About the Journal

Focus and scope

Neotropical Veterinary and Animal Science (NVAS) is a broad-scope journal covering the whole spectrum of veterinary medicine and animal science, from basic and translational research to clinical practice, production, technology, public health and policy. Topics include:

  • Companion animal medicine and surgery (including dermatology, cardiology, oncology, neurology, ophthalmology and dentistry)
  • Equine medicine, surgery and sports medicine
  • Farm animal health and production medicine (ruminants, swine and poultry)
  • Aquatic animal health and aquaculture
  • Wildlife, zoo, exotic and conservation medicine
  • Anatomy, morphology, physiology and biochemistry
  • Veterinary pathology, clinical pathology and laboratory diagnostics
  • Diagnostic imaging
  • Anaesthesia, analgesia, emergency and critical care
  • Microbiology, virology, immunology and vaccinology
  • Parasitology and vector-borne diseases
  • Pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, including antimicrobial resistance and stewardship
  • Epidemiology, preventive medicine and biosecurity
  • One Health, zoonoses and veterinary public health
  • Food safety, inspection and technology of products of animal origin
  • Animal nutrition and feed science
  • Animal production systems, husbandry, sustainability and climate
  • Animal reproduction and reproductive biotechnology
  • Animal genetics, genomics and breeding
  • Animal welfare, behaviour and ethics
  • Technology applied to animal production and veterinary medicine: precision livestock farming, sensors and IoT, artificial intelligence and computer vision, telemedicine and digital health, bioinformatics, robotics and software
  • Laboratory animal science and comparative and translational medicine
  • Veterinary forensic medicine and legal veterinary medicine
  • Veterinary education, practice management, economics and policy

All animal species are within scope: companion, farm, equine, aquatic, wild, zoo, exotic and laboratory animals. The journal gives special attention to the species, production systems, diseases and environmental challenges of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) and other tropical regions, but welcomes high-quality work from any country.

Article types

  • Original Research Articles: complete experimental, observational, clinical, diagnostic or field studies.
  • Short Communications: concise reports of novel, preliminary or confirmatory findings.
  • Case Reports and Case Series: clinical, pathological, forensic or epidemiological cases with novelty or educational value.
  • Clinical Images: a striking image (clinical, imaging, gross or microscopic) with a brief educational description.
  • Reviews: systematic reviews and meta-analyses, scoping reviews, narrative reviews and mini-reviews.
  • Methods and Technical Notes: new or improved techniques, protocols, diagnostic tests, devices or software.
  • Data Articles: descriptions of datasets (surveillance, production, genomic, clinical) deposited in public repositories.
  • Perspectives and Commentaries: evidence-based opinion on emerging issues, technology, policy, education or practice.
  • Letters to the Editor and Editorials.
  • Proceedings and Supplements: peer-reviewed abstracts or papers from scientific events and thematic supplements.

Authorship requirement

Every manuscript must include at least one author who has completed an undergraduate degree in veterinary medicine, animal science or a related field, who acts as guarantor of the work and is identified with a verifiable Lattes CV, professional registration (CRMV) or ORCID profile. Manuscripts authored only by students are not accepted; students must publish with their supervisor or a graduated professional responsible for the work.

Peer review

All manuscripts are screened by the editors for scope, ethics, reporting completeness and similarity. Manuscripts that pass screening undergo double-anonymous peer review by at least two independent reviewers; a statistical or methodological review may be requested. The journal follows the COPE core practices, the ICMJE Recommendations and the EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines (ARRIVE 2.0, STROBE-Vet, CONSORT/REFLECT, STARD, CARE, PRISMA 2020).

Research ethics

Studies involving animals must have been approved by an animal ethics committee (in Brazil, a CEUA under Law 11,794/2008 and CONCEA rules) or equivalent body and reported according to ARRIVE 2.0. Client-owned animals require the owner's informed consent; studies on commercial farms require the consent of the establishment and must meet at least the welfare standards of the applicable legislation; field trials with investigational veterinary products must report the regulatory authorization (in Brazil, MAPA). Work with wild fauna or Brazilian genetic heritage must report the applicable permits (SISBIO, SisGen). Research involving people (questionnaires, interviews, human samples) requires approval by a human research ethics committee (in Brazil, CEP/Plataforma Brasil) and participant consent.

Research data

Authors are encouraged to deposit the data, code and protocols that support their findings in public repositories with a DOI (e.g. Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, Mendeley Data, GenBank), to provide them as supplementary material or to publish a linked Data Article in NVAS. Every article includes a Data Availability Statement.

Artificial intelligence

AI tools cannot be authors. Generative AI may be used to improve language, with a declaration in the manuscript; it may not be used to generate data, results, interpretations or images, and every reference must be verified by the authors. AI used as a research method must be fully described in the Methods. Reviewers and editors must not upload manuscripts to AI tools. Details are in the Guide for Authors.

Publication frequency

Continuous publication: articles are published online as soon as they are ready and are grouped into one volume per year.

Open access and licensing

All articles are freely available immediately upon publication under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright. Every published article receives a DOI. Posting preprints is permitted.

Publication fees

There are no submission fees. No article processing charge (APC) is charged for manuscripts accepted on or before 31 January 2027. Any APC for manuscripts accepted after that date will be announced in advance on this page, and fee waivers will be available.

Publisher

NVAS is published by CSVET Editora, Cursos e Treinamentos (CNPJ 32.645.724/0001-89), Americana, SP, Brazil. The publisher operates online. Contact: contato@csvet.com.br.

Editor-in-Chief: Atilio Sersun Calefi, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, São Paulo, Brazil (calefi@csvet.com.br). The Editor-in-Chief is also the director of CSVET Editora. To avoid conflicts of interest, manuscripts authored by the Editor-in-Chief or by other editors are handled by an independent editor and undergo the same double-anonymous peer review as all other submissions.