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Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
1. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences ISSN 1679-9283 (papel) and ISSN 1807-863X (on-line) is a scientific journal, published four times a year by the State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil.
2. The journal publishes original articles in all areas of Biological Sciences, including anatomy, bacteriology, molecular biology, biochemistry, botany, cytology and cell biology, animal behavior, ecology, limnology, embryology, and histology, morpho-physiology, genetics, microbiology, parasitology and zoology.
3. Author(s) should state that the manuscript, reporting original work, was not sent, in part or in whole, for publication to another scientific journal. This statement may be found at down.
4. Data and ideas in papers and exactness of bibliographical data must be verified by authors. The mention of trademarks and commercial firms do not necessary mean recommendation by the Editorial Board of the journal.
5. Papers should be based on state-of-the-art techniques. When necessary, a declaration of the institution’s Ethic and Bio-security Board should be attached.
6. Papers are published in English. They must be concise and consistent in style.
7. Articles will be reviewed by three peers acknowledged for their scientific production and research, from higher institutions in Brazil and abroad. After the necessary corrections and possible suggestions, the paper shall be accepted if two peers give a favorable statement; the article will be rejected if two peer reviews are unfavorable.
8. Articles are to be sent via Internet through the Portal ACTA homepage.
9. Conflict of interests may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. Conflict of interests occurs when authors, revisors or editors have vested interests that may affect the writing or the evaluation of unpublished papers.
Authors are requested that on submitting a paper for possible publication they should acknowledge or disclose financial conflicts or others that may have affected their scientific work. Authors should identify all financial funding given during the execution of their work and other personal bonds with regard to the above. The revisor should inform the editors on any conflict of interests that may influence the manuscript's analysis and should declare him/herself ineligible for this particular task.
10. As from 2010 authors are accountable for the revision of the text in Portuguese or for its translation into a foreign language. Text revision and translation should be paid for by the authors to the authorized revisors who will forward a certificate to this end.
11. Formation and conventions to be followed are listed below:
a) On submission the full name(s) of the author(s) (six at the most), her/his/their institutional address(es) and the e-mail of the author for correspondence should be inserted
b) Articles should be subdivided into the following subtitles (printed bold and unnumbered): Abstracts and Key Words in Portuguese and English (these words should not be extant in the title); Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion (optional), Acknowledgements (optional) and Works Cited.
c) The title, up to twenty words, in Portuguese and English, must be precise. A Running Title, up to six words, is also mandatory.
d) Abstracts in Portuguese and English, up to 200 words, shall contain brief information on the aims of the research, experimental material, methods employed, results and conclusion. Key words, up to six, in Portuguese and English, shall be added at the end of the abstracts and should not include words found in the title.
e) Articles should not be longer than 15 pages, including figures, tables and bibliographical references. Pages should be numbered and main text in 1.5 cm-line spacing throughout. Paper should be edited in Word for Windows, Times New Roman or Ariel 12pt font.
f) Paper format should be A4 paper, with all page margins at 2.5 cm.
g) File containing the article to be transferred during submission should not exceed 5MB, and should have no identification label of the author, including in the option properties of Word.
h) Tables, Figures and Graphs should be inserted in the text after their quotations. Tables should measure 7.65 or 16 cm in length. Graphs should be frameless internally and externally and without any background color. Different filling patterns (horizontal, vertical, diagonal bands and multiple dots) should be used in Graphs with bars; grey and colored tones should be avoided since they are not easily distinguishable in the printed version.
i) Figures (photos, pictures, maps, drawings or schemes) should measure 16 x 23 cm at their maximum, including the necessary space for the caption. Graphs and Figures that can be published in a single column (7.65 cm) will be decreased in size. The readability of numbers and letters is mandatory after size decrease. Times New Roman size 8 is the font used. Graphs and Figures on electronic plates should be submitted with the file with the original plate. Size should be shown by bar scales, placed at the left side of the Figure; the number of the Figure should be placed on the right.
j) Digital Figures should be presented with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, in Jpg or Tiff. Figures larger than the established size or with bad graphic quality will not be accepted. Colored illustrations will be accepted only for the online version; they will be published in black and white in the print one.
k) The International Measurement System is mandatory.
l) Equations should be in software compatible to text editor.
m) Variables should be identified after the equation.
n) Review of articles will be published when authors are invited by the Editorial Board or by the Chief Editor of Eduem.
o) Color figures will be accepted but will only be published in the on-line
review.
p) It calls for eighty percent (80%) of the references are listed on the database ISI Web of Knowledge or Scopus with less than 10 years. It is recommended to give preference to international citations of articles. Citations from dissertations, theses, monographs, proceedings, abstracts, expanded summaries, newspapers, magazines, technical bulletins and electronic documents should be avoided.
q) As from may 2009, articles sent will be published in English.
r) This citations or Works Cited should be placed in alphabetical order, based on the Brazilian Association for Technical Rules (ABNT), following examples below. For in-text quotes, use surname and year: Oleksiak (2008) or (OLEKSIAK, 2008); for two authors Silva e Diniz Filho (2008) or (SILVA; DINIZ FILHO, 2008); tree authors or more, utilize the first and et al. (ANDRADE JÚNIOR et al., 2008).


