Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submissions must be made exclusively through the Electronic Journal Publishing System, SEER, available at http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/read/index.

 
                                        RULES FOR SUBMISSION
 
The journal does not accept submissions that do not observe the folowing rules.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify the submission's compliance with all of the items below. Submissions that do not comply with the rules will be rejected and the authors informed.

To be an original and unpublished contribution, compatible with the Journal's Editorial Line.

Not being in the process of evaluation in another national or international publication.

Be signed by a maximum of 4 (four) authors.

The manuscript file cannot contain any form of identification of the authors, including review comments. The “Author's Properties” need to be cleared. Author and text metadata must be included in the online submission form.
In addition to this file, another page will be submitted containing the title, name and information about each author or author (Orcid, organization, activity carried out, research or activism themes, address for postal and electronic correspondence).

Format:
Font Times New Roman 12; 1.5 cm line spacing with justified paragraphs; A4 size sheets, with 2 cm bottom and right margins and 3 cm left and top margins; no page numbering. Title, abstract (maximum 200 words), 3 to 5 keywords (separated by point) in the three languages in which the Journal accepts submissions (Spanish, English and Portuguese), being presented first in the language in which the manuscript is written. Maximum: 30 pages.

The notes must be in footnotes and with continuous numbering.
Figures must be inserted in the body of the text and also included in separate files, in JPG, in the required resolutions (see below). Other aspects not informed, use NBR 6023 for illustrations.
The tables follow the recommendations of the IBGE/ABNT Foundation and must be inserted in the text and opened for editing. They do not need to be included in separate files, just inserted in the text, open for editing.
The resolution of the illustrations must be as follows: 300dpi for images (photos and the like); 900dpi for drawings (charts, graphs, schematics or other type of illustration done in drawing tool).

As stated above, the texts can be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish or English. The title, abstract and keywords must be presented in the three languages. The works must be submitted rigorously revised, according to the grammatical norms in force in the chosen language.

The textual transcripts of authors that do not exceed five lines will be kept in the main body of the text, in quotation marks and without italics or bold. If the transcription has more than five lines, it will be presented separately from the main body of the text, with a space before and another one after, with a 4 cm indent from the margin, without using quotation marks, italics or bold.

Quotations and references must comply with ABNT standards.
All “URL” addresses must be active.
The text must be free of plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Upon submission, the article will be submitted to a Desk Review, and may be rejected in this procedure or sent to the evaluation process.
 Cases not provided for in these rules will be resolved by REAd's Editors.

Research data sharing policies

REAd is commited to incorporate open science policies and authors are encouraged to:

- Share research data in a relevant public data repository, such as SciELO Data;

 - Include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, use the statement to confirm why it cannot be shared;

  - Cite this data in your research.

Complaints procedures

This procedure applies to complaints about the policies, procedures, or actions of the REAd team. We uderstand complaints as they provide an opportunity and a spur for improvement, and we aim to respond quickly, courteously, and constructively. The procedure outlined below aims to be fair to those making complaints and those complained about.

Defining "complaint". Our definition of a complaint is as follows:

- The complainant defines his or her expression of unhappiness as a complaint; and

- We infer that the complainant is not simply disagreeing with a decision we have made or something we have published (which happens every day) but thinks that there has been a failure of process - for example, a long delay or a rude response - or a severe misjudgment.

- The complaint must be about something that is within the responsibility of the RAC's editorial department - content or process.

Making a complaint

The best way to reach us is by email. Complaints should be directly emailed to ea_read@ufrgs.br, where they are dealt with confidentially. Complaints are resolved through a process of response and escalation:

- Wherever possible complaints will be dealt with by the Editor-in-chief, whose decision is final.

-  If a complainant remains unhappy after what the editor considers a definitive reply, the complainant may complain to an external body.

 Complaint timeframes

-  All complaints will be formally acknowledged within two weeks.

- If possible a full response will be made within four weeks. If this is not possible, an interim response will be given within four weeks. Further interim responses will be provided until the complaint is resolved.

- Complaints that are not under the control of the REAd's Chief Editor will be sent to the Editorial board.

Conflict of interest

Submissions for the REAd are assigned to Chief-Editor in order to minimize potential conflicts of interest.  submissions are also assigned to reviewers to minimize conflicts of interest. After papers are assigned, reviewers are asked to inform the editor of any conflicts that may exist.

The following relationships between editors and authors are considered conflicts and are avoided:

• Direct family members, OR
• Undergraduate, Master or Doctoral students under recent supervisor by the Chief-Editor and/or Associate Editors.

After papers are assigned, the Chief-Editor must check any conflicts not included in the list above.

Papers authored by the Chief-Editor and/or Associate Editors should not be published, even if this authorship is shared with other authors, and not even by leaders of the maintainers of the journal, except in special cases, as special issues edited by ad-hoc editors. When this is the case, this specificity should be cited and justified in the Editorial of the issue, and it is also necessary to explicitly indicate a special editor for that specific article, evidently maintaining the anonymity of the authors and evaluators.