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EDITORIAL POLICY

The papers accepted in Pesq. Vet. Bras. are published in three areas: Livestock Diseases (LD), Small Animal Diseases (SA) and Wildlife Medicine (WM). These areas form annual volumes in a continuous publication flow, composed of Original Articles, Review Articles or Topics of General Interest; Case Reports are accepted only in the WM area. The journal is implementing a series of practices, such as the open access policy, the code of good practices for editors and the use of social networks to disseminate published papers and popularize science.

General Policies

Articles may be submitted in Portuguese or English. After peer review and acceptance of the work for publication in Pesq. Vet. Bras., texts in Portuguese will be translated into English, at the author(s)' responsibility. Authors who are not native English speakers should seek assistance from a translation service. Texts in English must be accompanied by a document proving that they were reviewed by professionals proficient in English. The journal reviews texts in Portuguese and English before publication. If the text is unsuitable, the author(s) will be notified and given a deadline to make the corrections.

The submitted text must be original and cannot be submitted to another journal simultaneously. The journal uses the anti-plagiarism system available on the Ithenticate platform to verify the originality of the article. If the article is published in a preprint repository, it is necessary to inform the access identifier at the time of submission.

The journal reserves the right to submit all papers to a review board fully authorized to decide whether to accept or return them to the authors with suggestions and changes to the text or for adaptation to the journal's editorial regulations. Also, in line with Open Science practices, the journal allows authors and reviewers to open the peer review process, with or without identifying their names. Authorization for the disclosure of names may be given by the authors at the time of submission of the article and by the reviewers when filling out the Open Science Compliance Form.

The concepts expressed in the published works are the authors' sole responsibility and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors or the Editorial Board.

The dates of receipt and acceptance are published in the articles.

The journal charges a fee for each article accepted for publication, as described in the "Charging Fees" section below. There is no submission or review fee. The fee will be paid by the author(s) upon receipt of the letter of approval for the article to be published.

No additions or changes to authorship will be permitted during the evaluation stage or after acceptance of the submitted text.

The text must be duly revised by the author(s). Manuscripts that do not comply with the standards of Pesq. Vet. Bras. will be rejected.

Authors must be registered with ORCID and provide an access link in their profile.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. uses ScholarOne Manuscripts software for online manuscript submissions. Authors must first create a ScholarOne account. The system will guide authors through a step-by-step process to create the account. Authors are expected to carefully consider the author list and sequence before submitting their manuscript and to submit the final author list at the time of submission. No addition or change of authorship will be permitted during the evaluation stage or after acceptance of the submitted text. Change in authorship requires a new submission.

Once created, authors can submit their manuscripts by logging into their “Author Center” and clicking the “Click here to submit a new manuscript” button. Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the instructions below. Failure to follow the guidelines may result in delays or rejection of the manuscript. Should any difficulties be encountered at any point in the submission process, authors are encouraged to contact Pesq. Vet. Bras. by e-mail at pvb@pvb.com.br.

In 2018, Pesq. Vet. Bras. adopted image editing practices to ensure the quality of visual material. As of January 2019, all articles began to be published in English, with an abstract in Portuguese and an abstract in English. In 2021, continuous publication was adopted and planning for the implementation of Open Science practices began.

Preprints

A preprint is a version of an article deposited in a digital platform for open evaluation before or during a journal's peer review. Preprints are an option and choice of the authors and Pesq. Vet. Bras. accepts the submission of previously deposited manuscripts. We recommend prioritizing reliable preprint servers with visibility and easy access and, preferably, an affinity to Medical Sciences and Agricultural Sciences. Pesq. Vet. Bras. encourages the publication of preprint articles on public platforms, such as SciELO Preprints, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square, EmeRI or others.

To ensure that preprints submitted to Pesq. Vet. Bras. are treated with transparency and integrity, we ask authors to provide the following information: preprint identification, authors, name of the repository where it was published, publication date and DOI. Relationship to the Submitted Work: authors must clarify how the preprint is related to the work submitted to the journal, for example, if the preprint is a previous version or contains additional information. Conflict of Interest: authors must inform if there is any conflict of interest related to the preprint, such as funding from a company or institution with an interest in the work.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. recommends completing the Open Science Compliance Form, which should be submitted as a Supplementary File with the manuscript. This information is important for editors to assess the originality and relevance of the submitted work and avoid duplication or redundant information in subsequent publications.

