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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 ORCID number and work address (institution, department, city, state, and country). The manuscript must have a maximum of 6 (six) authors.
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 occupies 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 by the alphabetic system (author year)
Two authors: Davis and Jones (2020) or (Davis; Jones, 2020).
Three authors: Silva, Pazeto and Vieira (2019) or (Silva; Pazeto; Vieira, 2019).
More than three authors: Ribeiro et al. (2021) or (Ribeiro et al., 2021).
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 (2010); Nunes Junior (2011); Pereira (2012) and Souza (2013).
References
All references and their correct citation in the text are the responsibility of the author(s): (i) do not abbreviate any other word apart from the first and middle names of authors; (ii) use all capitals only for acronyms, i.e., when the author is an organization; (iii) name all authors and capitalize authors' last name and initial of middle names, which should be separated by a period (.); (iv) separate authors by semicolon (;); (v) do not use ampersands (&) in the citations nor in the reference list; (vi) do not abbreviate the periodical name; (vii) use a comma (,) to separate the title and volume of a periodical; when present, issue number must follow volume within parenthesis (); (xvii) separate the periodical volume or issue from the page numbers (or elocation-id) with a colon (:); (ix) use full page numbering; (x) separate page numbers with a dash (-); (xi) separate page numbers from year with a comma (,) followed by a space; (xii) use a period (.) after the year; (xiii) for book, indicate the number of a given edition e.g., "2ed"; (xiv) for book, indicate also the city, state and country of the publisher before the publisher name; (xv) separate publisher country from publisher name with a colon (:);(xvi) references must be set in alphabetic order, aligned left and simple spaced in a reference and double spaced between references.
Most common reference examples
Journal paper
Up to three authors:
PINHEIRO, A. C. M.; NUNES, C. A.; VIETORIS, V. Sensomaker: A tool for sensorial characterization of food products. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 37(3):199-201, 2013.
More than three authors:
MENEZES, M. D. et al. Digital soil mapping approach based on fuzzy logic and field expert knowledge. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 37(4):287-298, 2013.
Manuscript with elocation-id:
BRAGA JUNIOR, R. A. et al. Magnetic field in coffee seed germination. Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 44:e003920, 2020.
Book
Complete book:
ORTON, T. Horticultural plant breeding. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States: Academic Press, 2019. 410p.
Book chapter:
BERGEN, W.G.; MERKEL, R.A. Protein accretion. In: PEARSON, A.M.; DUTSON, T.R. Growth regulation in farm animals: Advances in meat research. London, England: Academic Press, v.7, p.169-202, 1991.
Thesis and dissertation
Must not be cited.
Abstracts published in congresses or other 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:" and the date that the document was accessed, preceded by the expression: "Access 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 involve 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.
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