The Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária - Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology (ISSN printed - 0103-846X; ISSN electronic 1984-2961) is the official organ of the Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinária, founded in 1992. The journal uses a continuous flow system for article publication, in quarterly editions.
Its abbreviated title is Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet. (Online), which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and bibliographical references and strips.
RBPV follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including financial) to all scientific texts published by the journal.
Open Access refers to the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties through an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
RBPV follows the Gold Open Access model, offering all researchers free electronic access to all works since its first volume published in 1992.
RBPV is committed to Open Science communication practices.
See the Open Science Compliance Form.
The RBPV follows the ethics guidelines proposed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE; https://publicationethics.org) and the Good Practices Code drawn up by the Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP): https://fapesp.br/boaspraticas/2014/FAPESP-Codigo_de_Boas_Praticas_Cientificas.pdf
Experiments using animals should be conducted following the rules of the Ethics and Animal Wellbeing Committee of the institution at which the study was developed. Authors must attach the statement issued by the institution, with the protocol number for submission and approval of their studies. For non-Brazilian authors, guidelines for experiments on animals are also set forth in the 'International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals', issued by the 'Council for the International Organizations of Medical Sciences' (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guiding_principles_2012.pdf). Authors must attach the statement issued by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
The journal covers topics on helminths, protozoans, arthropods and agents transmitted by arthropods, as well as other related subjects. Research articles with clinical or experimental designs relating to the morphology, taxonomy, ultrastructure, in vitro cultures, biology, immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology, diagnostics, drug action mechanisms, pathology, epidemiology and control of parasites of domestic, laboratory or wild animals are within the journal's profile. Manuscripts can be submitted in English by researchers from any country regardless of CBPV affiliation. Articles submitted to the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology (RBPV) need to be original scientific articles that essentially address matters relating to parasites of animals of any kind.
RBPV follows the standards defined in the Digital Preservation Policy Program of the SciELO Program.
Articles submitted to RBPV must not have been previously published nor be under review by another journal. Preprint articles published on reliable and recognized servers, such as SciELO Preprints, are accepted for submission. A preprint is an initial version of a manuscript created prior to the version accepted for publication. If the submitted article is a preprint, the evaluation process will be the same as for other types of articles, that is, a double-blind peer review.
The manuscript review process will follow the journal's Editorial Guidelines and consider the editors' and/or ad hoc reviewer's opinions. The Editor-in-chief and assistant editors may make suggestions or request changes to the manuscript but the authors are ultimately responsible for the entire text content. Articles that are submitted for publication will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. The reviewers will be selected by the editor-in-chief. If the referees give conflicting opinions, the article will be sent to a third reviewer.
The reviewer should fill out the RBPV's evaluation form, which is available in the online submission system (http://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/rbpv-scielo). The author will receive evaluations from at least two reviewers, as statements on evaluation forms and possibly as corrections made directly in the text.
After the first round of evaluation and upon recommendation by the reviewers, the article must undergo English language revision. Please note that the researchers are responsible for the costs of the revision and must provide the revision certificate. RBPV suggests the following reviewers:
The authors need to address each of the queries raised or corrections suggested by each of the referees, by means of a reply letter. The authors must also highlight the corrections in the text, using different colors for each referee. The reviewer may then correct the article, if necessary.
After acceptance by the ad hoc reviewers, but before the authors' response, the article will undergo a final analysis by one of the Assistant Editors and one of the statistical method reviewers (if necessary). It should be noted that the Assistant Editor has the authority to suggest corrections and/or reject the publication of the article, even if the reviewers have approved it. For accepted papers, the name of the Assistant Editor responsible for the evaluation will be published alongside the article.
Authors must submit, along with their manuscripts, a statement regarding the availability of the data used and generated in the research underlying the texts.
The data availability statement for a research study may take one of three forms:
See also:
The RBPV does not charge any article submission fee. However, after the article has been accepted, the following publication fees will be charged:
Bank data for deposit:
The RBPV emphasizes impartiality, integrity and confidentiality in its assessments. The editor-in-chief will consult with reviewers and assistant editors in cases of doubt or questioning. In situations of doubts relating to authorship, the first contact should be with the corresponding author and then, if necessary, with all the authors. If the matter remains unresolved, the institutions to which the authors are affiliated or the funding agencies involved in developing the study should be contacted.
In cases of any suspicions regarding research ethics or problems of publication malpractice, authors, reviewers, editors and readers are encouraged to report this by email to the editor-in-chief.
If necessary, the RBPV will publish errata, corrections or retractions:
If the author has made an error in a published article, an erratum will be published.
This journal will consider retractions in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines.
Retractions are generally reserved for articles that present serious structural flaws, incorrect findings or conclusions, or contain substantial plagiarism or content reporting unethical research.
