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The manuscripts must be double-spaced between lines, justified text, and Calibri font, body 11 (eleven) (except for special symbols not included in this font).
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The text should be organized in the following sections, each started on a new page, in the order, and numbered consecutively: Title Page, Abstract with Keywords, Body Text, Acknowledgments, References, Appendices, Tables, and Figure Legends.
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Scientific names of species and genera and other Latin terms must be italicized in all sections of the manuscript.
(1) Title Page: Should include the Title, Running Title, Author(s) Name(s), ORCID numbers(s), Institution(s) and Address(es). The title should be concise and, where appropriate, should include particulars about families and/or taxa of higher categories. New taxa names should not be included in the titles.
(2) Abstracts with keywords: All papers should have an abstract and keywords in English. The quality of the abstract is of great importance since it can be reproduced in other vehicles. Therefore, it must be written in an intelligible form as it may be published separately, and should summarize the main facts, ideas, and conclusions of the article. Telegraphic abstracts are unacceptable. Finally, the abstract should include all new taxonomic names for reference purposes. Abbreviations should be avoided. It should not include bibliographical references. Abstracts and keywords must not exceed 350 (three hundred and fifty) and 5 (five) words, respectively.
(3) Body Text: The main body text varies with different types of papers, but should usually include the following sections: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References. The main headings of each section of the body of the text should be written in capital letters, bold and centered. Secondary headings should have only the first letter capitalized, bolded, and centered. Tertiary headings should be the first letter capitalized, in bold and indented left. In all cases, the text should start on the next line.
(4) References: Citations in the text should be given as follows: Martins (1959) or (Martins, 1959) or (Martins, 1959, 1968, 2015) or Martins (1959a, b) orMartins (1959: 14-20) or Martins (1959: figs. 1, 2) or Martins & Reichardt (1964) or (Lane, 1940; Martins & Chemsak, 1966a, b) or Martins et al. (1966) or(Martins et al., 1966), the latter when the article contains 3 (three) or more authors. There is no need to provide a full reference when authors and date are presented only as an authority of taxa.
(5) References Models: References should be arranged alphabetically and according to the following format, respecting the titles in italics. Journal titles must be written in full (not abbreviated):
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Journal Article - Author(s). Year. Article title. Journal name, volume: initial page-final page.
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Journal Article (print and online version with different dates, for instance: ahead-of-print, online first, etc.) - Author(s). Year online. Article title. Journal name, volume: initial page-final page, Year on print.
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Books - Author(s). Year. Book title. Publisher, Place of publication.
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Books Chapters - Author(s). Year. Chapter title or part. In: Author(s) or Editor(s), Book title. Publisher, Place of publication, volume or part, initial page-final page.
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Dissertations and Theses - Author(s). Year. Title of dissertation or thesis. (Masters Dissertation or Doctoral Thesis). University, Place of publication.
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Electronic Publications - Author(s). Year. Document title. Available: electronic address. Accessed : DD/MM/AAAA.
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Datasets - Author(s). Year. Title. Version. Publisher. [dataset]. Available: (preferably the DOI number as url). Accessed: DD/MM/AAAA. - See more in the Research Data section.
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For all reference types, when available, authors should provide the DOI number as url.
Tables:
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All tables should be numbered in the same sequence in which they are cited in the text.
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Legends should be self-explanatory, without the need to resort to text.
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Tables should be formatted preferentially towards portrait, remaining the sense landscape for exceptional cases.
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In the text, tables should be referred to as Table 1, Tables 2 and 4, Tables 2-6.
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Use “TABLE” in the table(s) heading(s).
Figures:
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All figures should be numbered in the same sequence in which they are cited in the text.
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Each illustration of a composite figure should be identified by a capital letter and referred to in the text as, for example: Fig. 1A, Fig. 1B.
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When possible, the letters must be positioned in the lower-left corner of each illustration of a composite figure.
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Photographs in black and white or color must be scanned at high resolution (300 DPI minimum).
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Use “Fig(s).” for referring to figures in the text, and “fig(s).” when referring to figures in another paper.
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Use “FIGURE” in the figure(s) heading(s).
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The figures will be printed in black and white but maintained in color in the final PDF file.
Third-party content:
Previously published content as figures, tables, illustrations, etc. must be accompanied by written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce.
Responsibility: The scientific content and opinions expressed in this publication are the sole responsibility of the respective authors.
Authorship and Authors' Contributions Statement:
All Authors must meet the two minimum criteria:
1) actively participate in the results discussion;
2) review and approve the final version of the paper.
An authors' contributions statement must be included in a section at the end of the article for manuscripts written by 2 (two) or more authors. The statement has to include the individual contribution of each author.
From November 2020 on, the journal adopts the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT), which means that every contribution statement must be described using the CRediT 14 (fourteen) contributor roles as follows: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal Analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Writing – original draft; Writing – review & editing.
For definition of each role, please, refer to CRediT page.
Example:
AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS: NS, AL: Conceptualization; NS: Methodology, Software, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Visualization, Investigation; NS, AL, HR: Writing – review & editing; AL: Funding acquisition; AL, HR: Supervision. All authors actively participated in the discussion of the results, they reviewed and approved the final version of the paper.
Acknowledgements section may contain a declaration of other kinds of contributions.
Conflict of Interest:
Authors must declare if there is any conflict of interest at the submission of the manuscript.
If there is no conflict of interest, the authors should select in the submission form the option: "Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest."; otherwise, it must be specified in "Comments to the Editor".
A section with the statement of Conflict of Interest must be included after the Acknowledgements section.
Example:
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Authors declare there are no conflicts of interest.
Coeditors, Associated Editors, and Reviewers must declare to the Editor any conflict of interest before starting the review process.
For further information on Conflict of Interest refer to the Council of Science Editors White Paper on Publication Ethics (English or Portuguese versions).
Funding information:
Research grants from funding agencies (please inform the research funder and the grant number) or any financial support must be declared in the Acknowledgements section.
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