This Journal publishes full papers, short communications, and review articles. The manuscripts submitted to this journal must have not been submitted to another periodical.

Submission of the manuscript

Submissions should be in electronic format. Use Word processor; format to Windows for PCs. Name the files carefully with the first author's name. If the attachment contains several files, please give a list in the e-mail text saying what they are. Send the submission to the Chief editor Gilson Volpato (gilvolp@gmail.com).

The authors must agree that the submitted manuscript is subjected to an anonymous peer review system. Reviews may also be submitted by invitation of the editorial board (invited reviews); in this case, the manuscript is analyzed by the editors mainly for style adjustments.

Publication

The Journal of Health and Environmental Sciences is a publication exclusively online. Each article is published in pdf format, which appears in the journal homepage a few days after the "proof" is approved by both author and style editors.

Types of Articles

The Journal of Health and Environmental Sciences publishes the following types of articles:

a) Full Paper: reports original empirical research including data collected and supporting the conclusions. Experimental or retrospective approaches are acceptable. It is divided in the topics Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and References. Some of the topics can be contracted, such as Methods and Results, or Results and Discussion.
b) Short Communication: reports short original research, also supported in original empirical research. The manuscript is usually up to 12 pages (from title to references, figures and tables). Although it follows the sequence of topics as in a full paper, the text does not have the division of these topics. It is written as a unique text, without divisions. Anyway, it follows the logical sequence of Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References.
c) Review Article: It should start with a problem that justifies the review, which enables the author to find original conclusions, or at least a new perspective or approach to the previous published knowledge in an area. Thus, the reviews should not only list the sequence of publications, but instead to use them to rearrange the status of the knowledge in that area. Before preparing a review manuscript, the authors are strongly encouraged to present to the editorial board the issue studied and a plan. The Editorial Board may provide specific details to guide the review.

Manuscript Preparation

1. General
a. The manuscripts must be in American English. Write with clarity and precision. Avoid wordy expressions and use short sentences.
b. Use the active voice whenever appropriate.
c. The manuscripts should be formatted to sheet A4, Times New Roman, 12 points.
d. Double-space all the text, including references, figure legends, and tables.
e. Number all lines in sequence, including title, tables, and figure legends.
f. Avoid using footnotes.

2. Title (first page)
It should be succinct (less than 100 characters). Up to 3 titles may be suggested by the authors, and the Editorial board may chose one of them, or suggest another one.

Remember the title should be attractive to potential readers, but also retain accuracy, be informative and suitable for indexing. Give the main idea of the study and avoid wordy expressions like "study, collaboration, review etc.". Information of the study area must be avoided as much as possible (focus on the general problem studied in that area).

3. Authors (first page)
Authors' full names should be typewritten below the title, and their affiliations indicated below by numbers (1, 2, 3 ...). The author from whom the reprints should be requested must be clearly indicated and his (her) complete address (including phone and fax numbers, and necessarily e-mail address) provided.

4. Financial Support (first page)
This appears as a footnote on the bottom of the first page (not in the Acknowledgment section).

5. Abstract (second page)
It must not exceed 250 words. Include the objective of the study, the organisms and experimental design (without methodological details), the statistically significant results supporting the conclusions and the main conclusions. Write the Abstract as one paragraph.

6. Key-words (second page)
A list up to 8 indexing terms should be provided. Try to include at least one term not presented in the manuscript.

7. Running-title (second page)
A shorter title (no more than 30 characters) should be provided after the key-words.

8. Introduction (third page and following)
The introduction should address the reader to the main question of the study, give the fundamentals of such objective and include definitions of important terms if necessary.

9. Methods
This session should include all the methodological and technical procedures used to set up the study. A reasonable good sequence for presenting these data are: 1) Characterization of the organism studied (including population characteristics whenever necessary); 2) Experimental design, including the conditions of the groups studied, emphasizing the difference among them, the dependent variables quantified and the time this occurred, and number of replicate. Expressing this topic with a scheme should improve clarity; 3) Specific procedures, where the techniques are described in details; and 4) statistical procedures, including necessarily the name of the statistical tests used and where they were applied (this information can be postponed to the results session). While describing Methods, avoid ambiguous terms referring to intensity, like much, little etc.

10. Abbreviations
Use the metric system. Physical measurements should be in accordance with the Système International d'Unité (SI), e.g., mm, mm3, s, g, mg, m s-1. Do not use "O" for zero nor "l" for "1".

