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OPEN ACCESS POLICY

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- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;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

1. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences, ISSN 1807-863X (online), is published four times a year by the Universidade Estadual de 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 http:// periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/about/submissions.

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.  

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, 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 translators.

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 in bold and unnumbered): Abstracts and Keywords in Portuguese and English (these words should not be extant in the title); Introduction, Material and methods, Results and/or Discussion, Conclusion, 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 at2.5 cm.

g) File containing the article to be transferred during submission should not exceed 5 MB, 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 or16 cmin 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 x23 cmat 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, recorded in jpg or png. Figures larger than the established size or with bad graphic quality will not be accepted. Colored illustrations will be accepted.

k) The International Measurement System is mandatory.

l) Equations should be edited by Math Type or inserted in jpg or png.

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) Eighty percent (80%) of the references should be 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 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 norms by the American Psychological Association (APA). For citation within text, insert surname and year: Oleksiak (2008) or (Oleksiak, 2008); for two authors: Silva and Diniz Filho (2008) or (Silva & Diniz, 2008); for three or more authors insert only the first author followed by et al.: Cardozo et al. (2007) or (Cardozo et al., 2007).

REFERENCE MODELS

References should be organized alphabetically, with left alignment, following examples below based on the norms of the American Psychological Association (APA).  Titles of journals should be given in full and in italics, without the place of publication. References should contain DOI.

ARTICLES

One author

Oleksiak, M. F. (2008). Changes in genexpression due to chronic exposure to environmental pollutants. Aquatic Toxicology, 90(3), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.08.010

Two authors

Silva, M. M. F. P., & Diniz, J. A. F., Fo. (2008). Extinction of mammalian populations in conservation units of the Brazilian Cerrado by inbreeding depression in stochastic environments. Genetics and Molecular Biology, 31(3), 800-803. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1415-47572008000400030

Two to twenty authors (all authors must be comma-separated except the last one to be comma-separated followed by &)

Santana, N. F., Thomaz, T. A., & Roberto, M. C. (2015). Relationship between bacterial density and abiotic factors at different sediment depths of lakes in the Upper Paraná River floodplain. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Science, 37(1), 1-8. doi:10.4025/actascibiolsci.v37i1.22240

Twenty-one or more authors (the first 19 author names must be indicated, an ellipsis inserted and the last author added)

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

Haynie, D. T. (2001). Biological thermodynamics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511754784

Foster, R. G., & Kreitzman, L. (2005). Rhythms of life: the biological clocks that control the daily life of every living thing. Yale University Press.

Agostinho, A. A., Gomes, L. C., & Pelicice, F. M. (2007). Impactos dos represamentos. In A. A. Agostinho, L. C. Gomes, & F. M. Pelicice (Ed.), Ecologia e manejo de recursos pesqueiros em reservatórios do Brasil (p. 107-152). Eduem.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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

We recommend reading this article for more information on how to cite this type of content:

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

 

Average time between submission and publication of articles published in 2016: 8 months.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Authors must submit a file with suggestions of five possible reviewers for the manuscript.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is 1.5 line spacing; uses a Times New Roman 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

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