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• The contribution is original and unpublished and is not under revision or for publication elsewhere. Otherwise, it should be justified in "Comments to the Editor".
• The paper follows the Ethical Code described in Instructions for Authors, in the About the Journal section.
• Authors agree to the Open Access Policy referred to in Authors Instructions
• The papers submitted must not indicate the author(s). When submitting, it is compulsory to fill in the "Metadata" with the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, e-mail contact, country, paper and orcid (optional).
• Rules:
  1. Files for submission must be in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or RTF format (as long as they do not exceed 2MB), in A4 format;
  2. Papers should be a maximum of around 40,000 characters (including spaces, abstracts, footnotes, bibliography, tables, graphs and figures), which corresponds to approximately 18 pages, and a minimum of around 23,000 characters, which corresponds to approximately 8 pages;
  3. Use Times New Roman font, size 12, with 1.5 line spacing;
  4. Use 2.5cm bottom and top margins and 3cm right and left margins;
  5. Move 1cm forward at the beginning of each paragraph;
  6. The title, abstract and keywords must be in the article's original language (Portuguese, Spanish or French) followed by English.
  7. The title in the original language: Times New Roman font size 14, bold, aligned to the left. The title in English: Times New Roman size 12, bold, flush left;
  8. Titles throughout the text should be in Times New Roman, size 12, bold, aligned to the right with no indentation;
  9. Quotations throughout the text should follow the APA standard, American Psychological Association (7th Edition), namely (Author(s), date, p.). Short quotations (up to 40 words) should be incorporated into the text in inverted commas. Quotations of more than 40 words should be presented in their paragraph, without double inverted commas, starting with the advanced line (with a 1.27 cm left indentation and no indentation in the right margin);
  10. Graphs and figures should be numbered continuously in Arabic numerals. They must have a title, numbering and a font in Times New Roman size 9. They must be inserted throughout the text.
  11. Footnotes should be footnoted and numbered consecutively. The number referring to the footnote should be placed in the space above the line/word. The font should be Times New Roman, size 10, with 1 line spacing.
  12. Only use acronyms that are part of everyday language or designate an abbreviation that will be used repeatedly. In the latter case, the acronym should be presented in brackets after the original expression the first time used in the text.
• The abstract must be in the original language and English. It must have a maximum of 1000 characters, in Times New Roman size 12, spacing 1. At least 4 keywords must follow in the original language and English.
• Bibliographical references should appear at the end of the document, with only the works referenced throughout the text, in alphabetical order of the authors' surnames. The standard used should be APA (7th edition), and when available, URLs and DOI will be provided for the references.
  The font should be Times New Roman, size 12, with 1cm spacing, before 6cm and after 0cm, with no indentation at the beginning of the sentence.
• The paper must contain: title, abstract and keywords (original language and English), introduction, body (with titles in Arabic numerals), methodologies, presentation and discussion of results, conclusion or concluding note. In the case of theoretical papers or other papers that do not include empirical research, they must contain the same items except the methodology and presentation of results.