Submissions

Anuário do Instituto de Geociências promote and progressively require adherence to good practices of open science communication in the policies, management, and editorial operation of journals guided by SciELO.

Types of Documents Accepted

• Types of documents that can be submitted to the Journal:
  • Original scientific article;
  • Review article.
• Accepted submission and publication language: English
• Positioning related to Preprint submission:
  • The Journal accepts the submission of Preprints, and preferably recommends the SciELO Preprints server.
• At the time of manuscript submission, through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) Platform on the website of the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências, authors must declare that:
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal;
  • The conception of the work and the responsibility for its content are the responsibility of the authors;
  • Any links or funding agreements between the authors and companies that may be interested in the publication of this article and that do not have an ethical impediment must be declared at the time of submission of the manuscript;
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements of the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências.

Authors' Contribution

• The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how.
• All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:
  • have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
  • been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically;
  • given final approval of the version to be published and
  • agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
• Anuário do Instituto de Geociências adopts the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) taxonomy to accurately identify the contributions of each author. This helps us to assign proper credit to each of the authors with transparency.
• The 14 CRediT Contributor Roles are:
  • Conceptualization;
  • Data Curation;
  • Formal Analysis;
  • Funding Acquisition;
  • Investigation;
  • Methodology;
  • Project Administration;
  • Resources;
  • Software;
  • Supervision;
  • Validation;
  • Visualization;
  • Writing – Original Draft;
  • Writing – Review & Editing.

Article Submission

• All manuscripts must be sent sent through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform on the Journal website, accompanied by an Open Science Compliance Form.
• In Submission Step 1 (Comments to the Editor), indicate three researchers, one of them a foreigner (full name, contact email address and ORCID) with expertise in the research topic who can act as ad hoc reviewer. It will be up to the Editorial Board of the Anuário do Instituto de Geociências to choose the reviewers, and may or may not include some of the names indicated.
• Include in METADATA all author's names, affiliation, ORCID numbers, URL: Lattes link (for Brazilians) or Institution link. Affiliation must be written in the original language, for example: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Geociências, Departamento de Geologia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

Article Preparation

Text

• The texts must be in English.
• Upload your manuscript in a Microsoft Word file format (.doc or .docx) up to 20 pages including figures, tables and bibliographical references.
• Each submitted file cannot exceed 3 Mb. If this is the case, uploading the text file in Microsoft Word and upload figures separately will be necessary.
• It is essential to use the template that has all the proper formatting for submission:
  • Text font: Times New Roman 12;
  • Page setup: A4 size;
  • Top and bottom margins: 2.5cm;
  • Left and right margins: 3cm;
  • Line spacing: 1.5;
  • Text alignment: justified;
  • Page numbering: bottom right corner.
• Acronyms and abbreviations should be in parentheses and be preceded by their full meaning when first used in the text.
• Title in English (in bold) and in Portuguese. Only the first letter of the first word must be capitalized.
• Abstract in English and Portuguese (Resumo) in a maximum of 25 lines and in only one paragraph. Abbreviations, notes, and references should be avoided.
• Three Keywords in English and three in Portuguese (Palavras-chave), separated by semicolons and the first letter of each keyword in uppercase. Preferably, the words used in the keywords should not appear in the title.
• We recommend the following division for original scientific article:
  • Introduction;
  • Methodology and Data;
  • Results and Discussion;
  • Conclusions;
  • References;
  • Acknowledgments (if any).
• We recommend the following division for review article:
  • Introduction;
  • Review;
  • Conclusions;
  • References;
  • Acknowledgments (if any).
• Section titles (Example: Introduction, Methodology and Data, Results, Conclusions, References) should be in bold and left-aligned. Hierarchize titles and subtitles in 1, 1.1, 2, 2.1, 2.2 etc. (all in bold). Do not place point, dash or colon after the item number, subitem, figure or table.
• Supplementary documents (optional).
• Indication about conflict of interest (if there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.");
• Funding information (if there is no funding source, please state "Not applicable.").
• Author´s contribution: All authors must describe their participation in the development of the manuscript using the CREDiT contributor´s roles.
• Data availability statement.

Digital Object Identifier - DOI

All manuscripts published in Anuário do Instituto de Geociências have a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI), serving as an individual identifier that ensures their identification and guarantees perpetual accessibility on the internet.

