Instructions for Authors Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária Introduction Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária is an official publication of the Brazilian College of Veterinary Parasitology. The journal covers topics on helminthes, protozoans and arthropods as well as other related subjects and it regularly publishes research studies on a trimonthly basis.
Editorial Guidelines All manuscripts submitted to Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária should be original scientific articles. Authors are required to send a signed cover letter certifying the entire manuscript is an original (unpublished) article, except for the Abstract(s) which may have been presented in scientific gatherings. All manuscripts with more than one author should be submitted together with a statement of agreement signed by all authors regarding its publication. The process of manuscript review will follow the journal’s Editorial Guidelines as well as the Editors’ and/or ad hoc Reporter’s opinions. The Editor-in-chief and assistant scientific editors may make suggestions or request changes to the manuscript but the authors are the exclusively responsible for the entire text content. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia categorizes manuscripts as Full Articles, Research Notes and Review Articles; the latter are submitted under the Editors’ request.
Submission Fee There is a fee of R$ 40.00 (forty reais) to cover the submission process. The manuscript review process is initiated with the payment of the submission process fee through bank deposit at Banco do Brasil/ Checking Account # 28848-9, Branch 0269-0. A copy of the deposit slip should be sent together with the manuscript.
Review Fee The responsible author will be charged a fee English language review of the manuscript accepted for publication.
Manuscript Preparation The following guidelines should be followed in the manuscript preparation: • All manuscripts should be typed in Times New Roman font, size 12, page setup with 2.5 cm top and bottom margins, 3 cm left and right margins, and 1.5 cm line spacing. All pages should be numbered. • Full Articles should have a maximum of 15 pages and Research Notes should have a maximum of 5 pages. • All tables and illustrations should be presented separately from the main text body and attached to the final manuscript without captions. The related captions should be included in the text after the References. • All manuscripts should be sent to: rbpv-secretaria@rbpv.org.br.
• Manuscripts can be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Always use concise impersonal language. Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the applicable page and numbered with Arabic numerals in an ascending order. • Acronyms and abbreviations of institution names should come between parentheses and their full names should be spelled out in the preceding text. • Citations should appear in the text according to the author-date system of NBR Guideline 10520/2002 of the Brazilian Technical Standards Association (ABNT). • Full Articles should be structured as follows: Original Title, Translated Title, Author(s), Affiliations, (ABNT) Reference, Abstract plus Keywords, English Language Abstract plus Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions (or a combination of the latter three), Acknowledgements (optional), and References. • Research Notes should follow the same structure as described above but they can be presented as a continuous stream of body text with no need to include headings.
Description of Each Item of the Manuscript Original Title “It should designate the content or subject of a publication.” (ABNT 6022). The “full” title and subtitle (if any) should be presented in the same language of the article and should not exceed 15 words. The title should not include any abbreviations or species names and Latin words should be italicized.
Author(s)/ Affiliation “Individual(s) who is(are) responsible for the creation of the intellectual content of a document.” (ABNT 6022). Identification should include: first author’s full name (with no abbreviations), followed by (in the next line) a brief resume description of his/her qualifications in the article’s field of knowledge and his/her full address. The same should apply to all other authors. Qualification/affiliation should include: Laboratory, Department, College or School, Institute, University, in this exact order, and the author’s current e-mail.
ABNT Reference The author’s affiliation should be followed by the article’s reference according to ABNT guidelines (6023) for full articles. References of abstracts presented in conferences or scientific meetings will not be accept.
Abstract It should not exceed 200 words structured in a single paragraph, with no indentations, written in the article’s original language. It should not include references, acronyms or abbreviations. It should be informative and present the objectives, a brief description of methods, the main results, and a conclusion. All manuscripts written in English should have a Portuguese abstract plus keywords.