Submissions

Author Guidelines

Types of Accepted Documents

The types of manuscript that can be submitted to the PAT journal are: Research Article (must feature an effective contribution to the advancement of science, technology and/or innovation, supported by hypotheses and methods with legitimate theoretical and practical support, followed by in-depth analysis and synthesis in the light of explicit empirical evidence, supporting original scientific conclusions), Review Article (must cover gaps in the systematization of knowledge that deserve updated, original and mature bibliographic analysis and synthesis) and Scientific Note (must present, unequivocally, knowledge, products or unpublished processes that require publication priority, given that they deal with an emergency topic and/or that justify precedence of authorship and intellectual protection). 

Papers may be written in Portuguese or English; however, they will only be published in English. Therefore, if a manuscript is submitted in Portuguese and approved for publication, the final version must be translated by an English language specialist, with the translation being the responsibility of the authors, at no cost to the journal.

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) will be assigned to each published article, and each author's ORCID will also be added (registration can be done free of charge at https://orcid.org/register).

Authors' Contribution

The authors' contributions should be explicitly stated in the Consent Statement (preferably using the CREDiT taxonomy structure).

Manuscript Preparation

All scientific articles must address topics directly related to the context of agriculture, except in the case of special supplements, where the normal scope of the journal may be more flexible.

The submission and publication of papers are free of charge and must be done exclusively via electronic system, accessible through the following address: https://www.revistas.ufg.br/pat.

Authors must express their consent to the submission by means of a signed Consent Statement and an Open Science Compliance Form, acknowledging their awareness of the editorial policy adopted by the PAT journal. The data of all authors must be entered into the system (by clicking on the "Add co-author" option during submission, new fields will open). Mere participation in data collection or infrastructural support does not justify authorship, although it may merit credit in the Acknowledgments section. After submission, the inclusion of new co-authors will not be permitted.

During online submission, the corresponding author must also attest, on behalf of all authors, to the originality of the study, its non-submission to another journal, that the data used and generated in the research underlying the texts will be made available whenever requested, compliance with the formatting characteristics required for the data files, as well as agreement with the terms of the Copyright statement, which will apply in case of publication of the manuscript. If the study directly involved animals or human beings as research subjects, prior approval by a research ethics committee must be provided. If there are potential sources of conflict of interest (any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, which could influence the results of a research; for example, funding from a commercial entity, commercial interest in the publication, participation on the board of directors or advisory committee of a company directly linked to the research, granted patents or pending applications), the authors must report them, under penalty of rejection of the manuscript, or other applicable sanctions. Finally, the so-called metadata (information about the authors and the study, such as title, abstract, keywords) must be included and the files containing the manuscript and supplementary documents (Consent Statement and Open Science Compliance Form) must be uploaded.

Article Submission Format

• Article type (Research Article, Review Article, or Scientific Note. Scientific Notes should be presented as continuous text; that is, the Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, and Conclusions sections should be omitted. For special supplements, also specify which edition it refers to)
• Title in the language of the manuscript (maximum 20 words)
• Abstract in the language of the manuscript (maximum 250 words. A good abstract first presents the problem, and then the objectives of the study)
• Keywords in the language of the manuscript (minimum of three and maximum of five words, separated by commas. The use of acronyms should be avoided)
• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• References

Digital Assets

Manuscripts may contain up to 22 pages. The text must be written using Microsoft Word for Windows (.doc version), A-4 paper size (210 x 297 mm), with 2.5 cm margins, single column, double spaced (also applied to tables, headers, footers and references). The font should be Times New Roman, 12 points. Underlining and bold characters should be avoided, as well as unnecessary acronyms throughout the text, since they make reading confusing and tiring. All pages and lines must be numbered.

Tables (also using Times New Roman 12 points and double spaced) and figures, placed along the text, must be identified by Arabic numerals and always be referred in the text by these numbers. Tables must be drawn in black and white, using single lines, 0.5-point thickness (Microsoft Word for Windows standard), and their footnotes must be numbered. Terms such as "the table above" or "the figure below" must not be used. Figures should be presented with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Citations and References

Citations must use the "author-year" system. Only the first letter of the author's last name should be capitalized, and the author and year are separated by a single empty space. E.g.: (Gravena 1984, Zucchi 1985). The "&" symbol is used for two authors, and "et al." for three or more. E.g.: (Gravena & Zucchi 1987, Zucchi et al. 1988). If the author is mentioned directly in the text, just the year comes inside parenthesis. Secondary citations should be avoided, as well as the following sources: article in a preliminary version or from a serial publication that is not peer-reviewed; summary of a paper presented in a scientific event; oral communication; personal information; private communication of unpublished documents; e-mails; or private sites on the Internet.

References must be arranged by listing the authors' last name in alphabetical order, according to the NBR 6023:2018 norm, written by the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), with the following adjustment: it is not necessary to include the city after journal titles. Italics must be used to highlight titles, and journal titles cited in full.

Supplementary Documents

During submission, in addition to the manuscript, authors must upload to the system the Consent Statement signed by the corresponding author and the Open Science Compliance Form.

If there is a declaration of conflict of interest, as well as approval from an ethics committee, the corresponding documents must also be submitted.

Funding Statement

If approved for publication, sources of funding for the study must be disclosed, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources.

Contact

Universidade Federal de Goiás, Escola de Agronomia, Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus II (Samambaia), CEP 74.690-900, Goiânia, GO, Brasil

E-mail: revistapat.agro@ufg.br

Telephone: +55 (62) 3521-1552