The RBPV requires that a declaration of conflicts of interest should be sent with the article, and publishes this. The corresponding author must send a declaration revealing any potential conflicts of interest, which could be of a personal, commercial, political or academic nature, with or without involvement of financial compensation, with regard to all authors. Even if there is no conflict, a declaration must be sent. This information must be furnished as described in the rules for presenting the manuscript.
Editors and reviewers must also declare if they have any of the types of conflicts of interest mentioned above.
RBPV screens all submitted manuscripts using the Similarity Check system, provided by iThenticate, allowing a maximum similarity percentage of 20%.
RBPV is currently considering the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in its editorial policy.
The editorial team of the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology, as well as the authors publishing in the journal, must always adhere to the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER). The SAGER guidelines comprise a set of recommendations that guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in study design, data analysis, and in the results and interpretation of findings. Furthermore, RBPV observes a gender equity policy in the composition of its editorial board.
All rights are fully reserved to the authors, with the journal retaining the right of first publication. The journal publishes open access articles under the Creative Commons Attribution -- CC-BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The journal publishes open access articles under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Authors of articles published by the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media platforms, as well as posting them on their personal social media accounts, provided that the complete citation to the journal's website version is included.
Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinária
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
The manuscripts submission is online by ScholarOne. The corresponding author needs to supply an ORCID ID Open Researcher and Contributor ID at the time of submission, which should be inserted in the user's profile in the submission system. We recommend that this should also be done for the coauthors.
Authors are required to send a cover letter signed by everyone in which they declare that they were responsible for the whole process of producing the manuscript and that it is entirely an unpublished original article. If the abstract of the manuscript has been presented in scientific meetings, this should be stated in the signed cover letter as well.
Articles submitted to the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Parasitology (RBPV) need to be original scientific articles that essentially address matters relating to parasites of animals of any kind, falling into one of the following categories:
Manuscripts with a number of authors that does not seem justifiable will be assessed by our assistant scientific editors in relation to the experimental research protocol. All authors need to have made substantial contributions to the study design, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation, and drafting of the article, and need to have given final approval of the version to be submitted.
Changes to authorship, such as exclusion or inclusion of authors, or changes in author order, must be made through a formal letter signed by all authors and addressed to the Editor-in-Chief, with a justification for the request. This will be assessed with regard to the policies for submission and approval. An author who is excluded or included must also agree to this change by sending a communication to the editor-in-chief.
Authors must indicate the role performed by each co-author, following the CRediT -- Contributor Roles Taxonomy (niso.org) specifications.
All articles should be submitted in United States English. Always use concise and impersonal language. Footnotes should be placed at the bottom of the corresponding page and numbered with Arabic numerals in an ascending order. All manuscripts should be typed in Times New Roman font, size 12, using a page setup with 2.5-cm top and bottom margins, 3-cm left and right margins and 1.5-cm line spacing. All pages should be numbered. And continuous line numbering.
The structure of scientific articles should include:
The full title and subtitle, if any, should not exceed 25 words. The title should not include any abbreviations, and species names and Latin words should be italicized. Titles that start with 'Preliminary studies,' 'Notes about,' and the like should be avoided. Do not use the author's name and date of citation in scientific names.
Send a short title for the page headers, in English.
Identification must include the following: the full name of all authors (written out completely, without abbreviations), separated by semicolons. Institutional affiliation must state the official names of all institutions (not their translations), in the following order: Institution + Faculty and Department, City, State, and country. Example: Universidade Estadual Paulista -- UNESP, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias -- FCAV, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única, Jaboticabal, SP, Brazil. In the footer, the corresponding author's information must be included: full address, phone number, updated email, and ORCID, in that order.
Abstracts are limited to 200 words and should be structured in a single paragraph with no indentation. The abstract should not include references. Acronyms or abbreviations should be written out in full and the abbreviation given in brackets the first time they are used in the abstract, for example, indirect fluorescence assay (IFA). The abstract should be informative and present the objectives, a brief description of methods, the main results and a conclusion. All manuscripts written in English should also have the abstract and keywords written in Portuguese.
Keywords should accurately reflect the text content. Limited to a maximum of 6 (six), and separated by comma.
Should have a clear and concise justification of the study including its relevance and objectives and should keep the number of citations to a minimum.
A concise description including core information for understanding and enabling reproduction of the study. Well-established methods and techniques should be cited and referenced but not described. Statistical analyses should be described at the end of the section.
The content of this section should be informative rather than interpretative. The results should be accompanied by self-explanatory tables, figures or other illustrations if necessary.
Its content should be interpretative and based on the study results only. The discussion can be a single section or it can be presented together with the results and conclusions. It should emphasize the relevance of new findings and new hypotheses clearly supported by the results.
All conclusions may be presented in the Discussion section or in the Results and the Discussion sections when presented together, at the authors' choice. If this is the case, there is no need for a separate Conclusions section.
People who collaborated in the study but do not meet the criteria for authorship can be listed in this section. Contributions made by individuals or institutions who provided technical assistance or suggestions, or corrections or suggestions relating to writing the paper, or who in some other manner collaborated in developing the work, can be acknowledged.
