Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to verify that their submission complies with all the items listed below. Submissions that do not comply with the guidelines will be returned to the authors.
  • The text follows the style guidelines and bibliographic requirements described in the Guidelines for Authors on the About the Journal page.
  • The manuscript is original and unpublished and is not currently under review for publication by another journal; if this is not the case, please explain why in the “Comments to the Editor” section.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format.
  • URLs for references were provided whenever possible.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics instead of underlining (except for URLs); figures and tables are embedded in the text, not placed at the end of the document as appendices.

Author Guidelines

1. Manuscripts must be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English.

2. Submitted manuscripts will be assessed by two reviewers, who are members of the Editorial Team; the Journal’s Editorial Board reserves the right to accept or reject a manuscript for publication.

3. The following technical guidelines must be observed when submitting a manuscript: A4 format; Times New Roman 12-point font; 1.5 line spacing; single spacing between paragraphs; a maximum of 12 to 18 pages in total. Margins: top and left, 3 cm; bottom and right, 2 cm.

4. The title and subtitle must be in standard italics, font size 14, and centred. Sections must be numbered using Arabic numerals, font size 12.if there are sub-sections, these must also be in font size 12

5. Direct quotations in the text of up to three lines must be enclosed in “quotation marks”. Direct quotations in the text of more than three lines must be indented 4 cm from the left margin, in 11-point font (without quotation marks).

Bibliographical references must be included in the text itself, in brackets, following the format ‘surname, year and page’. If there are two authors with the same surname, add the initial of the first name. If the same author has more than one work published in the same year, sequential letters of the alphabet should be added to the year. Full references should be provided at the end of the text.

E.g.: (MIRANDA, 2010, p. 37).
(BOFF, C., 2013, p. 45)
(BOFF, L., 2003a, p. 76)
(BOFF, L., 2003b, p. 105)

6. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES

References should follow the guidelines of the ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards). References to works actually used should appear in a single list at the end of the article, in 11 pt font, with single line spacing. A blank line should be left after each reference. References should be arranged alphabetically by surname. When several works by the same author are cited, the author's name must be repeated in each entry. The following examples are illustrative only.

6.1. Citing books: the title of the work should be in italics and the subtitle, if applicable, in regular italics.

6.2 In citations following the ‘author-date’ format, the author’s name must be in regular italics and not in all capitals; this format is to be used only at the end of the reference list.

CODA, Piero. The Paschal Event: Trinity and History. São Paulo: Cidade Nova, 1987.

6.3. Citations from periodicals (journals, newspapers, etc.): The name of the journal should be in italics.

ALVES DE LIMA, L. The state of catechesis in Brazil today. Revista de Catequese, vol. 37, no. 143, pp. 6–21, 2014.

Citing sections of monographs, books and similar works

References to sections of monographs, books and similar works are placed at the end of the text.

CALIMAN, Cleto. The ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council and the Church in Brazil. In: GONÇALVES, Paulo Sérgio Lopes; BOMBONATTO, Vera Ivanise (org.). The Second Vatican Council: analysis and prospects. São Paulo: Paulinas, 2004, pp. 229–248.

7. Sections are numbered using the decimal system, using Arabic numerals.

8. Articles must include: a title (with an English translation), an abstract in the vernacular (100 to 150 words), single-spaced and in ten-point font, followed by keywords (three to five). An English abstract (100 to 150 words), single-spaced, and in ten-point font, followed by keywords in English (three to five), separated by periods.

9. Authors must provide the following information: their most recent academic degree, (including the institution), as well as their current field of work and and the institution or organisation where they work.

10. Authors will be notified by email of the Editorial Board’s decision regarding the publication of the submitted manuscript.