Professional Profile

Maria Cláudia Pestana is a Brazilian librarian, educator, researcher, and information-science professional whose career has been closely associated with the University of São Paulo (USP). Her professional trajectory combines university librarianship, scientific communication, bibliographic normalization, academic documentation, information-system management, and the training of students and professionals in standards for scholarly communication.

With more than three decades of experience in the university environment, particularly in activities linked to the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of São Paulo, she developed extensive expertise in supporting researchers, faculty members, graduate students, and editorial teams in the organization, standardization, retrieval, and communication of scientific information.

Her work also extends to methodological publishing. She is a coauthor of the forthcoming 2026 book Guia para Elaboração de Projetos e Redação de Artigos Científicos, together with Marlene Gonçalves Curty and Lisandro Gonçalves.

Career at the University of São Paulo

Her career at USP has been strongly linked to academic information services and to institutional practices for the presentation and dissemination of scientific work. This experience included direct interaction with graduate education, scientific publishing, academic libraries, and information systems.

A significant part of her professional contribution has been associated with the standardization of dissertations, theses, scientific manuscripts, references, and documentary elements used in academic communication.

Editorial Standards and Bibliographic Normalization

Her professional work is centered on the application and interpretation of technical standards for scholarly and institutional documents. She has long-standing experience with ABNT standards, bibliographic references, citations, academic works, and biomedical-documentation conventions, including the Vancouver system.

Since 1998, she has participated in activities associated with ABNT Information and Documentation and has also taught courses through UniABNT. Her work combines normative interpretation with the practical needs of researchers, postgraduate programs, libraries, scientific journals, and technical institutions.

Teaching, Training, and Scientific Communication

Maria Cláudia Pestana has taught courses and delivered lectures on the preparation and normalization of academic works for public and private institutions. At USP, she was responsible for training graduate students in ABNT and Vancouver standards at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry.

Her educational activities also encompass scientific methodology, academic information practices, bibliographic organization, and the professional responsibilities involved in producing clear, traceable, and standardized scholarly documents.

Technical Normalization and Editorial Quality

Her technical-normalization experience includes work associated with scientific journals and institutional publications, including the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science , Nutrire: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Alimentação e Nutrição , and the 2025 third revised and expanded edition of CETESB's Manual de gerenciamento de áreas contaminadas .

This background places her work at the intersection of library science, publishing standards, document quality, metadata consistency, and the reproducibility of scientific information.