Instruction for authors

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2. Create an account;

3. Create an ORCID ID;

4. Log in;

5. Start Submission;

5.1. Begin Submission;

5.2. Select your manuscript type, enter your title and abstract;

5.3. Upload the files;

5.4. Enter your manuscript keywords;

5.5. Enter your co-author’s information;

5.6. Enter the reviewer’s information;

5.7. Enter or paste your cover letter;

5.8. Review the information and submit the manuscript according the “Instructions for authors” bellow.

CBAB – CROP BREEDING AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY

Since 2001 

Instructions for authors

Form and preparation of manuscripts

The CBAB publishes exclusively in English. The authors must submit their articles in English. It is mandatory that the article, after approval, be reviewed in linguistic terms, which must be made exclusively by the journal’s official translators, being the onus of this service responsibility of the author. Contributions are submitted via WEB, access https://cbab.sbmp.org.br/, clicking on Submission Platform whereupon the article registration system will automatically ask for a password and author’s e-mail. Delete all author and correspondence information from the manuscript file. As the Journal has a blind review policy, authors should not reveal their identities in the manuscript. The author will be asked to enter this information in a separate form, during the submission process before uploading the manuscript file. The author can monitor the manuscript’s stages of proceeding by his/her e-mail and personal password. Expert ad hoc reviewers evaluate the manuscripts to assist the Editorial Board with the final decision of approval, modification, or disapproval.  

The complete manuscript should comply with the following sequence: TITLE, ABSTRACT, KEYWORDS, INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS AND DISCUSSION, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, REFERENCES, TABLES and FIGURES. The manuscript must be typed in Word for Windows, in Times New Roman, size 12, double-spacing, page format A4, with 20 mm margins and consecutive top right numbering. The double-spaced text must not exceed 18 pages, including separately placed TABLES and FIGURES (one a page) in the end of text. All the equations, models and symbols should be made in Microsoft Equation. The TITLE should be clear, concise, and express the gist of the article. It should not surpass 15 words, be typed in bold, left, with initial upper case letters. The authors’ complete names, and their institutional addresses should be entered in the proofread. The ABSTRACT should not contain more than 150 words. A maximum of 5 KEYWORDS, different from the title, are allowed. The INTRODUCTION should include a brief literature review on the subject and aims of the study. MATERIAL AND METHODS must enable other researchers to repeat the experience. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION should be presented together for easiness of reading. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS should be succinct, and limited to effective co-workers and financing agencies.

Be careful about the REFERENCES. Never cite summaries of events and theses, or any other unpublished literature. These measures will help shape a manuscript that will be a credit both to your article and to the journal. Citations mentioned in the text by the last name of the author and the year (for instance, Pereira and Amaral Júnior 2001, Chaves et al. 2020, Liu 2021) are to be alphabetically listed in the item REFERENCES, according to the following examples:

Articles in journals

Pereira MG and Amaral Júnior AT (2001) Estimation of genetic components in popcorn based on the nested design. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 1: 3-10.

Chaves MS, Silva GBP, Caierão E, Federizzi LC and Martinelli JA (2020) A century of wheat breeding in Brazil: the origin and inheritance of the Lr34 locus in wheat varieties released from 1922 to 2016. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology 20: e27952027.

Book

Hallauer AR, Carena MJ and Miranda Filho JB (2010) Quantitative genetics in maize breeding. Springer, New York, 664p.

Chapter of book

Morais PPP and Borem A (2017) GM cultivars. In Silva FL, Borem A, Sediyama T and Ludke WH (eds) Soybean breeding. Springer, New York, p. 174-189. 

Congress

Frey KJ (1992) Plant breeding perspectives for the 1990s. In Stalker HT and Murphy JP (eds.) Proceedings of the symposium on plant breeding in the 1990s. CAB, Wallingford, p. 1-13. 

The CBAB publishes, besides articles, other text forms, equally subjected to the discretion of ad hoc reviewers.

Review

Leading authors of certain topics will be asked for a Review by the Editorial Board (also restricted to 18 pages), which should shed light specifically on stirring subject matters that deserve a deeper analysis into their stage of development.

Notes

Notes are limited to 12 pages and designated to inform about new studies or observations, wherefore the analytical tools are not required. They may focus on a matter of broad interest; briefly describe an original study; report on participatory research; express observations of special interest in the fields of research, teaching, and applied sciences; or comment on the release of new software in a plant breeding-related area.

Plant breeding program

Outstanding breeding programs regarding innovation, efficiency, impact, and/or continuity can be portrayed in the CBAB, restricted to 18 pages.

Cultivars release

New cultivars deserve special attention for their key role in plant breeding, and consequently, for domestic agriculture. A contribution to this section should comprise an abstract of maximally 50 words, keywords, an introduction, mention the applied improvement methods, performance characteristics (with presentation  comparative tests of means), foundation seed production, and contain a minimum of references (follow examples of articles references), tables, and figures. The entire text should not exceed 12 pages.

Software/Device release

New software programs and devices are going to be published in the Special section because of the importance they represent for the current improvement and, therefore, for agriculture. This new section must contain Abstracts limited to 50 words, Keywords, introduction, methods, history used for the development of the manuscript, performance characteristics, applications, forms of access and a minimum of references, tables and figures. The entire manuscript will be limited to 12 pages.

Authors of articles in the journal CBAB – Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology profit from the following benefits:

• CBAB is an diamond open access journal
• All articles are published free of charge
• Submission and review of articles electronically via ScholarOne
• Quick publication: average time of 83 days, in 2021
• PDF articles freely available on the WEB
• Evaluation by renewed national and international reviewers of the Web of Science
• Application of iThenticate software against plagiarism
• All articles are published with DOI and e-location
• Broad visibility, with publication of articles exclusively in English since 2001 

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