Use of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence does not meet the requirements of Pesq. Vet. Bras. for authorship of a scientific article, given the need for accountability. Artificial intelligence (AI) and language modeling (LLM) tools cannot be listed as authors in any articles published by Pesq. Vet. Bras. Texts obtained from AI may include biases, distortions, irrelevancies, misrepresentations and plagiarism, many of which are caused by the algorithms that govern their generation and depend, to a large extent, on the content of the materials used in the formation of the questions.

Authors may use AI only to assist with the language of the article, e.g., when AI is used to paraphrase or improve the authors' original content rather than suggesting new content. Texts translated by artificial intelligence will not be accepted.

Authors who use AI tools to edit images or graphic elements, or to compile and analyze data, must explicitly state in the Materials and Methods section of the article details of how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of their research articles, including any use of AI.

The use of AI must not violate Pesq. Vet. Bras.'s plagiarism policy. Academic papers must be authored by the author and must not present ideas, data, words or other materials from third parties without proper citation and transparent reference.

Peer review process

Since 1981, Pesq. Vet. Bras. has been using the single-blind peer review process, in which all papers are evaluated by at least two reviewers, and the authors' names are visible to the reviewers. In line with Open Science practices, in 2024, the journal Pesq. Vet. Bras. will offer the possibility of publishing the names of the editors and reviewers responsible for the evaluation and opinions. Authorization for the disclosure of the name must be given by the authors at the time of submission of the article and by the reviewers when filling out the Open Science Compliance Form. The option of publishing the opinions of approval of articles, with or without the identification of the reviewers, will be offered to the authors, reviewers and editors.

Standards Compliance: The Editorial Assistant assesses whether the manuscript aligns with the Instructions to Authors. If not, the manuscript is returned for adjustments. Once the requirements are met, the manuscript is forwarded to the Editor-in-Chief.

Initial Assessment: The Editor-in-Chief performs an initial assessment of the scope, relevance, and contribution of the text, as well as an analysis of the similarity of the documents using the Ithenticate platform. The ethical standards for conducting research on animals and the certificates of ethics committees are confirmed. In case of doubt about the documentation presented, the journal may reject the article. Articles that do not meet the criteria will be returned to the authors for corrections as often as necessary. Articles not complying with the journal's standards may be rejected in the initial assessment.

Editor-in-Chief Review Process: The Editor-in-Chief reviews the manuscript and, if deemed appropriate, appoints an Associate Editor, who reviews or selects expert reviewers for further review.

Reviewers' Opinions: all papers are evaluated by at least two reviewers who submit their opinions through the ScholarOne system. Based on these opinions, the Associate Editor makes a preliminary recommendation, which is forwarded to the Editor-in-Chief. Authors and reviewers will be offered the option of publishing the approved article's opinion with or without the identification of the reviewers in the form of Supplementary Material.

Final Decision: The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision on the manuscript, which may be accepted, rejected, or returned for revisions. This decision is communicated to the authors. The corresponding author will receive the final decision by e-mail in a ScholarOne form with the opinion (Accepted, Minor revision, Major revision, or Rejected) and the detailed revisions of the manuscript.

Receipt of Opinions: In cases of Minor Revision or Major Revision, the articles will be returned to the corresponding author for correction, modification, adaptation and justification of the considerations as per the review. The revised manuscript must be submitted online at ScholarOne by the same author who submitted the original manuscript. The revised version must be accompanied by a Cover Letter explaining all changes. Suggestions that are not accepted must be validly justified. Changes must be clearly highlighted in the text. When the Editor-in-Chief detects that the reviewers' recommendations were not met, a rejection report may be issued. After the article is accepted, the corresponding author will receive an e-mail with instructions for paying the publication fee. Upon confirmation of the fee, the article will be submitted for layout and proof exchange with the authors.

