Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines for publication

1. Articles must be submitted through the Journal’s website, creating login and password, in the Submissions link.
2. Papers must be unpublished and may be written in Portuguese, German, Spanish, French, English and Brazilian Sign Language – Libras (SignWriting).
3. Articles must have a minimum of 10 pages and a maximum of 25 pages. References, appendices and attachments will not be counted in this count.
4. Reviews should have a minimum of 3 pages and a maximum of 5 pages. Book reviews published in Brazil in the last 2 years and abroad in the last 3 years will be accepted.
5. Papers must have the following characteristics: they must be written in Times New Roman font, size 12; A4 format; line spacing 1.5; upper and lower margins of 2.5 cm and the right and left margins of 3.0 cm, paragraph 1.25 cm.
6. The first page of the text must contain the title of the work in English, only the initials in capital letters, centered, bold. One line below the title, the title in Portuguese should be inserted, centered, only the initials in capital letters. Titles must have Times New Roman font, size 12, space between lines of 1.5 cm.
7. Articles must not contain identification of the authors, as the journal adopts blind peer review. The data on the author (s) must be inserted after the paper’s being accepted.
8. Articles must contain Abstract, with a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 250 words, single line spacing, Times New Roman font, size 11, without indentation, in a single paragraph, which must be two lines after author identification. Right after the abstract, the keywords (minimum of three and maximum of five) must be separated by semicolons. Authors may include, in addition to abstracts in English and Portuguese, abstracts in other languages ​​such as German, Spanish, French and Libras (SignWriting).
9. For bibliographic citations in the text, use the following instructions: (AUTHOR, date, page), or when the author has already been cited, insert only (date, page). The titles of the works cited must be in italics. Ex .: (COETZEE, 1981, p. 12) or, Coetzee… (1981, p. 12).
10. Section titles should be numbered with Arabic numerals, without numbering the introduction, conclusion and references. All section titles, including introduction, conclusion and references, must be left aligned and in bold.
11. Citations with up to three lines must appear in the body of the text, between quotation marks, in the same font as the body of the text. Citations with more than three lines must be separated from the text, single-spaced, Times New Roman, size 10, with 3 cm from the left margin of the text.
12. Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page, in Times New Roman, font 10, single space. Foreign language citations in the body of the text must be translated in the footnotes.
13. Tables, images and graphs must be centralized, with a numbered caption with Arabic numerals. Captions must contain the source of the images, even if it is from the author. Tables must have Times New Roman font, size 10.
14. Appendices and attachments must follow the references, in Times New Roman, size 10, single spaced.
15. References must appear at the end of the text, in alphabetical order, and must comply with ABNT rules.

Book: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author’s Name (capital letters only). Title of the work in italics. Translation. Edition. City of publication: publisher, year of publication.

In case of more than one author, use a semicolon between the authors’ names. If the article cites two works by the same author, published in the same year, the difference must be establihed by inserting sequential letters after the date (1991a, 1991b, 1991c, etc.), both in the text and in the references.

Book Chapter: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author’s Name (capital letters only). Chapter title. Followed by the Preposition In: SURNAME, Author Name (initials only). (Org.) If necessary. Title of the work in italics. Translation. Edition. City of publication: publisher, year of publication.

In case of more than one author, use a semicolon between the authors' names.

Journals: AUTHOR'S LAST NAME, Author’s Name (capital letters only). Title of Article. Name of the Journal in italics. Volume (Vol.), Issue (N.), number of pages, date of publication.

In case of more than one author, use a semicolon between the authors’ names.