Ciência Florestal
| Ciência Florestal is a journal edited by the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), with continuous publication. |
Brief Background
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The journal was created in 1991, initially with an annual circulation. Over the years, due to the increase in submissions, in 1999 it became semestral and later, in 2005, quarterly. In the beginning, its publication was essentially printed, but with the advent of online publications in 1993, a website was developed for its posting. Due to this and also with the indexing in various databases, its ranking was among the best in the country in the field of forest science, which made its management difficult. To solve the problem, on October 16, 2009, we joined the SEER Platform, which increased the visibility of the journal and allowed for its inclusion in the ISI database, one of the largest in the world, already showing positive results in the impact factor. Also, with the entry into SEER, it was possible to assign DOIs to the most recently published volumes, with the intention of gradually assigning them to older volumes. Recently, the journal was admitted to the SciELO collection. The mission of the journal is to publish scientific articles, technical notes, and literature reviews with high technical and scientific relevance, for the global scientific community, contributing to the advancement of science and innovation in the field of forest sciences. |
Open Science Compliance
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The journal publishes under the Open Access model, providing free articles for any reader to read, download, copy, and share for educational purposes. The journal complies with Open Science principles by accepting preprints, promoting data sharing, and publishing the name of the editor responsible for the article's evaluation. |
Ethics in Publication
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Ethics and best practices in research and publication are primary concerns of the Ciência Florestal journal of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Accordingly, this document, based on ethics statements and the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), defines the ethical parameters for all parties involved in the publication process: Editor-in-Chief, Editors, Editorial Board, Scientific Council, ad hoc Reviewers, Authors, Technical Staff, and Publisher. To learn more about COPE guidelines, visit: www.publicationethics.org and the Guidelines on Good Publication Practice |
Focus and Scope
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The journal aims to disseminate original and innovative scientific studies with a focus on the advancement and development of forest science, covering areas such as Silviculture, Forest Management, Wood Technology, Non-Timber Forest Products, Forest Biomass Energy, Bioengineering, Forest Work Mechanization and Safety, Biotechnical Watershed Management, and Degraded Area Restoration. Studies can be submitted as technical-scientific articles, technical notes, or review articles through this platform. We invite authors to present their studies clearly highlighting the problem to be solved, the objective, and the relevance of the results through thorough development, discussion, and conclusion. |
Digital Preservation
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This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program Digital Preservation Policy
The Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) values digital preservation and is one of the full partners and one of the 12 nodes of the Rede Cariniana. With this commitment, the journals of the UFSM Periodicals Portal are integrated into the Network through LOCKSS, ensuring their permanent preservation on the web. Additionally, they are identified by Keepers in the ISSN registry. The complete list of journals preserved by the Network can be accessed at the link: |
Indexing Sources
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Bibliographic Journal Information
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Websites and Social Media
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Preprints
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The journal will accept the publication of preprints starting in January 2025. Authors who decide to submit a preprint must do so at the time of manuscript submission or later, using the SciELO Preprints server. Authors must indicate whether the manuscript submission is a preprint by attaching the following form on the journal's platform: |
Peer Review Process
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When the manuscript is submitted to the Ciência Florestal journal platform, it must comply with all items required in the author guidelines. Subsequently, the manuscript is forwarded to the Section Editor, who evaluates its relevance, suitability to the journal's scope, textual structure, logical flow, and methodology. If it does not meet the requirements, the manuscript may be rejected. In the next stage, the manuscript undergoes a double-blind peer review by evaluators in the field, who can decide to accept it without revisions, reject it, or accept it with revisions. Following this, the revision phase occurs, where the author actively participates in correcting the manuscript within a defined deadline. The reviewers do not communicate directly with the author, and the reviewers' comments are mediated by the Section Editor. Finally, the article is accepted for publication and proceeds to textual revision and layout. Starting in January 2025, the journal will publish the name of the section editor who participated in the article evaluation process. |
Open Data
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This journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public fosters greater global democratization of knowledge. The journal encourages the sharing of open data, including codes, methods, and other materials used in research, which often remain underlying in the texts of published articles. |
Fee Charges
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A publication fee of R$ 420.00 (four hundred and twenty reais) will be charged. This amount should only be paid when requested by the editor. The payment should be deposited into account number 961.962-3, Bank of Brazil Agency number 1615-2 (FUNDEP-CNPJ: 18.720.938/0001-41). The payment receipt must be submitted as a supplementary document in the submission section. The publication fee receipt should be sent to CIÊNCIA FLORESTAL via email only when requested. To issue an invoice/receipt, the author must provide the following information: Name/Corporate Name, CPF/CNPJ, complete address including ZIP code, amount, description (publication fee), and project (29463 - Revista Ciência Florestal III - Prof. Cristiane Pedrazzi). |
Ethics and Misconduct, Correction and Retraction Policy
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In cases of authorship disputes, we will first contact the corresponding author and then the co-authors. If there is no resolution, the next step is to consult the institutions involved in the research. An article that has already been published and identified with misconduct will remain indexed in the SciELO database as retracted. We clarify that retraction may be partial when the misconduct applies to a specific part of the article without compromising the entire published research. When there are errors or mistakes that do not constitute misconduct, they will be corrected by the Editorial Team through an “Erratum” as soon as possible. |
Policy on Conflict of Interest
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Conflicts of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic, or financial in nature. Conflicts of interest can arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that could influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.