Corrected Article: at this stage, the file with the article in its final phase is sent to the corresponding author for possible reference checks, and then the version of the article in .pdf format will be sent for final approval. Only minor changes, such as spelling corrections and illustration checks, are accepted. Extensive changes will require re-evaluation by the reviewers and imply a delay in the article's publication. The author has 72 hours to correct and return the duly revised original for each stage (Reference check and .pdf Proof). If there is no response within 72 hours, the Editor-in-Chief will consider the version without changes as final, and no further major changes will be permitted.

Open Data

Pesq. Vet. Bras. is committed to the guidelines of the Guide to promoting the opening, transparency and reproducibility of research published by SciELO journals (TOP Guidelines), aiming to improve the quality and transparency of published research. These guidelines emphasize the importance of clarity in the evidence supporting the studies' conclusions.

The journal requests that all datasets associated with submitted manuscripts be accompanied by the Open Science Compliance Form to align with these principles. The authors must complete this form in detail, highlighting how the research adheres to Open Science standards, and submit it as a Supplementary File with the manuscript. Likewise, the data used must be cited and referenced in the papers following the SciELO Research Data Citation Guide.

This practice ensures that all relevant data are available for review and analysis, contributing to the integrity and reproducibility of scientific research. Adherence to these guidelines reinforces Pesq. Vet. Bras.'s commitment to transparency and excellence in scientific publishing.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. encourages the sharing of analysis datasets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, scripts and additional materials made available in open online repositories (Zenodo, Figshare, OSF, NCBI, Mendeley Data, LILACS, BVS, PAHO, ESCRA, Virtual Herbarium of Flora and Fungi) if they cannot be published in the work. This information must be indicated in the manuscript. At the time of submission of the manuscript, we request that a Data availability statement be presented indicating the data dissemination platform used. We recommend that authors make datasets not deposited in an open data platform available to readers upon request.

Charging Fees

Pesq. Vet. Bras. does not charge a fee for submission, evaluation and review of articles. After acceptance by the journal, a publication fee is charged to cover the costs of formatting the article for publication.

Fee for Brazilian authors: R$0.50 (fifty cents of the Brazilian real) per word. The word count for calculating the publication fee includes the entire article except the list of references. Members of the Brazilian College of Animal Pathology (CBPA) and the Brazilian Association of Veterinary Pathology (ABPV) with up-to-date annual dues receive a 50% discount on the publication fee (R$0.25 per word).

Each additional image will cost R$50.00 (fifty reais per photo). When the photos are organized into boards, each photo will count individually to calculate the publication fee.

Fee for foreign authors: US$0.16 (sixteen cents of the US dollar) per word. The word count for calculating the publication fee includes the entire article except the list of references. Members of the CBPA and ABPV with up-to-date dues receive a 50% discount on the publication fee (US$0.08 per word).

Each photo will cost US$16.00 (sixteen US dollars). When photos are organized into boards, each will count individually to calculate the publication fee.

Authors submitting manuscripts in Portuguese will be responsible for translating and submitting a Cover Letter from a professional translation company (see translation services). The accepted version will be used to calculate the publication fee, regardless of the submission language used. After acceptance, authors must pay the publication fee within a maximum period of four months.

We recommend reading the SciELO Declaration on Financial Sustainability to understand better the need to charge a publication fee.

Ethics and Misconduct Policy, Errata and Retraction

Submission of an article to Pesq. Vet. Bras. implies that the work described has not been previously published (except in the form of an abstract, published lecture, academic thesis or preprints). We recommend mentioning in the Cover Letter the previous publication of an abstract related to the full article submitted. Information on abstracts previously published in Scientific Supplements and Awards may be included in the article's footer. The article will first be evaluated for compliance with the journal's standards and analyzed using plagiarism detection software by the Technical Advisory Team.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. Adopts the principles of publication ethics included in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct. Ethical issues that may harm the journal's reputation will be evaluated and retracted by the Editorial Board. In cases of misconduct, the journal will apply the retraction policy following the Guidelines on Best Practices proposed by SciELO. The Registration and Publication of Errata and Retractions will follow the recommendations proposed in the Guide for the registration, marking and publication of errata and Guide for the registration, marking and publication of retractions.

