Submissions

Author Guidelines

Types of Documents Accepted

Movimento publishes original manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French in the following sections:

Announcements: A section dedicated to disseminating official communications, statements, letters, manifestos, and editorial policies on topics directly or indirectly related to Movimento. This is an institutional space managed exclusively by the Editorial Committee and not open to external submissions.

In Focus: A section dedicated to fostering debate on internationally relevant topics initiated by the Editorial Committee or formally proposed by established researchers in the field. Once a section proposal has been defined and approved, a Guest Editor will be appointed to oversee the manuscript review process in accordance with the criteria and regulations established by Movimento. Each section may include up to 8 manuscripts, with most authors affiliated with institutions outside Brazil. The texts must be published in English and simultaneously in Portuguese or one of the other two languages accepted by Movimento: Spanish or French.

Controversial Issues: A section through which Movimento seeks to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the scientific community of which it is part, providing opportunities to update current debates and stimulate reflection on issues related to its specific field of knowledge. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to invite authors to publish in this section. It also encourages others who may wish to engage in these debates. As with the In Focus section, these manuscripts submitted to this section are subject to editorial evaluation by the Editorial Committee.

Original Articles: Research manuscripts presenting original data and findings related to experimental and/or observational aspects of a philosophical, historical, sociocultural, or pedagogical nature, including descriptive analyses and/or inferences supported by original data. Their structure must follow a format recognized in the specific field of knowledge and include sections and subsections for the following elements: Introduction, Theoretical Foundations, Methodological Decisions, Analysis, Discussion, and Conclusion.

Essays: A section dedicated to review articles and/or theoretical-conceptual reflections on a particular topic, written from the author's experience as an essayist. The texts should problematize understandings established in the scientific field and point to interpretations not yet envisioned, without necessarily relying on a literature review or empirical data.

Note 1: The Original Articles and Essays sections operate on a continuous submission basis, allowing authors to submit manuscripts at any time. The Announcements, In Focus, and Controversial Issues sections do not follow a regular publication schedule and are published at the discretion of the Editorial Committee.

Note 2: Submissions of the following are not accepted:

- manuscripts focused exclusively on instrument validation;
- manuscripts in a “question-and-answer” format based on interviews with prominent figures in the field;
- reviews of previously published works, regardless of their nature;
- review articles that do not adopt systematic and rigorous procedures for selecting the literature.

Author Contributions

The specific contributions of each author must be described at the time of submission. To record this information, authors are encouraged to consult and use the roles and recommendations of the CRediT taxonomy.

Submission requires a statement signed by all authors confirming that they have made substantial contributions to the work and assume full responsibility for its content.

Manuscript Preparation

Before submitting a manuscript to Movimento, authors should carefully read the information available in the About the Journal and Editorial Policies sections, paying close attention to the policies, procedures, and requirements concerning:

- the journal's focus and scope;

- languages;

- the peer-review process;

- conflicts of interest;

- copyright, intellectual property, and terms of use;

- compliance with Open Science principles;

- The Policy on Ethics and Misconduct, Errata, and Retractions;

- the Research Ethics Committee;

- publication fees for accepted manuscripts;

- the use of similarity-checking software;

- the use of artificial intelligence tools and technologies;

- submissions of manuscripts previously deposited as preprints.

In addition, authors should be aware that:

- A maximum of two works by the same author or coauthor will be published per year. Therefore, authors should verify compliance with this limit.

- A maximum of two articles by the same author or coauthor may be under evaluation simultaneously. If this limit has been reached, any new submission(s) will be archived without substantive evaluation. Accordingly, the author responsible for the submission must verify with the other authors involved the status of each of their manuscripts currently under consideration by the journal.

Article Submission Format

For a manuscript to be submitted, all structural and formatting requirements detailed below must be observed and fulfilled. Manuscripts that do not meet these requirements will be returned to the authors without substantive evaluation.

Authors must use the TEMPLATE to structure and format their articles. CLICK HERE to download the template.

Articles must be written in Arial, 12-point font, with 1.5-line spacing, and must not exceed 6,000 words, including the title, abstracts, and keywords in three languages (use Tools > Word Count). References are not included in the total word count. Italics should be used only for foreign words and for the expressions “et al.” and “In:”.

The manuscript title should be clear and concise. Authors are advised to avoid titles exceeding 15 words, as well as the use of periods, commas, abbreviations, quotation marks, or ironic tones. Given that Movimento is indexed in major international databases, titles that follow these recommendations are more likely to facilitate search engine identification and retrieval of articles.

Manuscripts must include an abstract (maximum 150 words) and up to four keywords. The abstract should concisely present the study's objectives, methodology, results, and conclusions, providing a clear and comprehensive overview of the work without requiring readers to consult the full text. For keywords, authors are encouraged to use the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS).

At the discretion of the Editorial Committee, manuscripts submitted to the “In Focus” and “Controversial Issues” sections may exceed the word limit specified above.

When preparing the document for submission, authors must remove all identifying information to maintain anonymity during the double-anonymized peer-review process. Accordingly:

- The submitted manuscript must not contain information that could identify the authors, such as the names of institutions, research groups, projects, laboratories, or ethics committee approval numbers.

- The file must also be free of author-identifying information in its properties, which must be removed before submission.

For manuscripts previously deposited in preprint repositories, single-anonymous peer review will be applied. This means reviewers will know the authors' identities, whereas the authors will not know the reviewers'.

