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About the journal

 

Basic Information

  Ciência e Agrotecnologia is a scientific journal edited by Editora UFLA, the publishing house of the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The abbreviation of its title is Ciênc. Agrotec. and shall be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips.       

 

Index Sources

 
  • AGRIS - International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
  • AGROBASE - Base de Dados da Agricultura Brasileira
  • ASFA - Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
  • CAB Abstracts - Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau
  • Chemical Abstracts - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  • CIRS - International Center for Scientific Research
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  • FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts
  • ICAP - Indexação Coletiva de Artigos de Periódicos
  • LATINDEX - Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, Espanã y Portugal
  • LILACS - Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde
  • SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
  • SCOPUS - Elsevier
  • Sumários.org - Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras
  • WoS - Web of Science - Thomson Reuters
 

 

Intellectual property

 

All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY.

 

 

Sponsors

 

            

 

 


 

Editorial Board

 

Chief Editor

   

 

Associate Editors

   

 

Editorial Staff

 
  • Késia Portela de Assis (Secretary)
  • Marco Aurélio Costa Santiago (Editorial Designer)
  • Patrícia Carvalho de Morais (Editorial Designer)
  • Renata de Lima Rezende (Editorial Designer)
 

 


Instructions to authors

 

Scope and Policy

 

Articles published in Ciência e Agrotecnologia cover research areas of Agricultural Science, Animal Science and Veterinary, Food Science and Technology, Agribusiness Economy and Administration, and Rural Engineering.

Submission of a manuscript to the journal requires that it has neither been published nor is under consideration for publication elsewhere. Concepts and affirmations included in articles are of the entire responsibility of the author(s).

If, for any reason, a conflict of interest is observed, the author(s) must inform the journal in a specific statement. Conflict of interest may occur when authors, reviewers, or editor show interests that may affect the preparation and evaluation of the manuscript.

The journal is published online in a continuous flow mode. Original research articles and reviews (by invitation only) are the main publication formats. Preprints (previously deposited at SciELO Preprints repository) may also be published. If the preprint is accepted for publication, it is the responsibility of the corresponding author to report the fact to the preprint repository.

Upon publication, authors maintain copyright of the article and the journal holds copyright as first publication. All journal´s content, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY (CC-BY) which allows unrestricted use, provided the original article is properly cited.

Ciência e Agrotecnologia follows a series of open science practices. The journal publishes under the Open Access model and therefore, articles are free for anyone to read, download, copy and disseminate for educational purposes. The journal also requires the indication of the role of each of the authors in articles with multiple authorship. The name of the editor is published in each article. Upon previous acceptance by the reviewer and author, the content of the reviewer suggestions might be open for access. All articles are assigned Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and all authors must be registered with Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) number.

The journal complies with the SciELO Guidelines Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publication as well as the ethical principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Publication process

Received manuscripts are forwarded to the editorial board to be initially evaluated in terms of comparative relevance to other manuscripts of the same research area that were submitted for publication. If considered as relevant, the manuscript is submitted to blind peer reviewers. If approved and if necessary, the manuscript may return to the correspondent author for corrections. If the corrections are not returned within the required deadline, the publication process will be automatically cancelled.  Requested corrections not attended without justification may also lead to cancellation. In order to ensure the readability of the manuscript, a revision of the written English may be required and must be performed by any company indicated by the journal.

Manuscript submission

Manuscripts must be submitted online at https://www.scielo.br/j/cagro/

A cover letter, signed by all authors, must be sent to the Editor requesting the publication. It must contain author's full name with no abbreviations, and work address (institution, city, state, and country). At submission, this letter must be attached in the field "Cover Letter". Any further insertion, exclusion or alteration in the authorship must be agreed by all authors (including the excluded author, if the case).

Manuscripts must be written in English using US orthographic and grammatical rules and edited using the program Microsoft Word for Windows on paper size A4 (21 cm x 29.7 cm), double spaced using Times New Roman font, size 12, with a 2.5 cm margin on both left- and right-hand side, and on upper and lower margins, heading and footnote. It must be organized in sections as follows:

a) Title sufficiently clear; conspicuous and complete, without abbreviations and superfluous words, written in English and Portuguese. It is recommended to begin with the term that represents the most important aspect, with other terms in decreasing of importance; unless there is no common name, scientific names of most common plants and animals must not be used. Do not initiate with the words “effect”, “evaluation“ or “influence”.

b) Author(s) full name(s) without abbreviations on the right side with one name beneath the former with their respective Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) number and work address (institution, department, city, state, and country). 

c) Abstract must be written continuously in one paragraph and it must not exceed 250 words. It must contain a brief introduction, objectives and main results; statistical design maybe mentioned only if it is the essential result of the developed research.

d) Index terms with 3 to 5 keywords that express the content of the paper and different from those used in the title and separated by semicolon (;).

e) Resumo (abstract translated to Portuguese).

f) Termos para indexação (index terms translated to Portuguese).

g) Introduction including literature review and objectives.

h) Material and Methods must be combined and not separated.

i) Results and Discussion must be combined and not separated. Tables and figures must be inserted in the text after their first citation.

j) Conclusion(s) must be written continuously in one paragraph stating the main result of the research and it must not exceed 80 words.

k) Author Contribution describes the individual engagement of authors within the research in terms of Conceptual idea, Methodology design, Data collection, Data analysis and interpretation, and Writing and editing. Each of these topics must be followed by the names(s) of contribution author(s) [e.g. Conceptual idea: Arrow, B.; Bartow, J.D.; Methodology design: Arrow, B.; Brawn, J.P.; Data collection: Arrow, B., Data analysis and interpretation: Brawn, J.P.; Stanfield, R.J., and Writing and editing: Arrow, B.; Brawn, J.P.; Stanfield, R.J.].

l) Acknowledgment(s) (optional, however, highly recommended) with serious and clear written style, indicating the reason(s) for the recognition(s).

m) References without citation of thesis, dissertation and/or abstracts.