Conflict of Interest Policy

Authors: authors are required to disclose any potential conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest may be commercial, personal, political, academic or financial. Conflicts of interest may occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that may influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts. When submitting a manuscript, authors are responsible for acknowledging and disclosing any financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. If there is a potential conflict of interest, authors must disclose it in a signed document attached to the submission platform. Authors must identify in the manuscript all financial support obtained for the execution of the work and other personal connections related to the performance of the scientific work.

Example of a statement with no conflict of interest: "The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest related to this study."

Editors and reviewers: The reviewer should inform the editors of any conflicts of interest that could influence the analysis of the manuscript and should declare that they do not feel qualified to review it. Reviewers should consider any type of conflict of interest before evaluating the manuscript. Working relationships with the author(s) should be considered. Examples: participating or having participated in a research project; maintaining or having maintained scientific collaboration with research groups; having a mentoring relationship with the author; having a financial interest in the project involved in the manuscript; being related to the author(s).

Like reviewers, editors should avoid making decisions about manuscripts that conflict with their own interests, such as those submitted by authors from their department, research collaborators, or relatives. For more information, we recommend consulting the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

Adoption of Similarity Checking Software

Verification Policy:

Pesq. Vet. Bras. is committed to the academic integrity and originality of published works. We have adopted a rigorous similarity checking policy to ensure authenticity and prevent the misappropriation of ideas, processes, results, or words of others without due acknowledgment.

The journal adopts programs to check for duplicates with previously published texts to detect any plagiarism and promote the predominance of originality in texts. All manuscripts submitted to Pesq. Vet. Bras. are checked through Ithenticate. This software is an advanced tool that compares submitted manuscripts with an extensive database of published content to identify possible text overlaps.

Similarity checking is performed early in the editorial evaluation process, before peer review, ensuring that issues of originality are identified and addressed early in the submission and evaluation process. When there is a question or concern, the Editor-in-Chief contacts the corresponding author and, if necessary, all authors.

Authors are fully responsible for the content and information presented in their manuscripts. They are expected to follow ethical standards for citing and acknowledging previous work.

Manuscripts with significant similarity with other published works, indicating plagiarism, will be rejected, and the authors will be informed with the report generated by the Ithenticate software. Pesq. Vet. Bras. considers the practice of plagiarism unacceptable and considers it a serious violation of ethics in scientific publishing. Authors whose manuscripts contain plagiarism may be subject to sanctions determined by the Editorial Board. Such sanctions may include the prohibition of future submissions to the journal for a specified period or other measures depending on the severity of the case.

Sex and Gender Issues

The editorial team of Pesq. Vet. Bras., and the authors who publish in the journal must follow the principles of the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guideline. The SAGER guidelines guide the reporting of information about sex and gender in the study design, data analysis and results, and interpretation of findings. In writing, it is recommended to seek gender neutrality and avoid using adjectives that describe personal characteristics (age, sex, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition).

Ethics Committee

The Editorial Board of Pesq. Vet. Bras. recommends strict attention to ethical standards when conducting research using animals. Experimental work involving animals must comply with the ARRIVE (Animal Research: Reporting of In Vivo Experiments) and PREPARE (Planning Research and Experimental Procedures on Animals: Recommendations for Excellence) guidelines, which must be applied in addition to the Brazilian Guideline for the Care and Use of Animals in Teaching or Scientific Research Activities, of the National Council for the Control of Animal Experimentation (CONCEA).

Certificates from animal ethics committees are required in the submission process. In case of doubt about the documentation presented, the journal may reject the manuscript.

Copyright Policy

The Editorial Board of Pesq. Vet. Bras. adopts a copyright policy following the recommendations of the SciELO Criteria. These recommendations are essential to protect the interests of authors and promote the open and ethical dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Copyright of works published in Pesq. Vet. Bras. belongs to the authors, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY license, allowing the articles to be reused and distributed without restriction as long as the original work is correctly cited. The authors grant Pesq. Vet. Bras. the right of first publication.

