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Types of accepted documents

Authors must submit their articles through the Ambiente Construído website, where all submission steps are indicated. Original and unpublished articles are accepted for publication, necessarily resulting from scientific research in the field known as Technology of the Built Environment, which encompasses the conception, design, production, operation, maintenance, demolition, and recycling or reuse of buildings and their immediate surroundings. Articles may be submitted in Portuguese or English.

Texts consisting solely of a simple literature review, without an original research method or approach, are not accepted. If part of the results has been previously disseminated, the text and its main conclusions must be entirely original and unpublished.

Ambiente Construído encourages and allows the submission of articles previously deposited in recognized preprint servers.

Author Contributions

Ambiente Construído adopts the CRediT taxonomy. Therefore, all authors must indicate their specific contribution to the manuscript, as requested in the revision file before publication.

Ambiente Construído recognizes as authors only those individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the conception, development, writing, or critical revision of the manuscript and who approve its final version. All authors are expected to take public responsibility for the published content. Changes in authorship after manuscript submission will only be accepted upon formal justification and written agreement from all authors, provided that such requests are submitted before the final editorial decision.

Manuscript Preparation

As part of the submission process, authors must verify compliance with all the following items. Submissions that do not comply will be returned.

  • The contribution is original and unpublished and is not under evaluation by another journal; otherwise, justification must be provided in “Comments to the Editor.”
  • Submission files must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF, not exceeding 5 MB.
  • At submission, authors must provide full names, affiliations, email addresses, and ORCID for all authors.
  • Any identifying information must be removed from the file and from Word Properties, ensuring the journal’s double‑blind review process.
  • All listed authors must have contributed to the work and agree with the journal’s rules, taking responsibility for the content.
  • The manuscript must be formatted according to the template, with figures and tables inserted in the text, not at the end, and with continuously numbered lines (“Layout” → “Line Numbers” → “Continuous”).
  • The text must follow the style and bibliographic standards described in the “Information for Authors.”
  • Authors must confirm that their research aligns with Open Science practices.
  • Upon submission, authors authorize publication if the article is accepted.
  • For resubmissions of rejected articles, a Letter to the Editor must be included, detailing the changes made, without any identifying information.

Article Submission Format

Articles may be submitted in Portuguese or English.

A draft of the article must have a maximum of 7,000 words and 5 MB, counting from the introduction of the article to the conclusions. The manuscript must have continuously numbered lines: click “layout” → “line numbers” → “continuous.” The original must be formatted on A4 paper, single spacing, Times New Roman, size 12. Top and left margins must be 3 cm, and bottom and right margins must be 2 cm.

On the first page, the following must appear the title in Portuguese and in English, the resumo and the abstract, and three to six keywords in each language.

Titles and subtitles must not be numbered, and the font formats should follow:

Title 1: Times New Roman, size 14, bold, uppercase.

Ex.: RESULTS

Title 2: Times New Roman, size 12, bold.

Ex.: Characteristics and appropriation of open spaces

Title 3: Times New Roman, size 12, not bold.

Ex.: Townhouses

After peer review and acceptance, the text editing process begins:

  • formatting and normalization (performed by a librarian);
  • review by the author(s);
  • review by the editor(s)-in-chief;
  • final composition in PDF and XML for publication in the system with DOI assignment.

The article must include:

Title: it must be brief (maximum of 15 words), specific and descriptive, containing the keywords that represent the content and, especially, the scientific contribution of the article.

Responsibility Statement: all data identifying the author(s) or the origin of the study must be omitted from the document submitted for evaluation, including metadata in the file properties. All author identification data must be entered only in the fields available during submission in OJS. Each author’s name must be written in full, without abbreviations, with affiliation and ORCID.

Abstract: a 100–200‑word abstract must be included in the language of the article, accompanied by its English translation. The abstract must state the objective and highlight the article’s scientific contributions.

Keywords: after the abstract, three to six keywords must be included to help identify the main subjects addressed.

Article: the article must include an introduction aimed at informing the reader about the topic to be addressed and situating them within the existing body of knowledge. A brief theoretical foundation should be presented, including the main references on which the work is based, necessarily incorporating international literature. The article must provide a clear and objective description of the methodological procedures adopted, allowing the reader to fully understand the method used or to access it through the cited references. A substantial portion of the article should be dedicated to the development of the research and the discussion of the results obtained. It is considered essential that the article contain a concluding section, highlighting the main findings of the research in terms of knowledge production.

Notes: Notes must be indicated using Roman numerals in superscript, placed immediately after the relevant sentence. They must appear at the bottom of the page where they are cited.

