Submissions

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 manuscript must be written in ENGLISH or PORTUGUESE.
• The submission must not have been previously published, nor has been sent to another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file must be prepared in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The abstract must be under 250 words.
• The main text must be less than 4000 words long.
• Where available, DOI’s for the references must be provided.
• Pictures, graphics and illustrations even inserted in the text must be sent in separate files, in the original format in which they were created.
• Research grants from funding agencies (the research funder and the grant number) or any financial support were declared in the Funding Information section.
• An authors' contributions statement must be included in a section at the end of the article (before the References) for works written by more than 2 (two) authors, including the individual contribution of each author.
• Authors must include a statement that there is no conflict of interest; otherwise, these must be specified in the “Comments to the Editor”.
• Follow ICZN’s guidelines for writing scientific names (link to PDF ).
• All authors’ ORCID ID should be included (if possible).
• The Cover Letter (including up to five possible reviewers, with affiliation and email) in PDF format.