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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.
  • The manuscript must be original and not have been previously published or under review in another journal.
  • The text must follow the stylistic and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors, which can be found in the Submission tab.
  • Authors must prepare a cover letter, presenting their work and explaining the relevance and novelty of the research.
  • The manuscript must be in line with the journal's objectives and scope.
  • The manuscript must be divided into unnumbered sections (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, and References), with figures and tables inserted in the text.
  • All citations throughout the manuscript must be included in the list of references.
  • Authors must submit a file with suggestions of five possible reviewers for the manuscript.
  • All authors must be entered into the system when submitting the manuscript.
  • The submission file must be in Microsoft Word, Open Office or RTF (as long as it does not exceed 2 MB), and the identification of the author of the manuscript must be removed from the file and from the Word properties option, thus ensuring the confidentiality criteria of the journal, if it is submitted for peer review.
  • Only manuscripts written in English will be considered.

Author Guidelines

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Acta Scientiarum. Technology is published under the Open Access model and is therefore free for anybody to read and download, and to copy and disseminate according to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 policy. 

APCS (ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES) AND SUBMISSION CHARGES

Acta Scientiarum. Technology is free of any kind of submission/publication fees, thus the authors are not charged to publish with us.

POLICIES AGAINST PLAGIARISM AND BAD CONDUCT IN RESEARCH

In the wake of our tradition in excellence, we would like to inform collaborators on editorial improvements that foreground the integrity of articles published by the Acta Scientiarum. Technology. Following guidelines by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) stimulating the identification of the practice of plagiarism, bad practices, frauds, possible violations in Ethics and indicting, we would like to recommend the following:

1. Authors are invited to visit the COPE website http://publicationethics.org for information on authors and editors on Ethics in research;

2. Prior to submission of scientific articles, authors should follow the criteria below:

- articles that contain data acquisition or analysis and interpretation of data from other publications should refer to the latter explicitly and directly;

- articles with a critical review on the intellectual contents of other authors should duly quote the latter authors;

- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;

- the definite approval of the article is the role of the respective editors and of the editorial board.

3. So that the above criteria could be complied with, the following procedures will be taken:

a)  Editors will evaluate manuscripts by CrossCheck system immediately after submission. Contents of the scientific articles will be evaluated to identify any sort of plagiarism, double submissions, already published articles and possible frauds in research;

b)  With these results in hand, the editors and the editorial board decide whether the manuscript is sent for the review of peers, who will also make their own evaluations;

c) After acceptance and prior to publication, the article may again be assessed.

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1.  Acta Scientiarum. Technology, ISSN 1807-8664 (online), is published four times a year by the State University of Maringá, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil.  

2.  The journal publishes original articles in all areas of Technology, including: Exact and Earth Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science and Chemistry), Engineering (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Production), Food Science and Technology (Food Science, Technology and Engineering) and Multidisciplinary (Biotechnology). 

3.  Author(s) should state that the manuscript, reporting original work, has not been sent, in part or in whole, for publication to another scientific journal. This statement may be found at http:// periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciTechnol/ab out/submissions.

4.  Data, concepts, opinions and the preciseness of works cited are the author´s/ authors´ entire responsibility. Mention of products and commercial trademarks do not imply in their recommendation for use by the journal´s editorial board.

5.  Research should be based on the most advanced and 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.

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 ACTA homepage at http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/

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 referee 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.  English revision should be paid for by the authors to the authorized translators who will forward a certificate to this end.

11.  Formatting and conventions are listed below:

a) On submission the full name(s) of the author(s), 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 (in bold and unnumbered): Abstract and Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements (Optional) and References. Exceptionally, articles describing theoretical works may omit the Materials and methods section. In addition and due to the specific characteristics of Mathematics, the sections Materials and methods and Conclusion are optional and the section Results and discussion may be renamed as Results.

c) The title, up to twenty words, should be provided and a Running Title, up to six words, is also mandatory.

d) Abstract, up to (200-300 words), shall contain brief information on the aims of the research, experimental material, methods employed, results and conclusion. Keywords shall be added at the end of the abstract and should not include words found in the title.

e) Articles should have 12 to 20 pages typed, including figures, tables and bibliographical references, 1.5 line spacing, Times New Roman 12, numbered pages and lines, in MS-Word, or compatible.

