This journal has evaluators internal and external to the publishing institution ('Environmental Smoke'), including from other countries.

- Articles are evaluated according to the following required items:

1) Correct number of pages for the type of manuscript to be submitted;

2) Citations in the text are correctly found in the references section, and vice versa;

3) Compliance with ethical standards;

4) Originality of the manuscript, with plagiarism detection;

5) Theme of relevance in the area in which the manuscript fits;

6) Obeying the structure according to the Guidelines for Authors section;

7) Abstract with introduction structure, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion;

8) References in accordance with recent standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards ("Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas"-ABNT).