Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Revista Maracanan publishes thematic dossiers, free articles, research notes, reviews, translations and interviews, both unpublished and original, received in a continuous flow in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish.

For the Articles and Dossier sections, at least one of the authors must have a PhD or PhD candidates. For the Research Notes, Book Reviews, Translations and Interviews sections, at least one of the authors must have a Master's degree.

The submission, processing and publication of articles is completely free of charge and the result usually takes between 60 and 120 days.

The works must be submitted through this website.

1. PRESENTATION METHOD

• All submitted texts must be typed in Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 spacing, 2.0 cm margins, and saved in DOC format (Word Document or similar).

• The body of the text and footnotes should not contain any type of reference that could identify the author.

• Articles should indicate, in the first footnote, whether the research received funding, which should be specified.

• Authors must be registered on the platform with complete identification data: name, institutional affiliation, email address, ORCID. In addition to a brief biographical note with institutional affiliation (Position, Institution, Academic Unit and Department) and education (PhD, Master's, Specialization, Undergraduate). Information about participation in research groups is not required, and does not constitute an institutional affiliation.

• Articles must include a title, abstract (150 and 250 words) and three to five keywords, all in the original language of the text and in English.

• The bibliographical references actually used must be included at the end of the articles. Works and sources not cited in the text will be eliminated during layout.

• Reviews of national books published up to two years prior to submission and of foreign books published up to four years prior will be accepted.

• Number of characters, including spaces:

Articles: minimum 35,000 and maximum 65,000 characters with spaces;

Reviews: minimum 8,000 and maximum 15,000 characters with spaces;

Research Notes and Interviews: minimum 10,000 and maximum 35,000 characters, with spaces.

• Figures, graphs, charts and tables used in the texts, in black and white or in color, must be accompanied by a title (top) and source/complete reference (bottom), numbered in sequence (e.g. Figure 1). Files must be sent in JPEG format, with a minimum resolution of 100 dpi.

2. NOTES, QUOTES AND REFERENCES

• Short quotes, up to three lines long, should be included in the body of the text, between quotation marks and without italics.

• Long quotes, from four lines long, should be highlighted with a four-centimeter indentation, font size 11 and single-spaced, without italics and without quotation marks.

• Quotes in a language other than the submitted text should be translated by the authors, with the original version being included in a footnote.

• References should be included in the body of the text, following the Chicago/Author-Date style, in the following format: (Santos, 2005, p. 19).

• If the reference/quote is repeated in the same paragraph, the Latin expressions Idem (from the same author) and Ibidem (from the same work) may be used, and the use of Op. cit should be avoided.

• Footnotes should be succinct. They may be explanatory, informative or contain brief comments pertinent to information that could otherwise disrupt the flow of the text.

• References to archival sources, especially handwritten ones, will be accepted in the form of a footnote.

• The complete reference to the cited work must appear at the end of the text, in the References section, which may be subdivided into Handwritten Sources, Printed Sources, Platforms (Online) and Bibliography - books, chapters and scientific articles or not.

• For sources or other materials that do not have/present complete information – such as page numbers, publication date and place of publication – the following expressions may be used in brackets:

[s./p.] = no page;
[s./d.] = no date;
[s./l.] = no place.

• In the event that there is no page numbering, but it is possible to count them; as well as the existence of a probable or known year of publication, but not explicitly indicated: it is possible to indicate them in square brackets. Ex.: [c. 1970]; [1798?].

• For sources and other materials that do not have authorship identification, the title can be used for citations in the body of the text. Ex.: (New York Times, 1908, p. 3).

• Only material cited in the text should be listed in the References section.

• In the case of electronic publication, the reference data must be added. Ex.: Published on: April 18, 2021. Available: https://www.... Access: June 30, 2021.

• If the same author appears more than once in the References list, the surname should be repeated, avoiding the use of dashes.

• Information such as the translators' names, edition number and collection are considered complementary and should only be included in the References when relevant to the study.

3. CITATION MODELS

3.1 Authored book

SURNAME, First name. Title of the work in italics: subtitle without italics. City: Publisher, Year.

Example: KOSELLECK, Reinhart. Futuro passado: carreira à semântica dos tempos históricas. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto: PUC-Rio, 2006.

3.2 Book chapter

SURNAME, First name. Title of the chapter. In: SURNAME, First name (Org.). Title of the work in italics: subtitle without italics. City: Publisher, Year.

Example: ALEXANDROVA, Donka. Rhetorical aspects of historical discourse. In: PERNOT, L. (Ed.). New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

3.3 Collection

SURNAME, First name; SURNAME, First name (Orgs.). Title of the work in italics: subtitle without italics. City: Publisher, Year.

Example: CARDOSO, Ciro Flamarion; MALERBA, Jurandir (Orgs.). Representations: contributions to a transdisciplinary debate. Campinas, SP: Papirus, 2000.

