Submissions

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• The manuscript is original and unpublished and is not simultaneously under review or submitted for publication to another journal. If this is not the case, the situation has been duly justified in the “Comments to the Editor” field.
• The submitted manuscript complies with the journal’s Code of Ethics and Good Practices, available in the About the Journal section.
• The manuscript complies with the Open Access Policy of Temas Sociais Journal and with the Code of Ethics and Good Practices, available in the About the Journal section.
• The submitted file does not contain any information that allows the identification of the author(s), including names, institutional affiliations, acknowledgements, identifiable self-citations, or information in the file properties (ensuring a double-blind peer review process).
• The manuscript fully complies with the journal’s formatting guidelines, namely: a length between 23,000 and 40,000 characters (including spaces, abstracts, footnotes, references, tables, figures, and graphs), corresponding approximately to 8 to 18 pages; use of Times New Roman, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing; margins of 3 cm (top and bottom) and 3 cm (left and right); 1 cm first-line indentation in each paragraph; tables, figures, and graphs numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals, including title and source, formatted in Times New Roman, size 9, and inserted within the body of the text; footnotes placed at the bottom of the page, in Times New Roman, size 10, with single spacing; use of acronyms only when necessary, with the full term preceding the acronym in parentheses at first mention.
• The abstract, in the original language of the article and in English, has a maximum length of 1,000 characters, is written in Times New Roman, size 12, single spacing, and is followed by at least four (4) keywords, in the original language and in English.
• All citations and bibliographic references follow the APA Style – 7th edition, using the format (Author, year, p.);
  quotations of up to 40 words are integrated into the text within quotation marks; quotations of more than 40 words are presented in a separate paragraph, without quotation marks, with a left indentation of 1.27 cm.
• The manuscript includes a title, abstract, and keywords in the original language of the article and in English.
• The identification of the author(s) has been carried out exclusively through the complete and mandatory completion of the metadata, including: Full name; Institutional affiliation; Email address; Country; Role/contribution to the article; ORCID (mandatory).
• The manuscript follows the structure required by the journal, including, when applicable: introduction, main body of the text with numbered section headings, methodology, presentation and discussion of results, conclusion or concluding remarks, and references.
• In theoretical, conceptual, or essay-based manuscripts, the structure has been adapted, excluding the methodology and/or the presentation of results, when not applicable.
• The list of bibliographic references appears at the end of the manuscript and includes only the works cited in the text, is organized in alphabetical order, and provides DOIs and/or URLs, whenever available.
• The submitted file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format, does not exceed 2 MB, and is formatted in A4 size.
• The author(s) assume full responsibility for the content of the manuscript, including compliance with ethical principles of research, particularly in the case of studies involving human participants.