General information
The Brazilian Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental - Agriambi), official journal of the Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ingeniería Agrícola (ALIA), is published monthly, in electronic format, by the Academic Unit of Agricultural Engineering (UAEA) of the Center for Technology and Natural Resources (CTRN) of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), for the dissemination of original and unpublished scientific articles, prepared in English. The scientific articles published in Agriambi Journal come from research carried out in the areas of Soil, Water and Plant Management, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology, Storage and Processing of Agricultural Products, Environmental Management and Control (this area only covers articles describing research on environmental management and control in the context of agriculture), Rural Construction and Ambience, Automation and Instrumentation, Agricultural Machinery, and Energy in Agriculture. With the help of the opinions of Reviewers, the articles are accepted or not by the Editorial Team for publication in the Journal. Agriambi also accepts the submission of contributions in the form of literature review. All articles published in the Journal, since the beginning of its edition in 1997, are available online on the Journal's website and on the SciELO website. Reproduction of published articles is permitted, provided the source is cited. In the bibliographic legends, footnotes and in references, an abbreviated title can be used in the following form: Rev. bras. eng. agríc. ambient., Campina Grande |
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Intellectual property
All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY. The online journal is free and open access. |
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Norms
The norms of the Brazilian Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (Agriambi), presented herein, are subject to modifications over time; thus, we suggest the authors to consult them at the moment of the submission of their manuscripts. The manuscripts must not have been sent to any other journal and will be selected for evaluation by the reviewers only if totally within the norms of this Journal. Authors must have their manuscripts reviewed by a specialist for orthography and grammar correction of English before submitting or returning them to the Journal, at any step of the process. Manuscripts with orthography problems will be negatively affected in the evaluation and may be rejected for this reason. Articles that directly or indirectly address studies involving humans and animals, in their entirety or part of them, including the management of information or materials in all areas of knowledge, must inform in the Material and Methods item that the study was approved by the committee of ethics involving human beings and/or ethics committee in the use of animals, with the name of the Committee, Institution and Process number. Manuscripts addressing research with experiment will only be accepted for publication if at least one of the following criteria is met: a) experiment with minimum of 20 plots; b) experimental design with number of residual degrees of freedom equal to or higher than 10; and c) treatments must have at least three replicates. Scientific manuscripts that describe research results obtained more than eight years ago will not be accepted for publication. Authors must inform, in the items Abstract, Resumo and Material and Methods, the period and place (including geographical coordinates and altitude only in the Material and Methods item) of the research and, in the case of research with experiment, the experimental design, treatments and the number of replicates. Manuscripts subdivided into parts I and II must be submitted together, since they will be sent to the same reviewers |
Languages and study areas
The scientific articles submitted to Agriambi Journal must be original and unpublished, and written in English. For articles accepted for publication, authors will be asked to provide English proofreading through one of the companies accredited by the Journal, according to the list available at www.agriambi.com.br. Even though the article submission is only in English, the manuscript must also have Title, Abstract and Key words in Portuguese, which should come after the Title, Abstract and Key words in English. All words in figures should be translated into English, and numeric values in tables, figures and in the text should have a dot instead of a comma separating the integer from the decimal. The name of Brazilian institutions, such as departments, universities and institutes must remain in original language. The manuscripts must result from researches in one of the following areas:
The Journal accepts contributions only in the modalities of Scientific Paper and Literature Review, that is, contributions must describe the results of scientific research carried out. Contributions in the modalities of Preliminary Note and Technical Note are not accepted by the Journal. In addition, it should be pointed out that the Journal does not publish manuscripts of extension and/or purely technical nature; manuscripts simply describing the development of software, spreadsheets and mobile applications will not be accepted for publication. |
Sequence of items in the manuscript
a) Title in English: it encompasses the content and the objective of the study, with maximum of 15 words, including articles, prepositions and conjunctions. Only the first letter of the first word must be capitalized. However, when the title has a subtitle, i.e., followed by colon (:), the first letter of the first word of the subtitle (to the right of the colon) must be capitalized. The title must not include the words effect, evaluation, influence or study. b) Name(s) of the author(s):
