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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The official language of the journal is Portuguese and we also accept submissions of original writings in English and Spanish.

It is recommended to be used current versions of ABNT rules concerning submission of articles in periodicals (NBR 6022), presentation of citations in documents (NBR 10520), preparation of references (NBR 6023), original presentation (NBR 12256), standard for dating (NBR 5892), progressive numbering of the sections of a document (6024) and abstracts (NBR 6028), as well as the standard tabular presentation of the IBGE.

Attention should be paid to a maximum of pages sent to the original: 10 to 20 pages.

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the periodic system after user registration as AUTHOR. You should follow specifications: A4 size (21cm X 29.7 cm), 1.5 spacing between lines, text, font size 12, top margins of 3.0 cm, 2.0 cm bottom, left and right 3.0 cm 2 , 0cm.

Pre-textual elements. The pre-textual elements consist of:

a) title and subtitle (if any caption, they should appear on the opening page of the article, or differentiated typographically separated by a colon (:) and the language of the text);

b) name (s) (s) of author (s);

c) summary in the language of the text (consisting of a sequence of sentences concise and objective rather than a simple listing of topics, not exceeding 250 words, followed just below the representative words of the work content, ie keywords and / or descriptors, according to NBR 6028);

d) keywords in the language of the text (must appear below the abstract, preceded by the expression Keywords:, separated by point and also finalized by end point).

Textual elements. The textual elements are made up of:

a) introduction;

b) development;

c) conclusion.

Post-textual elements. The post-textual elements consist of:

a) title and subtitle (if any) in a foreign language;

b) a summary in a foreign language;

c) key words in a foreign language;

d) Note (s) explanatory (s) (if any);

e) references;

f) glossary (if any);

g) Appendix (s) (if any);

h) Attachment (s) (if any).

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