Publication expenses – including those of the peer review management, journal production, and online hosting and archiving – are covered by charging a publication fee.

For Brazilian manuscripts in which the first author our corresponding author are members of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo – SBCS (Brazilian Soil Science Society), the publication fee per page is R$ 80.00. If the first author or the corresponding author are not members of the SBCS, the publication fee per page is R$ 200.00.

For foreign authors, the RBCS adopts a policy that takes into account the development level of the authors’ country. The classification is done according to World Bank data released in 2019. Countries grouped in Class 1 will pay $ 100.00 per page, while countries from Classes 2, 3 and 4 will be charged in $ 80.00, $ 65.00 and $ 50 per page, respectively. To find out which class your country fits into, see the table below.

*The classification of this country was based on data from the World Bank and because it is member of the Latin American Soil Science Society.