Guidelines for authors

INSTRUCTION FOR AUTHORS

Conditions for submission

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify the submission's compliance with all items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the rules will be returned to the authors.

  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal ; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the editor".
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word format.
  • Include in the metadata and cover letter, the complete information of all authors, with respective e-mails, institutions / affiliations and ORCID.
  • The text is without identification of authors and affiliations. See how to remove author information.
  • The authors are listed on the title page and authors  separately .
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in  Guidelines for Authors .
  • URLs and DOI for references were provided when possible.
  • The text is in 1.5 space; uses an 11-point font; uses italics instead of underlining (except URL addresses); figures and tables are inserted in the text, not at the end of the document in the form of attachments.
  • Abstract contains a maximum of 250 words.
  • Attached Cover Letter, including a declaration by the correspondence author on his behalf and that of the other co-authors, mentioning the potential conflicts of interest, that the work was not previously published, nor simultaneously sent for publication in another journal and that the authors agree with the submission, content and transfer of the publication rights of the article in question to the ASB.
  • The cover letter included the names and institutional email addresses of several potential reviewers.
  • It included the approval of the Ethics Committee for studies involving human beings, including studies with questionnaires. Likewise, in the case of studies with experimental animals and / or genetically modified organisms, the authors must include in the declaration, under their full responsibility, that the work is authorized by the Ethics and / or Biosafety Committees and / or the Ethics Committee in Research, along with the approval number of the process.

 

SUBMISSION METADATA (COMPLETE AT THE TIME OF SUBMISSION ON THE SITE)

  1. Insert title; abstract and keywords in English.
  2. Insert name, affiliations and ORCID of all authors and co-authors;
  3. Select the language of the manuscript.

Agronomy Science and Biotechnology (ASB) belongs to Editora Mecenas Eireli of the State of Parana, Brazil. It publishes scientific articles, bibliographic reviews, notes and scientific texts referring to the Agronomical Sciences area, in English.

The following are accepted for publication:

1. Unpublished scientific articles, with up to 40 pages,

2. Review articles should address the current state of knowledge on a particular subject through the analysis and discussion of information already published, and should include critical final comments, in texts with a maximum of 80 pages;

3. Short communications, intended for the presentation of methodological innovations and initial results with an innovative character and scientific rigor, aiming to guarantee the primacy in the report of a product, process or scientific knowledge, in texts with up to ten pages, containing the same items as the scientific article , but with a single text for introduction, material and methods, results and discussion and conclusions (without divisions), with a maximum of 20 pages.

 

Peer review

This magazine operates in a double-blind review process.  

Ensuring the blind review:

To ensure the integrity of blind peer review for submission to ASB, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) verifying that steps have been taken  in relation to the text and the properties of the file .

Ethical policies in research with humans or animals

Revista ASB will only accept submissions with the approval number of the Ethics Committee for studies involving human beings, including studies with questionnaires. Likewise, in the case of studies with experimental animals and / or genetically modified organisms, the authors must include in the declaration, under their full responsibility, that the work is authorized by the Ethics and / or Biosafety Committees and / or the Ethics Committee in Research, along with the approval number.

Learn more about ASB's ethics policies.

LANGUAGE

The manuscript can be submited in Portuguese or English. Manuscripts written in Portuguese and accepted for publication must be translated into English after including the improvements suggested by the reviewers and editor. In any case, write your text with good grammar and spelling in any language. The manuscripts, in their final versions, will be published in English only.

Look:

- Title: English version of the title.

- Abstract: version of the Abstract, reproduced entirely in the English language.

- Keywords: English version of the Keywords.

STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION

The structure of the scientific article must be constituted according to the orientation below. A separate title page must be submitted with the manuscript. The main text of the manuscript must be separated from the name of the authors and affiliations, in order to keep the authorship confidential in the review process. 

 

TITLE AND AUTHORSHIP PAGE

The title page of the manuscript must contain:

  • Title of the work in the language of the manuscript. 
  • Name and affiliation of all authors, and e-mail of the corresponding author. 
  • An ORCID ID of all authors, available for free at  https://orcid.org .

 

1. Authorship:  separated with a space of one line below the title, the names of the authors will be written in full, in full and in sequence, centralized and separated by a comma,  with affiliation inserted with section References> identify the institution to which it belongs.

E-mail address of all correspondence authors. 

2. Title: must be clear, brief, concise and inform the content of the work. It must not contain abbreviations, formulas and symbols. It must be written in lowercase letters, except the initial letter, in bold, without a period and centered. Avoid using scientific names for species, especially those with a well-known popular name. In manuscripts written in the Portuguese language, insert an English version. In manuscripts written in the English language, include a Portuguese version of the title.

 

Manuscript preparation

Scientific article:

Scientific articles should report results of original research on the related areas, with the sections organized in the following way: Title in English; Title in Portuguese; Abstract in English with keywords (maximum six words, in alphabetic order); Abstract in Portuguese with keywords (maximum six words, in alphabetical order); Introduction; Materials and Methods; Results and Discussion, Conclusions; Acknowledgements; and References. The headings should be in boldface without numbering. If there is a need to include a sub-heading within a section, it should be placed in italics, and if there are further sub-topics to include under a sub-heading, these should be numbered with Arabic numerals. (Example: Results and Discussion, Physical-chemical parameters, 1. Acidity, 2. Profile of sugars, 3. Minerals, 4. Color)

The submitted work cannot have been published elsewhere with the same content, except in the form of an Abstract in Scientific Events, Introductory Notes, or Reduced Format.