11. Results
Include briefly the most relevant results obtained and used to support the conclusions. This connection between results and conclusion is crucial. Only data used in the discussion should be presented. All the results expressed are supposed to have their respective methodology carefully described in the Methods session. Use illustration (Figures or Tables) preferably, and describe in the text only the main aspects of the illustrations, which will be used in the discussion to support the conclusions. When expressing statistical information, include the statistical value and the respective p value. Avoid assuming “tendency toward significance” as a real significance, except in cases where argumentation is sufficiently strong.

12. Illustrations
High quality illustrations should be provided by the authors. Captions should be sufficient for understanding of the illustration and saved in a separate page. Provide a title above the Table and footnotes at the bottom of the Table (indicated by superscripts). Figures are usually preferable to tables. Be simple and concise, emphasizing the main aspects of the results supporting the conclusion. Statistical values should be shown in the figures and tables, strictly if not appearing in the text. However, statistical significance must be included in figures and tables when the results support such analyses.

13. Discussion
This session must include all the argumentation to convince the readers the conclusion is valid considering the results obtained. Avoid speculation not supported by your data and the current literature. When speculating, be brief and try to be directly connected with the data and aim of the study. Update the literature, and also do not forget the older studies which are very important in your area. The conclusions should be written in the body of the discussion, in the context of the argumentation; a separate session to conclusions is not needed. Validate your method, data, literature and argumentation, thus trying to be as convincing as possible.

14. Acknowledgments
Brief acknowledgments should be expressed only for people that provided important contribution to the study. Note that financial support derived from evaluation of a submitted proposal usually does not require an acknowledgment, but rather a reference on the first page of the manuscript.

15. References
a. As far as possible, cite only referred, published work.
b. Use "in press" only when formal acceptance has been granted.
c. Dissertations, theses and abstracts presented at meetings should be cited only if strictly necessary.
d. Author of quoted unpublished material (e.g. manuscripts under review, internal reports, and certain conference abstracts) should be designated as "unpublished data" or "personal communication" in the text and omitted from the reference list. In this case, surname and initials of the referred author, and affiliation institution should be included. These citations, however, should be minimized as much as possible, as they do not offer a solid empirical basis for the study.
e. Avoid using "apud" or “cited by”, except if strictly necessary. The referred literature should have been read in full by the authors.
f. Avoid referring to internet sites, as they may disappear without previous notification, thus not providing a reliable empirical support. Electronic journal, however, are acceptable.
g. All the Latin terms and scientific names of organisms should appear underlined in the manuscript.
h. Arrange references alphabetically by surname of first author, and then chronologically. Arrange multi-author references having the same first author chronologically. Give the full title of the referred journal in the References.
i. In the text the references should be sequenced by data (first the older literature), and then by alphabetic order: (Montenegro, 1999; Silva, 1999; Guimarães, 2001) or (Montenegro, 1999, 2000, 2001; Antunes-Rodrigues, 2002). Inside parenthesis, two authors are linked by "&": "... decreased disease probability (Castro & Smith, 2003)". Into the phrase, two authors are separated by "and": "Castro and Smith (2003) found that ...". In the text, more than two authors are referred by the first author and "et al." (et al. in italics).

Article
Volpato GL, Barreto RE. 2001. Environmental blue light prevents stress in the fish Nile tilapia. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 34: 1041-5.

Note:
Authors abbreviations without “ . ” and separated only by “ , ”.
Year after authors.
Full name of the journal.
Journal title underlined.
Short references for pages: 169-198 should be 169-98.

Book
Nagata T. 1994. Radioautography in Medicine. Matsumoto: Shinshu University Press.

Note:
City followed by “ : ” and then the Press.
No page numbers are necessary.

Chapter in Book
Volpato GL, Trajano E. 2005. Biological Rhythms. Chapter 4. In: Val LA, Val VMFA, Randall DJ (eds.). Fish Physiology. New York: Raven Press.

Dissertation/Thesis
Davis JA. 2000. Fabrication of polydimethylsiloxane devices for embryo manipulation and culture. MSc Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Offprint

PDFs are freely available in the homepage of the Journal of Health and Environmental Sciences.

Disclaimer

The Publisher does not assume responsibility for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the articles published by the Journal of Health and Environmental Sciences. All procedures reported are expected to conform to ethical standards; inclusion in the journal does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of such procedures.

Copyright

Submission of a manuscript to this periodical imply that it represents an original unpublished text, not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Written permission to publish illustrations must be obtained by the author before submission and any acknowledgment should be included in figure captions or the acknowledgment session.