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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Contributions must be original, and shall not have been submitted for publication in another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in “Comments to the Editor”

  • The files for submission were generated by widely used text processing software, such as Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format (not exceeding 2MB); documents in any other format will not be accepted

  • URLs are informed in the references when necessary

  • The text spacing is 1.5; in 12-point Times New Roman font; use of italics instead of underlining (except in URL addresses); the tables were generated in the text editor and are inserted in the body of the text, not at the end of the document, as attachments; the images have their insertion space indicated in the body of the text, in sequential numbering in square brackets ([Image 1], [Image 2], etc.) and their individual files will be included as supplementary documents

  • The text should fully follow the patterns of style and bibliographical requirements described in the Authors Guidelines, in the section “About the Journal”

  • For manuscripts other than preprints, the identification of authorship of the work must be removed from the file and the Properties option in Word, thus ensuring the confidentiality criteria of the journal, if it is to be subjected to peer review (i.e. articles), accordingly with available instructions in Ensuring Blind Peer Review.

  • If the authors decide to deposit the manuscript on a preprint server simultaneously with the submission for evaluation in the journal, they commit themselves to depositing it on one of the servers accepted by Conjuntura Austral;
  • The authors ensure that the existence of any financial, commercial, political, academic, and/or personal conflicts of interest in relation to the manuscript, as well as all material and/or financial support received for the development of the research that originated this manuscript, are clearly informed in the field "Comments to the Editor" and also in the Letter to the Editorial Committee.
  • The authors correctly and completely filled out the Letter to the Editorial Committee, which will be forwarded as a supplementary document when submitting their manuscript.
  • The authors are aware and fully in accordance with the Guidelines on Ethics and Good Editorial Practices in Scientific Publishing adopted by the journal.

Author Guidelines

1. Conjuntura Austral publishes Scenario Analysis pieces, Research Articles and Book Reviews, in Portuguese, English and Spanish;

2. The journal is divided in four sections: Scenario Analysis (Scenario Analysis pieces); Research (Research Articles), Review (Book Reviews) and Dossier (Thematic Dossiers and Special Editions);

3. Contributions must be original and may have been deposited (prior or simultaneously to submission for evaluation for publication in the journal) on the preprint servers considered by Conjuntura Austral;

3.1 The journal accepts submissions of preprints deposited on the following servers:

- American Political Science Association

- OSF Preprints

- Preprints.org

- SciELO Preprints

3.1.1. If the authors decide to deposit the manuscript on a preprint server simultaneously with submission to the journal, they commit themselves to deposit it on one of the servers considered by Conjuntura Austral;

3.2 The preprints submitted to the journal will be evaluated by three reviewers, at least one member of the Editorial Committee and two others selected on an ad hoc basis by the Editorial Committee;

3.2.1. If requested, the names of the referees may be, at the discretion of the Editorial Committee, informed to the authors of the manuscript;

3.2.2. In case of approval of the preprints for publication, the issued assessments will also be published and may be, at the discretion of the Editorial Committee, accompanied by the names of the respective reviewers;

3.3 If the contribution is deposited on a preprint server, the authors must inform the Editorial Committee of it by filling in the specific field in the Letter to the Editorial Committee. The letter is available here, and must be sent as a supplementary document at the time of submission of the manuscript;

4. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must respect specific criteria for minimum and maximum numbers of characters; this character count includes the title, abstract, and keywords (in the original language and in English), body text, and footnotes; references are not included, however.

4.1 Manuscripts that are not suitable for the established size criteria may, upon request and from the evaluation of the Editorial Committee, be considered for publication. This request, as well as its justification, must be presented at the time of submission, in the section "Comments to the Editor" in the process of submitting articles in the system;

4.2 Scenario analysis articles must contain between 20 thousand and 30 thousand characters (including spaces);

4.2.1 Scenario Analysis should be scientific texts that analyze a current international situation or fact, seeking an explanation that locates such a situation or fact in broader explanatory structures (theoretical or historical). Unlike a journalistic or informative text, the scenario analysis should aim for broader explanatory elements, based on relevant bibliography, correlating the issue in question. The scenario analysis must be able to articulate specific and structural elements in a balanced way, offering a provisional explanation to the international issue under consideration.