The work should be presented in the following order:

1. Title of the work, clear and as short as possible.

2. Abstract and Keywords:An informative abstract with a minimum of 200 words and a maximum of 400 words must be included, in the same language used in the text of the article.

3. Introduction:The introduction must be concise and contain only the review that is strictly necessary to introduce the topic and support the methodology and discussion.
If possible, use recent bibliographies. Include old references (over 10 years old) only when they are very important for the manuscript being written.

4. Materials and Methods:This section may be presented in a continuous, descriptive way or with sub-headings to allow the reader to understand and be able to repeat the methodology cited with or without the support of reference citations.

5. Results and Discussion: This section must be presented in a clear way, with the aid of tables, graphs, and figures, so that it does not raise any questions for the reader with regard to the authenticity of the results and points of view discussed.

6. Conclusions:These must be clear and presented according to the objectives proposed in the work.

7. Acknowledgements:People, institutions, and companies that contributed to the work should be mentioned at the end of the text, before the References section.

Notes:

Figures: The figures that are deemed essential will be accepted and should be cited in the text by their numeric order, in Arabic numerals. If any submitted illustrations have already been published, the source and permission for publication should be stated.

Tables: Tables should be accompanied by a header that will allow understanding of the data collected without the need to use the body of the text for reference.

 

Quantities, units, and symbols:

a)  Manuscripts should be in agreement with the criteria established in the International Codes for each subject area.

b)  Use the International System of Units in all text.

c)  Use the negative power format to note and present related units: e.g., kg ha-1. Do not use the forward slash symbol to relate units: e.g., kg/ha.

d)  Use a simple space between units: g L-1, not g.L-1or gL-1.

e)   Use 24-hour time representation with four digits for the hours and minutes: 09h00, 18h30.

8. In-text author citations

The APA Rules use the author-date system for indirect citations, that is, author's last name, comma, and year of publication. The page numbe is only entered when there is a direct citation. In this case, the surname of the cited author, comma, year, comma followed by "p." And the page number

When in the citations, the authors are outside the parentheses, always use "e" (Portuguese); and "And" (English); to separate the penultimate from the last cited author. The "&" is always inserted between the penultimate and last author when cited in parentheses and in references.

 

Citation:

A work by two authors: Name both authors in the signal phrase or in parentheses each time you cite the work. Use the word "and" between the authors' names within the text and use the ampersand in parentheses.

Exemple: The results by Hiromoto and Vello (1986) confirmed that ....
(Hiromoto & Vello, 1986)

Two or more works by the same author in the same year: use lower-case letters (a, b, c) with the year to order the entries in the reference list. Use the lower-case letters with the year in the in-text citation.

Ex: (Porter, 1999a, 1999b, 1999c)

Authors with the same last name: To prevent confusion, use first initials with the last names.

(E. Johnson, 2001; L. Johnson, 1998)

Two or more works by the same author with different publication dates (Chronological order).

Ex: Segundo Porter (1986, 1991, 1999, 2000),

Figure 1: basic in-text citation styles.

Exemples of citations from one to six or more authors:

 

Type of Citation

Signal Prhase

Parenthetical Reference

1st Use of Source

Subsequent use of Source

1st Use of Source

Subsequent use of Source

1-2 authors

Minosso and Toso (2019)

Minosso and Toso (2019)

(Minosso & Toso, 2019)

(Minosso & Toso, 2019)

3-5 authors

Lopes, Meier and Rodrigues (2019)

Lopes et al. (2019)

(Lopes, Meier, & Rodrigues, 2019)

(Lopes et al., 2019)

6 or more authors

Werner et al. (2017)

Werner et al. (2017)

(Werner et al., 2017)

(Werner et al., 2017)

Organization w/ identifiable abbreviation

Instituto Brasileiro de Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) (2018)

 

IBICT (2018)

 

(Instituto Brasileiro de Ciência e Tecnologia [IBICT], 2018)

 

(IBICT, 2018)

Organization w/o abbreviation

Simply Cats (2019)

Simply Cats (2019)

(Simply Cats, 2019)

(Simply Cats, 2019)

Reference exemples: 

All the authors participating in a referenced study must be mentioned, regardless of the number of participants. 

Scientific article:

Berndt, T. J. (2002). Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 7-10.

More than one author - List by their last names and initials. Use the ampersand.

