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., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips. |
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Intellectual property
All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY. |
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Scope and Policy
Ciência e Agrotecnologia is a scientific journal edited by Editora UFLA, the publishing house of the Federal University of Lavras, Brazil. Manuscripts Format
Manuscripts must be submitted online at http://cienciaeagrotecnologia.ufla.br by clicking on “Submissão de Artigos” (Left menu). 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 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: 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. Citation in the text by the alphabetic system (author year)
Two authors: Davis and Jones (2020) or (Davis; Jones, 2020). 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
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Electronic documents 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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Editorial Fees
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.
PIX: CNPJ: 19.084.599/0001-17 The receipt of submission fee and publication charge, must be attached in the field "Payment". |
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