Submissions

Author Guidelines

Last updated on: July 16, 2024

1. NUPEM Journal is a four-monthly publication linked to the  Society and Development Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program of the State University of Paraná (PPGSeD/Unespar) and welcomes manuscripts from the Social and Humanities fields. It publishes dossiers and articles through a continuous submission processing system in accordance with the journal's editorial policy. There is no submission fee for 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' point of view and not the official position of the journal, the Editorial Board or the State University of Paraná.

5. On the journal page, the first and last names of all the authors of the article must be registered. If there is more than one author, use the "add author" button.

6. NUPEM Journal accepts texts from authors with a doctorate degree. Doctorate students, Master's students, or Master's graduates may submit, provided they are co-authored with a doctor(s).

7.

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

8. The publication of any work is subject to prior approval by the Editorial Board of the NUPEM Journal and to the fulfillment of the conditions described in these guidelines. In each issue, the Editorial Board is responsible for defining the criteria for collecting the already approved works.

9. The Editorial Board will forward the manuscripts it considers appropriate to the journal's editorial line and criteria to the referees. The manuscripts will be submitted to two external evaluations and, if necessary, sent to a third consultant, using the blind peer review system.

10. Manuscripts will be evaluated by the reviewers based on relevance, originality, consistency of aims, methods, results, conclusions, contribution to the field of research, language, and scientific standardization. The final decision on whether or not to publish the manuscript is always made by the Editorial Board.

11. NUPEM Journal reserves the right not to accept the submission of texts that are not in agreement 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 and will not accept literature reviews.

12. After evaluation by the reviewers and the Editorial Board, the manuscript may be accepted for publication, rejected, or accepted with revisions. In the latter case, the author(s) will be given a deadline to revise the manuscript in accordance with the assessment.

13. If approved for publication, the NUPEM Journal allows minor formal changes to the text following internal operational criteria and standards. The text will be published according to the order and priority established by NUPEM Journal.

14. The text must contain a maximum of 10,000 words, including an abstract of up to 150 words, 3 to 5 keywords, and references.

15. The text should be typed in Word for Windows, A4 format, Arial font, size 11, 1.5 spacing, and 1.25 paragraph indentation. It must conform to the guidelines of the pre-formatted template for submitting papers (click here to download the file).

16. The manuscript must have a title in Portuguese, Spanish and English, followed by an abstract in all three languages of up to 150 words written single-spaced. At the end of each abstract, there must be three to five keywords in the three languages.

17. The name(s) of the author(s) must be removed from the document submitted for evaluation. Information identifying the author(s) must also be removed from the DOCX properties. Identification of authorship in the manuscript may justify rejection of the paper by the review committee.

18. In Supplementary Documents, a filled-in and signed Referral Letter must be attached (click here to download the file).

19. In addition to the Declaration of Responsibility and Assignment of Copyrights made effective by the Referral Letter, NUPEM Journal uses the CopySpider tool to support its anti-plagiarism policy.

20. Graphs, tables, illustrations, and figures must be included in the text, properly numbered, identified, and referenced. Research data management is one of the key practices in science, therefore authors must be careful to cite and reference all data and any other type of material used in the research.

21. The total file size of the work must not exceed 5 MB.

22. General submission standardization guidelines:

• TITLE must be centered, in bold capital letters, in Portuguese, Spanish and English;
• ABSTRACT in a single paragraph, single-spaced, with a maximum of 150 words,  along with 3 to 5 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 body of the text must be enclosed in quotation marks. Quotations of more than three lines must be placed outside the body of the text, in the same font, size 10, single-spaced, and left-aligned by 4 cm;
• DIRECT QUOTES with emphasis must indicate whether the emphasis was originally made by the quoted author (original emphasis) or by the author of the submitted article (emphasis ours);
• QUOTATION MARKS must be used for direct quotations (up to three lines); mentions of events or works such as books, chapters, articles, movies; quotations of single words or words with noteworthy connotation or usage. In these cases, quotation marks should be used in moderation;
• ITALICS must be used only for words in a foreign language;
• BOLD and UNDERLINED text must be avoided;
• FOOTNOTES should appear at the end of each page and should be purely explanatory. They should not be used as references or to list Internet sources. This information should appear in the References section at the end of the text, like any other bibliographic source;
• TABLES must be inserted in editable format, never as a jpeg (image);
• DOCUMENTARY SOURCES must be referenced at the end of the manuscript, preceding the References;
• REFERENCES of the works cited must be listed at the end of the text, in alphabetical order, without abbreviating the names of the authors, in font size 10 and single-spaced, according to the NUPEM Journal rules specified below:

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.

Interviews
SILVA, José. Entrevista concedida à Hortêncio Ferreira. Londrina, 12 abr. 2024.