c) Institution and place where the research was developed. d) Highlights: Insert three highlights describing the main findings or results of the research, however, the words used in this description should not be the same as the conclusions. Each highlight must have a maximum of 125 characters with spaces. See examples of highlights in articles recently published in Agriambi Journal. e) Abstract: maximum of 250 words with no abbreviations. f) Key words: minimum of three and maximum of five, not included in the Title, separated by commas and with only lowercase letters. g) Title in Portuguese: the same standardization of the title in English. h) Resumo: maximum of 250 words, an exact translation of the Abstract. i) Palavras-chave: the same standardization of the Key words, and an exact translation of this item. j) Introduction: the relevance of the study must be highlighted, including through literature review, in a maximum of one page. The Introduction must not have equations, tables, figures or basic theoretical text on a specific subject; instead, there should be a text referring to research results. The last paragraph must present the objective of the study. k) Material and Methods: it must provide indispensable information that allows the replication of the research by other researchers. l) Results and Discussion: the obtained results must be discussed and interpreted based on the literature. Tables and figures must not present the same results. m) Conclusions: must be numbered and written succinctly, i.e., with no comments or additional explanations, based only on the presented results and with no abbreviations. n) Acknowledgments (optional) o) Literature Cited:
The contribution in the form of a Literature Review must have the following sequence: Title, Abstract and Key words in English and then Title, Abstract and Key words in Portuguese, Introduction, Items on the topics of the review, Conclusions, Acknowledgments (Optional), Literature Cited. |
Text editing
a) Word of Microsoft Office 2016: The manuscript must be edited only in this version of Microsoft Word. b) Text: font Times New Roman, size 12. The text must not contain bold or italic words, except for the title, items and sub-items, which must be in boldface, and the scientific names of plant and animal species, which must be in italic. Equations, tables and figures must not contain italic or bold words. The equations should be written using the software MS Equation. c) Spacing: the text must be double-spaced in the entire manuscript. d) Paragraph: 0.5 cm. e) Page: size A4, portrait orientation, top and bottom margins of 2.54 cm and left and right of 3.00 cm, with a maximum of 20 pages, including tables, figures and the cited literature. Pages and lines must be numbered; line numbering must be continuous, i.e., continuing from the previous to the next page. f) All the items must be capitalized, in boldface and centered, except Abstract and Resumo, which must be aligned to the left, and Key words and Palavras-chave left-aligned with only the first letter capitalized. The sub-items must be aligned to the left, in boldface, with only the first letter capitalized. g) Units must be expressed in the ISU (International System of Units) and the scientific terminology must follow the international conventions of each area. h) Tables and Figures (graphs, maps, images, photographs, drawings):
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Examples of citations in the text
a) When the citation has only one author: Oliveira (2020) or (Oliveira, 2020). b) When the citation has two authors: Thomaz & Fidalski (2020) or (Thomaz & Fidalski, 2020). c) When the citation has more than two authors: Anjos et al. (2022) or (Anjos et al., 2022). d) When the work is authored by an institution/company, the citation must be its acronym, in capital letters: EMBRAPA (2020) or (EMBRAPA, 2020). e) When there are citations with one or two authors, having the same authors and being from the same year: Oliveira (2020a); Oliveira (2020b); Thomaz & Fidalski (2020a); Thomaz & Fidalski (2020b). f) When there are citations with more than two authors, having the same name as the first author and being from the same year: Liu et al. (2020a); Liu et al., 2020b); (Liu et al. (2020a,b). |
List of the Literature Cited
The references cited in the text should be arranged in the Literature cited at the end in alphabetical order starting with the last name of the first author and, in ascending chronological order, and contain the names of all authors. Put at the end of each reference listed the link to its doi for access. The following are examples of formatting: a) Books Rostagno, H. S.; Albino L. F. T.; Hannas, M. I.; Donzele, J. L.; Sakomura, N. K.; Perazzo, F. G.; Saraiva, A.; Teixeira, M. L.; Rodrigues, P. B.; Oliveira, R. F.; Barreto, S. L. T.; Brito, C. O. Tabelas brasileiras para aves e suínos: composição de alimentos e exigências nutricionais. 4.ed. Viçosa: UFV, 2017. 488p MAPA - Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento - Manual de métodos analíticos oficiais para fertilizantes e corretivos. 1.ed. Brasília, 2017. 240p. Taiz, L.; Zeiger, E.; Moller, I. M.; Murphy, A. Fisiologia e desenvolvimento vegetal. 6.ed. Porto Alegre: ArtMed, 2017. 888p b) Book chapter Motta, A. C. V.; Melo, V. F. Química dos solos ácidos. In: Melo, V. F; Alleoni, L. R. F. Química e mineralogia do solo: Conceitos básicos e aplicações. Viçosa: Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo. 2019. Cap.1, p.1009-1076. Da Matta, F. M.; Ronchi, C. P.; Eduardo Ferreira Sales, E. F.; Araújo, J. B. S. O café conilon em sistemas agroflorestais. In: Ferrão, R. G.; Fonseca, A. F. A. da; Ferrão, M. A. G.; De Muner, L. H. Café conilon, Vitória: Incaper, 2017. Cap.19, p.481-494. c) Journals Anjos, F. A. dos; Ferraz, R. L. de S.; Azevedo, C. A. V. de; Costa, P. da S.; Melo, A. S. de; Ramalho, V. R. R. de A. R. Relationship between physiology and production of maize under different water replacements in the Brazilian semi-arid. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, v.26, p.21-27, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v26n1p21-27 Moura, M. de P.; Ribeiro Neto, A.; Costa, F. A. da. Application of satellite imagery to update depth-area-volume relationships in reservoirs in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, v.26, p.44-50, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1590/1807-1929/agriambi.v26n1p44-50 d) Software references SAS - Stastistical Analysis System. User’s guide statistics. 9.ed. Cary: SAS Institute, 2002. 943p. R Core Team. