Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais/Brazilian Journal of Medicinal Plants publishes Original Articles, Reviews, and Short Communication, only written in English.

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Original articles: Original papers are research articles describing original experimental results. It must be structured into: Graphical Abstracts, Title, Authors, Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Material and Methods, Result and Discussion (as a single section), Acknowledgement (optional), Authors' contribution, Conflict of interest, and References. An original article includes about 3,000 words and manuscripts longer than should be exceptional and justified case before.

Reviews: Before to submit a Review, the authors are encouraged to send a brief (2 page) synopsis for their proposed article. This is so that we can consider its suitability for the journal and any potential overlap with other reviews currently expected. The main purpose of reviews is to provide a concise, accurate introduction to the subject matter and inform the reader critically of the latest developments in the field. Review articles should be designed to give an interesting insight into a hot topic in Medicinal Plants (see aim and scope), focusing on the key developments that have shaped a field rather than giving a very comprehensive overview of a very specific topic. The review should be a response to an initial question. Reviews of a particular herbal drug will be considered if they contain the newest issue and a perspective on future directions. Review should be structured into: Graphical Abstracts, Title, Authors, Abstract, Key words, Text, Acknowledgement (optional), Authors' contribution, Conflict of interest, and References. The text should be up to 20 pages excluding references.

Short Communication: This section should represent information of complementary results or even in progress, to be published quickly and will mainly cover new results. Its should be basically structured into Title, Authors, Abstract, Key words, Text, Acknowledgement (optional), Authors' contribution, Conflict of interest, and Reference (15 maximum). The text should be up to 1,500 words and Table and Figures should be up to 3.

The plant names must be check in the The Flora on Line (http://www.worldfloraonline.org/), International Plant Names Index (https://www.ipni.org), POWO (http://powo.science.kew.org), and/or Flora do Brasil (https://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/consulta/).

Papers should be typed in Arial 12, double space, 2 cm margins, and the file must be save as .doc or .docx. The articles should not exceed 25 pages excluding tables, figures, and references. Chemical structure should be draw by a specific program like ChemDraw and others. The style of chemical structures is according with ACS document and has the following dimensions: chain angle: 120 degrees; 18% of length; 0.508 cm fixed length; 0.071 cm of line width; 0.021 cm of line width; 0.056 cm of margin width; 0.088 cm of hash spacing.

 

Indicate three (3) reviewers with the following information: Complete name; Filiation; email; Brief justification.

 

There is no limit of authors.

 

Manuscript preparation

Graphical abstract

A Graphical abstract is mandatory for this journal. It should summarize the contents of the article in a concise and simple pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors should provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. This graphical abstract should capture the reader's attention and, in conjunction with the manuscript title, should give the reader a quick visual impression of the essence of the manuscript without providing specific results. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: please provide an image with a minimum of 531 x times; 1328 pixels (h & w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 x 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: JPG, JPEG or PNG files. RBPM/BJMP does not accept Graphical abstract using images of animals and humans.

 

Title page

TITLE: The title must be brief and grammatically correct, in accordance with the contents of the article, taking in consideration the scope and objectives of the Journal. The Title must be written in up and lowercase, in bold. Example: Paullinia cupana: a Multipurpose Plant - a Review (size-14).

AUTHORS: Cite name of authors in full, in lowercase letters and bold, starting two lines below the title. Following each author's name, a superscript number must indicate the respective Institution and address (street, zip code, town, country). Authors' names must be separated by comma. There is no limit of authors.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: The corresponding author must be identified with an asterisk (see Role of the Corresponding Author).

PRESENT/PERMANENT ADDRESS: Address of the corresponding author (street, zip code, town, country).

LIST OF EMAIL AND ORCID: Provide each author's email and ORCID.

ABSTRACT: The authors must provide an abstract up to 200 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

KEYWORDS: The keywords must be typed bellow the Abstract and should include up to five words separated by commas. The keywords must be different of the title and abstract words.

 

Text

INTRODUCTION: The introduction must contain a brief literature review and the aims of the work. Authors must be cited in the text according to the following examples: Silva (1996); Pereira and Antunes (1985); (Souza and Silva 1986), or when there are more than two authors, Santos et al. (1996). Citations must be in chronological order.

MATERIAL AND METHOD: The employed original techniques must be completely described or references to previous works reporting these methods should be included. Statistical analyses must also contain references (program name, version and developer). In the methods, the following data regarding the studied species must be presented: scientific name and author (according http://www.theplantlist.org; https://www.tropicos.org; https://www.ipni.org), name of the Herbarium where the voucher species is stored and its respective number Voucher Number, and who identified. Units (International System of Units) must be provide as: mg/ml; µg/ml, and others.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION: These can be presented separately or as a single section, including a summarized conclusion at the end.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: If necessary, acknowledgements must be written in this section.

AUTHORS' CONTRIBUTIONS: For articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The text is free, but mandatory. The following statements should be used: Conceptualization, XX and YY; methodology, XX; software, XX; validation, XX, YY and ZZ; formal analysis, XX; investigation, XX; resources, XX; data curation, XX; writing original draft preparation, XX; writing review and editing, XX; visualization, XX; supervision, XX; project administration, XX; funding acquisition, YY. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.' Please check the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

 

Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing - original draft	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing - review & editing	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision including pre- or post-publication stages.

 

REFERENCES

The references must be included in the end of the article. It is not accepted abbreviation of authors' names in the citation. Authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of all references. Periodical abbreviations must be conform Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (http://www.cas.org/sent.html or http://library.caltech.edu/reference/abbreviations/). References must follow the examples below:

Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

The Maués Indians in Brazil discovered and named the guarana fruit. They were the first consumers of the guarana beverage (Kuri 2008).

