Basic information
Scientia Agricola is a journal of the University of São Paulo edited at the Luiz de Queiroz campus in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Scientia Agricola publishes original articles which contribute to the advancement of the agricultural, environmental and biological sciences. Scientia Agricola has been edited since 1992, replacing the Anais da ESALQ (Annals of ESALQ) and incorporating the journal Energia Nuclear e Agricultura (Nuclear Energy and Agriculture). Manuscripts must be submitted through the online system at the site www.scielo.br/sa by clicking on Submission of manuscripts. When submitting manuscripts for publication, authors should follow the Instructions to authors. The abbreviated title of the journal is Sci. Agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.) and should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips. The Scientia Agricola is exclusively published in its electronic version from 2017, with the printed version being discontinued. |
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Intellectual property
All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY. The Scientia Agricola is available online in open access. |
Sponsor
Scientia Agricola receives accreditation and financial support of the:
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Editor-in-Chief
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Associate editors
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Technical staff
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Administrative board
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Scope and editorial policy
Scientia Agricola is a journal of the University of São Paulo edited at the Luiz de Queiroz campus in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Scientia Agricola publishes original articles which contribute to the advancement of the agricultural, environmental and biological sciences. The journal covers a broad spectrum of topics, including Crop and Animal Production, Agricultural Engineering, Agroindustrial Technology, Forestry, and Applications in Agricultural, Environmental, Soil, and Biological Sciences. Four manuscript categories can be submitted: original research article, note, review, and point of view. Original research articles are grouped by subject matter into the following categories: Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Microbiology; Agrometeorology; Animal Science and Pastures; Biometry, Modeling, and Statistics; Crop Science; Ecology; Entomology; Food Science and Technology; Forestry Science; Genetics and Plant Breeding; Plant Pathology; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; Soils and Plant Nutrition; and Zoology. Scientia Agricola journal supports the good practices of Open Science, which results in a more transparent editorial process. This way, manuscripts deposited in the SciELO Preprints server can be submitted to our journal. However, the peer-review process for the manuscripts already posted as preprints will be decided by the journal’s Editorial Board. Preprints are considered an author’s version of the manuscript before the peer-review process, which is posted on a free access website. Preprints can be posted at any moment during the peer-review process, it is not considered a formal publication, and it will not compromise the submission of any manuscript to Scientia Agricola. Once the manuscript is approved and published by Scientia Agricola, the preprint version should be changed to present a link directed to the final version published by our journal. Articles published in Scientia Agricola are indexed or abstracted by Current Contents ®/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch ®), Scopus, DOAJ, CAB Abstracts, SciELO, AGRIS, AGROBASE, Chemical Abstracts, INIS and Tropag & Rural. Original manuscripts evaluated by the Editorial Board may be submitted to peer review or rejected without further review. Copyright All articles published on Scientia Agricola will be copyrighted to the authors. The articles are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 open-access license so that they can be downloaded and read by anyone. Furthermore, the article can be reused and cited if the original published version is cited. In this way, the study will have maximum exposure, and the authors will receive due credit. |
General instructions
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
COVER LETTER (must be written in English)
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MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Cover image submissions The cover of Scientia Agricola may feature an image representative of an article published in that issue. Authors are invited to submit scientifically compelling and visually appealing cover images. Images should be high-resolution (300 dpi) and should measure 17 x 17 cm. Cover images can be photographs of organisms, habitats, montages of photographs, diagrams, maps, or data. Illustrations need not be reprinted in the article but should represent the work. Images should be original. Upload the image as an additional supplemental file and a separate text file that includes a brief one-paragraph description of the image and its relevance to the published manuscript. If an author does not hold the copyright for a submitted image, he is responsible for obtaining the necessary permission to use it. Tables and figures
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COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
References Scientia Agricola does not allow authors to cite congress or workshop abstracts, technical articles, dissertations, and theses. References in Portuguese or any language other than English should be limited to those essentially crucial to the study. Up to four references written in languages other than English will be allowed without justifications. More than that will only be allowed if the authors explain why they keep them in the text. If allowed by the Editor-in-Chief, these extra references must be cited in English with the text in the original language provided at the end of the reference, in the following format: (in Portuguese, with abstract in English). Scientia Agricola does not recommend that authors cite statistical analyses or software packages as references. These tools should be mentioned in the text (Materials and Methods) by including the specific procedure and the name of the software with its version and/or year, e.g., “…statistical procedures were conducted using PROC NLIN in SAS (Statistical Analysis System, version 9.2)”. References and citations in Scientia Agricola articles should be formatted in the 'author, year' or 'name (year)' style. Remember to ensure that text citations match the list of references. Examples: 1. Single author: Reichardt (2000) or (Reichardt, 2000). 2. Two authors: Fiorio and Demattê (2009) or (Fiorio and Demattê, 2009). 3. Three or more authors: Rosso et al. (2009) or (Rosso et al., 2009). 4. Arrange references alphabetically and chronologically within brackets, and use semicolons (;) to separate multiple citations within brackets, e.g.: (Boleli, 2003; Boerjan, 2006; Muraroli and Mendes, 2003). 5. Order multiple citations 'same author-same date' with the aid of lower case letters, e.g.: (Cyrino, 2004a, b).
6. Use the "author-year" style to format the list of references, and: (i) do not abbreviate any other words 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 initials, 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 use bold characters to highlight any part of the reference; (vii) capitalize books and periodical titles; (viii) do not use a comma (,) to separate the title and volume of a periodical; (ix) separate the periodical volume from the page numbers with a colon (:); (x) use full page numbering; (xi) separate page numbers with a dash (-); (xii) separate page groups by a comma if the article was published in discontinuous pages; (xiii) indicate the number of a given edition of a book or manual, e.g., "2ed"; (xiv) for books and manuals, indicate the publisher or editorial office before the main locality of the publisher or editorial office; (xv) separate publishers or editorial offices from locality with a comma; and (xvi) in such cases, name city, state and/or province and country.
6.1 Scientific journals 6.2 Books
6.2.1 Books with authors
6.2.2 Books with editors/organizers
6.2.3 Books (and manuals) with an organization as author or editor/organizer 6.3 Book chapters Sharpley, A.N.; Rekolainen, S. 1997. Phosphorus in agriculture and its environmental implications. p. 1-53. In: Tunney, H.; Carton, O.T.; Brookes, P.C.; Johnston, A.E., eds. Phosphorus loss from soil to water. CAB International, New York, NY, USA. 6.4 Electronic media sources
6.4.1 Required elements for listing website citations are:
6.4.2 Required elements for listing publications available online are: 6.5 Listing references not written in English Provide the English title and indicate the original publishing language of the journal at the end of the citation, as below: Baretta, D.; Santos, J.C.P.; Figueiredo, S.R.; Klauberg-Filho, O. 2005. Effects of native pasture burning and Pinus monoculture on changes in soil biological attributes on the Southern Plateau of Santa Catarina - Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 29: 715-724 (in Portuguese, with abstract in English). https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-06832005000500007 Mingoti, A.S. 2005. Data analysis using multivariate statistics methods: an applied approach = Análise de Dados Através de Métodos de Estatística Multivariada: uma abordagem aplicada. Editora UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil (in Portuguese). |
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