About the Journal

The Brazilian Journal of Nutrition (e-ISSN 1678-9865) is a specialized journal linked to the Graduate Program in Health Sciences at the Catholic University of Campinas (PUC). Founded in 1988, the journal has adopted the continuous publication modality since 2019, focusing on original or review articles that contribute to the study of Nutrition in its various subareas and interfaces.
The Brazilian Journal of Nutrition is open to contributions from the national and international scientific community and is part of Open Access. All its content is available and protected under the Creative Commons license (CC-BY). In addition, it does not charge fees for the submission, evaluation, or publication of articles.

Copyright and use license

In all articles published by the Brazilian Journal of Nutrition, copyright is held by the authors. The articles are protected under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, which means anyone can download and read the article at no cost. Furthermore, the article can be reused and cited as long as the original published version is mentioned. These conditions allow maximum use and exposure of the study while ensuring that authors receive due credit.

Sponsor

The publication of the journal is financed with resources from:

Catholic University of Campinas

Instructions to authors

Scope and policy

The Brazilian Journal of Nutrition accepts the submission of articles in English and Portuguese. Articles submitted in Portuguese, if approved, will be published in English, and authors must provide their complete version (as approved) in English, bearing the costs of translation.

In line with the Open Science movement, the publication supports the use of preprint servers and accepts manuscripts previously deposited on trusted servers such as SciELO Preprints: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/user/register

The Journal supports the use of repositories for deposits aimed at the preservation, dissemination, and reuse of data such as SciELO Data: https://data.scielo.org/.

Privacy Policy

The names and addresses provided in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

Research with living beings

Manuscripts with research related to humans and animals must be accompanied by a copy of the assessment approval of a Research Ethics Committee, all in accordance with Resolution No. 466 of December 12, 2012, which deals with research and tests on human beings.

Clinical Trial Records

Articles with clinical research results must have the identification number in one of the Clinical Trials Registers validated by the criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), whose addresses are available on the ICMJE website. The identification number must be recorded at the end of the abstract.

 Conflict of interest

Authors: Authors must explicitly and individually declare any potential financial, direct and/or indirect, conflict of interest as well as non-financial, etc.

Ad hoc reviewers: If a conflict of interest is identified by the reviewers, the Editorial Committee will forward the manuscript to another ad hoc reviewer.

Plagiarism

The Journal will check the submitted articles, through a plagiarism detection tool called CrossCheck, after the peer-review process.

Disclosure

This publication disseminates its articles on Twitter and on the SciELO blog, in perspective, and encourages authors to disseminate the articles on their personal and institutional social networks.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/Rev_Nutricao

Authorship

The journal is limited to publishing articles that have a maximum of six authorship indications below the title. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contributions, such as (a) conception and design, (b) analysis and interpretation, and (c) review and approval of the final version of the article. The inclusion of names of authors whose contribution does not fit the above criteria is not justified. The authors' contribution must be informed in plain text of up to four lines. The institutional link must be informed in up to three levels (ex: University, College, Program, Center, School, Department). The indication of the corresponding author must be based on the highest title degree, and all authors must have and inform the ORCID® registration number. Registration is free, available at: https://orcid.org/.

The journal strongly recommends that all authors and co-authors have their curriculum vitae updated on the Lattes Platform for article submission.

Important: no inclusions or exclusions of authors will be accepted after submission.

The Brazilian Journal of Nutrition does not publish more than 1 (one) article by the same author in the same year (volume) to avoid endogeny. This procedure aims to increase the number of themes and collaborations from national and international authors.

Evaluation process

The manuscript processing will only begin if they are in accordance with the instructions given to the Authors. Otherwise, they will be returned for compliance with the rules, the inclusion of a letter, or other documents that may be necessary.

The Brazilian Journal of Nutrition does not evaluate works that have been sent to other journals, previously presented at events (national and international), and/or translated into other languages ​​in order to preserve the original character of the work.

Authors must indicate three possible reviewers for the manuscript with their respective e-mails and the institutions to which they are linked. Optionally, they can nominate three reviewers to whom they would not like the paper sent.

Appreciation by the editorial board

Pre-analysis: the evaluation is carried out by the Scientific Editors based on originality, relevance, academic quality, and relevance of the manuscript to the area of ​​nutrition.

If approved at this stage, the manuscripts will be forwarded to ad hoc reviewers selected by the editors. Each manuscript will be sent to three reviewers of recognized competence in the subject addressed, and one of them can be chosen by the indication of the authors. In case of disagreement, the original will be sent to a fourth reviewer, and so on.

The journal adopts the blind review system in peer review and is confidential as to the identity of authors and reviewers. Therefore, the publication requests that authorship information be indicated only on the title page, which will be removed for evaluation.

Documents created in Microsoft Word must have the author identification removed from document properties: From the main menu, click Save As > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security Options... > Remove Personal Information from File on Save > OK > Save.

Reviewers' assessments have three possibilities: a) approval; b) resubmission; c) refusal. In any of these cases, the author will be notified.

The assessments are analyzed by the associate editors, who propose to the Scientific Editor the approval or not of the manuscript. The final decision on the article's opinion (approved or rejected) will rest with the Editor-in-Chief.

Rejected manuscripts, but with the possibility of reformulation, may return as a new work, initiating another evaluation process.

The works that receive suggestions for resubmission will be returned to the authors for the necessary corrections, with the assessments issued. They must be returned within a maximum period of 10 (ten) days, respecting the time zone used by the system (London time, UTC+0).

The changes must be highlighted in blue font, and a letter to the editor must be attached in which the interest in publishing in this Journal is reiterated and informs which changes were processed in the manuscript. If there is disagreement regarding the consultancy's recommendations, the author(s) must present the arguments that justify their position. If the revised manuscript and the response letter are not forwarded within the stipulated period, the editorial process will be terminated at any stage of submission. The title and protocol number of the manuscript must be specified.

Approved manuscripts may return to the authors for approval of eventual changes, in the editing and standardization process, according to the style of the Journal.

The complete evaluation process takes approximately 6 months.

Data deposit policy

Data are the scientific records that validate research results. Research data varies by knowledge area and covers: written documents, spreadsheets, statistics, lab notebooks, field notebooks, diaries/journals, questionnaires, transcripts, audio files, videos, photographs, methodologies, workflows, partial reports, and other materials prepared and/or collected during the development of the research. Supported by the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), the Brazilian Journal of Nutrition recommends that research data be deposited in Scielo Data after approval of manuscripts and that the Research Data Deposit Guide be consulted for this purpose.