Guide for Authors
Manuscript Submission Overview
The Multidisciplinary Reviews publishes 3 types of articles:
• Reviews Articles
• Mini-Reviews
• Research articles with questionnaires application
Microsoft Word template
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Special Issues
The Multidisciplinary Reviews encourage the publication of special issues dedicated to a single, well-defined theme, comprising at least 30 articles. The proposal for a special issue to be sent to Malque Publishing should contain the following: the title of the special issue, a brief description of the reason for the special issue, and the deadline for the authors' submission. All papers will be submitted to the reviewers' review process normally, including the possibility of rejection. For more details on preparing and publishing special issues, please contact [email protected].
Text Editing
• Languages: English;
• Word processor: Microsoft Word for Windows;
• Text: Times New Roman, size 12. There should be no words in bold text;
• Spacing: 1.5 throughout the text;
• Page: A4 paper, portrait orientation, 2.5 cm top and bottom margins, and 3.0 cm left and right margins with numbered lines and pages;
• Scientific style: Quantities are expressed in SI (Sistema Internacional), and scientific terminology must follow the international conventions of each area concerned; Genus and species names must be italicized.
Structure of the article
• Title: Only the first letter of the first word must be capitalized.
• Abstract: 250 words maximum;
• Keywords: At least three and not more than six, but not included in the title;
• Introduction: The Introduction should indicate the purpose of the research and briefly review the literature.
• Material and methods: This section should follow the Introduction and provide sufficient information to allow repetition of the experimental work.
• Results: This section should describe the outcome of the study. Data should be presented as concisely as possible and, if any, in the form of tables and figures, although very large tables should be avoided.
• Discussion: The discussion should be an interpretation of the results and their meaning with reference to other authors' work.
Note: Results may be accompanied by discussion in the same section or separately.
• Acknowledgment: (optional) These should be as soon as possible. Any awards that require recognition must be mentioned.
• Declaration of interest: All authors should disclose any personal and/or financial relationships with other people or organizations that may improperly influence their paper. A conflict of interest statement should be provided in the manuscript file immediately before the References section. Case there are no Conflicts of Interest, so report "The authors declare no conflicts of interest".
• Funding: The names of the funding organizations should be written in full. If there was no financial aid, it should be reported that "This research did not receive any financial support".
• Ethical considerations: Authors are required to affirm that they have obtained consent from participants in Research Articles utilizing the Questionnaire. For Review Articles, include the statement "Not applicable."
• References: The reference list should include only works cited in the text and published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should be mentioned only in the text. Referral list entries must be alphabetized by the first author's surname of each article.
• Reference Examples:
• Original Articles
Souza Jr JBF, Oliveira VRM, Arruda AMV, Silva AM, Costa LLM (2015) The relationship between corn particle size and thermoregulation of laying hens in an equatorial semi-arid environment. International Journal of Biometeorology 59:121-125.
• Articles with DOI
Souza-Junior JBF, El-Sabrout K, Arruda AMV, Costa LLM (2019) Estimating sensible heat loss in laying hens through thermal imaging. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2019.105038
• Book
Silva RG (2008) Biofísica ambiental: os animais e seu ambiente. Funep, Jaboticabal.
• Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) A política da natureza. In: Smith J (ed) O surgimento da genômica moderna, 3a ed. Wiley, Nova Iorque, pp 230-257.
• Online Documents
Cartwright J (2017) Sunflower meal may offer low-cost soybean replacing feed ingredient for laying hens. Feed Navigator. Available at: https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2016/08/10/Sunflower-meal-may-offer-low-cost-soybean-replacing-feed-ingredient-for-laying-hens Accessed: August 26, 2016.
• Dissertation or Thesis
Souza-Junior JBF (2019) Termorregulação e atividade de forrageamento de Melipona subnitida no bioma Caatinga. Tese, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido.
• Citations
References in the text should appear by name and year in parentheses.
# This research covers many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
# This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
# This effect has been extensively studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al 1999).
• Tables
• All tables must be numbered with Arabic numerals.
• Tables should be cited in the text in numerical order.
• For each table, provide a caption (title) at the to.
• Identify any previously published material by making the original source reference the bottom of the table (footnote).
• Table footnotes should be indicated by superscript lowercase letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included in the table's body.
• Figures
• Provide the figures electronically.
• TIFF format offers higher-quality graphics.
• Name your image files (graphics or photos) "Picture" and their number, for example, Figure 1.
• The caption (title) should appear at the bottom of the picture.
Note: Tables and figures should be provided sequentially at the end of the manuscript, i.e. after the References section.
Updated January 1, 2024.