Formulas: Formulas must be numbered, inserted, and cited within the text.

Style: the text must be clear, direct, and precise, avoiding overly complex language, excessive adjectives, or long sentences.

Citations and References

References: references for all authors cited directly or indirectly in the body of the article must be provided. These references must comply with NBR 6023:2018 and be listed in alphabetical order.

Works referenced using apud must include the full reference in a footnote on the same page where the citation appears.

Although the standard allows otherwise, the journal cites works with more than three authors by listing only the first author followed by “et al.”. Authors are therefore requested to follow this pattern.

Avoid, whenever possible:

  • references used for general background knowledge;
  • secondary references (apud);
  • excessive references for a single argument;
  • predominance of self‑citations.

Example:

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING AND MATERIALS. C-780: standard test method for preconstruction and construction evaluation of mortars for plain and reinforced unit masonry. Philadelphia, 1991.

ASSOCIAÇÃO BRAZILEIRA DE NORMAS TÉCNICAS. NBR 6461: blocos cerâmicos para alvenaria: verificação da resistência à compressão. Rio de Janeiro, 1983a.

ASSOCIAÇÃO BRAZILEIRA DE NORMAS TÉCNICAS. NBR 7211: agregado para concreto: especificação. Rio de Janeiro, 1983b.

BARROS, M. M. B. Metodologia para implantação de tecnologias construtivas racionalizadas na produção de edifícios. São Paulo, 1996. 410 f. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia Civil) - Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1996.

BLEDZIK, A. K. et al. A comparision of compounding process and wood type For wood fibre-pp composites. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, v. 36, p. 789-797, 2005.

BRANDÃO, D. Q.; HEINECK, L. F. M. Classificação das formas de aplicação da flexibilidade arquitetônica planejada em projetos de edifícios residenciais. In: ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA DO AMBIENTE CONSTRUÍDO, 7., Florianópolis, 1998. Anais [...] Florianópolis: UFSC, ANTAC, 1998. v. 2, p. 215-222.

LAVELLE, J. A. Acrylic latex-modified Portland cement. ACI Materials Journal, Detroit, v. 6, n. 1, p. 41-48, jan./feb. 1988.

MORAES, R. C.; ISAIA, G. C.; GASTALDINI, A. L. G. Efeitos da cinza de casca de arroz e fíler calcário sobre a resistência mecânica do concreto. In: CONGRESSO BRAZILEIRO DE CONCRETO, 43., Fortaleza, 2000. Anais [...] Fortaleza: IBRACOM, 2000.

SAKAI, E.; SUGITA, J. Composite mechanism of polymer modified cement. Cement and Concrete Research, Oxforf, v. 25, n. 1, p. 127-135, 1995.

RAPOPORT, A. Environmental Cognition in Cross-Cultural Perspective. In: MOORE, G. T.; GOLLEDGE, R. G. (ed.). Environmental knowing. Stroudsburg: Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, 1976. p. 220-234.

In-text citations: in‑text citations must follow the format adopted in the references, according to NBR 10520:2023, as illustrated below:

According to Morais et al. (2000) ...

... (Brandão; Heineck, 1998).

A NBR 6461 (ABNT, 1983a) especifies ....

Sakai and Sugita (1995) suggest ...

... (Silva; Roman, 2001; Lavelle, 1998).

... as proposed in C-780 (ASTM, 1991).

Digital Assets

Tables and charts: these must be accompanied by a caption that allows understanding of the meaning of the data presented. In the text, indicate the number and caption of each table or chart, showing where they should be inserted. Tables and charts must be created directly in the Word document.

Illustrations: clear photographs, figures, and graphics (strictly indispensable for the clarity of the text) may be accepted. They must be indicated in the text by their number and caption, showing where they should be inserted. If the illustrations submitted have already been published, the source and permission for reproduction must be indicated. The illustrations must be referred to as figures. Every figure, illustration, and/or photograph must have minimum resolution of 300 dpi, format .jpg or .png, and must be in color.

Suplementary Documents

Ethics Committee Statement: authors must inform that the research was approved by an institutional ethics committee, providing the approval number.

Funding Statement

Funding statement/Acknowledgments: acknowledgments to research funding agencies, institutions other than the author(s)' own, and any mentors or contributors may be included at the end of the article, but only after the article has been accepted, during the text editing stage.

Contact

Associação Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Construído, Av. Osvaldo Aranha, 93, 3rd floor, CEP 90035-190, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, e-mail ambienteconstruido@ufrgs.br and phone: +55 (51) 3308-4084.