Open Researcher and Contributor ID - ORCID

As a way of standardizing authorship, it is mandatory to include the ORCID iD of all authors at the time of submission.  The ORCID can be obtained free of charge.

Digital Assets

Figures:

• All Illustrations (figures, graphics, drawings, photographic illustrations, etc.) will be considered as Figures in the text.
• Figures must be sequentially numbered (arabic numerals), according to the order of appearance in the text (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3 ...), with each accompanied by a descriptive title type above each figure.
• Figures composed of several illustrations should be grouped into only one file.
• The indicator letter for each subfigure in a grouped figure must be capitalized (example: A), positioned on the left upper side of the figure.
• The grouped figures must be cited in the text, as follows: Figure 1A; Figure 1B; Figures 1A and B.
• All Figures should be prepared in .jpg, or .tif, or .png, or .gif formats with 300 dpi resolution.
• Captions and symbols of the Figures must be appropriately sized to allow readability for possible reductions. Explain all symbols. Place graphic scales within the illustrations area.

Tables:

• Tables must be sequentially numbered (arabic numerals), according to the order of appearance in the text (Table 1, Table 2, Table 3 …).
• Type tables in TABLE mode and place captions above each table.
• Footnotes should be indicated by asterisks (*).

Equations:

• All equations must be typed in the text, aligned with the paragraph and numbered (Equation 1, Equation 2, Equation 3 …).

Citations and References

Citations in the body of the text (in-text reference) and in the reference list follow the Harvard style. As there are different versions of the Harvard referencing style, we recommend the use of Harvard Interactive Guide.pdf.

Examples:

1. In-text reference:

• 1 author: (Lima 2020) or Lima (2020);
• 2 authors: (Lima & Silva 2021) or Lima and Silva (2021);
• 3 authors: (Lima, Pereira & Silva 2022) or Lima, Pereira and Silva (2022);
• 4 authors or more: (Lima et al. 2023) or Lima et al. (2023);
• In case of many references, organize them by alphabetic order, separated by semicolons: (Karl et al. 2015; Reynolds et al. 2010; Simon et al. 2002);
• 2 or more references from the same author: (Lima 2024, 2025) or Lima (2024, 2025);
• Multiple works for the same author(s) in the same year: add a, b, c ... after the year in both the citations and in the references. The a, b, c is determined by the alphabetical order of the Titles in the reference list: (Lima 2024a, 2024b, 2024c) or Lima (2024a, 2024b, 2024c).

2. Reference list:

At the end of the text, write the reference list in the alphabetical order of the surname of the first author.  Authors must provide the link to the publication's DOI at the end of the bibliographic reference of all scientific articles, when available.

Articles in Journals:

Nobre, C.A., Mattos, L.F., Dereczynski, C.P., Tarasova, T.A. & Trosnikov, I.V. 1998, 'Overview of atmospheric conditions during the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B) field experiment', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 103, no. D24, pp. 31809–31820. https://doi.org/10.1029/98JD00992

Dissertations and Thesis

Lopes, M.V.C. 2023. ´Applicability of OLCI Sentinel-3 RED and NIR bands for chlorophyll-a retrieval in complex waters: Guanabara Bay case study´, Master dissertation, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. http://objdig.ufrj.br/10/dissert/947908.pdf

Publications Appearing in Scientific Meetings

Komar, P.D. & Gaughan, M. 1973, 'Airy wave theories and breaker height prediction'. Proceedings of Coastal Engineering Conference, pp. 405–418.

Books:

Palmén, E. & Newton, C.W. 1969, Atmospheric Circulation Systems: their structure and physical interpretation, Academic Press, San Diego, California.

Chapters in books:

Satyamurty, P., Nobre, C.A. & Silva Dias, P.L. 1998, 'South America', in  D.J. Karoly & D.G. Vincent (eds), Meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere, Meteorological Monographs. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 119–39. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-935704-10-2

Website citations:

Associação Nacional para Difusão de Adubos e Corretivos Agrícolas. 2018. viewed 14 Feb. 2021, <http://www.anda.org.br/>.

Supplementary Documents

Among the files sent, authors must include the fully completed Open Science Compliance Form.

 Funding

Provide sources of support for the work, including names of sponsors, contract number (if any), along with explanations of the role of these sources.

Additional Information

Questions about submissions should be sent to:  Copyeditor, e-mail:  copyeditor@igeo.ufrj.br

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