Submissions
Author Guidelines
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS
The main objective of this section is to guide the authors to reach a fast and successful submission process. Before submitting your manuscript, we invite you to read carefully all the rules, formatting style, and other instructions.
Scope and Politics
Plant Cell Culture & Micropropagation (Plant Cell Cult. Micropropag.) is a journal that publishes scientific papers in the area of plant tissue culture and applied plant biotechnology, including micropropagation, genetic transformation, plant regeneration, organogenesis, somatic embryogenesis, morphogenesis, functional genomics, and metabolic engineering. The publication of scientific authors will depend upon the reports of the Editorial Guidelines, the evaluations from the Editorial Committee, and the ad hoc Committee. All the reports have sigils and impartial character, and the authors, as well as the members of the Editorial Committee and/or ad hoc Committee, do not get personal information by themselves.
Cost of publication: None.
General Instructions
1- Types of Documents Accepted
- Original Research Articles
- Review Articles (exclusively at the request of the Editorial Committee
2- Attaching Files
The files that must be uploaded to our system are described below:
a) Cover Letter;
b) Author's information
c) Manuscript
d) Figures and Tables
a) COVER LETTER
Write a short letter (1 page) to provide additional information on your paper to be reviewed and published. This document must state whether the work is original and that all authors agree with the submission. Authors are also required to disclose financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication.
b) AUTHOR'S INFORMATION
Information requested in the Author's information file: a) full author’s name; b) working e-mail address; c) scientific institutional or similar affiliation; d) ORCID number (https://orcid.org/); e) Acknowledgment and Funding; and f) Authors' Contribution.
- Authors' contributions should be presented in a short paragraph detailing the individual contributions of each author. Example statement:
“All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by [full name], [full name], and [full name]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [full name] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.”
c) MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts must be edited using the program Microsoft Word for Windows on paper size A4 (21 cm x 29.7cm), double-spaced using Times New Roman font, size 10, with a 2.5 cm margin on both left and right-hand sides, and on upper and lower margins. The manuscript must not exceed a maximum of 30 pages. To ensure blind review of the manuscript, information that could facilitate the identification of authors should be avoided in the manuscript file.
The manuscript should be presented in the following sequence:
- TITLE: In capital letters and bold, sufficiently clear; conspicuous and complete, without abbreviations and superfluous words.
- ABSTRACT: It must be written continuously in one paragraph, and it must not exceed 250 words. At least, it must contain a brief introduction, objective(s), and main results.
- KEYWORDS: Please provide 3 to 5 keywords that express the content of the paper and are different from those used in the title. The keywords must be separated by commas.
- INTRODUCTION: It should present a concise vision of the current level of knowledge that has been achieved within the subject area that the paper will discuss, including literature review and objectives. This section may not be subdivided.
- MATERIAL AND METHODS: This section can contain subdivisions, with subtitles in bold print.
- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The discussion can be presented in a separate session or combined with the results (Results and Discussion). The Discussion section should avoid extensive repetition of the results and should end with some conclusions. Figures and Tables must be inserted in the position in which they should appear in the text, and also sent in separate files (see below).
- CONCLUSION(S): One paragraph written with logical structure and related to your findings.
- REFERENCES: All references and their correct citation in the text are the responsibility of the author(s). Citations of the thesis, dissertation, and/or abstracts are not accepted.
Author’s citations in the text should be made according to the following examples:
- One author: Pereira (1995) or (Pereira, 1995)
- Two authors: Oliveira and Souza (2003) or (Oliveira and Souza, 2003)
- More than two authors: In case of more than two authors, only the last name of the first one is mentioned, followed by et al. (no italic): Scolforo et al. (1981) or (Scolforo et al., 1981)
- References must be set in alphabetical order, aligned left, and simply spaced in a reference and double-spaced between references.
- The references must be current and mainly from periodicals: at least 70% of the references must be 5 years old or newer, and at least 70% must be from periodicals indexed on the databases Scielo, Web of Science, and or Scopus. They should be presented in the following way:
Research papers:
One author:
MBOOWA, D. A review of the traditional pulping methods and the recent improvements in the pulping processes. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, v. 14, p. 1–12, 2024.
Up to three authors:
NAYAK, A.; BHUSHAN, B. An overview of the recent trends on the waste valorization techniques for food wastes. Journal of Environmental Management, v. 233, p. 352-370, 2019.
MORI, A. S.; LERTZMAN, K. P.; GUSTAFSSON, L. Biodiversity and ecosystem services in forest ecosystems: a research agenda for applied forest ecology. Journal of Applied Ecology, v.54, n.1, p. 12-27, 2017.
More than three authors:
OLIVEIRA, G. M. V.; MELLO, J. M.; LIMA, R. L.; et al. Size and shape of experimental plots for Eremanthus erythropappus. Cerne, v. 17, n. 3, p. 327-338, 2011.
ZANUNCIO, A. J. V.; CARVALHO, A. G.; SILVA, M. G. D.; et al. Importance of wood drying to the forest transport and pulp mill supply. Cerne, v. 23, n.2, p. 147-152, 2017.
Book:
BURKHART, H. E.; TOMÉ, M. Modeling Forest Trees and Stands. Springer, 2012. 457p.
Book chapter:
FLEURY, J. A. Análise ao nível de empresa dos impactos da automação sobre a organização da produção de trabalho. In: SOARES, R. M. S. M. Gestão da empresa. IPEA/IPLAN, 1980. p. 149-159.
Dissertation and Thesis:
Must not be cited.
Citation of papers published in Congress, conferences and similar proceedings
Must not be cited.
Electronic documents (only from renowned institutions and organizations):
PLANT RESOURCES OF TROPICAL AFRICA. Khaya ivorensis A.Chev. Available at: http://www.prota4u.info/downloads/Khaya+ivorensis/Khaya+ivorensis.pdf. Accessed in: April 10th 2015.
d) FIGURES AND TABLES
These files must be uploaded in high resolution and quality (with 300 dpi or 600 dpi resolution). Figures and Tables must be inserted in the position in which they should appear in the text, and also sent in separate files.
Tables must contain a clear and concise title. Tables should not contain vertical lines. Tables should be made on Microsoft Word (Table – Insert Table), with each value inserted in a single cell, centrally located.
Figures may be in color or black and white , clear and with contrast, inserted in the text after their citation and also in a separate file, saved in extension “TIFF” or “JPEG”. They must be described using Times New Roman font, size 10, without bold, without a text box, and arranged in order.
Graphs must be described preferentially in Excel, using Times New Roman font, size 10, without bold, saved in XLS extension, and transformed into TIFF or JPG files with a resolution of 300 dpi.
Symbols and Chemical Formula must be presented using a word processor that allows editing for Adobe InDesign CS6 (ex: MathType), maintaining their original layout.
