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Manuscripts must be submitted online at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/cagro-scielo.
A cover letter, signed by all authors, must be sent to the Editor requesting the publication. It must contain the author's full name with no abbreviations, and work address (institution, city, state, and country). At submission, this letter must be attached in the field "Cover Letter". Any further insertion, exclusion or alteration in the authorship must be agreed by all authors (including the excluded author, if the case).
Manuscripts must be written in English using US orthographic and grammatical rules and edited using the program Microsoft Word for Windows on paper size A4 (21 cm x 29.7 cm), double spaced using Times New Roman font, size 12, with a 2.5 cm margin on both left- and right-hand side, and on upper and lower margins, heading and footnote. It must be organized in sections as follows:
a) Title sufficiently clear; conspicuous and complete, without abbreviations and superfluous words, written in English and Portuguese. It is recommended to begin with the term that represents the most important aspect, with other terms in decreasing of importance; unless there is no common name, scientific names of most common plants and animals must not be used. Do not initiate with the words “effect”, “evaluation“ or “influence”.
b) Author(s) full name(s) without abbreviations on the right side with one name beneath the former with their respective Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) number and work address (institution, department, city, state, and country).
c) Abstract must be written continuously in one paragraph and it must not exceed 250 words. It must contain a brief introduction, objectives and main results; statistical design maybe mentioned only if it is the essential result of the developed research.
d) Index terms with 3 to 5 keywords that express the content of the paper and different from those used in the title and separated by semicolon (;).
e) Resumo (abstract translated to Portuguese).
f) Termos para indexação (index terms translated to Portuguese).
g) Introduction including literature review and objectives.
h) Material and Methods must be combined and not separated.
i) Results and Discussion must be combined and not separated. Tables and figures must be inserted in the text after their first citation.
j) Conclusion(s) must be written continuously in one paragraph stating the main result of the research and it must not exceed 80 words.
k) Author Contribution describes the individual engagement of authors within the research in terms of Conceptual idea, Methodology design, Data collection, Data analysis and interpretation, and Writing and editing. Each of these topics must be followed by the names(s) of contribution author(s) [e.g. Conceptual idea: Arrow, B.; Bartow, J.D.; Methodology design: Arrow, B.; Brawn, J.P.; Data collection: Arrow, B., Data analysis and interpretation: Brawn, J.P.; Stanfield, R.J., and Writing and editing: Arrow, B.; Brawn, J.P.; Stanfield, R.J.].
l) Acknowledgment(s) (optional, however, highly recommended) with a serious and clear written style, indicating the reason(s) for the recognition(s).
m) References without citation of thesis, dissertation and/or abstracts.
Any submitted manuscript that does not follow this organization will be automatically canceled.
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