal may conduct before final publication.

The Revista Médica de Loja may publish the same article in all three language versions within a single editorial record, accompanied by the corresponding files in each language, preserving the scientific unity of the manuscript and preventing the different versions from being interpreted as independent publications.

The journal will promote this policy as part of its commitment to internationalization, accessibility of knowledge, and editorial integrity, ensuring that all multilingual publications maintain the ethical, scientific, and formal principles required for biomedical academic communication.