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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.
  • Conditions for submission

    As part of the submission process, authors must verify the submission's conformity with all items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the rules will be returned to the authors.

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  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the Editor". Works on 'pre-prints" plataforms are allowed.
  • The files for submission are in Microsoft Word format (.doc, Compatibility Mode).
  • URLs for references were provided when necessary.
  • The text has 1.5 space between lines; uses Times New Roman font in size 12; employs bold instead of underlining (except URL addresses); figures and tables are inserted in the text, not at the end of the document, as attachments.
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors, in the section About the Journal.
  • The authorship identification of the work was removed from the file and the Properties option in Word, thus guaranteeing the journal's secrecy criterion, according to the instructions available in Ensuring Blind Peer Review.
  • For each article, at least one of the authors is required to have a doctorate. All authors must be registered with ORCID.
  • The gap of one year between the publication of texts written by the same author and the beginning of a new submission process will be observed.
  • We clarify that the reviewers of the submitted articles, following the journal's ethics statement, must preserve confidentiality and declare a conflict of interest, withdrawing from the evaluation, if they perceive that it exists or if they identify the authors.
  • he journal accepts for publication works by national and foreign authors, in Portuguese, English, or Spanish.

Author Guidelines

Form and preparation of manuscripts

 

Formatting guidelines for articles and documents

 

  1. Text editor: Word for Windows 1997 or later, page size A4, with top margin and left margin of 3.0 cm, bottom margin, and right margin of 2.0 cm. Times New Roman font, size 12 and 1.5 spacing.
  2. The length of the work including titles, abstract, keywords, charts, tables, graphs, illustrations, notes, and bibliographic references should not exceed the limit of 48,000 characters, including spaces between words. The title of the work must be at the beginning of the first page, justified by the center and without identifying the author(s), followed by titles in English and Spanish.
  3. The text must be preceded by an abstract in Portuguese of a maximum of 600 characters, including spaces between words, with translation into English and Spanish (resumen), in which the objective, method, and results of the work are listed. Use three to five keywords (keywords, palabras clave) for international dissemination.
  4. Subtitles must be all capitalized.
  5. Tables, charts, graphs, illustrations, and other inserts must be followed by the respective titles and legends and must be inserted in the body of the text.
  6. In-text citations must be presented in parentheses in the body of the text, including the surname of the author of the cited source, the date of publication and, if applicable, the page(s) cited(s), in ABNT style. Titles should be in bold.
  7. The complete bibliographic references of the author(s) cited must be presented in alphabetical order, at the end of the text, according to the ABNT style.
  8. Footnotes should be exclusively informative and explanatory, brief and used sparingly. All notes should be numbered and placed at the bottom of the page, using the automatic command of the text editor.
  9. In a separate file, submitted as a supplementary document, the following must be sent: title of the work in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, full name(s) of the author(s), followed by a brief curriculum vitae mentioning academic qualifications, current professional and/or academic occupation, institutional link, address, e-mail, telephone, and fax. In the case of several authors, the order of precedence should be informed.

 

Review formatting guidelines

 

  1. Text editor: Word for Windows 1997 or later, page size A4, with top margin and left margin of 3.0 cm, bottom margin, and right margin of 2.0 cm. Times New Roman font, size 12 and 1.5 spacing.
  2. The length of the review - including titles, tables, charts, graphs, illustrations, notes, and bibliographic references should not exceed 10,000 characters, including spaces between words. The title, name(s) of the author(s), and editorial data of the commented work (location, publisher, year of publication, total pages, and ISBN) should be included at the beginning of the first page of the review, without identification of the author(s) of the review.
  3. In-text citations must be presented in parentheses in the body of the text, including the surname of the author of the cited source, the date of publication and, if applicable, the page(s) cited(s), in ABNT style.
  4. The complete bibliographic references of the author(s) cited must be presented in alphabetical order, at the end of the text, according to the ABNT style.
  5. Do not use footnotes in bibliographic reviews.
  6. In a separate file, submitted as a supplementary document, the following must be sent: title of the work in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, full name(s) of the author(s), followed by a brief curriculum vitae mentioning academic qualifications, current professional and/or academic occupation, institutional link, address, e-mail, telephone, and fax. In the case of several authors, the order of precedence should be informed.

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