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna: R Foundation for Statistical Computing, 2017. Available on: <https://www.r-project.org/>. Accessed on: Feb. 2020. e) Other reference formats INMET- Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia. Informações sobre as condições climáticas em Uberaba-MG. 2019. Available on: <http://www.inmet.gov.br/>. Accessed on: Jun 2021. CONAB - Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento. Acompanhamento da safra brasileira de grãos: safra 2019/2020. Available on: <http://www.conab.gov.br/Conabweb/download/pdf>. Accessed on: Jun 2021 FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization - FAOSTAT (2017) Crops. Cowpeas, dry. Available on: <https://faostat3.fao.org/home/index.html#DOWNLOAD>. Accessed on: Nov. 2018. MAPA. Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento. Brasília: MAPA, 2020. Available on: < https://agrofit.agricultura.gov.br/ >. Accessed on: Mar. 2021. EMBRAPA - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária. Uso de informações ambientais na modelagem e interpretação da interação genótipo x ambiente. 1.ed. Santo Antônio de Goiás: Embrapa Arroz e Feijão, 2020. 46p. Allen, R. G.; Pereira, L. S.; Raes, D.; Smith, M. Crop evapotranspiration: Guidelines for computing crop water requirements. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, 1998. 300p. Drainage and Irrigation Paper, 56 IPEA - Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada. Sobre a agricultura irrigada no semiárido: uma análise histórica e atual de diferentes opções de política. Texto para Discussão, 2018. 56p. https://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/ References that have one or two authors, having the same authors and being from the same year, and references that have more than two authors, having the same name as the first author and being from the same year, must be identified in the list of literature cited. after the year, by the letters a, b, etc. |
Further information on standardization of manuscripts
a) Do not use a fullstop after Palavras-chave, Keywords and titles of tables and figures. b) In the description of the parameters and variables of an equation, a hyphen (-) must separate the symbol from the description, and a semicolon (;) must be used at the end of each description, with a fullstop (.) after the last one. The number of an equation must be in parentheses and aligned to the right: example: (1). The equations must be cited in the text, according to the following examples: Eq. 1; Eqs. 3 and 4. c) All the letters in an abbreviation must be capitalized; however, in the full name of an institution, only the first letter of each word must be capitalized. d) Examples of the format of units
e) When pertinent, numerical values in the text, tables and figures should have a maximum of two decimal places. f) The titles of the listed bibliographies must have only the first letter of the first word capitalized, except for proper names. The title of events must have only the first letter of each word capitalized |
Steps for online manuscript submission
Manuscripts can only be submitted online, through the SciELO Publication System, following the five steps described below: 1º SUBMISSION STEP: START SUBMISSION In this step will be provided information about: section in which the manuscript fits; Language of submission; conditions for submission (verification of the norms of the Journal); copyright statement; privacy policy; and editor comments (optional). 2º SUBMISSION STEP: TRANSFERENCE OF THE MANUSCRIPT AND THE SUBMISSION FEE PROOF. In this step, the file of the submitted manuscript, which must not contain the names of the authors or their institutional and e-mail addresses, will be transferred, and following the file of the proof of submission fee. First, choose text file and insert the article file to be evaluated, then choose to submit new file - others, and attach the proof of submission fee. 3º SUBMISSION STEP: INCLUSION OF METADATA (INDEXING) In this step the following information should be provided: authors; title and abstract; indexation; and granting agencies. Once the article has been submitted, it will not be possible, at any time, to change the names or the sequence of the authors. 4º SUBMISSION STEP: CONFIRMATION In this step the submission will be completed. Fees charged The Agriambi journal has the following fees: Submission fee: R$ 150.00 (one hundred and fifty reais) - Payment upon submission of the article. Publication fee: R$ 50.00 per Word page, for articles with up to 25 double-spaced pages, or R$ 60.00 per Word page, for articles with more than 25 pages - Payment upon release acceptance of the article for publication. The payment of the submission and processing fees does not guarantee the acceptance of the article for publication in the Journal and, in case of non-acceptance, the aforementioned fees will not be refunded. The payment of these fees must be made through deposit or transference to the account Banco do Brasil, Agência 1591-1, Account 34.849-X, Favored: PARQUE PROJETO 101 (Fundação Parque Tecnológico da Paraíba, CNPJ 09.261.843 / 0001-16), Bank account PIX key: 34849x@paqtc.org.br. For authors who require an invoice, we inform that it can be issued only in the name of the individual or legal entity that appears on the bank receipt. To request the invoice, the authors should send an email to the Secretary of Agriambi Journal (revistagriambi@gmail.com), providing the following data:
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Further information
a) Authors will have a maximum time limit of ten days to return the corrected manuscripts, counting from the receipt of the e-mail requesting the corrections. Failure to meet this deadline will automatically result in the cancelation of the manuscript. b) The topics, data and concepts published in the Journal are of exclusive responsibility of the authors. The eventual citation of products and commercial brands does not mean recommendation of use on the part of this Journal. The reproduction of published articles is allowed, provided that the source is cited. c) The Agriambi Journal adopts, as a standard of attribution of open access to the manuscripts, the CC-BY license, which maximizes the dissemination of the manuscripts and is, therefore, internationally adopted by the main open-access journals and publishers. d) Contact address
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