Publication Ethics

Editorial policy and ethics in the publication in the Bulletin of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Natural Sciences

All editorial processes are processed in the Bulletin of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Natural Sciences must meet the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), whose original text in English can be seen at https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_1.pdf and the version translated into Portuguese at http://www .periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/CCBP-COPE.pdf. These guidelines should guide Editors, reviewers, and authors regarding ethical issues concerning the editorial and peer review process, to prevent misconduct in the publication. The Editors, the Scientific Council, and the ad hoc scientific consultants are ethically responsible for secrecy and voluntary collaboration to ensure the scientific quality of publications and the Journal. The authors are responsible for the veracity of the information provided, the disposal of the materials studied in legal institutions, when applicable, and the compliance with local laws governing the collection, study, and publication of data.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

In cases of possible conflicts of interest or other issues that the author may deem relevant, the Editor can be informed at the time of the manuscript submission, in the field entitled "Comments to the Editor". Guest Editors and referees should also decline to participate in the evaluation process of manuscripts in which they verify the existence of conflicts of interest. The Journal follows the guidelines proposed by COPE to guide decisions in cases of this nature (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Flowcharts).

DATA SHARING AND REPRODUCIBILITY

All data, code, and materials underlying the article and used in the design and conduct of the research should be properly cited in the text and included in the reference list, preferably with a persistent identifier such as DOI. Articles will not be published until the citations are in compliance with these standards.

The Journal's policy is to publish articles only if the data, methods used in the analysis, and materials used to conduct the research are clearly and accurately documented and maximally available to any researcher to reproduce the results or replicate the procedure. It is considered that:

1. Authors reusing data available from public repositories should provide program codes, scripts for statistical packages, and other documentation sufficient to allow an informed researcher to reproduce all published results accurately;

2. Authors using original data should:

A) Make the data available in a trusted digital repository. If all the data that are necessary to reproduce the reported analyses are in the text and/or in tables and figures of the article, they do not need to be posted in a repository;

B) Include all variables, treatment conditions, and remarks described in the manuscript;

C) Provide a complete listing of the procedures used to collect, pre-process, clean, or generate the data;

D) Provide program codes, scripts, codebooks, and other documentation sufficient to accurately reproduce all published results;

E) Provide research materials and a description of procedures necessary to perform an independent replication of the published research.

3. In rare cases, despite the authors' best efforts, some or all data or materials cannot be shared for legal or ethical reasons. In such cases, authors should inform the Editors when submitting. This will be taken into consideration during the evaluation process. Authors are encouraged to anticipate sharing data and materials at the beginning of their projects by anticipating this purpose. It is understood that in some cases access will be allowed under restrictions to protect confidential or proprietary information. Editors may grant exceptions to data and material access requirements, as long as the authors:

A) Explain the restrictions on the data set or materials and how they prevent public access;

B) Provide a public description of the steps that others should follow to request access to the data or materials;

C) Provide software and other documentation that accurately reproduces all published results;

D) Provide access to all data and materials to which the restrictions do not apply.

4. Data, program codes, research material, and other documentation of the research process should be made available through a reliable digital repository. Trusted repositories adhere to policies that make data discoverable, accessible, usable, and preserved for the long term. Trusted repositories also assign unique and persistent identifiers. For example, these services are offered by partners in the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) and by most institutional repositories. Sites maintained by authors do not comply with this requirement:

A) Disclosure of these materials may be delayed until publication. In exceptional circumstances, editors can grant an embargo on the public disclosure of data up to a maximum of one year after publication;

B) Articles accepted for publication will not receive a publication date until the above conditions have been met. Authors are responsible for ensuring that their articles continue to meet these conditions. Failure to do so may lead to an editorial expression of concern or retraction of the article.

We recommend that before submission, authors check that the article follows the standards appropriate to the research topic, available at http://www.equator-network.org/, and use those that are relevant to the reported research applications. It is recommended that the checklist/form used is sent together with the article at submission as a supporting document.

During submission, authors should inform whether there is pre-registration of the study/pre-registration of the analysis plan in an independent institutional repository (e.g., http://clinicaltrials.gov/, http://osf.io/, http://egap.org/designregistration/, http://ridie.3ieimpact.org/), and, if so, make it available to the Bulletin before publication for validity checking.

