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INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

• Scope and policy
• Form and preparation of manuscripts

Planta Daninha es una publicación periódica trimestral de divulgación científica publicada por la Sociedad Brasileña de la Ciencia de las Plantas Daninhas (SBCPD)

Los trabajos sometidos para publicación sólo podrán ser enviados por intermedio del site http://www.pdaninha.ufv.br y en las siguientes formas: Artículos o notas científicas. Revisiones de literatura sobre un tema específico, cuando la Comisión Editorial haya hecho la invitación.

Serán aceptados trabajos escritos en portugués, inglés o español después de haber sido revisados y aprovados por la Comisión Editorial y que no hayan sido publicados ni sometidos para publicación en otro medio de comunicación.

Se exceptuan, en esta última limitación, los trabajos presentados en congresos, en forma de resumen. El autor que encamine el trabajo se responsabilizará por los demás autores, cuando los haya, como co-responsables por el contenido científico del trabajo.

Planta Daninha is a scientific journal officially published by the Brazilian Society of Weed Science (SBCPD) every three months.

A manuscript may be submitted for publication provided the first author or SBCPD member has paid the journal's annual fees. The publication of the manuscript shall have a fixed cost up to six pages and a variable cost per extra pages, according to updated values displayed on the journal site (http://www.pdaninha.ufv.br).

Manuscripts may be submitted only by the site www.pdaninha.ufv.br: please access the link "Submissão de artigos'', on the front page. The submission form must be filled out only by the corresponding author, who will be responsible for the manuscript. The manuscripts must be sent as articles, scientific notes or literature reviews on a specific topic to be accepted by the Editorial Commission.

The following instructions should be observed for the preparation of articles and scientific notes:

1. The original copy of the manuscript must be complete and reviewed.

2. It must be computer-printed, 1,5 spacing, Times New Roman 12 , A4 format, with all pages and lines numbered.

3. The manuscript must be as clear and concise as possible.

4. Authors' names and identification must appear in the footnotes and must not be included in the manuscript when first submitted but only during the final publishing phase.

5. The articles must be divided into sections, as follows: RESUMO, ABSTRACT, (including title in English). INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEGEMENTS and CITED LITERATURE. This is not necessary when submitting literature reviews and scientific notes, although these must contain RESUMO and ABSTRACT. The sections must be constituted of:

TITLE: It must be clear and concise and contain no more than 80 characters. It must be centered on the top of the page. In case there is a subtitle, it must be written below the main title, with only the initial letter capitalized and preceded by a Roman numeral. Common weed and other culture names must be followed by their scientific names in parentheses in italics, omitting the Latin name. Only the common names of herbicides should be used. Superscript 1 should be placed at the end of the title. Footnotes must appear as follows:

¹ Received for publication on (blank for day, month and year) and in the revised form on (blank for day, month and year).

RESUMO: it must present an introductory sentence, defining the objective of the work, the most important results and conclusions. It will be followed by indexation terms, preferentially different from the terms appearing in the title. Its translation into English will constitute the ABSTRACT.

PALAVRAS CHAVES AND KEYWORDS: a total of six (6) palavras -chave and key words must be presented immediately below the RESUMO and ABSTRACT, respectively, in alphabetical order. They should be selected so as to enable researchers to quickly locate the work in bibliographic reviews. They must not be included in the title, should be written in lower case letters and separated by commas, with no final period.

INTRODUCTION: must be short, defining the type of problem approached or work hypotheses, including citation of specific literature and conclusion defining the aim of the work.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: necessary and sufficient information must be presented to allow repetition of the work by other researchers.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Must be presented as a single section. There shall be no separate section for conclusions but the authors may conclude the section "Results and Discussion" presenting a summarized conclusion.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Must be simple and concise.

LITERATURE CITED: All the works mentioned in the text must be alphabetically listed with first author's last name, without number. The references must follow ABNT norms. Journals' titles must be abbreviated according to the system adopted for abbreviation of journals' titles of the "World List of Scientific Periodicals", as follows:

Abstracts and Research reports must not be cited unless they are very important and not published previously. Personal communication must be listed as footnote on the page the text appears and should be avoided, if possible. Only original work will be accepted, with citations such as Andrade (1991) , cited by Martin (1993) not being recommended.

Journal:
OLIVEIRA Jr., R. S.; KOSKINEN, W. C.; FERREIRA, F. A. Spatial variability of imazethapyr sorption in soil. Weed Sci., v. 47, p. 243-248, 1999.

Books: submission must be avoided.

Book Chapters:
SCHMIDT. R. R. Development herbicides - Role of bioassays. In: STREIBIG, J. C.; KUDSK, P. (Eds.). Herbicide bioassays. Boca Raton: CCR Press. 1993. p. 7-29.

Theses and Dissertations: submission must be avoided, and the full papers published should be referenced in indexed journals.

SANTOS, J. B. Atividade Microbiana após aplicação de herbicidas utilizados no cultivo do feijão. 2005. 80 f . Tese (Doutorado em Fitotecnia) - Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa , 2005.

Citation of papers in CD-ROM:
EUCLIDES, V. P. B.; MACEDO, M. C. M.; OLIVEIRA, M. P. Avaliação de cultivares de Panicum maximum em pastejo. In: REUNIÃO ANNUAL DA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE ZOOTECNIA, 36, 1999, Porto Alegre. Anais... São Paulo: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia /Gmosis [1999] 17par. CD-ROM. Forragicultura. Avaliação com animais. FOR 020.

Citation of papers using electronic media:

Usenet News:
Author, < author's e-mail, subject, date of publication, > specify date

E-mail: Author, < author's e-mail, subject, posting date, personal e-mail, (reading date)

Web Site: Author (if known), title, (main title, if applicable), last review date (if known), URL and date when accessed.

FTP: Author (if known), title, (date of publication) if available, FTP Address (date when accessed)

TABLES: must be of good printing quality and must accompany the final article, as well as the files on disk (file title and software used)

FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS: (graphics, photographs, drawings, and maps) must be termed Figures, numbered with Arabic numbers and capitalized.