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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  • The article in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish must be unpublished in a Brazilian journal. If it is being evaluated by another journal, please justify this in “Comments to the Editorial Team”. Texts previously published in annals can be submitted as long as the information is also signaled to the editorial team.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format, was created using the journal's template, and is up to 2 MB (2 megabytes) in size. Files larger than this will be rejected.
  • Clickable URLs for references should be included whenever possible.
  • The text should be formatted in Arial, 12 point font, 1.5 space, black (Automatic), justified, with a 1.25 cm indentation on the first line of the paragraph. For highlights, the text uses italics instead of underlining (except in URL addresses) and figures and tables are inserted in the text, not at the end of the document, in the form of annexes.
  • The length for articles, interviews and translations is a maximum of 55,000 characters with spaces, including abstracts and bibliographical references. Reviews can be up to 35,000 characters with spaces.
  • The text follows the style standards and bibliographic requirements described in Author Guidelines.
  • To ensure double-blind peer review, authors must follow the instructions available on the submissions page.
  • Articles must follow the guidelines for preparing a scientific article according to NBR 6022:2018 of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT).
  • Authors who have not had an article accepted for publication or published in Dispositiva in the last two years;
  • Authors must fill in the metadata relating to the submission, including individual data (e-mail, ORCID, institution, biography), keywords (in Portuguese and English) and funding agencies, where relevant.

Author Guidelines

The articles submitted to Revista Dispositiva undergo an initial desk review process to assess compliance with submission criteria in a pre-evaluation process.

Subsequently, the articles are forwarded by the editors to at least two (2) ad hoc reviewers who have experience in the article's subject area. The reviewers conduct their evaluations under a double-blind review system.

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer review, please take all necessary precautions to avoid revealing the identity of the author and co-authors (if applicable) before submitting your manuscript to Dispositiva. Consider this quick checklist for document adjustments:

  • Direct self-citations (author or co-author) should be anonymized;
  • Self-citations (author or co-author) should be attributed to "Author, year";
  • Titles of self-authored articles (author or co-author) should not appear in the references. Only "Author, year" should be listed;
  • Names of authors or co-authors in footnotes should be replaced with "Author, year";
  • Identifiers such as research groups, university affiliation, and similar information should be anonymized;
  • In Microsoft Office documents, author identification should be removed from document properties (in the File menu > Properties), starting in File, in the main menu, and following this sequence: File > Save As... > Tools (or Options on Mac) > Security Options... > Remove personal information from file properties on save > OK > Save;
  • In PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties, under File in the main menu of Adobe Acrobat.

If you find it necessary to maintain coherence in the article, the changes requested above may be indicated in footnotes as "change made to ensure blind peer review."

FREE THEME ARTICLES

Articles should be up to 55,000 characters long, including pre- and post-textual elements (title, author, abstract, keywords and bibliographical references). The document must be formatted in the Word template file available on this site, with top and bottom margins of 3 cm and left and right margins of 2 cm, all written in 1.5 spacing. It is mandatory to follow all the styles indicated in the Dispositiva Journal template available on the Guidelines for Authors page.



TRANSLATION

This section is designed to receive unpublished texts in Portuguese that contribute to reflections related to the field of communication in its various aspects. Translations can be up to 55,000 characters long, including pre- and post-textual elements (title, author, abstract, keywords and bibliographical references). The document must be formatted in the Word template file available on this site, with top and bottom margins of 3 cm and left and right margins of 2 cm, all written in 1.5 spacing. It is mandatory to follow all the styles indicated in the Dispositiva Journal template available on the Guidelines for Authors page.

INTERVIEW

Its aim is to engage in dialogue with researchers who are leading figures in their fields. It is a space for discussing ideas that contribute to understanding and analyzing productions broadcast by both established media systems and other alternative creation and distribution experiences.

Interviews should be up to 55,000 characters long, including pre- and post-textual elements (title, author, abstract, keywords and bibliographical references). The document must be formatted in the Word template file available on this site, with top and bottom margins of 3 cm and left and right margins of 2 cm, all written in 1.5 spacing. It is mandatory to follow all the styles indicated in the Dispositiva Journal template available on the Guidelines for Authors page.

 

BOOK REVIEW

It welcomes critical work on recently released publications in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish. The reviewer is expected to discuss and deepen the reflection presented in the work evaluated.

Reviews can be up to 35,000 characters long, including pre- and post-textual elements (title, author, abstract, keywords and bibliographical references). The document must be formatted in the Word template file available on this site, with top and bottom margins of 3 cm and left and right margins of 2 cm, all written in 1.5 spacing. It is mandatory to follow all the styles indicated in the Dispositiva Journal template available on the Guidelines for Authors page.

Copyright Notice

The copyright of the articles published in Dispositiva belongs to the authors of the text, based on the rules of Editora PUC Minas. The journal has the right of first publication of the article, registered under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 sharing license. The license allows the text to be shared and adapted, always with credit, without additional restrictions. Authors are requested to mark the term-declaration that expresses the affirmation of authorship, originality and originality of the text, during submission, according to the terms below:

  1. By submitting to Dispositiva, authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work being published under a Creative Commons license in the form of attribution, non-commercial use and sharing under the same license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
    By submitting to Dispositiva, authors are authorized to take on additional contracts separately, for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (e.g. publish in an institutional repository or as a book chapter), with acknowledgement of authorship and mention of the initial publication in this journal.

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