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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  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publicationby another journal; otherwise,it should be justified in "Comments to the editor".

  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format.
  • URLs for references were informed when needed.

  • The manuscript is in spacing of 1.5, lines numbered continuously and without the names of the authors, Open Sans font size 12, 1.25 cm tab, A4 size, with 2 cm left, right, bottom and top margins, portrait orientation and maximum of 20 pages; uses italic instead of underline(except in URLs).
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for Authors, on the About the Journal page.

  • In case of submission to a section with peer evaluation (e.g. articles), the instructions available in Ensuring blind peer evaluationwere followed.

  • In Step 3, in the Biography Summaryfield, the identification of each author must be entered using the template below:

    Graduation, Major Title, Position, Institution and Capacity Unit, Postal Address, Other Important Information (e.g. Fellowshipof Research Productivityfrom CNPq), e-mail.

  • Figures, tables and tables are presented in the body of the text, preferably typed in the same font as the text.
  • The text follows the standards of bibliographic references established in ABNT NBR 6023:2018, as well as all referenced articles mentioning the DOI link of the scientific article or the link to the journal's website.

Author Guidelines

The manuscript must be original, unpublished and have not been sent or published in another journal. The scientific and grammatical quality of writing is essential because the manuscript can be rejected if it is not suitable. Plagiarism is not allowed and when research involves humans and animals, the document approved by the Ethics Committee or equivalent institution must be attached.

The manuscripts submitted to the evaluation process should contribute to the advancement of science and research and fall within the scope of the areas of Ecology and Forestry Nutrition and related topics: forest species nutrition, nutrient and carbon cycling, climate change, management and ecology environmental impacts, forest fires, forest modeling, agroforestry systems, forest physiology and ecophysiology, forest soils, soil biology, biomass and forest residues, recovery and restoration of degraded areas, forest dynamics structure, production of forest seedlings, forest implantation, soil-plant-water, atmospheric deposition and forest hydrology.

The journal Ecologia e Nutrição Florestal (Ecology and Forest Nutrition) does not apply to any submission, publication or any other nature in its processes, being a scientific vehicle aimed at the Brazilian and international scientific community.

  

Authorship

The detailed description of the contribution of each author of the manuscript should be mentioned in a statement, to be attached in the system as "Supplementary Document" in Step 4 of the submission process. This statement should also indicate three possible reviewers, stating the name, institution, and e-mail of each one.

 

Languages

The manuscript can be written and published in the Portuguese, English and Spanish languages.

 

Types of manuscripts

Manuscripts may be submitted in the form of scientific articles, technical notes and systematic literature review. Literature review articles will only be accepted upon invitation from the Editorial Board.

 

Structure and format of the manuscript

- The template is available to download here.

Scientific articles and technical notes should follow the presentation sequence: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments (optional) and Bibliographic References. The Material and Methods, Results, and Discussion items can be divided into sections. The article of systematic review of the literature should contain: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Development, Final considerations, Acknowledgments (optional) and Bibliographic References.

 

At least 50% of references must be from scientific articles from the last 10 years. The number of citations must not exceed 30.

Citations from scientific journals must represent 90% of all references in the manuscript.

Citations of works/abstracts presented at conferences (Proceedings, Proceedings, CD Roms, etc.) are not accepted.

Insert the URL for access at the end of the reference, if applicable.

 

Figures and tables

Figures and tables should be self-explanatory and placed in the text immediately after the first citation. The identification of figures and tables should be expressed in two languages (Portuguese and English, when the language of the manuscript is Portuguese), with the legend of the Figure in the lower part. In the table, the legend should be allocated in the upper part. Tables must be entered in the text in an editable manner, and tables in the form of figures are not accepted. The figures (graphics and photographs) must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, preferably colored, always with portrait orientation.

When including figures and tables already published in other works, the authors must mention the source and the year of the same.

Botanical Nomenclature

To present the genus and scientific name of species in italics, without bold, according to the rules of nomenclature. The first time the species is mentioned in the text, present the name of the author (for example, Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden), after that, without authors.

 

Mathematical equations

The equations inserted in the text must be numbered sequentially, mentioned as Equation 1, Equation 2, etc. Each equation must be numbered respectively (Eq. 1, Eq. 2), aligned to the right of the text. Formulas and equations must be entered with the Word Equation/Equation insert function. Equations will not be accepted in the form of figures.

 

System of units

All units of measurement shall be standardized and presented in accordance with the International S

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