Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in the Guide for authors and Guidelines for authors, on the About the Journal page. The author has read the journal's policy guidelines on the ethics statement and exceptional procedures.
The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal. The article has no author information displayed in the general template.
In addition to the article in the general format proposed in the journal, the supplementary letter is being submitted, duly completed and respecting the RVBMA rules. All the information regarding Presentation and Agreement has been read and attested to, and the act of submission is acknowledged.
The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format. URLs for references have been provided where possible.
There are no conflicts of interest on the part of the author with any situations raised (Editor, Section Editors, Companies, Financiers, among others) that may bias the results and content of the research while it is being submitted.
For research involving animals, human beings, perception (qualitative questionnaires), specific communities and other sensitive niches, the ethical procedures (Research Ethics Committee) were previously carried out and accepted, and the document (or protocol) number is shown in the article's methodology. In addition, the Research Ethics Guidelines were observed
All authors worked on the research and all agree to submit the work to the journal. By submitting the work to the Revista Brasileira de Meio Ambiente, the main or corresponding author will be held responsible for any lawsuits arising from academic plagiarism and other casual events.

Author Guidelines

ABOUT THE TEMPLATES FOR SUBMISSION TO THE JOURNAL

[THE JOURNAL RECOMMENDS THAT AUTHORS DOWNLOAD ALL TEMPLATES BELOW WHILE READING ABOUT THEIR USAGE]:

All templates are provided below in their respective sections. The journal's guidelines for formatting, figures, tables, citations, references, and other details are included in the template. If there are any doubts about article formatting for the journal, refer to a previous edition as a reference. If uncertainties persist, contact us.

- GENERAL TEMPLATE OF THE JOURNAL

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[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE (ENGLISH)]
[HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA DESCARGAR EL MODELO EN ESPAÑOL]

Authors must follow the journal's proposed template to format their work according to the journal's norms. The template is available at the following link: [CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE (PORTUGUESE)]
[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE TEMPLATE (ENGLISH)]
[HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA DESCARGAR EL MODELO EN ESPAÑOL].
At the time of submission, the text must be sent in WORD format.
We emphasize that files not conforming to the journal's template (e.g., lacking the journal header or not meeting formatting norms) will not be evaluated and will be rejected due to non-compliance.

- SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER

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[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER (COVER LETTER ARTICLE) [ENGLISH]]
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The Supplementary Letter is required to provide the authors' details for the article, as the journal uses a double-blind peer review system. Therefore, all authors wishing to submit their work must download this document:
[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER (PORTUGUESE)]
[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SUPPLEMENTARY LETTER (COVER LETTER ARTICLE) [ENGLISH]]
[HAGA CLIC AQUÍ PARA DESCARGAR EL DOCUMENTO COMPLEMENTARIO EN ESPAÑOL].

In this document, the author must explain the importance of their research in the current context and its relation to everyday life. After completing the necessary fields and providing justifications, the researcher must submit the file in WORD format as supplementary material.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

There are TWO (2) modalities for submission and publication in the Brazilian Journal of the Environment (Revista Brasileira de Meio Ambiente - RVBMA):

FIRST MODALITY – "DAILY LIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT"

GENERAL CONDITIONS:
This section is for publishing works of current relevance; its short format aims for easy, quick, and universal reading. All articles, experience reports, scientific notes, literature, or documentary reviews with 4 TO 8 PAGES will fall under this modality, regardless of the subject (guiding axes).

SUBMISSION CONDITIONS:
Researchers wishing to publish their manuscript in this modality must select the tab “Cotidiano e Meio Ambiente” (Daily Life and the Environment) at submission and upload the following documents:

a) Complete manuscript (submitted in WORD format)
b) Supplementary Letter (uploaded as supplementary material in WORD format)

If the author fails to submit the above-required documents, the manuscript will be entirely rejected.

SECOND MODALITY – COMPLETE ARTICLES

GENERAL CONDITIONS:
All articles with 10 PAGES OR MORE will fall under this modality and must be submitted under the most appropriate guiding axis for the research. The guiding axes and their respective subgroups are listed at the following link: https://revistabrasileirademeioambiente.com/index.php/RVBMA/index.

SUBMISSION CONDITIONS:
Researchers wishing to publish their manuscript in this modality must select the most appropriate tab for their work (e.g., Environmental and Social Sciences / Technology and Environmental Studies / Planning and Environment) and upload the following documents:

a) Complete manuscript (submitted in WORD format)
b) Supplementary Letter (uploaded as supplementary material in WORD format)

If the author fails to submit the above-required documents, the manuscript will be entirely rejected.

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Copyright Notice

If copyrighted material is reproduced in the manuscript, full attribution must be provided in the text. When necessary, a supporting document authorizing its use must be submitted to the Editorial Committee as supplementary material. It is the responsibility of the authors—not the journal, editors, or reviewers—to clearly indicate the authorship of texts, data, figures, images, and/or maps previously published elsewhere within the article.

If there is any suspicion regarding the originality of the material, the Editorial Committee may verify the manuscript for plagiarism. In cases where plagiarism is confirmed, the manuscript will be returned without further review and without the possibility of resubmission. Self-plagiarism (i.e., the use of identical phrases from documents previously published by the same author) is also unacceptable.

When submitting a manuscript, the author(s) must sign a prior agreement agreeing to the Copyright Statement, as explained above.

To strengthen the authors' copyright, the Brazilian Journal of the Environment adopts the Creative Commons - CC-BY 4.0 license. [Articles can be shared, and their content may be modified, provided full credit is given to the original work]. For more information about this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0. The logo and the link to the license remain static in the journal's footer.

It is worth noting that the author(s) may request the rights to their manuscript without restrictions, even if the article has already been published in the journal.

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