4.3 Research articles must contain between 35 thousand and 50 thousand characters (including spaces);

4.2.1 Research articles must be the product of original scientific research. They may be partial results of a broader research, but which may already be released as a closed unit. They must have originality, conceptual precision, a clear definition of the problem, objectives and correct treatment of the data, adopt and present clearly appropriate methodology, be referenced in the relevant bibliography, and present clear results. The text must be sufficiently clear for a wider audience. The use of images and tables that have not been produced for the article weakens the submission and should be avoided.

4.4 Book Reviews must contain between 7 thousand and 12 thousand characters (including spaces).

4.3.1 Book reviews should be critical and analytical, and should not be limited to the presentation of the book reviewed. The text is expected to contribute not only to the knowledge of the work (clearly and objectively identifying both its central argument and its support structure) but also to situate it in the field of International Relations studies, presenting elements that demonstrate its interaction with other works and also its current character and relevance;

5. Information about the authors (full name, title, ORCID iD, institutional affiliation- with the name of the institution in full -and contact email) must be inserted in the respective fields of the journal's submission platform for all authors;

5.1 This information must also be filled out in the Letter to the Editorial Committee, available here, which must be sent as a complementary document when submitting the manuscript;

5.2. Manuscripts, especially those that are not preprints, must not contain any information about the authors;

6. The entire completion, by the authors, of the article submission form in the Journal system is mandatory; submissions with missing author information will not be forwarded for evaluation;

6.1 The article submission form must also be completed in a second language (Portuguese or Spanish), which is possible through the language change option available at the top of the form (change the language in the specific field at the top of the form and click on "submit" button);

6.2 The submission form field that reads URL must be filled in with the link to the author’s Lattes Curriculum, if they have one;

6.3 All authors must have their ORCID iD filled in at the time of submission. In case of receiving a message informing that the ORCID iD is invalid, try removing the "S" from "https" in the ORCID iD address. If the problem persists, contact the Conjuntura Austral team;

7. Articles with more than three authors will not be considered for evaluation, except in cases considered pertinent by the Editorial Committee and upon request. This request, as well as its justification, must be presented by the authors in the section "Comments to the editor", in the process of submitting articles in the system;

8. The minimum degree for the submission of manuscripts is a Masters’ degree;

8.1 Work by undergraduate students will not be accepted, even in the case of co-authorship;

8.2 Work by master’s degree students will only be accepted if accompanied by a co-author with a higher degree;

9. In the case of bibliographic reviews only contributions of works published no later than 24 months before submission will be accepted;

9.1 The reviewed works’ complete information and their ISBN must be informed;

9.2 Book reviews will not go through the double-blind peer review process, with their evaluation carried out by members of the journal's Editorial Committee;

10. All contributions must be accompanied by:

10.1 Three keywords in the original language and in English, separated by semicolons (;);

10.2 Title in original language and in English;

10.3 Summary in the original language and in English;

10.4 In addition to being included in the file submitted for evaluation, this information must be entered in the fields intended for them at the time of submission in the system. The inclusion of the information in the second language is possible through the language change option available at the top of the form (change the language in the specific field at the top of the form and click on "submit" button);

11. In the case of contributions in English, they must also present:

11.1 Three keywords in a second language (Portuguese or Spanish), separated by semicolons (;);

11.2 Title in a second language (Portuguese or Spanish);

11.3 Abstract in a second language (Portuguese or Spanish);

11.4 In addition to being included in the file submitted for evaluation, this information must be entered in the fields intended for them at the time of submission in the system. The inclusion of the information in the second language is possible through the language change option available at the top of the form (change the language in the specific field at the top of the form and click on "submit" button);

12. Article titles must have a maximum of 200 characters (spaces included) and must not be inserted in capital letters on the submission form in the system.

13. Abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words, and present, in a clear and concise manner, the theme, objectives, methods, and conclusions of the work.