It should be noted that in exceptional cases, reviewers' identities may be revealed. Interaction between reviewers and authors may also be allowed if all parties explicitly agree and the Editorial Committee approves.

Digital Files

Illustrations must be inserted into the body of the text and numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals. They must be cited as FIGURE and include a title above and a source below, following the examples provided in the TEMPLATE. Illustrations must allow for accurate reproduction and comply with the font and font-size requirements specified for the article. They must also have a resolution of 200-300 dpi.

In addition to being included in the body of the text, illustrations, specifically photographs and graphic drawings, must also be uploaded separately during the submission process as an “Illustrations” document. Authors should select this option from the document-type menu.

Tables and boxes must be inserted into the body of the text, numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals, and provided with a title. They must comply with the article's font and font-size requirements, following the examples provided in the TEMPLATE.

Tables and boxes should be limited to what is strictly necessary and include the corresponding source. During the final editing of the article, the copyeditors may suggest changes to the number and size of tables and boxes to ensure consistency with the journal's standards. Tables and boxes must not be submitted as images under any circumstances, as their content counts toward the manuscript's total word count.

Citation and References

Movimento follows the standards of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) concerning the presentation of articles in periodical publications (NBR 6022), references (NBR 6023), abstracts (NBR 6028), the presentation of citations in documents (NBR 10520), and the progressive numbering of sections in a document (NBR 6024), as well as the Tabular Presentation Standard of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Accordingly, manuscripts must comply with these standards.

References correspond to the documents cited in the text, in accordance with NBR 6023. At the end of the manuscript, a list of references must be provided in alphabetical order, aligned with the left margin, and presented under the centered heading REFERENCES. Authors' full surnames and given names must be provided. For greater clarity and ease of reference, CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GUIDELINES AND EXAMPLES OF REFERENCES for different types of materials.

Supplementary Documents

During the manuscript submission process to Movimento, and in accordance with the provisions set out in the About the Journal and Editorial Policy sections, all authors involved in the work must:

- Declare the originality of the manuscript and assume responsibility for its content, confirming that it is not under simultaneous consideration for publication elsewhere.

- Declare that they are aware of the applicable copyright licenses.

- Declare compliance with standards of integrity in scientific activity.

- Declare compliance with applicable research ethics requirements.

- Declare the conditions governing the use of images and illustrations, where applicable.

- Declare whether any conflicts of interest exist.

- Declare and specify the contributions of all authors to the work.

- Provide information on deposits and publications in preprint servers.

- Provide information on data availability.

- Indicate whether they consent to the opening of the peer-review process.

- Declare the use of artificial intelligence.

- Provide information on and specify sources of funding.

All declarations and information required above are consolidated in the form entitled DECLARATIONS AND INFORMATION ON BEST PRACTICES IN SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION, which is available for download and editing at this link.

Once all declarations and information have been completed, the file must be converted to PDF format and digitally signed by all authors. This file must be uploaded to the submission system together with the manuscript. Only submissions accompanied by this duly completed form will be eligible to proceed to the editorial review process.

Funding Statement

Authors must submit a signed statement indicating whether the research received financial support. If the research received financial support, the corresponding funding source(s) must also be identified.

Additional Information

All accepted manuscripts will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) upon final publication in Movimento.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively in digital format through the journal's online submission system, accessible via the "New Submission" link.

To initiate the submission process, the corresponding author must have an active account in the Movimento submission system. Authors who already have an account may log in with their username and password, then select "New Submission" to begin the process.

Authors who do not yet have an account must first register by selecting the "Register" link.

After logging into the system and selecting "New Submission," authors will be guided through a three-step submission process.

Preparation for Publication

Once accepted, the manuscript will proceed to the copyediting stage, which includes the following steps:

- Bibliographic review and formal standardization: verification of the conformity of citations, references, text formatting, figures, boxes, and tables with the journal's requirements. At this stage, the Editorial Committee may make grammatical, stylistic, and formatting revisions if they do not alter the scientific content of the manuscript.

- Review of keywords and metadata: verification and standardization of keywords, titles, abstracts, and other metadata to ensure consistency between the manuscript and the information recorded in the editorial platform.

After copyediting, the manuscript is returned to the authors for review and final approval. They have 15 days to submit the revised version. 

If the authors do not address the requested revisions or resolve any outstanding formatting and editorial issues, the submission will be archived, even if the manuscript has already been accepted following peer review.

After approval of the final version, the manuscript will proceed to typesetting, XML markup, and publication.

Bilingual Publication

Given Movimento's international reach, the Editorial Committee encourages authors of accepted manuscripts to make a second-language version of their work available. An English version may accompany manuscripts originally written in Portuguese or Spanish, while manuscripts originally submitted in English may also be accompanied by a Portuguese or Spanish version. Any translated version should be prepared only after the manuscript has received final approval, thereby avoiding additional costs during the submission and peer-review process.

Translation costs are the responsibility of the authors. Any translated version must meet the journal's academic, terminological, and linguistic standards, and authors are responsible for ensuring its quality and full correspondence with the approved manuscript. Any use of Artificial Intelligence tools in the translation process must comply with the journal's guidelines. If the translated version does not meet the journal's standards, the Editorial Committee may decide to publish only the approved original version.

Contact

For inquiries about any procedure, authors should reach out to the journal via the following email addresses: editoriaexecutivamovimento@ufrgs.br; movimento@ufrgs.br

Address: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Campus Olímpico
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