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 and the 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 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.

Classe 1Classe 2Classe 3Classe 4
$ 100.00$ 80.00$ 65.00$ 50.00
AndorraAlbaniaAngolaAfghanistan
Antigua and BarbudaAlgeriaBangladeshBenin
ArubaAmerican SamoaBhutanBurkina Faso
AustraliaArgentinaBoliviaBurundi
AustriaArmeniaCabo VerdeCentral African Republic
Bahamas, TheAzerbaijanCambodiaChad
BahrainBelarusCameroonCongo, Dem. Rep.
BarbadosBelizeComorosEritrea
BelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaCongo, Rep.Ethiopia
BermudaBotswanaCôte d’IvoireGambia, The
British Virgin IslandsBulgariaDjiboutiGuinea
Brunei DarussalamChinaEgypt, Arab Rep.Guinea-Bissau
CanadaChile*El SalvadorHaiti
Cayman IslandsColombiaEswatiniKorea, Dem. People’s Rep.
Channel IslandsCosta RicaGhanaLiberia
CroatiaCubaHondurasMadagascar
CuraçaoDominicaIndiaMalawi
CyprusDominican RepublicIndonesiaMali
Czech RepublicEcuadorKenyaMozambique
DenmarkEquatorial GuineaKiribatiNepal
EstoniaFijiKyrgyz RepublicNiger
Faroe IslandsGabonLao PDRRwanda
FinlandGeorgiaLesothoSierra Leone
FranceGrenadaMauritaniaSomalia
French PolynesiaGuatemalaMicronesia, Fed. Sts.South Sudan
GermanyGuyanaMoldovaSyrian Arab Republic
GibraltarIran, Islamic Rep.MongoliaTajikistan
GreeceIraqMoroccoTanzania
GreenlandJamaicaMyanmarTogo
GuamJordanNicaraguaUganda
Hong Kong SAR, ChinaKazakhstanNigeriaYemen, Rep.
HungaryKosovoPakistan
IcelandLebanonPapua New Guinea
IrelandLibyaPhilippines
Isle of ManMalaysiaSão Tomé and Principe
IsraelMaldivesSan Salvador
ItalyMarshall IslandsSenegal
JapanMauritiusSolomon Islands
Korea, Rep.MexicoSudan
KuwaitMontenegroTimor-Leste
LatviaNamibiaTunisia
LiechtensteinNauruUkraine
LithuaniaNorth MacedoniaUzbekistan
LuxembourgPanamá*Vanuatu
Macao SAR, ChinaParaguayVietnam
MaltaPeruWest Bank and Gaza
MonacoPortugal*Zambia
NetherlandsRomaniaZimbabwe
New CaledoniaRussian Federation
New ZealandSamoa
Northern Mariana IslandsSerbia
NorwaySouth Africa
OmanSpain*
PalauSri Lanka
PolandSt. Lucia
Puerto RicoSt. Vincent and the Grenadines
QatarSuriname
San MarinoThailand
Saudi ArabiaTonga
SeychellesTurkey
SingaporeTurkmenistan
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)Tuvalu
Slovak RepublicUruguay*
SloveniaVenezuela, RB
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Martin (French part)
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan, China
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Virgin Islands (U.S.)

*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.