Submissions

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.

• Before submitting a manuscript, check your user profile. Keep it complete and updated. Do not use English honorifics. The author(s) must inform the ORCID number. No submissions will be accepted without the ORCID number. The short biography, in the third person, should include information concerning the author(s)’ educational background, academic title, affiliation with a university, and their work in a broad sense.

• Submitted manuscripts should be original and unpublished elsewhere. None should be under consideration for publication by another journal. Otherwise, it should be indicated in "Comments to the Editor”.

• The manuscript should fall within the scope of the Call For Papers.

• The journal will publish manuscripts by:

  1 - Post-doctors;
  2 - Postdoctoral Fellows;
  3 - Doctors;
  4 - Doctoral Students/Candidates;
  5 - MA Students, co-authoring with their supervisor.

  The journal will NOT publish manuscripts by:

  1 - Masters;
  2 - Students with a Certification Course Degree
  3 - Certification Course Students;
  4 - Bachelors;
  5 - Undergraduate students.

  Note: Special cases will be evaluated individually by the Editorial Board.

• he Editorial Board reserves the right to reject any manuscript that fails to conform to the Author Guidelines.

• Manuscripts submitted should be between 15 and 30 pages, edited as Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or Richt Text Format document (.rtf), following the requirements below:

  Page setup: Page size A4; Margins: 3cm (top, bottom, right, left), Font: Times New Roman size 12, Paragraph format: 1.5 spacing, with a 1.25 indentation in the first line of the paragraph, alignment justified.

  Paper abstract: describe your paper using up to 250 words or 1,500 characters (no spaces counted) in Portuguese and in a foreign language (English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Galician). Add 3 up to 6 keywords (in Portuguese as well as in the foreign language of the abstract), separated by semi-colons. Capitalize the first letter of each word in the “Keywords”.

  Paper title: centered paragraph, TNR, font size 14, bold. ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Book titles should be italicized in the body of the text.

  The name(s) of the author(s) should be informed in separate document(s), edited as Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or Richt Text Format document (.rtf). Page setup: Page size A4; Margins: 3cm (top, bottom, right, left), Font: Times New Roman size 12, Paragraph format: single spacing, no indentation in the first line of the paragraph. The text should be written as a block of text containing: 1) Educational background (only the highest academic degree); 2) Academic affiliation (only the university or college abbreviation, no academic unit, followed by the campus, when necessary); Web links of funding agencies (if any); 3) Teaching levels (PhD, MA, Undergraduate course(s)) and scientific areas, subareas or specialties (when relevant); 4) Most relevant bibliographical production (up to 3 titles); 5) Participation in research teams, work teams, centers for research or studies (when relevant); 6) Awards and distinctions related to the author(s)’ field; 7) Research areas (up to 5); 8) Currículo Lattes Web link; 9) Personal page website (if any); 10) Electronic address.

  Section headings (if any): capitalized, TNR, font size 12, bold. Paragraph format: 1.5 spacing, unindented, left-aligned.

  Subheadings (if any): Capitalize the first letter of the sentence (except names). Paragraph format: 1.5 spacing, unindented, left-aligned.

  Three-line (or shorter) quotations should be placed between quotation marks, regular font (no italics), font size 12. Place the author's last name, the year of publication and page number(s) in parentheses directly after the quotation.

  • (MARQUES, 2001, p.23-24)
  • (MARQUES; GUIMARÃES, 2001, p.23-24)
  • (ROSAS, Apud SOUSA, 2013, P.135)

  Please note that for a quote within a quote single quotation marks should be used.

  Place quotations longer than three lines in a free-standing block of text and omit quotation marks. Start the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 4 cm from the left margin while maintaining single spacing. Font size 10. The parenthetical citation should come after the closing punctuation mark.

  If the emphasis, with underline, bold or italics, is in the source material, you should keep it throughout.

  If you add emphasis to quoted material, you must declare it:

  • (MARQUES, 2001, p.23-24 - my/our emphasis)

  If the author’s name is mentioned before the quotation, place in parentheses only the year and the page of the quotation.

  • According to Antônio Marques… (2001, p.23)
  • Kotter and Armstrong argue that… (2007, p.73-75)
  • As to Harrison, Newholm and Shaw… (2005)

  Avoid using idem, ibidem or op. cit.

  The Latin expression apud should be italicized.

  You should italicize object words or phrases, when mentioned as well as foreign words of any origin.

  The REFERENCES list (all and only the works mentioned in the manuscript) at the end of the manuscript must be presented in alphabetical order of the author(s)' last name.

  In list works by same author(s), their name(s) should be substituted by 6 underline traces followed by the date in parentheses.

  REFERENCES

  BAKHTIN, Mikhail (1998). Questões de literatura e de estética: a teoria do romance. 4.ed. São Paulo: Hucitec.

  ______. (1998). “Formas de tempo e de cronotopo no romance”. In: Questões de literatura e de estética: a teoria do romance. 4.ed. São Paulo: Hucitec. p.211-362.

  Note:

  • Do not abbreviate the name(s) of the author(s).
  • The name(s) of the translator(s) should be cited only if the information is essential.

  GARCÍA, Flavio; BATALHA, Maria Cristina; MICHELLI, Regina (Orgs.) (2014). (Re)Visões do Fantástico: do centro às margens; caminhos cruzados. Rio de Janeiro: Dialogarts.

  REIS, Carlos (2014). “Figurações do insólito: a reversão do típico”.In: GARCÍA, Flavio; BATALHA, Maria Cristina; MICHELLI, Regina (Orgs.). (Re)Visões do Fantástico: do centro às margens; caminhos cruzados. Rio de Janeiro: Dialogarts. p.33-49.

  Note:

  • (Orgs.), (Eds.), (Sel. and Notes), etc.

  PEEI, Alketa (2007). “Reforma regulatória brasileira dos anos 90 à luz do modelo de Kleber Nascimento”. Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 11(1), 11-30.

  PORTER, Michael (1981). “The contributions of industrial organization to strategic management”. The Academy of Management Review, 6(4), 609-620. In http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=4326
  Accessed 12 Jan 2011.

  Note:

  Referencing a website: Include the web address of the page and date of access (written in the format of “day month year”).

  Do not use footnotes unless you need explanatory notes (avoid bibliographical citations in notes).

  ILLUSTRATIONS

  Refer to the illustrations in the text by their number. Example: Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.

   Images should always be 300 dpi.

  All figures must be titled.

  Authorship credits should be cited in a footnote.

  Refer to TABLES in the text by their number. Give an explanatory title, TNR, font size 10, bold, single-spacing, unindented, centralized alignment.

   

  EXPRESSIONS IN THE TEXT	OBSERVATION	SEMIOTIC FUNCTION
  The four hairs on his bald head	The phrase suggests animal behavior, because four implies animals which walk on four feet.	Index-icon
  Almost pride	The narrator scorns the feelings of the village towards Maria da Piedade.	Index
  He is a procurer….	Ambiguity, because, in legal jargon, it means a company procurer, someone who trades in the name of a company; in the story, it means someone who obtains sexual partners for others.	Symbol-index-icon

  
  ABBREVIATIONS should be explained in a table.

  Do not insert a blank, new paragraph by pressing “Enter” twice.

  Use single-spacing (press the SPACEBAR one time) between words or between punctuation and the next word.