Authors are granted the right to take on separate additional contracts for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, such as publishing in an institutional repository or on ResearchGate, with due acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal. Readers may read, download, distribute, print, search or stream the full text of the articles without asking prior permission from the authors or publishers.

Intellectual Property and Terms of Use

It is the author's responsibility to secure the necessary permissions for the reuse of copyrighted materials included in their manuscript. The opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole responsibility. The use of generic names, trade names, and trademarks, among others, in this publication does not imply that such names are free from copyright restrictions and applicable regulations.

All content of the journal and articles published by Pesq. Vet. Bras., except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Authors of articles published by the journal retain the copyright of their works, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows access, printing, reading, distributing, adapting and developing other works with acknowledgment of authorship.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. encourages authors to publicize their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on blogs, institutional repositories, and academic social media. Authors may also post their papers on their social media, as long as they include the full citation to the version published on the journal website.

Sponsors and Funding Agencies

The Brazilian College of Animal Pathology (CBPA) receives financial resources for the publication of Pesq. Vet. Bras. through:

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (MCTI)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Conselho Federal de Medicina Veterinária (CFMV)
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

Pesq. Vet. Bras. publishes original articles on animal diseases in three areas: Livestock Diseases (LD), Small Animal Diseases (SA) and Wildlife Medicine (WM). In the three areas, Pesq. Vet. Bras. publishes Original Articles, Critical Literature Reviews, and Topics of General Interest. Case Reports are published only in the Wildlife Medicine (WM) area.

Manuscript submissions are made online using the ScholarOne platform. Authors must first create a ScholarOne and ORCID account. The system will guide authors through a step-by-step process to create the account. Once created, authors can submit their manuscripts by clicking on the "Author" tab, selecting the "Start New Submission" tab and clicking on the "Begin Submission" button.

Authors are expected to carefully consider the list and sequence of authors in both the submission system and the manuscript. No addition or change of authorship will be permitted during the evaluation stage or after acceptance of the submitted text. Change in authorship requires a new submission.

Articles must be prepared in every detail according to the journal's standards for peer review. Submissions of articles that do not comply with the journal's presentation standards will not be considered for publication and will be immediately rejected.

Should any difficulty be encountered at any time during the submission process, authors are encouraged to contact Pesq. Vet. Bras. by e-mail at pvb@pvb.com.br.

To reduce the evaluation time for your article as much as possible, proceed by following the submission steps below:

Types of documents accepted

Original articles must contain results of research not yet published and not submitted to other journals.

Literature reviews must be critical and contain topics related to the author's research line. This type of article is exclusive to authors invited by the Editor-in-Chief.

Topics of general interest should be of great importance and should be based on the authors' extensive experience.

Case reports are only accepted in the area of Wildlife Medicine. They must be original, of clinical or conservation importance or associated with forensic medicine.

The maximum limit of eight authors can only be exceeded in research papers involving three or more institutions, except for Case Reports, a category in which papers with more than eight authors will not be accepted.

Articles are published only in English, including an abstract in Portuguese. However, authors may submit their articles in English or Portuguese. A certificate of translation or correction of the English language must be issued by one of the institutions accredited by Pesq. Vet. Bras. listed below to prove the quality of the English.

Academic Proofreading and Editing Services
American Journal Experts – AJE Manuscript Services
American Manuscript Editors
Bioedit Scientific Editing
Editage/Cactus Communications
Elsevier
ENAGO Revisão de inglês acadêmico para pesquisadores brasileiros
International Science Editing Compuscript Ltd. T/A International Science Editing
Proof Reading Service
Traduvet
Wiley Editing Services

Pesq. Vet. Bras. encourages the publication of preprint articles on public platforms as long as the authors adopt this practice as an option. See details about this topic in Editorial Policy.

Authors' Contributions

At the end of the article, it is mandatory to present a Credit author statement describing each author's contribution to the work to be published. Authors are free to use specific taxonomies for author roles available at CRediT.

Manuscript Preparation

Articles that fall within the scope must be prepared in detail according to the journal's style, as seen in the most recent publications. Use files with the extension .doc or .docx (Word), Cambria font in size 10, single space between lines; A4 page format, with 2cm margins (top, bottom, left and right), justified text in one column. Place Figure captions immediately after the REFERENCES section; submit figures (do not insert captions below the Figures) and tables separately from the main text. Tables may be at the end of the manuscript, in the same file or separate files.

