Submissions

Author Guidelines

Last updated on: July 03, 2020

1. NUPEM Journal is a four-monthly publication linked to the Society and Development Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program of the State University of Paraná, and receives manuscripts in a continuous stream aimed at the Social and Human science areas. It publishes articles and dossiers in accordance with the editorial policy of the journal. There is no submission fee to authors.

2. Eventual ethical violations will be discussed by the journal's Editorial Board. NUPEM Journal follows the code of ethical conduct in publications recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org) and the conducts of Best Practices for Publishing ─ Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct).

3. NUPEM Journal receives articles in Portuguese, English or Spanish.

4. The content of the works whose authors are identified represents the authors' own point of view and not the official position of the journal, the Editorial Board or the State University of Paraná.

5. The author of the submitted text must hold a Doctoral Degree. In case of co-authorship, there is no minimum requirement for the academic title.

6. Co-authored works represent the effective participation of all authors in the conception, development and writing. The Editorial Board of NUPEM Journal reserves the right to request information and refuse manuscripts in which the expressed co-authorship is not adequately explained.

7. The publication of any work is conditioned upon the prior approval of the Editorial Board of NUPEM Journal and to the fulfilment of the conditions described in these guidelines. It is up to the Editorial Board to define, in each issue of the journal, the criteria for gathering the already approved works.

8. The submitted texts will be evaluated in advance by the Editorial Board, which will forward to reviewers those it deems appropriate to the editorial line and criteria of the journal. The works will be submitted for the evaluation of two external reviewers and, if necessary, sent to a third consultant, by means of the blind peer review system.

9. The manuscripts will be evaluated by the reviewers regarding relevance; originality; consistency among objectives, methodology, results and conclusions; contributions to the field of research; language and scientific standardization. The final decision on whether or not to publish the manuscript is always of the Editorial Board.

10. NUPEM Journal reserves the right not to accept the submission of texts that are not in accordance with its editorial line, as well as not to evaluate or publish works of the same authorship at intervals of less than one year. The journal will only accept unpublished manuscripts.

11. After evaluation by the reviewers and the Editorial Board, the manuscript might be approved for publication, refused or accepted with revisions. In the latter case, a deadline will be given to the author (s) for reformulation in accordance with the assessment.

12. In case of approval for publication, NUPEM Journal allows small formal changes to be made to the text, in accordance with internal operational criteria and standards.

13. Articles must contain a maximum of 10,000 words, including an abstract of up to 150 words and up to 4 keywords, and references.

14. The texts must be typed in Word for Windows, A4 size, Arial font, size 12, 1.5 spacing, 1.25 paragraph indentation and 3 cm margins.

15. The texts must not contain the identification of the authors. To remove the identification from the file properties, the author of the original text must carry out the following procedures for Microsoft Office documents: (File > Properties), starting in File, on the main menu bar, and clicking on the sequence: File > Info > Check for issues > Inspect document > Inspect > Remove personal information from file while saving > OK > Save.

16. In Supplementary Documents, a filled-in and signed Cover Letter must be attached, available at: https://periodicos.unespar.edu.br/index.php/nupem/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/16.

17. In addition to the Declaration of Responsibility and the Term of Assignment of Copyrights, made effective through the Cover Letter, NUPEM Journal uses the CopySpider tool to assist in the anti-plagiarism policy.

18. Graphs, tables, illustrations and figures must appear in the text body, properly numbered and identified.

19. The complete file size of the work must be a maximum of 5 MB.

20. General guidelines on the standardization of submissions:

• TITLE must be centralized, in bold capital letters, in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• ABSTRACT in a single paragraph, single-spaced, with a maximum of 150 words, accompanied by up to four keywords, and written in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• QUOTATIONS inside the text must observe the following standards: author's last name in lower case, year of publication, comma and page number. E.g.: Kuhn, 1978, p. 216;
• QUOTATIONS in the text body must be enclosed in quotation marks. Quotations with more than three lines must be placed outside the text body, containing the same font, size 11, single spacing and 4 cm indentation on the left;
• QUOTATION MARKS must be used in in direct quotations (up to three lines); mentions of events or works such as books, chapters, articles, films; quotations from individual words or words with a noteworthy connotation or usage. The quotation marks in this case should be used moderately;
• ITALICS must be used only for words in a foreign language;
• BOLD and UNDERLINED text must be avoided.
• FOOTNOTES must be inserted at the end of each page, and must be of an explanatory nature only;
• DOCUMENTARY SOURCES must be referenced at the end of the manuscript, preceding the references;
• REFERENCES of the cited works must be listed at the end of the text, in alphabetical order, without abbreviation of the authors' names, in size 12 and 1.5 spacing, according to the ABNT Standards.

Examples of references

Scientific journals

ORO, Ari Pedro. The politics of the Universal Church and its consequences in the Brazilian religious and political fields. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, v. 18, n. 53, p. 53-69, oct. 2003.

Books

BOURDIEU, Pierre. A economia das trocas simbólicas. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2007.

Book chapters

PALMEIRA, Moacir. Política e tempo: nota exploratória. In: PEIRANO, Mariza (Org.). O dito e o feito: ensaios de antropologia dos rituais. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2002, p. 171-177.

Theses / Dissertations / Monographs

SILVA, Elaine Cristina. Contradições e conflitos na atuação de empresas e do INSS no processo de retorno ao trabalho de trabalhadores afastados por LER/DORT. 231f. Doctorate in Production Engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos. São Carlos, 2016.

Works published in conferences

NASCIMENTO, Lara Pazinato et al. Quando as pautas são maiores que as placas: católicos e evangélicos pela defesa da vida. In: Seminário Internacional Práticas Religiosas no Mundo Contemporâneo (UEL-UBI). Anais... Londrina: UEL, 2019, p. 71-86.

Material published by means of electronic media

MEGAL, Bela. Haddad pede a lideranças católicas que façam alertas sobre notícias falsas a fiéis. O Globo. 11 out. 2018. Available at: https://glo.bo/2ybEyA4. Accessed on: 15 mar. 2019.