A study performed by Oliveira and Oliveira (2005) reported the seasonal dynamics of AMF in plants of Paullinia cupana.

Pharmacological studies have shown, in addition to the known stimulant effects, antioxidant properties in vitro (Mattei et al. 1998; Yamaguti-Sasaki et al. 2007) and augmentation of learning and memory (Espínola et al. 1997; Otobone et al. 2005).

Journals

Author(s) separated by comma without spaces between initials (Year) Paper title. Journal abbreviated, volume, number, first page-last page. DOI number (if there is)

Two Authors

Oliveira AN, Oliveira LA (2005) Seasonal dynamics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inplants of Theobroma grandiflorum Schum and Paullinia cupana Mart. of an agroforestry system in Central Amazonia, Amazonas State, Brazil. Braz J Microbiol 36:262-270. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-83822005000300011

Three and more authors

Marques LLM, Ferreira EDF, Paula MN, Klein T, Mello JCP (2019) Paullinia cupana: a multipurpose plant - a review. Rev Bras Farmacogn 29:77-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjp.2018.08.007

Article by DOI

Author(s) separated by comma without spaces between initials (Year) Paper title. Journal abbreviated. https://www.doi.org/DOI number

Chaves LX, Alves RRN, Albuquerque UP (2020) Hunters' preferences and perceptions as hunting predictors in a semiarid ecosystem. Sci Total Environ. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138494

Books

Author(s) (Year) Book title. Edition. Publication place: Publisher. Total number of pages.

Simões CMO, Schenkel EP, Mello JCP, Mentz LA, Petrovick PR (2017) Farmacognosia do produto natural ao medicamento. 1.ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed. 486p.

Book Chapters

Author(s) of the Chapter (Year) Chapter title. In: Author(s) of the Book. Book title: subtitle. Edition. Publication place: Publisher. first page-last page.

Mello JCP, Santos SC (2017) Taninos. In: Simões CMO, Schenkel EP, Mello JCP, Mentz LA, Petrovick PR (ed). Farmacognosia do produto natural ao medicamento. 1.ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed. 235-48.

PhD or Master Thesis

Author (Year) Title: subtitle. Year. Total number of pages. Category (degree and concentration area), Institution, University, Place, Country.

Oliveira AFM (1995) Caracterização de Acanthaceae medicinais conhecidas como anador no nordeste do Brasil. 125p. Dissertation (Master's - Concentration area in Botany), Department of Botany, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.

Electronic Publication

Author(s) (Year) Paper title. Journal title, volume, number, first page-last page. Place: publisher, year. Pages. Available at: http://www......... Accessed on: day month (abbreviated) year.

Pereira RS, Sumita TC, Furlan MR, Jorge AOC, Ueno M (2004) Atividade antibacteriana de óleos essenciais em cepas isoladas de infecção urinária. Rev Saude Publica, 38, 2, 326-8. Available at: http://www.scielo.br. Accessed on: 18 Apr 2005.

The Plant List, 2013. in: http://www.tropicos.org/Name/28600664 (Ed.), Paullinia cupana Kunth Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/.

The Plant List, 2013. in: http://www.tropicos.org/Name/20400208 (Ed.), Trichilia catigua A. Juss. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/.

Please do not cite abstracts or research reports unless the information is extremely important and has not been published as a different format. Personal communications must be written as footnotes on the page they are cited but should be avoided if possible. Citation such as 'Almeida (1994) cited by Souza (1997)' is not be acceptable.

 

Artwork

Confirm the use of uniform lettering and size in the original artwork;

Use the font Arial in your illustrations;

Number the illustrations according their sequence in the text;

Ensure that color images are accessible to all.

Convert all the images to the TIFF format at minimum 600 dpi.

Caption of figure must be as follow and below the figure:

 

Figure 1. Fruits and seeds of guarana (Paullinia cupana). (A) Orange fruits with red capsules containing black seeds partially covered by white arils; (B) from bottom to top: newly-collected seeds partially covered by arils, dried and toasted powdered seeds; toasted, still undamaged seeds.

 

Tables

Tables must be submitted as editable text not as images. The tables must be placed next to the relevant text in the article. Number it consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. The table notes have to be places below the table body with Arial, size-10.

Captions of the table must be as follow and above the table:

 

Table 1. Loss on drying the powder from the stem bark of Stryphnodendron polyphyllum (n = 5).

 

Review Process

The manuscripts are analysed by at least two reviewers, according to a guide for evaluation mainly based on the scientific approach. The reviewers will recommend the acceptance, with or without the need of re-evaluation, rejection or changes; in the latter case, the rewritten article will return to the reviewer for a final evaluation. When at least 2 reviewers approve the manuscript, with no need of a re-evaluation, it will be ready for publication and the author will receive the acceptance letter and instructions for cost payment (Brazilian Real - R$ 400,00/manuscript)*. All authors around the world the fee is US$200.00/manuscript.

*For associate member the fee is R$200/manuscript. See http://www.sbpmed.org.br for instructions.

 

Proof reading

After acceptance by the reviewers and the final letter of the Editor, the authors are invited to make necessary corrections. After that the manuscript will be send to production process. The corresponding author will be contacted when article proofs are ready for review. Please make any corrections via the corresponding author. The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor. After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.

 

Notes

1. Articles not consistent with these standards will be returned to authors.
2. Opinions and concepts reported in the papers constitute the author's exclusive responsibility. However, the Editorial Board has the right to suggest or require the modifications they judge necessary.

The contact to the Managing Editorial of RBPM/BJMP is: revista@sbpmed.org.

 

Documents for Download

Checklist: download here

Conflict of Interest: download here

Copyright: download here

Manuscript template: download here

Supplementary template: download here