Basic information
The Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology – BABT, a publication of the Technology Institute of Paraná (TECPAR), is an international journal that publishes original articles of research, and review articles in the following areas: Agriculture, Agribusiness and Biotechnology; Human and Animal Health; Biological and Applied Sciences; Food/Feed Science and Technology; Environmental Sciences; Engineering, Technology and Techniques. The BABT's content is freely accessible to readers and no publication fees are charged to authors. Founded in 1946, DSc. Marcos Augusto Enrietti devised the creation of a journal with the finality of publishing results of scientific and technological advancements made by the group of researchers of the Technological Researches and Biology Institute, current TECPAR, initiating the publication of the journal Archives of Biology and Technology. From 1999 on, being named Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, it starts publishing works only in English language, contributing more effectively to increase and dissemination of knowledge among national and international scientific community. Its title abbreviation is Braz Arch Biol Technol which must be used in bibliographies, footnotes and in references and bibliographic subtitles. We are present in the following social networks: |
Communication with editorial staff
All communication with the editorial staff must be by the email: The Subject of the email must follow the pattern below: [Manuscript ID*] Subject Examples: [BABT-2022-0000] Review and Correction [BABT-2022-0000] Approved Article Emails sent outside this standard are automatically rejected by our system. *Manuscript ID – BABT-NNNN-NNNN |
Indexed in
The Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology - BABT is indexed in:
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Intellectual Property
All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution type BY-NC. |
Sponsor
The publication of the journal is supported by:
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Editor-in-Chief
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Associate Editors
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Editorial Council
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Editorial office
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Scope and policy
The Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology (BABT), publishes original articles and review articles in the following areas:
When submitting an article, the authors assign the copyright and use of all its content to BABT, if it is approved for publication, but the opinions expressed in the texts are the sole responsibility of the authors. The corresponding author should be familiar with the BABT journals’ editorial policies and is solely responsible for communicating with the journal and managing communication between coauthors. Before submission, the corresponding author ensures that all authors are included in the author list and agree with its order, and that they are aware the manuscript is to be submitted Similarities will be verified in the manuscripts through a specific plagiarism verification software, providing a report to support the decision regarding the originality Manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the authors through the ScholarOne Manuscripts ™ online system. Please follow these guidelines to ensure that you submission proceeds smoothly. |
Preprints
The BABT journal accepts manuscripts published on preprint servers of the authors' choice, authors' or institutional websites. Preprints:
Author(s). Title of preprint [Internet]. Name of the repository [Preprint]. Year [consulted on <query date>]: Number of pages. Available at: URL |
Brief guide for submission
This guide outlines key points for preparing primary research manuscripts for submission to BABT.
To facilitate the preparation of the manuscript, the templates below were created for mandatory use.
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Cover Letter (Mandatory)
When submitting the article, the authors must send a cover letter to the editor, summarizing the findings of his manuscript, showing that it is in the interest of the Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology to publish it, that it is original and has been not submitted or published previously elsewhere. Moreover, the cover letter should clearly address wich area of Knowledge. And that there are no conflicts of interest associated with the manuscript and meet all applicable standards regarding the ethics of experimentation and research, and there are no duplicate publications, fraud, plagiarism, or concerns about animal or human experimentation. Also authors must inform whether they allow BABT to use their article (after it has been accepted and published) for dissemination in social media, blogs and news, as long as the doi of the original article is linked. If the article has already been shared as a preprint, inform in "Comments to Editors" on the Cover Letter. The cover letter must follow the template form attached here. Please pay attention to attach the Cover Latter in the correct place when submitting. Misplaced achieves will no longer be accepted. Preferably, attach the file in the .docx extension |
Main Manuscript
The manuscript must be written in English only. If the authors don’t have experience writing in this language, we suggest that the manuscript to be reviewed by an expert before its submission, preferably with scientific experience in the knowledge area.
Important: Manuscripts that do not comply with the standards set for submission will be unsubmitted and returned to the authors until it is correct to be sent to the reviewers’ appreciation.
All the information must be presented in a single file .docx format, including all author information and ORCID ID’s All the figures and tables must be presented along the text, and the manuscript must have less than 15 pages total.
While using the template please use the Styles gallery to format your manuscript.
A guide to the styles contained in the template is shown below.
Title
Author's name
Author’s ORCID
IMPORTANT: If there is more than 4 Authors you can put the list in two columns Affiliation
Highlights Research highlights concisely summarize the core findings and provide readers with an overview of the paper. They include three to five bullet points describing the main achievements of the research (e.g., results or conclusions) and highlight what is unique about the study.
Abstract
A single paragraph of about 250 words maximum. For research articles, abstracts should give a pertinent overview of the work. We strongly encourage authors to use the following style of structured abstracts, but without headings: Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; Methods: Briefly describe the main methods or treatments applied; Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article, it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusion. Keywords
Graphical Abstract (Optional) A Graphical Abstract is a single, concise, pictorial and visual summary of the main findings of the article. This could either be the concluding figure from the article or a figure that is specially designed for the purpose, which captures the content of the article for readers at a single glance. Main Sections
Subsections
Introduction
The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully, and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work. References should be numbered in order of appearance and indicated by a numeral or numerals in square brackets, e.g., [1] or [2,3], or [4–6]. See the end of the document for further details on references. Materials and Methods
Material and Methods should be described with sufficient details to allow others to replicate and build on published results. Please note that publication of your manuscript implicates that you must make all materials, data, computer code, and protocols associated with the publication available to readers. Please disclose at the submission stage any restrictions on the availability of materials or information in cover letter. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. This section may be divided by subheadings as reported below. Results
It should provide a concise and accurate description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusion that can be drawn. Figures Tables and Schemes Put all figures tables and schemes in their correct place in the text All figures and tables should be cited in the main text numbered consecutively in Arabic digits as Figure 1, Table 1, etc Tables
Each table should be accompanied by a short title sentence describing what the table shows. Further details can be included as footnotes to the table.