Adair, J. G., & Vohra, N. (2003). The explosion of knowledge, references, and citations: Psychology�??s unique response to a crisis. American Psychologist, 58(1), 15�??23. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.58.1.15

Pereira, G.P, Sequinatto, l., Caten, A., & Mota, M. (2019). VIS-NIR
spectral reflectance for discretization of soils with high sand contente.  Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 40(1),99-112. doi: 10.5433/1679-
0359.2019v40n1p99

Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (1994). Mood management across affective
states: The hedonic contingency hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1034-1048. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.66.6.1034

Electronic Article:

Santos, C. P., & Fernandes, D. H. von der (2007). A recuperação de serviços e seu efeito na confiança e lealdade do cliente. RAC-Eletrônica, 1(3), 35-51. Retrieved from http://anpad.org.br/periodicos/content/frame_base.php?revista=3

Book

Kashdan, T., & Biswas-Diener, R. (2014). The upside of your dark side.
New York, NY: Hudson Street Press.

Book Chapter

Serviss, G. P. (1911). A trip of terror. In A Columbus of space (pp. 17-32). New York, NY: Appleton.

Electronic Book Chapter 

Shuhua, L. (2007). The Night of Midautumn Festival. In J. S. M. Lau & H. 
Goldblatt (Eds.), The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature
(pp. 95-102). New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from
https://www.worldcat.org/title/columbia-anthology-of-modern-chinese-literature/oclc/608153696

Organization as Author

American Psychiatric Association. (1988). DSM-III-R, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder (3rd ed. rev.). Washington, DC: Author.

Law

Lei n. 11.638, de 28 de setembro de 2007. Altera e revoga dispositivos da Lei n. 6.404, de 15 de dezembro de 1976, e da Lei n. 6.385, de 7 de dezembro de 1976, e estende às sociedades de grande porte disposições relativas à elaboração e divulgação de demonstrações financeiras. Retrieved from http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2007/lei/l11638.htm

Citations of annals, proceedings, dissertations and theses will not be accepted in the references.

 

The accuracy and adequacy of references for works that have been consulted and mentioned in the texts of the scientific articles, as well as opinions, concepts, and statements, are entirely the responsibility of the authors.

Note: Consult recently published issues of Agronomy Science and Biotechnology for more details about how to format references in the scientific article.

The remaining categories of works (Short Communication, and Review article) must follow the above-mentioned standards but with the following additional directions for each category:

Short communication

Short communication must be presented in a concise manner but with a complete description of the term research or ongoing research (Introductory note), with complete bibliographic documentation and methodologies, similar to a regular scientific article. Scientific communications must contain the following sections: Title; Abstract with Keywords; and Body of the text. The body of the text should not be divided into sections but should follow this sequence: introduction, methodology, results and discussion (tables and figures may be included), conclusion, and references.

Review articles

Review articles must involve relevant topics within the scope of the journal. The number of review articles per issue is limited, and authors can only write review articles of interest to the journal. If a review article is submitted by an author, the inclusion of relevant results from the author or from the group involved in the study is required, along with references demonstrating experience and knowledge about the topic.

A review article must contain the following sections: Title; Abstract with Keywords; Development of the proposed topic (the text may be divided into sections, but this is not required); Conclusions or Final Considerations; Acknowledgements (if applicable); and References.

Other important information

1. The publication of manuscripts depends on the favorable opinion of ad hoc advisors and the approval of the Agronomy Science and Biotechnology Editorial Board.

2. Reprints will not be given to the authors, since the issues will be available online at the journal�??s website.

3. Copyright transfer: The authors agree with the transfer of publication rights of the manuscript to the journal. Reproduction of the articles is only allowed when the source is cited.

4. Unforeseen questions about or problems in the present standards will be addressed by the Editor.

5. Number of authors:There is no limit to the number of authors, but people included as co-authors should have effectively participated in the study. People with limited participation in the study or the manuscript preparation should be cited in the Acknowledgements section, as should institutions that granted scholarships and other financial resources.

6. Include the ORCID of all authors approved for publication. The ORCID identifier can be obtained from the ORCID record. You must accept the standards for iD ORCID presentation and include the full URL (for example: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097).

Submission conditions

At least one of the authors of the manuscript must necessarily be a PhD or doctor (equivalent to PhD).

As part of our submission process, the Corresponding Author should verify that the submission conforms to all of the items listed below.

The authors should state that the contribution is original and new and that it is not being assessed for publication elsewhere.

  1. The authors should also state that the material is correctly formatted and that the Supplementary Documents are attached.
  2. Corresponding Author is responsable for all contents, including co-authors participation.

Use the button �??include author.�?� 

In the following step, please fill in the metadata in English.

The authorship identification of the work should be removed from the archive and from Word using the �??Properties�?� option in order to ensure the anonymity criteria of the journal, in case the article is subjected to peer review, according to the directions available at Ensuring a blind peer review, featuring double blind format.

The files for submission should be in Word format (as long as they do not exceed 2 MB).

The text should be typed on A4 paper, with numbered lines, 1.5 line spacing, and Times New Roman size 11 font.

Confirm that all ethical standards were followed if the research was performed with living beings. Include proof documents of approval by an institutional ethics committee involving humans and/or an ethics committee involving animals, if these documents are requested. Compliance with the applicable ethical precepts should be cited in the text body.

The text follows the style patterns and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for Authors under the heading �??About the Journal.�?�

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Reprints or copies of the magazine will not be provided. The articles are available at the journal's electronic address. 

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