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 2MB, and should have no identification label of the author, including in the option properties of Word.

h) Tables, Figures and Graphs shall be inserted within the text, immediately after being cited.

i) The figures and tables must not exceed 17 cm wide.

j) Digitalized Figures should have a 300 dpi resolution and recorded in jpg. 

k) The International Measurement System is mandatory.

l) Equations should be edited using Word's Equation Built.

m) Variables should be identified after the equation.

n)  Editorial Board recommends that eighty per cent (80%) of the references should be from articles listed at ISI Web of Knowledge or Scopus during the last 10 years. Quotes from international reviews and journals are also recommended. Citations from theses, dissertations, monographs, proceedings, abstracts, expanded summaries, newspapers, magazines, technical bulletins and electronic documents will not be accepted.

o) Citations should follow the examples below, based on norms of the American Psychological Association (APA). For citation within the text, insert surname and year: Et (2001) or (Et, 2001); for two authors: Costa and Mansur (2008) or (Costa & Mansur, 2008); for three or more authors, insert the first author followed by et al.: Parra et al. (2008) or (Parra et al., 2008).

REFERENCE MODELS

References should be given in alphabetical order, justified, according to following examples based on norms of the American Psychological Association (APA). List all authors. Titles of journals should be given entirely, without the place of publication.

ARTICLES

One author

Sarma, B. (2015). Some sequence spaces of fuzzy numbers defined by Orlicz function. Acta Scientiarum. Technology, 37(1), 85-87.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascitechnol.v37i1.16966

Two to twenty authors

Costa Jr., E. S., & Mansur, H. S. (2008). Preparação e caracterização de blendas de quitosana/poli (álcool viní­lico) reticuladas quimicamente com glutaraldeí­do para aplicação em engenharia de tecido. Quí­mica Nova, 31(6), 1460-1466. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-40422008000600034

Parra, J. E. G., Radí¼na, N. J., Veiverberg, C. A., Lazzari, R., Bergamin, G. T., Pedron, F. A., & Sutili, F. J. (2008). Alimentação de fêmeas de jundiá com fontes lipí­dicas e sua relação com o desenvolvimento embrionário e larval. Ciência Rural, 38(7), 2011-2017. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-84782008000700033

Levantesi, C., La Mantia, R., Masciopinto, C., Bocklmann, U., Ayuso-Gabella, M. N., Salgot, M., Tandoi, V., Van Houtte, E., Wintgens, T., & Grohmann, E. (2010). Quantification of pathogenic microorganisms and microbial indicators in three wastewater reclamation and managed aquifer recharge facilities in Europe. Science of the Total Environment, 408(21), 4923-4930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.042

Twenty-one or more authors

Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., Gandin, L., Iredell, M., Saha, S., White, G., Wollen, J., Zhu, Y., Chelliah, M., Ebisuzaki, W., Higgins, W., Janowiak, J., Mo, K. C., Ropelewski, C., Wang, J., Leetmaa, A., … Joseph, D. (1996). The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(3), 437-472. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077%3C0437:TNYRP%3E2.0.CO;2

BOOKS

Cowie, J. M. G. (2001). Polymers: chemistry and physics of modern materials. Chapman and Hall.

El-Rewini, H., & Abd-EL-Barr, M. (2005). Advanced computer architecture and parallel processing. John Wiley and Sons.

Schmal, M. (2005). Engenharia das reações quí­micas e catálise. In P. A. Melo Jr. (Ed.), Fronteiras da Engenharia Quí­mica I (pp. 21-50). E-papers.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Mar 14 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat

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McAdoo, T. (2024, February 23). How to cite ChatGPT. APA Style. https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/how-to-cite-chatgpt

 

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