Vertical and Diagonal lines must not be used in tables
IMPORTANT: The tables must be elaborated and edited in cells, using the resources of the text editor. Observation: Tables in figure format are not accepted, or that contain lines drawn. Tables that are too large for portrait pages should be placed on a separate page in the sequence they appear in the text, in landscape mode, as in the example page below. Figures and Schemes
Equations and Theorems
Discussion
Conclusions
This section is not mandatory but can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unusually long or complex. Patents
This section is not mandatory but may be added if there are patents resulting from the work reported in this manuscript. Funding
Please add: "This research received no external funding" or "This research was funded by NAME OF FUNDER, grant number XXX". Check carefully that the details given are accurate. Acknowledgments
In this section you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments). Conflicts of Interest
Declare conflicts of interest or state:
If there is no role, please state, "The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results". “ The “Authors have authorization by the company <Name of the company> to disclose the data and images used in this article” Supplementary material These are files related to a specific article, which the authors provide for clarification or publication with the article. In general, they should be complements to the article that could not be included in the edition, such as appendices, spreadsheets, tables, figures that could not be produced in the article. These materials will be sent to the reviewers for peer review, along with the other files of the article, and may be only for the reviewers' clarifications or for publication. When there is supplemental material to be published, it should be noted in the manuscript after the conflict-of-interest statement, as indicated in the template. Please also indicate in the cover letter whether the supplementary material is informative or for publication.
We recommend that supplementary files uploaded to the system be in the following format:
References References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including citations in tables and legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, Reference Manager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references. In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1–3] or [1,3].
Reference list should be in Font 10, with organized in numerical order. The full list of references, at the end of the article, must follow the Vancouver style: References Guide Manuscripts may be submitted following the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" produced by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors also known as the Vancouver Style. In this case, authors should follow the guidelines in the link bellow and will be responsible for modifying the manuscript where it differs from the instructions given here. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html IMPORTANT: There will be no restrictions on the reference article source language, despite the recommendation be in English, however the title should be translated and presented in English, between square brackets Important: Save the file in .doc or .docx format. |
Editorial criteria and processes
Editorial processes are described for the following stages: At submission | After submission | After acceptance
At submission The criteria for publication of scientific papers BABT are that they:
Important: Check that all authors are included in the text and with orcid id After submission The first stage for a newly submitted Article is that the editorial staff consider whether to send it for peer-review. The criteria follow the list above. Fist the manuscript is evaluated by its format, at the submission the authors must use the template properly and follow the instructions presented in the section “Brief guide for submission”. The Cover Letter is mandatory, and it must follow its template. The manuscript that doesn’t follow the criteria’s will be returned to authors for corrections, as many times as necessary. If the manuscript pass through the check list will be evaluated by one of journals Editors in Chief, depending on which field of knowledge is the manuscript related. The Editors will evaluate it by how well written the manuscript is, by similarities through a specific plagiarism verification software, by regionalism and scientific importance. If they judge that the manuscript attends those criteria, it will be sent to one of our associate editors. The associate editor will select at least 3 reviewers to evaluate the manuscript, it could be sent to more reviewers if for any reason one of them declines to review. The associated editor needs at least 2 reviews to make a decision. This number of reviews can change based on the quality of the revision. That decision is made by the associated editor. The manuscript can be rejected if we can’t find reviewers interested to see your manuscript. All Articles published in BABT go through at least one round of review, usually two or three, sometimes more. At each stage, the editor will evaluate the manuscript with editorial colleagues in the light of reviwers’ reports, and send a letter to the author offering one of the following options:
At any time the author can ask to withdraw the manuscript by email to babt@tecpar.br with the subject [Manuscript ID*] Withdraw the manuscript If an author needs to be withdrawn or inserted in the paper after the initial submission the journal need that a letter signed by all authors, including the one to be inserted or withdraw, authorizing the changes After Acceptance The accepted article will be checked for its final format. If no adjustments are needed by the authors, it will be forwarded by the secretariat to the corresponding author for verification and final approval by all authors. At this stage, changes in the content will not be accepted. If no corrections are identified by the authors, the corresponding author should return in ma the article to babt@tecpar.br informing that the version forwarded is "in agreement" for publication, copying all the authors. All authors must be aware of and agree with the final version that will be published. If adjustments are necessary, the article will be forwarded to the corresponding author for adjustments as indicated. At this stage, changes in content will not be accepted. After the corrections, the corresponding author should return the article to babt@tecpar.br informing that the requested adjustments have been made and that the forwarded version is "In accordance" for publication, copying all the authors. All authors must be aware and in agreement with the final version that will be published. An erratum applies only to cases where the journal has effectively wrong without the knowledge of the author. The author has a number of instances where errors / mistakes can and should be corrected such as author name, keywords, title, errors in the main text, etc. Communication with editorial staff All communication with the editorial staff must be by the email babt@tecpar.br The Subject of the email must follow the pattern below: [Manuscript ID*] Subject Examples: [BABT-2022-0000] Review and Correction [BABT-2022-0000] Approved Article Emails sent outside this standard are automatically rejected. *Manuscript ID – BABT-NNNN-NNNN Editorial Staff Marilene Aparecida Boaron Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology Email: babt@tecpar.br |