Article Submission Format

Organize the article into the following sections: TITLE, ABSTRACT, RESUMO OR RESUMEN, INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION(S) (the last three preferably in separate sections), Acknowledgements, Conflict of interest statement, Credit Author statement, Data availability statement and REFERENCES.

The title should be concise and indicate the content of the article. We recommend that scientific identification details be included in MATERIALS AND METHODS. The names of authors who described the species should not be included in the title and should appear in MATERIALS AND METHODS or INTRODUCTION. The presentation style of Pesq. Vet. Bras. does not consider including “First report” in the title, therefore, the Editorial Board recommends including this information in the ABSTRACT, DISCUSSION and CONCLUSION.

Authors with multiple first and last names should be abbreviated. Check the most recent published articles. The Corresponding author should be the one who can quickly contact the Editorial Board of Pesq. Vet. Bras. After submitting the articles, it is not possible to change the authorship. The Editorial Board recommends making a new submission to change the authorship. It is recommended that the 16-digit ORCID records of each author be included. Authors must present their full affiliation. See the example of a manuscript in Pesq. Vet. Bras. standards.

The ABSTRACT header should contain the abbreviated and inverted names of the authors, the year, the title and the postal address of the laboratory or institution where the main part of the research was carried out (always compare the authors of the article and their listing in the ABSTRACT header to avoid discrepancies). Check the most recent published articles.

The footnote on the first page must contain each author's full professional address (in the language of the author's country, Portuguese, Spanish, English, etc.), as well as the Author's underlined e-mail address for correspondence.

ABSTRACT – Must contain (1) the title in bold, (2) what was investigated, indicating the materials and methods used, (3) the most important results, and (4) the conclusion, followed by "INDEX TERMS" (which also include words from the title).

RESUMO – Should be a Portuguese version of the ABSTRACT, followed by the "TERMOS DE INDEXAÇÃO," which should include the terms presented in the title.

INTRODUCTION
– The Introduction should be succinct, with citation of specific literature and may address conceptualization, importance of the subject, state of the art and should end with the objective of the work.
– In-text literature citations are made by "author and year" (e.g., Pierezan 2024). Cite articles with two authors by both names (e.g., Gris & Driemeier 2023). Cite in-text articles with more than two authors by the first author's surname followed by "et al." and the year (e.g., Sonne et al. 2022). If two articles are cited identically, distinguish them by adding lowercase letters after the year of publication (e.g., Ecco 2021a, 2021b). The order of citations in the text should be chronological (e.g., Lemos et al. 2020, Schild et al. 2019).
– The use of "personal communication" and "unpublished data" should be exceptional. Personal communication should be cited in the text with first and last name, year of information and institution (Franklin Riet-Correa 2024, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande).
– Consult the full text of all cited articles. If it is not possible to read an entire article, cite the author in the manuscript text as, e.g., Bancroft (1921), and then, in the references, describe it as Bancroft 1921. .......... title. ... Name of Journal …. (Apud Suvarna & Layton 2013). In addition, the article consulted in the references should also be included (Suvarna & Layton 2013).

MATERIALS AND METHODS
– In Materials and Methods, provide all data necessary for the possible reproduction of the study. We recommend using the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria and the Nomina Histologica Veterinaria as a standard for the use of descriptive terms.
– Names of infectious agents should follow current published standards for viruses (ICTV), bacteria (NCBI), and fungi (NCBI).
– Pesq. Vet. Bras. supports and encourages authors and readers to standardize the use of descriptive terms for neoplasms. Therefore, we suggest using the International guidelines for veterinary tumor pathology: a call to action and Reporting guidelines for manuscripts on tumor prognosis.

