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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  • The contribution is original and unpublished, and is not being evaluated for publication by another journal; otherwise, it should be justified in "Comments to the editor".
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format. URLs for referrals were informed when possible.
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Guidelines for Authors, on the About Journal page.
  • In case of submission to a peer-reviewed section (eg articles), the instructions available under Ensuring blind peer evaluation were followed.
  • The submitted file does not have authorial identification of any nature.
  • The author detains permission for reproduction of unpublished material or with reserved copyright and assumes the responsibility to answer for the reproduction rights.

Author Guidelines

1. Original articles shall not exceed twenty-five (15) pages and shall be submitted in two copies, typed in a computer, with 3 cm upper and lower margins and 2 cm left and right margins, 1.5, in Times New Roman # 12, Microsoft Word program format.

2. Each author can only submit one proposal per edition. Do not enter your ID in the body of the article.

3. There should be an abstract of the manuscript, containing between 100 (one hundred) and 250 (two hundred and fifty) words, in Times New Roman nº 10, single space, accompanied by up to 5 (five) keywords, separated by period, the first letter shall be capitalized.

4. At the end of the text, before the references, another abstract, in a foreign language (English, French or Spanish), accompanied by up to five (5) key words, or Mots-clés or Palabras-claves, according to the foreign language within the same orientation.

5. The editorial standard shall comply with the requirements of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT), with particular emphasis on the following.

5.1. Short bibliographical citations (up to three lines) are inserted in the text, in quotation marks. Long quotations (more than three lines) should be in a separate paragraph, typed in single space and indented 4 cm from the left margin, in a font of the same type (Times New Roman) and no. 10, without quotation marks.

5.2. All citations should follow the author's last name, year of publication and page number, in parentheses. (Eg MARTINS, 1994, p.15). The period should be entered according to the citation. If the citation ends, it must contain the period before the quotation marks. Example: "... every selection process should be impartial" (CARVALHO, 1977, p.15). If the sentence does not end at the period, that is, only part of the sentence was mentioned, the period should come after the reference. Example: "how to get a job" (CARVALHO, 1977, 81).

5.3. In the case of several quotations from the same work, from the same edition, they should be indicated only by the number of pages, after an explanation in footnote, that it is the same work and the same edition.

5.4. Footnotes should be restricted to personal comments and / or observations, intended to provide clarification or make considerations, which should not be included in the text, in order not to interrupt the logical sequence of the reading. They should be placed at the bottom of the page and start with the numeric call received in the text, without a paragraph. Must be typed with Times New Roman n. 10, simple space between the lines, with no space separating them from each other. The number that indicates the note should come after the punctuation that ends the sentence.

5.5. References should come at the end of the text, in alphabetical order from the author's last name, with single space between the lines and without space between them. Titles of books and periodicals should come in bold.

5.6. Italics should only be used, in the body of the text, for words in a foreign language, with the quotation marks reserved for any other prominence.

5.7. The epigraphs should be in normal font (Times New Roman), font 10, single space, without quotation marks, followed by author's indication in parentheses, date and page.

5.8. The essential elements that make up the references are listed below and should be typed according to the examples:

a. Books: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Name. Title. Edition. Location: Publisher, date. pages.

b. Book Chapters: AUTHOR'S NAME, Name. Title of chapter. In: AUTHOR 'S LAST NAME, First Name. Book's title. Edition (ex .: 3.ed.). Place of publication: Publisher, date. Chapter number (if any), chapter start-end pages.

c. Journal articles: AUTHOR'S NAME, Name. Title of the article. Journal title, location, volume (v.), Number (n.), Start and end pages of article, month and year.

d. Articles from Congress Annals: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Name. Title of the article. In: CONGRESS NAME (in upper case), Congress number, year it was held, place where it was held. Title of the publication. Place of publication: publisher, date. start and end pages of the article.

e. References of electronic format: identical indication to the conventional format, added of: Available in <electronic address>. For online documents, add: Access by day, month, year.

f. When there is more than one publication by the same author, repeat the last name and name in the next reference.

g. When the reference is from a piece of work (story, book chapter, etc.), the entire book by the same author, author's name and last name are included in the reference of the part of the work and in the reference of the title of the work; the titles of parts of works must come in normal print.

Example: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Name. Title. In: AUTHOR 'S LAST NAME, First Name. Book's title. Edition. Location: Publisher, date. Home and finish.

H. At the end of the required intertitles there should be no punctuation (unless it is a question mark or exclamation mark).

i. In the titles of works only capital letters should be used at the beginning of the first word and in first names.

j. In the case of organized works, usually indicate by last name and name of the organizer, followed by Org., in parentheses;

k. In the case of incomplete citations, indicate their interruption by [...].

l. Other types of publications the author must follow ABNT norms (NBR 6023/2002).

6. The Editorial Board reserves the right to alter the originals in order to condition them to these and other norms of its editorial standards.

7. Authors shall be entitled to one copy of the publication.

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