Any submitted manuscript that does not follow this organization will be automatically cancelled.

 
 

Tables

Must contain a clear and concise title, being explanatory. Tables should not contain vertical lines. Horizontal lines must separate title from the presented data and at the bottom of the table. Tables should be made on Microsoft Word (Table - Insert Table), with each value inserted in a single cell, centrally located.

Figures, images, photos and graphs, symbols or formulas

Figures, images, photos and graphs may be in color or black and white, clear and with contrast, inserted in the text after their first citation and also in a separate file (Manuscript Files field), saved in extension "TIFF" or "JPEG" with minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Bigger images which occupy two columns must present 1200 pixels’ size in width. Figures must be described using Times New Roman font, size 10, without bold, without a text box and arranged in order.

Symbols or Chemical Formula must be presented on Microsoft Word for Windows using the software Math Type, maintaining the original layout.

Citation in the text:

Citations follow the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style. All citations and their correct information in the text are the responsibility of the author(s). 

Most common reference examples:

One author: Portela (2024) or (Portela, 2024)

Two authors: Davis and Jones (2023) or (Davis & Jones, 2023).

Three authors: Silva, Pazeto & Vieira (2019) or (Silva, Pazeto, & Vieira, 2019).

More than three authors: Ribeiro et al. (2022) or (Ribeiro et al., 2022).

Other citation in the same text, must present the authors in an alphabetic order of their last names, followed by date and separated by semicolon (;): Araújo (2020); Nunes Junior (2021); Pereira (2023) and Souza (2024).

References

References follow the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style. All references and their correct citation in the text are the responsibility of the author(s). 

Most common reference examples:

Journal articles

One author: 
Lopes, M. A. (2023). Rethinking plant breeding and seed systems in the era of exponential changes. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 47:e0001R23.

Two authors:
Lopes, M. A., & Piheiro, A. M. (2023). Rethinking plant breeding and seed systems in the era of exponential changes. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 47:e0001R23.

Up to three authors:
Pinheiro, A. C. M., Nunes, C. A., & Vietoris, V. (2013). Sensomaker: A tool for sensorial characterization of food products. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 37(3):199-201.

More than three authors:
Menezes, M. D. et al. (2013). Digital soil mapping approach based on fuzzy logic and field expert knowledge. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 37(4):287-298.

Manuscript with elocation-id:
Braga Junior, R. A. et al. (2020). Magnetic field in coffee seed germination. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 44:e003920.

Book

Complete book:
Orton, T. (2019). Horticultural plant breeding. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States: Academic Press, 410p.

Book chapter:
Bergen, W. G.; Merkel, R. A. (1991). Protein accretion. In A. M. Pearson., T. R. Dutson. Growth regulation in farm animals: Advances in meat research. London, England: Academic Press, v.7, p.169-202.

Thesis and dissertation

Must not be cited.

Abstracts published in congresses, symposia, workshops, or other scientific events:

Must not be cited.

Electronic documents

Studies only published online without volume, issue, elocation-id, page number, and year are referenced with the addition of the electronic address information presented in (<>) preceded by the expression "Available in:". Do not reference electronic material of short duration on the web. According to international standards, the division of electronic address at the end of the line should be always after the slash (/).

Ethics

Manuscript that involves experimentation with living animals must provide evidences that it was performed in accordance with local ethical guidelines. These evidences must be officially stated in the Material and Methods section, describing that the study was evaluated and approved by an appropriate ethical committee.

 

 

Editorial Fees

 

The current article processing charge is based on the number of edited page (final format). A non-refundable submission fee is charged. Upon the manuscript acceptance, the submission fee is discounted from the final cost of publication.

Submission fee: R$120.00 (One hundred and twenty reals) non-refundable. If the manuscript is accepted for publication, this submission fee is discounted from the final cost of publication.

Publication charge: R$60.00 (Sixty reals) per edited page up to six pages and R$120,00 (One hundred and twenty reals) per additional page.

Real (R$) is the present-day currency of Brazil.

Payments of the submission fee and publication charge may be made by Bank Deposit or Money Transfer to “FAEPE, bank: Banco do Brasil, Agency number 0364-6, Account number 2071-0” or through PIX (CNPJ: 19.084.599/0001-17; FAEPE - Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão).

The receipt of the submission fee and publication charge, must be attached in the field "Payment".

 

 

Contato

 

Editora UFLA
Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Caixa postal 3037, sn, Lavras/MG.
Revista.ca.editora@ufla.br 
(035) 3829-1115.

 

 

Editora da Universidade Federal de Lavras Editora da UFLA, Caixa Postal 3037 - 37200-900 - Lavras - MG - Brasil, Telefone: 35 3829-1115 - Lavras - MG - Brazil
E-mail: revista.ca.editora@ufla.br