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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.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the editor".
  • The text follows all the standards of size, style and requirements described in Guidelines for Authors, on the About the Magazine page.
  • In case of submission to a peer-reviewed section (eg, articles), the instructions available in Ensuring blind peer review were followed.

  • My ORCiD identifier appears in my author registration (if not, update your profile on the magazine's portal before submitting the article for submission).

    The absence of ORCiD will prevent the evaluation of your article. If you do not have an ORCiD identifier, visit http://orcid.org and register for free.

  • All tables and charts must be in editable mode, as well as graphs and illustrations, where possible.
  • My biographical data, up to 100 words, were provided in Insert Metadata, emphasizing my highest education and current affiliation, and I commit to keeping them up to date.
  • The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or resources must be mandatorily disclosed in a footnote at the end of the article. It is necessary to specify the purpose of the use (e.g., language review, translation), the tool and version used, as well as the date of employment.

Author Guidelines

Fineduca – Journal of Education Finance aims to disseminate studies, results of unpublished research and promote the exchange and debate of ideas, contributing to the improvement of analytical tools and theoretical and methodological concepts in its scope: education financing.

 Articles to be submitted to this journal must meet the following requirements:

1. Unpublished articles, in Portuguese, English or Spanish.

2. The length of each article must be a maximum of 60,000 characters (with spaces), including bibliographic references, illustrations, graphics, maps, tables, summary and abstract.

3. Abstracts, in Portuguese, English and Spanish, of a maximum of 1,000 characters (with spaces).

4. Up to five keywords in Portuguese, English and Spanish, separated by periods and with capital letters.

5. Text in Word for Windows complying with the following recommendations: Arial font, size 11, 1.15 space, A4 paper, 2.5 cm page margins. Do not use space between paragraphs and pagination. Follow the template

6. Data at the top of the page including: Title of the work in Portuguese, English and Spanish) - in case of research funding, the funding institution must be mentioned in a footnote.

7. Footnotes should be used for absolutely necessary clarifications. The authors mentioned in the article must be cited in parentheses in the body of the text, with the year of publication of the work and, when applicable, with the page(s) cited. Ex.: (Calkins, 1950, p. 161).

8. The individual collaboration of co-authors must be detailed in a footnote, preserving anonymity by indicating authorship using Hindu-Arabic numerals.

9. Bibliographic references and citations must follow ABNT current standards in 2024.

10. All tables and charts should be editable, as should illustrations and/or graphs whenever possible, avoiding the use of non-editable text or captions.

11. Reviews of works about education financing or a related topic may have between six and 10 thousand characters with space and the title will be the complete bibliographic reference of the work reviewed. The publication subject to the review must have been published in Portuguese for a maximum of two years. Ex.: Farenzena, N. Basic Education Financing policy: directions of Brazilian legislation. Porto Alegre: Publisher UFRGS, 2006. Keywords and abstract are not necessary.

12. Translations must be accompanied by authorization from the author and the original text.

13. Articles must be sent exclusively via the website http://seer.ufrgs.br/fineduca

14. Author data must NOT be entered in the text file of the submitted article, in order to enable blind evaluation of the work. Such data must be exclusively informed on the article submission page. Replace any authorship information in the text with XXXXX.

15. The texts received will be forwarded to 2 (two) reviewers. If divergent opinions occur, they will be sent to a third reviewer. Authors will always receive final feedbacks from the Editorial Committee.

16. The editors reserve the right not to publish an article if the author refuses to carry out the reformulations suggested by the reviewers within the requested period and also safeguards the right to make formal changes to the final text presented.

17. Fineduca reserves the right, if convenient, not to publish work(s) by the same author(s) at intervals shorter than one year.

18. Acceptance of originals for publication implies the transfer of copyright to the journal. Fineduca is guaranteed the right to disseminate information and editorial rights, in accordance with the Law.

19. To publish the article, at least one of the authors must be a member of Fineduca and have paid the annual fee in the year of publication (valid for articles published from the second half of 2022 onwards) or to provide collaboration regarding the costs of publishing the article.

20. Authors and co-authors must complete and keep updated their bio (maximum of 500 characters including spaces) and institutional affiliation data (informing city and country), as well as ORCID, email, name, and surname. After submission, it is possible to edit such information in the submitted article, in the Publication > Contributors > Edit tab. It is not possible to add new authors after the initial article submission.

21. The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools or resources must be mandatorily disclosed in a footnote and is limited to the following actions: language or style review and enhancement, text translation, and transcription of materials. Since only humans can be authors and co-authors, Fineduca prohibits the use of AI in the production of original scientific content, in the elaboration of text parts, in the production of tables and/or images (in this case, adaptations/edits are accepted, provided the original sources are disclosed and the use is declared in a footnote). According to Fineduca's code of ethics and best practices, authors are fully responsible for the truthfulness of the content/edited material, including that generated by AI, which implies responsibility for inaccuracies, which is why they must review the manuscript before submission.

22. Only texts that comply with these instructions for submitting works will be evaluated.

Articles

Fineduca receives unpublished articles, in Portuguese, English or Spanish, according to the Guidelines for authors.

Copyright Notice

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

  • Authors maintain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows sharing of the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are authorized to enter into additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g., publishing in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and as long as initial publication in this journal is mentioned.
  • After publication, authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their article, through the indicated citation and the respective DOI, in institutional repositories, personal pages, etc. This procedure favors increasing the impact and citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

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