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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.
  • FORMAT

    a) The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format, between 3500 and 5000 words, excluding the list of works cited, abstract and keywords (in both languages).

    b) The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; uses italics instead of underlining (except for URL addresses); figures and tables are inserted in the text, do not send them as attachments.

    c) The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in "Guidelines for Authors", on the About the Journal page.

    d) Footnotes are exclusively used to cite the text in a foreign language, whose translation must be in the body of the text.
  • In case of submission to a peer-reviewed section (e.g. articles), the submitted file does not contain forms of identification/authorship (for Word users, visit: https://tinyurl.com/2p8z49wv).
  • The author(s) declare(s) that he/she/they correctly chose the CFP to which the file was submitted (submissions sent in error will be discarded) and is/are submitting only one article per CFP; multiple submissions for the same CFP will be discarded.
  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; otherwise, it must be justified in "Comments to the editor". Thesis or dissertation clipped texts available online will not be accepted.
  • Each article will be signed by one author or up to two co-authors. In the case of a single author, the requirement is a doctoral title. In the case of two co-authors, at least one of them must hold a doctoral degree and have actively participated in the writing of the article; thus, a master's or doctoral student may submit an article ONLY IF the second author holds a doctoral qualification.

    The name(s) of the author(s) is not included in the submitted article.


    The authors have provided the link to the Lattes profile of each author in the URL field and the link to the ORCID registration in the corresponding field in their registration.

Author Guidelines

1) Formatting

(a) file in Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX), OpenOffice or RTF format, between 3500 and 5000 words, excluding the list of works cited, abstracts and keywords in Portuguese and English, without marks of authorship (see for Word users: https://tinyurl.com/2p8z49wv);
(b) paper size: A4 (297x210mm);
(c) 3 cm margins;
(d) 12 point font, single space, justified paragraph and without hyphenation;
(e) paragraph indentation: 1.25 cm from the left margin;
(f) absence of boldface;
(g) use of italics for titles of works, foreign words and words that, for any other reason, should be highlighted;
(h) do not use italics for citation;
(i) citations longer than four lines indented (2.5 cm from the left margin) without changing the font size.

2) Order of the parts of the article

(a) the title of the article must appear on the first page, centered and in capital letters; just below put CFP title also centered;
(b) there must be no authorship marks including in file properties;
(c) abstract, in Portuguese, with 150 to 200 words;
(d) keywords in Portuguese (three to four);
(e) title in English, centered, without any graphic highlight;
(f) abstract, with 150 to 200 words (material submitted by automatic translation will be refused);
(g) keywords in English (three to four);
(h) the actual text;
(i) we strongly recommend authors to include a section reviewing the state of the art, suggesting the use of SCOPUS, SCIELO, and Google Scholar databases;
(i) works cited.

3) Works cited

(a) parenthetical citations in the body of the text - author, date and page - example: (Bastos 1999: 25);
(b) allusions, comments, paraphrases in the body of the text - author, date and initial and final pages - example: (Bastos 1999: 25-28);
(c) list of works cited organized according to ABNT norms (NBR-6023) and presented in alphabetical order by first author's surname;
(d) a work on the list and not  used in the text will be deleted;
(e) footnotes exclusively for citation of texts in a foreign language, whose translation must be in the body of the text;
(f) do not use referential elements such as apud, idem, ibidem, making use of a cross-reference system in the text itself; example: Bakhtin proposes carnivalization as a procedure of political subversion (Andrade 2000: 45) or repeat the documentation of the source used (even if it is the same page referred to).

Artigos

Standard policy for articles

Copyright Notice

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

a) The authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, the work being simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, allowing the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of the authorship of the work and initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are authorized to assume additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, publish in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

c) Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish and distribute their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their personal page) after the editorial process, as this can generate productive changes as well as increase impact and citation of the published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

d) The authors of the approved works authorize the journal to, after publication, transfer their content for reproduction in content indexers, virtual libraries and the like.

e) The authors assume that the texts submitted for publication are of their original creation, taking full responsibility for their content in case of any objection by third parties.

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