Author Guidelines

TUTORIAL ON THE SUBMISSION PROCESS

Article Processing Charge (APC): R$ 300.00 (three hundred Brazilian reais)

Download the Manuscript Template in English here -----> TEMPLATE [ENGLISH]

Download the Manuscript Template in Portuguese here ----> TEMPLATE [PORTUGUÊS]

 

Accepted languages: English and Portuguese.

Types of articles: Research Articles and Review Articles.

RESEARCH ARTICLES should report on original primary research. The main text must have between 5000 and 10000 words.

REVIEW ARTICLES should report on the progress and current scenario of a particular subject as well as summarize the current state of understanding of a topic within a specific discipline on narrative, integrative, systematic, and bibliometric reviews. There is no word limit in this category.

 

MAIN STRUCTURE

Title. Abstract. Keywords. Graphical Abstract. Introduction. Material and Methods (or Methodology for Review Articles). Results and Discussion. Conclusion. Acknowledgments. Authors’ contributions. Funding. Availability of data and materials. Declarations (if applicable): Ethics approval and consent to participate; Consent for publication; Competing interests. References.

 

More details for each item are indicated below.

TITLE. The title of all manuscripts must be in ENGLISH and PORTUGUESE with capital letters only at the beginning of the sentence and italics for scientific names where applicable. Please avoid unusual abbreviations.

AUTHORS NAMES. They must be spelled in full (no abbreviation) with capital letters only for the first letter of each name.

AUTHORS INFORMATION. Besides their full names, please provide the following details in this sequence: institution, ORCID, and e-mail(s). When indicating the institutional information, please include the department or sector, university name or researcher institute, city, state, ZIP Code, and country. ATTENTION: Please note that each author has a unique ORCID number, which is mandatory for registration at the DOI. In case of error, DOI is not registered, thus delaying the publication process. If you do not have an ORCID, register at https://orcid.org/.

 

EXAMPLE:

Marie Curie a, Charles Babbage b, Thomas Alva Edison a Albert Einstein b*

a Name of the Department/Institute, Name of the University/Institute, Zip Code, City, State, Country.

b Name of the Department/Institute, Name of the University/Institute, Zip Code, City, State, Country.

*Corresponding Author: email@email.com

ORCID

Marie Curie: https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000, email@email.com

Charles Babbage: https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000, email@email.com

Thomas Alva Edison: https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000, email@email.com 

Albert Einstein: https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000, email@email.com

 

ABSTRACT. The abstract of all manuscripts must be in ENGLISH and PORTUGUESE. The abstract should be structured with a background, including the article’s objective, a brief explanation of the methodology, a major focus on the results, and a short conclusion of the study. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract.

KEYWORDS. Keywords of all manuscripts must be in ENGLISH and PORTUGUESE. Between 5 and 8 keywords (different from those in the title) representing the main content of the article. Please avoid abbreviations and acronyms.

GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT

The authors are encouraged to include a graphical abstract summarizing the main objectives of their study or review in order to illustrate and represent it as an image. This will also help the Publisher to disseminate and promote the articles on social media. Terms used in the graphical abstract must also be in ENGLISH. Please check some tips on these websites:

Mind the Graph

BioRender

From August 2023, Graphical Abstract will be mandatory for all journals in RoyalDataset.

BODY OF THE TEXT

  1. INTRODUCTION. This section should explain the background of the study, its aims, a summary of the currently existing literature, and why this study was necessary, also emphasizing the gap that your research is filling up.
  2. MATERIALS AND METHODS (OR METHODOLOGY). This section must indicate all the methods used in the study, including proper referencing. In the case of methods previously described in the literature, please briefly indicate the essential information, and cite the reference; details are only necessary if there were any changes, modifications, or adaptations in the method. Statistical analysis (if applicable) must be indicated appropriately, including details on the number of replicates, significance level chosen, the use of mean ± standard deviation or error, software used, etc. Statistical and graphing software used must also be adequately indicated. In the case of the Review Article, a proper indication of the chosen databases and the main protocol used to include and exclude articles for the manuscript must be indicated, as well as the range of years in which the selected literature has been published.
  3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. This section must contain the study’s findings, including, if appropriate, results of statistical analysis, which must be included either in the text or as tables and figures. For Research Articles, this section should discuss the implications of the findings in the context of existing research and highlight the study’s limitations. Please avoid using mere comparisons with data from the literature without further details. Instead, the authors are encouraged to explain the main reasons and probable factors that caused the primary responses obtained, emphasizing the main involved phenomena. For study protocols and methodology manuscripts, this section should include a discussion of any practical or operational issues involved in performing the study and any issues not covered in other sections.
  4. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS OR CONCLUSION. This section must include a restatement of the main topic studied and provide a summary of the main inferences the authors reached in their study. Please avoid repeating unnecessary numeric data or calling back details on materials and methods. The focus must be the main conclusions that could be useful to the readers to understand if the study’s main goal has been reached. The authors may also indicate the main drawbacks and suggest any contribution that may be further studied to solve a problem not covered by the current study.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Please acknowledge anyone who contributed to the article who does not meet the criteria for authorship, including anyone who provided professional writing services or materials. Please write “Not applicable” in this section if you do not have anyone to acknowledge.

AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS

The individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section. Please use initials to refer to each author’s contribution in this section. Indicate that “All authors read and approved the final manuscript.” Please refer to the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) available at https://credit.niso.org/

FUNDING

All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared. The role of the funding body in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript should be declared.

AVAILABILITY OF DATA AND MATERIALS.

All manuscripts must include an ‘Availability of data and materials’ statement. Data availability statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analyzed or generated during the study. By data, we mean the minimal dataset necessary to interpret, replicate, and build upon the findings reported in the article. We recognize it is not always possible to share research data publicly, for instance, when individual privacy could be compromised, and in such instances, data availability should still be stated in the manuscript, along with any conditions for access. Please state “Not applicable” in this section if your manuscript does not contain any data.

 

DECLARATIONS (IF APPLICABLE):

a) Ethics approval and consent to participate.

Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data, or human tissue must include the following items:

- a statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived)

- the name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee’s reference number, if appropriate

Studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval, and for experimental studies involving client-owned animals, authors must also include a statement on informed consent from the client or owner.

If your manuscript does not report on or involve the use of any animal or human data or tissue, please state “Not applicable” in this section.

b) Consent for publication

If your manuscript contains any individual person’s data in any form (including any individual details, images, or videos), consent for publication must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. All presentations of case reports must have consent for publication. If your manuscript does not contain data from any individual person, please state “Not applicable” in this section.

c) Competing interests

All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section. If you do not have any competing interests, please state, “The authors declare that they have no competing interests” in this section.

 

REFERENCES

The article must prioritize references that are as current as possible. The authors must use the American Psychological Association (APA) reference style for citation in the text and referencing. For further guidance, see the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and the respective website of the Association (http://www.apastyle.org/). References must be complete and updated. Placed in ascending alphabetical order by the surname of the first author of the reference, they must not be numbered. We recommend that the authors use Mendeley software (https://www.mendeley.com) or any other similar to manage their citations and references.

 

Reference Examples on APA style:

a) Research Articles

Teixeira, G. L., Ghazani, S. M., Corazza, M. L., Marangoni, A. G., & Ribani, R. H. (2018). Assessment of subcritical propane, supercritical CO2 and Soxhlet extraction of oil from sapucaia (Lecythis pisonis) nuts. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 133, 122–132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.supflu.2017.10.003  

Herrera, R., Hemming, J., Smeds, A., Gordobil, O., Willför, S., & Labidi, J. (2020). Recovery of bioactive compounds from hazelnuts and walnuts shells: Quantitative–qualitative analysis and chromatographic purification. Biomolecules, 10(10), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10101363

Cheng, M. H., Dien, B. S., & Singh, V. (2019). Economics of plant oil recovery: A review. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 18, 101056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2019.101056

b) Books

Damodaran, S., & Parkin, K. L. (2017). Fennema’s Food Chemistry (S. Damodaran & K. L. Parkin (eds.); 5th ed.). CRC Press. Boca Raton, USA.

International Nut and Dried Fruit Council. (2022). International Nut and Dried Fruit Council. In INC Nuts & Dried Fruits Statistical Yearbook 2021/22 (2021/2022). INC International Nut and Dried Fruit Council. Reus, Spain.

AOAC. (2005). Official Methods of Analysis of the Association Analytical Chemists (Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (ed.); 18th ed.). AOAC International. Maryland, USA.

