ACTA SCIENTIARUM-TECHNOLOGY
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 3.0 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. 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- all authors should attend to the authorship criteria of an unpublished article and no researcher involved in the investigation should be omitted from the list of authors;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 PR Brazil.
2. The journal publishes original articles in all areas of Technology, including: Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, Geo-science and Computer Science.
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 inBrazil 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. 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 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) (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 and unnumbered): Abstracts and Keywords in Portuguese and English; 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, in Portuguese and English, should be provided and a Running Title, up to six words, is also mandatory.
d) Abstracts in English, up to (200-300 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 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.
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