Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Use 1.5 line spacing; 12-point font; italics instead of underlining (except for URLs); and place all illustrations, figures, and tables within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The dataset has been submitted together with the article and/or is already available in a recognized repository
  • The author responsible for the submission, representing all other authors (if any), declares that the data collection was conducted in an ethical basis, especially when it involved experiments with humans, animals, and/or personal data, in this last case including data obtained in interviews, forms, social networks, and/or any type of information that may violate some of the precepts of the General Law of Personal Data Protection (LGPD), Law No. 13,709, of August 14, 2018. All reasonable procedures for anonymization have been employed to make it impossible to identify individuals, even with their express authorization. The author(s) is (are) the owner(s) of the data and/or has (have) full ownership to share them without any kind of restriction, and the same are not prevented from being used due to confidentiality agreements or any other form of access control.
  • The person responsible for the submission will register all the authors and must inform: First and Last Name; contact email; country of origin; ORCID; Institution. This information must be informed at the moment of submission. It is not enough for this information to be available in the manuscript, it must be entered one by one at the time of submission.

Author Guidelines

Latin American Data in Science (LADS) publishes exclusively data papers across all fields of knowledge.

Introduction

The speed of the evaluation and publication process depends on correctly submitting all required information for your data paper. Carefully read these instructions and thoroughly review your manuscript before submission.

LADS exclusively publishes research data descriptions (data papers), which must either be deposited in a public repository or included directly within the submitted manuscript. Authors must ensure data originality, ownership, and unrestricted availability for third-party use at no cost. Submissions must contain robust datasets; databases with limited variables, samples, or predominantly secondary data are not accepted.

LADS accepts manuscripts in Portuguese, English, or Spanish. Articles must follow the journal’s template, ideally ranging between 1,500 and 3,000 words. Manuscripts exceeding 3,000 words are subject to differentiated publication fees.

All submissions must be submitted through the journal’s official website. Submissions via other methods will not be accepted. For multi-author papers, author order must reflect individual contributions.

Submitting manuscripts implies author consent for publication without royalty payments. Additional authors cannot be included post-submission. It is crucial to accurately enter author metadata upon submission.

IMPORTANT: At submission, you must provide each author's: First and Last Names; contact email; country; ORCID; Institution.

Submit Your Data Paper

  • All authors must prepare manuscripts using the LADS template (Download template).

  • Verify guidelines and formatting standards.

  • Submit your document.

Checklist

Manuscripts must include:

  • Authors and affiliations.

  • List of previous publications using data (if applicable).

  • Direct link to deposited data (when applicable).

  • Title (original language and English translation, if in Portuguese or Spanish).

  • Abstract and 5 keywords (original language and English translation, if in Portuguese or Spanish).

  • 3-5 points highlighting data value for other researchers.

  • Detailed experimental design and materials/methods.

  • Comprehensive description of datasets.

  • References.

Important Notes

  • Maximum of 20 pages.

  • Font: Calibri, size 12, line spacing: 1.5 (captions use single spacing).

  • Editable figures, tables, and charts must be placed within the text (Font size 10).

  • Mathematical formulas and equations integrated in-text, using Word or fully compatible tools (.docx).

  • Manuscripts in Portuguese or Spanish must include an English title at the beginning (Font size 14; capitalize only first letter and required names).

  • Abstract and keywords in original language and English.

Authors must confirm compliance with all items. Non-compliant submissions will be returned.

  • Original and unpublished manuscript, not under review elsewhere.

  • Submission file: Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format.

  • DOIs for references included, when available.

  • All references formatted per journal guidelines.

  • Text uses Calibri 12-point font, 1.5 line spacing.

  • Figures/tables included in text (not as appendices).

  • All authorship identifications removed from text and file properties.

  • Responsible submitter registers all authors with required metadata upon submission.

  • Publication contingent on approval and inclusion of ORCID for all authors. Failure to comply may delay publication.

Submission

All submissions must be made via the LADS system (Access here). Registration, login, and password are required to submit articles and monitor editorial progress.

Articles

This section exclusively publishes articles in data paper format, which present a robust dataset, predominantly of primary data and with scientific methods that enable its use in scientific production.

Articles should be submitted via the official LADS website and should be structured using the template provided by the journal, preferably containing between 5 and 10 pages.

Copyright Notice

The submission of manuscripts to LADS implies the transfer by the authors of the publication rights. The copyright for articles published in this journal belongs to the author, with the journal's rights over the first publication. Authors may only use the same results in other publications by clearly indicating LADS as the medium of the original publication.

Articles published in LADS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original publication is properly cited.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.