Submissions

Author Guidelines

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences 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. Animal Sciences 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. 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- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;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 TO AUTHORS AND STYLESHEET

1. Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences ISSN 1807-8672 (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 Animal Science and Zootechny, including genetics and genetic improvement, nutrition and digestion, physiology and endocrinology, reproduction and lactation, growth, etiology and animal well-being, environment and installations, food evaluation and animal production.

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 http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/about/ 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 any 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. Articles may be written in Portuguese or in English. In the former case,  if accepted for publication, translation into English is mandatory.

7. Articles will be peer-reviewed according to their scientific area of research. Peers, hailing from higher and research institutes inBrazil or abroad, should be acknowledged for their scientific production. After corrections and possible suggests, the article will be accepted or rejected by the Editorial Board.

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, referees 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. 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. Formatation and other conventions are set 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 (in bold, centralized and unnumbered): Abstracts and Keywords, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results and discussion, Conclusion, Data availability, Acknowledgements (Optional) and References.

c) The title, up to twenty words, must be to the point. A Running Title, up to six words, is also mandatory.

d) Abstract, 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, shall be added at the end of the abstracts and should not include words found in the title.

e) Papers should have between 12 and 20 pages, 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.  Figures and Tables should be preferentially7.65 cm wide, not exceeding16 cm.

i) Digitalized figures should have a 300 dpi resolution and recorded in jpg or png. Colored illustrations are accepted.

j) The International Measurement System is mandatory.

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

l) Variables should be identified after the equation.

m) Review of articles will be published when authors are invited by the Editorial Board or by the Chief Editor of Eduem.

o) Eighty percent (80%) of the references should have been listed on the database ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus or SciELO during the last 10 years. Citations from theses, dissertations, monographs, proceedings, abstracts, expanded summaries, newspapers, magazines, technical bulletins and electronic documents will not be accepted.

p) Citations should follow the examples below, based on the norms of the American Psychological Association (APA). For citation within the text, insert surname and year: Kubarik (1997) or (Kubarik, 1997); for two authors: Abimorad and Carneiro (2004) or (Abimorad and Carneiro, 2004); for three or more authors, insert the first author followed by et al.: Pedrosa et al. (2012) or (Pedrosa et al., 2012).

MODELS OF REFERENCES

References should be given in alphabetical order, with left alignment, according to the examples below, based on norms by the American Psychological Association (APA). List all authors. Titles of journals should be given full and the place of publication omitted. References must contain the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.

PAPERS

One author

Stech, M. R., (2017). Processed soybean in diets for pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus). Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences, 37(1), 1-8. doi:10.4025/actascianimsci.v39i1.24296

Two or more authors (all authors must be separated by commas, except the last one, which must be separated by commas followed by &)

Abimorad, E. G., & Carneiro, D. J. (2004). Métodos de coleta de fezes e determinação dos coeficientes de digestibilidade da fração protéica e da energia de alimentos para o pacu, Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887). Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 33(5), 1101-1109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1516-35982004000500001

Farias, M. S., Prado, I. N., Valero, M. V., Zawadzki, F., Silva, R. R., Eiras, C. E., & Lima, B. S. (2012). Níveis de glicerina para novilhas suplementadas em pastagens: desempenho, ingestão, eficiência alimentar e digestibilidade. Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 33(3), 1177-1188. DOI: 10.5433/1679-0359.2012v33n3p1177

BOOKS

Hui, Y. H., Nip, W. K., Rogers, R.W., & Young, O. A. (2001). Meat science and applications. CRC Press.

Kevan, P. G., & Imperatriz-Fonseca, V. L. (2006). Pollinating bees: the conservation link Between agriculture and nature (2nd ed.). Secretariat for Biodiversity and Forests.

Souza, J. P., & Pereira, L. B. (2007). Fatores influenciadores na competitividade da cadeia de carne bovina no Estado do Paraná. In I. N. Prado, & J. P. Souza (Orgs.), Cadeias produtivas: estudos sobre competitividade e coordenação (p. 53-79). Eduem.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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Average time between submission and publication of papers in 2019: 6 months.