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• The contribution is original, unpublished and the parts that come from other works are duly referenced. It is not under review or for publication in another journal. Other situations should be justified in ‘Comments for the Editor’.
• Texts available on the SciELO Preprints and SocArXiv preprint servers are not considered publications and are therefore accepted for submission (see Admission of preprints). This information should be communicated in 'Comments for the Editor'.
• Only proposals submitted using the article submission template (available for download in the Submissions menu) will be accepted.
• Language of the text in Portuguese, Spanish, French or English. Title, abstract and keywords in the language of the text, in English and Portuguese.
• Limit of 10,000 words for articles, 2,000 for reviews and 8,000 for interviews, including footnotes and bibliographical references.
• Maximum of 10 images, although this limit may be changed by the Editors. All images, tables and charts sequentially numbered, with a caption associated and its exact location in the text.
• The Publication Guidelines were previously consulted.
• The author(s) assume(s) responsibility for all the information contained in the text. The author(s) acknowledge that all submitted manuscripts will be subject to plagiarism screening.