If there is a conflict of interest in any regard, the authors must submit a signed declaration from all authors and attach it to the journal's platform at the time of article submission. For more information, see: |
Adoption of Similarity Software
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The journal uses Turnitin at the time of manuscript submission to ensure the integrity of the manuscript, conducting plagiarism checks and detecting writing generated by Artificial Intelligence. |
Adoption of Software Using Artificial Intelligence Resources
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The journal accepts the use of Artificial Intelligence only for grammatical review and text enhancement. The software used for this purpose is Turnitin. |
Gender and Sex Issues
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The editorial team of the Revista Ciência Florestal, along with the authors publishing in the journal, must always adhere to the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of directives that guide the reporting of information regarding sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and the results and interpretation of findings. Furthermore, the journal Ciência Florestal observes the policy of gender equity in the composition of its editorial board. |
Copyright
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Authors of articles published by the journal Ciência Florestal retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is properly cited. Authors grant the journal Ciência Florestal the right to first publication. |
Intellectual Property and Terms of Use
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Authors of articles published by the journal Ciência Florestal retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution, which allows the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is properly cited. |
Sponsors and Promotion Agencies
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Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
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Editor-in-Chief
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Guest Editor
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Section Editors
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Technical Team
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Journal Manager
Text Editing
Typesetting
Team of the UFSM Periodicals Subdivision
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The journal Ciência Florestal publishes ORIGINAL technical-scientific articles resulting from research in the forestry area. Technical notes and review articles are also accepted. We recommend that submitted manuscripts contain at least 3 citations from the last 3 years of the journal Ciência Florestal to enhance the journal's visibility. Brazilian authors may submit articles in Portuguese. However, accepted articles for publication must be translated into English. All approved works will receive their Digital Object Identifier (DOI) upon final publication in the journal Ciência Florestal. |
Authors' Contribution
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At the appropriate time, the author will be asked to enter the names of all participants, which should be placed immediately below the title in English and identified with a superscript sequential number. The authors' call must be indicated in the footer of the first page, preceded by the identification number, and should contain the following information:
The authors' contribution statement will be published at the end of the article and must accurately reflect each author's contributions. We request that authors select only the words that are in bold, corresponding to their contribution.
The taxonomy provides a way to represent information about the individual contributions of authors. Its purpose is to provide transparency regarding authors' contributions in scientific works, enabling improvements in attribution, credit, and accountability systems. It is important to note that more than one term can be assigned to a single contributor. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a high-level taxonomy that includes 14 roles that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors in academic and scientific production. The roles describe the specific and individual contributions of each author to academic and scientific research. |
Manuscript Preparation
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Manuscripts must be organized according to the description below:
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Article Submission Format
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The manuscript must be prepared according to one of the following templates: Manuscripts must be submitted to the journal via the online OJS PLATFORM. The author submitting the article assumes full responsibility for the information included in the system, such as the acknowledgment and total agreement of the other authors regarding the submission, which must be an original manuscript and not under consideration by another journal. The concepts and statements contained in the article are the sole responsibility of the authors. However, the Editorial Board reserves the right to request or suggest modifications to the original text. The manuscript must be prepared in a word processor, such as Word, Writer, and similar programs. Do not use file formats such as .tex, .txt, or Notepad. The complete work should not exceed 20 pages. The titles of figures, tables, and boxes should not exceed 3 lines. Figures (graphs and photographs) MAY BE IN COLOR, but without borders. The dimensions (width and height) must not exceed 17 cm, always in portrait format. We recommend following the guidelines of the Article Template for new submissions. Scientific names should have the genus and species written in full (e.g., Araucaria angustifolia) and in italics (following the style in which they are included). Equations should be presented in the text as images, and in the Supplementary Document, they should be edited using the Equation Editor module in Microsoft Word, adhering to the text font, with symbols, subscripts/superscripts, etc., in appropriate proportions, never exceeding font size 11. In the supplementary document, they should be labeled as Equation and given the corresponding number. |
Digital Assets
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Figures and tables must be self-explanatory and placed in the text immediately after their first mention, in image format. Their identification must be expressed in the language used in the manuscript version. Tables should also have their version in Excel format and be submitted as a Supplementary Document, labeled as Table and given the corresponding number. Figures, in addition to being included in the text, must be provided as a Supplementary Document in image format with a resolution greater than 300 dpi, labeled as Figure and given the corresponding number. For tables with numerical content, commas (or periods) should be aligned vertically, and the numbers should be centered in the column. |
Citations and References
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Bibliographic citations will be made according to NBR 10520 from ABNT, using the "author-date" system. All citations mentioned in the text must be related in the References list (and vice versa), according to the NBR 6023 standard from ABNT. In the REFERENCES section, the author must include all citations made in the work, preferably using the most relevant references from the last 10 years, within the recommended limit of 30 citations. Examples: Book: LAST NAME of the author, Abbreviated First Names. Title of the work: subtitle. Edition number. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. List all, separated by semicolons. Last names in English preceded by "Mac" or "Mc" remain in the same form.
Book Chapter: LAST NAME, Abbreviated First Names. Title of the chapter: subtitle. In: LAST NAME, Abbreviated First Names. (org. OR ed.) Title of the work: subtitle. Edition number. Place of publication: Publisher, year of publication. Initial and final page numbers of the chapter.
Journal Article: LAST NAME OF THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE, Abbreviated First Names. Title of the article: subtitle. Title of the Journal, place of publication, volume number, issue number, initial and final page numbers of the article, month and year.:
Theses and Dissertations: LAST NAME, Abbreviated First Names. Title of the work: subtitle. Year of defense. Number of pages. Category (Degree and Area of Concentration) – Institution, Place, Year of the document. Examples:
Papers presented at scientific events: LAST NAME, Abbreviated First Names. Title of the paper. In: NAME OF THE EVENT, Number of the edition, City where the event took place. Proceedings [...] or Abstracts [...] Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication. Initial and final page numbers of the paper.. Exemplos:
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Contact
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Revista Ciência Florestal |