The Journal encourages the submission of replication studies, especially of studies published in the Journal.

OPEN ACCESS AND COPYRIGHT

The Bulletin is an open access Journal under the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which means that all content is available for free download, distribution, and adaptation of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes, with attribution to the original article required. There are also no charges for manuscript submission or publication.

Publication implies the full assignment of copyright of the manuscript to the Journal. The declaration for the assignment of copyrights is sent together with the notification of acceptance of the article. It should be returned signed via email. All authors must sign a declaration.

After publication, authors can make the PDF available on their profiles on academic social networks, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Scribd, ORCID, and other free social media sites.

AUTHORSHIP CRITERIA AND AUTHORS' RESPONSIBILITIES

The Editors of the Journal understand that the definition of authorship for scientific work is based on the premise that the researchers have contributed intellectually directly and substantially to the conception or realization of the research. The Journal adopts principles of authorship defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/), which indicates the need for transparency about who contributed to the work and what role they played in it, and that it is essential to indicate conflicts of research interest. They are also based on the "Code of Good Scientific Practice", prepared by the Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo (FAPESP) (https://fapesp.br/boaspraticas/2014/FAPESP-Codigo_de_Boas_Praticas_Cientificas.pdf).

At the time of submission to the Bulletin, authors must submit a file with information about each author's contribution, which should be described using the following categories: 1) Project management; 2) Formal analysis; 3) Acquisition of funding; 4) Conceptualization; 5) Data curating; 6) Writing - original draft; 7) Writing - review and editing; 8) Research; 9) Methodology; 10) Resources; 11) Software; 12) Supervision; 13) Validation; 14) Visualization. Each of the authors must have contributed to at least two of these categories. For more information about the authors' contributions, please see https://www.elsevier.com/authors/policies-and-guidelines/credit-author-statement

EDITORIAL POLICY ON PUBLICATION AND PLAGIARISM CHECKING

The Bulletin publishes original contributions in the categories Scientific Articles, Research Notes, Memory, and Bibliographic Reviews. Requirements for submitting a manuscript to the Journal are: 1) Confirm that the manuscript has been submitted exclusively to the Bulletin and has not been published, printed, or submitted elsewhere; 2) Confirm that all research meets ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the country studied; 3) Confirm that a full text has been prepared without the title page (with authorship identification), acknowledgments, and any headings with authors' names, to allow peer review; 4) Confirm that the submission file is in Microsoft Word format; 5) Confirm that the text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors, and 6) Confirm that the name and email address of at least six potential referees have been entered in the "Comments to the Editor" field. Submitted papers are first evaluated by the Editor or one of the Associate Editors. Once accepted, papers are submitted to peer review (peer-review).

Submissions of previously published texts or texts submitted simultaneously to another Journal are rejected. The Journal will adopt Crossref's Similarity Check plagiarism detection system in 2021. Titles with misappropriation of thirdparty texts will not be considered for evaluation. The Editors emphasize the need to use quotation marks in direct citations and to clearly inform the source from which the data are extracted, following the COPE criteria, both for cases of citation of third-party texts and for self-citations. In cases of submission of texts arising from Theses and Dissertations, the Editors understand that they may be published in the Bulletin after evaluation, but the academic work must be referenced and a statement in the Acknowledgements section that the research was linked to graduate programs and/or research projects. The Journal does not accept expanded abstracts, texts in report form nor papers previously published in proceedings, CDs, or other media.

The Bulletin accepts exact translations of previously published papers. For this, the author needs to inform that it is a translation at the time of submission and to submit a document with the permission of the original publisher and the authors. The original work must also be clearly referenced.

CORRECTIONS AND RETRACTIONS

If necessary, corrections and retractions will be published, based on the procedures recommended in COPE's Retraction Guidelines, available at https://publicationethics.org/files/cope-retraction-guidelines-v2.pdf. For this, authors and readers should send their requests to the email boletim.naturais@museu-goeldi.br, which will be evaluated by the Journal's Editors. Errata may be published in cases evaluated as pertinent by the Editors.