REFERENCE MODELS


References should be listed in alphabetic order and justified, according to the examples below, based on the Brazilian Association for Technical Rules (ABNT). Titles of reviews should not be abbreviated but given in full, without by place of publication.

Articles

OLEKSIAK, M. F. Changes in gene expression due to chronic exposure to environmental pollutants. Aquatic Toxicology, v. 90, n. 3, p. 161-171, 2008.

SILVA, M. M. F. P; DINIZ FILHO, J. A. F. Extinction of mammalian populations in conservation units of the Brazilian Cerrado by inbreeding depression in stochastic environments. Genetics and Molecular Biology, v. 31, n. 3, p. 800-803, 2008.

ANDRADE JÚNIOR, S. J.; SANTOS JÚNIOR, J. C. S.; OLIVEIRA, J. L.; CERQUEIRA, E. M. M.; MEIRELES, J. R. C. Micronúcleos em tétrades de Tradescantia pallida (Rose) Hunt. Cv. purpúrea Boom: alterações genéticas decorrentes de poluição área urbana. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, v. 30, n. 3, p. 291-294, 2008.

Books

HAYNIE, D. T. Biological thermodynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

FOSTER, R. G; KREITZMAN, L. Rhythms of life: the biological clocks that control the daily live of every living thing. Yale: Yale University Press, 2005.

AGOSTINHO, A. A.; GOMES, L. C.; PELICICE, F. M. Impactos dos represamentos. In: AGOSTINHO, A. A.; GOMES, L. C.; PELICICE, F. M. (Ed.). Ecologia e manejo de recursos pesqueiros em reservatórios do Brasil. Maringá: Eduem, 2007. p. 107-152.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. A contribuição é original e inédita e não está sendo avaliada por outra revista.
  2. Os manuscritos deverão ser submetidos em inglês.
  3. Os arquivos para submissão estão em formato Microsoft Word, Open Office ou RTF (desde que não ultrapasse 5MB).
  4. Todos os endereços de páginas da Internet, incluídas no texto (Ex: http://www.eduem.uem.br) estão ativos e prontos para clicar.
  5. O texto está em espaço 1,5; usa uma fonte de 12-pontos Times New Roman; emprega itálico ao invés de sublinhar (exceto em endereços URL); com figuras e tabelas inseridas no texto, e não em seu final. No máximo 15 páginas.
  6. O texto segue os padrões de estilo e quisitos bibliográficos em Diretrizes para Autores, na seção Sobre a Revista.
  7. A identificação de autoria deste trabalho foi removida do arquivo e da opção propriedades do Word, garantindo desta forma o critério de sigilo da revista, caso submetido para avaliação por pares (ex.: artigos), conforme instruções disponíveis em Assegurando a Avaliação por Pares Cega.
  8. TODOS OS CONTATOS MANTIDOS ENTRE O AUTOR E EDITORA DEVE MENCIONAR INICIALMENTE O NÚMERO DO MANUSCRITO INSERIDO NO SISTEMA
 

Copyright Notice

DECLARATION OF ORIGINALITY AND CESSATION OF COPYRIGHT

I Declare that current article is original and has not been submitted for publication, in part or in whole, to any other national or international journal. I also declare that once published in the Acta Scientiarum, a publication of the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, it will not be submitted by me or by any co-author to any other journal. In my name and in the name of co-authors, I shall cede the copyright of the above mentioned article to the Universidade Estadual de Maringá and I declare that I know that the non-observance of this norm may make me liable for the penalties contemplated in the Law for the Protection of Authors’ Rights (Act 9609 of the 19th February 1998).

 

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