About the Journal
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The Journal Revista Brasileira de Milho e Sorgo (RBMS), Brazilian Journal of Maize and Sorghum, is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access Journal on Agricultural Science that publishes Original Articles, Short Communications, and Reviews related to Maize, Sorghum, and minor Cereal Crops, which are essential for developing the agricultural sciences and agribusiness.
Publication Ethics & Publication Malpractice Statement
These guidelines are consistent with the COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice Guidelines and the COPE Code of Conduct. More details can be found here: https://publicationethics.org.
The Revista Brasileira de Milho e Sorgo (RBMS) promotes the adequate criteria of publication ethics and makes all possible efforts and policies against publication malpractices. All members of the JMS take responsibility for controlling all stages of publishing extremely seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other obligations.
Obligations and responsibilities of editors
In addition to many general duties and responsibilities of editors, such as constantly improving the quality and integrity of the journal, aiming to meet the needs of authors and readers, encouraging academic debate, and others, the editors assume the commitment to devote best will and practice coping with the following responsibilities:
Editorial Board
Recognized experts in each sub-area of the field will form the editorial board. The editor will provide the editorial office members' full names, affiliations, and updated contact information on the journal webpage.
Publication decisions
The editor should be responsible for determining which articles should be published. Verifying the manuscript and its relevance to the Scientific community, readers, and contribution to improving knowledge in the area must always guide such decisions. In addition, the editor may be guided by the policies of the journal editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as copyright infringement and plagiarism. This decision will always be made following other editors or reviewers.
Peer review process
All of a journal's content should be subjected to peer review. Articles submitted for evaluation are subjected to a double-blind peer review process. First, the Editors review the papers. The editor may reject it out of hand either because it needs to deal with the subject matter for that journal or because it is manifestly of low quality, so it cannot be considered. Articles suitable for review are then sent to two experts in the field of the paper. Referees of a paper are unknown to each other. Referees are asked to immediately classify the document as publishable, with amendments and improvements, or not publishable. Referees' evaluations usually explicitly recommend what to do with the manuscript. The author then sees the referees' comments.
Editors should be ready to justify any significant deviation from the described process. Editors should only reverse decisions on publication if serious problems are identified.
Editors should publish guidance to either authors or reviewers on everything that is expected of them. This guidance should be regularly updated and will refer to or link to this code.
Fair play
Editors will evaluate each manuscript based only on its intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. The decision of the Editors' to accept or reject a manuscript for publication should be strictly based on the paper's importance, originality, and clarity and the study's relevance to the journal's aim.
Submission policies
The journal's policy as of 2020 is to publish all articles in English only. Portuguese-speaking authors may submit their reports in Portuguese, but after approval for publication, they must arrange for translation into English by a native speaker.
The articles will be edited and published online as soon as approved.
The cost of correction and translation of the manuscript is the authors' responsibility. However, the Revista Brasileira de Milho e Sorgo (RBMS) will provide a sworn company to translate/review the articles.
The Editorial Committee will give authors the freedom to use the services of another company as long as it is sworn in; in this case, authors must send proof of company certification.
Therefore, at least two qualified experts will review every article submitted to the journal. After approval of the manuscript, it should be translated/checked into English, edited, and published online.
Policy and ethics
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or any other language, without the written consent of the copyright holder. Written authorization may be required at the discretion of the editors. Articles and any other material published in the Journal of Maize and Sorghum represent the opinions of the authors. They should not be construed to reflect the views of the editors or the publisher.
Concepts and affirmations included in all articles are of complete responsibility to the authors.
A submitted paper will be considered in violation of the Journal of Maize and Sorghum Guidelines and thus potentially subject to rejection or retraction in the event of the following: the study results are inaccurately or deceptively reported, the data from the study results cannot be produced, the paper submitted is not an original work, or it has plagiarized (by copying or paraphrasing) another article, the report has been submitted concurrently to another journal or is elsewhere published, other works discussed in the paper are improperly cited or un-cited, the list of co-authors is incomplete or contains those who have not contributed substantially to the manuscript, any experiments involving human or animal subjects, or hazardous chemicals are not ensured in the paper as having been conducted according to the appropriate guidelines of biosafety and ethics, or financial or otherwise conflicts of interest are not disclosed.
Should questions of probity arise under extraordinary and controversial situations, the editors will reserve the right to subject the authors' data to independent scientific evaluation.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a Journal Publishing Agreement. Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the broadest possible dissemination of information. An email (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript, a "Journal Publishing Agreement" form, or a link to the online version of this agreement. Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles, including abstracts, for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.
Conflict of interests
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest, including any financial, personal, or other relationships with other people or organizations, within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence or be perceived to influence their work.
Publication decisions
The editor should be responsible for determining which articles should be published. Verifying the manuscript and its relevance to the Scientific community, readers, and contribution to improving knowledge in the area must always guide such decisions. In addition, the editor may be guided by the policies of the journal editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as copyright infringement and plagiarism. Other editors or reviewers will always make this decision.
Contributors
Each author is required to declare their contribution to the article. All authors must have materially participated in the research and article preparation, so the roles of all authors should be described. In addition, all authors' approval of the final article should be genuine and included in the disclosure.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts: Before the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Revista Brasileira de Milho e Sorgo Editorial Committee from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (email, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of adding or removing authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. In addition, the Editor-in-Chief will forward requests that the corresponding author does not send to the corresponding author, who must follow the procedure described above. Note that: (1) The Editor-in-Chief will inform the Editorial Committee of any such requests, and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed upon.
Peer Review Process
The papers submitted to the Revista Brasileira de Milho e Sorgo (RBMS) are blindly reviewed by the journal's Editorial Board members and two ad hoc reviewers.
Steps in the peer review process:
- When a manuscript is submitted, a preliminary evaluation is done by the Editor-in-Chief and the corresponding Section Editor. First, the manuscript is checked for plagiarism and normalization (page size, font type, margins, graphics, and deletion of authorial data)
- If the manuscript is not approved in this phase, the author(s) will be notified, and the manuscript will be filed. If the reason for the manuscript not being approved is not plagiarism, the author(s) may make the necessary changes and submit it again.
- When the manuscript is approved in the initial phase, it is designated to one of the journal's editors, who is responsible for the whole evaluation process of that specific manuscript.
- The editor will select two reviewers to review the manuscript blindly. The reviewers may be members of the journal's editorial board and ad hoc reviewers. The selection of reviewers solely depends on their academic expertise.
- In Eventual cases of discrepancy between reviewers' opinions (approval X rejection), the editor will blindly select a third reviewer to decide on the manuscript.
- After the reviews are sent to the editor through SEER, the editors decide on the manuscript and email the author(s).
The evaluation process (from when the manuscript is submitted to the editors' decision) is carried out within six months, as CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) suggested.
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