3.4 Article in a Magazine

SURNAME, First name. Title of the article. Name of the journal in italics, Institution, City, v. 0, n. 0, p. 00-00, abbreviated months (if any) Year.

Example: RIGOLOT, François. The Renaissance Crisis of Exemplarity. Journal of the History of Ideas, Philadelphia, v. 59, n. 4, p. 557-563, 1998.

3.5 Online text

SURNAME, First name. Title of the text. Name of the website in italics. (Website). Published on: day, month (abbreviated), year. Available at: [Website URL]. Accessed on: [day month (abbreviated) year].

Example: BENTIVOGLIO, Julio. We need to talk about the History curriculum. Café História. (Website). Published on: May 15, 2017. Available at https://www.cafehistoria.com.br/curriculo-de-historia/. Accessed on: April 18, 2018.

3.6 Full text published in event proceedings

SURNAME, First name. Title of the paper. Proceedings of [...] (in italics). Name of the event in italics. City of the event, Organizing institution, year. City of Publication: Publisher, year, p. x-xx.

Example: ARAÚJO, Rodrigo Cardoso Soares de. The controversial Corsair, a pamphlet of the Imperial Court (1880-1883). Proceedings [...]. I Seminar on Dimensions of Politics in History: State, Nation, Empire. Juiz de Fora, UFJF, 2007. Juiz de Fora, MG: Clio Ed., 2007, p. 500-501.

3.7 Dissertation or Thesis

SURNAME, First name. Thesis title in italics: subtitle in italics. Year. Thesis/Dissertation (Degree and Course) - University, City, Year.

Example: RIBEIRO, Tatiana O. The Herodotian apodexis: a way of telling the past. 2009. Thesis (PhD in Classical Literature) – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2009.

3.8 Newspaper article

SURNAME, First name. Title of the article. Name of the newspaper [in italics], City, day, month (abbreviated) Year. Notebook, p. x-xx. [Note: for online publications, add: Available at:... Accessed on:...

Example: GLEISER, Marcelo. Newton, Einstein and God. Folha de S. Paulo, São Paulo, June 13, 2010. Illustrated, p. 23.

3.9 Document deposited in an archive.

a) Example with authorship:

CPDOC-FGV. Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Pedro Ernesto Batista Archive, Correspondence series; PEB c 1935.01.15. ARANHA, Luís. Letter to José Pinto. Rio de Janeiro, January 15, 1935.

Note: If the references present more than one document from the same archive, only the initial acronym should be repeated. Ex.: CPDOC-FGV, Pedro Ernesto Batista Archive, Correspondence series; PEB c 1956.03.29. ARANHA, Luís. Letter to Heloisa Palmério. Rio de Janeiro, March 29, 1956.

b) Example without authorship:

AHU. Overseas Historical Archive, Minutes of the Lisbon Council, Overseas Council, Brazil, Pernambuco, 015, box 28, doc. 2502. Lisbon, January 3, 1956. 1817.

Note: If the references present more than one document from the same archive, only the initial acronym should be repeated, and the abbreviation fundo, secção and subseção may be used when in common use. Ex.: AHU, ACL, CU, Brasil, Pernambuco, 015, cx. 28, doc. 2600. Lisbon, June 18, 1817.

• Whenever possible, provide all the data for locating the document in the archive, such as title of the fund or collection, series, subseries, notation (code of the set), institution of custody, location, date of the document.

4. EVALUATION

• All articles and research notes will be subject to blind peer review. The examination of the submitted material will be the responsibility of two reviewers, with a third reviewer being invited in cases of disagreement between the conclusions submitted to the Journal.

• Authors will be notified whether their work has been accepted or not, and the text may be subject to modifications, as indicated by the reviewers.

• The article submitted to the Journal must be unpublished and original and must not be under consideration by another publication.

• Each author may only have one article under review, from the date of submission until publication.

• Authors must ensure that articles submitted to Maracanan are not under review and review in other journals.

• The Journal will also observe a two-year interval between the publication of an article and the beginning of a new submission process by the authors.

• Articles rejected, even after review and restructuring, will not be accepted for resubmission.

5. USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

- The use of AI is permitted for data analysis, transcription of sources, generation of images and other complementary uses. In any of these functionalities, authors must clearly and in detail describe the method used, as well as the software, application or AI tool applied and its version.

- All contributions to articles made by AI must be explicitly mentioned in the main text or in a footnote.

- The use of AI for text generation is strictly prohibited, including, but not limited to, writing sections of the article, literature review, formulating conclusions or any other textual content.

- Authors are fully responsible for the content generated by AI in their articles. This includes verifying the accuracy of the data analyzed, the veracity of the transcriptions obtained and copyright and image rights. The journal is not responsible for errors resulting from the inappropriate use of the tools.