AOCS. (1997). Official Methods and Recommended Practices of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (5th ed.). AOCS Press. Urbana, USA.

c) Book Chapters

McClements, D. J., Weiss, J., & Corradini, M. G. (2020). Lipid emulsions. In Bailey’s Industrial Oil and Fat Products (Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 1–40). John Wiley & Sons.

AOCS. (2014). AOCS Official Method Ce 8-89 - Tocopherols and tocotrienols in vegetable oils and fats by HPLC. In Official Methods and Recommended Practices of the AOCS. AOCS Press. Urbana, USA

d) Webpages

Statista. (2022). Consumption of vegetable oils worldwide from 2013/14 to 2021/2022, by oil type. Global Vegetable Oil Consumption 2013, 2022. Accessed on Jan 22, 2022. Available at: <https://www.statista.com/statistics/263937/vegetable-oils-global-consumption/> 

FAO. (2022). Crops processed. FAOSTAT. Accessed on Jan 22, 2022. Available at:  <http://www.fao.org/faostat> 

Encyclopedia of Life. (2022). Gavilán Tree. Pentaclethra macroloba (Willd.) Kuntze. Accessed on Jan 22, 2022. Available at: <https://eol.org/pages/415851/maps> 

e) Legislation

Brazil. (2019). Manual of official methods for analyzing foods of animal origin [in Portuguese] (Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Food Supply (ed.); 2nd ed.). MAPA.

Brazil. (2021). Normative Instruction - IN n. 87 of March 15, 2021. Brazilian Official Diary of the Union, 51(1), 261.

 

FIGURES, TABLES, AND ADDITIONAL FILES

Figures should be numbered in the order they are first mentioned in the text and uploaded in this order. Multipanel figures (those with parts a, b, c, d, etc.) should be submitted as a single composite file containing all the figure’s parts. Use lowercase letters (a, b, c, d) to identify the multipanel figures/charts.

Figure titles and legends should be comprehensive and provided in the main manuscript, not in the graphic file.

Each figure should be closely cropped to minimize the white space surrounding the illustration. Cropping figures improves accuracy when placing the figure in combination with other elements when the accepted manuscript is prepared for publication on our site. For more information on individual figure file formats, see our detailed instructions.

Individual figure files should not exceed 10 MB.

Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures (or tables) that have previously been published elsewhere. For all figures to be open access, authors must have permission from the rights holder if they wish to include images published elsewhere in non-open access journals. Permission should be indicated in the figure legend, and the source should be included in the reference list.

 

FIGURE FILE TYPES

We accept the following file formats for figures:

  1. EPS (suitable for diagrams and/or images)
  2. Microsoft Excel, Word, or PowerPoint (suitable for diagrams and/or images, figures must be a single page)
  3. TIFF (suitable for images)
  4. JPEG (suitable for photographic images, less suitable for graphical images)
  5. PNG (suitable for images)
  6. CDX (ChemDraw - suitable for molecular structures)
  7. SVG
  8. EMF

Figure size and resolution

Figures are resized during publication of the final full text and PDF versions to conform to the RoyalDataset Publishing standard dimensions, which are detailed below.

Figures on the web: width of 600 pixels (standard), 1200 pixels (high resolution).

Figures in the final PDF version: 85 mm for a half-page width figure; 170 mm for a full-page width figure; maximum height of 225 mm for figure and legend; image resolution of approximately 300 dpi (dots per inch) at the final size.

Figures should be designed such that all information, including text, is legible at these dimensions. When constrained to standard figure widths, all lines should be wider than 0.25 pt. All fonts must be embedded.

We encourage the authors to use third-party software for proper data treatment and presentation of your charts. If so, it is preferable to include the metafile in the Word document rather than export it to any format. For this, please copy and paste the graph/chart directly from the software into the Word document so the metafile maintains the quality and resolution when exporting the final manuscript to PDF.

 

PREPARING MAIN MANUSCRIPT TEXT

  1. Use 1.5 line spacing
  2. Include line and page numbering
  3. Include heading and subheading numbering
  4. Use SI units: Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text; otherwise, they will be lost during conversion to PDF
  5. Do not use page breaks in your manuscript
  6. Use Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, or other common font type size 11

File formats

The following file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:

  1. Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX)
  2. Rich text format (RTF)

When including figures, charts, graphs, and images, please copy and paste them directly into the Word document from your editing software (Excel, PowerPoint, Statistica, Origin, SAS, GraphPad Prism, etc.) to maintain quality and resolution.