Star formation rate versus stellar mass for 5590 star-forming galaxies selected from the VUDS survey at z > 1.5 (grey open squares) and at 2 < z < 3.5 (yellow crosses), and the 238 star-forming galaxies (blue stars) considered in this work. The black dot-dashed line shows the main sequence of star-forming galaxies for 1.5 < z < 2.5 including its ±.3 dex scatter represented by the green shaded region, as defined by Hathi et al. (2016). Top and right panels: report the distributions in stellar mass and SFR for the 238 star-forming galaxies evaluated in this work.