14. Contributions should be generated by widely used text processing software and presented in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format, using Times New Roman font, size 12, spacing 1.5 between lines, without spacing between paragraphs; contributions in any other format will not be accepted;

15. Footnotes are restricted to additional clarifications of the text, and should not contain bibliographic references or website links;

15.1 In case the footnote is inserted at the end of a sentence, it must be included after the period;

16. Images (flowcharts, maps, tables, graphs and figures) should only be used when essential for the illustration of the arguments developed in the text;

16.1 Tables, graphs, and flowcharts must be produced in the same text production software used in the preparation of the manuscript (or in compatible software), and must be included in the body of the text, with appropriate titles, legends, and references, and not as images or at the end of the text, as annexes;

16.2 The location of maps and images must be indicated sequentially ([Figure 1], [Figure 2], etc.) in the body of the text, accompanied by their titles and respective references;

16.2.1 Images should not be included in the body of the text, but sent as complementary documents, in .jpeg format with a resolution of at least 300 dpi;

16.2.2 In case of using images that have not been produced by the authors and that do not have a license that allows their free reproduction, the submission must include, as a complementary document, a formal authorization signed by the author, editor and/or copyright holder of the image for its use and reproduction in the article submitted to Conjuntura Austral: Journal of the Global South;

17. Direct citations must follow the ABNT 10520/2002 standard formatting: up to three lines in the body of the text within quotation marks; greater than three lines with 4 cm indentation on the left side, single spacing, and font size 10;

17.1 Citations must be in the same language as the article. If the cited text is in another language, the translation of the passage in question must be used in the body of the text, accompanied by an indication that the translation was done by the authors of the manuscript, and the original version of the quote may be introduced as a footnote;

18. References must be listed at the end of the text and must be restricted to only those actually cited in the article;

18.1 The (AUTHOR, date) system must be strictly observed. References in footnotes will not be accepted;

19. Bibliographic references must be in alphabetical order by surname, and must appear at the end of the paper. In addition to being included in the file submitted for evaluation, references must be inserted in the field provided for them at the time of submission in the system. The formatting guidelines adopted by the journal are the following:

LAST NAME, Name. Book title: subtitle. City: Publisher, Year.

LAST NAME, Name; LAST NAME, Name. Title of Chapter/Article. In: SURNAME, Name; Last name (Eds). Book title: book subtitle. City: Publisher, Year, Chapter X, p. xx-xx

LAST NAME, Name. Title of Article. Name of the Journal. City of the journal, v.X, n.X, p. xx-xx, Year. Available at: Link to article. Access in day month year.

LAST NAME, Name. Title of academic thesis: subtitle. Doctoral Thesis in (field), University, Country, Year, (number of pages)p.

LAST NAME, Name. Newspaper / magazine headline. Name of the newspaper / magazine. City, day, month. year (from news publication). Available at: link to news. Access in day month. year.

20. In case of any doubts regarding the format of bibliographic references, use NBR 6023:2018 and NBR10520:2002 from ABNT as style guide;

20.1 As a way of ensuring conformity with the style adopted by the journal, Conjuntura Austral encourages authors to use the tool MyBib for the elaboration of the reference list;

20.1.1 The citation style to be used is “Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - SBUFRGS - ABNT (autoria completa) (Portuguese - Brazil)”;

20.2 If doubts still persist, the authors are advised to consult Conjuntura Austral editorial team before submitting the manuscripts

21. Manuscripts submitted to Conjuntura Austral must not contain jargon and must be written clearly and concisely. Non-discriminatory and scientific language are mandatory, and racist, sexist or any other terms that express or connote any form of prejudice will not be tolerated;

22. Terms and expressions in a language other than the main one of the manuscript must be indicated in italics;

23. Data sets used to support the arguments and conclusions of articles should preferably be made available in full and free of charge to the journal's readers;

23.1 The submitted manuscripts must cite and reference all data, databases, program codes and other materials that have been used or generated in the research;

24. The articles must necessarily contain sections of introduction, conclusion, and bibliographic references;

24.1 The excessive fragmentation of the text structure, by inserting more than two subheadings, should be avoided

24.2 The article's theme, research problem, and methodology must be presented in a clear and easily identifiable way in the introduction section of the manuscripts