RBPV requires that all financial support received be disclosed by all authors, including the name of the funding agency and the corresponding grant number(s).
A data availability statement must be provided, including information on the location, nature, and referencing of the data.
Authors must attach the ethics committee approval statement from the institution responsible for authorizing the research. International authors must submit the approval issued by the IACUC.
Authors must disclose any potential conflicts of interest in this section. These may be of a personal, commercial, political, or academic nature, with or without financial compensation—even if no conflict exists, a declaration must still be made. In addition, a signed statement from all authors must be submitted with the manuscript through the submission platform.
Authors must indicate the role performed by each co-author, following the specifications of the CRediT -- Contributor Roles Taxonomy (niso.org).
These should have horizontal rulings separating the header and the last row. The word 'Table' should precede the table title. Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and have a concise and descriptive title placed above them. The number of tables in the manuscript should be limited to a minimum. Tables must be presented separately from the main text and attached at the end of the manuscript.
Figures and graphical elements that are used or elaborated by the authors should follow all the guidance in the sections below.
Graphs, photographs, diagrams, illustrations etc. must be cited as figures (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figures 1, 2, 5-7, etc.) in increasing order as they are cited.
| Format | TIFF or JPG |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | Maximum width: 2250 pixels (at 300 dpi). Maximum height: 2625 pixels (at 300 dpi). |
| Resolution | 300 -- 600 dpi |
| Size | < 10 MB |
| Fonts | Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Cambria Math or Symbol in sizes between 7.5 and 10 pt. |
| Name | Fig1.tif, Fig2.tif, etc. These names should follow the identifications of the legends. |
| Legend | This must be inserted in the text of the manuscript and not inside the figure. |
Although use of colors is permitted, it is important that authors should endeavor to ensure that their use of colors will not prejudice understanding among readers with any type of visual disorder. We recommend that the following resources should be consulted before preparing any figures or tables using colors:
In preparing your images, take care when using filters or any other type of editing for including highlighted insets etc. The images should not be manipulated or adjusted excessively, to the point that this could cause misinterpretation of the information. We recommend that authors should take note of the tips and examples in the following:
Graphs, photographs, diagrams, illustrations etc. must be sent in the formats TIFF or JPG, with high resolution (300 or 600 dpi), according to the type of image and the size at which it will be used on the page, in conformity with the following requisites:
In preparing your figures, try to use types and sizes of text consistently between all the images, and also use the following recommendations:
Legends should be explanatory, starting with the identification in bold, followed by a period and the descriptive text. If necessary, include after the description an explanation for possible highlights such as arrows, symbols (*, †, ‡, §, etc.), letters, numbers etc. that have been used, and also including an indication of the font and citations, when pertinent.
When necessary, the authors are responsible for obtaining the correct authorization for use of images, photos, illustrations etc. from other sources, directly from the copyright owner, including the corresponding citation.
Example:
Figure 1. Comparison between an original figure from another source and the version prepared by the authors after obtaining the correct authorization. (A) Original figure as published in the original article by Silva et al. 2015. (B) Figure adapted by the authors after obtaining authorization from the copyright holder. Source: Silva et al. 2015.
Eliminate excessive blank space around the content of your images, but keep a small safety margin of ~5 pixels.
Panels, boards or multipart images (a, b, c, etc.) should always be combined into a single file.
For images generated or prepared using specialized software or tools such as Matlab, Prism, Stata, ChemDraw, PyMol, SPSS, GeneSpring or Minitab, we advise authors to follow the guidance of PLOS ONE, available at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/figures#loc-creating-source-images-with-specialized-software.
In images containing photos of people, it needs to be ensured that they cannot be identified, except in cases in which use of such photos has been specifically authorized for publication in the article.
In addition, authors must ensure that their images are in accordance with our policies regarding protection of human and animal rights.
Whenever authors use third-party images, no matter whether this is in full, redrawn in a new version or just as inspiration, the proper authorization in writing needs to be obtained from the copyright holder and the respective citation and font indication should be included. Learn more in our license and copyright policies.
NOTE: Italicized terms are highlighted here only for identification purposes. In the article, they must appear only in italics.
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This type of reference is not accepted by the journal.
Ethics statement, conflict of interest declaration, and cover letter signed by all authors.
The final layout of the article in PDF format will be provided by email to the corresponding author. Changes to the article accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage if permission from the Editor is granted. The proof must be carefully checked for accuracy as inclusion of subsequent corrections (e.g. a new author, change of paragraphs or tables) cannot be guaranteed.
After the layout and editing processes, the editor-in-chief of the journal will make any final corrections.
Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho' (UNESP)
Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV)
Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única (DPRSU)
Via de acesso Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane, s/n, Zona Rural.
CEP 14884-900. Jaboticabal, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
Phone: (+55 16) 3209-7100 ramal 7934
E-mail: cbpv_rbpv.fcav@unesp.br
