Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest and Funding Sources sections

Author contributions

In this section, the Brazilian Journal of Agricultural Sciences adopted the contributor function taxonomy from project CRediT (https://casrai.org/credit).

The corresponding author will indicate this declaration when submitting the manuscript, describing the functions of each co-author according to Table 1.

Table 1 - Functions of each author in the submitted manuscript

Role

Definition

Conceptualization

Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aim.

Data curation

Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.

Formal analysis

Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.

Funding acquisition

Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Investigation

Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.

Methodology

Development or design of methodology; creation of models.

Project administration

Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Resources

Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.

Software

Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.

Supervision

Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Validation

Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

Visualization

Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – original draft

Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – review & editing

Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

Source: CRediT. CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy. Contributor Roles Defined. https://casrai.org/credit. 17 Dec. 2020. 

Conflict of interests

The authors must declare any possible conflict of interests (professional or financial) that might affect the manuscript

 Funding sources

The authors must declare all funding sources for the described research