Basic information
Scientia Agricola is a journal of the University of São Paulo edited at the Luiz de Queiroz campus in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Scientia Agricola publishes original articles contributing to advancing the agricultural, environmental, and biological sciences. Scientia Agricola has been edited since 1992, replacing the Anais da ESALQ (Annals of ESALQ) and incorporating the journal Energia Nuclear e Agricultura (Nuclear Energy and Agriculture). Manuscripts must be submitted online at the site www.scielo.br/sa by clicking on Submission of manuscripts. When submitting manuscripts for publication, authors should follow the Instructions to authors. The abbreviated title of the journal is Sci. Agric. (Piracicaba, Braz.) and should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, and bibliographical references and strips. The Scientia Agricola has been exclusively published in its electronic version since 2017, with the printed version being discontinued. |
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Articles published in Scientia Agricola are indexed or abstracted by:
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Intellectual property
All journal content, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY. The Scientia Agricola is available online in open access. |
Sponsor
Scientia Agricola receives accreditation and financial support from the:
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Editor-in-Chief
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Editorial Advisory Board
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Associate editors
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Technical staff
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Administrative board
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Scope and editorial policy
Scientia Agricola is a journal of the University of São Paulo edited at the Luiz de Queiroz campus in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil. Scientia Agricola publishes original articles contributing to the advancing of the agricultural, environmental, and biological sciences. The journal covers a broad spectrum of topics, including Crop and Animal Production, Agricultural Engineering, Agroindustrial Technology, Forestry, and Applications in Agricultural, Environmental, Soil, and Biological Sciences. Four manuscript categories can be submitted: original research article, note, review, and point of view. Original research articles are grouped by subject matter into the following categories: Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Microbiology; Agrometeorology; Animal Science and Pastures; Biometry, Modeling, and Statistics; Crop Science; Ecology; Entomology; Food Science and Technology; Forestry Science; Genetics and Plant Breeding; Plant Pathology; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry; Soils and Plant Nutrition; and Zoology. Scientia Agricola journal supports the good practices of Open Science, which results in a more transparent editorial process. This way, manuscripts deposited in the SciELO Preprints server can be submitted to our journal. However, the journal's Editorial Board will decide on the peer-review process for the manuscripts already posted as preprints. Preprints are considered an author’s version of the manuscript before the peer-review process, which is posted on a free-access website. Preprints can be posted at any moment during the peer-review process, it is not considered a formal publication, and they will not compromise the submission of any manuscript to Scientia Agricola. Once the manuscript is approved and published by Scientia Agricola, the preprint version should be changed to present a link directed to the final version published in the journal. Articles published in Scientia Agricola are indexed or abstracted by Current Contents ®/Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch ®), Scopus, DOAJ, CAB Abstracts, SciELO, AGRIS, AGROBASE, Chemical Abstracts, INIS, and Tropag & Rural. Original manuscripts evaluated by the Editorial Board may be submitted for peer review or rejected without further review. Copyright All articles published on Scientia Agricola will be copyrighted to the authors. The articles are licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 open-access license, so anyone can download and read them. Furthermore, the article can be reused and cited if the original published version is cited. This way, the study will have maximum exposure, and the authors will receive due credit. |
Manuscript submission
COVER LETTER (must be written in English)
MANUSCRIPT STYLE
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Tables and figures
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Figures/Graphs
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References Scientia Agricola does not allow authors to cite congress or workshop abstracts, technical articles, dissertations, and theses. References in Portuguese or any language other than English should be limited to those crucial to the study. Up to four references written in languages other than English will be allowed without justifications. More than that will only be allowed if the authors explain why they keep them in the text. If the Editor-in-Chief allows, these extra references must be cited in English with the text in the original language provided at the end of the reference, in the following format: (in Portuguese, with abstract in English). Scientia Agricola does not recommend that authors cite statistical analyses or software packages as references. These tools should be mentioned in the text (Materials and Methods) by including the specific procedure and the name of the software with its version and/or year, e.g., “…statistical procedures were conducted using PROC NLIN in SAS (Statistical Analysis System, version 9.2)”. References and citations in Scientia Agricola articles should be formatted in the 'author, year' or 'name (year)' style. Remember to ensure that text citations match the list of references. Please see the reference and citation examples in the attached table. COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Cover image submissions The cover of Scientia Agricola may feature an image representative of an article published in that issue. Authors are invited to submit scientifically compelling and visually appealing cover images. Images should be high-resolution (300 dpi) and measure 17 x 17 cm. Cover images can be photographs of organisms, habitats, montages of photographs, diagrams, maps, or data. Illustrations need not be reprinted in the article but should represent the work. Images should be original. Upload the image as an additional supplemental file and a separate text file that includes a brief one-paragraph description of the image and its relevance to the published manuscript. If an author does not hold the copyright for a submitted image, he is responsible for obtaining permission to use it. |
Editorial fees
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