Submissions

Author Guidelines

The CAFI publishes original research articles in Portuguese, English or Spanish every six months, one volume per year, each volume having two issues, one of them published by the end of the first semester of each year, and the other by the end of the second semester.

Preparation of Manuscripts:

Submission of articles implies that they have not been published, nor have they been sent for evaluation in order to be published in another journal.

The submission must be online, and you must be prepared to  write the manuscript with precise presentation. The instructions must be read carefully and followed precisely. This way, the evaluation and publication of your article can be done more efficiently and quickly. Publishers reserve the right to return articles that do not comply with the instructions.

Although articles may have the size necessary for the concise presentation and discussion of the data it must be succinct and carefully prepared. The article must have a maximum of 39,000 characters, including tables and figures, but without considering the title, abstract, keywords and references at the end.

The proofs will be sent to the authors for a final review (restricted to errors) and must be returned immediately. Once accepted, no changes will be made.

Papers must obey the following general recommendations:

Be typed on A4 type paper, 1.5 spacing, 3 cm margins to the left and 2 cm to the right, top and bottom with justified alignment, font "Times New Roman", size 12.

Types of jobs:

ARTICLES: Whenever possible, articles should be subdivided into the following parts: Cover page (containing the title of the paper (in Portuguese and English), names of the authors and institution, Abstract and keywords. 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Framework; 3. Materials and Methods or Methodology; 4. Results; 5. Conclusions or Final Considerations; References.

Preparation of the text:

The title (font 12), written in capital letters, should give an accurate idea of ​​the content and be as short as possible. It must be followed by the full name of the authors with the initials in capital letters (font 12) and the address (font 12) of the Institution where the paper was fulfilled. The names of the authors must always appear in their correct order, without inversions. Use & to link the last co-author to the background. A space must be left between the title of the article and the name of the authors, and between the name of the authors and the address of the Institution. The texts of the abstract and abstract are just below the headings Summary and Abstract. The keywords come next. In the rest of the text, a space must be left between the headings (Introduction, Materials and Methods, etc.) and the text. These headings must be typed in capital letters (font 12). Do not leave spaces between paragraphs in the text. Paragraphs must be formatted.

The Abstract and the Abstract (100-250 words) must contain the same information and always summarize results and conclusions.

Keywords and Key-words. Authors must provide three to five keywords (key-words) that will be used in the indexing of the paper.

Words in other languages ​​must appear in italics and Arabic numerals up to 10, written in completed .

Abbreviations. Abbreviations must be defined in their first occurrence in the text, except in the case of standard and official abbreviations. Units and their symbols must comply with APA standards.

Tables and figures. Tables and figures, numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, should be inserted in the appropriate place in the body of the text. They should only be used to present data that cannot be described in the text. Authors should limit tables and figures to what is strictly necessary. Tables and figures must have their own title. When preparing illustrative material and tables, the size of the useful page should be kept in mind. Figure captions must come below them, while for tables the caption comes above.

References in the text must be cited in the appropriate place by the name (s) of the author (s) and year (eg: Silva, 2009; Silva & Moreira, 1996; Silva et al., 1997) . Two or more articles by the same author in the same year must be distinguished by letters (eg, Silva, 2004a; Silva, 2004b). References to theses, abstracts of meetings, symposia and articles in preparation or submitted, but not yet accepted, can be cited in the text as (Silva, unpublished data) and should not be included in the reference list.

A list of references, in alphabetical order from the first author (source 12), must appear at the end of the manuscript. All references in the list must indicate at some point in the text and vice versa. The last co-author must be linked to the others by &.

Examples of references are provided below:

Journal Articles:

Mantovani, W. & Martins, F.R. 1988. Phenological variations of the cerrado species of the Biogenic Reserve of Moji Guaçu, state of São Paulo. Revista Brasileira de Botânica 11: 101-112.

Pandey, A. 1992. Recent developments in solid state fermentation. Science 27: 109-117

Dissertations and Theses:

Batalha, M.A. 1997. Analysis of the vegetation of the ARIE Cerrado Pé-de-Gigante (Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, SP).  Master thesis, São Paulo University, São Paulo.

Chang, C.W. 1975. Effect of fluoride pollution on plants and cattle. PhD Thesis, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Books:

Massaud, M. 1974.Portuguese literature. Ed. Cultrix, São Paulo.

Pandey, A. 1998. Threads of Life. National Institute of Science Communication, New Delhi.

Book chapters:

Woody, R.W. 1974. Studies of theoretical circular dichroism of Polipeptides: contributions of B-turns. In: Blouts, E.R.; Tchov T.P. & Kouws A.Z. (Eds), Peptides, polypeptides and proteins.J Wiley & Sons, New York. pp. 338-350.

de La Ronciére, C. 1990. The private life of notable Tuscan people on the threshold of the Renaissance. In: Duby, G. (Ed), History of private life: from Feudal Europe to the Renaissance. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo. pp: 163-309.

Conferences:

Davison, A.W. 1982. Uptake, transport and accumulation of soil and airborne fluorides by vegetation. 6th International Fluoride Symposium, 1-3 May, Logan.

Bohnenberger, J.C. 2001.Contamination by domestic and industrial sewage. I Meeting of Preservation of the Mananciais in the Zona da Mata Mineira, 20-21 June, Viçosa.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Literary Works:

Encyclopaedia  Barsa. 1989. Encyclopaedia Britannica of Brazil Publications, Rio de Janeiro – São Paulo.

Houaiss, A. & Villar, M.S. 2001. Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language. Ed. Objetiva, Rio de Janeiro.

Assis, M. Dom Casmurro. 28° edição, Ed. Ática, São Paulo.

The Holy Bible. Translated by Fr. João Ferreira d'Almeida. Bible Society of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro.

Technical Reports:

Sustainability report. 2006. Rodriguez, R.D. & Oyakawa, T. (Eds). Produtos Roche Químicos e Farmacêuticos S.A.

Sites: http://www.mma.gov.br - Acesso em: 25 de janeiro de 2009.

Final Recommendations: Before sending your paper, prepared according to the previous instructions, check the following items: grammar, correspondence between the articles cited in the text and those referred to in the bibliography, tables and figures in Arabic, correspondence between the numbers of tables and figures cited in the text and those referred to in each and correct position of the captions and an updated and consistent bibliography for the proposed article work.

General Observations: 

1. The reception of texts for publication is continuous throughout the year.
2. The Editorial Board will not accept texts outside the established norms and reserves the right to make the final decision regarding their publication;
3. Once the works are published, CAFI Magazine reserves all copyrights, allowing, however, their subsequent reproduction, with due citation of the source;
4. The texts must be sent after a rigorous spelling check. The article must have been perfectly revised;
5. The content of the articles is the total and exclusive responsibility of the authors who previously give the copyright to the CAFI Magazine.
6. Only articles with up to 4 authors are accepted.
7. There is no charge to authors for submission, review, processing, reviews and publications.
8. It is mandatory to fill in the metadata, with the full name, e-mail, affiliation, title and Orcid of all authors. To obtain the registration in ORCID is free and can be obtained through the website: https://orcid.org/register