RESULTS
– In the Results, the data obtained should be presented concisely. Tables should be prepared without superfluous data, and averages of several repetitions should be presented whenever indicated. Expressing complex data through graphs (called Figures in their captions) is convenient instead of presenting them in extensive tables.
– Tables and Figures must have references in the text with their respective numbers in ascending order. References to tables must be in full (e.g., Table 1), while references to figures must be abbreviated (e.g., Fig.2).
– In the text, footnotes are presented in Arabic numerals, in ascending order throughout the manuscript, without using Word's "Insert Endnote". The abbreviation for degrees Celsius is “°C” and not “ºC.”
– Abbreviations may be used, but when presented for the first time, they must be placed in parentheses after the full name.

DISCUSSION – In the Discussion, compare your results with those in the literature, in order of importance, for the area of study. Avoid mentioning the research development or future plans to avoid committing the journal to publishing the results of work not yet done.

CONCLUSIONS – Base your Conclusions only on Results.

Acknowledgments - Present Acknowledgments after the Conclusions, not in the body of the text.

Conflict of interest statement – Declare any conflict of interest or "none" if applicable.

Credit author statement – Describe the roles of each author in the research.

Data availability statement – Descrever as bases de dados utilizadas. Describe the databases used.

REFERENCES
– References should include all citations presented in the text. Write the list of references in alphabetical and chronological order in the original language, starting with the first author's surname with a capital letter, followed by the other initials. Each author should be separated by a comma only, and the last author with a period, followed by the year, title and publication data.
– Do not use “et al.” in the reference list.
– The journal name should be abbreviated. Questions about abbreviations should be consulted in the National Library of Medicine catalog or the journal's website. The name should be written out in full if there are still doubts.
– The “Vancouver Name Year” reference style should be used. The reference and citation style has been adapted from Citing Medicine and the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
– The list of references should include only works cited in the text that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished data should be mentioned only in the text.
– Reference list entries should be arranged alphabetically by the surname of the first author of each work. Please arrange them in alphabetical order according to the following rules: 1) For one author, by author's name and then chronologically; 2) For two authors, by author's name, then co-author's name and then chronologically; 3) For more than two authors, by the first author's name, then chronologically.
– Always include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list, if available (e.g., "https://doi.org/abc").

Examples:

Figures and Tables
Table titles should be written in bold, and the header (column titles) should be clear (not bold), written in upper and lower case letters, and separated by two long horizontal lines. There are no vertical lines or gray backgrounds; exceptionally, horizontal lines may exist. Footnotes should be in lowercase letters or other symbols, but not in Arabic numerals. Tables should be submitted in Word .doc or .docx (not as images) to allow for corrections according to the journal's standards.
Complex data should be submitted as graphs (but referred to as Figures) in 2D without gray background and horizontal lines. Write graphs, including text, in Cambria 10 font.
Figure presentation:

Format and dimensions. Images must be in TIFF format, RGB channel, 85mm long and with a resolution of 300 dpi (pixel/inch) for colored figures and black and white figures (graphs and maps).
Numbering. Figure TIFF files should be named and identified separately by numbers in the order in which they are cited in the text (Fig.1, Fig.2, Fig.3...). Do not use letters (Fig.1A, 1B, 1C...) to identify figures.
Identification of structures. If there is a need to highlight parts of the image, use letters, Cambria 8-point font, black or white, or discreet black or white arrows, depending on the background of the figure.
Grouping of figures. Figures may be grouped into panels. Make sure that all figures are named sequentially. All figures that will make up the panel must be sent separately and, preferably, have the same dimensions. If necessary, a sketch with the layout may be suggested; however, the final grouping will be done by the Image Editor.
Micrographs. Scale bars are not mandatory, however, the objective used must be mentioned at the end of the caption of each micrograph.
Captions. Each figure must have a self-explanatory caption. It should describe what is observed in the image and explain any abbreviations or symbols used. Example of caption format: “Fig.1. Image description. Diagnosis, organ or tissue, animal species, case number. Histochemical (HE, PAS...) or immunohistochemical (S100, Ki67, Vimentin,...) staining method". When describing immunohistochemical aspects, indicate where the immunostaining occurred (nucleus, cytoplasm or cytoplasmic membrane) and to what intensity and extent. Finally, in the case of micrographs, the objective used should be indicated (obj.10x, obj.20x, obj.40x, etc.). Figure captions should be included in the main manuscript after the References.