24.3 Charts, tables, or figures of any sort are not allowed in the introduction and conclusions sections;

25. Conjuntura Austral does not publish more than one article by the same author in an interval of less than twelve months; simultaneous submissions by the same author will not be accepted;

26. Authors should complete the Letter to the Editorial Committee, available at this link, and include it as a supplementary document when submitting the article;

27. Acknowledgments should be included only in cases where they refer to substantial support received by the authors in the development of the research that originated the article;

27.1. Acknowledgments must be inserted by the authors in the specific field in the Letter to the Editorial Committee;

27.2. Acknowledgments to aids or grants, as well as acknowledgments to collaborations from colleagues, and eventual mention to the origin of an article (such as for instance, theses) must be indicated in this section;

27.3. Acknowledgments to the peer reviewers that examined the article as well as dedications are not allowed;

27.4. Acknowledgments to individuals must precede the acknowledgments to institutions or agencies;

28. In case their manuscripts are approved for publication, authors commit themselves to providing Conjuntura Austral with materials such as press releases, interviews or any other information requested by the journal's Editorial Team;

29. Conjuntura Austral: Journal of Global South receives proposals for thematic dossiers or special editions;

29.1 A thematic dossier or special edition generally includes between 5 and 7 articles on a common theme or set of issues;

29.2. Proposals for thematic dossiers and/or special editions should be sent to the journal's e-mail (conjunturaaustral@ufrgs.br), have a maximum of three authors, and be accompanied by the following information:

29.2.1. Name, affiliation, contact information and short bio of the applicants, as well as links to their Lattes Curriculum (if they have one) and ORCIDid address;

29.2.1.1 At least one of the authors must hold a PhD degree, and all of them must have at least a master's degree;

29.2.2 Proposal for the special edition or dossier, with a maximum of 4,000 words in length (including notes and references), containing the title proposed for the special edition or dossier, a presentation of the theme and the justification of the proposed edition;

29.2.3 A list with the names, contacts and ORCIDid of at least 10 (ten) possible referees to be considered to evaluate the manuscripts submitted to the edition.

29.3. Together with the Editorial Committee of Conjuntura Austral, the proponents of the dossier or special edition, as Invited Editors, will be responsible for disseminating the edition and obtaining articles for evaluation, as well as for supervising the peer-review process;

29.3.1 Proponents will be allowed to prepare an Editorial for the proposed edition. The Editorial must be scientific in nature and subject to academic citation, not limiting itself to the mere presentation of the edition;

29.4. Approved proposals will be available in the journal's system, as a special call for papers, for at least 60 days. During this period any author (following the guidelines of the journal) will be able to send articles, book reviews or scenario analysis pieces to be considered for publication on the proposed issue;

29.4.1 Conjuntura Austral does not publish full or complete numbers. Therefore, all thematic dossiers and special editions are open to the submission of manuscripts by all interested researchers;

29.5. Manuscripts submitted for these editions must follow the same guidelines as other submissions, being included only in a different section of the journal at the time of submission. Also, the manuscripts will undergo the same evaluation process as all the other manuscripts received by the journal.

30. Only contributions which are in accordance with the standards established by the journal will be forwarded for peer evaluation.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

a. Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right to first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, which allows its use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, as well as its transformation and creations from it, as long as the original author and source are credited. Also, the material cannot be used for commercial purposes, and if it is transformed, or used as a basis for other creations, these must be distributed under the same license as the original.

b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

c. Authors are allowed to deposit, in the repositories accepted by Conjuntura Austral, the preprint version of the manuscripts submitted to the journal prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access)

d. Authors are permitted and encouraged to publish and distribute online (in institutional and /or thematic repositories, on their personal pages, etc.) the postprint version of the manuscripts (accepted and published), without an embargo period.

e. Conjuntura Austral: Journal of the Global South, imbued with the spirit of ensuring the protection of regional academic and scientific production in Open Access, is a signatory to the Mexico Declaration on the use of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license to guarantee the protection of academic and scientific production in open access.

 

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