Submissions

Author Guidelines

Step-by-step tutorial for online submission [in Portuguese]

Matraga is a quarterly journal with thematic issues. Before submitting your manuscript, make sure it fits to the intended theme as described in the call. Articles, reviews or reports out of topic will not be accepted.

Authors are requested to remove any data that might indicate identity or authorship.  They should be deleted so as not to compromise the blind review process.  Instructions on how to remove authorship data from the submitted files may be found in the respective templates    [ download the Article Template and the Review Template ].

Referees and the Advisory Council may suggest modifications in the structure and content of submitted contributions.

Papers can be written in Portuguese, Spanish, English or French and must necessarily follow the manuscript preparation guidelines.

 1. Manuscript preparation

a) all manuscripts must be submitted by the author (or one of the authors) through the online submission system, available at https://www.pgletras.uerj.br/matraga  or www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/matraga);

b) registration and login are required both for online submissions and for tracking the submission process. If you are not already registered, you can register by clicking on the 'Register' button on the login screen and follow the on-screen instructions. They will prompt you to create a login ID and a password to enter in the system.

c) Files can be forwarded in .doc, .docx or .rtf (Word for Windows);

d) All data associated with author(s) identity must be removed not to compromise the blind review process. To facilitate it, authors are requested to remove any file property that may be traced back to their identity at the time of submission;

e) All metadata fields in the system must be filled in. In the field ‘biography’, authors should insert biodata with 10 to 15 lines.  It is suggested that an abstract of your résumé be used. The URL field can be filled in with an URL or, in case you do not have an URL, with the Curriculum Lattes URL or equivalent;

f) Authors should also inform their ORCID, at the time of registration. To create an ORCID, please go to https://orcid.org/register.

g) Authors are requested to obtain written permission for the use of materials protected by copyright (photographs, images, tables, graphics, and the like). Written consents for publication of such material must be submitted to Matraga, at the time of submission, as supplementary material. The final approval of the manuscript depends on your compliance with these requirements.

h) Images are required to be high-resolution .tiff or .jpg files (1200 d.p.i. for line drawings and 300 d.p.i. for colour and half-tone artwork). Please note that publication of your manuscript will not proceed until figures suitable for reproduction are received.

h) Authors are requested to revise their texts for usage, grammar and formatting as well as to compliance with manuscripts preparation guidelines;

i) Submissions that do not comply with the guidelines will not be accepted.

2. Parts and sequencing of texts:

a) Title and abstract in the language in which the article was written (Portuguese, Spanish, English or French) and in a foreign language; articles should include an abstract and a title in Portuguese and English, regardless of the language in which they were written. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length;

b) title and abstract in Portuguese and English, if this requirement has not yet been fulfilled;

c) keywords (from 3 to 5) should follow the abstracts in their respective languages. They should be, as far as possible, current and aligned with developments in the field, in singular form and ordered from general to specific. Expressions with no more than two words are accepted;

d) the body of the text should include sections and the section headings should be numbered from 1, except for reviews, reports and interviews;

e) explanatory notes should be restricted to a minimum and should be inserted by means of  Word  for Windows automatic features for insertion of footnotes, at the bottom of each page;

f) bibliographic references should follow  the most recent ABNT publication manual (NBR 6023);

g) Appendix(s)  can be included authors’ discretion.

3. Text Formatting

a) Articles should be from 35.000 to 41.000 characters in length, with spaces and references included in the character count.  Microsoft Word automated feature for word counting should be used for this purpose.  Reviews and reports should be from  6.300 to 10.500 characters in length and interviews up to 10.500 characters.

b) paper size mest be set to A4; left, top and bottom margins set to 3 cm and right margin set to 2 cm;

c) the body of the article must be written in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font, size 12, double space (2 cm), justified alignment, and first lines of new paragraphs must be idented 1cm;

d) quotations with more than three lines must be flushed right 4cm, written in Times New Roman font, size 11, single space (1cm) and in block style; those with less than 3 lines must be incorporated into the text, with quotation marks "...";

e) authorship and publication date should be documented in the body of the text or at the end of the quotation – do not use footnotes – with the last name of the author in capital letters, followed by comma, date of publication and page, when necessary, as exemplified : (ALVES and MOREIRA, 2010, p. 35-47). If the author's name has been documented in the previous paragraph, in the body of the text, only the date and page should be documented in parentheses; for example (2002, p. 27). For more than two authors, credit should be given as follows: Sabbatini et al. (2016, p. 13).

f) reference to titles of articles, books and works of art in the body of the text must appear in italics, as well as foreign language expressions or words that need to be highlighted;

g) charts, tables and images (photographs, drawings, graphics, etc.) should be print-ready and show in the space intended for them by the author. The archives format of the images must be JPEG or TIF. All images should be numbered from 1, according to their type, identified with a title or a caption and duly introduced and described in the immediately previous paragraph. Authors are asked to refer to the illustrations by their number, avoiding expressions such as "below", "above" or "following";

h) references should be placed at the end of the text, and comply with ABNT publication guidelines; all references mentioned in the body of the text must necessarily be included in the final reference list and vice versa;

i) Latin expressions should be replaced by their equivalent: opus cit. (in the cited work), apud (quoted in), passim (information can be found in various parts of the text), idem/ibidem (idem);

j) any other formatting and style detail not included in this guide should meet the ABNT style manual.

4. Reference list (examples according to the ABNT style manual)

BAKHTIN, Mikhail. Questões de literatura e de estética: a teoria do romance. Tradução por Aurora Fornoni Bernardini et al. 7. ed. São Paulo: Hucitec, 2010.

VELLOSO, Monica Pimenta. Sensibilidades finisseculares: intelectuais e cultura boêmia. In: NEGREIROS, Carmem; OLIVEIRA, Fátima; GENS, Rosa (Orgs.). Belle Époque: crítica, arte e cultura. São Paulo: Intermeios/FAPERJ, 2016. p. 35-52.

WISNIK, José Miguel. Cultura pela culatra. Teresa, v.1, n.1, p. 92-102, 1. sem. 2000.

FURLANETTO, Maria Marta. Os caminhos de “onde” no português do Brasil: instrumento linguísticos e deriva. Linguagem em (Dis)curso, v.4, n.2, p. 249-279, jan./jun. 2004.

No caso de documentos online, apresentar a URL entre os sinais < >, precedida pela expressão “Disponível em:” e finalizar com a data de acesso, como no exemplo a seguir:

CASA de papel: Casa Fedrigoni abre suas portas durante a FLIP 2018 para transformar três toneladas de papel em arte. Publishnews, Eventos, São Paulo, 20 jul. 2018. Disponível em: <https://bit.ly/36D7KQF>. Acesso em: 18 ago. 2019.

Very Important:

The collaborators will be entitled two copies of the journal, if impressions are made. All ideas in the articles are the sole responsibility of the authors. Matraga journal is not responsible for copyright violations made by its contributors.